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  • Eradicating Poverty in Jackson, Ms: Theories and Hypothesis for Change

    Eradicating Poverty in Jackson, Ms: Theories and Hypothesis for Change

    Eradicating Poverty in Jackson, MS: Theories and Hypothesis for Change Founded in 1822 on the site of a trading post on the west bank of the Pearl River, the city was named to honor Major General Andrew Jackson who later became the seventh President of the United States. The city’s history has been turbulent. During the civil war, the town was ravaged and burned three times by Union troops under the command of General William

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: regina
  • Third Cinema Theories and the Nollywood Experience

    Third Cinema Theories and the Nollywood Experience

    Introduction The term, �Third Cinema’ was coined in an interview with the Argentine Cine Liberacion group, published in the journal Cine Cubano (March 1969), and was then more fully developed in the manifesto “Towards a Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a cinema in the Third World,” written by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, members of that group. Femi Shaka describes it as “a tool for creating a revolutionary consciousness for the

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Victor
  • Compare Dollar General’s Financial Performance with That of Family Dollar

    Compare Dollar General’s Financial Performance with That of Family Dollar

    Compare Dollar General’s financial performance with that of Family Dollar. Dollar General has been performing well financially ever since they were established in 1955. In its first 10 years of existence, Dollar General had grown to 255 stores with nearly $26 million in annual sales. In 2002, annual sales were $6.1 billion and there were 6,300 stores in 27 states in operation. Strategy shifts as well as major acquisitions allowed for Dollar General to continue

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • The American Drug War – a Conflict Theory Perspective

    The American Drug War – a Conflict Theory Perspective

    In the mid to late 20th Century, the United States has experienced several states of Cultural Revolution. The Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, the anti-War Movement during the Vietnam era, and the increasing presence of a widespread, politically active and highly vocalized youth counterculture led the United States government to feel that maybe, they were losing control of their population. The white, upper class men, who for centuries had dominated the political realm, began

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Top
  • Organizational Theory

    Organizational Theory

    Required Text: Daft, Organization Theory and Design, 8th edition, Southwestern Publishers. Either paperback or hard cover is acceptable. Purpose of the Course: Organization theory provides ways of analyzing and understanding organizations and how they work (or don’t work.) Building on knowledge of management principles, this course provides students with advanced tools and knowledge that are directly applicable to the workplace. While the course is entitled “theory”, the main goal is to enable you to see

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Edward
  • Theories of Justice

    Theories of Justice

    THEORIES OF JUSTICE INTRODUCTION Justice is action in accordance with the requirements of law. It is suppose to ensure that all members of society receive fair treatment. Issues of justice arise in several different spheres and often play a significant role in causing, enabling, and addressing discord. The goal of the Justice System is to try to resolve and satisfy all these issues for the members of society. Injustice can lead to dissatisfaction, and/or rebellion.

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Theories of Motivation in the Workplace

    Theories of Motivation in the Workplace

    Theories of Motivation in the Workplace At one time, in the workplace, the only type of “motivation” necessary was a command from the boss for an employee to do something (Lindner, 1998). However, times have changed and so have bosses and employees. Ever since the middle of the 20th century, various business experts and academicians have developed theories of motivation to help direct employees toward better and stronger productivity. The main theories that tend to

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    Essay Length: 498 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Attribution Theory

    Attribution Theory

    Attribution Theory Human beings can explain anything. No matter the cause, we have a strong need to understand and explain everything. Due to people feeling the need to explain, it goes beyond the information received. Attribution theory is a theory about how people explain things.3333333333333. Explanation is a synonym for attribution. There are two types of explanations about why things happen. They are external attribution and internal attribution. External attribution places blame to an outside

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Monika
  • Graph Theory & Small Networks

    Graph Theory & Small Networks

    Introduction Networks are everywhere. The brain is a sophisticated neural network connected by axons. Society, too, are networks connected by family, friends and professional ties. On a larger scale food webs can be represented as a network of species. Networks have even diffused through our technology such as the World Wide Web where routers and web pages are all interconnected. Even the language we speak today is a network of words connected by syntactic associations.

