Experimental vs. Correlational Methodologies Psychological studies can be conducted through two major designs namely experimental research and correlational research. Understanding the differences and similarities between these methodologies is important for designing a good psychological study. One major similarity between experimental research and correlational research is that both use experiments to gather data and test theories. However, in correlational studies the researcher focuses more on establishing […]

My Social Personality Growth Time and again, most people have struggled while seeking to be accepted by others and sometimes this makes them take character traits or a path that they do not like simply to feel part of a certain group. I consider myself very social because while I strictly adhere to the values and beliefs I was taught when growing up, I am […]

Black Lives Matter and Civil Rights Movement History enables us to understand and explain how our contemporary world has taken shape by providing tools we can use to explain and analyze problems of the past, which could otherwise be invisible. In the same breath, understanding historical events such as the Civil Rights Movement could enable us to examine the significance of contemporary events such as […]

The Conflict between Russia and Ukraine Diplomacy and Negotiation Effectiveness: Diplomatic effort and negotiation offer a vital route of sharing ideas and policies and a platform for communication and understanding, leading to compromise. They lay out their dissatisfaction on diplomatic platforms, clear off misunderstandings, and look for everyday shared ground. Similarly, this approach provides space for the engagement of experienced negotiators who ensure both parties’ […]

The Call to “Defund the Police” George Floyd, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile are some of the noteworthy individuals, among the innumerable black people who have had a fatal encounter with the police. Several cases of the people of color being murdered by the police have led most individuals to feel that policing in the US serves to terrorize the blacks […]

The Trump Tax Law in the US The Trump Tax Bill passed into law up and remains relevant up to 2025 is disadvantageous to the poor in the US and propagates income inequality. The rich are the top earners through monetary gains of about 20% of the aggregate cuts, despite the few numbers. Consequently, the nation is at risk of inequality problems that affect not […]

Philosophy in Everyday Life Concept 1: Determinism Determinism is the view that all events in the universe, including human actions and choices, are inevitable and necessary outcomes of previous causes following natural laws. I got interested is describing this concept in the popular TV show “Lost”, where some characters adamantly believe that their lives unfold according to a predetermined destiny that is impossible to change. […]

Allegory of The Cave According to Plato, human beings experience reality at two different levels, one consist of unchanging eternal truths and the other consist of constantly changing particulars depending on the availability to our senses. Therefore, the Allegory of the Cave can symbolically illustrate how people tend to believe in an illusion and accept it as reality. In his urgument he describes a group […]

The Reconstruction of Plato’s Philosophy Plato, the student to Socrates, and the teacher to Aristotle, has clear philosophy on life. He borrows on the teachings of Socrates. The article focuses on the foundations’ of Plato’s philosophy. They engage metaphysics, the theory of forms, the soul, and epistemology. Additionally, the article discusses Plato under the ethics, politics, and art. Plato’s philosophy entails rhetoric, which is a […]

The Problem of Evil Everyday our news bulletins are filled with stories of deadly diseases, traffic accidents, bullying, knife crime and wars and this raises the question on why God allows all these events to take place if indeed He exists. The issue of suffering is so real because every individual has at one point or another undergone through some type of suffering such as […]