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  • Theory of Knowledge Essay

    Theory of Knowledge Essay

    Theory of Knowledge Essay ““Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.” evaluate to extent to which the characteristics Sartre claims for words affect - negatively or positively different areas of knowledge.” “A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetical value. Typically a word will consist of a root or stem and

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    Essay Length: 1,374 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Vika
  • Labeling Theory

    Labeling Theory

    Labeling Theory Labeling Theory is a sociological approach to explaining how criminal behavior is perpetuated by the police and others. This theory looked at how labels applied to individuals influenced their behavior; particular negative labels (such as “criminal” or “felon”) promote deviant behavior (online). Emphasis is being placed on rehabilitation of offenders through an alteration of their labels. Labeling theory has been accused of promoting impractical policy implications, and criticized for failing to explain society’s

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    Essay Length: 565 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Containment Theory

    The Containment Theory

    The Containment Theory was originally proposed by sociologist, Walter C. Reckless in 1961. His theory attempts to explain delinquency as the interaction between two different kinds of control; one being inner or internal pushes, and the other being outer or external pushes. Containment theory suggests that every individual contains an external structure and also a protective internal structure. The strength of these structures determines the actions of the individual, and the severity of their

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    Essay Length: 1,210 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Bred
  • Science of Cognitive Psychology and Analytical Psychology

    Science of Cognitive Psychology and Analytical Psychology

    Science of Cognitive Psychology and Analytical Psychology Analytical psychology Analytical psychology is part of the Jungian psychology movement started by Carl Jung (18-1961) and his followers. It is founded by Carl Jung and derived from Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. It is a Psychoanalysis that has the concept of libido or life energy as the dominant force. Its aim is to seek the personal experience of the inner most forces and motivations underlying human behavior. It is

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    Essay Length: 350 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Reality and Choice Theory

    Reality and Choice Theory

    1. "Reality therapy concentrates on the client's needs and getting them to confront the reality of the world. In Reality Therapy, these needs are classified into power, love and belonging, freedom, fun, and survival. Survival includes the things that we need in order to stay alive, such as food, clothing and shelter. Power is our sense of achievement and feeling worthwhile, as well as the competitive desire to win. Love and belonging represent our social

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    Essay Length: 559 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Big Bang Theory

    Big Bang Theory

    The big bang theory The big bang theory first originated from the early 1600’s from a man named Galileo Galilei. The whole theory didn’t unfold until the 20th century when powerful telescopes and other equipment allowed us to see the vastness of our galaxies as well as galaxies beyond ours. A priest by the name of George Lemaitre was the first to propose that the universe began with a big explosion. He claimed that the

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    Essay Length: 288 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Top
  • Management: Theory, Practice, Application

    Management: Theory, Practice, Application

    MANAGEMENT: THEORY, PRACTICE, APPLICATION Functions of Management Management is defined as the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals Snell, Bateman (2007). Even though the people, resources and goals might change constantly, the one thing that never changes is the way that managers achieve these goals. The entire concept and effectiveness of management is made up of four distinct and equally important functions. The four functions of management, defined as planning,

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    Essay Length: 960 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: David
  • “how Useful Are Content and Process Theories of Motivation in Explaining What Really

    “how Useful Are Content and Process Theories of Motivation in Explaining What Really

    “How useful are content and process theories of motivation in explaining what really motivates people to work?” Motivation is a complex concept to define, psychologically everyone has experienced the emotion and feeling motivation gives individually for different reasons. It is aspired within everyone to fulfill the inspiration or enthusiasm that comes from each individual of us. From resources I have researched it is referred, as “essentially an area of psychology, which attempts to explain why

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    Essay Length: 2,246 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Steve
  • Theories on Social Inequality from a Functionalist, Conflict, and Symbolic-Interactionist Points of View

    Theories on Social Inequality from a Functionalist, Conflict, and Symbolic-Interactionist Points of View

    Social inequality is the issue pertaining to the lack of housing, health care, education, employment opportunities, and status. It is the dismissal of people from participation in what we, the members of society distinguish as being valuable, important, socially desirable, and personally worthwhile. There are many different perspectives on social inequality within our society; the three areas I am going to focus on are those of the Functionalist, Conflict and Symbolic-Interactionist. The Functionalist theory believes

