Essays on Theory

Interpersonal Journal Analysis

Introduction

Throughout history, one aspect of human evolution that has been subject to intensive study is human interaction and communication. Sociologists and philosophers have for a long time been baffled by the factors that motivate certain human interaction and communication patterns. This has led to the formulation of several social theories that attempt to explain how and why humans behave and in a certain way and why they interact and communicate with each other in a certain way. Therefore, these theories attempt to predict the implications of certain human interactions and their associated modes of communication. This essay will three of ...

Describe the major purpose of theory in the sciences and practice disciplines

In the simplest terms, a theory can be defined as an explanation of something. Therefore, a theory can be said to explain why and how a particular function occurs in the way that it does. Therefore, a theory can be defined as an organized body of concepts and principles that are intended to explain a particular phenomenon. The process of systematically organizing and formulating the specific ideas and procedures to find the meaning of a particular phenomenon is known as theorizing. There are also assumptions that should be made while proposing the theories. While the explanation of various phenomena in the sciences and the practice ...

In exploring the function of touch in the field of improving child/infant has been neglected. This is because of the theory developed by John Bowlby, which has gone on to focus on the actual need for an infant to attain a tight and unbreakable attachment to its caregiver. In honesty, this has been an extremely valuable contribution in trying to connect and aiding a child's growth in its infant period and future development. The theory is restricted in its reference of the importance of the sense of touch and its importance in its contribution to the making of the said theory. ...

Pepetela can be rightly placed in the category of the modern thinkers of the world. For one to get a grasp of his theory, one must go through a series of his works which reveals his ideals and thoughts about the contemporary society and with a bias to the Angolan nation. Indeed, much of the works of Pepetela concentrate on the nationalism struggle, the reality of nation building, colonialism and its attendant consequences.

In his theory, Pepetela debunks the mythology on the Angolan society. He first casts aspersions onto the concept of nationhood as understood by most people. He observes that ...

Analysis of a Human Development Theory and a Family Development Theory of the Movie “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”

Introduction

Mel Gibson’s “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” parodies the previous movies based on the legend of Robin Hood and because of its themes and motifs it imposes an analyses in terms of human development and family development. Two of the motifs of the movie were the kindness, yet the foolishness of the poor people, who are unaware of their mass force – portrayed by Little John, the giant with little brain, yet with a kind heart and a huge courage and changing social condition, ...

Question.1

The theory that offers best explanation concerning human motivation is the marshmallow test. The experiment has its roots in the explaining contrasting stereotypes of different individuals, particularly on perceived recklessness, ability to have fun and self-control. This study involves 53 children both male and female of age between 7 and 9. It tested on the patience and the psychology of the children by giving them a choice to have one candy immediately or waiting and is given ten more candies, this is in essence the senses of motivation a keen child will realize as much as he or she wants to ...

A master’s student reflection paper about the leadership and human development course and the overall experience in the University of Greenwich

My experience in the University of Greenwich has been very educative. The University of Greenwich has influenced my perspective in life. The leadership and human development course has enabled me to explore my leadership qualities by being involved in team work. I was very shy and could not stand in before people to deliver a speech or even pray. I would use someone to say it for me. The confidence to address people and issues came as a result ...

The role of feedback

Behaviorist theory was firstly introduced by Skinner. The main idea of the theory is that the learner is passive. Skinner stated that a learner’s mind should be clear. This will let him or her receive both positive and negative experience while learning. Behaviorism theory is based on the principle of punishment and reward. Feedback in the behaviorism theory plays a significant role. The point is that the external feedback helps the learner understand the mistakes and the step that should be taken next. Feedback provides the learner with correct information.

Sociocultural theory of learning was firstly presented by Vygotsky. He stated:

“The social dimension of consciousness is primary in time and ...

Increased competition and globalization has led to the need to ensure production of quality products by not only using the latest technology, but also retaining the best work force. Currently, the human resource departments have a hard task of motivating employees within the organization. The human resource department in consultation with industrial psychologists base their decisions on various motivation theories including humanistic, drive and incentive theory. This paper seeks to discuss about the theory that relates to needs, traits or values, which I believe is the humanistic theory.

