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Education

Elementary Learning Disabilities Programs

Learning disabilities in children is something which cannot be clearly defined. It mainly affects spoken language, written language, memory, arithmetic and reasoning. 6-10 percent of the school-aged children are estimated to have learning disabilities in the United States. It makes academic achievement and progress difficult for the children and their...

Education

Gender School Culture: Why Boys Outperform Girls

Key Stage 2 examinations are done by pupils who are about to complete their primary education. These exams are used to evaluate the progress of the students, to categorize the primary schools according to their performance, and to provide secondary schools with a picture of pupils’ academic capabilities as they...

Psychology

Career Development Plan and Counseling

Career development planning and counseling connected with this issue are rather helpful o people whose lives are complicated by various health and psychological problems, stresses, and depressions. Being confused about the variety of life problems, these people might need guidance as to where to direct their working energy and potential....

Sociology

Qualitative Social Research Methods

Introduction All that is known and perceived about qualitative research the perceived is wrong (Rossiter). There has been a long-standing debate about the adequacy of research methods in social sciences. Historically there has been a universal bias towards quantitative research and qualitative research has been fraught with criticism for its...

Religion

Theology of Christian Community

Outline The outline of this theological paper is about Christian Theology according to Trinitarian Theory. The paper starts with Bilezikian’s view of Trinity as an important base of Christian Theology and explores the concepts of Trinity and practices as well to follow it to experience the grace of God. Though...

Psychology

The Impact of Divorce on Women

Introduction This research was undertaken to evaluate women’s experiences with stress during the divorce process. As Polomeno (2007) has noted, “Divorce is considered as one of life’s most potent stressors,” (p. 18). Indeed divorce has been shown to immensely contribute to traumatic experiences for both of the spouses, and especially...

Tech & Engineering

Research Studies Analysis about Education

Outline Introduction Thesis: This research paper presents an analysis of two articles from peer-reviewed journals; these are ‘”Learning with Technology: The Impact of Laptop Use on Student Achievement” by James Cengiz Gulek and Hakan Demirtas and “Engaging Students in Multimedia-Mediated Constructivist Learning – Students’ Perceptions” by Mai Neo and Tse-Kian...

Education

The Hispanic Male Perception of Higher Education

Introduction to the Problem The Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States (2007) reports that 30% of Whites attain a college degree, while only 12.6% of Hispanics in the United States (U.S.) graduate from college. Jana L. Schwartz, Jody Donovan, and Guido-DiBrito, Florence (2009) point out in the quote...

Religion

Healing in New Religions Review

Introduction The material world seems more increased when people began thinking about and dealing with the spiritual side of the Universe. The issue of man’s interest in the sphere of inner, non-material and non-scientific fields of engagement is always wider and wider. The quest for cure is of great significance...

Psychology

Personal Development: Career Management

Introduction For quite a long time, the study of guidance has always been majored on adolescents with adult materials being very rare. In fact, some writers put it that psychology textbooks give an impression that age 21 is the zenith of human development. This has made the study remain based...

Politics & Government

Is Capital Punishment Fair?

Outline Capital punishment, though abolished in many countries, is still practiced in some others. People have always debated on whether it is right to practice capital punishment or not. There are various flaws in sentencing to kill a convict. Firstly, it does not help in reducing the crime rate. Secondly,...

Education

Stress in Higher Education International Student

Introduction The following is a research essay that focuses on the stress and tension level faced by the higher education bearing international students. It would include all the necessary details and information which would highlight the problems, circumstances, living conditions, and living styles inherited by the higher education students. Discussion...

Sociology

Principles of Utilitarianism

Introduction The basic moral principle of utilitarianism is the principle of utility also termed as the principle of greatest happiness. The principle states that the rightness or wrongness of an action is determined by its utility or usefulness where usefulness in greater sense means how much pleasure or happiness the...

Family, Life & Experiences

Impact of Culture on the American Family System and Structure

The American family system has been under serious scrutiny and has faced criticism for its “downfall” and lack of “parental authority” resulting in the decay of discipline” for many years now (McGinley). In his article “The new American family” McGinley quotes Oscar Handlin who defines a traditional European family had...

