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Societal Understanding of the Concept of Childhood

12). The idea that childhood is a social construct was formulated by Philippe Aries in 1962 (King, 2007). Aries argued that whil...

The Structure of DNA and the Risks Inherent in Understanding It

This paper first delineates the molecular structure of DNA and how it replicates itself. The author warns that as our knowledge o...

Understanding Steinbeck's "Flight" in light of Crane's Naturalism

This essay relates the naturalist perspective of Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" to understanding the themes in John Steinbeck's "...

Glass Menagerie, Symbolic Understanding of Jim

This essay pertains to how Laura, Amanda and Tom Wingfield each relate to Jim O'Connor on a symbolic level. Four pages in length, ...

How Can We Ever Understand our Persoanality

The term, personality, is difficult to define because different theorists define it in different ways. Allport, for example, belie...

Three Views on Objective Understanding of the Social World

This research paper/essay pertain to how positivism, feminism and critical realism interpret objectivity in regards to understandi...

Understanding Contemporary Families

never been enacted (Young, 2001, p. 27). Young, predictably, castigates Crittenden, saying that what she is proposing is "entitle...

Plato's Contribution to Understanding Philosophy and Philosophers

academy the first university of its type, he was able to influence minds of the next generation and proliferate his ideas and meth...

Midwifery Understanding Through Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies

research "offers insight into emotional and experiential phenomena in health care to determine what, how, and why. There are 4 es...

Understanding the Old Testament by Bernhard Anderson

of envisioning and grasping the full significance of difficult passages. In his preface, Anderson outlines his general approach....

Visualization: Strategies that Enhance Understanding

something is another obvious example of visualization. Even plain nonfiction text, however, can result in visualization. Learnin...

Taoism and Western Understanding

simply to the "Tao" or "the Way" (Rasmussen, 2001). They "seldom refer to God" (Rasmussen, 2001). In addition, they do not refer "...

Understanding Judicial Reasoning Controversies, Concepts, and Cases by Roland Case

jurists find that the letter of the law does not fit the case in question; as such, the jurist must settle disputes that are unabl...

Understanding Death Through Rituals

within some of todays Chinese societies include wailing and white banners placed upon the home to indicate death; wearing all whit...

'Community' as Understood by Rigoberta Menchu

with the social reform movements of the Catholic Church, Menchu and her family suffered terribly (Welker, 2002; Nichols, 1995). He...

Understanding the Relationship Among Nations Through the Use of Game Theory

$50 billion due to the events of September 11, they are reluctant to willingly allow insurance coverage due to the inability to ca...

Canterbury Tales and Understanding Geoffrey Chaucer

host is asking if the next can outdo the story offered by the Knight. In the following lines we see the words and the general per...

Customer Understanding and Information for Commercial Purposes

company of System Management Software, Inc. (SMSI), and is an indication of the way in which it was the internal development that ...

Greek and Roman Culture: Understanding Sex Through Art

in those days...Admiration of the manly form at times verged on the cultlike; the more heroic bits of male sculpture, small penis ...

Changes in Understanding of the City

and industrial in both appearance and flavor, though a commentator notes that "it is a complex and visually stimulating structure"...

Why Youth and Community Workers Should Understand Globalization

globalized commodity; that is, Coca Cola, Nike and other products are sold everywhere from New York to Paris to Peking (Smith and ...

Understanding Foreign Policy

connection with the future development of humanity as a species is both grand and far-reaching; that the coupling of cognitive sci...

Understanding Organizations and Using Specific IT/IS Management Techniques

to "pass on information to those who need to know" (Handy, 1993, p. 141). Fifth, groups are useful in gathering information, ide...

Hoge, Understanding the War on Terror

is, the mobilization of all available resources against a dangerous, antisocial activity, one that can never be entirely eliminate...

Understanding Paranoid Schizophrenia Through "A Beautiful Mind"

- to reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accompl...

The Contribution Of Motivation Theories To Understanding Work Place Behavior

the idea that man was motivated economically. The increased efficiency meant that Ford could produce in one day what had previousl...

AN UNDERSTANDING OF QUALITY AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

of how such a thing works. But what, exactly, is process improvement? In its basic form, the process improvement model (PI...

Responsibilities of the Security Manager with Regard to Understanding Financial Management and Accounting

participate in state projects in the projects various phases: initiation, planning, execution, controlling and closing (McMillen 2...

Book Review: "Understanding Leadership" By Gayle C. Avery

culture, processes and changing systems. Averys (2004) attempt to define leadership in its broadest terms can readily be interpre...

The Most Effective And Productive Approach To Understanding Human Behavior

When one hears the phrase "operant conditioning," Skinner is the first name that typically comes to mind, a man considered one of ...