Essays on Dissertations

Which conflicts are ethnic and which conflicts are protracted?

Mauritania (ethnic, protracted) Government of Mauritania against Polisario; Senegalese against Mauritanian Guinea (ethnic) The Rally of Democratic Forces of Guinea fights against the government of Guinea-Bisau. Mali (ethnic, protracted) This is an ethnic conflict occurring for a long period of time. Conflict in Mali involves a number of ethnic groups and the conflict has become protracted. The government of Mali fights several ethnic groups, including governments of neighboring countries. These groups include the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia/Union of Islamic Courts (ARS/UIC), North Mali Tuareg Alliance for Change, Government of Somalia; factions like Malinke, the MNLF – HM (Moro ...

Introduction

In its initial stages, the hotel industry provides renting space for people who were travelling from one place to another. The industry has grown exponentially into a flourishing service sector with revenues of billions of dollars (Prasanna, 2013). The hotel industry has improved its products. While it offered accommodation and food in the earlier years of the hotel industry, the hotel industry in the contemporary environment offers theme parks, conference facilities, lodging, cruise line, restaurants, and transportation among others (Prasanna, 2013). The classification of the hotels using the star system is also partly based on the products, services, and ...

Incarceration is used to deter juveniles from committing crimes, making the juvenile system more punitive. Serious juvenile crimes are those of a violent in nature, as reported in the FBI Uniform Crime Report. Juvenile arrests for robbery were alarming as this increased more than 30% since 2004 (Roberts 3). Female offenders for robbery have also increased, as reported in 1985 to 2002. Drug abuse violations rank next, but could also be the reason for committing robbery and violent crimes. This kind of juvenile offenses can be considered serious and needs more severe punishment. However, the question here is the ...

Discussion on Various Topics

The problem relates to how marijuana should be legalized throughout the United States. There are now twenty-four U.S. jurisdictions that have enacted medical marijuana laws (MMLs), or laws that protect individuals who use marijuana upon recommendation of physicians, farmers who plant and supply the market, and doctors who issue prescription regarding use of marijuana (Smart 1). The legalization of medical marijuana will create a need for change, for example, new laws, policies, knowledge of medical and psychological effects, and education to help people understand the proper use of marijuana. There are many issues to be resolved if legalization of ...

Neo-liberalism encourages economic liberalism, promoting the divide between the rich and the poor; it is active today, that is why it’s neo or new. However, it has lost dominance since the 1990s because of growing awareness of, and resistance to, its negative consequences. Peters and Bourdieu point out that The World Bank, the IMF, the WTO, the Asia Development Bank (ADB), the OEC, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the GATS have promoted neoliberal policies like privatisation, free trade, lowering labour costs and shrinking public expenditure (qtd. in Jiang 13). The neoliberal policies imposed by ...

Written Report for Project Procedure Manual for the Shoe Box Project for United Way

Introduction The Shoe Box project is a humanitarian activity that seeks to support homeless men in the United States. The project aims to collect objects from well-wishers after which they should distribute them to needy men. The complicated and demanding nature of the project requires a higher level of care and order for effective and efficient integration of the various activities of the program. Therefore, the paper presents a written report for the best procedures that the Shoe Box Project for United Way could adopt for maximum results. The intent of the written report is to formulate a feasible ...

Critical thinking is considered to be a rich concept that has developed over the last 2,500 years. The Critical Thinking Community organizes an annual conference on educational reforms and critical thinking to raise the need for critical thinking in education. Academicians and other analysts believe that questioning (critical thinking) plays a vital role in developing thinking, teaching, and learning skills (TCTC, 2015). The Critical Thinking Community’s platform highlights the point of view that if there were no questions asked by individuals the foundation for fields would not be laid. The major factor that helps a field to ...

One of the most important aspects of being an accurate health care provider is to ascertain the difference between the cultures of your patients in order to ensure that you are providing care that is sensitive to their cultural needs. The reason that this is so important is that the patients have to be able to trust in the healthcare that they are receiving. Particularly, when a healthcare professional is affronted with such a sensitive subject such as life or death, there has to be a cultural awareness and a cultural awareness in relation to what the patient’s ...

A THERAPY PROGRAM FOR VICTIMS OF POST ELECTION VIOLENCE IN KENYA

After the controversial elections that took place in Kenya, there were problems that required intervention, from within the country as well as through the international community. Several people lost their homes, causing them to become internally displaced; others lost their businesses, farms and loved ones. People experienced harsh realities brought about by tribal clashes that were spread out over most of the country (Linke, 2013). The violence occurred over a period of nearly three months on counting, during this time people, developed bitterness and hatred and others experience post-traumatic stress among other psychological implications (Perkonigg, Kessler, Storz, & Wittchen, 2000). ...

The modern life of ours is largely dependent on what our ancestors did and did not do. The history, which is in the best words the recording of the flow of events, has a considerable impact on the way the society evolved. In fact, society itself is the product of historical dramatic changes. In these terms, since the dawn of our civilization, human beings had got used to documenting all the key episodes of their lives. However, some of the historical archives may consist of fake material, wrong opinions, and fabricated facts. Such a way of disguising the truth ...

