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Communities and the Value of Wal-Mart

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Wal-Mart and its value to the community. Social work is used as a theoretical framew...

Improving Organizations in Crisis

The writer looks at two issues facing organizations in crisis. The first is the optimization of information flow in a firm by exam...

Assessing the Implications Resulting from Research Indicating Parenting Style did not Impact on the Occurrence of ODD

The writer presents a small section design to fit in a larger paper. The research looking at parenting style and delayed gratifica...

Nursing Theory and Nursing Philosophy at Montefiore

This research paper pertains to the Montefiore Medical Center's Mission, Values and Philosophy statement. The writer compares thes...

Victimization, A Theory with Examples

This research paper/essay pertains to the "Offender Searches/Victimization Patterns" theoretical perspective on victimization. The...

Behaviorism's History and Development

repeated exposure to certain types of stimuli eliciting the same response each time can be the basis for directing behaviors, even...

State Views of Aristotle and John Locke

in which truth is believed to derive chiefly from experience" (Nichols, 2003, p. 20). In order to explore his general theory, it p...

Democratic Historian Alexis de Tocqueville

some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...

Michael Corballis' 'The Language Evolution Debate' Article

speak at certain evolutionary stages of development. It is also speculated by Corballis that language emerged from facial expressi...

Verbal Irony and Intimacy

the literal meaning of utterances that are deemed ironic does affect the perception of the intended meaning. That said, other rese...

Social Conflict Theory, Politics, and Economics

workmen to gather. There were no acts of parliament forbidding collusion among employers to "lower the price of work: but many ag...

Contemporary Chief Executive Officers and the Challenges Confronting Them

not quite so obvious (Priem and Rosenstein, 2000). But the point is, the CEO has a variety of tools from which to...

Happiness, Psychological Health, Scholastic Success, and Intelligence

be a two way argument, There is also little doubt that this did not bring him happiness. With these examples and the...

Some Outdated Theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx

class will be able to violate the laws with impunity while members of the subject classes will be punished. * Persons are labeled...

Utilitarian vs. Kantian Philosophies

universal laws? Clearly, they can sometimes, but other times they would not be thought of in such a manner. John Stuart Mill on th...

Behavioral and Cognitive Schools of Psychology

of mind" (Wilder Dom, 2003). Boeree (2000) reports the roots of the cognitive movement began in the mid-1900s: "the advent of th...

Management, Employees, Creativity, and Opportunities for Learning

that facilities employee learning. There are several different theories concerning the learning organisation and need for employee...

Evaluating the Dualism of Rene Descartes

body but the are not only of the body ("Rene," 2005). The mind controls these things. Mind also cannot be "thought without it thin...

Structured Evolutionary Prototype Development and Prototype Software Development Introductory Discussion

when developing software because there is no manufacturing risk as would be the case if the actual object or final software were p...

Application and Analysis of Film Theories of Signification, Representation, and Perception

throughout cinematic history, Jean Mitry (1907-1988) was perhaps the most comprehensive and objective. He examined cinema from al...

Human Sexuality as Conceived by Alfred Kinsey and Sigmund Freud

desires. "On the contrary, we shall recognize more and more clearly that the essence of the perversions lies not in the extension...

God's Existence and the Design Argument

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

Classroom Setting, Behaviorism, and the Contributions of Thorndike's Theories

sufficient evidence that direct instruction teaching would result in flexibility that is needed for students in order to target st...

Anna Fogerty Case and Massachusetts 209A Protective Order

rights. This qualitative study of the issues applies the concept of government and neoinstitutionalism to one application ...

Austrian Economist Carl Menger

much is really not certain. Other economists who emerged prior to Menger contributed a great deal as well. Menger did try to sign...

Credit Suisse First Boston and Corporate Culture

as CEO; and the installation of Brady Dougal as the most recent CEO. Without direct experience in the industry or in the organiza...

Constructionist Perspective of Identity

Gergen states that, "one cannot depend on a solid confirmation of identity, nor on comfortable patterns of authentic action (p. 14...

The German Ideology of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

is dead, at least as a philosophy, in the sense that it can never be implemented. While there is much lip service given to democra...

Child Development Theory of Lev Vygotsky 's Leading Activity/Child Development

grades. Each period is characterized by its own specific leading activity and developmental goals. Infancy The leading activity ...

Determination, Free Will, and Incompatibilism

system and ones desires, but there must still be an element of freedom if one is to turn those desires into action. Compati...