Development Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Introduction

Rising levels of industrialization in Australia has led to increased demand for energy by both the domestic and commercial sectors of the economy. This is due to the fact that energy providing companies are parent firms to numerous firms especially in the manufacturing, processing and motor industries. As a result, it has been stated that energy is the vehicle for driving the economy to heights of economic growth and development. Without energy, rates of economic growth and development would stagnate or even drop in severe circumstances. However, in recent times, there have been intensified calls for energy companies to Continue reading...

The major themes of in the novel, “Things Fall Apart” by Achebe includes the tussle between tradition and change, the varied ways of interpreting masculinity and language or dialect as a symbol of cultural disparity have been discussed in this essay. The themes have been exposed mainly through the main character in the novel called Okonkwo. The novel presents the traditional ways of life of the clan of Igbo at a time when they were faced with the dilemma of embracing chance that was brought by the European colonialists and missionaries.
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Introduction

Traditionally, colleges follow a top to bottom strategy, where all the major curricular planning takes place at a leadership level. Even there are myriad educational institutes, where the liberty of choosing the subjects is limited. On the other side, there are many upcoming educational institutions, where student-let curriculum is an emerging phenomenon. With excellent educational system in United States and United Kingdom, the educational planners are still concerned with high percentage of dropouts in the first year of university that is 25% in United States and 11% in United Kingdom (Yorke & Longden 2006, 16). This scenario causes immense problems Continue reading...

Public education and awareness on the harmful effects of Marijuana is the major health policy evident in the podcast. Despite the fact that there is no major evidence on the therapeutic effects of marijuana use, the drug has been legalized in most states. More people are thus involved in the procurement and abuse of the drug. The author underscores the danger that is posed to the developing fetuses because of the constant use of the drug by pregnant women. Notwithstanding the massive awareness that was done on the harmful effects of tobacco and other drugs on the population, none Continue reading...

Stationarity of a series

These are where the mean, variance and autocorrelation structures in a model do not change over time. It is a stochastic process whose joint distribution in probability does not change even when shifted in time. The statistical properties do not change over time. It shows that the degrees of expectation, third order and the variance do not change in the process of estimation.

Benefits of stationarity of a series

Stationarity a series has several benefits. To begin with, the study of behavior for a certain period under consideration is made easy due to the consistency in the model. In the forecasting of the expected results Continue reading...

Introduction

Strategic formulation is defined from the context of organizational goal derivative, examined success and framework development needed to provide anticipated results as per given plans. This involves utilizing significant communication strategies, examining the required provisions that would be purposefully utilized in order to strategically develop a model within which the changing environment will need in view of resource, budgetary and organizational development.
A critical assessment of key aspects of strategic formulation and implementation is captured within the pretext of Zara’s success by identifying strategic direction and developing the applicable metric which would evidently ignite its development process. Direction Continue reading...

In his session at Ted Talks, Eli Pariser discusses the way the internet is filtering information for us. The data that reaches us is not in our control. According to Eli Pariser, there are invisible algorithms that are sifting out data depending upon our previous history on the internet. This was initially the role of newspaper editors and journalists before technology came. The internet is focusing an individual’s direction according to its own interpretations about our likes and dislikes. This raises questions about the ethics guidelines followed by those regulating the web.
Eli Pariser talks about internet filtering. Continue reading...

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. Continue reading...

One of the themes in Burmese days is imperialism. It can be defined as a certain type of governing entity that has its main aim in increasing its size, through acts of war or political bulling other countries to bow down to their rule of law. The book highlights the lives of Burmese natives who live under the mercy of British colonialists. It portrays this by using three main characters; U Po Kyin, a corrupt Burmese magistrate, Dr Veraswami a reputable Indian doctor and John Flory a European who in his circles is known to be of high prestige.
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Stability in the development of the higher education depends on the funding that is used to finance the required equipment and facilities in the institution. The important issues are to ensure that the higher education has sufficient and suitable equipment to deliver a high quality teaching and research that meets broader perspective on the educational, social, cultural and economic goals (Paulsen & Smart, 2012).
Resources are vital and fundamental in supporting learning in higher education. Therefore, financing of the institutions makes it available for the learning facilities. In so doing, regulations to control this sector are required to prevent over Continue reading...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Answers to the Questions
1.The city of Santa Utopia is plagued by ever increasing rent. Worrying that seniors may not be able to afford their rent payments, a city supervisor proposes imposing rent controls. Using supply and demand framework, diagram the effects of rent controls. Will the Santa Utopia rental market face excess demand or excess supply?
In Utopia, the equilibrium price is at Pe and it has been very high for citizens. Therefore, a supervisor suggests applying rent control. If the city management applies that suggestion, the price level has to be kept under the equilibrium price. In Continue reading...

