Essays on Comprehending

With the science, information and technological boom in the past few decades, the internet has become the ubiquitous resource when it comes to acquiring information and knowledge. However increased use of search engines and other websites to acquire information has also given rise to questions about its effect on intelligence and behavior, especially in the case of children and adolescents. Children and adolescents are more likely to be affected as they are in their formative years and are highly susceptible. Access to information that is just a click away and this can lead to a mistaken belief and illusion ...

Understanding the Local Society in which Counterinsurgency Operations are conducted is Critical to Mission Success. Discuss. There has been a history in world political affairs when insurgency has forced single or joint counterinsurgency operations, organized in collaboration with the ruling government of that country to help it militarily to defeat insurgent forces. Before writing on counterinsurgency, we need to comprehend its meaning, which is an antonym of insurgency. According to Cambridge Dictionary Online, insurgency refers to a scenario when a country is taken control of by its people through the use of arms and ammunition, in other words, forcefully. ...

Introduction

Salvador Dali is one of the most renowned and prolific artists in the twentieth century. He is perhaps recognized for his reputable artistic works such as the painting of melting clocks in the Persistence of Memory. He started his passion for art during his childhood when he attended his first drawing lesson and claimed that he exhibited hysterical, rage-filled explosions concerning his playmates and family. Throughout his life, Dali has shown his love for Catalan culture, and he has portrayed the landscape environment of Figures, where he was born, in his paintings during his career (The Art Story, Sec. ...

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The increase in diversity among working environments have introduced some challenges in the way of solace and consolation amongst employees, clients, and suppliers from different cultures, societies, and ethnic backgrounds. This type of consoling, supporting, encouraging and comfortable environment can only be developed if the business organizations can effectively deal with the numerous issues of differing attributes of the individuals. Certain factors and aspects should be considered by business organizations to accomplish an effective and prosperous working environment. Developing solace among diverse workforce has become significant for every organization in order to ensure the smooth ...

Introduction

The paper intends to discuss the significance of critical thinking and system thinking approaches in solving the problems that may arise in the organizations. The prospect of the problems needs to be treated strategically irrespective of the nature of the problem to ensure the sustainable outcomes. However, it has been observed that the managers or the leaders regard even the complex problems as the simple ones, and that results in costing the business practices or even generating troubles to the global position of the business (Gharajedaghi, 2011). In this regard, the paper presents the problem of cultural diversity within ...

Part 1: summary

The works focus on the creation by society of several places known as utopia. These peace known as utopia or heterotopia in plural are a reflection of the perfect place as far as any society is concerned. This is because these places are tailor made by society to be the utter embodiment of peace and serenity. These places are a reflection of all the aspirations of a given society as far as the peace and serenity of this society is concerned. The main argument of this concept is that all cultures in the world tend to form heterotopias. Thus, there is no ...

Abstract

The following questions will be answered in accordance with the perspective of Hutchison (2013):

1. Define each of the dimensions and give examples of Manisha’s journey for each dimension. 2. How does knowledge of these terms contribute to culturally sensitive social work practice? 3. Cite examples of how you think these theories would help with assessment and intervention in your practice with client. Provide a rational for your answer. 4. Which theoretical perspective would you evaluate as meeting the most criteria for judging social theory? Provide a rationale. 5. In a short answer list and explain the three factors associated ...

Personal transformation refers to a dynamic and uniquely individualized practice of increasing consciousness where individuals turn out to be critically knowledgeable of old, as well as new self-views, thereby choosing to integrate these opinions to a new self-definition (Campebell, 2004). Although these views might take the form of Transpersonal Psychology, Taoism, Contemplative Psychology or Confucianism, they are capable of distinctively conceiving the temperament of human existence thus transforming the individual differently (Campebell, 2004). As a result, this essay explores personal transformation through the various perspectives of Transpersonal Psychology, Taoism, Contemplative Psychology and Confucianism.

1) Transpersonal Psychology

Transpersonal psychology widens the theories of traditional psychology concerning ...

Idealism vs Realism

The difference between realism and idealism, as it is usually fixed for ordering and classification of philosophy is not related to the nature of things. (Instead of "realism," sometimes use the term "materialism." Nevertheless, idealism, too, is matter. At the same time, if you insist on the term "materialism" instead of "idealism" should, apparently, to use the term "formalism". In fact, this distinction is to understand the basis of the answer to the question: "What comes first - the reality of the material world, nature or idea, mind, spirit? »However, what does this "primary"? After all, the ...

