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The Significance of the Empire in History

something associated more with power and prestige than it is with the conquering of lands or people. He writes: "The original mean...

John Locke and David Hume's Views on Free Will

Human Understanding, by David Hume (2001), may be helpful. In his classic volume, Hume demonstrates that people know the causes...

Reviewing 2 Mathematics Textbooks

order of this particular book -- it seems as though Chapter 2, which deals with "The Real Number System" should, in fact, be first...

Can Leadership Quality Be Improved Upon By Leadership Theory?

and develop leaders or enhance the skills and influence of leaders, whereas for other it may explain why an how leaders are effect...

Insights and Concepts Regarding Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

steeled and a heart trans- formed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility" (Nietzsche, p.129). One can see tha...

Management, Employees, Creativity, and Opportunities for Learning

that facilities employee learning. There are several different theories concerning the learning organisation and need for employee...

Universe Views Forever Changed by Albert Einstein

nothing would have been changed ("How would," 2005). In other words, if it was not Einstein, it would have been someone else who c...

Cooley and Mead, Critical Theory and Functionalism

is highly involved in sociological perspectives. Yet it also differs from both the conceptualizations of Cooley and Mead and that ...

Exploring the Basics of Client-Centered Therapy

attitudes and feelings which he may have, no matter how unconventional, absurd, or contradictory these attitudes may be" (Rogers 1...

Sensory Perceptions and Descartes' Argument

is an objective reality, people are basically defining what is real and what is not. Life becomes confusing. Loeb (1986) explains...

It's Not Luck by Eli Goldratt

processes and also shows their practicality in hypothetical real-life situations. The following examination looks at Goldratts t...

Core Concepts of Juvenile Delinquency

is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

Bowlby, Sullivan, Freud, Erikson, and Piaget

accommodate it by adjusting already-held beliefs or the person must reject the information. One or the other must be chosen in ord...

Globalization and the Theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx

essential ingredient of the accelerated globalization of the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries" (p.319). Yet, one ...

'The Eye of the Beholder' and Crime

is any action that is against the laws of the land, and as such needs to be a social construct as it is the laws that are develope...

Educational Philosophy of John Dewey

gear pedagogy accordingly, politicians, policymakers and the public at-large are still "stuck" in the old paradigm, which states t...

Sociologist Karl Marx's Life and Theories

of Christianity, and went to school. He would later have nothing to do with religion, even coining the phrase related to the idea ...

Dream Theory and Freud's Critics

period between consciousness and sleep. This period lasts approximately ten minutes until Stage II commences, lasting another fif...

Critiquing Peter Senge's Leadership and Learning

basis of his concept pf learning is that we are gradually taught or learn not to learn. Senge quotes Deming when looking organisat...

Nursing and the Theory of Interpersonal Relations by Hildegard Peplau

the beginning of her career in the 1950s, Peplau indicated that she believed that the significance between the nurse and the patie...

Karl Marx and Emilie Durkheim on Division of Labor Concepts

unskilled. Many of the skills they acquired were specific. From there, new trades were born. The workers in society were transform...

Overview of Grounded Theory

and codings (Dick, 2005; Wikipedia, May, 2006). It actually includes both inductive and deductive reasoning, which led to the term...

Teamwork Developments

steady growth but the organisation failed to change so that it would be able to adapt. The planners were frustrated and their goal...

Research on Gangs as it Relates to Critical Theory

religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...

Leadership and the American Express Company

and influencing change" (Komives, et al 593). The new components of leadership focus on supporting "collaboration, ethical action ...

Application and Analysis of Film Theories of Signification, Representation, and Perception

throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...

Child Development Theory of Lev Vygotsky 's Leading Activity/Child Development

grades. Each period is characterized by its own specific leading activity and developmental goals. Infancy The leading activity ...

Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim

that these struggles differed within each historical stage (Cosner 1999: Marx). In contrast to his predecessors, who saw the strug...

The Importance of Care In Nursing

the mountains in California, ride a horse in the Grand Canyon, volunteer in a cancer center, finish painting his house, attend his...

Three Business Ethics Questions

simply because the company did not want to lose money by taking the crib off the market. The social costs theory goes a step furt...