A look at training children in both online and traditional library catalogues.
Essay # 38393 |
1,150 words (
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2002
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This paper serves to identify the features of online catalogues for children, such as the OPACs of the Science Library Catalogue and the Kid's Catalogue. The paper then compares and contrasts these two forms of catalogues in terms of training children to use them.
This paper discusses terrorism as a subject of criminology and conflict theory.
Persuasive Essay # 104943 |
2,064 words (
approx. 8.3 pages ) |
10 sources |
MLA | 2008
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In this article, the writer discusses that terrorism is a methodology that belongs to military science in a collection of techniques, but terrorism is included under the category of criminology in library cataloguing systems. The writer notes that terrorism can be well understood through the approaches of criminology, however, conflict theory seems best equipped to explain terrorist organizations and acts, depending upon circumstances, for reasons that are explained in the paper's later sections. The writer concludes that like well planned crimes, incidents of terrorism often do work, as a set of considerations to be kept in mind before denouncing crime or terrorism, or acts of terrorism as mere random crimes which they are not.
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Introduction
Classical Theory and Terrorism
The Consensus School and Terrorism
Conflict Theory and Terrorism
Conflict Theory, Sri Lanka and Tamil Terrorism
Concluding Remarks
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" If one traces the rise of modernity from the Industrial Revolution, capitalist development and the ideas of the Enlightenment, one appreciates classical models of criminology to assert that deviance was a natural result. Since human beings are rational creatures, they should have and will demand rights and freedoms, eventually. The deviant person asserts his or her rational self-interest due to a particular form of 'free thought' and agency that we discuss as deviant and thus, criminal, because it departs from a society's legal framework and moral standards. This classical approach has replaced earlier ideas of the criminal as a person acting under supernatural influence, as in medieval ideas of the criminal as a person possessed by the devil. Instead, crime came to be seen as a rationally calculated action with the result that reducing crime meant deterrence, in approaches based on how the deviant could be dissuaded from committing a crime, its penalty helping a criminal to see that a planned crime was not rational or appealing because of its risks. Further thought moved from a concept of the punishment fitting the crime, proportional to the harm done to society, or a specific victim."
Tags:criminological, victim, punishment, right, and, wrong
The paper discusses cultural difficulties among inter and intra cultural groups.
Research Paper # 75236 |
1,303 words (
approx. 5.2 pages ) |
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MLA | 2006
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The paper uses four articles, ("Thousands flee Assam tribal feud", S. Bhaumik,"Cataloguing US abuses" BBC News, Dec 2004, "Suicide bombers held in Bosnia", N. Hawton and "Suicide Bombers", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bomb) to demonstrate the need for more cross cultural understanding and training. The paper discusses cultural interpretations and motivations among inter and intra cultural groups and explains the origins of many cultural difficulties between these groups. The paper explains how cultural conflicts and misunderstandings commonly occur within homogeneous populations and among people of varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The paper concludes by suggesting that more communication and collaboration can improve the inter and intra-cultural differences and problems and offers suggestions on how this can be achieved.
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"Cross cultural conflict often occurs when members of varying cultures share different beliefs, values and understandings of events, issues or proper ways of behaving. It is vital that cultural differences be examined to help members of society develop better methods for addressing cultural conflicts. A better understanding of cross cultural differences may enable more communication and collaboration and less violence.
"Cross cultural events often result in violence when people of varying cultures are not able to come to agreement regarding the appropriate course of action to follow in a given situation. Below we'll discuss cultural interpretations and motivations among inter and intra cultural groups and explain the origins of many cultural difficulties between these groups."
Tags:suicide, bombers, terrorism, hamas, abu, ghraib, karbi, dimasa, assamic, intracultural, palestine
An examination of the opportunities, challenges and obstacles for online selling including history, examples, comparison to offline commerce, business models, catalogues, consumer navigation, credit card security, "shopping cart" and more.
Research Paper # 15091 |
5,850 words (
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This analysis shall attempt to discern the development, promise, problems, and implications of electronic commerce, with a particular emphasis on electronic retail selling over the World Wide Web. It shall attempt to determine the chief issues facing electronic retail commerce and provide some general, preliminary guidance that would be useful to the retailer when seeking to understand the implications of e-commerce for his or her business.
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"The Virtual Storefront
" A Survey of Online Retail Shopping:
Prospects and Challenges
Introduction
This analysis shall attempt to discern the development, promise, problems, and implications of electronic commerce, with a particular emphasis on electronic retail selling over the World Wide Web. It shall attempt to determine the chief issues facing electronic retail commerce and provide some general, preliminary guidance that would be useful to the retailer when seeking to understand the implications of e-commerce for his or her business.
The essay begins with a brief thematic introduction that presents an overview of the growth of electronic retailing, and a..."
An in-depth study of how advertising and promotional campaigns influence women's buying behaviour.
Research Paper # 45292 |
5,210 words (
approx. 20.8 pages ) |
13 sources |
MLA | 2003
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This paper explores what kind of promotion and advertising effort will induce a stronger punch in pushing sales. The focus of this present study finds out how and why women are influenced by all the different factors in the areas of advertising and promotion. Women?s attitude-towards-the-ad (Aad), attitude-towards-the-brand (AB), and some other factors are also discussed.