Psychology of Criminal Behavior

In the contemporary world, not a day goes by without numerous reports of acts contrary to the law thus obliging the criminal justice system to play its indispensable role in comprehending and rehabilitating offenders into law-abiding citizens. Renowned psychologists such as John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner as well as Edward Thorndike through their theories in fields of behaviorism and operant conditioning exemplify the underlying concept by which the Criminal Justice System is founded. This paper thus seeks to describe the theories of behaviorism and operant conditioning in relation to the criminal justice system. I will succinctly analyze how these theories ...

Introduction

McDonald’s Fast Food Company is one of the renowned companies globally. McDonald’s range of products involves McNuggets, Ham and Cheese Burgers, and French Fries. The company is as well popular for its influencing puddings including the Egg McMuffin and the apple pie. The company has the ownership of above thirty-two fast food restaurants internationally in one-hundred and seventeen independent nations and above seventy-five percent of the company’s restaurant are possessed and administered through independent landlords. The company primarily initiated as a small business of hamburger and its stand was based in Bernardino, California, and it was managed ...

(Name of your Institution) Thesis statement: Computer games do not solely have a bad influence on youth, they can be utilized for good purposes too.

Paragraph 1: Introduction

Paragraph 2: What is computer gaming and how popular is it? Paragraph 3: The three negative aspects of computer games Paragraph 4: Lack of sensation and repetitive Strain Injury or RSI due to computer games Paragraph 5: Obesity, over eating and inactivity due to computer games Paragraph 6: Negative impacts on communal and academic growth Paragraph 7: Negative impact on academic performance Paragraph 8: Negative impact on behavioural ...

Background of the Study

The fast food industry is witnessing an unprecedented growth in the recent years. In this era of globalization, multinational organizations are willing to expand their business operations in growth markets. For exploiting this opportunity of global expansion, they must formulate appropriate business strategies according to the targeted market (DePalma, 2002). These strategies are based on host country’s geopolitical and socio-economic environment. Nowadays, companies are aware of the fact that if they want to attain lucrative business then they have to focus on local needs, as well. Glocalization is new business concept, which is used to elucidate the concept ...

Choose a film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (there are several). Answer the following question: does this version capture the spirit of the play as Shakespeare wrote it? (in other words, is it a good adaptation?) Why or why not? Please note: I DO NOT WANT A MOVIE REVIEW. I want an essay that shows thought. Do NOT write comparison/contrast between the film and the play. Analyze the lighting, the music, the scenes the director chose, the actors/actresses, etc. You will need to list a works cited page for this assignment so that I will be able to determine which version ...

In this paperwork I am going to explicate and criticize the following book-Nicomachean ethics (Aristotle’s Ethics).

The Nicomachean ethics work start with a discussion of eudaimonia that means happiness, and turn to an assessment of the scenery of good quality, thus, bringing out clearly the character traits that people need in order to live life at its preeminent. It is important to note that at the end of each task, a brief discussion is included about the correct connection between the people and the divine. Through a literature review, it has been depicted that the Nicomachean Ethics is recognized as the most significant books in the world of ethics and undoubtedly the most prominent work of Aristotle. ...

All pertains to race, but the race is not relevant. The mentioned was a statement of Chavez. Myriad horrific happenings in the United States history refer to a common understanding and knowledge. However understanding the history coupled with making the right connections of the said history, thereby, instilling relevance to it is vital. In the past, the Native Americans suffered significant racial discrimination. The mentioned discrimination got exercised by the white Americans. Subsequently, racism is often a hindrance to justice and freedom. In his book, Chavez aimed at enlightening the people and assisting in solving the mentioned menace that engulfed the United ...

Decision-making is a vital process to any patient. Typically, there are competent and incompetent patients who make and take ready-made medical decisions respectively. However, is it necessary to make decisions for the incompetent, and if so, why? What are the rights given to competent patients in making medical decisions and why is it important for patients to make decisions for themselves? The complexity of the problem of decision making for incompetent patients is best evident, for example in patients who are under age and their parents need to make an informed decision concerning their health.. Certainly, it is pertinent to ...

