Essays on Acceptance

Introduction

In the film Forgiveness: A Time to Love & a Time to Hate, there are three scenes in Act II which brings about the concept of forgiveness and the power it has on everyone. The first scene is when the mother left her husband and kids and started to focus on herself. The handling of the responsibility of raising her kids caused a strain in her to the point where she would get sick and have anxiety attacks. This led to her being suicidal because she couldn’t bear the weight of burden of being a conscientious wife and mother.

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In this conversation, the three viewpoints expressed by each of the speakers are closely related to the different perception of genders and the acceptable language usage associate with this perception. Josh’s argument is inclined towards a belief of ‘all men are created equal’, wherein there should be no segregation of human beings based on gender. While this tenet forms a critical part of the American constitution, it does not take into consideration the cultural evolution of perceptions related to each gender. As Lakoff noted in the breakthrough 1975 article, women or ‘ladies’ are expected to use a different

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33. Has post 9/11 immigration policy made us safer
The immigration politics of the United States has a long history. The first Act of Naturalization was accepted in 1790 and it confined the naturalization to “good white people” of “good moral character” who had lived for two years in the country and one year after they had kept the current state of stay. In 1795 this periods were increased respectively to five years of living in the country and three years after their notice to apply for citizenship. In 1798 this time limits were increased to fourteen years of

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- The above case touches on issues to do with services that are unsolicited. From the facts above Debbie really was not in a position to negotiate with Pete or his agents in the ambulance as to whether she will take the first aid or not, due to her unconsciousness. However, it also should be noted that it was in her best interest to receive the first aid because any assumption or inaction would have put her life in danger. By definition, unsolicited goods are products or services provided to someone who did not specifically request or order them.
In

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This problem question revolves around the legal issues of offer and acceptance as laid down in contract law. However, before analyzing the legal issues and offer advice accordingly, it is imperative to examine the facts of the particular case.
Anthony has recently been hired as a sales manager for a company called Rocco Limited which is a trend fashion house that deals in selling of clothes. Eager to impress his bosses at work, Anthony goes on an expedition to secure new business deals for Rocco Limited. As a consequence, on Monday, he visits the House of Style Department store

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Question one: Legally binding contract between Anthony and Joyce

The law of contract is clear given the dicey nature of the business environment. Generally, the purpose of the law is to support commercial transactions by ensuring that fairness and equity prevail in market transactions. In that context, it must be appreciated that the law cannot be relied upon to correct poor bargains. Far from it, the law can only be applied in pursuit of equity and in holding the parties to account in respect of their obligations to the contract. The law of contract operates under the principle of privity of contract. Under that principle, the obligations to

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Obedience is a very importance concept in psychology. It refers to an act of a submissive behavior. Every society requires people to be obedient to the senior people including their elder siblings, parents, teachers and other people who demand respect from them. The concept of obedience should be promoted because it is necessary for a peaceful coexistence in schools or at home. However, it should not only be practiced by the children, but everyone. Further more, it should be a life long trait which should not be stopped even at an older age.
As a student of psychology, I

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Racism is the practice of instilling the consciousness of racial disparities in a person. In the novel Native Speaker there is evidence of racism. The early immigrants were subjected to racialization on the basis of their color, culture and labor. A good example is seen through Henry and his relations with the people around him. He struggles to fit in and so goes to great lengths in order to get the racial burden off his shoulders. He is forced to make decisions which are geared towards making him more white than Korean. Racism makes people make choices that are

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The law usually governs every aspect of the lives of people, business transactions included. This paper discusses the law of contracts and how it is applied in business transactions. The main elements of the law of contracts are offer, acceptance, capacity, legality and the intention of the parties.
The definition of a contract is an agreement made between two parties who have the capacity to contract. There are obligations between the parties, which are enforceable by law. We are now going to look at every element of the law of contract and also the factors that can make the

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Cultural imperialism comes about when superior nations and in this case the western nations promoting their more superior cultures over other cultures which are least known. For very many years now there are nations of the world that have imposed their practices on other nations and the result has been that these inferior cultures are almost disappearing in favor of the superior cultures. In as much as this is the case, there have been efforts to challenge this phenomenon. There are various people and groups of persons who have stood firm to challenge this trend lest people from other

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The human sexuality will always be a topic to be debated on in almost every society (Ochs 19). This includes homosexuality, heterosexuality and bisexuality. Different persons hold different views on the sexuality orientations and styles and that is why the debate will never come to an end. Actually, there is a time when one could be graded to have a mental disorder when they mentioned that they are attracted to persons of their sex (Rust 30). However, the American Psychological Department managed to dismiss this because a psychological disorder is characterized with distress to an individual or others which

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Cause and effect analysis is a very important part in modern research. It is perhaps the most reliable research parameter currently available to man. Peer pressure is a major problem in modern society. Many young people are acting in peculiar way perhaps different from the ways they did previously. The following essay uses the cause effect analysis to analyze peer pressure. Under the cause the essay shall explore the behavior of a person before getting into a particular group. The essay will look into how the behavior of the person changes after they get into the group and why.

