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Public Leaders

This essay describes and discusses four leadership styles that could be used in private or public settings. The behaviors of leade...

Phenomenon of Road Rage

Edwards, 1997). Dr. Richardo Martinez, the director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and one of the countrys ...

Childs' Theories of the Urban Revolution

This 7 page paper compares Childs' theories of urban revolution to those of other authors. In particular, the writer discusses the...

Urban Planning and Development Theories of Paul Peterson

In eight pages this research essay considers Miami in an application of Paul Peterson's urban development and planning theories. ...

Company Mission and Strategy Management

in their idea or product; if this is the case then it appears clear that mission will be one of the first stages in strategic mana...

Capital Budgeting Tools

tool, but unlikely to be used alone, the company will also want to look at the potential for profit. Companies will look at the ...

Mass Media, Melting Pot, Sustainable Growth, and Overpopulation Questions Answered

(Anonymous, 1997), thereby deciding which social and political issues are worthy of attention and establishing an unnatural promin...

4 Ps and New Product

This paper presents a case study about a brewery that wants to introduce a non-alcoholic beer to the market and uses the 4Ps metho...

The Sociology and Social Work Perspectives of Black American Pioneers

a greater effect on African Americans than practically any other book published up until that time. William H. Ferris writes in 1...

Toronto's Lakeshore Village

for the "sum total" of the structure of urban artifacts (Rossi 140). In addressing this, Halbwachs looks at the various social g...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

Using Moving Averages

the demand data from days 2, 3 and 4 and divides by 3. This is repeated for all the days (except the last day as there are not thr...

Education and the Use of Cinema

seek information. Paulo Freire calls lecturing the "banking concept" of education, and there is not much student-teacher interfac...

Explaining What Cannot Be Explained Through Mythology

In five pages this research paper examines the social function of mythology with the emphasis being on the myths of ancient Greece...

Tired Nurses

The organizational behavior problem selected for this analysis is nurse fatigue. Thousands of nurses arrive at work in a state of ...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

Who Is The Intelligent Designer

prove the existence of God, which he considered to be self-evident. Aquinas said that when we are not able to demonstrate the caus...

Developmental Schemas for Children

Piaget is bast known for his stages of cognitive development. His theory is still being used today as well as being researched. Pi...

Netherlands' Sociological Structure

In five pages 'sociological imagination' is defined and then applied to the Netherlands in this sociological analysis. Six source...

Content and Process Based Motivation Theories

relationship (Armstrong, 2009, p320). Process theories place an emphasis on the differences that are found in employees, and inste...

A New Motivational Framework

The writer reviews motivation theory, focusing on the content and process theories, utilizing the existing knowledge to create a n...

Struggling Organizations and the Power of Leadership

world, from London and Toronto to Tokyo and Bombay. The organization also makes extensive use of information technology in organiz...

Sociological Imagination/Mills

This paper discusses C. Wright Mills (1916-1962), and his sociological imagination perspective on society. The writer discusses a...

An Intervention Using Appreciative Inquiry Theory

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

Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Conflict Theory

strive to maintain the status quo and those who derive less benefit will attempt to overturn or change it. Although evolutionary c...

Resource Dependency Theory, Contingency Theory and Core Technology

over a great deal with social exchange theory and the study of politics in the workplace (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The use ...

W.E.B. DuBois and the Sociological Imagination

II. The Contributions of W.E.B. Dubois The Souls of Black Folk is probably W.E.B. Dubois most famous work. It provides an over...

A History and Sociological Overview of Prostitution

society. Therefore, it was imperative to the churchs position of power to eradicate this opposition. The early church did not, how...

Emile Durkheim and the Social Theory of Lyotard

only give rise to institutions in patches--local determinism" (Lyotard PG). II. EXPOSING POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism was t...

A 911 Sociological Analysis

Whether or not the charge regarding globalization is true is besides the point. The people feel that way and are perhaps angered t...