Essays on Thematic

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Enter Name of University Introduction The goal of the scholarly article, “Barriers to Emiratization and the Role of Policy Design and The Institutional Environment in Determining the Effectiveness of Emiratization” is to come to understand the overall effectiveness of the Emiratization policy since it has been implemented for over twenty years, but it has endured many challenges because the workforce has faced a significant shortage. The problem is that the United Arab Emirates adopted a liberal immigration policy which allowed many foreign workers into their country while experiencing a work shortage. The policy continued to rely on foreign workers ...

After evaluating all three of these excellent stories, I have determined that the winner of this fiction contest must be “Rock Springs” by Richard Ford. Telling the story of a father on the run from the law, attempting to start a new life for himself and his daughter, “Rock Springs” does a tremendous job of showcasing the unfairness of justice, and the inability for people to truly escape their sins. For its incredible command of character, its thematic richness, and the endlessly compelling prose, “Rock Springs” is the clear winner of this contest. Ford centers “Rock Springs” around the ...

Childhood Obesity

The study by Datar, and Nancy Nicosia (2012) has Level VI (level of evidence), and is of sufficiently good quality as the research is empirical in nature and has minimal level of bias due to the appropriate data collection procedure and instrument validity. The study is significant as it is working on one of the most important healthcare problems in the world, i.e. childhood obesity. It is also important as the study deals with Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K) along with instrumental variables, so that the outcomes would come on the basis of well-documented facts. With the ...

Data Analysis

Data Analysis The investigation for the ways in which the children can develop creative thinking skills are supported by various data coming from the education practitioners themselves. Additionally, the collected data aims to support and answer the question, “What is the role of play in developing creative thinking skills in kindergarten students?” This analysis will encompass various factors, such as the observation conducted to three different teachers in relation to the practical applications and programs that are successful in using play as a development tool of kindergarten students, how teachers can create creative thinking skills within their classroom environment, ...

A Review of Research Design

The clinical research question for the proposed study may be stated in the PICOT-guided statement: “Social behavior and engagement outcomes from animal assisted therapy of at least a year among elderly patients with dementia in long-term care facilities”. The research design essentially flows from this research question, whether qualitative, quantitative, or even mixed design. The qualitative-quantitative typology must not be perceived as dichotomous, but as a continuum with mixed design research located in the middle of such a continuum (Creswell, 2008). Unlike in the earlier decades, this continuum are no longer viewed in terms of words (qualitative) or numbers ( ...

Executive Summary

Luxury Swap is an innovative web-based product exchange service. Modeled on e-bay's exchange program, Luxury Swap introduces an unparalleled service in KSA, first, and hopes to expand into GCC, East Europe, North America and world at large. The service connects upper class / sellers, who have unneeded luxury products, and middle class/ buyers, who, although having rising disposable income, cannot afford to purchase luxury products at retail prices. This report is made up of five sections: (1) Service Information, (2). PEST Analysis & SWOT Analysis, (3) Strategic Marketing Objectives, (4) Market Segmentation & Positioning and (5) Four Ps Strategies and (6) ...

The article by Maria Tatar goes on to delve deep into the complexities of the popular fairy tale, Cinderella. The author of the piece engages in tracing the history of the fairy tale. She opines that there have been many interpolations and transformations in the narrative and content of the story based on cultural difference and timeline in history of literature. To substantiate her point, Tatar cites the versions of the fairy tale popularized in Germany, Indonesia, Japan and some other countries where the stepsisters of the central female character of the fairy tale meet very grave destinies by ...

Methodology and Research Design

The choice of a methodology in a research is based on the properties of the methodology and their ability to meet the purpose of the study in a qualitative research or to answer the research questions in a quantitative research. The analysis of the methodology chosen by the researchers can shed light on the appropriateness of the choices with respect to their ability to meet the purpose of the study. This paper explores the methodology and research design chosen by Humphrey & Symes (2010) in their article on Responses to bullying and use of social support among pupils with autism ...

