Compassion Literature Reviews Samples For Students

In the beginning of his first topic of discussion Inner Values in an Age of Science, he is expressing how you do not solely need to rely on the blessings of something there is also the action that is needed to be taken. Although he does still value blessings and prayers, they are just psychological benefits for everyone religious or not. He continues to compare prayer to modern science. Prayer does not come close to the success stories from modern medicine, for instance, he explains how you can pray for all kinds of things but medicine advances are what ...

Introduction

Based on advances in mind-body research and the practicality of self-kindness and mindfulness, self-compassion offers a new way of thinking about the practical strategies for ending chronic pain. Self-compassion includes a stance of compassion, friendliness, interest, and open-heartedness toward an experience observed in the present moment. The management of chronic pain today incorporates both physical and psychological interventions because of the significance of self-compassion which relates to aspects such as acceptance of chronic pain, focus on individual strength, and lower levels of negative perception of the pain experience. A study in which an experimental vignette was used investigating the ...

Introduction

It is obvious that our culture today is filled with victim mentality. This is a clear reflection of our society’s reality where it is easier for people to blame others because of their unhappy existence and situations (Morin, 2011). People lack the power to influence changes in their lives due to the perception that their lives element are far out of control. In most cases they tend to ask themselves, ‘why do bad things keep happening to me?’ These are habits that we find in so many people around us and at times we find ourselves in this situation. ...

Overview

Media violence is considered complex. Therefore, its meaning is explained in different ways according to how one views the whole perception. According to David & Hertz, (2007) one of the simple definitions of media violence is the exposure of fights, murder, and forms of injustices through the televisions to the public. When defining media violence, one should keep in mind the ideas like; the aims of media violence that are; do they point at passion or retaliation? The being consequences: whether financial benefits or death and finally, the techniques in media violence like handful fights or shootouts. When watching the ...

Importance of Hotel Attributes Contributing to International Travelers’ Satisfaction in Singapore Luxury Hotel Industry- Literature Review

Importance of Hotel Attributes Contributing to International Travelers’ Satisfaction in Singapore Luxury Hotel Industry- Literature Review

Introduction

International travelers visit different countries on business, leisure or personal purposes. These travelers are diverse in their demographic characteristics, spending patterns and preference for accommodation while travelling abroad. As travelers “what people really desire are not products, but satisfying experiences” (Abbott, 1955 cited in Palmer, 2010). Luxury hotels have embraced the idea of creating unique, valuable and unforgettable experiences so that they get repeat and loyal customers on a continuous basis. Morrison & Crane (2007) rightly emphasize that contemporary consumers no longer simply buy products ...

Loss is an inevitable experience that may arise from the demise of a loved one as well as other life events. In most cases, individuals respond through grief, a normal process that leads to acceptance of loss. Normal or uncomplicated grief typically does not require formal treatment although grieving persons need to find the support and information they need (Zisook & Shear, 2013). However, there are individuals who experience prolonged and debilitating grief, referred to as complicated grief. Social workers play an integral role in helping individuals through the grief process by assessing for related needs as well as providing or bridging ...

Supervision and Leadership Style in Saudi Arabia

Supervision and Leadership Style in Saudi Arabia

Literature Review

This literature review supports the aims of this study, which encompass exploring the influence emotional intelligence discourse has within the Saudi Arabian Educational Supervision. It embraces recognizing how increased awareness of emotional issues might enhance Educational supervision practices with respect to contributions in conceptualization of educational leadership in Saudi Arabia. The literature review is also expected to analyse the process of integrating emotional intelligence discourse within the SA Educational supervision practices. Another goal identifying the role gender plays in influencing the level of Emotional intelligence demonstrated by the Educational Supervisors within the ...

In a short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, which was written in 1953, Flannery O’Connor describes a tragedy happened in a family because of how the grandmother behaved. O’Connor shows the grandmother as a person deserving compassion and pity at first, but then the actions of this character start to cause the reader feel anger and condemnation. The grandmother’s character does not stay the same throughout the story, but changes as the character realizes her mistakes and flaws when it is too late.

The grandmother is presented in the first sentence of the story as a simple ...

