Essays on Self-Discipline.

What makes us different from each other? There are many answers to this question, however, the most basic (apart from the appearance) are our personal traits and qualities. Some of us are lazy, others are proactive, some are responsible, others are not, some are creative, and some are disciplined. If each quality is best suited for a specific set of tasks, then which are necessary for a successful student? In my opinion, the three qualities which make a successful student are self-discipline, diligence, and enthusiasm. In this paper, I will explain these traits and explain why do I consider ...

Education provides vast opportunities of to a person. It helps to improve as a professional, develop certain skills that are needed in order to find a high-paid job. However, in order to achieve academic success in college, one should have certain characteristics. In my opinion, one of the most important traits of a successful student is alacrity to work hard and willingness to acquire and analyze new information and learn new skills. One cannot succeed in college, if he or she is not prepared to put a lot of effort into the studies and only thinks of entertainment. The ...

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The Five Factor Theory of Personality

The Five Factor Theory of Personality is a framework that most psychologists use to identify and analyze personality attributes. Psychology experts and professionals began to recognize and accept the importance of this theory starting in 1980’s (McCrae and John, 1990). Based on this theory, personality traits have five basic dimensions: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. These five dimensions are popularly known as the Big Five Personality Traits.

For each dimension of the Big Five Personality traits, also known as the Five Factor Model, corresponding characteristics are associated.

Extraversion The first dimension is Extraversion, and this is associated with warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, excitement seeking, and positive emotions (McCrae and John, 1990). Using a ...

As Americans’ addiction to unhealthy foods is becoming more and more alarming, it is high time to ask ourselves, what could help people to take back the control over their own bodies? In her essay, called “My Accidental Ramadan”, Krista Bremer describes Ramadan as a tough, yet useful period during which her husband had to refrain from falling prey to his own food cravings and hunger while also trying to maintain a positive attitude. While this ritual seemed cruel and unnecessary in the beginning, Krista eventually understood that it represented a kind of triumph of the mind over the ...

Abstract

Cigarette smoking is one of the main risk factors for disability, disease, and death that can be prevented according to World Health Organization (Johnson et. al., 2000). The number of people that smoke has been rapidly increasing. The habit tends to start when individuals are at their teenage years or early adulthood and they become addicted and carry it on to adulthood. Some of the common reasons why young people begin smoking are to fit in to the crowd, for the rush they get and to experiment. Many people try out smoking but don’t end up becoming smokers. ...

IMPORTANCE OF TIME MANAGEMENT IN THE CONSTRUETION BUSINESS

Being a successful businessman requires the capability of managing time and allocating one's working potential in an accurate way. Therefore, the issue of time management is obvious to be of utmost importance for those who seek to succeed in doing business. Within the course of the studying program we chanced to master a number of skills concerned with effective time management and undertake a number of corresponding activities aimed at the cultivation of this kind of skills. Making the project on time, planning and organizing were the key tasks of the course. The project primarily dealt with the main ...

Traits are defined as the actions, thoughts and feelings which distinguish individuals from each other. They are the internal characteristics of a person which correspond to the behavior of a person. Individual traits remain stable throughout the life span of a person. The adaptive processes of a person lead to changes in the characteristic behavior of the person. Different theories have been proposed to explain the personality traits. These theories include the human motivation theory and the whole person theory.

Personality researchers such as D.W Fiske (1949) and Goldberg (1981) proposed five broad categories of personality traits, which were referred, to as the big ...

Reflective Journal IV

Chapter XIV Controlling Your Own Emotional Destiny Although it took me over 50 years, I have finally realized that the only thoughts and actions I really have control over are my own. To this day I still take other peoples criticism and rejections too seriously. Publically I claimed that I don’t care what others think but deep down I always think that there is still something wrong with me. An example of this would be when I helped a young woman get set up her business. I poured my finances, time, Wisdom, heart, and soul into helping her. I ...

