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How No Contest by Alfie Kohn Demonizes Competition

In five pages this opinion paper refutes Kohn's argument that competition is evil and unavoidable. There are no additional source...

No Contest by Alfie Kohn

In a paper consisting of five pages the advantages to personal and business relationships offered by eliminating competition accor...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

The Beyond Discipline Model of Alfie Kohn

the problem may be with what he has been told to do--or to learn" (Kohn, 1996, p. PG). Myriad ways exist as a means by which to ...

Suffer the Restless Child by Alfie Kohn

children every year, all pointing to the fact that it is really not just one condition, and that many factors play a part in how p...

Comment on 2 Education Articles

this essay, he differentiates between knowing multiple facts and being able to regurgitate them on demand in order to score highly...

Assertive Discipline Examined

In five pages Lee Canter's behavior management method known as assertive discipline is examined through recommendations and theore...

Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn and Human Motivation

his cold-hearted analysis of the warmest human emotion. To many people, the basic behaviorist outlook has always seemed to be mora...

Motivation Theories

In six pages various motivation theories are applied to management in an overview of those developed by Albert Bandura, Douglas Mc...

James Popham, George Madaus, and Alfie Kohn Educational Assessments

be allowed to learn on their own in a manner that is encouraged and that they schools should "give students time to be confused an...

PROMOTIONAL CONTEST - SELLING A BOOK

February 13, with the winner to be announced on February 14. We restrict it to this two-week period to put a sense of urgency into...

International Contests' Advertising

those things - then, for him that ad is effective. The buyer may say, if the ad does not talk down to me, or the music doesnt an...

Sexual Orientation Discrimination and Laws of the United Kingdom

ex Parte Beckett, also [1996] Q B 517 and heard by the same court of appeal (Lexis, 2002). The cases here regarded the attitude ...

What James Madison Would Think of the Contemporary United States

In five pages this paper applies James Madison's Federalist Paper Nos. 10 and 51 in an argument that supports Patterson's media co...

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...

Adolescent Depression And Cognitive Behavior Therapy

29 percent of the entire group of patients at the beginning of the study (Weeks, 2004; NIMH, 2005). This rate was reduced in all f...

Evangelium vitae/Nos. 1-78

and persuasive echo in the heart of every believer and non-believer alike," due to the way that the message of Christ fulfills and...

Evangelium vitae/Nos. 78-105

to freedom and responsibility" (EV 83). In this regard, he stresses the pivotal position of the Sacraments, as a means by which hu...

Overview of NOS

computer, printer and modem (1996). The ability to utilize variables simultaneously is important. One can see that the different...

Issues of Organizational Behavior

forth (Lambert, Edwards and Cable, 2003). The massive downsizing of organizations that was so prevalent in the 1980s and continu...

Keeping a Perspective on Research

should demand details, ask questions. If a researcher states "traditional classroom discipline techniques" have been shown to "ef...

The Power of Incentives

are Creative," 2007). While contests are good, simply giving the winner some money is not a good idea. Why? The reward should be d...

A Contested Will

individual might forget something and add more instructions under the necessary signatures. This subparagraph applies to such a co...

Capital Punishment: Morally Acceptable And Effective Crime Deterrent

far less heinous than murder, so how is it that the Bible can be mistaken for harboring judgmental opinion against capital punishm...

Presidential Election of 2000 and Black Disenfranchisement

statistics are quite intriguing. At the same time, the ballots which were considered to be spoiled were really occurring at a rate...

Essay Sample for a Pierce College Scholarship Contest

In four pages a Pierce College scholarship contest essay is considered in this example. Two sources are cited in the bibliography...

March 9, 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads and its Importance

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

Non-Literary Evidence from the Ancient World

considered to be a study of the process of recording history, may be as important as history itself (Crawford, 1983). In other wor...

What Is The American Dream As Portrayed In "Death Of A Salesman"?

He had a good dream. Its the only dream you can have - to come out number-one man. He fought it out here, and this is where...

Middle Ages' Fighting and Military Strategies

In seven pages this paper discusses the Middle Ages' combat techniques and how they influenced military contests and strategies. ...