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  • Multiple Intelligence Theory

    Multiple Intelligence Theory

    Late Victorianism The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism. Early Victorian writers, responding to the social changes due to the shift from an agricultural to an industrial society and the decline of traditional religious beliefs, adopted a moral aesthetic and maintained that literature should provide fresh values and an understanding of the newly emerging society. Novelists such

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Iago’s Motivations

    Iago’s Motivations

    Every good play has a great villain. Othello by William Shakespeare is no exception. In writing Othello, Shakespeare took characters he had gotten from an Italian short story, and developed them further. I would not say Shakespeare created Iago, but he definitely made Iago the evil man that everyone knows him to be. Iago may be one of the greatest villains of all time. He was honest, loyal, and brave in all of the other

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    Essay Length: 979 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Cfsp in the Light of the Pendulum Theory

    Cfsp in the Light of the Pendulum Theory

    CFSP in the light of the ЎҐpendulum theoryЎ¦ This article evaluates the applicability of the theoretical framework, suggested by Helen Wallace, for the examination of EU policies. In particular, we will first try to identify the elements that Wallace implies in her ЎҐpendulum modelЎ¦ in the specific field of Common Foreign and Security Policy; second, we will illustrate whether recent developments of CFSP, since the year 2000 (when the book was published) have further reinforced

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    Essay Length: 3,040 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Yan
  • Nursing Theory

    Nursing Theory

    After reading through all of the theories presented in chapter four, I was most intrigued by Benner and Wrubel’s theory. This theory is about caring being the most important aspect of care. According to Potter and Perry, this theory states, “caring creates possibilities for coping, enables possibilities for connecting with and concern for others, and allows for the giving and receiving of help.” I agree with this statement, and I believe that this is a

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    Essay Length: 421 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Vika
  • Theory at Work Paper

    Theory at Work Paper

    Running head: THEORY AT WORK PAPER Theory At Work Paper Theory At Work Paper Groups and Teams can become a high-performance team by utilizing certain techniques to help communicate well with the team. I will be taking a look at how cultural diversity can impact group behavior. I will also be discussing how gender, age, and ethic backgrounds as well as how cultural diversity impacts a group. Having good and open communication with everyone will

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    Essay Length: 1,739 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Adaptaion Theory

    The Adaptaion Theory

    "Theory of Adaptation" The weather just these past few days has swung from hot to cold and back to hot again. Like a psychic information operator, the changing weather subconsciously helps influence or dictates the kinds of clothes we wear whether we like it or not. It's in man's very nature to adapt to the diversity we experience around us whether it is the weather, technology, trends in fashion, politics, religion, language and what have

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    Essay Length: 338 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Attribution Theory of Fritz Heider

    Attribution Theory of Fritz Heider

    ATTRIBUTION THEORY OF FRITZ HEIDER Introduction This article starts off by a man having his wife serve on a jury in a federal case involving conspiracy, racketeering, drug dealing, armed robbery, and extortion. There were seven defendants and one that escaped from police custody. The key government witness was an ex-gang member named Larry who was called “the Canary” by the defendants because he turned informer. For two months Jean, the wife, listened to Larry’s

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    Essay Length: 859 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Bred
  • Leadership Theories

    Leadership Theories

    1)**Leadership itself, has been accompanied throughout time, by numerous theories, all-claiming to answer the question, Are leaders born or made? Those who accept the verdict, that leaders are born and not made, maintain, ... that there are certain inborn qualities such as initiative, courage, intelligence and humor, which altogether pre-destine a man to be a leader ... the essential pattern is given at birth (Adler, 1991, p. 4) Two leadership theories which concentrate on this

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    Essay Length: 1,221 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Steve
  • Human Rights Theory

    Human Rights Theory

    Paper 1: Human Rights Theory In this paper, I will make a number of arguments against the human right to social and economic welfare. In particular, I will examine Henry Shue's defense of subsistence and illustrate why I find his reasoning ineffective. The first point I will make in this paper is that socio-economic welfare rights cannot be human rights because they are not universal. Thereafter, I will argue against two thoughts proposed by Henry

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    Essay Length: 419 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Political Theories

    Political Theories

    There have been many political philosophies that have been created, implemented, and analyzed over the course of human history. These philosophies have dealt with the question of how, and under what circumstances and for what purposes, individuals should give over control of their personal freedoms and resources in order to achieve the good life. Out of the many political philosophies, classical liberalism or constitutional democracy, authoritarianism, and communist or fascist totalitarianism, have had and continue

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    Essay Length: 1,721 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Jon
  • Katharine Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort

    Katharine Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort

    Katharine Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Kelly Ferreira Summer, 2004. In the early part of the 20th century, comfort was the central goal of nursing and medicine. Comfort was the nurse’s first consideration. A “good nurse” made patients comfortable. In the early 1900’s, textbooks emphasized the role of a health care provider in assuring emotional and physical comfort and in adjusting the patient’s environment. For example, in 1926, Harmer advocated that nursing care be concerned with

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Different Perspectives on Motivation

    Different Perspectives on Motivation

    Motivation Motivation refers to forces either within or external to a person that arouse enthusiasm and persistence to pursue a certain course of action. Needless to say, employee motivation affects productivity and one part of a manager’s job is using this productivity towards the accomplishment of organizational goals. The study of Motivation helps managers to understand what prompts people to initiate action, what influences their choice of action and why they persist in that action

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    Essay Length: 1,426 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Anna
  • Theory of Constraints and Its Thinking Processes - a Brief Introduction

