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Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Feminist Theory and Videos of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever” and Lil’ Kim’s “No Matter What People Say”

how old and new discourses about sex are portrayed within the context of a "televisual apparatus" (134). This refers to how the v...

Labeling Theory and Columbine

noted that they had previously made a video, for their class, wherein they killed "a jock on school grounds" (Bramwell, 2004). Thi...

Theories of Leadership: Kouzes, Peters, Posner and Yukl

suggests that effective leaders rely "more on personal power than on position power" (Green, 1999). That is, they lead because of ...

Major Psychological Theories

Cognitive behavior therapy is effective with a wide range of problems, including very complex and challenging life situations. Bu...

Nursing Theory: Hildegard Peplau

of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by...

TRAIT LEADERSHIP THEORY: ARE LEADERS BORN?

a person who "exceeded" other members in his group through intelligence, scholarship, dependability, activity and social participa...

SYSTEM THINKING AND THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

of supply and inventory moves into a particular project, then goes through and ends up with the finished project. In a standard ma...

Eysenck And Bandura: Comparison Of Personality Theories

illustrates that while there is indeed merit to his conjecture, it nonetheless does not reflect the only manner by which human per...

Second-Order Predation: Alternative To The Overkill Theory

Nature has very effectively balanced the animal kingdom with predators and prey; when the predator population is drastically reduc...

Imogene King: Theory Of Goal Attainment

how to achieve restorative health within an environment of compassion, benevolence and intuitiveness. Indeed, the fundamental bas...

International Trade Theory

Library, n.d.). What nations possess in abilities and resources is not as important as how they use them. Of course in the...

Crime Theory: Felson's Routine Activity Approach

is to remove the elements inherent to crime: a location with minimal security is more likely to be robbed than one that has invest...

Sociological Theory, Contemporary Culture, and Technology

the need to separate religion from science, to synthesize the basic principles of the various branches of the sciences into one in...

Strain Theories of Crime

response to social structure. Merton argues that some social structure "exert a definite pressure upon certain persons in the soc...

The Theories of Freud, Adler and Jung

extremely primitive (Sigmund Freuds theories). The final element of the personality as described by Freud is the superego, which r...

Marx and Durkheim and Their Theories of Religion

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

Infant Attachment: Theories

Piagets cognitive developmental theory is devised toward all stages of ones development, however, it is particular pertinent to ea...

Stress Theory And Coping With Stress

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Arnheim and Bazin: Film Theory

is simply the record captured by a filmmaker who sets up a camera somewhere and lets it run, then even a documentary is not truly ...

Leadership Theories And Personality Traits Of Effective Leaders

created the field of consulting" (Sullivan 2005, p. B06). In an interview in 2004, Drucker said that successful leaders begin by ...

Applying Learning Theories to Personal Experience

bell and the unconditioned response was the dogs salivation when it was fed. After the conditioning, the sound of a bell, which ha...

Connectionism Versus Motor Theory: Language Processing

and classical theories of language processing. That he supports the claim there are "syntactic substantive parameters in language...

Nursing Theory Sites

unitary human beings (Newman). This theory is appealing because it acknowledges how each person is unique and, therefore, must be ...

Anomie Theory of Delinquency and Juvenile Delinquency

cultures norms in achieving those goals (Robert Merton: Anomie Theory, 2008). One could perhaps state that, as an example, the soc...

Piaget's Theories

be identified by weeding through his autobiography combined with other sources, including Gruber (1996) and others. These stages a...

Theory-Driven Praxis—Personal Framework

Domain concepts Health: The traditional understanding of "health" is that is the absence of illness and/or injury. However, for ...

Maslow’s Theory of Needs and Its Impact on Traditional Organizational Behavior and Critical Management Perspectives

means to motivate employees for many years. However, it has drawn criticism, because there is "little evidence to support its stri...

Social Work Practice Based Cognitive-Behavioral Theory

inasmuch as cognitive therapy distinctly addresses the spatial and temporal elements of human existence. Cognitive restructuring ...