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Teaching in Korea - Example Epik Application
The EPIK application I was successful hired with.
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Mary Seacole
A Brief look at the life of Mary Seacole. A mixed race British citizen remembered again for her great achievements and kindness in the 19th century.
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Septimius Severus
A look at Septimus; The Roman Empires first African Emperor.
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Our Solar System
A Brief look at our solar system and the planets in it.
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Hinge Point Questions - Enquiry Proposal
How will using hinge point questions within maths influence my practice, planning and assessment?
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Teaching in the Early Years - Group Work
A brief look at the value of collaborative group work in early years education
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Curriculum and Assessment - Teaching
How does the relationship between Curriculum and Assessment influence the role of the teacher and pedagogical choices?
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Meritocracy in Education (Scotland School System)
The principle of a meritocratic school system is often applied to Scotland. But to what extent can this be claimed or supported?
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Descriptive Relativism: Can We Morally Agree?
Cultures and the differences in morals and ethics between them. Why there is no universal morality and why does everyone disagree yet everyone is still right?
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What Are Genes? Nature Vs. Nurture.
It is a common belief that genes are the superior cause of development in biology with all non-genetic factors playing a secondary role. It is ideas such as this which can motivate notions of genetic causation in which all features of every human...
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Do We Have Freewill? Van Inwagen's and David Lewis on Determinism
Do we really choose what we do or is it a consequence of everything that'd come before. Thus, are we ever morally responsible?
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Notions of Freewill - Can We Be Responsible If It Is All Pre-Determined
Does Harry Frankfurt succeed in arguing that the Principle of Alternate Possibilities is false and regain moral responsibility in a determinists world?
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Thomas Kuhn. The Scientific Method; strengths and weaknesses
Kuhn's image of science and how revolutionary science is the cause of paradigm shifts in science in order to solve anomalies.
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Rational Basis for Belief in God's Existence - Agnosticism and Pascal's Wager
Agnosticism is the belief that there is no conclusive evidence one way or the other regarding the existence of God. This however does not mean that agnostics cannot logically favour one side of the argument more, they just accept that it is not...
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The Cosmological Argument - God; the Uncaused Cause of the Universe. Aquinas
The cosmological argument was developed by Thomas Aquinas from the belief that everything in the vast universe, with it millions of galaxies spanning across hundreds of millions of light years of space, and the universe itself had a cause. For...
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Labour Reforms for Beveridge's Five Giants of Poverty: Idleness, Want, Disease, Ignorance, and Squalor.
A discussion of the 5 giants of poverty which Beveridge discovered leading to reforms in Britain to overcome them. Most notably tackling these 5 giants led to the NHS.
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Why attitudes towards Poverty in Britian changed - politics and the poor
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries British attitudes towards poverty changed dramatically. Up until this point poverty was viewed as though it were the poor persons fault and a problem which should not affect the upper classes. Their lack of...
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Comparing Moral Views: Utilitarianism and Kantianism: Mob Rule?
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Philosophy of Language. Emotivism - Can We Talk About Right and Wrong?
We often talk about what the right thing to do is but are we justified in doing this? Can we really know what the right thing to do is?
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Meta-Ethics. Utilitarianism and Katianism on 'The Life of David Gayle' - for or against the death penalty
In the film ‘The life of David Gayle’ Gayle is accused of killing and raping his best friend. Gayle has overwhelming evidence stacked against him and is consequently executed. He hires an investigator to find out the truth - he doesn’t say one...
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The Value of Story Telling - Anthropology. Written Vs. Oral Histories
Athropology perspective on different forms of retelling history over time.
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Women in the Colonies of Canada- Issues Race and Gender
In the 1800's there was a call raised for white women to live in the colonies of America. Why and how effective was this?
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Descartes - the Cogito Essay Summary
In 17th century France many philosophers were growing sceptical; doubting if it were actually possible to know anything for certain. Rene Descartes though wanted to find what was certain and discard what was false or unsure in the hope of restoring...
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Descartes Meditations - Method of Doubt and Rebuilding Knowledge
Rene Descartes lived in France in the 1600’s during a time of great change, when many intellectuals were debating over scientific and philosophical theory. New discoveries in science resulted in scientists disagreeing with one another over what...
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Arguments for the Existence of God: Philosophy's Cosmological and Teleological Arguments.
Are there philosophical arguments to 'prove' the existence of God? two of the most prominent ones are discussed here: the cosmological and teleological arguments.
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The Behaviourist Approach to Psychology
This article examines the behaviourist approach to psychology. It provides an overview of classical conditioning, operant conditioning and the pros and cons of behaviourism.
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Is God the Creator of the Universe?
Philosophical arguments about whether God could be the creator of everything.
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The Matrix Philosophy - Doubts About Reality and Rene Descartes Meditations
The Matrix film and its basis in Descartes philosophies.
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Sexuality and Gender Roles in Colonialist Power and Control
Colonial rule relied on many methods to socially subdue those ‘others’ they wished to colonise. Of these sexuality and gender roles played a primary role often because women were the first people colonisers had close relationships with; their...
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave: A Summary
There are many possible and widely accepted understandings of the allegory of the cave. This allegory is found in Plato’s Republic which acts to set out and describe an ideal and just world. It is within the core idea’s of the Republic as a...
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Summary of 'A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson'
How does Mary Rowlandson’s work portray women at the time, and what was her purpose? Why did Mary Rowlandson write as she did, and how did she view women and Native Americans?
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How does Frege attempt to solve the puzzles of reference
Both Frege and Russell agree that it is the role of the speakers’ beliefs which determine the semantics of names. However, they do not agree on most other points. Each attempt to offer theories of semantics and references which do not fall into...
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Durkheim and Geertz approaches to religion in society
Durkheim argued that religion is a social phenomenon, while for Geertz religion is a cultural system.
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Gender in Islam: Gendered Control Through Beliefs of Powerful Women
‘In Western culture, sexual inequality is based on belief in women’s biological inferiority… In Islam there is no such belief…on the contrary; the whole system is based on the assumption that women are powerful and dangerous beings’...
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The European Union Explained: What Is the EU and How Does It Work?
Brief account of the purpose of the EU and how it runs.
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The Role of Elections in Democracy
What is democracy and are elections central to it?
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The Concept of Human Person and Personhood in Anthropology
Is it only humans who are considered to have personhood and why?
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Is Knowledge Justified True Belief? - the tripartite theory and Gettier's counter examples
Traditionally knowledge, at least propositional knowledge, has been defined by philosophers as justified true beliefs. In order for beliefs to be regarded knowledge somebody had to believe it, there had to be justification for the belief and the...
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A Review of Anthropologist E.E. Evans-Pritchard's "Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande"
A review of Evans-Pritchard's book "Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande", and a discussion of how it portrayed a crucial part of Azande culture.
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What Is Race? - Anthropology
Is race a means by which people can be categorised? Why do people still argue that it is?
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Comparing Plato and Aristotle: Similarities and Differences
What did Plato and Aristotle agree and disagree on? Learn about the major similarities and differences between Plato and his student Aristotle.
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Causes of World War Two (WWII): Was It Anti-Fascist?
Although time has rendered world war two as an anti-fascist war there is much evidence to contradict this view. Anti-fascism was definately a factor but it seems as though it was probably less significant than the prevailing fear of communism and...