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"The Color of Money": A Structural and Thematic Review, 2002.
A discussion on how the American Cinema has succeeded in depicting the realities in the present-day America focusing on director Martin Scorsese's slow burn style in 'The Color of Money'.
1,895 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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The following paper argues that Scorsese's 'The Color of Money' indeed excels in terms of the power and wording of the script and the acting. In addition, it asserts that the film succeeded in communicating the themes of 'cynicism versus naivety', 'greed', and 'deceptive appearances' clearly.
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"The Color of Money was released in 1986 by Touchstone Studio (On Location, 2002). It was directed by Martin Scorsese with Michael Ballhaus as the cinematographer. The main cast featured Paul Newman, Tom Cruise and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio who played the three most significant characters around which the plot and the themes of the film are built. Lasting for an hour and fifty-eight minutes, The Color of Money is based on the novel written by Walter Tevis and is associated with The Hustler of 1961 to which it is believed to be a sequel (The Color of Money: Paul Newman, 2002). This film belongs to the genre of drama with a tinge of historic genre. The Color of Money is acclaimed to be a typical Scorsese?s film conducted in his slow burn seventies style on which his film Taxi Driver too is patterned. "
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Money Money Money, 2002.
A look at money's affect on the modern family.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 13 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper examines money and the family in terms of family studies. How earning and expenditure is distributed in the family, particularly with reference to gender is the key issue.
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Structural Family Therapy, 2007.
An In-depth look at structural family therapy (SFT) and its applications.
4,203 words (approx. 16.8 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 112.95
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This paper examines the structural family therapy model of family therapy. The paper provides a detailed literature review of the structural approach to family therapy. The paper also discusses the history of this model, the structural outlook, structural family theory, structural family therapy, and some populations where structural family therapy has been successful. The writer concludes with an explanation of her personal perspective and idea of family therapy.
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Literature Review
Personal Perspective
Conclusion
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"There are many models of family therapy out there in use in this day and age. Many counselors choose to be eclectic in their choices of therapeutic techniques, which is encouraged in most professional counseling training programs. There are the Psychodynamic outlook, Transgenerational models, Experiential models, Strategic models, the Milan Systemic model, the Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral models, Social Construction models, and Psychoeducational models. All of these models of family therapy are very useful in many ways. This paper will discuss another model of family therapy, that of the Structural model."
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Structural Family Therapy, 2004.
An overview of the background and uses of structural family therapy.
2,328 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper examines how structural therapy attempts to help families by dealing with problems that affect current interactions of family members. It looks at how the focus is on how families operate as a system and their structure within the system. Structural family therapists make hypotheses about the structure of the family and the nature of their problem. It also looks at how structural family therapists use several techniques to achieve their goals, such as diagnosing, joining, reframing, unbalancing, enactment, shaping, competence and others.
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"Structural Family Therapy was developed by Salvador Minuchin and colleagues during the 1960s, and emerged in the 1970s as one of the most widely used methods in family therapy. Its history is predicated on family systems theory, and as a result it has many of the inherent strengths and weaknesses associated with applying general systems theory to social behavior. Like most systems theorists, the structuralists are interested in how the components of a system interact, how balance or homeostasis in achieved, how family feedback mechanisms operate, and how dysfunctional communication patterns develop."
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Welding and Structural Strength, 2006.
A look at the engineering factors affecting structural strength.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 5 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper discusses the concept of the strength of materials in the field of engineering, focusing on the materials used and how they function within a structure. The paper explains that the way the materials function will determine the overall strength of the structure and this knowledge is significant to welding engineers because it determines the processes necessary to create structural strength and the durability of the project over time. The paper also discusses factors that affect the structural strength such as the stress placed on the components of the structure and elements that force the material to change over time.
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Structural Adjustment Programs, 2005.
A look at the causes and effect of structural adjustment programs on workers in Africa.
