U.S. Chapter 9: "A Wise and Frugal Government": The Democratic-Republicans in Power, 1801-1815

..., Jefferson sent James Monroe to join Robert Livingston in France, where Napoleon offered all of Louisiana for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase challenged Jefferson's principles (strict constructionism, frugality), but it significantly increased American power and provided land for displaced Amerindian tribes. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were speedily dispatched to the West with the ...

the power of biology :)

..., and automatic capacity for extracting information about female sexual orientation from nonverbal cues in the face. - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WJB-4WVF6W2-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=bd02b83b97b75ad33aec58431ce54eb8 [ another byebye to social constructionism ]

I'm coming out as pansexual!

...we talked about two prominent schools of thought; essentialism and constructionism views. Basically, essentialists believe that sexuality is a purely .... But in the sexual revolution of the 70's, constructionism held more sway. It states that Western society, particularly ... same-sex tendencies or behaviors in its members. So constructionism holds that everybody has the potential for attraction and/or...

Social Constructionism

Really what the idea of social constructionism reveals about writing is that in order for a text to fully become real, it needs an audience and to return to its writer as he becomes a reader of the material text itself. The cycle continues as well until the text connects to its writer, its audience and back again. We know that cognitive rhetoric focuses on the linear model and tells you a correct ...

social constructionism takes yet -another- blow

Language of music may really be universal - http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090320_music [ much gratitude to http://polaris93.livejournal.com/1098666.html ]

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BA: Knowledge

... that any different from rumours, gossip and anecdotes? Case in point: MMR. Opposition based upon meaningless anecdotes is NOT knowledge. Homoeopathists are NOT ‘subjective experts’. I am dead set against Social Constructionism, which claims knowledge is produced. No, I’m with Descartes here; it is acquired. I’ve referenced a few things away from the set text, including ‘Snake Oil’ and this to ...

some happy things

* that america is strong and vital enough not to fall for the lies of, as beth called them, mendacious politicians - social constructionism, go hang * getting to know frieda lawrence - i find myself liking her better than d.h., sometimes even her writing * going to australia for a few days, end of the month - they'll say we're retracing frieda and d.h.'s footsteps! * speaking of beth, website ...

Interpretation, Hermeneutics, and Judge Sotomayor

...pull of history. The current debate about judicial activism turns on a judicial philosophy called “strict constructionism.” This set of judicial ideas states that the text should be taken as literal and at... scholars have been waging for over 200 years. Many of those who buy into strict constructionism come from the same environs that interpret the Bible through a strict literalism. http://blog....

... J., Jonassen D.H.). Heidelberg, 1993; Roht G. Das Gehirn und seine Wirklichkeit. Kognitive Neurobiologie und ihre philosophen Konsequenzen. Frankfurt am Main, 1994; Burr V. An introduction to social constructionism. L., 1995; Constructivism in education (ed. Steffe L. P., Gale J.). Hillsdale, 1995; Glasersfeld E. von. Radical Constructivism. L., 1995; Luhmann N. Social Systems. Stanf., 1995; ...