The Importance Of Liberal Arts Education: In A Knowledge-based Economy

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Historically, in the United States, there has always exist a tension in higher education between the education of the person and the achievement of specific and pragmatic objectives. Liberal arts colleges in the United States have traditionally tilted the balance in favor of educating the whole person. Character building was ...

When Dreams Become Nightmares - What Nightmares Are And How To Deal With Them

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Nightmares, like other dreams, occur most often during REM sleep (though we dream throughout the entire sleep cycle). Unlike other dreams, however, nightmares usually cause dreamers to wake up. If you don't wake up, is it still a nightmare? Well, not technically. You might just want to call it a bad ...

Positive Psychology

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Mental Health & Positive Happiness This is really exploratory paper about the movement to make more people happy. In the USA and the UK efforts are being made by psychologists to encourage a more happy outlook in life in the belief that happy people are more productive, live longer, have positive ...