Tech & Engineering

Private Internet Usage in the Workplace

In this computerized era, communications can be done instantaneously. Information passed can be retrieved in seconds from any part of the world through internet access. Both the employers and employees have been benefited, such as employees could perform efficiently and employers were able to achieve their goals in their business....

Philosophy

What Is Philosophy?

The Oxford Dictionary defines Philosophy as the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. However, philosophy means much more than this basic definition encompassing a vast body of work and this essay examines the various aspects of what is philosophy. Philosophy deals with the fundamental questions about...

Education

Attitudes and Beliefs Towards Mathematics Teaching

Introduction The attitudes and beliefs of teachers in general are a very essential aspect of teaching and learning process. It is expected that for effective learning to be achieved, the teacher being a major stakeholder in the process, should have the right attitude towards the learners and the learning process....

Tech & Engineering

Supply Chain Management: Dell computer

Dell computer was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell and is today one of the most successful businesses. From the beginning, they integrated a new concept of a direct sales model which eliminated middlemen and sold directly to the consumer, and a build-to-order process of manufacturing which they named Dell...

Sociology

Requirements for a Sustainable Society

Outline The accelerated rate of human development and indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources are forcing dramatic changes on our Planet. This essay examines the various facets of human interactions and their interface with the environment towards achieving a sustainable future. The essay first explains the concept of sustainable development and...

Sociology

Illegal Immigration in the United States

This is one of the many sociological problems that the united states is currently facing and it’s of much significance as it touches on many aspects of the life of not only citizens of the united states but also the lives of the immigrants and their families(Hanson,2005). Illegal immigration is...

Sociology

The Contributions of Business, Unions and Government to Promoting Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance has become an important social issue. Work-life balance can be defined as ‘the relationship between the institutional and cultural times and spaces of work and non-work in societies where income is predominantly generated and distributed through labor markets’ work balance are therefore those that intentionally or otherwise increase...

History

Feminism in the Hip-Hop Culture

Hip-hop culture is rather a new genre of music. It appeared in America in the 1970s and was considered to be the male style of music till the 1990s when women attempted to compare with men and succeed. Since that time hip-hop culture is considered to be both male and...

Environment

Who Is Responsible for Global Warming: Human or Nature

Introduction The modern world is full of different dangers and nature may become the main danger. Climate change may bring a lot of inconveniences to people’s life or even the elimination of the whole of mankind. Nature is a very powerful instrument that is not only used by people but...

Education

Effective Adult ESL Model Economic Impact on the Economy of Canada

Introduction English has acquired an international reputation as a world language due in large part to the globalized power relations of companies and governments (Graddol, 1997). English as a second language, also known as an ELS program, has evolved over the years and influenced economical and social sectors. Much advancement...

Tech & Engineering

The Internet Communication

The Internet, as one of the types of communication, appeared in 1957 in the USA in order to create a new information transfer system. There are also other types of mass media such as radio, TV, and newspaper; and the Internet is the fourth type that entered the sphere of...

Education

Systems Theory in the Light of Three Scientists

Analyzing the Education system of Hispanic women in the light of Peter Senge Peter Senge presents the idea of learning as organizational success and analyzes learning on the basis of what he refers to as ‘shift of mind’. It is this ‘shift’ that is responsible for bringing change to any...

Tech & Engineering

Securing the Host From the Virtual Machine

Introduction The publishing industry is one of the old industries around the world. Books hold a unique place among other media. By the early nineteenth century as the scale of book production increased dramatically, editorial activities split off into the separate business of publishing. The publisher handled and copyedited the...

Tech & Engineering

A Critical Examination of the Rules on Force Relative to the Cyberwarfare

Introduction Background Cyber-attacks or cyberwarfare is a new type of warfare that uses digital technology to distort, steal or erase critical information, which results in serious economic, political and social consequences. Many governments have come to appreciate the power of cyber warfare and are using it to attack other nations...

Sciences

Quantitative Study of Leadership Styles

Introduction In quantitative research, we categorize features, tally them, and even create more intricate arithmetical models to explain what is seen. Results can be generalized to a bigger population; moreover, the direct relationship can be made linking two corpora, as long as applicable sampling and significance techniques have been used...