Personal Carbon Footprint Calculation and Efforts to Reduce Impact on Climate Change

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Carbon Footprint Calculation
Baseline Emissions
The baseline emission for personal carbon footprint is calculated based on the plan to reside in a third world country. Indonesia is selected as an example of the third world country that ratified the Kyoto protocol and signed on July 13 1998 , so there is a strong relevance between this exercise and the country’s policy on emission reduction.
Indonesia is a tropical country with climate conditions that do not require heating facilities, so emission form such facility will be insignificant. The baseline emission of personal carbon footprint calculated using the carbon Continue reading...

Introduction

Recently, the role of a managerial accountant is widely discussed in the scholars. Johnson and Kaplan (1991) argue that management accounting is “too late, too aggregated, and too distorted to be relevant for managers’ planning and control decisions” (1). Haedr (2012) considered the mediation effect of management accounting information on motivation using contingency theory stating that “MAI usefulness accounts for a full (i.e. complete) mediation effect only on the relationship between centralization and MCS effectiveness.” (n.p.). As the number of views cannot present a unified opinion on the matter, the purpose of the current paper to reveal whether the Continue reading...

Introduction

David Olson, Candyce Russell and Douglas Spenkle’s model provides useful insights on matters of family structure. The hypotheses presented aid in analyzing how strong or weak relationship is between members of the family. It addresses both marriage and family in sixteen subdivisions. These divisions are determined by cohesiveness, communication and flexibility. These foundations define a good relationship and a weak one. Cohesiveness is the ability to build a bond between people in the family or marriage. This ought to be balanced in order to develop a strong relationship. A couple or family ought not to be disengaged or Continue reading...

While in the polarized politics of the US, climate change is still debated, the science is in: With the same degree of certainty that we know gravity exists, we know as a fact that humans are affecting weather. Without passing judgment as to weather it is good or bad, we know that human activity is affecting the makeup of the atmosphere, and also know that this is what determines our weather.
Climate change should be an important issue to people regardless of what political party they vote for or where they live. The earth’s climate affects everyone. The Continue reading...

Over the years, vaccines have been suspected to cause autism. A substance called thimerosal found in the mercury based vaccines that are used as a preservative has been the major point of discussion in vaccination. Even after research not finding a link between autism and thimerosal, many cases of autism have developed after, children have come from vaccination. At a time around 5000 families including the family of Hannah, claimed damages after a national vaccination program was blamed for causing autism to their children. In the case of Hannah the federals did agree that autism in her resulted from Continue reading...

Breaking the Law For the Sake of Justice details an incident where 2,500 protested illegally trespassed onto the property of a Washington D.C. coal-burning plant to protest that fact that these types of plants contribute to 40% of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere. Feeling that a significant amount of environmental damage was being caused by the plants, the demonstrators felt a social need to break the law. It was their belief that breaking the law in this instance would benefit society and be for the greater good by discouraging the use of coal by power plants Continue reading...

Part 1

Personal work ethics are the rules one sets for him/herself that will dictate his/her attitude towards work (Goodwin, 2007, p.55). I believe that work is a fundamental aspect that has led to the development of our society and the world in general. Without it the world we are living in has undergone massive transformation due to the work people do. Even though work is an act that is initiated from within an individual factors such as educational background and culture have great influence on how people will perceive work. People from a society which view work as a blessing Continue reading...

Summary

This article reflects the theoretical and definitional literature which surrounds adaptation of rural communities to change which arise due to transition to economy based on knowledge. This article discussed and defined the benefits of community assets, community resilience, social capital and community capital by placing these concepts in a bigger framework of entrepreneurial social infrastructure. The socio-economic realities and history of Atlantic-Canadian provinces are woven together for keeping the arguments and literature review as important as possible to the current condition of the region. This paper discusses the factors which are involved in former community’s resilience and conditions Continue reading...

Q1: The four cycles of HR are: acquisition, development, maintenance, and separation . Acquisition is also one of the relevant functions of HR which directly affects HRM. Acquisition involves recruitment, screening, and placement of applicants for positions that are vacant in the organization. Thus, the ability of HR personnel to locate candidates that perfectly match the needs and requirements of the organization as defined in the job description would determine the level of effectiveness in the HRM system.
Development is also a function of HRM that involves training of personnel and identifying opportunities for promotions and earmarking career paths. This Continue reading...