Humanistic theory of motivation ...

Psychology as a science covers a wide area in social science. It studies the mental, mind and emotional issues. Psychology over the years has evolved and various theories explain the changes in behavior and emotions expressed by human beings. The perspectives developed in psychology include cognitive, behaviorism, diversity and culture. Everything in the world revolves around psychology. The fathers of psychology come up with theories that cover and explain the essence of different behaviors and actions.

The theory of behaviorism was founded by Ivan Pavlov who did a research on the behavior of dogs. He did a research on their digestion. The ...

For a personal evaluation on certain duties, self-esteem would be an important factor to consider because it is a social psychology concept. People of all walks of life try their level best to improve or maintain self-esteem. However, these levels vary from one individual to another. For instance, there were differences attained when the boss conducted employee performance review based on communication, organizational agility as well as prioritizing. The boss gave two women (Kathy and Jennet) equal opportunities to evaluate and discuss their performance in those categories (Fiske, Gilbert, & Lindzey, 2010).

Kathy exhibited positive self-esteem due to a number of facts. ...

1. A t-test would be of help in comparing the two different groups' blood pressure average before and after being subjected to the drug. The difference will be meaningful and real if:

The responses are constantly close enough to the average value with a low standard deviation from the mean value. The differences between the averages are large.

The t test effect size and the t test statistical significance are the two primary outputs of the t test. Statistical significance helps indicate whether the difference existing between sample averages represents actual differences between my populations (my two group ...

Question#1

The null hypothesis is a hypothesis, which is checked for consistency with the existing sampling (empirical) data. Often used as a null hypothesis act hypothesis of no relationship or correlation between the studied variables, no differences (homogeneity) of the distributions (or parameters of distributions) of two and / or more samples. The standard scientific approach for testing hypotheses the researcher attempts to show the failure of the null hypothesis of its inconsistency with the available experimental data, that is, to reject the hypothesis. This implies that there must be adopted another, alternative (competing), excluding the zero hypothesis. Used in the statistical ...

Ethics entail the acceptable standards and principles that guide behaviors of individuals or groups in society. Ethics have continued to prevail in diverse spheres of human life with the aim of establishing the right conduct while maintaining an equitable balance between various players in society. The media is one of the areas that ethics have been adopted to ensure that dispersion of information avoids manipulation, lies and conflict with the law. Media ethics have continued to espouse principles of accuracy, truthfulness, impartiality, objectivity, public accountability, and fairness. All these principles are enforced by set code of practices that have ...

Theories are important tools in enabling people understand and explain how society functions. Criminology, enable us appreciate the criminal justice system. Theories inform people on the things they should be aware and what they need to know. They include the breaching and making of the law, crimes and deviant behavior, and also arrangements of criminal activity. Many theories have common features, but differences among them are still in existence.

Classical school of criminology differs from other schools of criminological theories in that, the classical school of criminology based its arguments upon utilitarian notions of free will and choice. ...

Global Talent Management (GTM) makes the subject of the article “The Role of the Corporate HR Function in Global Talent Management”, written by Elaine Farndale, Hugh Scullion and Paul Sparrow and published in 2010 in Journal of World Business. The discussion covers the challenges of GTM in the current global economy, reflecting more upon the corporate Human Resources (CHR) tasks into managing GTM. The authors of this article use a HR specialized language for presenting the current situation of multinational companies (MNCs) that are playing in a global economy, having increased concern for developing their competitive power by approaching GTM as ...

Summary of Teaching Plan

The main goal of the teaching proposal is to disseminate necessary knowledge and practice required to facilitate realization of healthy people by 2020. This is justified by the need to equip students with integrated theory based practice on health issues. Students need skills that link theory, practice and community problems. There are selected competencies that are imperative to realization of the health goal. Traditional teaching trends show that institutions of learning are shifting from separation of theory and practice to integration of the two components. This is followed by a faculty based support for theory and field practicum. This proposal ...