Difference between Positivism and Interpretivism

Positivisms refers to the philosophical means of gauging the validity of information right from its observed evidence. Under this system, the aspects of knowledge got from non-scientific means, for instance the metaphysic evidence would be regarded as invalid. Thus, positivism aims at understanding a social establishment through observing known facts. On the other hand, interpretivism focuses on understanding through experience. Thus, this includes understanding the meaning of an action or actions in a social context through things like paying attention on a unique point of view. In this respect, interpretivists disagree with positivists that human behaviors can be explained ...

Difference between Positivism and Interpretivism

Positivism Positivism is recognized as philosophical theory that explains the association of knowledge with natural phenomenon and their characteristics. The term positivism is also termed as “scientific” approach that includes highly systemized and measureable methods that are dependent on the approaches used by the scientists in their research works .

Interpretivism

In contrast, interpretive is a method used in social science that is completely based on the assembling of qualitative data in which various techniques including observation of participants and interviews are utilized to gather the useful data and information. It is believed by the interpritivist that effective research is the ...

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The Gangster Movie: Questions and Answers

1. VIDEO CLIP 1: Identify two classical conventions of gangster genre (e.g. theme, plot device, character type, and/or stylistic device) present in this image and briefly explain the significance of each one. (2 points) The two classical conventions of Gangster Genre present in the first video are theme and character type. The theme that is being explored in the video clip is the immigrant criminal, who has been left to die in humiliation and as a comic, as required by the Production Code Administration (PCA). The character type is the gangster, who has dark, ethnic ...

‘Love’ is among the majorly debated themes by both the modern and postmodern poets. Fundamentally, love refers to a deep affection for something towards another thing. The poems “A&P” by John Updike, “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, “a leaf falls” by E.E. Cummings and When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman vividly provides a depiction of love, as some of the major thematic issues. This paper, therefore, provides an analysis and the discussion of ‘” love” as one of the major thematic issues portrayed in “A&P”, “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord “a leaf falls” ...

Introduction

If an individual were to compare and analyze the film “Othello” written by Allen Parker with the film “O” which was directed by Tim Blake Nelson, they would find a variety of similarities and differences amongst the two pieces of works. Though both the film “O” and the film “Othello” is based off of the original play done by William Shakespeare, there are distinct differences between the two films in context and basic thematic elements. There is also an array of similarities correlating to social context that are prominent throughout both films. Whereas; most viewers will notice right away ...

At the brink of war, America, which has distinguished herself as a world leader and a responsible country knew that she would be at the center stage of the showdown. The war eventually came with anxiety and patriotism contemporaneously looming across the country. The media shifted interest in the war. Countless patriotic books and artistic artifacts were born during and after the time of war, but nothing has done much for the history of war than the picture taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt at times square after the war. The image quickly found its way to magazine front pages and ...

Thematic analysis is one of the most commonly used methods in analyzing qualitative data. It is an approach that has been tried and tested as a rigorous means of analyzing qualitative data in disciplines such as psychology, management and media studies. Boyatzis describes it as a method that “allows for the translation of qualitative information into quantitative data” (4). In this assignment, the first section is the diagrammatic representation of the hierarchical model of the themes developed from the survey responses. The second section describes these themes in detail with quotes to support them.

Hierarchical model

Themes The hierarchical model depicts ...

In the movie “The Sixth Sense,” the director employed varied techniques to bring about a valuable motion picture. Out of the many techniques evident in the movie, gothic symbols and motifs are paramount as these techniques bring about other aspects of the film such as thematic expressions. This paper explores different motifs and gothic symbols in the movie “The Sixth Sense.” Ultimately, the paper highlights the meaning or importance of the identified technique. Shyamalan (the director of the movie) consistently employs visual motifs through reflective objects such as glasses, windows, mirrors and many others. The visual motifs in “The ...