Possible Causes of the Problem

Grieving among nurses is a common emotion. By grieving, nurses demonstrate empathy that each human being goes through in life whenever a friend or family member is in a dilemma. However, there has been a misconception that nurses are not meant to demonstrate any feelings towards the patients that they serve. It is important to understand that most nurses develop relationships and bonds with the patients that surpass professional ethics. By spending much time with the patients, nurses develop relationships that affect them when the patients succumb to the problems that they are facing. The main problem that will be shown in this ...

Literature Review

Nearly 260,000 patients pass on in the National Health Service hospital facilities in the United Kingdom. This is approximately 56% of the total number of patient deaths recorded in the year 2008 and is in total contrast to 16% of patients who pass on at home, 9% that die in hospices and 18% that die in community health facilities(Office for National Statistics,2010).
It is acknowledged that the demise of someone familiar or known to someone has a great psychological effect on the person experiencing bereavement. There have been numerous studies that have been carried out over ...

Chaucer presents chivalry as an expression of perfection in character, inspired by the desire to please divine authority. According to Hall, a Knight’s duty in the medieval time was to the King, with the King seen as God’s intermediary (Hall, 16). The author presents chivalry in a militant fashion, probably as a reaction to the prevailing circumstance of chaos that needed a militant hand to defeat the heathens. Chaucer, therefore, presents the Knights as noble images of perfection with chivalry as a mainstay in their duty to man and God, even though it does not bear success ...

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, Hana’s Suitcase by K. Levine, Why Me? By L. Allen and The Paper Bag Princess by R. Munsch present a wide range of conflicts and themes that are aimed at teaching children something about the world that surrounds them. All of the books are under the great influence of the ideology of the times they were written, so it is easy to spot different attitudes towards the same question, as for example, the classic emotional and empathic women in Charlotte’s Web and strong and brave Elizabeth in The Paper Bag Princess. ...

Dater

Scruton argues that people’s way of life, including their habit and perceptions are determined and shaped by moral laws. He believes that the moral laws state the idea of the development of a group of rational individuals who respects one another and address their disagreements through accord and reconciliation. In this context, Scruton argues that the moral law present as a powerful mechanism that assume the purpose of reconciling people in a society that comprise of diverse people. However, I disagree with Scruton when he views morality as a system of regulations that entirely define the human behavior and activities.
Scruton ...

The traditional Buddhist practices of compassion are a way of helping people undergoing traumatic and terrorizing event to integrate and accept their emotions into their lives. These practices include tantric visualization, mind awareness, and calming relaxation. In many spiritual traditions, it is said that in times of great difficulty and adversity, people have the most potential. Adversity offers a perfect opportunity for attaining enlightenment, but difficult times do not always lead to enlightenment. In fact, when things get really difficult, it leads to a big mess and a lot of neurosis. This is because people get squeezed.
A single event like the ...

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the many general similarities between Alice Walker’s "The Welcome Table" and Nadine Gordimer’s "Country Lovers", and the ways in which racism is presented by both writers. Both stories condemn the hypocrisy and attack the injustices of racist societies. Both stories have a symbolic element which is examined and discussed and the fact that both stories are set in very different societies and, therefore, have very different contexts and settings is always at the heart of the paper’s argument. Each story is also discussed and explored separately in order to focus on its individual qualities. ...

Response to Question #1:

Othello’s reaction in line 35 suggests that Iago’s accusations regarding Desdemona are finally beginning to affect him. Just before, Othello is interrogating Iago with clipped lines like, “What hath he said?” and “With her?” In line 35, Othello begins talking to himself, rather than interrogating Iago. He also begins to use the same type of flawed logic that Iago has been using all along to convince him of Desdemona’s alleged betrayal. In line 40, Othello says, “Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction.” He is basically saying, “I have doubt, so ...

Motivational Interviewing: Literature Review

Extensive research has been executed on the subject of motivational interviewing (MI) since it was originally published as a key approach to eliciting behavioral change (Shulman, 2011). In his original designation, Miller & Rollnick (2013) described motivational interviewing as an approach that is based on the fundamental principles of experimental social psychology and the application of such principles such as cognitive dissonance, attribution, and self-efficacy. Motivational Interviewing can be defined as a client centered directive counseling style critical in eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence (Shulman, 2011). The approach, therefore, comes out as facilitative, focusing on ...