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    Essay Length: 673 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Steve
  • Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership

    Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership

    CONTINGENCY THEORIES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP • Contingency Theory – Theory that explains leadership effectiveness in terms of situational moderator variables LPC (Least Preferred Co-Worker) CONTINTENCY MODEL • The LPC contingency model describes how the situation moderates the relationship between leadership effectiveness and a trait measure called the “least preferred co-worker” score Leader LPC Score • The LPC score is determined by: • Asking a leader to think of all past and present co-workers • Select

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    Essay Length: 2,923 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Critically Discuss Strengths and Weaknesses of McClelland's Acquired Needs Theory and Expectancy Theory

    Critically Discuss Strengths and Weaknesses of McClelland's Acquired Needs Theory and Expectancy Theory

    Critically discuss strengths and weaknesses of McClelland’s acquired needs theory and Expectancy theory. Motivation play an important role in today’s work environment as motivated employees are more productive employees. However, the ways how we motivate the employees have to be improved from time to time as employees are being more demanding and that they are more concern about their needs than before. Motivational strategies have probably affected the most by employee concerns and values (Greiner

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    Essay Length: 1,972 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: David
  • The Cognitive Impairment and Physiological Illnesses

    The Cognitive Impairment and Physiological Illnesses

    Sleep is one of the body’s mysterious functions that is required by all human beings. The function of sleep is still not fully understood, although a battery of experiments and a multitude of theories attempt to explain it. One of categories that falls under the study of sleep is sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is an important study since it affects individuals, groups, and the environment. Unfortunately, sleep deprivation affects a large amount of the human

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    Essay Length: 1,310 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Yan
  • Aristotle's Ethical Theory and How It Conflicts, If at All, with Our Contemporary Worldview

    Aristotle's Ethical Theory and How It Conflicts, If at All, with Our Contemporary Worldview

    Aristotle's ethical theory and how it conflicts, if at all, with our contemporary worldview. Aristotle is one of the most well known philosophers in history. He was born in 384 BC in Stagira, which is in Macedonia. His father was personal physician to the king of Macedonia at that time, Amyntas. He lived until 322 BC when he died at a family estate in Euboea. Aristotle is credited with many great accomplishments during his time.

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Monika
  • How Does Information About Early Cognitive Development Relate to Violence the Creatures Commits?

    How Does Information About Early Cognitive Development Relate to Violence the Creatures Commits?

    How does information about early cognitive development relate to violence the creatures commits? Human cognition is the study of how people think and understand. As part of growing up, there are four stages called the cognitive developmental stages that an individual goes through. From the sensory motor stage to the formal operational stage, human beings learn to interpret their surroundings of everyday life experiences. However, in the case of the Creature in the novel, Frankenstein,

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    Essay Length: 1,592 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: David
  • Own Theory of Personality

    Own Theory of Personality

    The perception of personality varies from person to person. The conclusion of what an individual's personality may be is based upon the criteria of the person observing another. Our profile--our personality--stands in dialectical relationship to perception. What we are as a personality, our motives, goals, temperaments, and so on, influence what we perceive as a situation; and this perception itself will influence our personality. Each person is a unique personality, a profile of motivational, temperamental,

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    Essay Length: 583 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Bred
  • Theory of Constraints

    Theory of Constraints

    Background Eastern Financial Florida Credit Union is the largest credit union in South Florida. The last three years have been intensive with rates dipping to there lowest in 40 years. Because of this, 92% of mortgage holders had economic reasons to refinance. Eastern exists to achieve goals to improve member service, work performance and increase profitability; however, certain factors limit their capacity to manage constraints and they needed help. Eastern Weak Links Eastern needed

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    Essay Length: 443 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Yan
  • Theory of Relativity

    Theory of Relativity

    Alltel has sales revenue of almost eight billion dollars last year, but the Alltel shops see you in most towns are a relatively small business. This break is probably true for internal controls also, the shops have relatively few controls but hopefully the corporation as a whole has more. We are looking at the sales process and the controls in place and missing that go along with the process. The first control in place is

