Criticism Article Reviews Samples For Students

Realist theory arose by way of reaction to the shortcomings of utopian philosophy and the utopianism underlying the post-World War I peace-building process. What is the realist critique of utopianism in relation to the League of Nations? Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Woodrow Wilson was the most prominent advocate of the utopian approach underlying the post-World War I peace-building process. His concept of international world order was based on two important prerequisites: first, he envisaged a new world order governed by an international framework of “collective security” (Carr, p. 8) between nations which he considered essential for the ...

Introduction

Research is a crucial component of the health care profession. Research brings new information to the discipline of healthcare. The information is put into practice whereby it enables the improvement of health outcomes. The success of research is dependent on a couple of factors including the nature of the participants utilized in the research, the method and design of the research study, the data collection process, the interpretation of findings among other crucial factors. The credibility of any research is assessed by performing an unbiased critique of the research The aim of this study is to perform a comprehensive critique of a quantitative ...

Article Review on the Impacts of Deception in Marketing Research

The article relates to the degrading ethical standards in marketing research. Many marketing researchers find it necessary to give misleading information to their study participants, which often lead to potential negative consequences of deceptive marketing practices.Theoretical critique
The article provides a conceptual starting point, where managers can develop a complete understanding of deception in marketing research that includes ethical analysis from a theoretical point of view of consequentialism. Methodological critique
The method used by the researchers is valid as it sets the necessary ethical standards for a theoretical point of view; hence it provides the correct conclusions.

Managerial critique

This research provides practicing ...

In Rick Poynor’s “Where Are the Design Critics?”, the author discusses several panels and literature related to design criticism – the role of criticism in design education is explored in depth. In essence, Poynor argues that there is absolutely room for design criticism, especially in written form, despite the protestations of others. Looking at this blog entry and the subsequent comments, it is clear that this is a divisive issue with many different perspectives, some presented more eloquently and even-handed than others.
According to Poynor, there is a divide between the purpose of design and the need for criticism from ...

CRITIQUE 1

INTRODUCTION
The article Chapter 17: Training for Digital Government was written by author Shannon Howle Schelin for Idea group Inc. 2004. The author teaches at North Carolina state university, USA.

SUMMARY

This article is about the paradigm shift which has occurred because everything is becoming digitalized. This shift has started taking place for over less than a decade. It has changed the way in which people interact in the society.

REVIEW AND EVALUATE

The Government practices are becoming digitalized because people expect them to be more responsive and accountable. The people are looking forward towards accuracy and innovation to reform the traditional practices ( ...

Orathinkal in conjunction with Burggraeave and Vansteenwegen composed the article. Forgiveness is presently a subject of enormous interest to psychologists. The authors define terms related to forgiveness that are exoneration, justification, mercy, excuse, and reconciliation. They are beneficial both to the counselor and to the client in that their understanding helps in promoting forgiveness. Through forgiveness, broken relationships can be amended. The purpose was first to view how the participants interviewed viewed forgiveness. The researchers also wanted to observe if the existent of a relationship between forgiveness perception and actual forgiveness.

Critique of results and discussion

The results of the first part of the study showed ...

Communication: Article Review

“A Better Way to Deliver Bad News” by Jean-François Manzoni

Good communication does not always mean sharing good news. One of the most challenging jobs of a manager is to tell someone that they need to perform better at work. Dispensing criticism to improve the work of employees is one of the most important parts of a manager’s responsibilities. A manager’s performance depends on the work quality of his or her team members. Manzoni (2002) has written a very helpful paper on how managers can do a better job of communicating with employees as well as make the job of ...

Channon and Christopher aged 21 and 23 who were a young couple from Knoxville Tennessee ,they were both raped tortured and eventually killed after they were kidnapped in January 2007 following this the five suspects were arrested and charged and they were found to be having multiple conviction on each of them. According to reports, Channon and Christopher had gone out for a date but they never returned home but it turned out that they were carjacked and blindfolded by three black men where they took them to a rented house in Chipman street where they carried out their mission.
This ...

