Essays on Theorist

The Mawangdui tomb paintings has been analyzed very carefully by a number of experts who have different interpretations based on the belief systems prevalent at the time of Lady Dai's life and death. Given how rich Chinese history is, in terms of its beliefs, there are a number of texts and sources that can be used to explain this four-layered coffin and that has become the subject of much debate (Holloway). In the first reading, the question as to why paintings are even kept in tombs is asked and where one reaches the conclusion that it is probably assumed ...

The idea of moral panic is one of the many socialist ideologies that have been subject of discussions and critical research by social scholars and scientists over the years. Moral panic has had its fair share of all-inclusive definitions, but perhaps the most revered one by social researchers is Stanley Cohen’s (1972). He indulges us with the idea that moral panic is sort of like an idealized scar in society, an unsettling social occurrence that offsets the socio-cultural balance, often triggered by what he labels as folk devils. In simplistic terms, it is the feat of social unrest ...

Nursing Theory Analysis Paper

Many researchers globally have researched on the discipline of nursing and developed some theories aimed at explaining some health care phenomenon. Theories of nursing play a critical role in influencing the outcome of different areas of practice including research, education, administration, and nursing informatics. Nursing theories fall under the mid-range theory or grand theory classifications. The analysis below discusses the theory of Transcultural Nursing by Madeleine Leininger that falls under the mid-range category of nursing theories.

Analysis of the Transcultural Nursing Theory

Background Leininger is well-recognized psychiatric and mental health professionals of the 1950s. Earned her first diploma in nursing in 1948, advanced to a ...

The chosen theorist is Dorothea Orem, who was born in 1914 and died in 2007. She started her career after earning a diploma at Providence Hospital in Washington DC. In the start of her career, she worked as a nurse staff and then she became a nurse educator as well as administrator and nurse consultant. Also, with the help of her experiences, degree of doctorate level, she successfully introduced her general theory of nursing related to self-care, self-care deficit, and nursing system. However, the main focus of Orem was on self-care theory. Orem has defined four meta-paradigm concepts in ...

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Technological development has been part of human being evolution and development since way back. Attempts to measuring technological development led theorist like Gerhard Lenski, Leslie white, and Alvin Toffler to develop arguments expounding on the discourse of technological development in relation to human evolution. Various aspects have played important roles in the development and progress of technology. As such, the article is going to examine three important aspects namely energy and information which have played important roles in the evolution and progress of technology for ages. Through the lenses of these theorist arguments, we will compare and contrast the ...

For this brief discussion post, the author of this report has been asked to pick from a list of notable and trusted nursing theorists. For the purpose of this particular report, the person that has been chosen is Martha Rogers. The items that will be covered and summarized for this theorist will include the theorist in question, their nursing background, the fundable principles of the nursing theory put forward by that person and how those lessons and theories can be applied to the work and studies of the author of this report. It is perhaps not the only theory ...

There are three pertinent theorists throughout history that have come to shape our cultures and lives in a myriad of ways. The first theorist would be Erik Erikson, who constructed a theory in 1959 based on eight psychosocial stages of development. These stages encompassed “trust, autonomy, initiative, industry, identity, intimacy, generativity, and ego integrity” (McLeod 1). In relation to adulthood, his theory’s description of love, care, and wisdom best exemplify that level of maturity. Based upon his theory of these stages, effective completion of the individual states can conclude in a person developing a strong and healthy personality ...

Ida Jean Orlando is one of the renowned nursing theorists who proposed that the nursing process should involve effective interaction with patients as it leads to successful interventions and positive outcomes. The main objective of Orlando’s theory is that planning of care and accomplishing interventions without obtaining the mutual consent of the patients is unprofessional (Alligood, 2013). In other words, the theorist states that nursing professionals should seek the mutual understanding of patients before appropriate planning. After testing Orlando’s theory in several health care facilities and settings, nursing professionals have been supporting its implementation as the theory ...

Face and facework are closely connected with the self-image of people being displayed when communicating with other people. The theory itself was first proposed to understand the way different cultures react to some conflict situation. It is important to mention that the term face is used here more in the metaphorical sense than in its direct meaning. Thus, it relates to the image people usually display in public. The term facework stands for communicative behaviors. According to the theory, the difference in the ways people react to conflict depends on the conflict issue itself, relations between people and their ...

Child development takes place in discrete phases and ranges from birth to adulthood. These stages of development comprise various interrelated aspects such as socialization, motor skills, language, cognitive ability, emotional aspects, and social interaction. Various theories emphasize on the issues of development such as Vygotsky and Jeane Piaget theories. Piaget's model discusses concerns about the acquisition of knowledge and mechanisms of intellectual development. On the other hand, Vygotsky tended to focus mostly on the influence of culture on social and material structure and language of society (Steinberg & Vandergrift, 2010). Infant development and growth requires a combination of theories to ...