The Enlightenment of Buddha and C.S. Lewis’ We Have No “Right to Happiness” both deal on the themes of unbridle passions and the consequences it brings in man’s life. Buddha’s realization that the true path to Enlightenment can only be achieved through selflessness is reflective of the avarices of men. Greed and ignorance pervade through the man’s life and he as he continues to delude himself with this over and over again in his cycle of rebirth, he will be unable to find the true path to reaching enlightenment. Although the tenets of Buddhism may not ...

Prediction of PCL-R Scores

Psychopathy is defined as a mental disorder that is normally characterised by an individual always carrying out his activities in a manner that is selfish and manipulative and they always lack remorse. In addition to this, they are always in most instances emotionally detached from the public in that, they are always anti-social and further have the callous-unemotional traits. It was further realised, that in cases that the an individual shows these traits, then he or she ends up not caring that much about the people around him or her.Over the years researchers have had in place various theses ...

Literature Review

The influence of the family on children's behavior is widely documented in the literature, and numerous studies support the idea that involved parental style and authoritative parental approach significantly affect children's academic achievement, regardless of ethnic/racial background, gender, and age. Baumrind, in her study entitled Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior (1966), argued that theory-based categorization of parental style that led to specific parental control would bring forth diverse behaviors and attitudes in children. Baumrind's theory-based categorization of parental style led to the earliest parental style paradigm, namely, permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative, all of which having emotional ...

1984 Book Notes

Chapter 5

“Yet she had only the dimmest idea of who Goldstein was and what doctrines he was supposed to represent. She had grown up since the Revolution and was too young to remember the ideological battles of the fifties and sixties. Such a thing as an independent political movement was outside her imagination: and in any case the Party was invincible. It would always exist, and it would always be the same” (Orwell 89).
This quote is significant as a connection or a prediction of Modern times. It notes that she was too young to remember a ...

The first question to be raised id how important is the feedback of the graduators in giving assessment to the quality of education. There is now doubt that education system is in interconnection with students’ feedbacks, since students are targeted audience there or customers in case the sector of education is seen through the prism of market relations. The quality is undoubtedly one of the most important factors to attract more students and to promote an educational establishment in higher education realm. For the purpose of estimation the SERVQUAL framework had been elaborated, which is a questionnaire used to ...

Abstract

Throughout the known history of organizational development, the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of leadership has always been included in some of the most important discussions. There is an abundance of literature relating leadership to organizational outcomes and performance. The consensus, according to this literature, supports the notion that leadership is one of the most important indicators of organizational success. In this paper, the author conducts a review of related literature exploring the use of the Big Five Personality Traits Paradigm and Leadership Style theories when it comes to examining the differences (if any) between military and restaurant business leadership. ...

It is not a secret that women are a marginalized community. Even in the twenty first century, women get paid less than men for identical work. All around the world, giving birth to a girl child is rarely celebrated in the same victorious vein as that of a male baby. The United States often referred to as the super power of the world, is yet to produce a female president. These are only a handful of examples of women occupying subordinate positions in relation to men. Unfortunately, however, this marginalization is only the beginning of a downward spiral. The ...

Literature Review

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Introduction
With childhood obesity on the rise, there is increasing concern about the prevention and treatment of obesity. Current national data on childhood and adolescent obesity show 16.9 percent of 2-to-19-year-old children and adolescents are obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). An effective intervention to manage obesity is essential. The current weight management practices involve dietary modification, behavioral change therapies involving exercise, pharmacological therapy and surgical intervention. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the current research on Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an effective method for ...

Othello, a play written by William Shakespeare begins in Venice, a powerful center of banking and commercial activities and also known for its military prowess. The plot of the play revolves around Othello, a black Moor who is also an army general, Iago, his aide, Desdemona, his wife and Cassio who became his lieutenant. After Othello marries Desdemona, her father is opposed to it and takes the matter to the Duke. It is ruled that what Othello did was wrong and he is sent to war as a result. His wife accompanies him to Cyprus as well as Cassio and Iago.

Because Iago ...