Culture

How the Arab Pop World Objectifies the Women’s Body

Introduction Seated around a lunch table at the Higher Institute of Music in Damascus, Maya Yousef and twins Nadia and Hala Muhamna – members of an all-girl’s classical music ensemble – offer vociferous protest. “[These music videos are] not about being openminded,” says Nadia, whose trendy skirt and top would...

Education

Adult Education. Retraining Programme for Older People

What is the topic of my research? Adult Education: How’s NGO retraining programme assist “re-trainees” who are over 40 years old with unemployed and lower education in returning to the workplace successfully?? Why have I chosen this topic? Today we are living in an era of globalisation and liberalisation. The...

Linguistics

Language Choice of Intermarried Families in Japan

Language environment choice of bilingual families Although many children acquire one language at a time, children’s exposure to more than one language in their primary language acquisition has for centuries been the norm in many parts of the world. In particular, the Western worlds, greater mobility of people, and consequent...

Sociology

Physicians’ Treatment Decisions: Sociological Theory

Abstract This paper aims to present the social characteristics of the Physicians that evaluate the differences among the treatment decisions they make on the patients who have similar health problems. The physician’s involvement in the patient’s treatment appeared to be chronic as the physician becomes sensitive to different factors such...

Tech & Engineering

Computerizing the Purchasing System of the Company

Introduction House incorporated is a medium sized company selling motor vehicle spare parts with over ten branches scattered across five major towns in California. It has several department interconnected using a common server. The departments that are interconnected include accounts and finance and procurement human resources, marketing and administration. The...

Tech & Engineering

Quality of Oil Project by the Kurdistan Government

Introduction. Research question Oil is considered to be the most significant product in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Throughout the Saddam Hussein ruling, the Kurdistan Regional Government was deal with just 13% of the incomes achieved from their oil. But transforms in the political outlook have also provided a better...

Warfare

U.S. Interagency Cooperation Against Terrorism

Thesis statement Interagency cooperation is necessary to win a war against terrorism. The United States has implemented this approach towards fighting terrorism. This study will answer the question of whether the U.S. interagency Cooperation has improved to effectively combat terrorist organizations and terrorism in general. There have been efforts applied...

Tech & Engineering

Scope of Improvement on the Environmental Impact of Air Travel

Abstract The given project is devoted to the in-depth investigation of the problem of air travel environmental impact and the ways it can be improved. The significance and importance of the problem precondition the increased attention to the analysis of the aviation industry as one of the most fast-growing spheres...

Art

Studying Music Evolution

Music is an exceptional method of passing information that can alter a person’s emotions, thoughts, and operations. Music involves the mind and sentiments facilitating individual articulation, manifestation, and attitude growth. As a section of tradition, music aids individuals to self-appreciation, mingle with others, and grow their way of life creating...

Education

Highly Qualified Teachers, Is That Enough?

Introduction This is literature review of the teacher qualification, leadership skills, standards consolidate of information from various literature written by different groups. We are going to differentiate between the teacher’s qualification, which is a level requirement and the teacher’s quality, experience in disseminating information. In addition, we shall summarize the...

Psychology

Hypnotic Responsiveness Definition

Hypnosis Many people tend to associate hypnosis with a man who waves around a clock subjecting the patient to slavery to the master (hypnotizer). However, modern hypnosis is anything but. Subjects are lured into a trance like state. This sub-conscious state drives the patient being hypnotized towards a point of...

Entertainment & Media

Advertising and Word of Mouth Impact on Consumer Decision Making

Word of mouth is considered to be one of the most effective and powerful forms of communication in the world of marketing. Word of mouth takes place when one person communicates some information to other through face to face, telephone, e-mail or any other communication medium based on their personal...

Sociology

Women Empowerment That Can Break the Glass Ceiling

Abstract The effect of glass ceiling on the prospect of American women finds analysis in this paper. Significantly, the reasons for glass ceiling and ways and means of women’s empowerment as well as recommendations for their development and career advancement were discussed. Even the advantages and disadvantages of those recommendations...

Education

Research Methodology: Questions and Hypotheses

Introduction This chapter will be organized with the help of the “onion” structure suggested by Saunders, Lewis, and Thornhill (2009). Many scholars propose structures of performing research (Fower 2013; Ríos & Del Campo 2013; Gray 2017), but the one suggested by Saunders, Lewis, and Thornhill (2009) is the most comprehensive...