“The Little Mermaid,” the 1989 animated film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and released by Buena Vista Pictures, delves on the story of a mermaid who falls in love with a human being. This film is likewise a cartoon adaptation of the original version of the novel of the same title written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1837. With regards to the Disney version, it is observable that the film incorporates several techniques that seem to diminish the innate animalistic nature of the aquatic creatures, such as the crabs, lobsters, octopus, the tropical fish, ...

Elvis Presley the king of Rock N Roll was born in 1935 Tupelo, Mississippi. His first interaction with the music happened at the local church where he sang along with his family (Wallace, p.101). Elvis was an only child. He comes from a poor family, that did not stop him from reaching a peak in his career and becoming an internationally acclaimed artist of all times, but before that he had to go a long way from a truck driver to a talented singer. Indeed, he used to think to become a truck driver that was eventually replaced by ...

Introduction

The current paper critically evaluates the research study conducted by Zenobia Chan and Joyce Ma (2003). The purpose of the paper is to attempt to develop an understanding of qualitative assessment provided in the selected journal article by critiquing and appraising the research. Chan and Ma (2003) explored the patient’s subjective experience of anorexia nervosa and assessed that how people with anorexia nervosa exhibit certain expressions of annoyance, apprehension, and nervousness. The study of Chen and Ma proves that anorexia nervosa is an affecting disorder in a human being that is characterized by an obsessive desire to lose ...

There can be a consensus among literary critics about the fact that poetry provides the utmost scope of exudation of literary quintessence and aesthetic appeal on the part of the literary artist. The literary artist has the liberty to use a number of metaphors that is a type of figure of speech in which a kind of expression is used for the purpose of referring to something that is not literally denoted by the expression. A metaphor thus goes on to suggest a similarity between the signifier and the signified in the literary work. Thus, metaphor can very well ...

Quantitative study

Campbell, D. A., Lake, M. F., Falk, M., & Backstrand, J. R. (2006). A randomized control trial of continuous support in labor by a lay doula. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 35(4), 456-464.

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Wiley Online Library Study Design The study utilized a randomized controlled design whereby the participants were randomized into either the control (no intervention) group or the experimental (doula group). As such, the design utilized was suitable and consistent with the study since it enabled the investigator to effectively compare the outcome measures of the two group and come up with significant inferences (Polit & Beck, 2013). ...

Abstract

The current government has consistently been trying to reduce the costs of healthcare and at the same time improve its quality. This paper focuses on the current state of healthcare through an extensive research on the population. The research uses a cross sectional design to collect data and come up with relevant conclusions. The research project aimed at using a homogenous population to come up with accurate results. Such a population involves participants who have the same knowledge about the subject. Such participants are easily obtained through a referral process where one participant refers another. A total of 50 ...

There can be no doubt that pop culture in America comes to focus on the thematic content of serial killers or violence in general. As one goes through the contextual texts, it becomes clear how movies showing murders and violence have continued to gain popularity over the years. There are many examples from the domain of cinema that portray vicious killings and gruesome violence. It can very well be opined that the thematic content of the films mirror the criminality or violence looming over the society at large. One has to opine in congruence with the sources that the ...

Introduction

Akira Kurosawa's Ran is based on the 16th Century play, King Lear, by William Shakespeare. The main plots behind the two works are identical. Besides Ran’s adapted parallel characters like Hidetora, there are theme similarities and differences. In both stories, a leader decides to divide his kingdom among three heirs and a child identifies their father’s undoing in both. The similarities and differences in the plots of the two works underpin major similarities and differences in themes. For example, both works capture the theme of conflict between authority and challenge within the family albeit not exactly in ...

It needs to be reckoned that the there is a difference between the sex of a person and the gender identity. In a society that is largely patriarchal in nature, the societal institutions come to impose the gender on the individual based on the sexual identity that the person is born with. However, this process of gender construction is not a natural phenomenon and can be described to be rather an imposition as per the parameters of patriarchy and its norms. As one goes through the story, All You Zombies, written by Robert A. Heinlein, one finds the exploration ...