Robert Coles have composed the story of Ruby Bridges, which revolves around a girl named Ruby. The story is about Ruby's courage, tolerance, bravery and calmness as she was fighting with the bitter truth of racism being created by worldly people (Ruby, 2015). This is a story, which depicts that in 1960, a judge named New Orleans gave an order to two of the public schools to give admission to four black girls in their schools. Ruby was six-year-old at that time and was included in those four girls (Ruby, 2015). However, she was sent to William Frantz Elementary school. All other ...

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I think that Aeneas, the protagonist in Virgil’s Aeneid, would be a modern-day hero because . . .
I am going to look at the scene where Aeneas kills the deer (Book I, Lines)
I am going to look at the scene where Aeneas wants to die in the battle of Troy because he wants to avenge his wife’s death. (Book II, Lines)
I am going to look at the scene where Aeneas kills Turnus. (Book XII, Line)

Aeneas as Hero

A hero is one who is courageous in the face of great danger or harm. A hero is one who ...

Earley, Pete (2012). The Serial Killer Whisperer: How One Man's Tragedy Helped Unlock the Deadliest Secrets of the World's Most Terrifying Killers. Touchstone. New York City: NY. ISBN-13: 978-1439199039.

Purpose of the book

The purpose of “The Serial Killer Whisperer” is revelation. The minds of serial killers and serial murders have fascinated us through investigative documentaries, sitcoms and Hollywood blockbusters (Schmid, 2005). The information that is portrayed to us in these mediums is generally violent and usually illogical behavior on part of the serial offender. This book, however, reveals a different side to the readers. The side that eludes investigators and criminal profilers; the ...

“The Fish” talks about the interesting journey of the narrator who at first was just out to catch a fish, but ended up developing a deep understanding of nature and life through the fish. With the use of vivid imagery and abundant description, Elizabeth Bishop took the readers to the past struggles of the fish in order to stay alive, how its physical disfigurement reflecting those struggles translated into images of beauty and victory, and how these mental pictures elicited respect and admiration from the narrator.

True to its title, the narrator begins telling the story by talking about catching a fish.

I caught a tremendous fishand held him beside the boathalf out of water, with my hookfast ...

The Lottery is a short fiction written by Shirley Jackson. It is a story about a shocking tradition practiced by the people in a certain town. Shirley ironically gives the lottery a bad the ceremony of public stoning, contrary to what it originally means; winning a lot of money. The story focuses around a village during a ceremony they call the lottery that ensures there is enough rain for their crops. In the story, a number of literary devices are used by the author, for example, irony, symbolism, foreshadowing, only to mention but a few. The author uses these literary devices to make her story interesting and to keep ...

Gods and goddesses play a huge part in The Odyssey, which retells the story of a ten-year journey of Ulysses from Troy to Ithaca. The story of Ulysses’ voyage has a lot of intercession from the gods and goddesses, which either aided or hindered the men of Ulysses in going back to their home. There is a great deal of interaction between the gods and the mortals in this well-known epic. It also showed some human characteristics that may have been reflected by the gods.
Gods are there to assist or to deter the mission of the people in the story. Homer ...

Introduction

The poem “To be of use” by Mercy Piercy had the theme of hard work. The idea that the poet conveyed was premised on how people should work hard because it is rewarding and satisfying. The poem talks about the sacrifice that people make so that there is food and that people remain happy. Those who work hard have a tendency of being loved and please everybody because they notice the void that would be present if the work is not done. They then enjoy the benefits of their sweat, and the poem observes that it is a good feeling. Moreover, ...

Introduction

Euthanasia is the act of providing assisted, voluntary or involuntary death to a patient, mostly terminally ill patients (ANA, 2013). Euthanasia can be administered by the physicians and nurses on request of either the patient, the relatives of a patient who is not in a position to make a request or by the physicians and the nurses depending on the condition of the patient. Euthanasia is an issue that has raised questions not only in the health care system but also in the legal system (ANA, 2013). It is surrounded by moral, social, cultural and religious challenges and finding a common ground to accommodate ...

IV.

It was early in the morning, and everything in Abraham’s

and Eliezer, the faithful servant, accompanied him along
the road until he turned back again. They rode along in har-
many, Abraham and Isaac, until they came to Mount Mo-
riah. Abraham made everything ready for the sacrifice, calmly
and gently, but when he turned away and drew the knife,

Isaac saw that Abraham’s left hand was clenched in despair,

that a shudder went through his whole body — but Abraham
drew the knife.