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Andromeda Strain

    The Andromeda Strain

    The book I read "The Andromeda Strain was written by the author Michael Chrichton. It is approximately 286 pages long. This book should be categorized as a science fiction book. 2.) The book, The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Chrichton starts out with two men going to investigate a satellite that crashed in Piedmont, Arizona. This satellite was sent out to collect alien organisms or bacteria. When the two men drove into town to collect the

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Top
  • Critically Evaluate the Extent to Which Efficiency Wage Theory Can Provide an Explanation of Unemployment

    Critically Evaluate the Extent to Which Efficiency Wage Theory Can Provide an Explanation of Unemployment

    CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH EFFICIENCY WAGE THEORY CAN PROVIDE AN EXPLANATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT Unemployment of workers is a comment and recurrent problem in the labour market in most of the countries. Unemployment is defined as an excess supply of labour at prevailing wage. It means that the labour market is unable to be clear. A lot of the economists attempt to find out the cause of it. And the efficiency wage theory is

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Victor
  • Describe What Evolutionary Psychologists Mean When They Employ the Term ‘theory of Mind'.Use Examples and Research Studies from Book 1, Chapter 2 to Show Why This Theory Is Important in Evolutionary Psychology.

    Describe What Evolutionary Psychologists Mean When They Employ the Term ‘theory of Mind'.Use Examples and Research Studies from Book 1, Chapter 2 to Show Why This Theory Is Important in Evolutionary Psychology.

    Describe what evolutionary psychologists mean when they employ the term ‘theory of mind’. Use examples and research studies from Book 1, Chapter 2 to show why this theory is important in evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology is a specialist field within the spectrum of psychological enquiry, which seeks to examine and understand some of the predominant reasoning behind the concept of why the human species, whilst biologically similar to other species on the planet, is so

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Max
  • Application of Theory: Early Childhood

    Application of Theory: Early Childhood

    Application of Theory: Early Childhood Every builder knows "A house is only as strong as its foundation". They also know that they have to evaluate and become familiar the land before beginning to work. This rationale can be used as a guideline for teachers across the world, especially with the children in the early childhood stage, ages 2-6, because how teachers assist children in this stage will serve as the foundation for the life ahead

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Jon
  • Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

    Kohlberg’s Theory of Moral Development

    Per·son·al·i·ty [pщrs’n бllətee] (plural per·son·al·i·ties) noun 1. somebody’s set of characteristics: the totality of somebody’s attitudes, interests, behavioral patterns, emotional responses, social roles, and other individual traits that endure over long periods of time. Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Every person has a personality. With every person comes a unique and different personality. Some people have similar personalities and some are very different. There has

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Steve
  • An Outline of the General Scentific Insights That Microbial Genome Sequencing Can and Has Provided

    An Outline of the General Scentific Insights That Microbial Genome Sequencing Can and Has Provided

    An Outline of the General Scentific Insights that Microbial Genome Sequencing Can and Has Provided Microbial genome sequencing may be first dated back to the work of Frederick Sanger, who in 19 developed the “chain termination method”, or Dideoxy termination method; the first discovered method of complete DNA sequencing.1,2. Since then, sequencing techniques have improved greatly in their efficiency, although it took 20 years for the first entire genome to be sequenced, that of Haemophilis

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Victor
  • Applying Learning Theories

    Applying Learning Theories

    Introduction to Learning Theories EDU622-0603A-01: Applying Learning Theories Unit 1 IP Dr. Trude Fawson American Intercontinental University June 17, 2006 Introduction How do we come to know what we know? What is knowledge? These questions are important not only for epistemologists or philosophers who study knowledge, but, as well for those interested in the sciences and education. Whether knowledge is seen as absolute, separate from the knower and corresponding to a knowable, external reality or

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    Essay Length: 3,293 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Max
  • The General

