Essays on Devine

Sustainable production refers to the process of creation of goods and services while ensuring that the energy and natural resources are conserved, pollution is minimized, economically viable. Also, the product has to meet the health and safety standards of the employees and as well the end users (Jabbour, 2015). All industries are striving to ensure that the damages to the environment are maintained at minimal levels possible. The cosmetic industry is one of the areas that have large manufacturing plants and use of chemicals that can be harmful to the environment and the final users. There are deliberate efforts ...

According to Kelly, the four common elements in human disturbance are a threat, fear, anxiety, and guilt. The threat is an apprehension or fear of the firmness one’s basic constructs and beliefs of being shaken by something or someone (Devine, 2014). Fear, on the other hand, is more specific in itself and for one to experience fear requires some incident, some circumstance or a solid reason of one’s constructs being modified (Devine, 2014). Anxiety, similarly, is the experience when people cannot effectively cope with a new situation in life. A concept similar to this is pathological anxiety ...

Now and then there has always existed a phenomenon of prejudice or prejudgment, i.e. an unduly opinion towards a particular group of people or even a person based on general idea but lacking plausible information. A prejudice can be both negative and positive. In the first case, a hostile attitude is formed towards some people or process. However, a positive prejudice is unreasonable but favorable attitude. The bases for prejudgment may vary greatly: it can be religious affiliation, life style, social class, profession or occupation, hobby, nationality or ethnicity, language and gender, age, etc. As noted by Gordon Allport ...

Maslow’s five basic assumptions with regard to motivation are the psychological needs, followed by safety, then love and belonging, esteem and lastly self-actualization. Firstly there are the psychological needs. These needs drive the basic requirements of humans such as thirst, hunger or shelter. With regards to this form of motivation, it is said in the Holy Scripture that God is the provider of daily bread to all human beings. The next assumption is safety. All humans wished to feel safe and protected hence they crave for it. This is an assumption which covers both the emotional and psychological ...

Explain significant international and domestic challenges that the United States confronted since World War I.

A. Explain the major causes of the Great Depression: The Great War, now known as World War I, had a profound impact on the international political and economic system. The fallout from this upheaval left many countries economically and politically devastated. A variety of industries and businesses were effected by the destructive violence that was brought by the war. In order to maintain their resources a variety of nations had bankrupted themselves, turning to borrowing or even printing their own money to continue. Furthermore, the war disrupted the generally stable patterns of international trading routes, leading to the dissolution ...

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The terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001 revealed the need for information sharing between different local, state, and federal agencies. This resulted in the formation of Department of Homeland Security to coordinate the counterterrorism efforts. The Department created fusion centers that served as facilities of gathering and analyzing information from relevant agencies. The fusion centers have faced constant criticism from researchers regarding their effectiveness and spending but have been successful in stopping several terrorist plans. This has saved thousands of lives and millions of dollars. However, the numerous agencies working towards the same goal has brought about ...

Literature: Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find.

Introduction The play, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is an interesting play based on a real life situation occurrence. The story is not only interesting, but also exemplary due to the unique stylistic devices used (Gooch 61). The storyline is captivating and out rightly capture the mind of any reader. The story was written by a renowned writer in the United States of America, the ever amazing Flannery O’Connor in the year 1953. Despite the story’s old age, it still remains an outstanding work in the field of literature. Furthermore, the story was a major ...

The evolution of war films is heavily influenced by the advances made in real life. With new technology comes new wars, and in turn this brings new war films. Human beings are predisposed to quarrel and so war films directly connect us to a feeling of patriotism and our innate interest in a fight (and the drama it includes). War films are an intrinsically masculine genre which, for many, allows them to remember wars and the pride they felt in fighting for their country. In the course of this essay, I will discuss various war films, beginning with D. W. Griffiths’ ...

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Perhaps, most people in the world believe that United States is the place to access greener pastures. Therefore there are many immigrants to america.The immigrants get into United States through illegal and legal means so as to access the opportunities believed to exist, (The Great Migration, 2002). In most cases the concept of social class is linked to social identity, ecomomic role and political affiliation, (Devine, 1997). Status consistency puts into consideration the plurality of status in society. Each member of the society is ranked in different hierarchies. Individuals are claimed to have consistent status if the status he ...