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Defining intelligence has been a complex area of study. In the era of psychometrics and behaviorism intelligence was considered to be a single trait which individuals inherited. It was believed that the human mind was like a blank slate and whatever taught to them would be learnt by them would be learnt. Under this assumption every human mind was treated as having the same capabilities and individual differences were ignored. On the other hand, a large number of researchers are of the belief that individuals hold some sort of capabilities which allow them to learn and adapt at varying rates. In a report published ...

Summary and analysis of an article on decision making

Summary

Maria Lewicka indicates that people should choose the alternative with the highest sum of the products of estimated utilities and probabilities. A decision problem involves probabilities and utilities which are two important and independent variables in the decision making process. Additionally, people ascribe utilities and assess decisions using models of social cognitive (Rob & Ola, 91). How the evaluation of the decision is made is dependent on inherent factors surrounding the decision process. Such factors include how the decision is framed, its expected effects and the prevailing descriptive judgment.

In the decision making process, managers or leaders should ...

There are several theories that can be used to explain the antisocial behavior that shows the progression from juvenile to adult criminality. The subject can be said to be in connection to deviance, juvenile deviance, as well as criminal deviance. Deviance refers to certain behaviors that are contrary to social expectations or standards of conduct of a given society or a group. Juvenile deviance, on the other hand, refers to the antisocial behavior shown by the youths. These include the violation of juvenile laws as well as delinquent actions affecting the society and criminal acts. Lastly, criminal deviance can be explained ...

Thesis: "The multiple revolutions in the eighteenth century had inspired both Haiti and the British American colonies to seek independence, and their revolutionary rhetoric was in many cases similar, a point which alarmed Americans who held to scientific theories of racial hierarchies " (Wisecup 15).

A. Main point I: There is a relation between the climate, the geographical location and the mentality of a nation or the people who inhabit that territory.

a. "Brown compares New Orleans' epidemics to London's fogs, suggesting that epidemics in the U.S. South are similar to the rainy environment which defines London, and, by extension, and ...

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Social conformity refers to the tendency of people to change their behaviors when they are around other people (Myers, 2001). People from all cultures like to be appreciated and included into social settings and gatherings. Conformity affects all people regardless of gender, race or nationality (Myers, 2001). Conformity happens because people in all societies people fear punishment and getting alienated socially. Among all people, there is a lot of psychological trauma in getting socially sidelined by a group to which one wants to belong. The social Identity Theory stresses on people creating In-groups (us) versus out-groups (them). People in all cultures ...

Innovation and management of change are very important aspects of strategic management. It is vital to take a look at different perspectives of change management

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Question 1: Explain van de ven poole models and terminology and describe two of change management theories from the curriculum?

Van de Ven and Poole made important contributions in change management. The Life cycle theory and the Dialectical theory are of great significance in organizations. Considering the Life cycle theory it is worth indicating that the underlying principle of this theory is that “change is imminent: that is, the developing entity has within it ...

Expectancy Theory defined the correlation of motivation and behavior with the exploitation of psychological implications. Victor Vroom has extended the definition of expectancy theory with the elaboration of motivation as the core factor that determines the choice of demeanor of an individual. The theory provides an estimated overview of the influence of motivation over behavioral utterance that constructs the outcome of certain activity. The factor of Motivation cultivates the impression which is referred in Victor Vroom Theory as the foundation of an individual’s expectancy. The referred theory projects motivation as an instrument that ...

Background:

Nola Pender is a past professor who worked at the nursing school at University of Michigan. She has a very successful nursing career. The Health Promotion Model theory was developed by her in 1982 and many research projects were conducted in her honor. Significantly, it has been used worldwide as a guide for evidence based practice, research and education.

Theory description

Concepts: This theory has four major concepts. They pertain to it being a complementary counterpart to other health protection promotion models in the industry. Second, Health promotion being defined a process whereby people are empowered to make decisions regarding amidst determinants of health ...