Chapter 10 Analysis and Reaction

Chapter 10 Analysis

Chapter 10 deals with communication between leaders and followers. Proper communication skills are an essential factor in leadership success. The chapter covers the communication process, sending messages effectively, receiving messages effectively, communication gaps, confrontation, and constructive criticism. The communication process is described as an interaction between a sender and a receiver. The main types of communication are verbal communication and non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication accounts for more than 50 percent of communicating, but both types of communication have to send a single message to avoid misinterpretation.
If communication breakdown occurs, both sender and receiver can be held accountable. ...

Barbara Dority believes that rap should be protected by the First Amendment because it is part of the freedom of speech. In their music, artists express their ideas, beliefs and feelings. They reflect their surrounding, their real world. The author remarks that rap and rock music are not the first to draw attention to the topics which they are criticized for. Even some operas have “unwanted” ideas. People from all walks of life should be granted the rights preserved for them by the First Amendment. These rights were not created for the elite, they were created for everyone to ...

Part I: Using the questions in the Munro article, go through the two pieces of criticism by Greenberg and Rosenberg and write answers for each question posed by Munro.

In Greenberg’s “Towards a Newer Laocoon,” the work being criticized seemed to be art in general, and the struggle between all different types of art to become the dominant art form relative to its period. For the most part, Greenberg discusses avant-garde painting, and how it had and continue to has a purity that elevates itself above most art forms. He claims that there are no greater justifications for depicting nature ...

Abstract

This paper presents theory and practice of French sociology in practice after Pierre Bourdieu and the impacts that his work had to sociologist and the society at large, as a preparation for a journal article. It had started by analyzing the life of Bourdieu when young who hardly known in the society who advocated for purely scientific view of sociology and was against sociologically oriented journalism developed by his mentor Raymond Aron. Bourdieu was not known unlike other intellectuals in society of the time. However, him together with his co-writer Jean-Claude Passeron gained instant fame after they wrote two provocative books ...

Introduction

the government is at the forefront of fighting against prostitution without understanding the reasons that motivate citizens to engage in prostitution

Authors thesis : the C-36 bill introduced by the government is aimed exploiting prostitutes

Prostitutes are prone to human trafficking and violence from customers which necessitates the introduction of the C-36 bill; The government is committed to the elimination of sexual adverts that target school going children and the larger society; each society has moral values; human rights violation such as human trafficking and violence affects prostitutes; and that the essence of legislation is to protect the vulnerable groups against prostitution

Body of the Essay

1. 1st argument: government of Canada is in the forefront of ...

Article Review

The article Developing Trauma Training for an Indigenous Community: Hopefully Not Seagulls is written by Gail Green concerning treatment of post traumatic disorders among the aboriginal communities in Australia. The article outlines an empirical model that directs individuals to identify trauma responses and various ways to treat the post-traumatic disorders. Green working with the organization Australian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTS) seeks to progress in terms of knowledge, policies, and ethical standards promoting treatment of trauma. His model, Conservation of Resources theory, which outlines that, treating stress drains resources, insecurity due to threats and horror, and struggles to ...

Abstract

In the presented quote from a journal article “Violence, crisis, and the everyday” (2013) by Das, the author is guilty of stereotyping as an informal fallacy. The author groundlessly suggests that the ideas of masculinity are correlated with young men changing provisional jobs instead of having a regular one. This stereotyping, especially given in the context of the problem of rape by boys and men living in very poor districts, can have dramatic impact on the perception of masculinity, its dependence on the job status and its effect on men getting involved in rape. The research has shown no credible evidential ...

Study Program

Review of Keenan, J. & Evans, A. 2014. ‘‘I am a starbucks worker my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of enstrangement as a learning tool,’ Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 101-112.
This paper examines the use of autoethnography as a means of approaching the experience of estrangement, thereby making the researcher’s personal experience a topic of investigation. Autoethnographic practices that emphasize the location of the researcher as an important response to post-structuralist epistemologies in which older forms of certainty in the validity traditional scientific inquiry have been edged out by greater knowledge that experience ...