Philosophy of Education

Philosophy is considered the mother of all sciences as its main objective is the search of the truth. It is the root of all knowledge and because of this, it affects all sciences. Education is not an exception, and it has been influenced by different philosophical approaches (2013, 05) The word education comes from educare in Latin, which means “to bring up”, or to bring forth what is within. Ducere means “to lead”. Thus, it is considered education to be the action of formation, forming the mind, character, physical ability, etc., of an individual (2013, 05), and in ...

Leadership is surrounded by many factors that affect the performance of people who are holding leadership positions. Strengths are the positive traits that a leader displays in character and the way he/she deals with the actions. On the other hand, the dark sides involve the negative characteristics that are displayed by a leader. The strengths and dark sides of a leader relate because they are part of one person. The strengths include honesty, ability to communicate and inspire people, commitment, and humility and so on. These qualities are nurtured in a person via self-discipline and religious guidance. For example, Christian leaders follow ...

Business

Leadership can be defined in many different ways. It is considered to be a trait, ability, a relationship, a behavior and a skill. It depends on people how they contemplate the word leadership. The fact is that leadership comprises of all these aspects and every aspect describes the components of leadership. There are many positive universally accepted attributes/traits of leadership such as trustworthiness, dependable, charisma, decisiveness, communicativeness, and foresightedness etc. However, there are also some negative attributes associated with leadership e.g., dictatorial, non cooperative, asocial and ruthless attitude. History reveals leadership traits of many leaders such as George Washington, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt ...

There are three major approaches in normative ethics and one of them is virtue ethics. The other two approaches are deontology and consequentialism. The difference between virtue ethics and the other two approaches is that it emphasizes virtues or moral character. Deontology on the other hand is more concerned on duties or roles while consequentialism stresses the outcomes or results of actions. The main focus of virtue ethics is whether the actions of a person is an expression of a good character or not. Aristotle differentiates between intellectual and moral virtues. He defines moral virtue as the manner of acting ...

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Abstract

More and more people today are beginning to study online. Why is this happening and what kinds of people will benefit from such training? Higher education with the old, familiar way for a long time cannot be attended by everyone. If a person needs to receive second and subsequent higher diplomas, he has increasingly resorted to education online, which has become quite affordable and commonplace. But, in my opinion, we can’t say, that the online education is 100% better than old traditional. There are some pros, of course, but also a number of cons. ...

Abstract

Confidence and focus determines one’s success in any sporting activity. Baseball is both a physical and mental game. All forms of success are subject to one’s confidence and self-esteem. For an individual to have a triumphant career in sports, confidence is a mandatory element. Physical talent does not do anyone any good without confidence in performing sports. Several athletes have average physical talent in their sport fields. Their self-confidence propels them to succeed beyond those deemed more talented them. Mohammed Ali is celebrated athlete for his self-confidence. When asked for whom he thought he was, the great boxer responded, “I ...

Body Dysmorphia

ABSTRACT Body image continues to be one of the most prevalent psychological issues among young women in the United States today. However, it seems that the literature, as proposed to the general public, states it as just that: young, American women. This paper will discuss a more in depth description as to the understood sociocultural effects on young women, as that seems to be most understood, as well as women of later age and, in addition, men of all ages. This paper will also discuss how men have been left in the dark in regards to this issue and ...

Executive Summary

In 1902, Chadbourne & Parke LLP was founded with its headquarters being located at New York City at the Rockefeller Plaza. The creation of the New York Office was meant to serve clients inside and outside the United States, thus becoming the firm’s base of operations. Representing all the practice areas, the New York Office consists of a number of employees, with different attorneys collaborating to meet the firm’s clients’ needs. The New York Office also coordinates activities in various other offices across the world. Therefore, the New York Office is a busy environment that cannot afford a relapse in concentration. ...

Introduction

This book aims at giving encouragement to those that seek or take up leadership positions especially within the church context. Apostle Paul, of the Bible, is Mac Arthurs personality for study. Nevertheless, he has also explored on other leaders such as Nehemiah who was a great leader too. This book has articulated 26 leadership principles which are the core values for great leadership (MacArthur 67). These principles include: a leader is trustworthy, initiative, has sound judgment, speaks with power, empowers others, enthusiastic and optimistic, by no means compromises the absolutes, focused on objectives and not impediments, empowers by model, encourages loyalty, ...