Tech & Engineering

Intellectual Property Rights and the Internet

Copyright Issues The Internet has proved to be and proficient medium in spreading out information and due to this, it poses challenges to the typical values of copyright law. Most significantly, the internet provides the public with flawless duplicates of various things which includes pictures, animation, text, videos, and other...

Psychology

Literature Review of Theories of Motivation

Introduction Motivation is the greatest problem in the employment setup and learning environment in the world today. it has been branded as the most difficult single problem faced by managers and teachers as they manage the organization and teach in the classroom respectively. In a learning environment, the benefits of...

Warfare

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

According to (Cole, 2000) Terrorism intends to terrify through intimidation that causes fear and causing psychological injury where the behavior of people is controlled. It is important for people to understand the properties of weapons used to cause mass destruction and how to reduced the negative effects caused by them...

Sciences

Complex Biological Networks: Modeling, Analysis, Simulation

Significance of Research Recent advances in genetic technologies and the completion of the Human Genome Project have generated a plethora of information that is essential to the understanding of specific aspects of human biology and medicine. Alongside the goal of sequencing the entire human genome and identifying genes associated with...

Education

Educational Structures and Administration Relationship

The educational value to the Canadians has formed a core factor in the country’s economic growth and development of the nation. The education for Canadians has been shaped through the integration of parents, teachers, and other stakeholders such as the federal government. Despite the coordination of the various organizations, education...

Law

Methodologies Used to Measure Acts of Juvenile Delinquencies

Juvenile Delinquencies Juvenile delinquency can be looked at as behavior that acts contrary to the already established norms and laws of society. For many decades juvenile delinquency has featured in the literature that concerns criminal behavior. Juvenile delinquency is a phenomenon in a society that appears to be apparently complicated...

Education

Masters Degrees: Necessary for Success?

Introduction I will explore the topic of whether a graduate degree guarantees financial and career success. In these times of economic duress, more and more people are turning to graduate school in the hopes, this will guarantee a stable job and more money when the “good times” return. However, in...

Sports

Development of Fencers Skill

Abstract Fencing is a today’s modern sport, which is gaining popularity day by day and is successful enough to stand as one of the four sports in Olympic Games. Due to increasing popularity, the fencers are acing tough competitions as new techniques are arising and are being practiced by the...

Tech & Engineering

How Organizations Protect Customer Privacy

Abstract Personal Privacy Information has been regarded as a crucial issue when eCommerce transactions are discussed. With increased reports of data and identity theft, virus attacks and hacking, customers are worried when they have to give personal information on the Internet. Consequently, organizations are faced with the responsibility of ensuring...

Sociology

Feminism in Post Colonial Period in the Backdrop of Clash of Cultures

Introduction The discussion in the paper is regarding the meaning of Jean Rhys in a post-colonial climate in the light of Spivak’s theory about feminism. The double oppression of race and gender of Creole and third world women are discussed in the light of imperialism and the sexual difference of...

Design

Computer Graphics: Human Pose Estimation and Recovering

Retrieval and tracking of coherent human motion from monocular images in a consistent form is a defying question because of the following factors. First is the suppleness of human motion, second are the different body types, and third is the changeability and unevenness of the styles of body movements. Finally,...

Sociology

Violence and the Society: Criminal and Delinquent Behavior

Abstract Criminal and delinquent behaviors are undesirable acts that deviate from the generally agreed acts in society. They adversely affect human safety and therefore it is important to study and evaluate the major causes and how to diagnose an individual who is in his/her early stages of committing a crime...

Education

Small Community Schools’ Academic Success

Outline The education sector has seen many changes in the past years. Many of these changes if not all, are attempts by the stakeholders to better the education standard in the United States. These have seen even the central government and congress passing a bill that brought about the No...

Tech & Engineering

Systems, Process and Use Case Modeling

Introduction Use case modeling has become the foundation of the most popular de facto standard technique for performing software requirements analysis and specification. However, use case modeling has its well-known problems, and different requirements engineers typically perform use case modeling differently. This paper provides a hierarchically organized set of detailed...