The methods used by the authors to collect data were appropriate. They were able to interview different students who have used the Structured Literature Review and with their information, they were able to give conclusions on the method. Masters’ degree students gave the problems they encountered while using Structured Literature Review and the hardships they went through to complete their dissertations. Through their answers, the authors were able to conclude that the method is only good for doctoral level and not masters or undergraduate students. When used by masters and undergraduate students, they get many methodology and data collection ...

Emotional intelligence is the ability of a person to understand his/ her emotions and those of people around them in order to know how to interact with them. People with high knowledge of emotional intelligence understand their surroundings well and are able to manage their emotions accordingly. Psychologists argue that people with a high level of emotional intelligence have great leadership and problem solving skills due to their ability to read and interpret the work force around them. Emotional intelligence helps people in leadership in a number of ways depending on the level of conscience of the people on different issues regarding ...

Heath offers insights for use in the dissertation study for investigating any difficulties in the area of Americans learning Arabic. This study specifically addresses the learner and his/her creativity in Arabic communicative competence as it applies toward competently completing both the DLI course and the OPI (Heath, 1987).

Alptekin (2002) discusses the notion of communicative competence that suggests that native-speaker competence is the metric by which communicative competence is decided. Alptekin argues that this particular norm creates an unrealistic and utopian model for language learning that makes it impossible for SLA to be considered complete or sufficient. Native speakership ...

Chapter One

Despite the fact that in 1996, Supreme Court Justice Scalia called single-sex education in public schools “functionally dead,” Single-sex education has become an increasingly popular model in schools since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was passed. This federal legislation promoted innovative programs for states to implement that included single-sex classrooms and schools (U.S. Department of Education, 2006). Within any educational setting there were many factors that impacted student achievement that related to boys’ and girls’ physical, social, emotional, and intellectual needs. A single-sex environment provided boys and girls with a setting that promoted specific gender related ...

Communication Issues for Children with Autism

Introduction Autism spectrum disorders are a collection of developmental disorders that have been increasing over the past decades. Autism affects every aspect of the child’s development, especially verbal and speech development (Parr, 2010). The communication challenges facing a child who has been diagnosed with autism is an important topic. Millions of parent with autistic children long to have normal communication with their children and the whole experience of having simple conversations with this child can be an overwhelming experience. Parents with the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis report in their hand already are well aware of the differences they ...

Introduction

John Hubley was an innovative American animator. He worked for Walt Disney and UPA, but his greatest work is seen as an independent filmmaker. He is one of the rare filmmakers who gave the audiences a glimpse into the lives of those that were often ignored by other animation studios. He was born in1914 in Wisconsin, and into an artistic family. His mother attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and his grandfather was a painter. Growing up, he knew that he would be a painter, and studied painting at the Art Center in Los Angeles, California for three years. Hubley's cartoons ...

Introduction

Substance abuse such as alcohol usage, tobacco smoking as well as others has been on mass media over the last two decades. Some of the popular mass media platforms where substance abuse is common nowadays may include music industry, TV series and now it has been rampant in the movie industry. American movie industry’s exposure on marijuana usage in on the rise as the USA government stand against the issue is changing every moment. This has facilitated the rise in usage of marijuana in movies such as Pineapple Express and Requiem For A Dream as well as others.

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Vision

My university is a premier learning-centered whose graduates and students are all-time best individuals to meet current and emerging trends. Mission My university is an open-access, public utility, comprehensive community institution that advances the lifelong educational growth of the residents and empowers economic and socio-cultural values of the community. To facilitate learning, teaching, service and student excellence, the institution provides innovative, standard quality, and relevant associate, certificate, and career-oriented educational programs and services. At the epicenter of all operations, the university management serves the public’s interest via wise planning and use of human, fiscal, and physical resources.

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Fall 2013 Relationship between Preschool Programs and Kindergarten Readiness Schools today are undergoing a lot of challenges in terms of funds. With budget cuts for early education and limited resources of funding, school readiness to formal education is becoming an area of concern for schools, teachers, and parents. Schools are striving to manage their educational responsibilities by reducing their financial obligations through minimizing the number of teachers and increasing the number of students in each class. This strategy by many schools could not go by without impact on educational performance of students. This impact extends to affect the ...

Pitrik, 2013). On the other hand, in socio-cognitive teaching, teachers offer scenarios whereby the students enter into the kinds of social discourse situations and societies that they (students) would encounter outside the traditional classroom. For example, students connect to various contexts for social interaction through the internet. In these contexts, they (students) meet and interact with native English speakers (Strambi & Bouvet, 2003), which allow them (students) to learn the English culture, and therefore, learning the language becomes easier. Therefore, socio-cognitive teaching explains the role of social interaction in the creation of an environment to learn a language, learn about the ...

Facilitator:

Associate-degree level versus the baccalaureate-degree level in nursing Associate degree level (ADN) in nursing is a concentrated two-year program that includes a combination of sciences, liberal arts, and more focused nursing courses. It takes a shorter time and it focuses on underserved victims in the society. The baccalaureate-degree level (BSN) is a more advanced level in nursing that compliments the nursing field as a whole and encompasses all aspects of nursing like first aid, treatment, and chronic handling (Hamilton, 2008). It aims at serving the whole population and not the people who lack the services. The associate degree level and the baccalaureate degree ...