- Expert Instructing Early adolescence training is one of the extensions of educational speculations which identify with the instructing of young children up to the age-grade of eight years. Early Childhood Development Education (Ecde) all inclusive and specifically in less developed nations has been distinguished as a significant program that sets out the establishment for a child's all encompassing and combined education. Additionally, it is also a segment that meets the social, cognitive, moral, physical, otherworldly, emotional, and developmental needs with a major emphasis on training, notably inside the imprisonment of obligatory education. The vitality of E.C.D.E cannot be under assessed in ...

Introduction

Public concern is escalating on children engaging in crimes at an age below thirteen years. The young offenders are at a great risk of becoming extremely violent and dangerous criminals if appropriate intervention and prevention to curb their behaviors is not initiated. The number of child offenders handled by juvenile courts is on an upward trend since 1997 when the numbers of child cases was about two hundred thousand children below thirteen years. Currently, juvenile courts have to deal with cases of children offenders approximately one million two hundred thousand. It is apparent that majority of the offenses reported are ...

- What is a "split brain"? Split brain is the layman’s term for the brain’s two hemispheres connected by the corpus callosum, which consists of a nerve fiber bundle. Each brain hemisphere functions independently yet in coordinated manners. The right hemisphere controls recognition of visual imagery, music, and related ones whereas the left hemisphere functions dominantly in areas such as language, logic, and mathematics (Nobelprize.org, 2013). In some exceptional circumstances and for research purposes, scientists severe the corpus callosum (known as corpus callosotomy) of a person when it is the last option that could be resorted to (such ...

Facilitator:

Reading is a compound and purposeful cognitive, linguistic and socio-cultural process. Through this procedure, learners use their knowledge of language, the topic of a given text and their culture to construct a meaningful understanding of various concepts. Effective reading instructions are therefore important in view of the fact that they help learners understand the written language (Alan, 2002). This is easily achieved through teachers’ interest for their students, the background, attitudes and interests of learners. Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension are the essential components of effective reading instructions as identified in 2000 The National Reading Panel’s report. In ...

According to Alesina and Michalopoulos article on “Ethnic Inequality” 4th February 2013, previous research has confirmed that ethnic diversity tends to have negative impacts on development. However, their research suggests that it is not ethnic diversity that is detrimental towards development, but the wealth concentration on the ethnic lines. As such, ethnic diversity is closely linked to low education levels, poor living conditions and low GDP per capita. 17 sub-Saharan countries were used as sources of cross-country evidence to collect individual data. This data was based on public goods provision, education, wellbeing and ethnic identification. The data collected confirmed ...

Following The American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Abstract The struggle of reading comprehension has been pervasive around the world for centuries; it is of no surprise how even current statistics illustrate how many adults have difficulty reading and comprehending the most basic literature. As well-intentioned as well-crafted learning models have been launched to bridge the gap between low and high comprehending participants, the root of the problem stems from repeated modeling to students of diverse generations. Although some learning models have proven to be useful, new or rebooted models are sometimes necessary for younger students understanding elements of vocabulary, fluency, and background knowledge for reading ...

The goal of many ESL students is to develop their oral and writing skills in the English language. This ability is critical in enabling ESL students to analyze the written and spoken discourse of the community. In the end, they will be able to customize their learning, select appropriate discourse materials suitable for their own reading and writing, and finally, be able to choose their area of interest. The introduction of discourse analysis is a good strategy for helping teachers and students in the ESL community to take charge of their language development.

Qualification of the ESL community as a Discourse Community

Language building is an important, if not ...

Strategies for taking notes and for learning content

Note taking is a method of recording significant ideas and facts that students learn in class in order to help them remember in the future. Learning content is a change in behavior, attitude, perception or combination of these attributes that can be repeated when the need is aroused. Therefore, various strategies should be employed to ensure students improve their note taking ability and learning content. Since note taking and learning content is particularly crucial to students, the paper will explore various strategies that are required. Success in learning requires the use of various strategies because learning content and note taking strategies ...

Synoptic Overview

The study of Japanese language has increased tremendously throughout the major regions of the world. The language is been taught in many Latin American countries and also in the United States. This essentially highlights the increasing demand for skills in the foreign languages among people looking to expand their resource base as the entire globe becomes more interconnected and thus highly interdependent. Various approaches are taken into consideration while establishing the best didactic methods to use to promote the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language. These approaches must essentially capture a lot more than just the basic building blocks of ...