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Introduction

Valuation of projects is a critical task whenever a business wishes to determine the worthiness of a project. This worthiness is measured in financial terms. In valuing the project for MNQ Company, the IRR, MIRR, NPV and payback period will be used. The project will be accepted if the IRR is higher than the discount rate. If IRR is lower than the discount rate, the project will be rejected. On the other hand, it will be accepted if NPV is positive. However, if the NPV turns out as negative, the project will be rejected. This project will be accepted

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The interview with Billy Brown falls squarely under the special population’s interview. Billy is 13 years old and should be rightly considered as a child. The detective applies the open ended interview method whereby the child is asked open questions that do not give him any ideas. This way, all information received emanates from the child and no particular piece of information can be said to have been introduced by the detective. In addition, the detective ensures that he builds on the answers that Billy gives to get even more information. This approach essentially enables the detective gather

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The General Service Administration (GSA) Schedule programs avail significant opportunities for both small as well as large businesses. These Schedules program offer the first step in which businesses take when they want to do businesses with the federal government. Nonetheless, it needs to be made clear that being in the Schedules program may actually involve a huge investment of resources as well as time. As such, as a business leader, one needs to make sure that they possess the requisite resources to pursue a schedules contract as well as time to fight it out with other businesses and marketing.

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Roles of religions

Introduction
Appiah Kwameh, through his article “The Case for Contamination” points out and analyzes the varied ways through which globalization is taking place. In his article, he uses a wide range of extensive instances that depict how contaminated the world is becoming. By referring to the world as contaminated, Appiah simply refers to the mix-up of traditions and values which eventually interfere with the good morals and practices that our ancestors left us. He reflects on the intrusion of globalization and modernity into our traditional, timeless rituals due to the pressure of conformity on the world to realize uniformity.

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Philosophy

The book the republic two presents three kinds of good. The first category of good is the good that is accepted for its own sake paying no attention to the consequences of this good. The second kind of good is good desirable in its self and on account of its consequences. The third kind of good is good that is accepted on account of its consequences only. John Locke defines a just society as a society in which individuals are allowed their three basic rights that is the right to liberty, right to life and right to own property.

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People posses the unique skill, which separates them from other species. It is called verbal communication. It helps people to transmit their thought from one person to another as well as to share their experience, to teach and to learn. The science would have never been on such a level without verbal communication. Yet even the largest vocabulary cannot guarantee the full interpersonal understanding. There are many other factors, which influence the communication. They are for example body adornment, influence of touch and so on.
The communication starts with understanding of its needs. Abraham Maslow developed a whole hierarchy

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Literature:

Quicksand by Nella Larsen is a book riddled with symbolism as well as ideologies. It delves deep into the ugly world of racial discrimination and racism. It also deals with identity and acceptance issues. It was very easy for either white people or black people to choose sides when it came to racism. Everyone knew what side to support. People of mixed races however did not have that luxury. They found themselves sitting on the fence and more often than not being rejected by both sides. This raised deep psychological issues in mixed race people as they struggled to

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Communication in the contemporary society takes many forms that include behavior, words, or materials aspects. Behavior is critical because it gives crucial information about other people. Words are the most widely used communication mediums while material aspects are used to signify power or possession (Nagy 160). Undertaking a business negotiation between an American and a Japanese can be puzzling and uncomfortable. This can be attributed to the interaction of the two different cultures that involve different behaviors and customers. For this reason, it is emphatically crucial that a business person understands the cross cultural aspects between the American and

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Marsha M. Linehan developed the dialectical behavior therapy in the late 1980s to treat the borderline personality disorder. It is a cognitive-behavioral way that emphasizes on the psychological treatment. Linehan started the therapy to address the needs of women who had histories of suicide attempts, suicide ideation through her trainings. The approach has two characteristics: behavioral based problem solving technique and emphasis on dialectical processes.
The dialectical behavior therapy has five components: motivational enhancement, capacity enhancement, generalization, capability and motivational of therapists and structuring of the environment. DBT involves identifying the emotion, thought, feelings and the disturbing behavior. The

