Friends Article Reviews Samples For Students

- Introduction

Social media has undoubtedly changed the face of the world today. The way people interact is different as a result of the social media that they utilize; the changes in social interaction that have occurred have caused a significant cultural shift in humanity. More and more of the everyday actions that people take is occurring over the internet; today, many of people’s relationships occur online. Unlike the generations that came before, today’s world is full of people who are growing up increasingly isolated, except for connections that they make through the internet.

Of course human ...

The term cuisine refers to characteristic cooking style practices and traditions. It is associated with a particular culture and refers to a range of food prepared by a person, restaurant, cultural societies, and countries. Different types of cuisines are named after their geographic regions from where they originate and are influenced by the locally available ingredients in the area. The difference in availability of ingredients creates variant dishes that are unique to that location.
In the book “Modern Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking” the term is coined from the cultural revolution and modernist movements in fine art, dance, music, ...

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Why Don’t You Dance?

In the story, “Why Don’t You Dance,” the author illustrates the main character as a nameless man who is a sorrowful and a desperate man. He has lost his wife for some unknown reasons, and that has driven him to sell all the furniture. The action of moving his whole bedroom indicates us that he has strong ties to his past. He seems to try to release the agony for the loss of his wife and embark on a new life.
In order to overcome his sorrow, he shares his memory with a person. The couple who is interested in his yard ...

American Public University System

Abstract
This paper provides a clear understanding of two main disaster response initiatives: the Emergency Prescription Assistance Program and the State Media Social Sites. To a great extent, the paper discusses the benefits of both programs, and the inherent barriers that affect the delivery of the outcomes envisioned by the framers of the two initiatives. As it shall be seen in the paper, both programs were necessitated by Hurricane Katrina. Despite the minor flaws in the workings of the two programs, the initiatives are a major leap from the past and they have set the bar higher for future disaster response ...

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Aaron Devor, Reflection on Becoming Members of Society
Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender is an article written by Aaron Devor. The author was born a female but chose to adopt the name Aaron and live as a man and discuss the challenges he faced in this process.
In this article Devor talks about gender identity and the differences between men and women. He believes that gender identity is not all about physical attributes. Gender identity is a lifelong process, and at some point, people and especially children should be able to define or state their ...

Jane Doe

The following two peer-reviewed articles present studies that have been done by scholars, which reinforces the challenges of diagnosing mood disorders. Often times, mood is so intricately connected to the various mental illnesses that determining whether one is struggling as a result of mental disorder or mood disorder becomes a point of contention for the medical professions specializing in this area of treatment. Mood is an aspect of daily life that can often make diagnosis of mood disorders incredibly tricky.
The first article titled, “Mood self-assessment in bipolar disorder: a comparison between patients in mania, depression, and euthymia” examines ...

Article Documentation:

Laura M Koehly. Adolescent obesity and social networks.2009. Retrieved from; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2722403/

Briefly, State the Main Idea of this Article.

The article by Laura describes obesity as a chronic disease that is facing many people in the world. The major message that the author communicates to people reading the article is that obesity is caused by a combination of factors and specifically the interaction between biological factors and the environment one lives in. The aim of the article is to create awareness to the people on the causes of obesity so that the condition can be prevented where possible. The article argues that biological and environmental factors interact ...

Article Critique: Masking Poor Communication

People often assume that close relationships are based on good communication. However, this may not always be true. We develop close relations with others due to different factors and only one of them is good communication. Children are friends with those that they go to school with, adults with some coworkers and those are people that we did not choose to go to school with, or to work with. We are close to them because we spend a lot of time together and share similar interests. In order to understand each other we need something more than closeness, we need ...

Task

Many reasons exist as to why people get distracted, what these distractions are, and how they get distracted on different occasions. Majority of studies have shown that students are distracted the most and because of this, everyday learning activities are disrupted in many learning institutions. According to statistics, most students are distracted by cell phones, friends, gossiping in libraries or classes, relationships among the students thus including crushes, music that the students listen to through there I-pods ,peoples appearance and way of dressing. The area where the school is located should not be near an industrial area where there ...

Abstract

In the society, there are various aspects that affect well being of people more so high school teenagers. High school teenagers are highlighted in this case as they are mostly prone to peer pressure from adolescence that drives them to some of the negative vices. The negative vices discussed in this paper are: absence of exercise; tanning in the sun; inability to deal with anxiety disorders; and binge drinking. They are discussed in the form of article reviews with personal opinions on how they affect the community being incorporated.

Article 1: Exercise is Wise

Summary

The article by Mary L. Gavin titled “Exercise is ...