A successful and effective leader is one who has the potential to mould his/her behavior depending upon the needs of the situation. The cognitive evaluation theory stresses this point of determining the inner needs and desires of an individual. A leader who rates high on his cognitive abilities can be labeled as being conscientious. These leaders can clearly identify what they require and how the task is to be completed. Furthermore, the leader’s cognitive abilities allow them to bring out the best of others working with them. (Silzer)

Controls theory is a branch of the broader concept of ...

Introduction

The assumed Socratic problems were solved long time ago. The standpoint of this paper will be opposing beliefs that are prevailing and hence the primary emphasis will be put on the pedantry and lack of creativity of Socrates. Through the reviewing of records and their theme, this paper will be able to bring out the ambiguous character and the teachings of this great thinker.

Over time, there have been many attempts that try to link up the character of this great philosopher Socrates to the decisive turning point of the Greeks spiritual history. To very great extent this ...

Introduction

In this paper we use basic tools of statistics and probability theory to investigate is it reasonable to install such red light cameras in our town. There is some data available from neighboring towns in the form of accident rates per week at various intersections before and after the red light cameras have been installed. We perform statistical hypothesis testing based on this data set.

Analysis

The sample of 50 observations was collected from neighboring towns. This data is given below in the following table: If we want to consider is it reasonable to install such red light cameras, ...

Information is an important resource that makes us get informed. There is a need to understand the source of information so that we can judge their credibility. WIIFM is an important source of information and entertainment. There is a need to understand how information is organized, how it is collected, and the methods that is used for sorting and how it reaches the audience. This information affects me in such a manner that I should be able to judge information content that we get from our radio stations. They form an important part of our lives. It is therefore important that we ...

The Test of English Language as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is a test taken by Junior high schools to test their ability to apply and understand the English language. It is composed of four areas: reading, writing, listening and speaking. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) is the organization that is responsible for administering the test. Basically, this exam was developed to address problems relevant to English proficiency problems especially of non-native English speakers who are aiming to study in universities in the United States. In addition for having been imposed as a requirement for college admission in the United States for foreign ...

Introduction to Motivation:

What is Motivation?

The topic of motivation is something that we can all relate. For example, as students we are constantly challenged to find motivation to keep going to class despite stress and personal issues. Motivation is link to goals and aspirations. In order to achieve our goals, we need to ‘move’ and do something.

In line with this, motivation is defined as.

The impact of motivation is not only important on a personal or individual level but it is also vital in an organizational level. In businesses, it is needed to always keep employees motivate to assure productivity and achievement of goals. Its significance in business ...

Is management theory scientific?

Management theories are specific beliefs that have been formulated about a highly interpersonal and subjective area of organizing and managing human subjects. Calling management theories as purely scientific in the truest sense of the word can be erroneous because many of the current management theories did not necessarily undergo the strict and rigorous process involved in the scientific process.

Critically evaluate the contribution of Taylor and Toyota in management theory

When examining management theories, Frederick Winslow Taylor’s scientific management theory and Toyota’s 14 principle theory will almost always be involved. Below is a discussion of the contributions of these two turning point theories in the way management principles are seen ...

Article in business

Abstract The economic depression that was experienced globally affected many financial markets and institutions. In attempting to mitigate the effects of the economic depression, different players used different approaches citing different reasons. This paper will look at a particular theorist in economics and his contributions to some of the approaches used by different countries to deals with the issue of economic depression. In doing so, the paper will analyze the contribution of Keynes while striking relevance to the global economic recession. The dispute between Keynes and what he called orthodoxy was based on the reservations he expressed on the ...

The Watson’s theory of human caring has helped in improving human caring practices which result in the healing process. Human caring is important because it leads to quick recovery of the patient. The theory of Watson help in guiding nurses on how to take care of patients to recover faster than relying only on the medicine (Parker,1990).

There are many elements, which led Watson to develop the human caring theory, and this are:

- Curative factors - Interpersonal concern relationship - Caring circumstance

Carative factors

- Developing human care affiliation - Assistance to every human being whenever there is need - Solving problems in the process of delivering assistance Watson ...