HPV vaccination among adolescent girls in the UK

Marlow, L., 2011. HPV vaccination among ethnic minorities in the UK: knowledge, acceptability and attitudes. British Journal of Cancer, 105:486-492. The research involves the study on the uptake of childhood vaccination from various ethnical minorities in the UK. The research method includes qualitative and quantitative peer-reviewed journals and articles published between January 2000 to March 2010 from scholarly resources. Purposive sampling was used in order to determine the ideal proportion of the ethnic participants in the study. Ethnicity related variables were included in the study with consideration of the geographical location, country of birth, language spoken and the years ...

Inductive Thematic Analysis

Introduction Drug crimes are increasingly becoming a major concern on both local and global fronts. Current research (Braun and Clarke, 2012) suggests that the thematic analysis of important data sources such as sentencing remarks would facilitate the efficacy of available strategies in these crimes. The purpose of this assignment is to analyse the themes that comprise the societal understanding of the occurrence and penalties of drug-related crime. The researcher uses information from seven courtroom sentencing remarks from Adelaide, Southern Australia. This inductive thematic analysis identifies overarching themes that are evident across all seven documents. The themes include “gender and ...

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Step 1

An interview of five students was conducted for qualitative data. A set of structured interview question was used to gather information for the qualitative data. For quantitative data, a news article named “Sydney Swans' Adam Goodes celebrates goal with Indigenous war dance, ruffles feathers” was selected.Step 2

For Qualitative Data

The data for the qualitative research was gathered through a semi- structured interview. The interview of four students was conducted. A group of four students was a part of this study, and each student was asked some questions that were same because of their importance towards the study while other questions ...

There can be no denial of the fact that literature is the true mirror of the society of the world. Indeed, there are innumerous examples of seminal literary works penned by various literary artists that have come to reflect the picture of the individual and the society with utmost perfection and artistic skill. As such, one can take into reckoning the short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor that can very well be taken to be an exploration of the degeneration of the individual self and the moral values of life in the ...

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Type of Performance: Comedy Musical/Satirical Plat Site of Performance: West Valley College Theatre (WVC) Time and Length of Performance: 1 hour Proof: (Weatvalley.edu) The event attended was the play ‘Urinetown’ held at West Valley College theater hall. The play was satirical based presenting themes of legal system incompetence and capitalism in the world. The key messages delivered focused on exposing the ridiculous state of government affairs and the authorities’ incompetence. The imagery was used in the visual presentation as well as characters dialogue and audio visualization descriptions. The setting was a town which had been struck by a drought ...

Introduction

Dual language programs involve teaching students through two languages. Teachers ensure that they introduce bilingual programs whereby all native speakers benefit from a second language instruction. Teachers also use two-way immersion programs whereby one half of the students are native while the other half is constitutes speakers of English (Wayne and Virginia, 2012). This paper is meant to persuade school administrators to adopt dual language programs so that they improve learning among students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. I argue that dual language program promotes academic achievement and multicultural competence for all students. Discussion focuses on aspects such ...

Mathew 22: 39: You shall love your neighbor as yourself; Our mission in the community is show our love for others by encouraging them to live in peace and always be ready to help others from their community. Love is one on the main aspects which the Christianity world teachings and that is why we should always be ready to assist in any way possible to avoid enjoying while others are crying or mourning. Love is not a word but it is reflected in our daily activities and that why we decided to engaged in this project to aid ...

Industry Case Study Report

Industry Case Study Report

Abstract

The world has become increasingly mobile or that is what the statistics shows us. The number of tourists across the world has been rising all through the years barring a few occasions like post 9/11 in 2001 and during the global recession period of 2008-2010. The latest data shows that the international tourist arrivals have increased by 4 % to reach a record 1.2 billion tourist arrivals in 2015 . Almost all the major markets exhibited positive results and is it is expected to upkeep the momentum in 2016 as well. New Zealand also continued to show ...