    The General

    “The General” The General is classical in form and structure, right down to the use of black and white cinematography. Apart from the fact that this particular classical gangster tale is set in contemporary Dublin and manages to involve several major social and political threads defining urban Irish life, it is also inflected with the director's concerns in his country that he focuses on major issues that affect it. The movie establishes motivation for Cahill's

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    Essay Length: 750 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Kant's Non-Consequential Theory

    Kant's Non-Consequential Theory

    Kant's non-consequential theory relies on precisely on the existence of a set of jointly accepted and acknowledged moral norms, ethical criteria that help a person make the right decision at the right time. Kant's entire ethical theory relies on the existence of deontological restrictions. These universal laws, as Kant sees them, allow us to function correctly in a society. Kant believes that a person's choices ought to have nothing to do with the preferred outcome,

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Tasha
  • String Theory

    String Theory

    Throughout history, scientists and philosophers have asked questions regarding �where did the world come from’ or �what is the world made of’. Mankind as a whole is entering a new age of learning and discovery and scientists are making attempts to answer such questions with the help of new technologies that until recently were not available. The theory that tiny, one-dimensional strands of energy called strings make up everything we see and feel is the

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Game Theory: The Developer’s Dilemma, Boeing Vs.Airbus

    Game Theory: The Developer’s Dilemma, Boeing Vs.Airbus

    Committing large chunks of a company's resources to a single investment project is always a risky undertaking. It becomes even riskier when a competitor is set to do the same thing and the market is unlikely to sustain two rival products . This may appear to be the ration-ale behind the Boeing Company's much-publicized cancellation of the development of its "superjumbo," a whole new class of aircraft with room for 500 to 1,000 passengers. "The

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Edward
  • Application of Social Psychological Theories to the Problem of Forgiveness

    Application of Social Psychological Theories to the Problem of Forgiveness

    Application of Social Psychological Theories to the problem of Forgiveness Forgiveness has been considered as primarily a religious concept till about 1985 when there has been interest in forgiving as a psychological construct from social psychologists but increasingly from clinicians as well (Allan and Allan 2006). McCullough ,Pargament and Thoresen (2007) stated that there lacks a consensus among theorist and researchers on the definition of forgiveness (p.302). This essay will adapt Enright and Coyle (1998,

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Janna
  • Aristotle’s Theory of Human Nature

    Aristotle’s Theory of Human Nature

    Aristotle (together with Socrates and Plato) is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was the first to create a comprehensive system of philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle believed that human beings are “featherless bipeds”. This has to do with his theory of politics because Aristotle’s view on politics is essentially fascist. I personally don’t agree with Aristotle on the fact that he thinks

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Yan
  • Marx and Weber Theories

    Marx and Weber Theories

    The world has always been divided among races, classes, etc. What goes on today, most likely went on one hundred years ago, the only difference is time. Max Weber has proven to have strong theories which identify that the world is distributed among certain classes and the situations that go on within them. The Class Positioning of the Bijelic family will be looked at in comparison to Weber’s theories. This essay will describe Weber's theories

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Theories of Ageing

    The Theories of Ageing

    Theories of ageing Introduction The fundamental biological problem which all theories of ageing are seeking to explain was stated very elegantly in 1957 by Williams when he wrote, “It is indeed remarkable that after a seemingly miraculous feat of morphogenesis, a complex metazoan should be unable to perform the much simpler task of merely maintaining what is already formed”. The difficulty in attempting to establish an understanding of that ageing is that it is not

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Artur
  • Financial Theories and Strategies

    Financial Theories and Strategies

    Financial Theories and Strategies Paper FIN 554 February 15, 2005 Introduction Financial theories are the building blocks of today’s corporate world. “The basic building blocks of finance theory lay the foundation for many modern tools used in areas such asset pricing and investment. Many of these theoretical concepts such as general equilibrium analysis, information economics and theory of contracts are firmly rooted in classical Microeconomics” (Oaktree, 2005) This paper will define and discuss five

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Tommy

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