Effective communication plays a vital role in the change management process, and all changes are bound to fail without an effective communication strategy. Most stakeholders including customers and employees resist major changes in the existing operating procedures and processes. The resistance to change stems from the uncertainty, anxiety, stress, and expectations related to the changed processes. Individuals believe that they can suffer through these changes and this would negatively affect their organizational performance. However, effective communication can alleviate the factors that lead to resistance and anxiety. Communicating with the stakeholders of the organization enables the management to remove any Continue reading...

Abstract

Human development is an area that has been one of the most discussed areas of study in the last one century. Cognitive development of a person from childhood days to adult years was studied extensively by a Swedish psychologist Jean Piaget. He is known as the father of cognitive development theories. His four stages of cognitive development, sensori-motor, pre-operational, concrete, and formal, are still considered to be the foundation of the cognitive development process. Piaget’s theory does not touch upon why individuals develop at a different rate or why there are different developmental stages. Vygotsky, on the other Continue reading...

The chapter 13 of the book The Introduction to Psychology focuses on how people perceive other people and think about them. This is known as social cognition. The interaction of people in groups also determines their social behavior. If I apply this to my understanding, I believe that an attitude plays a significant role in this regard as this helps us in determining how we process information and perceive the situation. If the social situation is ambiguous of course, it will determine how an individual think and this thinking will be restricted to the situation one encounters.
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Describe how community and personal development can be improved through a quality parish or school catechetical plan.

Parish faith building consists of liturgy, and systematic faith formation across all ages in both small and large groups, as well religious teaching at home for the newly initiated. The parish focuses on both personal and community development through such practices in order to incorporate catechetic faith building. They employs ministries to carry out the regulation and working of such activities.
When it comes to personal development, the parish tries to make their people incorporate all senses when it comes to accepting Christ in their lives. As said, “Christian faith is, above all, conversion to Jesus Christ”. They hope Continue reading...

The Industrial Revolution is defined as the sudden burst of industrial activity that emerged first in England, eventually spreading throughout Europe, America and other parts of the world. However, this sudden spurt of industrial activity was a result of a long-term development caused by combination of factors. Although the Industrial Revolution happened around two centuries ago, the evolution of lifestyle beginning from the Middle Ages proves to be significant in the development of the Industrial Revolution.
Many centuries ago, the manorial system dominated the face of England. In this system, the lords owned a large area of land with Continue reading...

Service Management Ideas

Service management ideas can be taken to mean new opinions in an organization in which the management uses to enhance organization’s service delivery. Management ideas arise after the assessment of the organization’s service delivery. Once the management service delivery is wanting or if there is inefficiency in the service delivery of the organization, then a need for the organization change develop. During this time, the management of the organization calls for all stakeholders to the organization to come as a team and develop ideas to help the organization increase efficiency in its service delivery.
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Parental separation has adverse effects on children growth and development. In part, children who witness parental conflicts and the eventual breakups develop hatred to the parents, and this may be exhibited through withdrawal signs by the child after parental re-introduction. Parental alienation is more common in modern times than it was before due to increased cases of parental divorce (Fidler & Bala 23). Children who have been alienated develop post-traumatic stress, and this has great impact during the re-unification process. Parents who separate from their children expose the young ones to extreme psychological and emotional abuse and this may lead Continue reading...

Income and consumption ways of measuring poverty

In spite of over a century research on poverty, the subject remains a big challenge. Indeed, the 21st-century has been recognized as the century for confronting the subject. Poverty is increasingly recognized as a multifaceted subject in both the complexity and character. This form of poverty elucidates quantitative measures in order to analyze (Hayati et al, 2008 p. 372). The income and consumption approach of measuring poverty mainly uses the structured family, society, and national samples in order to collect and analyze (Headey, 2008 p. 25)
The poverty line marks an important element in the income and consumption approach Continue reading...

Sustainable Development

Sustainable development refers to the environment that meets the necessary needs of the current without compromising the coming generations in meeting their needs. The present needs include food, secure environment, clean air, transportation, useful employment, peace, social sustainability, sustainable agriculture, job creation, good health and industrial development, sustainable economic advancement among others. Such needs often conflict with one another. For example, if an individual need to cook food-using firewood, he or she meet one requirement and at the same time degrading environment through deforestation and causing soil erosion. Sustaining the environment is, therefore, a trade-off between needs. Sustainability is Continue reading...

Question 1

Facing external encroachment and internal rebellion, the Peking government by the 1860s appeared to be on its last leg, but the Self-Strengthening Movement breathed new life into it. Self-strengthening movement that included development of many institutional reforms after concessions and military defeats by the foreign powers was of importance to the Peking governmen. Self-Strengtheners did not realize that western military strength arose from political and economic structures and therefore needed to improve western technology and science in Qing empire. Due to such ignorance of the self-strengtheners, the reforms had various strengths and weaknesses. China needed a technological advancement when Continue reading...