Question 1

It needs to be reckoned that the films made in Asia over the past decades have truly come to excel in the form of cinematic art, and have gained enormous popularity as well as critical acclaim all over the world. If one delves into a few of the iconic Asian films ever made in the history of cinema, it can be comprehended that these films explore the thematic content of the dichotomy between the spirit of emancipation of the individual and the constrictions of the societal norms or the cultural community. A close scrutiny of a few iconic films ...

In this chapter the author shows how the different landscapes of the nature are representative of the various types of emotions of the human heart. As such, this can be deemed to be a very philosophical approach to the human psyche as well as nature. The chapter shows the relationship between humans and the natural world. How does the author delve into the notion of human identity by exploring the various issues in the eleventh chapter of the text? Through the explication of the narrative in this chapter, Sander endeavors to explore the notion of individual identity. The author ...

Literature has the capacity to delve into varied themes and portraitures as per the perspective and vision of the literary artists. Thus, literary works can differ from one another in content and presentation only to enhance the scope and appeal of the field of art in general. As such, one can take into reckoning the short story, The Metamorphosis, penned by the stalwart literary artist, Franz Kafka that delves into the thematic content of existentialism. Again, the famous poem I wandered lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) penned by the famous Romantic poet, William Wordsworth can be taken to be ...

'Midnight Cowboy' is a drama film of 1969 based on the novel 'Midnight Cowboy' by James Leo Herlihy. 'The American Friend' is a 1977 movie by Wim Wenders, loosely basing its themes on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, 'Ripley’s Game.' 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'The American Friend' reflects the events in the society during the time. They both fit perfectly towards the depiction of the ‘counter culture’ film movement of the 1970’s. Through their themes and character representation, the two movies give a strong challenge to genre conventions thus enabling them to successfully depict the counter-culture period in ...

There can be no debate about the fact that the stories of Sherlock Holmes are among the most popular as well as critically acclaimed literary works in the history of English literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the eminent literary artist who created the character of Sherlock Holmes has left an immortal mark in the minds of the avid readers from all the corners of the world with his unparalleled characterization, mystery and narrative that exude the author’s literary quintessence in engaging the readers to the texts in the best possible manner. Although the texts were penned by Doyle ...

Immigrant Parents Analysis

The behavior of immigrant parents is unique and stands out in comparison to other groups of adults. Their traditionally high expectations of children and increased respect for education or professionalism are acute, and can be noticed greatly throughout American society. The attitudes and demonstrated abilities of their children therefore are adapted to a variety of circumstances and influences, creating unique patterns of psychological and social development. In this essay, the specific ways that being part of an immigrant family influences a child will be explored. Through theoretical and practical research, evidence of the positive as well as negative influences ...

It needs to be reckoned that the television series, Prison Break, is surely one of the most famous programs ever aired in the history of television shows. Indeed, the immense popularity and critical acclaim of this show makes it a universal hit with its fan base transcending geographical boundaries and differences of cultures. A close scrutiny of the television show would provide an in-depth knowledge of the intricacies of portrayal and the thematic content of the program that have highly contributed to the show’s catapulting popularity and critical acclaim. There have been as many as four seasons of ...

Literary works have always been the mirrors of the society, and many of them have come to critique the subjugation of women. One can take into consideration the literary works, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House that delve into the influences of the society and the family in oppressing women. The respective narratives would lead to a better comprehension of the intricate influences and experiences that finally pave the way of the emancipation of the characters of Edna and Nora from the shackles of patriarchy and subjugation. A comparative analysis of the ...

The paper’s focus will be on the book ‘The House on Mango Street’, particularly, the experiences of the Esperanza family. An investigation of the experiences of Esperanza and her family is critically presented. The way Esperanza and her family relate with her family, community and the existing tensions is also established. As a coming of age novel, Sandra Cisneros’s book is critically analyzed from the social angle. The life of Esperanza Codero illuminates the struggles and experiences of growing up in Chicago. As a young girl, she serves an ideal subject from where we can study the ...