Jean Watson’s theory of transpersonal caring was developed in 1979. The theory has evolved over the years but the basic premise still remains the same. The theory lays emphasis on the humanistic aspects of nursing, combined with scientific knowledge. The theory was designed to bring focus and meaning to nursing as a profession. Watson believes that ''Caring'' is an endorsement of professional nurses identity. The ten primary carative factors are as follows;

1. Forming a humanistic-altruistic system of values 2. Installing faith-hope 3. Cultivating sensitivity to others and self 4. Developing a helping-trust relationship 5. Promoting ...

Criminology

Contemporary critical criminology and its power on crime and terrorism Contemporary critical criminology main goal is to assess how criminal law is used as an instrument of social control. O’Conner (2014) states that it views crime as a product of social conflict and economic inequality. Contemporary critical criminology defines power as the economic and social structures that control all human beings. In the past decade or so, critical criminology has been more evident than ever before as many crimes and political notions have risen in the society. Among these crimes is the every growing and very dangerous crime ...

Introduction

Johannes Kepler was born in 1571, in the middle of the scientific revolution. He was a German astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician. His father abandoned him in his early childhood, and it took him twice as long as usual to complete the elementary school. Kepler finally graduated and joined a theological seminary before joining the University of Tuebingen. At the university, Kepler was distracted from his goal of pursuing a graduate degree in theology. A Protestant school offered him a job as a math and astronomy professor, although he initially believed that he lacked special skills in these subjects. As a professor, Kepler turned his attention ...

Introduction

Hildegard E. Peplau was an American nurse who developed the interpersonal relations theory of nursing. Her specialty was mental health nursing and her theory revolutionized nursing practice by emphasizing on the need for a partnership between the nurse and the patient instead of a situation where a patient receives health care services passively. Patient participation is the foundation of patient centered care which is one of the dimensions of quality in modern health care setting. Peplau’s interpersonal relations theory is a midrange nursing theory which bridges grand nursing theories to day-to-day nursing practice. This essay evaluates Peplau’s interpersonal relations theory with ...

- What are the central assumptions of biological theories of crime?

The central assumptions of biological theories of crime are founded on the belief that some people are born criminals. The theory of deviance postulated by Cesare Lombroso developed the idea that criminals have distinct physical characteristics. Other biological theories of crime also associate criminal behavior to hormones, neurotransmitters, autonomic and central nervous system functions.

- What have research studies in the field of genetics had to say about possible causes of crime?

Researches and criminology treatises are exploring the various aspects by which genetics can ...

The classical school of criminology is based on Beccaria and Bentham. The main idea was that every person is only an animal when it comes to criminal affairs. Beccaria and Bentham considered that a person has a free will to do everything one wants. Hence, is a crime is committed, it was only a person’s will to commit it. In such a case, a punishment for every case will be determined only by the crime. Besides, the graveness of the punishment should be determined not by the harm caused to a victim, but by the harm caused to the society. The positivist school of ...

Introduction

Learning is a very important part of life which creates the positive change in the attitude of a human being. Change is the only constant thing in life, which can be brought through learning. Learning helps to change the attitude that ultimately helps both individual and professionals to succeed in life. There are many learning theories proposed by various thinkers and researchers as a guide to strive for a positive change in life and at workplace. Some theorists suggested that a motivation; recall power and thoughts plays a significant role in the process of learning. In today’s fast changing environment learning, helps to determine ...

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Whistle blowing refers to the act of keeping employees in check. Proponents of whistle blowing dictate that, it is the mandate of employees to ensure that their employees do not violate the terms and conditions that are supposed to guide the work environment. However, it is significant to note that, everybody is not pro whistle blowing; some people argue out that whistle blowing is against the principles that guide the position of an employer before his employees. Due to the overwhelming contestations that have featured in the field of Whistle blowing, the following theories have been devised by Davis, ...

This paper attempts to answer the question “should queer theory be considered a theory for psychotherapy?” This paper takes the stand that queer theory must be considered a theory for psychotherapy.