Who will say that technology has not made life easier? I guess only the backward minded persons might say that. Before the emergence of technology, with the various technological development, the world has been a better place. Technology in many industries has made life livable. It has made life adopt the very meaning of. Assume that the world was with no technology, how could we be surviving. Probably might have adopted to the situation by then but would not be as efficient as it currently is. A technology free world would be boring with very little to do apart from ...

Article Critique:

1 Introduction
Emotional intelligence is a concept that has fast gained popularity in the corporate world. Where once, Intelligence Quotient or IQ was given predominance when judging a person’s leadership ability, today, Emotional Quotient or EQ is considered to be equally important for one to be a good leader. Wechsler defined intelligence as “the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment” . Emotional intelligence, earlier referred to as social intelligence, is associated with the relationships that one develops with the constituents of one’s environment. To date, the ...

Article Critique

Summary of the Entire Article

Lin et al. (2004) article on “Effects of Forgiveness Therapy on Anger, Mood, and Vulnerability to Substance Use Among Inpatient Substance-Dependent Clients” presents the finding of the research investigating the effectiveness of forgiveness therapy (FT) as a treatment for anger, anxiety, and depression among substance abuse victims. The article depicts that anger and violence among substance abusing people are issues of concern in society. FT proved to be an effective treatment, curbing emotional, and depression anxiety of substance abusing people.

This study involved fourteen participants where they were selected randomly for 12 FT treatment sessions ...

In this article Adolph Loos criticized present-day sphere of ornaments. The author called these decorations a waste of time, materials and workers’ efforts. Loos criticized ornaments because they lost the connection with culture and does not reflect past or present important trends of the society. Ornaments became just a way to make people buy new things each time the fashion changes its direction. Loos mentions modern consumers often want to find the cheapest proposition, regardless of goods’ true value. The author supports this wish in case of ornaments. He believes it is a waste of valuable materials when they ...

Critical Review: “Like” and “Check-in”: How Hotels Utilize Facebook as an Effective Marketing Tool

Critical Review: “Like” and “Check-in”: How Hotels Utilize Facebook as an Effective Marketing Tool
1 Introduction
This paper is a critique of the research traditions utilized in the ‘”Like” and “Check”: How hotels utilize Facebook as an effective marketing tool’, written by Kelly V Phelan, Hsiang-Ting Chen, and Matthew Haney, and published in the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013. The critique will explore the philosophical background of the article and the logical approach followed by the authors in the process of conducting the research. It will also evaluate the research ...

Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields

As Brian Finney points out in Narrative and Narrated Homicide in Martin Amis's Other People and London Fields although he is not classified as a crime writer Martin Amis’s stories are filled with crime and focus upon death and murder. . Finney’s critique of Amis’s stories revolves around the continuing themes of women, death, murder and victimization along with their relationship with the enigmatic narrator.
In his analysis Finney looks into the author and the zeitgeist of his era as well. He notes that Amis himself describes his work as “"playful literature" (Neustatter 71) and describes himself ...

The article by Mark Coppenger provides a counterargument to those who believe the golden rule means Christians cannot morally go to war. Stated as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”, it is logical to assume that no one wants to be killed. The author brings up several good points, noting that Christians can go to war out of love. More men and women have been killed in peace than in war, and if a Christian is fighting to overthrow a tyrant, is it not his moral, godly duty? If a soldier is pressed into ...

In summary, the article talks about the significance of the acquired knowledge and the efficiency of the actions taken depending on the quality of questions that are asked. With this, it maintains that questions have the right key required in opening the doors needed for dialogue, as well as, discovery. This means that the questions that have been asked offer an invitation to various breakthroughs and the creativity needed in the development of different sectors. The authors maintain that the questions can sufficiently ignite the much-needed change through the generation of creative insights where applicable. On top of giving ...