Beyond doubt, D.W. Griffith is one of the stalwarts in the domain of cinema who has left an immortal mark in the minds of the film critics and the audience with his seminal works of art that have been deemed to be among the best the medium of art has ever seen. The primary importance of Griffith’s cinematic works lies in the use of innovative filmic techniques that went on to define the language of cinema in the future years. A close scrutiny of the films like The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) would enable ...

There can be no debate about the fact that the stories of Sherlock Holmes are among the most popular as well as critically acclaimed literary works in the history of English literature. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the eminent literary artist who created the character of Sherlock Holmes has left an immortal mark in the minds of the avid readers from all the corners of the world with his unparalleled characterization, mystery and narrative that exude the author’s literary quintessence in engaging the readers to the texts in the best possible manner. Although the texts were penned by Doyle ...

One can take into consideration the famous song, “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga that can be related to the essence of the course of study. This song sung by the famous singer leaves a lasting impression with the lyrics and the video that can very well be understood as a powerful expression of female sexuality and desires. If one analyzes the content of this song with relation to the societal ideology of patriarchy, it can be found to be a subversion of the imposed passivity on the women folks. The song is an energetic expression of the desires and ...

Conventional Farming vs. Organic Farming

Agriculture is the process by which food in grown on a large scale. It is larger than just the family garden that is intended to sustain a family for a year. Agriculture is intended to sustain an entire community and when it is practiced on a very large scale, it is done to feed thousands. Cultures around the globe have been involved in food production to sustain communities for tens of thousands of years or more. According to John Unsworth at IUOAC Agrochemicals, “Up until the 1940s inorganic substances, such as sodium chlorate and sulphuric acid, or organic chemicals ...

Guillermo Del Toro’s Spanish horror-fantasy film The Devil’s Backbone is a unique ghost story for its time, given the film’s setting during the Spanish Civil War and the morally ambiguous nature of the ghosts found in the film. In telling the story of a small orphanage in rural Spain in the early 1930s, haunted by a small boy named Santi whose death provides one of the central mysteries, The Devil’s Backbone mixes the high fantasy of fairy tales with the gritty despair of one of Spain’s most tumultuous historical periods. As evidenced in the ...

The first season of the AMC horror-drama The Walking Dead is a self-contained six-part story that exists within the genre of ‘zombie horror’ – a specific type of survival horror media that typically involves a group of people surviving in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. Where The Walking Dead differs from most other examples of zombie media, however, is in its elevation of the low-art perception of the genre into high drama through tasteful presentation, complex characters, and a higher emphasis on moralistic and thematic conflicts, with the zombies merely acting as the backdrop. The narrative structure of a ...

Introduction

Staples.com is an online store for office products and a source of other office solutions. It provides furniture, affordable copy and print services, office supplies, technology to offices and boardrooms through its online ecommerce site which was created and operationalized in 1986. Since its inception, the firm’s internet sales have reached $25 billion and rank behind Amazon in terms of online sales (Staples.com, 2016). Staples.com has its headquarters in Boston United States of America. Today it has presence in Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia meaning that the firm serves diverse customers of different demographic profiles. This is a ...

With a sophisticated yet obviously distinguishable flavor of absurd, the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner features a deeply philosophical worldview of the man that was openly rejected by the society. Franz Woyzcek, apart from being the main character and driving force of the plot of the play, stands out to symbolize controversy and peculiarity of human nature, which is most vividly embodied in his unstable psychic condition and stormy social behavior. On the whole, the play is given the perspective of depicting Woyzeck’s social and family life, with each of the scenes contributing to the thematic growth ...

This essay concentrates on ways of analyzing quantitative and qualitative data. On one hand, there are two primary ways of analyzing qualitative information. First, the researcher can explore their findings with a pre-determined study framework that reflects the aims and objectives of the study. This method allows the researcher to concentrate on particular response descriptions and ignores the rest. The second approach is the thematic network analysis. This approach requires that the researcher codes all data and allow for quantitative interpretations (Abeyasekera, 2006). However, there exist numerous ways of analyzing quantitative data. Some of them are as follows. First, ...