Existence Annotated Bibliographies Samples For Students

THEME 1: Culture, Gender and Social Norms

Haught, John. Making Sense of Evolution: Darwin, God, and the Drama of Life. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. Print.

This work traces the origin of humankind and the underlying values that have often informed behavior of man. Ever since the emergence of evolution theory, many questions have been posed in regards to its viability and especially on how it impacted human behavior over time. Evolution gives a scientific account of the development of man and it is often at loggerheads with the theological account of creation. The author of this work has a similar professional background with the author in the previous entry. Both authors have strong theological backgrounds in the Catholic Church and they are accomplished historians. This book gives ...

How Does Early and Medieval Art and Architecture Influence Modern Culture?

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Craig, M. (2011). Arcade: Moments not Monuments. Art and Architecture Journal , 89-92.

Present day buildings and architectural designs are usually fantastic, leaving one to ponder where such designs oriented from. In his article, Craig discusses some of the most famous monuments that are found in the globe and their underlying ideas and concept behind their designs. Craig states that such architectural designs have been embedded in the architectural designs of the present days. Landmarks such as the Pyramids of Egypt are termed so because the ideologies have stood the test of time, and this can be ...

Present day buildings and architectural designs are usually fantastic, leaving one to ponder where such designs oriented from. In his article, Craig discusses some of the most famous monuments that are found in the globe and their underlying ideas and concept behind their designs. Craig states that such architectural designs have been embedded in the architectural designs of the present days. Landmarks such as the Pyramids of Egypt are termed so because the ideologies have stood the test of time, and this can be manifested in the core concepts of medieval art and architecture. This article is a vital resource ...

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Ethics is important in any professional body. This paper focuses on some of the ethical studies done on urban development in regional and town planning. Through the paper, one will examine some of the sources that will be used while dealing with the mentioned topic. Most of the sources that have been used in this annotated bibliography are American. This is because one believes America has a more ethical background in ethical issues dealing with urban development. In addition, the chosen articles are more relevant and deeply researched making them more appropriate for the study. By using American ...

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Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer and astronomer largely recognized for his contributions towards the scientific revolution. He laid down the basis of modern astronomy and largely supported the work of Copernicus. He is largely known for his heliocentric views in that he acknowledged the existence of the earth and the other planets including earth revolve around the sun, which is stationary. His heliocentric views brought him into conflict with the Catholic Church since was considered to be challenging the then pope Urban the eighth’s authority. He was then arrested, tried and convicted of heresy upon which ...

Hall, J.D. The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past. The Journal of
American History 4 (Vol. 91, Mar. 2005): 1233-1263.

In the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, Hall (2005) examines the ways in which the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s has been used to further political and ideological causes. Through its use to portray certain ideologies and causes, the dominant narrative of the movement is said to be somewhat distorted and suppressed as an historical event. Despite the efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr. and others who fought in the ...

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Elements of manipulation are strategic/sophisticated voting, and agenda setting. Strategic voting results into the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem (Gibbard) which is about a specific kind of decision mechanism for social choice functions--a function that specifies for each combination for possible preference orderings. The theorem states that “for any non- dictatorial and non-imposed social choice function, there is vulnerability to manipulation.” This means that expressing one’s true preferences is not a dominant strategy always; rather, there are preference profiles where at least one of the individuals has an incentive not to express his/her ‘true’ preferences. Also, it can be stated that the only ...