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Erik Erikson's Theories and What It Means to Be an Adult

human beings into jeopardy. Thus, adults have a responsibility to use their ability for higher reasoning and abstract thought to p...

Staples Theory Applied to Canadian Prairie Development

those resources. The latter culture, that associated with the fur trade, is of particular interest when discussing the developmen...

Montesquieu, Hobbes, and Spinoza on Political Theory

to whether or not people need law, or whether or not they can regulate society themselves. The idea of anarchy is supported by som...

Effective Communication and Theory

Many potential barrier exist, such as trying to communicate too much information that cannot be absorbed by the receiver, misjudgi...

New Classical Theory of Economics

thought which developed in the eighteenth and ninetieth centuries. The major thrust of this work is the way in which markets actua...

Lussier and Achua's Leadership Theories

it can be said. He could tell in a fifteen minute interview whether the potential hire was going to fit well with the team that wa...

Disabled Work Placements Using the Hierarchy of Needs Theory of Abraham Maslow

as true of the majority of employees, however it can be argued it will not be true of all (Baron, 1987)....

Aristotle's Rhetoric Theory and President Bush's September 20, 2001 Speech to Congress

are not connected by the bonds of being anything but themselves" (Babyak, 1995). His contention was that inasmuch as words were v...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Global Theory and the Cold War

enough tinder on the firebox to light a conflagration. During the early days of the war, American policy was focused on co...

Self Affirmation Threatened by Moral Anxiety and the Theories of Paul Tillich

into being during the Middle Ages then it could, in part, be blamed on the emergence of the Church as an influential power in huma...

Examining Cognition of Language Theories

and the way we cognitively process speech. Are these processes linked to an inherent modularity? If we look as speech from a Ved...

Social Psychology and Application of Aggression Theories

et al, 1990). In the clinical setting, the two most commonly displayed behavior disorders are grouped under the heading of disr...

Aging Theories

of mid-life to the later years of life (Atchley, 2002). In fact, Atchley (2002) argues that continuity is the most substantial st...

Questioning Communications Theory

confirm a null hypothesis, but if conducted properly, a study using such a method should produce valid, reliable results. ...

Differential Association Theory and Crime

the subject. When approximations become regular, the psychologist the changes the expectations, and redirects the subject to an e...

Comparative Consideration and Application of Criminological Theories

through in the study of behaviors by his operand conditioning theory. Basically stated, Skinner demonstrated that positive reinfo...

An Intervention Using Appreciative Inquiry Theory

and suitable, AI theorists underscore the need for effective leadership through the process of organizational change. Further, A...

Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Political Domination According to the Theories of Max Weber

influences we first need to consider aktuelles Verstehen and erkl?rendes Verstehen. The first of these is aktuelles Verstehen is o...

Prostitution Deviance and Theories of Sociology

exchange for money and in the absence of an existing social relationship is deviant in comparison with the normative culture. But...

Advanced Practice Nursing Care and Ida Jean Orlando's Theory

to identify and to relate in terms of actual patient care. Ida Jean Orlando created a conceptual view of the nursing process whic...

Professional Nursing and Theory

are licensed individuals who go through at least one year of formal education in addition to clinical instruction, and the focus o...

Questions on Communications Theory

In eight pages communications theory is considered in a series of questions that discuss such issues as cultural and social influe...

Questions Regarding Communications Theory

and avoidance may support an individuals self-presentation goals in the communication process. Competence in communication in the...

Oil Prices Explained Through Economic Theory

until sufficient buyers are attracted to the market with the lower prices to take up the excess demand (Nellis and Parker, 2000). ...

Double Consciousness Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois

anothers eyes, as it creates a sense of "twoness" (Perkins and Rice, 2000). In other words, African Americans saw themselves both ...

Religion and Sociological Theory

merit. Indeed, religion is used to control the masses to some extent and people use religion for functional reasons. It helps them...

Theories of Criminology

it in the conventional fashion; because the desire for material goals has been imbedded into the individuals entire psychological ...

3 Theories on Communication

discussed here are narrative, dialectic and dramaturgical. Narrative Narrative theory is that which addresses communication...

Food Preferences and the Theories of B.F. Skinner

the way (Psychology.org, 2003). Another aspect of Skinners theory was that of "chaining," in other words, the fact that te...