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  • Communications Theory Application

    Communications Theory Application

    Have you ever wondered if there was a devil side and an angel side to your personality? The devil side is telling you to be bad and have fun, while the angel side is telling you to be good and do what is right. This idea has to do with the I and ME theory of communications. The ME is like the angel side of your personality, telling you what is right and socially acceptable.

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Anna
  • How Does Art Change Your Perception of a Metaphysical Concept?

    How Does Art Change Your Perception of a Metaphysical Concept?

    Death is a metaphysical concept that is abstract and theoretical in composition, but doesn't embody a material form. From person to person, there are a vast array of interpretations of what death is and what it means to each individual. There is no single universal understanding of what death is, since it doesn't embody any physical characteristics. I am the kind of person whose opinions are very easily influenced. Whenever I read a book, listen

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Casullo's Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory

    Casullo's Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory

    The bundle theory states that any thing is simply a complex of properties which all stand in a contingent relation, called co-instantiation, to one another. Basically an object is nothing more than a collection of its properties. The bundle theory is an alternative to other theories of particulars such as the substratum theory and the substance theory of particulars. James Van Cleve proposes a few objections that he considers to be severely damaging to the

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Organizational Theory

    Organizational Theory

    Communication is a major and essential part of any business relationships. In today's business world communication and miscommunication can make or break an organization. Recently, Standard and Poor (S&P) made a serious error in its calculations and communicated wrong information to the world in regards to 612 mortgage securities. "Standard & Poor's admitted to making a nearly $5 billion blunder in correcting its own estimate for subprime securities it is reviewing for ratings cuts" (CNN.COM).

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Jack
  • Tannnebaum & Schmidt’s Continuum of Leadership Theory (task, Followers, and Him/herself)

    Tannnebaum & Schmidt’s Continuum of Leadership Theory (task, Followers, and Him/herself)

    Review Tannenbaum & Schmidt’s theory and use it to explain why leaders should consider the task, the followers, and their own inclinations when selecting a leadership style. Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s continuum of leadership styles 3 factors must be taken into account before choosing a leadership style 1) TASK: Factors that should be considered when choosing the right leadership style: - Options available to perform the task i.e. only one best way to do it? Or

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Perception and Decision Making

    Perception and Decision Making

    Perception and Decision Making Kelly Valentine MGT 340 Axia College Janice Kurth September 16, 2006 Introduction In business, what is the biggest reason there is conflict? The answer is perception and its effect on the decision making process. Many managers jump into a situation without knowing all the facts. All they have is their perceived view of what is happening, and depending on how well that manager is at perceiving the situation, his or

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Max
  • Personality Theories

    Personality Theories

    Personality Theories Psychodynamic theorists And Humanistic theories Table of Contents Freud Jung Adler Rogers Maslow Humanistic strengths and weakness Psychodynamic strengths and weakness Some similarities of both Web Resources Freud Biography Biography Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856, in a small town -- Freiberg -- in Moravia. His father was a wool merchant with a keen mind and a good sense of humor. His mother was a lively woman, her husband's second wife and

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    Essay Length: 3,133 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Freud's Theory of Psychoanalysis

    Freud's Theory of Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis is a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis is the first dynamic theory of personality that talks about displacing, repressing, denying, venting, and regressing; about the unconscious; and about the significance of dreams. With all of the new psychodynamic approaches out there today, there are many differences between them and the original psychoanalysis, however they generally share five of the same elements. The first is the emphasis

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    Essay Length: 288 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Theory of Nursing

    Theory of Nursing

    Theory of Nursing Before making the critical decision to enroll in a nursing program it is important to seek out information on nursing as a vocation. The program at this school is rigorous and time consuming and, therefore, should not be ventured into lightly. In this paper I will go through what I have discovered about nursing as a career, what nursing is, my definition of a good nurse, how I plan to provide care

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: David
  • Accounting Theory

    Accounting Theory

    Accounting is in the current state of being an art. It is referred to as a social science, but the question that still remains in view today is should accounting be an art or should it actually be a science? Although the move to scientific based accounting would be desirable in today’s society it is not possible. When you consider the facts of this issue in a true debate style, the scientific based approach does

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: David
  • Nature of Logic and Perception

    Nature of Logic and Perception

    USA PATRIOT Act On 9/11, the world was shocked and awed by the scenes of destruction and mayhem that unfolded in the United States of America. The carnage that unfolded that fateful day made it quite clear that the United States had entered a new era of constitutional interpretation. Never before has an unconventional enemy ever been able to inflict such damage with an unprecedented attack on American soil. Shortly after this attack, American lawmakers

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Theory of Constraints

    Theory of Constraints

    What is the Theory of Constraints? The Theory of Constraints is an organizational change method that is focused on profit improvement. The essential concept of TOC is that every organization must have at least one constraint. A constraint is any factor that limits the organization from getting more of whatever it strives for, which is usually profit. The Goal focuses on constraints as bottleneck processes in a job-shop manufacturing organization. However, many non-manufacturing constraints exist,

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    Essay Length: 850 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Wittgenstein’s Theory of Meaning