12,062 words (approx. 48.2 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 233.95
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In recent years, it has become obvious that the countries of Africa are not getting any better financially in spite of structural adjustment programs (SAP) and IMF programs. In fact, unemployment, poverty, and illiteracy continue to rise. Immortality is on the rise, with many children not living to see their fifth birthday. This paper looks at why Africa's people live in poverty in spite of its large number of natural resources and attempts to provide insight into ways that can assist it into becoming more self-sufficient.
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Introduction
Commencement of Problem
Summary of Projected Solution
Effects of the SAPs
Overview of Structural Adjustment Programs
Description of SAPs and IMF Programs
Objectives of SAPs
Effects of SAPs on the Economy
Key Issues of the Program
Program Focus
Potential for Success
Effects on Domestic Economy
Disadvantages
Structural Adjustment Effects in Africa
Overview
Conditionality
Effects on African Economy
Credibility of SAPs
Privatization
Potential for Success
Key Issues
Performance Management
Description
Working Under SAPs
Impact on Trade Unions
Effects of SAPs
Possible Solutions
Labor Laws
Impact on Trade Unions
Role of Trade/Labor Unions
Conclusion
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"The continent of Africa has been plagued by debt since it gained its independence from Europe, and the majority of those debts are owed to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Even though these organizations have only been officially in existence since their conception in 1944, the conditions of the IMF and World Bank existed long before that time. As of 2004, Africa's debts to the IMF and World Bank stood at over $300 billion, and it is unlikely that that number is representative of revenues lost to Europe and America since those monies have increased poverty rather than being beneficial to Africa. Every year a total of $15 billion is transferred from the poorest countries in Africa and other places in the world to the richest countries through interest payments."
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Structural Adjustment and India, 2002.
A look at the role of the state in third world development with a focus on structural adjustment in India.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper will first briefly cover structural adjustments in terms of meanings, aims, problems, and context, positive and negative results. This paper will then look at India and focus upon the visions of development and the realities of the structural adjustments made by P.M. Rao; namely, his economic reforms which opened India to the international market. These reforms, carried out by Finance Minister M. Singh transformed the economic structure of India and have resulted in ubiquitous social, ideological and political changes.
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Structural Adjustment Policies, 2007.
An analysis of structural adjustment policies and their implications for developing nations.
1,956 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses structural adjustment policies (SAPs), which are those policies that the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have put forward over many years to developing nations. The paper particularly discusses the problems with these policies and how they have negatively affected developing nations. The paper then proposes solutions to the problems that have been created by these policies.
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Thesis
Explanation Of Structural Adjustment
What Is The World Bank's Impact
Pros/Cons
Conclusion
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"On the subject of Africa, the WB, and structural adjustment programs, an article in the Journal of Asian and African Studies (Gibson 2004) asserts that it is "now generally accepted in African studies" that the 20-plus years that Africa has been under the dictates of structural adjustment "...has been a devastating failure." Not only have the WB policies "failed," Gibson writes, but indeed the continent of Africa has "moved from 'crisis' to 'tragedy.'" And what is the reason for this reported slide into tragedy? From the WB's perspective, Gibson explains, Africa's economic performance has been poor; African "elites" and "government patronage" have drained the nations in Africa of the resources that the WB has tried to provide, in the view of the WB. The promises of security, health, and education, made by the WB when the loans were approved, "can no longer be met," Gibson goes on."
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Structural Family Therapy, 2007.
An exploration of the model of family counseling and therapy known as structural family therapy.
4,120 words (approx. 16.5 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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This paper looks at structural family therapy (SFT) in its original form as well as in a form that is presently being used and has been effectively used specifically in SFT initiatives in families that are working with the issue of acculturation. The studies of Salvador Minuchin and Jay Haley are focused upon and the work of Thomas C.Todd (2006) is also taken into consideration. It also explores how SFT might effectively be applied by a minister of a neighborhood organization and how the Christian principles might be effectively and successfully applied in SFT therapy.
