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“On Variation in Interlanguage: A Response to Gregg”

unknown and that a learners performance is optimal at all times. In reality, Tarone argues, this optimal situation is seldom in p...

Motivating Teachers

their own supplies before and during each school year (Schmidt, 2005). Teaching has always been a low-status, low-pay job requiri...

An Evaluation of the Steady-State Theory

the earth and so quasars are objects that come form the past, and this suggest that a few billion years earlier, the universe was ...

Crime, Victimology and Victimization

get close with one another. Another theorist contends it is segmentation that would divide people (Lilly, 2002). Lilly (2002) rela...

Nursing Vocabulary

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Human Resource Management Trends

training program that should be included is that of cultural sensitivity training (Banerjee, 2007). This all means the human resou...

Organisational Culture; A Case Study

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

Elder Abuse in the United States

sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...

Roy’s Adaptation Model: A Case Study

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

Dorris’ Broken Cord/A Theoretical Perspective

layer that is closest to the child and which contains the relational features with which the child has direct contact (Paquette an...

Did Bradwyn Intend to Escape?

he were tidying up and cleaning his cell, it is unlikely that he would strew items about. Rather, it is quite likely that he woul...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

Decisions, Strategy and Leadership

but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who would hold up his...

Book Review: "The Nature Of Leadership" By Antonakis et al

what we know about leadership. This context also shows us patterns of leadership that we can use to analyze contemporary problems...

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Are Criminals Made Or Born?

the head, cheekbones and jaws which were enlarged, lips that protruded and abnormal teeth along with dark skin (Jones, 2006; Willi...

Film & Graphic Novel/Diabolique & Persepolis

staff and the students (Diabolique). The camera perspective enters the school. It is break time and other characters make their ...

The Lebanese/Israeli Crises: How The Media Handles This Social, Economic, Political And Cultural Issue

as significant as its ability to impart information. The theory of agenda setting asserts that mass media do not tell people outr...

Humanist Theory, Self Disclosure and the Times

degree of self-disclosure benefits relationships, increases self-esteem and leads to a more stable self-image" (Underwood, 2003). ...

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

is "largely agricultural and the political life is local" (Deflem, 2001). The Gesellschaft, on the other hand, is "organized at th...

Ethics: Utilitarianism

the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation" (Jeremy Bentham, 2006). This simple co...

Questions and Answers in Developmental Psychology

versus inferiority, and finally, in adolescence, there is a wrestling with identity and confusion in terms of roles (Leal, 1998). ...

'Inner Discipline' of Educational Theorist Barbara Coloroso

them ways to solve the problem; and 4. It leaves their dignity intact (Give Poor Parenting a Time-Out, 2002, p. 12). Barbara C...

DQs Week Three

(Monoky, 1998; p. 142) to result in four possible styles of communication and accomplishing tasks. This model provides variation ...

Eclectic Functionalism In Counseling

functional psychology: an emphasis on mental operations instead of mental elements; the mind as the mediator between needs and the...

Confidentiality and Three Nursing Models

nurse seeks to preserve any culture-specific aspect of the patients life everywhere possible. When some culturally-linked aspect ...

Nursing and the Interaction Between Theory, Research, and Practice

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

Carl Rogers and the Attachment Theory

Rogers originated the concept of client-centered therapy, which is characterized by three primary factors. First of all Rogers fel...

Paper on Personal Learning Theory

of the development of the intellect is based not only in his conceptualization of the application of learning, but also in the dev...

A Variety of Viewpoints on Racism

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...