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    Essay Length: 639 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Theory of Absolute Cost Advantage

    Theory of Absolute Cost Advantage

    Theory of Absolute Cost Advantage MERCANTILISTS’ VERSION Mercantilism stretched over nearly three centuries, ending in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. It was the period when the nation-states were consolidating in Europe. For the purpose of consolidation, they required gold that could best be accumulated through trade surplus. In order to achieved trade surplus, their governments monopolized trade activities, provided subsidies and other incentives for export, and restricted imports. Since most European countries were

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    Essay Length: 4,669 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Osmosis Theory

    Osmosis Theory

    OSMOSIS Osmosis Theory Diagrams available in any science book Osmosis is the diffusion of a solvent through a partially permeable membrane until there is an equal concentration on either side of the membrane. The partially permeable membrane contains pores that are very small. Because these pores are only very small, only certain molecules can pass through it. Usually though the membrane will allow all or none of the molecules through. When only one type of

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    Essay Length: 905 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Inequality and Radical Theory

    Inequality and Radical Theory

    INEQUALITY AND RADICAL THEORY Inequality and Distribution of Crime Theorists attempt to attack the engulfing problem of crime from many different angles. Crime is so encompassing that it is difficult to know where to begin. Often times it is toiling to decide on a definition of the intangible subject of crime. This paper proposes that the problem of solving crime is difficult because crime is very diverse. It is just as equally difficult to devise

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    Essay Length: 521 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Kant’s Formalism Theory

    Kant’s Formalism Theory

    Kant's Formalism Theory The theories of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, have had an impact on the formulation and shaping of ethics today. Immanuel Kant graced this earth from 1724 to 1804. During his eighty year life time, he formulated many interesting ideas regarding ethical conduct and motivation. Kant is strictly a non-consequentialist philosopher, which means that he believes that a person's choices should have nothing to do with the desired outcome, but instead mankind

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    Essay Length: 737 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • 3 Postulates of the Kinetic Molecular Theory

    3 Postulates of the Kinetic Molecular Theory

    Another postulate of the kinetic molecular theory is that gas particles are always in motion, like the other states of matter. But they are different in that they undergo random translational movement. In solids, the particles mainly experience vibrational motion and in liquids they mainly vibrate and rotate, with some translational motion. Gas particles move rapidly in straight lines, unless acted upon by another particle or the walls of a container. This continuous contact with

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Linwood Method and the Bio-Medical Approach: Two of the Competing Theories

    The Linwood Method and the Bio-Medical Approach: Two of the Competing Theories

    RUNNING HEAD: Competing Theories for Treatments of Autism The Linwood Method and the Bio-Medical Approach: Two of the Competing Theories For the Treatment of Patients with Autism Abstract The author of this paper gives and explanation of what autism is. He also tells you a b it about Jeanne Simons and why she created the Linwood Method and what it is. Then, in addition, you are given a description of who Dr. Jacquelyn McCandless

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Alcoholism as a Disease or a Cognitive Behavior

    Alcoholism as a Disease or a Cognitive Behavior

    Alcoholism as a Disease or a Cognitive Behavior Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) is the leading juggernaut in information and ideas formulated concerning alcoholism and what it is considered. The popular belief for roughly the past 200 years has been that alcoholism is a disease. Many non-conformist religious personalities and doctors believe, however, alcoholism is a behavior and should not be classified the same way as diabetes and periodontal gum disease. The burden of this paper as

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Bred
  • Can Contract Theory Explain Social Preferences?

    Can Contract Theory Explain Social Preferences?

    For several decades, a growing body of research has shown that humans do not always choose to maximize material payoffs. Economists following the lead of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (1979) and Matthew Rabin (1993) have built on such research to suppose that individuals are attentive to fair distribution rewards between themselves as well as personal payoffs. (Ernst Fehr and Klaus Schmidt (1999)) An alternative approach, suggested by Elizabeth Hoffman, Kevin McCabe and Vernon

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    Essay Length: 610 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: July

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