Classical Philosophy and the Importance of Virtue: A Comparison of Plato’s Meno and Augustine’s On Free Choice of the Will

 One theme that appears to be prevalent throughout classical philosophy is the importance of virtue and how one can obtain it.  Much of Plato’s Meno and Augustine’s On Free Choice of the Will discusses each philosopher’s thought process on how virtue is gained and how one could be more virtuous than another.  In fact, … Read more

Gordon Allport: Founder of Personality and His Criteria for Psychological Health

 Gordon Allport was an American psychologist, who is one of the first psychologist to focus on the study of personality. Allport discovered and classifies over fifty definitions of personality, and emphasized on an individual’s traits and their influence on behavior. Allport defined personality to be” the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical … Read more

Effective Team Management and Leadership in the Workplace

 Managing a successful team within a place of work takes not only great skill and organisation, but also requires leadership and management qualities to help keep staff motivated which in turn keeps a business running efficiently. As well as managing staff, the manager of a company needs to consider competition from the market, and … Read more

Reducing Disciplinary Disparities in Fresno Unified School District

 Fresno Unified School District. Within the Fresno Unified School District suspension and expulsion rates have also decreased over the past five years as teachers and administrators have worked to provide intervention for student miss-behavior, rather than enforcing out-of-school suspension. Additionally, The California Endowment awarded Central Valley schools a two-year grant worth $504,182 to promote … Read more

Developing Effective Leadership Qualities in Practice

 The Profession and Leadership Qualities in Practice Leadership is the ability to develop a vision for change, which leads to improvement in outcome for learners based on shared values and robust evaluation of evidence of current practice and outcome. Leaders create and model standards of excellence, standing for relentless pursuit and completion of action … Read more

Juanita High School DECA Chapter Hosts Annual Hopelink Food Drive

 Executive Summary: History: For 14 years now, Juanita High School’s DECA chapter has hosted an annual Hopelink Food drive to collect food and cash donations for the non-profit and Washington based Hopelink organization.  It’s an event that promotes community involvement and supports Hopelink in their many branched efforts to support the homeless community in … Read more

How BIM Impacts the Different Stages of the Design Process

 BIM (Building Information Modelling) is basically constructing a building virtually before physically. BIM includes information about the product including geometry and it links the objects to specific manufacturer specifications and includes performance data (B1M, 2015). Over the past 5 years, BIM has digitised the AEC (Architecture, engineering and construction) industry providing a digital checklist … Read more

Understanding The Prince: Cultural and Contextual Considerations

 Today in our interactive oral about The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli my understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the discussion of the qualities of a prince, the concept of Fortuna, a prince’s public image, and existentialism as it applies to Machiavelli. As we discussed the qualities of a prince … Read more

Rural Nigeria and its Relationship with the Media: A Look at Print and Electronic Media in National Development

 The concept or term ‘rural’ brings to mind an unsophisticated, simple lifestyle of clusters, of small communities of people and thus having no relation to any and every form of sophisticated and its attendant complexities, or what the world knows today as the media, an icon of sophistication and urbanity. The development of what … Read more

Introduction of Dadaism and Ready-Mades Exhibition

 The Introduction of Dadaism and the Ready-Mades is an exhibition featuring eleven artworks created by some of the most prominent artists during the Dada Movement, beginning circa 1915 in Zürich, Switzerland. The Dada movement was a rebellion against World War One; as Switzerland was a neutral country throughout the entirety of the First World … Read more

Feeding 9 Billion: The Switch to a Plant Based World

 Feeding 9 Billion: The Switch to a Plant Based World Thomas Malthus was an 18th century philosopher that recognized that the global population growing at an exponential rate was nothing but bad news. In his essay, he theorized that if the population continued to grow at an exponential rate and the production of food … Read more