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MOTIVATIONAL THEORIES: EXPECTANCY THEORY AND INTRINSIC MOTIVATION

relationship with expectancy theory; people will generally perform a task in the expectation that a reward will be offered at the ...

Should Gays Be Allowed to Adopt?

simply too many variables to be able to safely conclude they would not. To complete the Rogerian argument we must clearly ...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

Americans are Polarized Over Immigration

school degrees than are American born citizens (Larsen, 2003), they are a critical component of our workforce. Many immigrants ta...

Global Warming Real or Imagined?

The concept of global warming has been controversial ever since it was first broached in the 1970s. This is not surprising...

English Unemployment in the 1930s

The concepts of unemployment and unemployment insurance have been controversial regardless of the temporal and geographic setting....

Crimes By Corporations and Their Relative Significance in the U.S.

one of her many incarcerations, who said he had stolen a loaf of bread, "You should have stolen a railroad. They would have made y...

How to Reduce Infighting in the Bicameral Political System: A Modest Proposal

at the bicameral system that dominates American politics. Conventional wisdom has held that there are truly only two political par...

Smoking Issues in 1999

last ten years. As the view that smoking is a voluntarily assumed health risk has declined, the political and social environment h...

IT Security Ethics - Assessing the Differing Approaches

and academic institutions, the concept has spread to address the basic concern of what behaviors are appropriate when dealing with...

Health Insurance Costs - A Nuanced View

purchase health insurance at the same cost as those without such conditions? Why or why not? The question of whether or not indi...

The Basics of Goal Setting Theory and Expectancy Theory

who value money may be motivated towards a goal that will increase the amount of money they receive, however an individual who val...

Napoleon's Exile

his military career.2 Presiding over a Grand Army of more than a half-million soldiers, the largest ever assembled to date, Napol...

Vaccinations Do Not Translate Into Sexual Promiscuity!

population base for which it is intended. Needless to say, the controversy surrounding this vaccination is perplexing or even inf...

The Depiction of Reality in the Age of Global Production

In all cases they may be seen as art that is breaking boundaries as they are seeking to break down social barriers and taboos, dea...

Sociological Theories' Impact On Education

values (Hoenisch, 2005). Durkheim believed that "society can survive only if there exists among its members a sufficient degree of...

Video Games and Social Responsibility

games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...

The Senate and Its Part in the Canadian Legislative Structure

General, who is the Queens representative except when the Queen is in Canada (Forsey, 2005). The Governor General is appointed by ...

Benefits Of Profiling In Fighting Terrorism

to become terrorists also share certain characteristics, traits, and backgrounds. One of the challenges in arguing for the pract...

Exploitation of Children in the Art World: Is it Art or Pornography?

nude children as art continued to be deemed socially inappropriate, which is why several photographers of note were the subjects o...

Discovering the Ancient World

be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other words, we might w...

Prostate Cancer/PSA screening

an increase in the early detection of cancer, as well as detection of a "migration to lower-stage and -volume tumors," it remains ...

The Right to Privacy: A Constitutional Provision?

presented above. Obviously, the most important source that must be used in discussing our so-called Constitutional Rights is the ...

China’s Involvement with Tibet

hierarchies strengthened (Tibet - Its Ownership and Human Rights Situation, 2003). But it became clear that China was the predomi...

Significant Policies of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama and Their Controversies

Hillary Clinton has lobbied tirelessly to provide all Americans with decent and affordable health insurance and was the chief arch...

Why the Federalist Papers Need to be Re-examined as the Twenty-First Century Begins

organized crime that exists today with gang recruitment of children as young as eight or ten. This is just one example as to why t...

Attribution Theory And Achievement Goal Theory

3) the observer must determine if the person was forced or coerced into doing that behavior or not (Kearsley, 2008). If coercion w...

A Discussion of Cochlear Implants

in thinking that everyone wants to be the same; and if they have the right to force conformity on those who are different. Cochlea...

Renewable Energy: Wind Power

energy are necessarily highly aware of the fact that reaping the power of the wind creates a "landscape" presence that some critic...

Pentecostal Beliefs

covenant and the new way. In Acts, Luke recounts acts of the Spirit. It is believed Luke wrote this to "establish Christianity as...