Literature

“Fear and Loathing” in Las Vagas and “Fur and Loathing” in Los Vagas

Introduction This essay deals with the strange phenomenon being detected on the surface of a discursive layer presented in two quite contradictive “pieces of meaning” – the book “Fear and Loathing” by Thompson (Thompson, 1998) and ‘CSI: Crime and Investigation’ TV series “Fur and Loathing” (2000). I was stunned by...

Sciences

Research Methodology Methods and Techniques

Introduction There are different approaches to research including theories and methods. There two well-documented general approaches that are use mostly in academic researches. These approaches are quantitative research and qualitative research methods (Cresswell, 1994). Before choosing a research method one needs to understand how these two approaches to research work...

Sociology

Symbolic Interactionism and Gender

In the modern world of knowledge revolution, there are several theoretical frameworks that address the basic concepts of gender and gender identity. One of the very effective ways of comprehending the concepts of gender and gender inequality is to understand it with the assistance of social learning theories as the...

Psychology

Depression: Stages of Dealing With Depression

The state of depression is very spread nowadays. Stresses are a part of our everyday life, and people with a weakened nervous system or specific perception of life can have them developed into serious problems. Depression is a disorder that needs very careful treatment. I suggest such stages to be...

Tech & Engineering

Survey of Methodology of Data Mining

Today in information technology era, there is ample of information available and a number of users are accessing data daily for their use and requirements. Data mining is a commonly used term in computer field. Data mining is the process of sorting huge amount of data and finding out the...

Art

Satire in Paddy Chefesky’s “The Hospital” and “Network”

Introduction Chayefsky’s unforgettable piece of screenwriting and popular movies of the American golden era has stamped his everlasting fame and name in the field of showbiz and literature. According to Jacqueline Z. Davis, Barbara G., and Lawrence A. Fleischman Executive Director for the Performing Arts, “Paddy Chayefsky was an innovative...

Sociology

Reference Group Theory and Conventional Role Concept

An analysis of the life and experience of women in the Victorian age makes it clear that the role of women in the society was very much affected by various factors. It is particular characteristic feature of the age that the women of the upper class were held to high...

Sociology

Symbolic Interactionism in Victorian Women

Introduction The sociologist Clarke (1997) discovered that every individual one way or the other upholds some kind of creativity or narrow-mindedness in her personality. We never know what a personal belief or what a person expects from the other when it comes to ‘symbolic interaction’ until we discover through interpretation...

Psychology

Developmental Learning Theory and Types of Learning

Theories of human development have been studied by people for many years. There are a lot of approaches to this problem. Different scholars take different issues as the basis for their studies. There is no common approach to this problem. The development of humanity is one of the most difficult...

Law

Reducing Taxation by Recruiting Minor Criminals for the Military

Introduction There are only two certain things in this world: death and taxes (Michiels, 2007). This reality is important that most governments consider in bringing growth and development. Taxes serve as the direct source of government income. Without the taxes, it will be difficult for the government to provide basic...

Law

Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency

Abstract Juvenile delinquency is prevented and controlled effectively to make sure young offenders are free from crimes through advising them and giving them moral support. The entire society participates actively all the time to reduce the rate of crime and report committed crimes to the justice system for disciplinary measures...

Psychology

Psychological Assessment of Ms. Sandra

Interpretation and Impressions General Level of Intellectual Functioning Ms. Sandra’s intellectual level with reference to verbal conceptual and oral skills is at an average level. But this is acceptable and probably can be considered to have bright normal intelligence. Her symptoms could not indicate totally indicate problems to interact with...

Education

Academic Motivation: Ethnic Teaching in Dutch Schools

Introduction In Dutch schools as in most other European schools, the ethnic divergence of the pupils has made teaching a greater exercise over some time. The migration of non-European minority people into Europe from the 1960s onwards has posed a different challenge to the teachers. Authors, Andrissen, Phalet & Lens...

Literature

Rwanda Genocide and Role of the United Nations

The autobiographical book “Shake Hands with the Devil. The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda”, written by Romeo Dellaire, describes the events, which took place in this country in 1994, commonly known as Rwanda Genocide. In particular, it explores the underlying causes of this catastrophe and the failure of the United...

