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The Life and Work of Herbert Blumer, 2002.
An overview of the life and theories of twentieth century sociologist, Herbert Blumer who maintained that human behavior is determined by social interaction.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 62.95
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Herbert Blumer (1900-1987) was a pioneer in the field of sociology who was responsible for redefining the parameters of the inquiry process in the discipline. Central to his methodological approach was the conviction that all human behaviour - and, in particular, the field of sociological analysis - is determined by social interaction. Given that all human beings exist within a network of social interaction, Blumer argued that it is necessary for researchers to both interrogate their own position of study, as well as to obtain data by the study of the interactions of their subjects in real-world situations. In this context, as we shall see, the central focus of Blumer's life and work lay in both the theory and practice of industrialization.
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Herbert Blumer, 2002.
The life and work of Herbert Blumer.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the life and work of Herbert Blumer specifically as being a pioneer in the field of sociology who was responsible for defining the parameters of the inquiry process in the discipline.
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George Herbert, 2004.
An analysis of the life and works of Welsh poet, George Herbert, with a focus on his poem, "Easter Wings".
1,110 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses the life and works of Welsh poet, George Herbert. The paper presents his work, "Easter Wings", explaining that Herbert clearly outlines his lifelong struggle between secular and religious life and physical and spiritual life. The paper describes the time period when Herbert lived and contends that his poetry reflected this difficult era.
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"George Herbert (1593-1633) lived during a tumultuous time in the history of Wales; there was much corruption and confusion about the roles of government and change was a fact of every day life. Herbert's life is encompassed in a period of what one author of Welsh history calls Recovery, Reorientation, and Reformation, in Wales 1415-1642. (Williams iii) It is within this time that Herbert reflects on the best way to live and the best way to reenter his place of origin. "
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Frank Herbert's "Dune", 2008.
A literary study of Frank Herbert's novel, "Dune", focusing on the issue of human relationship with the metaphysical within the novel.
930 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper explains that, by understanding the textual interpretation of the death with the poison tooth of the character Leto in Frank Herbert's novel "Dune", the reader can comprehend how the 'flesh' of human beings interacts with the metaphysical forms Leto sees before his death. The author points out that Herbert defines the struggle between abstract metaphysics through Leto's narrative, which is also present in how his son and others are constructed within the novel. The paper concludes that Herbert designed "Dune" to be a novel in which religiosity is used by human beings to create order in a highly unstable and chaotic universe.
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"At the end of the novel, Paul has finally conquered Shaddam IV of the House Corrino and taken over Arrakis. Thufir Hawat, his father's military trainer and also Paul's teacher, comes forth from the lines of people suspicious of being an enemy to Paul and his mother. Herbert's inference on the unstable and ever-changing nature of the universe in Leto's death statement become clear when Paul makes a comment about never having his back to the door--a lesson that Hawat taught him to protect himself from intruders."
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Herbert Simon, 2002.
This paper looks at how Herbert Simon's research and publications in the field of economic sciences have continued to influence the decision-making process of many managers in the business world.
680 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 24.95
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This paper examines some of the different business theories that have been put forward by leading scholar, Herbert Simon. The paper details his life achievements in the areas of business, psychology, political science and information science. The author pays special attention of one of his books, "Administrative Behavior" and examines its influence on how business managers conduct themselves. Herbert Simon won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and it is his work that continues to be used as the basis for analyzing a company's decision-making process.
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"Herbert Simon?s qualifications are in the areas of political science, administration, psychology and information sciences yet his major contributions are based on economic theories. Simon applied economic theory to all situations where human beings make decisions including business situations. The difference of Simon?s work is that he applied the ideas of psychology to economic theories, effectively adding the ?human factor? which economists had ignored. As Simon noted ?nothing is more fundamental in setting our research agenda and informing our research methods than our view of the nature of the human beings whose behavior we are studying? (Simon 1985, p303)."
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Herbert Hoover's Presidency, 2006.
This paper states that Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the U.S., elected in 1928, was a poor president, perhaps one of the worst in history.
1,490 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that Herbert Hoover, who is remembered as a "do nothing President" because of his inability to respond adequately to the dire economic problems of the Great Depression that took place during his presidency, did take actions to intervene after the stock market crash of Black Tuesday but his "trickle down" economic theories were the wrong actions. The author points out that, consequently, Americans began to lose faith in their government when Hoover blithely referred to Black Tuesday as "a passing incident in our national lives." The paper relates that the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover's insufficient reaction to it and Franklin D. Roosevelt's resulting New Deal forever changed the relationship between the public and private sectors within the United States. The paper includes many quotations.