In contrast to all the drivers for Facebook use, there are some barriers that exist that may be detrimental to Facebook use for current and future use. The privacy issue on Facebook is a unique one, one hand the user takes measures to share information with a group of selected people which could be shared individually and stored privately. On the contrary, the user takes an active step to ensure privacy from intrusion. This is much relevant to a situation where, after sharing his thoughts on Facebook, one of my friends ended up exposing all the information because an ...

Article review

Introduction
The article “A Facebook ‘friend’ request from the boss: Too close for comfort?” by Peluchette, Karl, and Fertig (2013) discusses what might be the employees’ reactions and responses to Facebook friend requests from their supervisors and/or bosses. The authors’ are interested in the employees’ viewpoints rather than their supervisors’/bosses’. They base their arguments on the issues of self-presentation, leader-member exchange (LMX), and developmental networks.

Summary

The first issue the authors discuss is the change of Facebook users from young adults to the older generation, businesses, and organizations. Their argument is that the original intended Facebook use has ...

Leadership Theories
Leadership is a process that a group or an individual impacts a group of individuals to reach a certain or common goal (Parent et. al., n.d.). According to Parent et. al., (n.d.) the literature concerning leadership has transformed from the trait or behavioral approach to the transformational. This change also includes the transactional and charismatic leadership approaches (Parent et. al., n.d.).
According to Kouzes & Posner (2007), on the other hand, Leadership is a chance that can occur at any place or any time. It may happen in a huge or small house, the mall, the school, or in any group. This ...

[Sacrificing Students’ Comfort for Full Inclusion]
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Summary

In the lesson entitled, “Is Full Inclusion the Least Restrictive Environment?” it compared two opposing cases on inclusion of persons with disabilities in regular schools. The first case tells a story of Ro who has successfully adapted in the education systems of inclusive schools since preparatory school to college. Her story reflects an empowered person despite her disability through the inclusive learning systems of schools she attended. She excelled in her schools especially in communication. She gained many friends from her classmates who learned life lessons from her story. ...

IMPULSIVE PURCHASING BEHAVIOR

1. What is the purpose of the article? Why did the author(s) conduct the research and/or write the article?
Impulsive purchasing is unplanned purchasing that depends on a rapid decision-making. There are many variables influencing the impulsive purchasing behavior such as demographic factors, income, cultural orientation, price promotions, and many other varying variables. The previous studies on the impulsive purchasing analyze the influence of these factors on the purchasing behavior. However, the previous studies miss an important point in analyzing the influential factors on the impulsive purchasing behavior: the influence of the social environment and the social relations ...

Article Evaluation Critique

Allen, K.M., Blascovich, J., Tomaka, J., & Kelsey, R.M. (1991). Presence of human friends and pet dogs as moderators of autonomic responses to stress in women. Journal of personality and social psychology, 61 (4), 582-589.

Introduction

The researchers are addressing the effects on stress levels in women through the study of autonomic responses, choosing the presence or absence of company as a yardstick for comparison further delineating the concept by using both evaluating and non-evaluating others while the performers are put through stressful tasks. Prior research conducted in this area validated that the mere presence of others increases the arousal of a ...

Klein, D. V. (1990). Foiling the cracker: A survey of, and improvements to, password security. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Security Workshop (pp. 5-14).

The article ‘‘Foiling the Cracker’’: A Survey of, and Improvements to, Password

Security by Daniel V. Klein was published in 1990. Klein looks into system security and discusses how people can hack passwords. He claims that the issue of security has always been a challenge to most individual accounts as there are people who know how to manipulate such accounts such that they hack them and get vital information about another party. He discusses the various ways in which technology has motivated the interference of system ...

Question one

Racism is an aspect that has become part and parcel of our daily lives today. People view the world regarding the aspect of race. Racism is what differentiates the people into categories: Black, white, Asian, and others. The way people view and take each other is what affects the various aspects of their daily lives, that is, the job place, kind of friends, schools to attend, as well as money people makes. All these aspects are affected by the one social construction that is the race.
The power of illusion documentary series shows how racism has gone a greater ...

The essay “Farm Girl”, written by Jessica Hemauer, is one that is full of wisdom and detail about a little girl growing up on a farm and how her time spent doing chores there has helped her to prepare for most of life’s great difficulties (Hemauer, 2011). She writes this essay with such experience and confidence in her knowledge and emotions while describing daily duties such as waking up at 5:00 a.m. at ten years old and “cleaning out various huts and pens.” This essay significantly describes the emotions and responsibilities in the life of a farm girl (Hemauer, ...

Kimmel has managed to illustrate a critical point on society and masculinity. The idea that a “man” should always have a strong and countenance devoid of weak emotions like crying is valid to many societies today. Unconsciously, the society has become accustomed to the predictability of manhood that no one seems to focus on the emerging male stereotypes. As a male child grows, the family bestows on him certain levels of faith of manhood that synonymously coincides with the predictions of Kimmel. In my life as I grew up, for instance, my parents kept chiding any attempt of constant crying. Of course, they ...