About the Movie “Leon: The Professional."

The movie “Leon: The Professional” was released in 1994. It was the French crime thriller which was later dubbed in the English language. The story revolves around two characters ‘Leon’ a hitman and a 12 years old young girl ‘Mathilda’ who was a depressed child. The characters depict situations where they had gone through different mental stages. This paper analyzes ‘Leon’ and ‘Mathilda’ human behaviors in the film and relates them to psychoanalytical theories developed by theorists, i.e., Jung and Freud.

Describing the behavior of Movie Characters: Leon & Mathilda

In this film, the character of Leon was played by Jean Reno, who was a brutal hitman. Natalie ...

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Critically Explore Baudrillard's Concept Of ‘The Finest Consumer Object' Concerning Relevant Media And Cultural Examples.

Introduction Jean Baudrillard is the French culturalist theorist who has majorly contributed in the fields of sociology and philosophy. According to Baudrillard, modern consumption concept has been seen in the most of the parts of western societies. Consumption is said to be a global response that justifies world's cultural system. As per Baudrillard's assumption, the word consumption has replaced the concept of satisfaction with product differentiation. Today, consumer market is more actuated to buy those products which have brought uniqueness and differentiation to them. ...

Theorist: Albert Bandura Observational Learning Theory

Introduction A Theorist Life, Family, Education, and Work He was born on December 4, 1945, in Mundare, Alberta, Canada, and the youngest and the only boy among the six siblings with a father (a trans-Canada railroad worker) from Poland and a mother (a town’s general store worker) from Ukraine. Albert Bandura has learned three foreign languages, Russian, Polish, and German with the help of his father. The family had no formal education, but they have shown a high importance and value on educational attainment. The entire family had worked hard together, celebrated a happy life, and created a ...

The Response of the Victorian Churches to Charles Darwin’s Doubt

Pitch Contrary to the perception of the Victorian Era as one of the highlight of English Christianity and even morality among societies, the situation was not so behind closed doors. The people were beginning to question the Biblical inspirations and teachings based on Christian doctrines that had otherwise defined their existence and faith for centuries. Accordingly, the sources of doubt were twofold: there was a rapid development of biblical criticism, and the scientific discoveries were challenging cultural norms. Perhaps there was no original sin. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution presented an alternative for the European societies of the ...

Q2.Mustafa Kemal’s on the abolition of a caliphate and Hassan Al-Banna’s text “towards the light text” on political life. Mustafa Kemal and Hassan Al-Banna are two important figures in the history of the Arab world in terms of their influence to nationalism and the current state of their nations. To begin with, Mustafa Kemal was an author with a liberal mind that made his works and line of thought free from the influences of the situation at the time where people had limited line of thought owing to the forms of leadership and religion. While he did ...

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Many scholars in the management field have spent most of their time trying to come up with theories that explain management. The work of these theorists, however, has not gone to waste as there are very many theories that have come up as a result. Management theorists have been linked to improving the quality of products and services being offered by any organization by using their creative minds in developing ideas that solve problems. For one to be well conversant and an expert in the management field, he/she must study and try to emulate the work of these theorists. ...

Introduction

Homeschooling can be considered as a progressive movement around the country and the world in general, where parents choose to have their children educated at home rather sending them to the traditional private or public schools. Families that prefer home schooling do so due to various reasons. Such reasons include having different religious beliefs or educational philosophy, dissatisfaction with traditional schooling options available and issues like the belief that children are not progressing well enough within the confines of traditional school setting (Ray, p 50).

History of home schooling

For many centuries, homeschooling was actually the only available option for most people to ...

Human Rights and Obligation

There is a sheer need to balance out rights and obligation in the Australian context. Human beings have the basic urge to demand their own rights, but when it come to provide rights to other, the attitude remains indifferent. Citizens should be made aware of the notion that with every kind of benefit, it comes a sense of responsibility. Human rights are the rights inherent to all people equally irrespective of their caste, creed, race, sex, nationality, religion or any other status. Every human being is entitled to human rights without any discrimination. These rights are indivisible, interdependent and ...

Compare the Biblical doctrine of creation with the 20th-century scientific explanation of the origins of the universe (e.g. the “Big Bang”). Your comparison should include some assessment of the ultimate compatibility or incompatibility of the two teachings In today’s world there are as of now two broadly acknowledged exploratory speculations clarifying how planet earth was shaped. Creationists trust that God made the sky and the earth, and that God said let there be light, and there was light. Creationists don't trust that arbitrary events of nature started the start of life as we probably am aware it. Creationists ...