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"Average men and women could no longer even feed their families or secure anymore the basic necessities of life. Such widespread national misery led to FDR's election, by a landslide, in 1932, and to Hoover's dramatic defeat. Almost immediately, Roosevelt, as the new President, began pushing federal government toward a new, far more interventionist role. Roosevelt urged Congress to quickly pass the Emergency Banking Relief Act that would re-stabilize tottering U.S. banks. On March 9, 1933, it did so. That, however, was a mere prelude to Roosevelt's extensive New Deal legislation that slowly pulled the country out of the depression in the years leading up to World War II."
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Sir Herbert Reed's "English Prose and Style", 2000.
A discussion of effective communication based on Sir Herbert Reed's book "English Prose and Style".
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This paper presents a brief discussion of Sir Herbert Reed's classic book on effective English writing, which helps develop effective communication. The paper also includes information on the life and work of Herbert Reed.
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"Sir Herbert Read?s book English Prose Style gives valuable insight into reading and writing English prose. One of the best features of this book is the excellent examples he provides, and graphic explanations of the dynamics of the examples."
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Herbert Reaver and Chiropractic Medicine, 2008.
This paper explores the history of chiropractic medicine and Herbert Reaver's accomplishments.
1,589 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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The paper discusses the history of chiropractic medicine in general. The paper then looks at Herbert Reaver's career and describes his singular willingness to stand up against the established medical community and assert the legitimacy of chiropractic. The paper details how Reaver fought both for the legitimacy of chiropractic and against the legal practices that actively discriminated against his profession.
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"Like many medical pioneers, Herbert Ross Reaver was persecuted, reviled, and harassed by the public, the press, and the medical establishment. Indeed, he even holds the distinction as the most arrested and jailed chiropractic doctor in the history of the practice. What marks Reaver's career as unique was his singular willingness to stand up against the established medical community and assert the legitimacy of chiropractic. While the history of chiropractic medicine extends to slightly before Dr. Reaver's time, his strident position, his challenges and assertions, and his constant championing of chiropractic throughout his entire life and career map nearly directly with the ascendancy and recognized legitimacy of the practice. Indeed, Herbert Reaver's history is that of chiropractic."
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Herbert Spencer, 2006.
A review of the life, history and work of Herbert Spencer.
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This paper discusses how Herbert Spencer has been described by some as an individualist and a liberalist. His work does touch on many interesting, if not controversial, subjects over the course of his career. For a time, Spencer's theories experienced great popularity. Even in his lifetime, however, Spencer's works were marginalized and he found his theories being dismissed.
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" According to Holmes (1994) Spencer was "a gifted amateur" (p. 1). He never received the formal education that Darwin and Huxley received; however, he learned much from his uncle, Thomas Spencer, and from experience (Holmes, 1994, p. 1). From this background, Herbert Spencer advanced several theories on biological and social evolution and various political theories. These theories include social evolution and eugenics in his own form of liberal sociology. "
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Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead, 2008.
An analysis of the sociological philosophies of Charles Horton Cooley and George Herbert Mead.
1,646 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the major contributions to the field of sociology of Charles Horton Cooley (1864 to 1929) and George Herbert Mead (1863 to 1931). The paper discusses the sociological viewpoints of both philosophers and provides examples from some of their works. The paper discusses how their philosophies can be applied to the individual and society as a whole
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"As a sociologist/philosopher, Mead was also extremely notable for his achievements related to what he calls the "Genesis of the Self," the genesis of human consciousness and the Self "through the gradually developing ability in childhood" to assume the role of another human being and to "visualize his own performance" from the viewpoint of significant others. In essence, Mead is attempting to explain through this genesis exactly how humans become conscious of their own Selves and their own minds. Once again, Mead's symbolic gestures play a pivotal role in the development of the Self, due to symbols arousing "in one's self what it arouses in the other individual" ("George Herbert Mead," 2006, Internet). This has much to do with emotional symbolism/gestures like crying, laughing, smiling or frowning, such as with a child who observes an adult laughing at a another person which arouses a similar reaction under similar circumstances in a social setting. Thus, as Mead understands it, the foundation of the human Self revolves around reflexes as they are generated in relation to society and its environment, for "through the individual's ability to take in his imagination the attitudes" and reflexes of other people, "his own self becomes an object of his own reflection" ("George Herbert Mead," 2006, Internet), something very closely akin to Cooley's "Looking Glass Self.""
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George Herbert's Poem ?The Collar?, 2005.
This paper discusses George Herbert's poem "The Collar", a direct complaint voiced by a bitter person to show his discord with the restraints, which bind him so tightly.
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This paper explains that George Herbert expresses in his poem "The Collar" that the chains, which bind him, are self-evident with the collar he must wear and that he must come to the self-realization that he must change his thoughts or deny God. The author points out that the poem as a whole is about the cleric talking to himself and should not be perceived as a prayer. The paper relates that, as the poem progresses, the images of "collars and cages" and "rope and cable" appear, which, for the most part, are not harmful but hinder him in some respects.