Introduction

Psycholinguistics is a study field that deals with the relationship between psychology and neurobiological characteristics and their contribution towards language development. Psycholinguistics is one of the important fields in human development since it evaluates the factors promoting, sustaining and producing languages in humans. Although the study is mostly relevant in early human development to evaluate acquisition of language, it is still applicable in the analysis of second and progressive languages learnt by humans at any stage of their development. Although psycholinguistics relates to languages alone, it borrows modern concepts from biology, cognitive sciences and information theory to understand human language ...

Structure and Function of lobes in the cerebral cortex

In human brain, the largest part is the cortex. This part has the task of undertaking functions, which include action and thought. Human brain cerebral cortex comprises of four sections identified as lobes; temporal lobe, parietal lobe, frontal lobe, and occipital lobe. Temporal lobe has the role of perception, as well as recognition of memory, speech, and auditory stimuli. Parietal lobe on its own is linked to the movement, stimuli perception, recognition, and orientation. The frontal lobe is associated with problem solving, emotions, movement, parts of speech, planning, and reasoning. Finally, occipital lobe has the role of visual processing ( ...

Introduction

Language is a channel through which people communicate with each other. It is of utmost importance for a child’s development as it enables a child to gather information, process it and create conceptual images in his or her mind. Verbal communication enables a child to comprehend the world around and learn from it. Thus, language is an integral part of both, the formal and informal education systems. There is an increasing focus on enabling children to learn more than one language in the United States (King and Fogle 1). Bilingualism is the capability to communicate in two languages with almost equal proficiency. ...

Besides the benefits from the research in stem cells, the research has proven to be one of the most controversial issues in the modern world. The prime concern is deciding whether its continuity is right or wrong. Many are arguing the issue of morality which involves the use of human embryos, genetic engineering, cloning and the biological impacts resulting from the research. It has spanned a strong debate in regard to its credibility in regard to ethical concerns primarily about creation, destruction and also the use of embryos. It does not stop there because of other issues raised about the species ...

Arguably, business arena has become tremendously competitive; hence, every company struggles to achieve competitive advantage over its competitors. In this case, business success in many companies depends fully on maintaining customers’ loyalty and satisfaction in the market. In order to achieve competitive advantage, companies must remain customers focused in various aspects of its operation. By been customers focused, companies will gain customers loyalty. Perhaps, working in an automated valve company in South Louisiana is a challenging activity. In fact, serving customers from large plants is complex, but with professionalism and better customer focused strategies, the company will achieve competitive advantage ...

In the early twentieth century, the curiosity of a child, Frank Epperson, marked the commencement of a popular icy dessert course known as the Popsicle. This is a sugary treat that occurs in a variability of savours. It started with experimentation on a chilly night. Numerous years later, it was promoted. Since that time, it has become a staple in domestic freezers all over the world. Frank Epperson, In 1905, then 11-years-old, discovered a mixture that would function as the constituents for the ultimate Popsicle. He variegated soda water powder into water and left the concoction outside overnight. Frank however kept the stirring stick within the ...

Social Learning Problems with Children

Children with social learning problems are characterized by lack of attention, motivation to work hard, and at some extreme levels, the lack of enthusiasm to improve. These children are in need of expert assistance in order to improve on their learning skills. Learning problems do not have to do with ones intelligence rather they tend to forces more on the social constraints that hinder ones capability to learn. Learning problems mainly originates from differences in the brain. These differences have an effect on how an individual’s brain receives information, processes and, relay it. People who have learning disorders ...

Introduction

Organizational behavior refers to the study of persons and the dynamics of groups in an organizational context, as well as the general organizational nature. Whenever there is interaction of individuals in an organization, numerous factors are brought to focus. The discipline of Organizational Studies tries to comprehend and model some of the factors here. This topic is important as it calls for the integration of efforts from individuals who have different backgrounds. Organizational behavior helps understand behaviors in an organization so as to predict behaviors of persons when something occurs. The acquired knowledge may then aid in shaping the ...

Homeless population

It is safe to say that the homeless population as a social group is vulnerable since the homeless are usually at an augmented risk for unfavorable health-related effects. Comprehending the nature of homelessness and its actual affiliation between resource accessibility, relative possibilities, and health status is vital for nurses to detect and treat health-related predicaments in this vulnerable population. According to the Stewart McKinney Act, 42 U.S.C. § 11301, ET seq. (1994), a person is deemed homeless when one lacks a fixed, regular, and sufficient night-time dwelling; and has a main night time residency that is: a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter intended to ...