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  • Social Theories

    Social Theories

    Social Theories The Shaw and McKay theory studied the way that different ethnicities moved from the inner city to the suburbs around the cities and how crime rates are related to the movement. After each new wave of immigrants came in the ones that were there before would move into the suburbs. However Shaw and McKay found that the high crime rates associated with the inner city did not follow them into the suburbs. Therefor

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    Essay Length: 479 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Sony ’s Overview

    Sony ’s Overview

    Sony Corporation of America, based in New York City, is the U.S. subsidiary of Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo. Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment

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    Essay Length: 261 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Overview of Stem Cell Research

    Overview of Stem Cell Research

    Background and Significant Medical research has brought the world many great improvements: cures for numerous types of illnesses, pain medication, and an infinite number of things that have changed the way people look at the scientific side of medical research. Along with remarkable breakthroughs of medical research come the cons that have derived from the practice. This includes the various usages of animals to further our scientific understanding. Medical research has the potential to be

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    Essay Length: 1,539 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Advanced Economic Theory

    Advanced Economic Theory

    Abstract Apple Incorperation is one of the most sought-after computer campany Introduction The world wide web is very strong and has changed the word in many ways. As a fan of Apple Macintosh,I am personally impressed with many of its innovations.It strikes me whether or not the company has really become monopoly. This paper will explore its business model and its so called I will closely examine Apple in different areas -PC market -software -portable

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    Essay Length: 1,699 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Anna
  • Rousseau's Contract Theory

    Rousseau's Contract Theory

    Rousseau’s The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right (1762) is an analysis of the contractual relationships which may be necessary for legitimate government, and is an explanation of how these relationships may combine principles of justice and utility. Rousseau argues that civil society is based on a contractual arrangement of rights and duties which applies equally to all people, whereby natural liberty is exchanged for civil liberty, and whereby

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    Essay Length: 1,779 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Summary of a Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

    Summary of a Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

    Summary of A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences In A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner introduces the idea of seven different intelligences, combating the idea of contemporary intelligence. Gardner defines the contemporary view of intelligence as, an individual’s intelligence test score based on his or her age with no regard to experience or training. In his words, “It is an inborn attribute or faculty of the individual.” Gardner defines

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jon
  • An Overview of Women in Business

    An Overview of Women in Business

    Even though women constitute 40% of all executives and administrative posts (up from 24% in 1976), they are still restricted mostly to the middle and lower positions, and the senior levels of management are almost entirely male domains. A 1990 study of the top Fortune 500 companies by Mary Ann Von Glinow of the University of Southern California, showed that "women were only 2.6% of corporate officers (the vice presidential level up)." Of the Fortune

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Stenly
  • 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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    Essay Length: 2,471 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Victor
  • Motivation for Employees

    Motivation for Employees

    Can your motivation recommendations for FMC Green River be effective at other companies? Why or why not? Use the text, other materials, and your own experience to support your argument. If you use other sources, cite them using APA guidelines. The motivation could be effective for a lot of other companies as well as Green River. I believe that with hard work and a set plan you can accomplish anything. The difficulty that other companies

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Stenly
  • What Is Motivation?

    What Is Motivation?

    The word "motivation" is often used to describe certain sorts of behaviour. A student who studies hard and tries for top grades may be described as being "highly motivated", while her friend may say that he is "finding it hard to get motivated" to study for an exam or to start an assignment. Such statements imply that motivation has a major influence on our behaviour but they don't really tell us how. A Definition of

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Bred
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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    Essay Length: 2,617 Words / 11 Pages
    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
  • Ayso Overview

    Ayso Overview

    The American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) was founded in Torrance, CA in 1964. The league consisted of nine teams with almost 125 players. In the last 40 years, AYSO has grown to all 50 states, 50,000 teams, over 650,000 players, and also employs 50 people at its National Support and Training Center in Hawthorne, CA. In 1971, the first girls AYSO program was developed in the San Fernando Valley in California. This program now has

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    Essay Length: 650 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Fonta
  • 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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    Essay Length: 468 Words / 2 Pages
    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
  • 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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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Max
  • Business Motivation

    Business Motivation

    Motivation is the tendency to expend effort to achieve a goal and the desire to accomplish an aim or participate in an endeavour. Motivation towards better performance depends on the satisfaction of needs for responsibility, achievement, recognition and growth. Needs are felt, and their intensity varies from one person to another and from time to time, and so does the extent to which they are motivating. Attaining goals leads to feelings of self-respect, strength and

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    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
  • Workplace Motivation Paper

    Workplace Motivation Paper

    Workplace Motivation Paper The job of the manager is to get things done through his or her employees. In my workplace, our company has put in to affect several motivational strategies to assist their management through their train program. In this training program the company uses extrinsic motivation to assist in the development of our staff. This training program is based on four levels of training and development; at each level of the employees’ development

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Victor

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