Law

Liebeck vs. McDonald’s Case

Stories of frivolous lawsuits have become the most favorite quip of mass media. (Greenlee 1996). Do cases like Liebeck versus McDonald’s $2.9 million coffee spill-over case examples of the legal system run amok? Liebeck’s coffee spill-over case has become the poster child of all frivolous litigations. In this essay, we...

Sports

Importance of Fencing in Today’s World

Abstract Fencing is a today’s modern sport and is now considered in the first four sports of Olympics. Fencing uses different and modernized weapons. Different techniques and preventive measures are used in order to protect a fencer’s body and life. Due to recent its popularity, fencers have realized that today,...

Psychology

Does the Sexual Orientation of Parents Matter?

Introduction This article is about the experiences of children who grew up with parents who are homosexuals and their struggles to maintain a normal life in spite of their parents’ nonconforming lifestyles. Dawn Stefanowicz talks about her book, Out from Under The Impact of Homosexual Parenting”, which gives her first-person...

Education

Educational Leadership – Past and Present

The history of educational leadership as a system of views begins in the United States since year 1837, when public education was introduced and made available to all social circles (Bogotch, 2004, p.10). One of the prominent politicians and educators, Horace Mann, was amongst the first to assert the necessity...

Entertainment & Media

Privacy Issues on Online Advertising – Qatar

Introduction “Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” –Stephen B. Leacock It initially sounded like a winning situation – absolute free money – for all internet access providers. By simply tracking their users personal surfing habits, they can...

Design

Urban Development and Planning in Dublin

The aim of the literature review is to examine and analyze current literature on the topic under discussion and determine the main trends in urban development and planning. All researchers agree that the persisting process of urbanization, the worst excesses of a post-industrial society, and the explosion in population growth...

Tech & Engineering

An Information System: System Analysis, Design Methods, System Building Blocks

A company has many functional departments (such as Finance, Human Resources, etc.) Explain or describe the process that should be taken to develop an automated information system and or software An information system designing process is a key stage to the implementation of an information system in an organization. The...

Politics & Government

Anti-Money Laundering Service for Belize

Abstract Belize is a small Central American country with a low population, small financial sector, and a banking and financial environment as yet more or less free of significant AML and terrorism financing activities. its framework for anti-money laundering and for combating the financing of terrorism consists of adopting the...

Education

Educational Technology Leaders: Competencies for a Conceptual Age

Introduction Technology enabled K12 education has been the most debated reforms in the education sector in recent years. Introduction of Internet connected computer right from junior classes is becoming ubiquitous while allowing educators and students to interact and learn with anyone around the world thereby nullifying the need of local...

Tech & Engineering

Human-Computer Interaction. Passwords and Security

Introduction User ID and passwords control authentication is the widely used mechanism to access the data in most of the current conventional information systems. With the rapid increase in the number of password-protected accounts on the internet, users have to create and remember a host of passwords. Despite the rapidity...

Philosophy

Corporatism History and Causes

Executive Summary Corporatism is redefined to include Functional Corporatism and Ideological Corporatism with a further sub-division into Neo-corporatism, Experimental Corporatism, Ideological Corporatism and Historical Corporatism. This paper attempts to provide a broad definition of Corporatism together with the history and causes for the emergence of corporatist state structure. While detailing...

Tech & Engineering

Information Tecnologies Questions Nowadays Analysis

How a message is transmitted from one computer to another one using layers Two computers communicate when they are in a computer network. For such a network to exist the computers are either connected either through a physical medium such as an Ethernet cable or through a wireless network that...

Sociology

Shifting Morality in Race and Education

Introduction Nowadays it is very difficult to find a country, which would be completely homogeneous in its ethical, cultural, religious, and language structure. Speaking about the racial and inter-ethnic relationship and the positions of the national groups, it would be appropriate to pay attention to the United States of America....

Literature

“The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas Samuel Kuhn

Thomas Samuel Kuhn, an American intellectual is known for his extensive research in the philosophy of science, and his special contribution in developing important notions revolutionized the understanding and study of science after he wrote his best-known book, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (SSR) in 1962. In this book, Kuhn...