Hortense Spillers “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book” was written when the author was looking for her generation of black women in the late 1970s and the mid-1980s. The history of black people has never been given the kind of recognition it is entitled to. The beginning of the essay provides several reflections on naming and the author opens a series of thoughts on the use of overdetermined nominative properties to describe black women. She describes how the everyday terminology is deeply historically embedded and it will need going back in time to undo what is done. ...

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We are undergoing a tremendous spiritual renaissance. The current awakening in spirituality is unparalleled, at least in modern world history and is somewhere linked with the all-pervasive desire for a better quality of life. The authors of this article make a case for existentialism as a pathway to achieve the dual goals of spirituality and psychological betterment. The aim of this paper is to provide a review and critique of the article titled ‘Existential Theory and Our Search for Spirituality’ by Eliason, G.T., Samide, J.L., Williams, G., & Lepore, M.F. (2010).

Religion Vs Spirituality

At the outset, one must make ...

The article’s title is “HERS; Why Boys Do not Play with Dolls”. The article was published in The New York Times on October 8, 1995. The author of this article is a poet and essayist named Katha Pollitt. The author’s main idea in this article is that the different preferences in girls and boys are not innate but due to influences from their parents and the whole society. She demonstrates that even though everyone would like to believe girls from birth have always liked to play with dolls and love wearing party dresses while boys like playing ...

This article review will critically evaluate Combat College: Cognitive Fatigue as a Challenge in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury: Pilot Study Survey Results that was written by Dan Smee, Sandra Buenrostro, Thomas Garrick, Shoba Sreenivasan and Linda E. Weinberger. Smee et al’s (2013) hypothesis for this article is that many Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) who face high intensity cognitive demands may result in cognitive fatigue which is more than likely to act as a barrier to college success (p.25).

The type of research that was being used to produce ...

Chinese Outward FDI Determinants

China's rise as a global commerce powerhouse has generated a flurry of practical partnership engagements and research. The striking GDP growth has, moreover, further spurred interest in China as a unique economic development model. Holding on to non-democratic political practices, China has managed to maintain a steady rise in international status as an economic power by embracing free market, neoliberal economic practices. The cumulative effect has focused, consequently, attention on China's inflows. That is, by focusing on China's capacity for economic growth based on macroeconomic metrics, including GDP, China has been studied largely based on her capacity for investment retention (indicative, presumably, of " ...

Introduction

Nature has always been the subject of many debates since the discovery of its existence. Human beings have always made it their duty to preserve the integrity of the environment of which nature is a part of. However, human beings are the dominating and the intelligent species have played a major role in the destruction of the ecological system around them. This is due to a rapid increase in population and development. The wilderness is the part of the environment that has not been affected by human activities either positively or negatively. The range of biological diversity found in the wilderness is ...

Introduction

This paper is an article review of the scholarly journal “Strategic Management: Is it an Academic Discipline?” Strategic Management is a necessary facet of modern day administration. It is a discipline that is used by managers to conduct business with a certain foresight. It is comparatively a new field of research and therefore has a lot of potential in terms of academic research as well as innovative amendments. However, critics believe that Strategic Management is not exactly an academic discipline and therefore can be learnt easily on the job based upon the theories and extensive literature. There is also a danger to the academic researchers ...

The nature, causes, symptoms and diagnosis of psychological disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), are not clear and highly controversial. Two different models namely the Sociocognitive model and the Posttraumatic model are put forward explain psychopathologies, diagnosis, and disease etiology associated with DID. The Sociocognitive model suggests that DID, as a psychological disorder, is a product of social and historical circumstances. In contrast, the Posttraumatic model explains that DID disorder occurs because of severe traumas.
According to Spanos (1994), the number of patients suffering from multiple personality disorder increased rapidly over the past 20 years in North America. This diagnosis offered a ...