With much advancement in Education, many students are finding it much manageable and easier to maintain a family, a job, and at the same time further their studies and careers. With this growth of technology that has spearheaded this advancement in Education, some people would still opt for traditional classes instead, with varied reasons that suit their preferences. Time appears to be one imperative issue to consider when deciding to go to university or college. Individuals with full time jobs are majorly facing challenges with time management giving them no option but to squeezing their tight schedules to accommodate online classes. ...

1) What type of research is this: Naturalistic observation, correlation, case study, survey? Explain your answer with two - three sentences. This type of research is experimental and is neither naturalistic observation nor correlational. In this research, the independent variable is manipulated by the researcher in a systematic way. The relationship between “attention and self-control in the context of the delay-of-gratification paradigm” is to be determined. The research is typical of an experimental research because it gives solid proof of causal interpretations.2) What is the hypothesis for this research? The hypothesis for this research is that if a child ...

Summary

A Coach's Influence: Beyond the Game is a book written by Grant Teaff. Teaff is a coach, a player and an executive director of the American Football Coach Association. Teaff’s book contains three parts; the introduction, part one and part two. The book talks about the power of influence from the coach. It is a book that discusses issues affecting the youth and solutions to these issues. The book celebrates how football coaches learn from each other through the life of Teaff. Teaff’s book gives coaches and teachers knowledge, experience and techniques to use in solving social issues facing the youth. ...

Conclusion and Summary of Results

The focus of this study was to explore a Black woman’s resiliency after her exposure to a physiological and psychological toxic work environment. The work environment surrounding an African-American woman can often be a source of distress because of the way her colleagues and others treat her. For example, many Black women are treated as if they are a stereotype; a caricature of what people assume is a “black woman.” Micro-aggressions experienced each day become magnified as emotional assaults on the woman increase; or, as her ability to deflect the inappropriate behavior decreases or as the intensity of both becomes greater. The stereotyping and ...

Social networking sites are a manifestation of the technological and communication advancements that have been realized in the recent century. This has been made possible by globalization which has allowed people across the world to interact and conduct transactions despite the distance between them. Initially the system was closed due to the tradition of territorial control and the question of sovereignty.

However, social networks have eroded these territorial barriers so that people of different walks of life can interact. This paper argues that participating in social network sites is important because it increases cultural understanding across participants. Social networks are ...

Undeniably, health issues are become the most debatable in the global arena. One of the tremendous problems concerning health is the obesity. In the recent past, many people are obese, especially in the developed nations. Overweight has caused a lot of problems, leading to a persistent increase in the cost of healthcare, as well as increasing changes of developing diabetes. What many healthcare practitioners and public ask if whether the government should intervene in controlling diet related issues. In this case, there are conflicting views asserted by people on government involvement on health issues. Government decisions to control diet is ...

The popularity of online education is growing day by day and a lot of emphasis is made on its benefits. Today it has become something like a fashion, with various models, many markets, many different types, various interest groups, many users, and varying degrees of satisfaction. Unfortunately, online education is not as mature as one may imagine, in terms of effective solutions, learning standards, and advanced functionalities. Presented herein is a critical analysis of online education, with reference to personal issues, technologies, cost, and design issues, among others. Online education or e-learning is defined as the learning and communication activities via ...

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Introduction

Karate is generally a martial art that was started in Japan at a place called Okinawa. This place was previously called Ryukyu Islands. Some of the fighting skills taught in karate include elbow strikes, punching, knee strikes, and punching. Though karate is concerned with fighting methods, I would wish to point out that it is not a violent sport. Last summer I got a chance to join a karate group at a local gym and one thing that I came to learn is that this sport not only involves learning the art of fighting but also trains people to be disciplined. Indeed discipline is ...