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Philosophy

How should one deal with desires, needs, bodily limitations and mortality during the living of one’s life? To what extent can our minds know and control or improve our bodies?
The question of how one should deal with desires and needs, on the one hand, and bodily limitations and mortality, on the other, has been one of the most significant, essential issues throughout the history of philosophy, in particular, and history of mankind, in general. It would be unrealistic to assume that it is possible to answer this question within

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The greatest rivalry in America’s parties as seen the presidential election of 2012 between Barack Obama and Mitt Rommey, which have always been against each other in their beliefs. The parties have their candidates who always fly their policies and beliefs. They sell these ideologies to the people during the campaign period and they vote on which they prefer. People vote for politicians who they share their own beliefs and cultures.
Barack Obama beliefs in some of the following beliefs gays marriages should be recognized in the constitution, abortions should be legalized and want high-income earners to be

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One of human being innate desires is spiritual fulfillment. Spiritual fulfillment refers to the realization of true self. This realization is not only enough but always more than enough. It means that nothing in life that can prevent human beings from attaining spiritual fulfillment. Spiritual fulfillment allows human beings to overcome things that challenge them. Spiritual fulfillment also refers to life that is distinct from the ordinary physical existence. It's commonly used to describe a lifestyle that is based on specific religious practices.
Clacks stand on spiritual fulfillment is logical and right. She relates spirituality with life that is

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As increasing globalization bring together people from different background and races who are required to work together towards attainment of common objectives, diversity training as applied by organizations seek to address the racial prejudice problem by promoting acceptance of different races and groups within workforces and the nation rather than focusing on changing people’s traits and behaviors as well as cultures that are inherent to them by mere affiliation to certain races and groups,. (Kelly & Dobbin, 1998) In that respect, diversity training programs seek to achieve a number of objectives including:
- Challenging racist attitudes.
- Training immigrants.

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Introduction

The critics on Wikipedia are just a mere speculation; the Wikipedia is an otherwise “black book test”. The judgment inflicted on Wikipedia is baseless. Wikipedia does not dispute the scientist or the decision makers. Judging the information that was extracted from Wikipedia and claiming it is not accurate is not true. After all this information is extracted from the printed encyclopedia which derives most of its explanation from different materials which are accepted. For instance, information that the writer gave about swine flu is globally accepted. It is a fact that swine flu was not the first disease in

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When it comes to college admissions requirements, the number one question that confronts the United States now is whether or not to consider race as factor when accepting a student applicant for higher education purposes. The nation is divided on its stand considering that on one end of the debate are supporters who say college admission requirements should be based solely on merit and not merely on racial qualifications. It coincides with the belief that everybody must be given equal and fair chances at higher education, instead of making it available to only a select few in the social

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The studies supporting the efficacy of a procedure can be categorized as strong evidence, which meets evidence standards, or weaker evidence, which meets the standards with reservation or insufficient evidence, which do not meet the evidence standards (What Works Clearinghouse, 2010). These standards are based on several factors that determine if the evidence is sufficient:
1. Eligibility screening
This is the first step in determining whether a study supporting the efficacy of a procedure or technique constitutes sufficient evidence. The screening is based on the relevance of the procedure/intervention/technique to the condition or topical area, the relevance and size

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Introduction

Accurate and precise measurements are of uttermost importance to chemists everywhere. A measurement is said to be accurate when it is very close to the accepted value. A precise measurement is one in which repeated measures yields values or figures that are very close to one another. However, not all measuring instruments have an equal ability to give accurate and precise measurements. In any given experiment, the techniques and the equipment used to collect data should essentially be of the same precision. In the course of an experiment, there are bound to be less precise measurements and it these

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Introduction

Companies usually make investments in order to derive a return on the investment. There are investment projects that are good or bad depending on whether they add any financial value to the company. Therefore, there are various capital budgeting techniques that are used to evaluate the financial soundness of an investment project in order to ascertain whether the project should be accepted or rejected. This paper seeks to evaluate ABC Company new inventory management system to ascertain whether it is a good investment or a bad one using various capital budgeting tools.