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- What is the main point that you want someone to read this paper to understand?
I want to point out the brilliant capacity of decision making of Telemachus. His maturity is reflected through his decision making and his adaptability. That is what I want to highlight from Telemachus's character.
- Where did you focus particular efforts in this paper?
I focused on the deep study of each and every action and decision of Telemachus. I just want to focus on the immense maturity level of Telemachus while dealing each and every situation.
- What ...

Part I: Assessment by Criteria

I. Argument or Research Question
- Paper has a clear argument or research question;
- The argument is central to the paper and is well supported;
- Both the “summary” and “analysis” aspects of the lit review are present;
- Literature is organized to support the argument

Strong Satisfactory Weak

5 4 3 2 1
II. Categories
- strong, well-developed categories;
- Analysis of articles in each category is comprehensive and creative;
- Bold, informative section headings present

Strong Satisfactory Weak

5 4 3 2 1
III. Article selection, use
- All articles are clearly represented;
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1. When was the Peloponnesian war? Who were the chief warring parties? What were the core issues at stake? Who was Thucydides?
The Peloponnesian war was started in 431 BC and ended in 404 BC, the Greeks empire and the Spartan allies were the chief warring parties in the war. The core issues at stake in the war were the security and land ownership especially in the expansion of boundaries by the warring parties. Thucydides was an Athenian historian who wrote about the historic war between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians.
2. Who was Alcibiades?
Alcibiades ...

Article Review: “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow

Article Review: “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow
The article “Has Psychology Failed?” by Jastrow (1935) addresses the issues facing applied psychology and the limitations imposed by different schools of psychology, such as behaviorism and the psychoanalytic school. Even though he commends Watson’s desire to move psychology from theoretical science to applied science and Freud’s appreciation of the importance of emotions and subconscious mental processes in structuring the human mind, Jastrow believes a naturalist perspective would benefit psychology as a unified science with practical implications. However, most of the article is dedicated to lamenting the current state of psychology ...

Columbia College

Introduction
This paper provides a critique of an article “Group dynamics and Team building” written by Nazzaro A and Strazzabosco J. Thesis statement: The possible ways to improve group dynamics and team building. The theories presented in this article are reflected from the “workshop on group dynamics and team building, presented at the WFH Global NMO Training Workshop May 16-18, 2002, in Huelva, Spain” Nazzaro & Strazzabosco, 2009, pg 5.

Summary

Nazzaro is from National hemophilia Foundation (USA) while Strazzabosco is a consultant and trainer in USA. The authors of this article, covers the topic of group dynamics and team building in ...

Article Critique: Digital Government and the Digital Divide by Richard Groper

Introduction
The article subject of this critique is entitled “Digital Government and the Digital Divide”, written by Professor Richard Groper of California State University (CSU) in Fullerton, California, United States (US), and published as a chapter of a book entitled “Digital Government: Principles and Best Practices” edited by Alexei Pavlichev and G. David Garson. The book serves as a compilation of articles on e-governance, with most being in the form of research endeavors on certain questions on the subject matter and case studies that sought to resolve relevant controversies. Groper, for his article, has posited his thesis on questioning race as a ...

Media Article Critique/Analysis

The revolution in the world currently, especially in technology enhances interaction among people that has transformed global activities. The working of all the modalities in the world presently revolves around the bounds of technology. Technological revolution centres hold the sources of information in the current society, which assumes a strategic position in the transformation of the current situations (Pittman 206). However, revolution occurs in a multicultural society that comprises integrated cultures among the societies. Critique of Douglas Kellner’s article, "Media Literacy and critical pedagogy in a multicultural society," gives an insight on the effective strategies that society should adopt to deal ...

Complexity of the Human Mind

Elliot’s Brilliance of the Rigid Kind and Complexity of the Human Mind
The key to T.S. Eliot’s literary criticism of Hamlet lies in his brilliant boldness of an attack on one of the most famous and intricate plays ever written and later staged in thousands of theaters around the world. The verdict is daringly stated in the first sentence of his essay, “Hamlet the play is the primary problem, and Hamlet the character only secondary,” and explicitly scattered throughout the article in sentences such as “the play is most certainly an artistic failure,” “Shakespeare tackled a problem ...

