Hood Literature Reviews Samples For Students

Literature Review

Impact Mitigation

Intelligent locomotive bumper designs have been touted as possible life-savers for pedestrians. Paden, Kelly, Hines, Botham and Simms explored the feasibility of a life-saving locomotive bumper (103). There were several motivations behind their paper. Perhaps the most important one was the high number of pedestrians that were killed every year in train impacts. Between the years 2007 and 2012, about 10,950 non-suicide deaths were attributed to train impact on humans. Including suicide deaths on railroads, 28,800 pedestrians were killed during that 6-year period. Also, Paden et al., noted that passenger trains served densely populated areas ( ...

Introduction

The participation of girls in athletics tapers off as they transition into teenage hood and as they become young women. The rate at which female teens stop participating in athletics is much higher as compared to male teens. TrueSport (2014) reported that the number of female high school athletes is about 17 times greater than that of female athletes in colleges. This shows a great decline in young girls’ participation in athletics during adolescence. Women’s Sports Foundation (2011) found out that by the age of seven, the number of girls who have quit athletics and sports generally far surpasses ...

In the story “We Didn’t” by Stuart Dybek where the use of negotiations control the tempo in which the reader is taken through the scenes and builds tension. There are two love teenagers romantically caught up. First the sexual tension in the story creates a mood in the readers mind as if to be interested to climax with the story characters.
The two lovers had in mind having intimate sex and each time psyched through exciting bodily details, such as popcorn salt, sliding palm, whispers from the lady and a stare suggesting intimate emotions from Doris Day. The concept ...

Introduction

Smith and Dawn realized that there has been an increasing trend in the development of social movements in the world. Citizens of a country, with the same agenda or grievances were coming together to develop movements into which they will use to air their views either in protests or insurgencies. Studies reveal that there has been the development of different kind of movements, for example gay, students and political movements (Swindler, n.d.). Due to the increasing trend in the formation of these movements, scientist and researchers have tried to come up with explanations on what are the main influences of ...

Introduction

Aggression is hostile behavior aimed at causing physical or psychological harm. Aggression can be indirect or direct, verbal or physical and active or passive.
There are several social factors that cause aggression. These factors include media violence, Stereotype and social identity, threat Collective narcissism, Status, competition and mating motives personal characteristics, cultural factors direct provocation and frustration among others.

When an individual watches media, observational learning takes place. This brings the indication that excessive exposure to media violence increases probability of any individual to behave aggressively. (Barbara etal, 2010). Metaanalysis and reviews have indicated that this effect is ...