Dependency Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Freeing America from Foreign Oil Dependency

In Presidents’ Obama’s acceptance speech, one of the bold promises he pledged was to see an end to the United States of America’s ‘addiction’ to foreign oil. Judging from his words, it is understandable that he was addressing American’s oil dependency for the sake of the nation’s environment, security and economy. However, his sentiments attracted sharp criticism from all corners as debate raged on whether it was a possibility or impossibility. I beg to differ with US foreign oil dependency policy and tend to think that it will be a matter of being stuck between a rock and ...

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In order to critically analyze the theories surrounding the development of tourism, it is crucial that this paper provide a brief picture of the situation of tourism sector in developing states. For the past few centuries, the definition of tourism as well as travel has evolved tremendously (Cohen 2010, p.5). For decades, traveling has been known to be a simple and temporary journey that focuses on leisure, pleasure and recreational reasons, in other terms, a luxury item. The 20th Century proved this wrong by ushering in a paradigm shift in regard to tourism. The transition has been found to have taken move between ...

Introduction

In his essay on Canada’s changing national development trajectory, Hutton has discussed the nation’s economic transition to a ‘post-staples’ era. He makes it very clear that his notion and hypothesis of the changing phase after that of ‘mature staples’ is not absolute. Instead, it is much as the theory on society post-industrialization as proposed by Daniel Bell; they both observe and analyze changes in the economy of the nation, owing to social, political, cultural and/or spatial developments. And in this particular case, Hutton’s essay focuses primarily on the contribution of staples towards a developing Canadian economy. Hutton describes ...

Welfare is established in order to maintain the well-being of the general public within a society. These establishments, in turn, present institutions that are put forth in order to satisfy this agenda of maintaining a certain level of its citizen’s livelihood. However, many of these programs tend to cause more trouble than they alleviate. While there are options that allow for the financial protection of individuals, it is difficult to implement the large scale institutionalization of these programs. Furthermore, there are not significant benefits to the cost of their implementation. For this reason, the only option is that all forms ...

Path dependency is where earlier historical events and decisions determine the future of an organization. In firm definition, path dependency dependentevents in history that bring about patterns in the organization which deterministic properties. These could be events and decisions, established policy, procedures, expectations and / or norms that have longterm on succeeding events and decisions (Berghout & Julia Hertin; 2002). The decisions and plans made by an organization will affect its future either positively or negatively depending on the profitability path the organization takes after such decision.
A strong culture is deeply embedded within the members of the organization and ...

The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a social or political issue, seems to be in question. The opponents to the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes stick to the same argument of social and at times religious effects. The support of the movement seems to be basing all evidence in the far-reaching uses of cannabis beyond medical application. With Washington and Colorado both recently legalizing marijuana for recreational use, it reopens the debate about whether or not marijuana should be legal for medicinal purposes in the United States. A look at the current research, an analyzing the argument of ...

It was a memorable moment, when you work with your colleagues on some project. We have started working on two topics with enthusiasm and try to come on the consensus on a point we want to make. Every time it is not possible that you work with consensus but sometimes you have conflicts arises on some point about going with the things. It was an awesome experience for me to work on the collaborative journaling with my group. Participating in a group involved in a very cumbersome activity of a collaborative journaling where we required to read a lot on some points, and then discuss ...

According to modernization theory, also known as evolutionary theory, societies undergo various steps of development; the most advanced being the consumerist society that characterizes Western societies. This implies that societies that are still in their early stages of development, which are common in third world countries, must emulate the Western societies both socially and in the determination of its values. This means that developing societies must discard their traditional values that entrenches religion and family in the center of social life and pursue individualism that is the norm of Western societies (Kendall 259). This theory postulates that this change ...

DQ1: There is no unique answer regarding the equivalence of perception to reality. On the one side, the perceived reality is always limited by individual’s values, knowledge, bias system and even physical abilities. However, own reality is formed by one’s perception, therefore it is only possible to discuss the perceived reality, rather than the absolute one.
DQ2: Although group work is believed to enhance performance, however it was not always true for me. Once I had to work on a cross-functional project, which had quite a unambiguous objective and a clear strategy. However, the multitude of perspectives in the ...

Arguably, Mary Wollstonecraft can be said to be the “Mother of feminism” or rather “the first feminist”. As a matter of fact, most of her work focuses on the education as well as the rights of women. For instance, a Vindication of the rights of Women is a good example on how she focuses the status of women in the society and it displays pure thoughts of feminism. Undoubtedly, most people interpret her work as well as life in different ways depending on the perception of the writer as far as the equality of women is concerned. On the other hand, Jeans ...