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Criminology Theory Glossary

go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...

Personal Ethics Development

his relationship with God (Smith, 2001). Based on this description and my own upbringing and early training, my own decisions re...

Spirituality as a Concept in Black American Literature

the first black writer of consequence in America (A Brief Biography of Phillis Wheatley, 2002). Phillis poetry is a clea...

The Relationship Between Art and Beauty

artisan of rare proportion who effectively coupled his own singular and distinctive style with that of the refinement of the perio...

Great Britain, is It Class Driven or a Meritocracy?

more on ability and skills rather than family background and inheritance; a meritocracy. Class mobility between the generation and...

Created to Learn by William Yount

alleviate their fear, Yount offers a step by step process by which students are allowed to analyze the best of the theories presen...

Elementary Classroom Learning and Music Instruction

level math and science problems. In a subsequent study that replicated this research, again, the results showed that the students ...

Past and Present Definitions of Hero

rap artists came to be regarded as heroes by many. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001, however, we have once again com...

Questions Regarding Personal Ethics

a man will not work, he shall not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). "Work" is not always something that returns money as a reward or p...

Critical Thinking and Perceptual Blockades

logic (formal and informal), critical thinking is generally considered to be part of the informal variety. When a person employs c...

Commercial Environment and Political Risk

helped to raise the awareness of this risk. Whilst it is known that there is often little that an individual company may do to imp...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

Overview of Positivism

later in the nineteenth century; those of evolutionary ethics, where there was a duty to pursue the already existing processes and...

Examination of Compilers

Questions, 2001). However, compilers, even ones written for the same programming language, can differ greatly. Wong (2003) asser...

Compilers and Their Programming Functions

Questions, 2001). However, compilers, even ones written for the same programming language, can differ greatly. Wong (2003) asser...

Taoism, Buddhism, and Zen's Basic Philosophical Differences

Taoism, or flowing with the Tao (Dao) is best translated into English as "The Way", "The Flow of Things", the "Course of Nature", ...

Interest Rates of Eurocurrency

factor that it is made up of large high quality clients and also the fact that there is no deposit insurance. These are all elemen...

Definition and Use of Global Intellectual Property

experience is valuable only at the place where they work. It is not portable" (Drucker, 1999; p. 79). In contrast, knowledg...

Oligopolies and Monopolies

in technology, the number of companies already in the industry and their market positions, human capital, and more (Basto, Noyola-...

Policy Analysis and Systems Theory

to cybernetics and to systems dynamics, which demonstrate changes in a network of variables (Heylighen and Joslyn, 1992). Systems...

Real Wage Rates, Wage Differentials, and Human Capital Investment

to answer the call of marriage and motherhood, ultimately leaving the workforce not long after having what would be a tremendous a...

OPEC's Influence, Nation States, and Power

seen as having its routes in economic rather than military force. It is the power of trade embargos that have aided in seeking to ...

Management vs. Leadership

extend the list to five. Those functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling. In the past, managers ha...

1939 to 1942 Blitzkrieg German Success

2, nd). At the same time, Russia and other countries were also designing and building lighter tanks that were also faster (World W...

Proposal on Distance Learning and 'Desocialization'

of distance education models. Ackley commented that Online instructors are often hired more for their technological skills than ...

Sport and Leadership

to be the same for leaders across contexts or cultures and second, some believe leadership skills cannot be taught or trained (Mar...

Employee Training and Organizational Learning Initiatives

TQM is as much at home in the services as it is in manufacturing. At the time that TQM was at its height...

NPO and Effects of the New Policy Agenda

Agenda (NPA) is an ideological preference for markets over state controls in the allocation of of scarce resources (Copestake, 199...

Definition and Examples of Virtual Communities

formation of a virtual community may occur in many environments and as a result of many different pull factors, from entertainmen...

Presidency of Teddy Roosevelt

the people", and that it was his responsibility and obligation to act on behalf of what was good for the nation - using whatever l...