    Theory of Constraints and Its Thinking Processes - a Brief Introduction

    Theory of Constraints and its Thinking Processes - A Brief Introduction ________________________________________ Preface The core constraint of virtually every organization The Goldratt Institute has worked with over the past 16+ years is that organizations are structured, measured and managed in parts, rather than as a whole. The results of this are lower than expected overall performance results, difficulties securing or maintaining a strategic advantage in the marketplace, financial hardships, seemingly constant fire-fighting, customer service expectations

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    Essay Length: 1,852 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Anna
  • Administrative Management Theory

    Administrative Management Theory

    Our group project is on Henri Fayol’s “Administrative Management Theory”. As a group member I took on a task of researching his theory. Henri Fayol began his career as a junior Engineer in French Mining Company. His key work was “Administration Industrielle et Generale” which he published in 1916 ad later o pulished in Eglish I 1949. The administrative theory "emphasized management functions and attempted to generate broad administrative principles that would serve as guidelines

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Ezra Pound & William Carlos Williams: Theories on the Nature of Poetry

    Ezra Pound & William Carlos Williams: Theories on the Nature of Poetry

    Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams both comment in a theoretic way on the nature of poetry. Outline briefly their theories. Then discuss the implications their theories have for the writing and reading of poetry, and support your argument with a number of specific examples from their poems. I have structured this essay so that the first part deals entirely with the theories and poetry of Ezra Pound and the second, entirely with the theories

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Max
  • Theory of Cognitive Development

    Theory of Cognitive Development

    Theory of Cognitive Development BY Jean Piaget No theory of cognitive development has had more impact than that of Jean Piaget's stages of cognitive thinking. Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologists identified four stages in which children develop cognitively. How we as human beings develop cognitively has been thoroughly researched. Theorists have suggested that children are incapable of understanding the world until they reach a particular stage of cognitive development. Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development is the

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Yan
  • How Important Is Theory to the Practice of Athe Relationship of Theory, Design and Practice in the Case of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier

    How Important Is Theory to the Practice of Athe Relationship of Theory, Design and Practice in the Case of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier

    Around the 1900's a number of architects around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate traditional precedents with new technological possibilities. The work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow and Le Corbusier in France can be seen as a common struggle between old and new. In this essay I am going to concentrate on the theory, design and practice of

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: July
  • Feminist Theory

    Feminist Theory

    The Rosa Parks story has a lot in common with the Feminist Theory. The movie takes place in back in the 1950s when segregation of buses was a problem. It was also uncommon to see women or wife with children working. Many felt the women’s place was at home caring for her children or doing housework. Many religious folk at that time felt Gods will for the wife was ion the home. Rosa came from

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    Essay Length: 555 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Bred
  • A General Theory of Crime

    A General Theory of Crime

    A General Theory of Crime (Michael R. Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi) Term Paper Soc 203 Prof. Ortiz 12th December 2002 Crime is a serious issue in the United States and research shows that it is running rampant, and its effects are felt in all socioeconomic levels. Each economic class has its own crime rates and types of crime. It is a mistake to think of crime as a lower class problem. Crime is a

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    Essay Length: 2,147 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Social Contract Theory

    Social Contract Theory

    What is the Social Contract Theory? Do I think that it can be defended? In this paper I will define what the Social Contract Theory is and how and why I think that it can be defended against its critics. Social Contract Theory is a contract that the people of a given area agree upon to live by. In this contract the people agree upon rules or laws to live by there is usually some

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Vika
  • Contingency Theory of Leadership

    Contingency Theory of Leadership

    Contingency Theory of Leadership The most popular and extensively researched situational theory of leadership was first proposed by Fred Piedler during the 1960s. Fiedler’s model claims that group performance depends on the interaction of the leader style and the favorableness of the situation. Fiedlers major contributions consist of(l) iden-tifying the leadership orientation of the leader and developing a way to measure it, and (2) identifying three situational factors influencing leadership and developing a method of

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    Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: David
  • Management Theory & Practices (classic Approches)

    Management Theory & Practices (classic Approches)

    Management Theory & Practices “CLASSIC APPROACHES” I- SYSTEMATIC MANAGEMENT Key Concepts • Systematic manufacturing operations • Coordination of procedures & processes built into internal operations • Emphasis on economical operations, inventory management & cost control. Contributions • 1890-1900 = Beginning of formal management in the US promotion of efficient, uninterrupted production. Limitations • Ignored relation ship between an organization & its environment. • Ignored difference in manager’s & worker’s views. During the 19 th century

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    Essay Length: 697 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Yan
  • Application of Theory Towards Ethical Implementation of Military Force

    Application of Theory Towards Ethical Implementation of Military Force

    As I am heading off this summer to be trained as a Chaplain in the U.S. Navy, and I consider myself to be just shy of a pacifist, I am highly interested in questions of military ethics. I deal very often with both inward and outward doubts about the possible hypocrisies involved in becoming a piece of the infrastructure of a machine whose actions I may often disagree with. In the end I have my

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    Essay Length: 2,123 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    There are several Organizational Behaviors that can be attributed towards how successful a company or one in a company will be. I have decided that the two most important elements are the motivational behaviors and the stress factors. The reason I have chose these are that someone that is motivated and can deal with stress in positive ways will be a success. Also when a corporation can motivate its employees and helps them deal with

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Chaos Theory Portrayal in Heart of Darkness

    Chaos Theory Portrayal in Heart of Darkness

    In Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, the strongest conflict is an internal conflict that is most prominently shown in Marlow and Kurtz. This conflict is the struggle between their image of themselves as civilized human beings and the ease of abandoning their morality once they leave society. This inability has a close resemblance to the chaos theory. This is shown through the contrast of Kurtz as told by others and the actuality of

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Andrew

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