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Abstract In the medical field, health care providers interact with people from different faiths, meaning that caregivers should adapt to the beliefs of people. The Buddhists, Shinto, and the Baha’i present three examples of the faiths in which a person must adapt well to work effectively and efficiently. This paper looks into the unique features of the three faiths with the view of opening the health care providers to the opportunities existent in the three faiths’ arena. The paper also explores the unique similarities and differences of the three faiths and Christianity in relation to health care provision. ...

Introduction

Immanuel Kant was born in Konigsberg, which was the capital of Prussia, which is currently known as Kaliningrad city in Russia in the year 1724. He was the fourth child in a family of nine children. His original name that he got after he was baptized was Emanuel, which he changed to Immanuel after getting converted to Hebrew. For the best part of his childhood he stayed at Konigsberg. The father to Kant was a German harness-maker from Memel, which was the most northeastern city in Prussia. Kant’s father died when Kant was 22 years of age. His mother Anna ...

Toulmin Proposal

Toulmin Essay Proposal Rationale: The United States education system just like any other country is composed of both public and for-profit sectors. In recent years, statistical data suggests an alarming decrease in student academic proficiency rate among public school students. The “No Child Left Behind” program initiated by the government to solve the declining quality of education in the country particularly in the public system have shown very little progress. Several factors have been attributed to the decline in student proficiency in public schools such as failing neighborhood, failing teachers and failing system. However, the aforementioned factors should ...

Annotated bibliography

Cailleba, P., & Casteran, H. (2009). A quantitative study on the fair trade coffee consumer. Journal of Applied Business Research, 25(6), 31-46. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/227583556?accountid=45049

This article draws attention on the manners in which ethical behaviors

of consumers contributes to fair coffee trade. This is vital because most people purchase coffee depending on the consumer perception and values. However, the article also offers the French transactions case study conducted between 2005 and 2007, whose major aim was to find out the effects of personality traits, types of promotion and the characteristics of a product on coffee purchases. Further, the article goes ahead to investigate on the relationship between coffee purchases, personal ...

- Illustrate how Bill Bailey, chairman of the board of the Utah Opera Organization, might use one theory of motivation to oppose or support the merger.The theory of motivation that Billy Bailey, the chairman of the board of the Utah Opera Organization, can use to oppose the merger decision is the social identity theory. Under this theory, individual identity occurs as a result of membership in groups, which is the basis of social identity. In the case of these two music organizations merging, several identities will be recognized and several changes will be expected in the merger process. This change ...

Abstract

The paper critically observes the McGregor theory x and y and its influence in determining organizational behavior. There is also a development on the actions that are mostly undertaken by the management in curbing some of the behaviors that are manifested by company employees. The implications of adopting the different aspersions as theorized by McGregor are also given a thorough explication. Generally the paper develops an analysis of the management and employee behavior as a consequence of adopting the theories view on motivation factors.

Motivation in Organizations

Management continues to be a challenging task in organizations due to many factors of influence. In his book, The ...

Choosing a dissertation topic can be one of the {most difficult|more strenuous} things a graduate student {has|is required} to do. It is the {culmination of one's higher education|end point of your academic career}, and many people take years to write their dissertations, {given that it is so hard|since it can be really difficult}. Unlike most papers and essays you write, a dissertation is often large, {contains multiple chapters|is highly organized}, and includes you making a {substantial contribution to|big difference in} the field in which you are studying. {Considering how important it is|Given that it is so ...

Results for the Relationship between the Principals Demographic Factors (Age, Gender and Years of Working Experience) and the Students Academic Experience Again, there is very little in the way of significant results between a principal's age, gender, or years of working experience, and the overall academic experience that students have on campus. There are several reasons why this is probably true. Again, an additional metric that would be worth exploring with further research would be a principal's tenure on the specific campus in question, as a principal who has been on seven campuses in fourteen years, including just a year and a half ...

Factors Influencing Choice of University in U.K

Choosing university in the United Kingdom has become a matter of concern to most students considering the fact that there are many universities in the United Kingdom. There are many factors, which influence selection, of the university in United Kingdom, which include technological status of the university, funding and tuition fees, and assessment methodology. The availability of information technology greatly affects the choice of the university by the students in the United Kingdom. Majority of the students would prefer to choose universities with well equipped with technology related infrastructure. Technology plays a crucial in the life of a student especially in ...

Response to “Disrupting the Status Quo”

The main purpose of this article is to urge the inclusion of action research dissertations as a requirement for the Ed.D. degree. In many schools offering doctoral degrees in education, there is insufficient differentiation in the dissertations between the Ph.D., which is normally more of a research-oriented degree, and the Ed.D., which is more of a practically oriented degree. Research has shown a connection between the quality of an organization’s educational leadership and the quality of the achievement of that organization’s students (Firestone and Riehl, 2005). In the areas of boosting equity in educational outcomes, and increasing overall student excellence, having ...