Introduction

“Foreign aid consists of all resources – physical goods, skills and technical know-how, financial grants (gifts), or loans (at concessional rates) transferred by donors to recipients” (Riddell 2007, 17). It can be in three different forms: bilateral, which is from one country to another, multilateral, which is from institutions like World Bank and IMF to other countries or institutions, and NGOs based foreign aid (Riddell 2007). The idea officially started from post World War Two even though many countries are found before that too helping the other countries in various forms of aid (Hjertholm and White 1998). The objective behind Continue reading...

Introduction

In law enforcement, profiling is a technique used to develop a profile of unknown criminal offenders using available information from crimes committed. Criminal profiling seeks to identify an offender through analysis of the offense committed, the manner it was committed and physical evidence from the scene of offense. Through the use of information collected, psychological characteristics of offenders may also be developed. Profiling is mainly employed in offender profiling. However, since profiling involves the analysis of several aspects of an individual including behavior, it is used in other ways other than criminal profiling. Profiling is used in the American Continue reading...

The terms ‘Organizational Learning’ and ‘Learning Organization’ sound so similar. Both involve learning. Learning organization is the process to change. Organizational learning is having the process and strategies and implementing change throughout an organization. Thus the former becomes the plan, to which the latter is the action.
According to Fiol, (1985) Organizational Learning is “the process of improving actions through better knowledge and understanding”. Where as, an organisation that facilitates the learning of all its members and continuously transforms itself (Peddler, Boydell & Burgoyne, 1997) is a learning organisation. “Learning organization can develop structures and strategies to maximise the learning Continue reading...

In social psychology studies, group polarization refers to a phenomenon where the opinions and decisions of individuals in a group setting make decisions that are more extreme than their initial privately held beliefs.
In psychology, there are three principal theories of how group polarization occurs with all of them having the same cause much. Any particular group that tries to make a decision are all likely to have an initial preference towards a particular direction. Individuals who initially don’t agree with that particular decision are more likely to change their minds in order to be in agreement with Continue reading...

Introduction

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 Continue reading...

There are three ways to solve the problem of North-South. Supporters of the liberal approach believe that the main problem is failure of developing countries to adopt in the national economies modern market mechanism prevents these countries to overcome backwardness and take their rightful place in the international division of labor. According to them (Moon, 2007), developing states should adhere to the policy of macroeconomic stability, economic liberalization and privatization of state property, in other words, Washington Consensus. Liberal approach can be quite clear found in the positions of many developed countries in the multilateral negotiations on foreign issues Continue reading...

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1. Scheduling - The drum and the rope (pp. 214-217). Describe this process.
The Drum and rope system are used to ensure that scheduling of jobs happens at the same pace that the bottleneck or dominant machine in the setup can handle them. The Drum ensures that a standard pace is set for all the machines, so that the throughput of all machines is synchronized to the pace of the bottleneck. When a piece of work is completed by the bottleneck, it sends a message indicating when the work was completed, thus informing the others in the Continue reading...

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The Name of the School (University)
The City and State
Sustainable Design and Construction
Abstract
In the recent past, several environmentally inspired projects have been built in the United Kingdom and around Europe. These projects have claimed to embody the principles of sustainable development. The Greenfield and Brownfield are examples of sites that have been used to parade such projects I bet in small scale. These projects have always presented debates regarding their sustainability and maintainability.

Introduction

In 2009, the Hometown foundation revealed an ambitious plan in south Lanarkshire to build a brand new town named Owenstown (About Owenstown 2014). Continue reading...

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Executive Summary of Chapter 12
In his book titled Management in Technology: Managing effectively in Technology-Intensive Organizations, Hans Thamhain (2005), chapter twelve has been dedicated to the management of risks in high technology. In this chapter, Thamhain (2005) opines that effective risk management of high-technology managements brings into play numerous variables that are associated with the organizational environment, people, tools and tasks.
Navigating through such risks calls for a thorough understanding of the project work, as well as organizational processes, techniques and tools. Thamhain (2005) highlights that weaknesses inherent in Continue reading...

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Interim reports are financial reports prepared of period shorter than one fiscal year. I disagree with the above statement because it is important that time should be invested to prepare interim reports because summary of the report is published in the daily newspaper, and stock exchange wire services. Research analysts extract the data from the interim reports to analyze and forecasts the financial results of the companies that can help in investment options. If the company has positive interim report, a positive result will have a greater impact on investor confidence and the investment in company shares will Continue reading...