1. "Design for a Sustainable World" Margolin 1998 JSTOR. Published in Design Issues, Volume 14, No. 2 (Summer, 1998), pp. 83 - 92, by The MIT Press

In the article Design for a Sustainable World written by Victor Margolin and published by The MIT Press in Design Issues in Summer of 1998, Margolin traces the history of sustainable design from the late 19th century on. When Margolin starts his story on sustainable design he observes that it was “conceived as an art of giving form to products for mass production” ("Design for a Sustainable World" Margolin 1998, at pg. 83). In this ...

In this chapter, the prevailing argument is led by Marx, that the need for money of individuals in society caused by the modern economic system. In a capitalist society, Marx argues that the human needs through a system of private property, when capitalism develops advanced human needs that are defined on the basic requirements of food, shelter and clothing. Capitalism has also the aspect of the creation of more and different social classes that persist further redefining the needs of individuals in each class. Marx argued that since capitalism is mainly in the accumulation of wealth by individuals, is accumulated to ...

Police agencies all over the nation use canine units to combat crime. Over 7,0000 police dog programs have been deployed in police agencies around the United States. Police dogs are used in law enforcement for a wide variety of tasks, including the detection of illegal substances, crowd control, suspect search and apprehension, and police protection. Police departments with well-established programs are expanding them, and those that lack canine units are planning to deploy them.
However, the use of canine units in law enforcement has its critics and there have been a number of litigations connected to the use of ...

Abstract

In this paper, I will cover the issues of treating patients with dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis is a condition when patients develop two disorders, and most healthcare professionals are not able to assist those patients in treating their conditions. A literature review reveals that lack of proper regulations and specialized treatment models are considered the main causes of low recovery rates among patients with comorbid disorders. Other issues include lack of patient motivation, education, compliance with treatments, etc. The available literature mainly criticizes the contemporary situation in healthcare when it comes to treating patients with comorbid disorders, but some approaches ...

The article is about the report of the death of the late former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi in the Guardian media. In the article are allegations about the location of killing of Gaddafi, the possible killer and the likely time when he was killed. The allegations came from different sources around the world. In one source, it was said the Gaddafi had been killed by a NATO strike on his escape from his loyal home town of Sirte. Another report from a representative of Libya in the United Kingdom claimed that Gaddafi was captured alive when on an escape from Sirte ...

Reactions to Leonardo da Vinci works

Leonardo da Vinci undoubtedly occupies a significant position in the Western art. His personality as revealed through his pieces of art is simply intriguing. He was trained as a painter in Florence and sculptor. From his artwork, he is portrayed as a curious individual who had so much hunger for knowledge. He is not only celebrated for his artwork but also the contributions he has made to science.
In as much as Leonardo failed to present his philosophical ideas and perceptions in a well planned and systematic manner, but instead dispersed most of his work in notebooks, critics have been on the ...

Analysis and response to H. Leon Prather's article "We Have Taken a City"

Leon Prather’s article “We have taken a city” is an essay about a race riot, which took place in Wilmington, North Carolina. This started when the Republicans, who were then not conservatives, merged with some white workers and farmers to ensure they had voted out the politicians who were conservatives, who are the Democrats. They intended to elect candidates who represented the entire African-American race. The Republicans mainly comprised of the African-American race. This move was a serious threat to the status quo that seemed to exist at that time and created a lot of fear among the conservatives. Therefore, the conservatives ...

The Corporations Act of 2001 (Cth) is at times referred to simply as the Corporations Act. This is generally the actual act of the Commonwealth of Australia that overly sets out the laws and regulations that deal with various business entities within the borderlines of Australia. The scope and geographical jurisdiction with reference to the Corporations Act is applicable at both federal and interstate levels. The main focus of the Corporations Act, just as its respective name suggests is on companies. However, this aspect is not so entirely as various partnerships and also managed investment structures are within the ...