Payback period evaluates investment projects basing of

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Grief is a fact of life that is inevitable. Through loss, pain and suffering in any way, one goes through grief, with each individual with their own way of handling grief. How one chooses to handle grief is entirely up to the individual and their personality, their environment and the social support structures they have to aid them through this process. In an attempt to explain and understand grief and the process of grief, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross hypothesized the “grief cycle”, otherwise known as the five stages of grief. In this paper, I will seek to critically look into

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1. Gender Identity
As far as one remembers, one got to learn about gender identity from parents and grandparents, specifically through distinguishing toys and clothes between siblings. For instance, one was made aware that girls are provided with toys that focus on aesthetic value through playing with dolls, miniature houses with different parts and accessories of the living room, kitchen, and bedroom. From this alone, it could be understood that girls are expected to conform to activities in the house and also to focus on oneself through emulating the physical traits and characteristics embodied in dolls and how they

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Comparison of the characters of Zoe and Lucille in the short stories The Best girlfriend You never had and You are Ugly, too.
Character analysis in a short story is a major literary requirement. Through the actions of major characters in the book, several traits and attitudes emerge. The story, You are Ugly, Too is one instance of a character driven story. The plot of the story is rather sparse and is filled with critical perspective of Zoe Hendricks. The major layering of the story carries a series of anecdotes, which intertwine with flashbacks to create a small work

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I am writing concerning a grave error that I made regarding my acceptance. When I received the offer for transferring into the General Science program, the offer was declined. Studying at UCSD has been my dream for a long time. Indeed, after three years of hard work, not being able to attend UCSD now because of this error has the potential to ruin my future.
Declining the offer you have given me to attend UCSD was a stupid mistake. It was actually my roommate that declined the offer by mistake, while he was playing with my computer. Evidence of

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When it comes to the theme of acceptance, two pieces of literature, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, and Cathedral by Raymond Carver come to mind. One is set up in the Post-Civil-War-Southern-Town of the United States, while the other takes place more in a contemporary setting. In A Rose for Emily, it opens up with the death of an elderly woman that comes from a pre-Civil War family of wealthy aristocrats and in Cathedral, it opens up with the narrator telling the reader in a relaxed tone that a blind friend of his wife’s has decided

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Conflict is a described as disharmony between antithetical or incompatible persons, interests or ideas. When conflict occurs in an institution, the normal way of handling things within the organization is hindered until the conflict is resolved. With such it is important to know which method will best solve the conflict to restore the normalcy. According to Lansford (2008) negotiation is one of the best methods of resolving conflict. Negotiation is described as communication that is purposed in getting a joint decision that is acceptable by the parties in conflict.
Dyer et al. (2013) illustrates that before negotiation occurs, the

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Introduction

Ethics refer to the question as to what is right or wrong. Consequently, ethical behavior in organization essentially defines practices which are right, moral and in line with public policy. In the cut-throat competition in the business industry that exists in modern day, some organizations tend to circumvent the requisite laws and policies in a bid to remain relevant in the market. In the quest to stay afloat, these organizations may have little or no regard for ethical behavior which is of key significance. Indeed, in the business industry, there is more pressure to increase the sales an organization

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Introduction

Industrial psychologists face ethical dilemmas from time to time in the course of their practice. Some of ethical dilemmas faced by industrial psychologists include situations in which a supervisor requests to have a look at information collected from employees about job satisfaction. This poses an ethical dilemma since the industrial psychologist has the obligation to maintain a high level of confidentiality. In such cases, the industrial psychologists should apply either the utilitarian or the deontological viewpoint of ethics. This paper seeks to discuss which approach is best suited for managing ethical dilemmas faced by industrial psychologists.

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As a child practitioner in a preschool, it is expected that children would behave in different manner depending on factors and situation that affect their conduct. The current discourse hereby aims to present ways to demonstrate acceptance and responsiveness in scenarios, specifically indicated as follows:
1. A Toddler Having a Temper Tantrum
The best way to address a toddler’s tantrum is by initially assessing the kind of tantrum that is being exhibited; meaning, if there is some risk or danger to hurt himself or herself or those he or she is currently with (classmates). If the toddler is

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Diversity is a word commonly heard and known to be applied in various fields of endeavor. It has been the subject of various studies and has been revealed to be widely encompassing. Diversity, in its simplest definition, means a condition of variedness. A more comprehensive definition of diversity is provided by the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity of the Texas A & M University as “the inclusion, welcome, and support of individuals from all groups, encompassing the various characteristics of persons in our community. The characteristics can include, but are not limited to: age, background,

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