Essays on Gane

Since the adoption of the Patriot Act 2 on October 2001, strict measures such as the detention of foreigners suspected of a security breach, electronic surveillance of individuals through databases, authentication identities through biometrics, technologization border controls, among others, are presented in political discourse of the USA. The US security and media are the latest techniques in the fight against terrorism. Most Americans feel that these measures are contemporary to the fight against terrorism. In fact, this impression is the product of the effects of language games made by the administration and the media as the rhetoric and imagery ...

Research often involves developing research questions to answer a known or unknown phenomenon. The purpose of these research questions is to guide the research to through the right course through addressing a research problem that the researchers think is worth providing a solution. In answering a research question various research, methodologies are used to enable a researcher to obtain just the right information to address the potential problem (Creswell pp131-133). This paper will, therefore, address the use of observation as a research method in answering a research question. While conducting research on people’s beliefs and culture, I decided ...

Martin Luther is one of the most prominent figures in Christian history, the founder of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Moreover, Luther had a great influence on the formation of the Western state model. It is important to mention that Luther was primarily theologian and his attitude to secular authority was predetermined by the current situation of church and Christianity. Luther argued in his doctrines that man lives in two spheres: the scope of the gospel (religious sphere, attitudes toward the kingdom of heaven) and scope of the law (state sphere, the earthly kingdom). They are both branches of ...

Introduction

A Corporation is any legal entity that comes into existence after a proper registration process developed by law or directly by following legislation. Corporate entities operate as either a profit seeking or nonprofit businesses that have distinct legal rights and liabilities. Corporations are considered as legal persons that are responsible for various obligations and have the rights to serve and lead in the society just as any human being does. In the recent years, modern corporations and their policies have been playing a vital role for economic growth. In order to know how the modern corporations stand as powerful enough for any ...

Features of a Bureaucratic organization.

Max Weber (1864-1920), a German sociologist proposed different elements found in a bureaucratic organization, which assist in resource control, aid decision making process, accomplish organizational objectives, and protect employees. Weber conceived bureaucracy as an abstract for rational decision making procedures with minimal frictions from human emotions and errors. According to Weber, bureaucratic institutions are most rational in carrying out impartial control over workers (FISCHER and SIRIANNI, 1994). The theory of bureaucracy is founded upon the nature of power and authority relationships. It is concerned with how organizations operate rather than how they function. According to Weber, there are three forms ...

When the sociological theory is mentioned, many people tend to think of the likes of Marx, Weber, Durkheim and others who are famed for having come up with these theories. However, what the people fail to appreciate is that there were other philosophers who equally contributed to the body of knowledge in this area. One of them is Auguste Comte. According to Besant 5), Comte was one of the philosophers who shaped the modern understanding of philosophy. He also has quiet a lot to do with the modern understanding of science, religions and positivism (Wernick 22). However, not much is ...