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Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

William Glasser and Jean Piaget's Theories of Personal Learning

understanding - including habituation and violation of expectation - with each stage represented by age-related limitations and sp...

Learning Theories and Teacher Practice Within the UK

as: programmed instruction, mastery learning instructional objectives, applied behavior analysis and contracts (Ormrod, 1999). Tea...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

High School Science Teaching

(Berube, 2000). This type of teaching follows what could be called the linear thinking model (Berube, 2000). But....science is not...

ICT Learning Program Design

Social constructivism is a part of the larger school of cognitive constructivism, developed by the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsk...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Sociopolitical Classes of Plato and Their Parallels

soul, as imaged by Plato, is made up of the qualities of reason, spirit and desire or appetite (Honderich, et al, 1995). The "reas...

A Cognitive Behavioral Therapy History

be able to point out faulty thinking, something that can free a person from the desire to act a particular way. Such acknowledgmen...

Sony's PlayStation 2 Release Problems

the primary reason for the rush was to reach the market with the PS2 before Microsofts scheduled release of its X-box. Sony did n...

Josiah Strong and Spencer on Social Darwinism

held true: creatures which could adapt most effectively to their environment had a better chance of their genetic material survivi...

Central Bank Policy and Global Trade

Company as a leading example of how large multinationals ought to function in terms of currency risk management. Dow generates mo...

New Nursing Theory Formulation

An effective and valuable nurse is one who has sound technical knowledge and experience in applying it, but who also is a superlat...

Manuel Castells' Economic Theories and Globalization

when the "information age" arrived, along with the knowledge economy, we began seeing a shift in the situation. Because of communi...

Explaining Behavior Through Personality Theory

psychology, in that it "accepts references to mental life and encourages the study of its full spectrum of manifestations as legit...

Overview of Internationalization

a few companies are able to claim a true global presence such as major oil companies and companies such as Coca-Cola. Even compani...

Improving Leadership

The writer looks at a case where leadership skills were lacking. The leadership style is examined and compared to theories on lea...

Gordon Allport's Ideas

is directly related to what the person is. That is his individual psychology. People behave in ways that demonstrate their own sel...

Culturally Competent Nursing

This paper is divided into related sections and includes a case scenario to which Leininger's transcultural nursing theory is appl...

James Piaget Erikson Vygotsky

This essay briefly explains these theories. The writer comments on preferred and less preferred theories and also comments on meta...

Nurse Educator, A Philosophy of Teaching

This statement presents an example paper of how to present a nursing educator's personal philosophy on teaching. The theory of mul...

Development by Eras

Child development theories did not really come to fore until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fact, the word ‘childhood’...

Emotional Intelligence

The theory of Emotional intelligence was introduced in 1995 by Daniel Goleman. This paper reports what it is and identifies the fi...

Gang Membership and Criminology Theory

This research paper/essay pertains to Strain theory and Routine Activity theory as explanation for gang involvement among young pe...

Learning Theories for Adults

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at adult learning theories. Humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive theories are explored...

Catheter-Associated UTI Training

This essay offers a scenario teaching nurses and assistant to prevent UTIs associated with catheters. The essay describes the sett...

One Theory Related to Careers

This essay discusses the writer's job history and how the Social Cognitive Career Theory relates to those choices. The theory is e...

Natural Law Theory Ring of Gyges

This paper discusses different parts of Plato's Republic. There is a discussion of natural law legal theory and legal positivist t...

How Do People Perceive Risk

Risk has become a popular research topic in a number of different fields of study, each of which has its own theories. This paper ...

Adult Learning Theories

This essay reports on three adult learning theories and relates them to the writer's experience. The theories are Freire, Mezirow,...