    Wittgenstein’s Theory of Meaning

    Wittgenstein’s theory of meaning is a theory meant to abolish the long time-accepted referential theory of meaning. In his own theory, the meaning of words is not about pointing to its bearer or to its reference; it is about the use of a word in a sentence or the use of a word in a particular language game. He presented his theory in a manner of presenting counter-examples. With these simple yet solid examples, many

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Karl Marx: Conflict Theory

    Karl Marx: Conflict Theory

    Karl Marx: Conflict Theory The most influential socialist thinker from the 19th century is Karl Marx. Karl Marx can be considered a great philosopher, social scientist, historian or revolutionary. Marx proposed what is known as the conflict theory. The conflict theory looks at how certain social interactions occur through conflict. People engage in conflict everyday to gain more power then others in society. Karl Marx is known for studying the conflicts that occur between different

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Edward
  • Summary of Durkheim’s Sociological Theory

    Summary of Durkheim’s Sociological Theory

    Emile Durkheim is one of the major leaders in the delineation of sociology. Durkheim set out on a mission to define how sociology should be considered and how the method of sociology should be used. Although Durkheim’s writing does touch upon certain moral, political organization, and intellectual issues, overall, Durkheim sets out to provide a theoretical construction for the study of sociology. Durkheim desires to understand societal life through various social constructs. His agenda entails

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Victor
  • Narrative Theory

    Narrative Theory

    The person never is the problem. The person has a problem. A problem is something you have, not something you are. You don’t have to change your nature. You have to fight the influence of the problem on your life. All of us need to select from the huge amount of information the world throws at us all the time. We need to organise what we see, hear, feel and remember into a meaningful ‘story’

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Prospect Theory

    Prospect Theory

    Summary of the learning points (ranked by importance to you) Today’s class discussed the mental accounting for money management. 1. Prospect theory. The theory can be represented by a value function, as shown below. The value function starts from a reference point, and is normally concave for gains, and convex for losses. It is also steeper for losses than for gains. The theory intends to explain why people behave irrationally when making choices. 2. Framing

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Max
  • Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory

    Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory

    The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word cognition as; the mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning and judgment (Cognition). Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental theory was a unique concept at the time of its inception. It was the first in depth theory on the subject and remained the standard of the field for quite some time. Throughout this paper, Piaget’s theory will be broken down into its four stages and each will

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Victor
  • Dependency Theory

    Dependency Theory

    DEPENDENCY THEORY Dependency theory is the body of social science theories which suggests that the wealthy nations of the world need a peripheral group of poorer states in order to remain wealthy. Dependency theory states that the poverty of the countries in the periphery is not because they are not integrated into the world system, but because of how they are integrated into the world system. THE PREMISES OF DEPENDENCY THEORY ARE: 1) Poor nations

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Janna
  • Information Theory

    Information Theory

    1. Introduction Information theory is the mathematical theory of data communication and storage generally considered to have been founded in 1948 by Claude E. Shannon. The central paradigm of classic information theory is the engineering problem of the transmission of information over a noisy channel. The main result of this theory is Shannon's noisy-channel coding theorem, which states that reliable communication is possible over unreliable channels. It is possible to surround a noisy channel with

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Consumer Perception

    Consumer Perception

    Consumer Perception The world of marketing is an ever-changing one. Not simply because consumers’ desires change, but also because today marketers have more means than ever to reach potential customers. The Internet has made aspects of marketing much simpler and cheaper. We can now literally reach over a billion people world-wide. For multinational companies, this is a good means to create a connection with the people in each country they operate in. The following will

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • How Can the Theories and Models in Leadership and Motivation Help a Manager to Do His or Her Job More Effectively?

    How Can the Theories and Models in Leadership and Motivation Help a Manager to Do His or Her Job More Effectively?

    How can the theories and models in leadership and motivation help a manager to do his or her job more effectively? Two powerful tools a manager can use are displaying good leadership skills, and being able to motivate those around them. A highly motivated workforce is vital for an organisation seeking good results. Leadership and management although being seen as synonymous do differ, not every manager is a leader and vice versa. The emphasis of

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Steve
  • The Greek Strategy of Defense in 480

    The Greek Strategy of Defense in 480

    The Greek Strategy of Defense in 480 In 480 Persia amassed a huge fleet, built with the intensions of taking over the entire country of Greece. Although this was not there first attempt, with the enormous fleet they brought it would be one of their best. In order to counter this attack from the Persians the Greek city-states had to unite together to defend themselves. Many great leaders came to the forefront because of this

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Edward
  • Personality Theories Paper

    Personality Theories Paper

    Personality Theories Paper Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) started his interest in psychology while attending the University of Wisconsin. Maslow received his bachelors in 1930, his masters in 1931 and three years after that he received his PhD in 1934. Maslow’s theory showed up during his work with monkeys. He noticed that certain needs took precedence over others such as the need of liquids over food, breathing over liquids and so forth, hence the theory of Maslow’s

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Evaluate Freuds Psychodynamic Theory

    Evaluate Freuds Psychodynamic Theory

    Evaluate Freud’s psychodynamic theory. The godfather of psychology….as he has often been termed. Perhaps he was in his time. Sigmund Freud. Born in Freiberg, Morovia, to a poor family in the year 1856. His mother was 21 at the time of his birth, his father was 20 years her senior. Attitudes towards sex and women were very different at this time. Sex was very much taboo, women were treated as second class and children

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Jon