The political argument for investing in global health

The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children

T article presents the case for investing more in young American children who grow up in disadvantaged environments. Figure 1 graphs time series of alternative measures of the percentage of children in disadvantaged families. The percentage of children born into, or living in, nontraditional families has increased greatly in the past thirty years.1,2 Approximately 25% of children are now born i...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Persuasive Political Argument

In this paper we discuss how a computational version of argumentation involving practical reasoning can be applied to the domain of e-democracy. We discuss our previous work which proposed an argument scheme and associated critical questions to make use of presumptive reasoning in order to justify a proposal for action. We explain how this proposal can be made computational for use by BDI agent...

Investing in health.

Investing in MENTAL HEALTH