Law

Violence and Society. Criminal and Delinquent Behavior

In the sociological context, crime can actually be defined as the breach of the rule of law. The governing authority, such as the state, can impose punishment on the perpetrators of such acts. This is usually done with the intention of correcting such persons and also serving as an example...

Education

Media in Education. The Study of Application.

Introduction The study of application of media in education is a complex activity. It entails that each medium shows some specific and unique attributes that are important or of great concern to each day to day classroom learning activity. The purpose of the study of media’s implementation in education is...

Sciences

Prehistoric Decoration on Stone in Orkney

Introduction The character of Orkney’s incised stonework is a topic that has been seriously under-researched and all but ignored by the archaeological community. This paper is a commencement rather than a conclusion intended to introduce the abstract inscriptions carved into the Orcadian landscape during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. It...

Sciences

Treasure Hunters and American Aviation Archaeology

Introduction Aviation Archaeology is the practice of searching and recovering sites and wreckages of cashed aircraft. The subject is also known as aircraft archaeology, wreckology, and aerospace archaeology, crash hunting and other names. The activities involved include carrying out research using crash reports, finding and documenting the crash, recovering items...

Education

Emmett Scott High School’s Social & Academic Culture

The purpose of this case study is to examine the roles that educators and students played in the social and academic culture of Emmet Scott High. Emmett Scott High opened in 1920 as a segregated school for African Americans in the city of Rock Hill. Although it closed in 1970,...

Religion

Worldview in “Naming the Elephant” by James Sire

Introduction James Sire’s book Naming the Elephant is a serious look at the concept of the worldview. At its most basic form, Sire defines a worldview as a set of presuppositions that exist in relative concert with each other. While we have no real rational reasons for holding to these...

Sociology

Symbolic Interactionism in Everyday Life

Symbolic Interaction Although man is a symbol-using animal, symbols alone cannot be credited for meaningful expression unless they are incorporated with man’s thoughts, gestures, and words. Symbols add meaning to our general expressions and words in a unique manner. What one person utters to another person in the form of...

Education

Developing Accomplished Instructional Support Specialists

Introduction Teachers play an important role in instilling knowledge and education among students. The increasingly diverse student populations not only in the United States but also in other parts of the world require that teachers should be competent both personally and professionally. Shulman’s model of teacher understanding shows that teachers...

Art

“What the Bleep Do We Know!?” by William Arntz

Introduction How human beings perceive the objective reality, or better to say they think they do, has long been disputed among scholars. The present paper will consider one of the most modern and at the same time controversial theories of world perception which is based upon the theories of quantum...

Education

Leisure Satisfaction in School Teachers of Taiwan

Introduction Context of the study This research study is concerned with the relationships between leisure participation, leisure satisfaction and emotional intelligence amongst elementary school teachers in northern Taiwan. It is during early school years that children develop personalities and habits that shall impact on their lives later in life. It...

Psychology

Research and Design Methods Analysis

Abstract The field of research sees many methods and systems being used. Important among many various research methodologies are the concepts of co-relational and experimental types of research. Each type of research uses different concepts and practices. Co-relational research is used to determine the extent to which multiple variables forms...

Sociology

Non-Verbal Communication: History and Concept

Introduction Non verbal communication refers to a process where people communicate by sending and receiving of messages which lack the word component, and the various means through which messages are communicated through the non verbal channels include gestures or object communication. In addition,, non-verbal elements referred to as paralanguage can...

Culture

The Influence of the Hip Hop Culture on African American Youth.

Introduction While discussing and analyzing the influence of the hip hop music on African American young people, it is necessary to take into consideration the influence of this musical culture on the politics and the internal policies within the United States. It is also important for one to concern the...

Sociology

Black Feminism Movement Analysis

Black feminism is the association of the Black Liberation and women’s liberation movements and has its own ideologies. African American women have created this thought for the sake of the Black women. Theoretical interpretations have been made from the lived experiences of the people involved (Wheeler, 2007, p.15). Gender, class...

Education

High School Dropouts: Quantitative Study

Introduction High school education constitutes the foundation for the higher learning process. It plays a vital role in influencing the success or failure of a student’s career. Generally, the performance or outcome of students is influenced by many factors like intelligence, hard-working, parents’ or teachers’ encouragement, motivation self or induction....