Then they returned home again, and Sarah hurried to meet

them, but Isaac had lost the faith. Not a word is ever said of
this in the world, and Isaac never talked to anyone about
what he had seen, and ...

Abstract

Contemporary business environment demands from organizations more flexibility and higher responsiveness to the external pressures. Management capabilities cannot address these challenges. In the crisis situations, when there is a need to make fast and difficult decisions in difficult situations, companies have to rely on effective leadership to drive organizational development. The history illustrates various examples of the organizations, which are over managed and under led and it is a challenge and the task of the modern corporations to develop an internal framework for development of the leadership capabilities, which can take the organization to success through crisis.
One of the ...

Someone once aptly said – everything belongs to the mind; shut your mind and the world disappears. True to this, freedom too is a state of the mind. With freedom come happiness, serenity and also responsibility. The stepping stone to attain this freedom is based on a strong foundation laid by courage. Courage can be depicted either subtly or explicitly in innumerable forms. Free Enterprise, written by Michelle Cliff and Bailey’s Café, by Gloria Naylor are two novels that unfold and unravel the lives of an array of bizarre and unique characters and the intense struggle of every individual at some point ...

Cover Letter

Dear (Instructor’s Name):
I am writing this essay to share my analysis and arguments on Mark Twain’s conflicting theories of human evolution and behavior. Through my arguments, I hope to alter whatever negative perspectives my readers keep against human behavior.
I always have the notion that literary analysis is the most challenging task in essay writing. However, I realized that interpreting the various styles of persuasion and literary compounds that Mark Twain used throughout his essay helped me to learn analytical skills in expressing my views and supporting my arguments.
During the course ...

Literature Review of War Horse

Nearly the winner of the Whitbread Book Prize in 1982, War Horse is a fantastic story of the horse's bravery and devotion. The intent of this literary evaluation is to present the themes of the novel War Horse and explain how they brought the story to life in War, Horses and Human Nature. War is the central theme throughout the novel that brings a vast amount of conflict. The Horse and narrator of the story is a compelling way to show human compassion and love on a level that is profoundly human. Therefore, Human Nature abounds in the development of the story and ...

Lila Abu-Lughod’s article “The Muslim woman: The power of images and the danger of pity” has been praised by many readers. Lila Abu-Lughod’s article is a criticism of how people from West view the Muslim women from the Middle East ever since the September 11 attacks. She writes that thinking the “burqa” as something that besets Muslim women of their freedom is a “reductive interpretation” and should be resisted. According to her, by denouncing “the burqa as a medieval or patriarchal imposition,” the West is actually rudely encroaching on the thoughts and understandings of women because they know what they ...

Introduction

Many a times parents do not realize that their attitudes towards their children is affecting them seriously, which results in impulsive and irrational behavior leading to dangerous consequences. The difference in adolescent behavior can be observed but without the knowledge of the reasons as to why such behaviors are escalating, both parents and teachers are unable to solve them. Hence it is important to study the reasons of such behaviors so that we understand how these individual differences affect children and be able to manage such erupting behavior problems.
Moreover, it is important to identify children and parents who ...

Aeneas and Achilles are two brave heroes whose names are recognized as role models for generations. The character of Achilles is portrayed by Homer in Iliad however we see Aeneas in Virgil’s Aeneid. There are some similarities as well as differences in both the heroes. Since these two heroes represent two different civilizations, they are often compared to each other. This paper intends to discuss the characters of Aeneid and Achilles and further talks about similarities and differences of their character.
Achilles is son of goddess Thetis and this divine ancestry makes him outstanding. He has some ...

The Scrivener’

Perhaps the most sophisticated aspect of Melville’s story is in how effectively he lures the reader into focusing on the character of Bartleby. The scrivener’s inscrutability is oddly compelling and invites one to try and “understand” Bartleby, to fashion a diagnosis, even imagine a treatment or cure. But the story is about perspective itself, the perspective of the lawyer, who can only assess and try to make sense of his enigmatic clerk within the confines of his own singular world view. True, his is the ethic of Wall Street and the pragmatic rationalism that defines the class of people ...