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"The person of whom Herbert is writing wants to be free from his human condition and of the duties that the collar represents. Back in Herbert's day, "The Collar" was representative of a condition that represented himself, something on the line of being entrapped or of being hemmed in and he is speaking abstractly of himself where he wants to break loose. Therefore he says, "I struck the board, and cried, No more" showing his frustration over the matter. (1). This is a very dramatic, arrogant and overstated act."
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Herbert Spencer vs. Andrew Carnegie, 2007.
A comparison of the theories of Herbert Spencer and Andrew Carnegie regarding their views of social Darwinism.
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This paper discusses the concept of social Darwinism. It specifically discusses the philosophies of social Darwinism theorists, Herbert Spencer and Andrew Carnegie with regard to their views of social Darwinism. The paper details each of their theories and then compares them, particularly with regard to how they view the amassing of wealth.
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"Carnegie stresses that the Gospel of Wealth is one that makes the amasser of such wealth completely and totally responsible for what he has created. After minimal accommodations to ensure that your most unprotected descendants are supported through your life and death, where he stresses helping wives and daughters the most and giving little if any nominal support to sons, who hold the social responsibility and ability of creating their own wealth in life and are often simply corrupted by freely given inheritance, the cream of the crop must dispense his surplus wealth himself, while he lives, on good works. The best possible social action of the successful Social Darwinist is to give what you have amassed through the wisdom that you have gained building said fortune. Spencer and Carnegie do not outright disagree, in the natural order determining the success and progress of man in these two works yet, Carnegie caries the idea to an extreme, making it the responsibility of those who have risen to the top to offer such opportunities to the new generation of people, who through natural selection will succeed the present. (Carnegie, 1889) (Spencer, 1857)"
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Herbert A. Simon, 2003.
A biography of Herbert A. Simon.
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This paper takes a look at the life of Herbert A. Simon. The paper explains that Simon was a noted researcher on the human decision-making process and the father of artificial intelligence. The paper also reports that Simon was awarded a Nobel prize in economics for his contributions to the understanding of the human decision-making process.
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"The life story of Herbert Alexander Simon begins on June 15, 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Born to Arthur Simon and Edna Marguerite Merkel, he would be their second child after an older brother, Clarence Joseph (Simon, 1991). Throughout his childhood and teenage years, he would consider himself different from his friends. His religious affiliation (even though he was not a religious Jew), his above average intelligence, and his left-handedness would serve to create a feeling of separation (Simon, 1991). In 1933, at age 17, he would graduate from high school without a clear picture of a desired career. As Simon notes in his autobiography Models of my life, his public answers to the classic question of "What do you want to be" would range from soldier to lawyer, while privately he yearned for nothing more than the life an intellectual (1991). With this mindset, he would apply and study at the University of Chicago in 1933."
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President Herbert Hoover, 2005.
This paper discusses the presidency of Herbert Hoover, which was marred by the Great Depression and the ineffectiveness of his leadership.
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This paper explains that, although he was a devoted public servant, Herbert Hoover's response to the economic crisis, which he did not cause, was limited by his personal philosophies, his Republican attitude toward the role of the federal government and his view of the Constitution. The author points out that Hoover's denial that a larger problem existed, one that needed governmental intervention, was a critical issue in his ineffectiveness in handling the economic crisis. The paper relates that, whether it was wariness of socialism or the belief that Americans would support one another until the depression "blew over", Hoover did not act when he should have and acted poorly when he finally chose to act.
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"Midway through 1930, President Hoover signed into law the destructive Smoot-Hawley Tariff, increasing import fees on thousands of items coming from Europe and elsewhere. Of the act, he said, "Within a year...we shall have regained the peak of prosperity" (Schwarz 80). The tariff was supported by industries that wanted more for their products. Yet, it was strongly protested by economists who understood that such a wide tariff is ineffective; with more goods included in the tariff, benefits to particular industries cancel out in the greater economy (Schwarz 80). Hoover, probably feeling the pressure of low public approval, made the move against these protests. The chain reaction that followed nearly destroyed the American system of banking."
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George Herbert Mead, 2002.
Examines the sociological theories of George Herbert Mead.
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George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures of American sociology. His pioneering work in social psychology helped to establish the reputation of the Chicago School of Sociology. His teachings also laid the groundwork for the philosophy of pragmatism in the United States. This paper focuses on Mead's sociological theory, particularly his contributions to social psychology. The first part of the paper summarizes the key points of Mead's social theory, including an evaluation of his work. The next part then examines how Mead's work can be expanded into other areas of sociological inquiry and sees whether his theories continue to have relevance today.
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"Thus, for Mead, the individual "self" is actually a composite, a result of the reciprocal relationship between a person and his or her social environment. The "individual" self is actually developed in relation to the norms and mores prevailing in the person's social environment. The individual's ability to "internalize" the needs and attitudes of the greater society determines in a large part the roles he or she will assume in life. Through these roles, however, individuals are able to make their contributions to the entire system of social life."
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