Queer theory stemmed from the fields of women’s and queer studies in the early 1990s. This theory concentrates on mismatches between desire, gender and sex (Pinar, 1998). To a larger extent, this theory is associated with gay, lesbian and bisexual subjects. In the recent past, this theory has incorporated other areas such as gender corrective surgery, gender ambiguity, intersexuality and cross dressing (Pinar, 1998). As such, queer theory evaluates ...

- There are no evidences to prove the existence of reverse speech but if it did truly exist Oates would become a person who discovered a very important phenomenon.

- There were no facts or evidences in support this theory.

- The argument is deductive.

- I don’t believe that reverse speech exist. Firstly because of lack of evidences and secondly because of the fact people are those who discovered speech and languages.

Oates’ theory about the reverse speech in point of fact is a very interesting and in case of proving it may become a real scientific ...

Adults are responsible for their actions. Today, that is what society says. A person does not do wrong things just because of his biological make up. That is a very old-fashioned thinking. Behavioral scientists have studied this topic since the 1800s. But they found out later on that there is no biological link to being a criminal (Crossman, 2000). Today, these studies look judgmental and discriminating, same as why people burned women on the stake when they thought they were witches. But science continues to advance. The knowledge about the human body increases. Some scientists still think there might be a connection ...

Management styles refer to ways by which the leaders ensure that day to day operations of a company or facility are done the right way and at the right time. The reason is to ensure that the vision, goals or missions are accomplished while satisfying the client. Nursing administrators and hospital use a persuasive style of management, which encourages feedback from all levels of staff in the organization. Managers encourage and value feedback because that is the way the daily activities are fulfilled and also it assist to rectify where there is an issue that could hinder work. The nurses who ...

Political ads are designed to capture the attention of the audience and make them adopt a particular political inclination or support a particular political proposal. In the modern day and age, politicians have discovered that the design of the advert can have humongous implications on its target audience. Consequently, they have done everything possible to come up with adverts that not only capture the attention of the audience at that time, but also leave a lasting impression. However, on thing is clear. Modern political adverts stimulate the emergence of varying opinions from the audiences.

The RAS model is a theory of human ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of this research is to try and examine factors that influence business performance of SMEs. The aim of this study is to give the seeing on how individuals ought to begin their business by taking an evaluation at all the elements affecting business performance. Thus help to lessen the danger of disappointment and expand possibilities of success. The study inspected eight variables that impact the SMEs business achievement. These components are SMEs trademark, administration and expertise, items and administrations. (SMEs) Is acknowledged internationally as an apparatus for enabling the citizenry and economic development. It has been connected ...

- Broken Windows theory - The theory asserts that untended property becomes subject to destruction, and, therefore, unpatrolled communities become prone to criminal activities (Duffee, & Maguire, 2007). According to the theory, the public administrators should rebuild the society’s trusts by placing the people’s safety first, supervising probationers in the communities rather than in the office, allocating the public resources rationally, and providing enforcement and sequential quick response in case of violations.

- It is crucial to developing partners within the community to enhance the policing aspect. The public administrators should create performance-based initiatives and establish strong ...

I would describe my personal criminological theory as the Classical Theory, and why I think it fits is because people have a choice about everything that they do including the choice to commit the crime. There’s no excuse to commit a crime no matter how easy or advantageous the score of that crime is. For example, classical theory could define a potential rapist who chooses to rape women in order to satisfy his sexual needs. It can be said that instead of raping random women in order to satisfy his sexual needs, he can just get a prostitute for whatever he wants ...

Part 1

A marketing survey leads to a collection of different types of data about a particular market or consumer group. The data collected can be from various elements of a market (e.g., a sample of car owners or night shoppers). If we are going to base our decisions on the results achieved through market research then, the research has to be highly valid. There is an often quoted statement “There are three types of lies---lies, damn lies, and statistics” by Benjamin Disraeli. This statement is true if the statistical procedures are not applied prudently and authentically. There are two main sources of misuse ...