- Summary

In the article “Children Need to Play, Not Compete” written by Jessica Statsky, she stated that competitive sports can cause psychological and physical dangers to children brought about by injuries and the fear of losing the game.

Statsky stated that organized sports activities for children between the ages of six and twelve children have become too competitive that the spirit of play have disappeared and sports have been considered as a job where children as tasked to win (2). It was emphasized that winning, which is the primary goal for every professional athlete should not be made applicable to ...

Thesis

Years and years of racial discrimination have created the doubt that racial discrimination might not be the cause of the economic injustice. The article, Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market, focuses on the racial discrimination in the labor market. In this research paper, researchers have carried out field experiments, which give insight into the low wage market where discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders can be observed.

Methods

Herein, it should be noted that as per the analysis of the article, it came to the notice that the researchers have made use of the quantitative research method. The study has also derived ...

White collar crimes are financially motivated and non-violent crimes majorly committed by people of high social status. The term “white collar crime” was coined in 1939 by Edwin Sutherland in his speech to the American Sociological Society.White collar crimes are difficult to detect and prosecute. Perpetrators employ highly sophisticated methods to commit crimes and hide the heinous activities through a chain of complex financial transactions. Punishment for these crimes involve: incarceration, restitution, community service, probation, criminal forfeiture, fines or disgorgement.

Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme-Forbes Magazine

This prominent investor was involved in a Ponzi investment scam with the Madoff’s Hedge Fund. A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent ...

The story ‘agreeable’ by Jonathan Frazen is a good example of how literature has used modern day life to communicate. The story uses modern day setting to communicate to the people. The story takes a modern approach including in characterization, themes, and even the setting. The story ‘A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings’ was written in ancient times in 1955. The story uses different methods of characterization, themes, and setting. Unlike ‘Agreeable’, which was written in America, this story was written in Mexico in Spanish and later translated into English. These two short stories differ in terms of style characterization ...

Every race, culture, country or religion is subject to stereotypes. In the field of parenting, some children are too attached to their cultures while others are not. In some cultures, children are treated with coercion while others are spoiling them. Every child differs from each other as well as parents. Regardless of race, culture or religion, every parent should teach their children love and respect for their cultural heritage as well as awareness on others.
I always have the notion that strict parents raise successful children. This perception is attributed to the many successful people who admitted that ...

The contemporary cultural milieu exudes a permissive attitude to sexuality and this pattern is also reflected in the popular culture and media portraitures of sexual behavior. It has also been noted that college students have erroneous notions regarding sexual norms which get influenced by the perception and influence of media. Hookups are reflections of the human social behavior and provide room for studying evolved mating psychology and cultural context. Cultural shifts in dating have shown transformations with time and it was propagated that sexual behavior is not bound by the context of marital union. The contemporary culture also encourages sexual ...

Facilitator:

Nursing research critique
Many nurses believe that they offer holistic care to the patients at the hospitals yet the level of holistic care that they offer remains unknown to most of the nurses. No known variable can attach to the relation between the family, friends, nurses and the patients during the medical attention and the holistic care (Geri &Haber, 2003). Nancy baumhover and Linda Hughes undertake a research into the spirituality and support for family presence during invasive procedures and resuscitations in adults with the view of bringing a solution to the existing dilemma in the relationship circus and the ...

Analysis and Response to “Stepping Stories”

The writer of the narrative essay, Kimberly Parker, details the extraordinary academic successes of her students during the first two years of her high school teaching career, and she concludes by asserting that her students’ exemplary successes can be replicated. Although Parker’s essay may be considered primarily narrative in its style and structure, it has very strong argumentative qualities; furthermore, the essay converts to full argumentation toward its conclusion. The principal argument that Parker makes in regards to setting the academic bar higher, encouraging the students, and their subsequently succeeding is analogous to the famous line from the classic ...

I Would be a Servant to Him
The article “I Would be a Servant to Him” is about the role of women in the society from the perspective of reality TV producers and creators. The author brings our attention to the image of women in the modern shows, such as The Bachelor, More to Love and Tough Love, where a certain number of women compete for a man in order to organize their lives and live happily ever after together. However, instead of a beautiful love story we observe women ready to quit their jobs and abandon their friends and family in order ...

James Holmes has been indicted of opening fire in a teemed theater at a midnight showing of the Batman movie on July 20th, killing 12 people and wounding 58 others. The rage of the attack, setting and sheer magnitude was more than any other in the country’s history. This encounter shocked even a nation largely habituated to random flare-ups of violence. After the shooting spree, 12 people were confirmed dead and more than fifty hospitalized with diverse scales of injuries.
The victims of the shooting incident who were successfully identified included Jon Blunk, Sgt. Jesse Childress of the Air Force ...