1.0) Executive Summary
2.0) Introduction
3.0) Literature Review
4.0) Dependent Variables
5.0) Hypotheses
6.0) Methodology
6.1) Demographics of Female Respondents
7.0) Results
7.1) Word-of-Mouth
7.2) Students and Celebrities in Advertisements
7.3) Brandname
7.4) Attractiveness of Product
7.5) Flyers/Catalogues
7.6) Promotions
7.7) Models
8.0) Discussion
9.0) Limitation and Suggestion for Future Research
References
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"Promotional and advertising effort is the chief push for today's retail market, and thus more research has to be done to improve the effectiveness of marketing. Women have comparatively stronger liking for shopping as compared to men. As such, it is extremely crucial for the corporation to have sufficient knowledge in this area.
In today's society, women are no longer trapped in their traditional roles of house-makers and they break away from patriarchal notions. Instead, modern women are now pursuing their own dreams and have entered the work force to prove that they are able to do more than merely looking after their family. Most women are successful in their career and are also financially established with more disposable income to spend."
Tags:promotion, gender
Music Industry Strategies
An analysis of the role of the catalogue and special projects department within the music industry.
Essay # 52001 |
1,440 words (
approx. 5.8 pages ) |
5 sources |
APA | 2004
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This paper examines how the cost of releasing new commercial records is high and how once the public profile of an album in its primary release dies away, it often becomes uneconomical for the record label to maintain support for that release. It covers the main strategies used by record labels to generate income from back-catalogues and looks at topics such as compilation albums, re-issues and retail mechanisms.
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"The release of a "Greatest Hits" is not necessarily a gravestone marking the end of an artist's career and it is now likely that a greatest hits compilation may be superseded by a new album. There may even be multiple greatest hits released for one act; Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" topped the British album chart in December of 1990 but still managed to re-enter the chart in January of 2001, peaking at number 21. In November of the same year Madonna released her second greatest hits album "GHV2: Greatest Hits Volume 2 " "The Best Songs of a Decade" which reached number 2."
Tags:album, business, commercial, mechanism, record
An overview of the mythical Greek beauty, Athena.
Essay # 40364 |
900 words (
approx. 3.6 pages ) |
6 sources |
2002
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This paper is about Athena. The student was inspired about this paper after reading different fragments of the "Catalogues of Women" and "Eoiae". As the inspirer and the shaper of Perseus, Athena could be counted on to have supernatural and heroically beautiful features, but the precise nature of this beauty was not plain to be found.
A book review of Joan Wallach Scott's "Gender and the Politics of History" which discusses history, politics and women's studies as disciplines.
Book Review # 6491 |
1,450 words (
approx. 5.8 pages ) |
1 source |
MLA | 2002
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History and politics, at least according to most college course catalogues, are separate disciplines. 'Women's Studies' also forms its own separate category, apart from these two disciplines. Yet in her work "Gender and the Politics of History", Joan Wallach Scott makes it clear that for as long as women's studies has existed as a discipline, feminist historians have suggested that all three elements are intertwined in a proper analysis of history.
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"Scott writes her work both in response to these feminist historians, and as a part of the tradition of the rash of academic and popular womens writing about women in history in recent years. (15) Although it is impossible to reduce these writings on women's histories to a particular political stance she suggests a certain commonality between all of them in their lack of commonality. She pinpoints a problem that arises because of the lack of a tradition of historiography when writing about gender. Historians with political projects, such as Marxists, employ different historiographic techniques than those mainly interested in studying the construction of the feminine narrative of reproduction, and how women have attempted to control their bodies throughout history, for example. (16) "
Tags:historiography, class, gender, French, Foucalt, Freud
Compares the laptop computers manufactured by Dell and Compaq companies.
Comparison Essay # 31761 |
650 words (
approx. 2.6 pages ) |
3 sources |
2002
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In the world of portable computing there are truly a broad range of brands, options, configurations and choices to make. The PC world is filled with competing companies who all offer the same basic thing - a compact computer in a portable format. What people want from their computers and what they get are often not the same thing; this is particularly true in relation to pre-configured systems with limited customization options. But, for those companies that offer fully customized catalogues, the differences from portable to portable become harder to discern. Two of the largest manufacturers of portable computers are Dell and Compaq. Each offers a large line of systems that are slightly different from one to the next in terms of processor, hard drive, memory, ports, optical drives and physical configurations. As both companies make Windows portable PC's, the actual functional differences between the two in terms of capability are negligible. What decisions come down to when deciding between the two companies are based upon service, quality of manufacturing and product, price and longevity of product. There are other features to the computing experience as well, but they are universal to all forms of computers and not just laptops. It is the purpose of this paper to present a comparison between the portable computer offerings of Dell and of Compaq.
This paper addresses all the necessary issues in an effective marketing program from identifying the market to its implementation.
Essay # 37121 |
1,150 words (
approx. 4.6 pages ) |
1 source |
2002
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This paper addresses all the necessary issues in an effective marketing program from identifying the market to its implementation and therefore specific challenges This paper catalogues and examines these three challenges.
Tags:PSYCHOLOGY / COGNITIVE STUDIES, dynamic cognition theory