The Spiral of Silence was a theory created by Dr. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, a German political analyst in 1974. The theory is based on the public opinion; as Neumann suggests, people are more confident in voicing out their opinions if they know that their own opinion matches the opinion of the majority. In some cases, if the opinions bare quite different than that of the majority, people refuse to voice out their opinions and remain silent (Donsbach, Salmon and Tsfati, 2014).

Those people who belong to the minority are afraid to voice out their views for the fear of being socially isolated ...

Motivation refers to the internal and external reasons that stimulate or encourage people to act. Motivation can be used in companies to stimulate the workers to be interested in their jobs. The workers are motivated such as the pay method through various ways. The use of remuneration methods has different strengths and limitations. A limitation of the pay motivation method is that it is an extrinsic factor that is expected by the workers and as such may not work to motivate the employees since they think it is their right. This is in line with the Herzberg two-factor theory ...

Metaparadigm is a term that distinguishes a discipline and gives that discipline an abstract view. It distinguishes one field of study from another. Metaparadigm is a combination of two words, Meta and paradigm. Fawcett defined metaparadigm of discipline as groups of statements that identify its phenomena in a global way and not specific. Fawcett explained the concepts that define the discipline. Fawcett identified four concepts of nursing as environment, health, nursing and human beings (Fawcett, 2005). The nursing discipline development has seen many challenges over the past century. Fawcett formulated that nursing is a distinct discipline composed of structural holarchies, which are integrated to ...

Section A: Learning Theories in the Big World

During the course of this semester, the process of gaining insightful information regarding the different learning theories allowed me to appreciate the different techniques used to facilitate learning. During the first part of the course, I was able to learning five learning theories which enable me to see how learners process insights and gain knowledge from them through the techniques proposed ...

Introduction

The air transportation industry plays the key role in life of American people. The commercial airline system provides the Americans with the opportunity to attend negotiations or conferences on the other continents and travel to the desirable destinations when embarking on holidays and traveling with business visits. This innovative system is available for twenty-four hours seven days a week. Apart from carrying passengers, different cargoes can be transported all over the world. In most cases this industry is targeted to meet exclusively the commercial goals. With the rapid development of globalization and business relations, the establishment of cooperation has become ...

The reading “Globalization, Identity, and the Consumption of Place in Popular Music” offers a substantive review on various issues regarding the manner in which globalization has had an immense influence on the consumption of popular music with regards to locations. Worth noting is the fact that music is a social force whose influence in the society is worth reckoning. The current reading notes that the manner in which music has globalized is different from the manner in which other products have become globalized. To be precise, popular music is adored across various settings all over the globe. Many at times, the ...

Both Piaget’s and Vygotsky’s theories have a common field, the cognitive development in children. Cognitive development refers to the study of development in children in parts of language learning, speech, processing information plus other brain development aspects. It compares children’s cognitive psychology from the point of view of an adult. The two theories try to explain how children develop using cognitive development.

Comparing the two theories, their similarity only lies on the fact that they both explain that social interaction is the underlying factor in cognitive development in children, but then different methods and factors are ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to define the context of Spiral of Silence and to identify the theorist who created the theory. In addition, this paper endeavors to inform the reader about the theory and the theorist professional background without abandoning the fundamental argument about the necessity of expressing opinions. For decades, mass communication scholars battled amongst each other in order to prove the validity of the theory. Vast amounts of research about the occurrence of the so-called spiral phenomena were carried out by dedicated mass media scholars who are very determined to make Spiral of Silence a part ...

Philosophy

Benedetto Croce was a very popular figure in the initial years of the 20th century with respect to aesthetics, philosophy as well as literary criticism. Most of Croce’s general philosophy was akin to that of the earlier century. A relentless theme in the philosophy of Croce is that he pursued a path that lied between ‘transcendentalism’ by Scylla and ‘sensationalism’ of the Charybdis, which for a wide number of reasons may be regarded as co-extensive encompassing both rationalism as well as empiricism. In the view of Croce, these lie at the bottom of the similar error of abstracting from usual experience ...