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Introduction to SFT
SFT - The Focus
The Goals of SFT
Differentiation in Various Theories
The Strategic Based (SFT) Intervention
Skills Necessary for SFT Therapy
Discussion
Integration of FST, Pact and Christian Principles
Pact: Key Features
Structural Approach Used in Therapy
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"The resolution of conflicts is another area that must be in focus in the SFT therapy. There are various existing patterns in the way that individuals in the family deal with or use to avoid conflicts. Some of those are "detouring, attacking (also known as scapegoating)" (Todd, 2006) in which a union is formed against another family member who is labeled as 'bad' receiving the blame in full. Further there are the relationships that are described as "detouring, protecting" (Todd, 2006) in which two of the parties in conflict join to assist or help another in the family who had been labeled as defenseless, sick, and helpless and is a pattern noted in families that are psychosomatic and in families that have children who are known to be psychotic. "
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Structural Violence, 2002.
An overview of structural violence and its place in globalization.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper first discusses the definition of structural violence. The second part of the paper addresses structural violence, the global economy and the policies of powerful states.
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Schizophrenia and Structural Family Therapy, 2005.
Examines the use of structural family therapy when dealing when schizophrenia.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper provides a discussion of how structural family therapy works with a schizophrenic family member. The Bowen theory is presented along with a discussion as to how the therapy works. Definitions are given with respect to the terms of schizophrenia, therapy and structural therapy. The family constellation is also discussed.
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"On entering the twenty first century today's modern family is beset by events and conditions that were the storylines of authors such as Orwell and Hersey. Today's family today is besieged by mega technology, ever increasing healthcare costs, unprecedented scientific advancement, continual cost of living increases, global conflict, and a broadening of cultural diversity. The pressures brought to bear on the family are healthy in some ways and damaging in others. With so much more pressure confronting the American family the rapid rise of psychopathology is not uncommon and must be addressed. The remainder of this report will focus one particular psychological disorder with respect to its relationship with the modern American family, namely schizophrenia. The report will also address the aforementioned psychopathology with respect to structural family therapy and how it is interrelated with the disorder."
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Structural Adjustment in the Caribbean, 1999.
An analysis of the effect of structural adjustment in the Caribbean and its relationship with poverty.
2,809 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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The paper examines structural adjustment as applied to the Caribbean and specifically to Jamaica. It shows how structural adjustment polices created severe strain on the Jamaican economy during the fifteen years of their implementation and operationalization. In particular, it evaluates the implications on levels of poverty and the negative social effects, such as increased unemployment, fall in real wages, income, investment and social standards which came about as a direct result of the implementation.
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"The problem of poverty cannot be explained using the simple argument of failed public sector enterprises or balance of payment crises. Rather, believe it or not, transactions between the IMF, World Bank and Jamaica created dependency relations, which further depleted economic, social and infra-structural resources in the economy. Hence, poverty increased because these multilateral agencies carried conditionalities for repayment of loans."
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Structural Adjustment Programs in Africa, 2001.
A discussion of the relevance of structural adjustment programs to the democratization and development in Africa.
4,434 words (approx. 17.7 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 116.95
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Structural Adjustment Policies are economic policies which countries must follow in order to qualify for international loans. This paper examines structural adjustment policies as applied to contemporary Africa and the extent to which these policies may or may not be relevant. Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Botswana, are cited as useful case-studies in evaluating the programs. It also analyzes the effects of these policies on health, education, transportation, national budgets and devaluation.
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"From the late 1970s and into the 1980s, there have been a great many arguments concerning the introduction of structural adjustment policies in African territories. In essence, when one speaks of an on-going debate about the relevance of structural adjustment policies, one speaks to the fact that structural adjustment policies had both positive and negative effects on African countries, such as Gambia, Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, Cote d Ivoire, Zaire, Ghana and Zambia, as well as most of Sub-Saharan Africa collectively. By extension, therefore, the debate proceeds as to whether structural adjustment policies were substantively or inherently ineffective, since most of the people suffering under such programmes were the poor and the disadvantaged, a great portion of them being women. Other main arguments concern the fact that by the professed stabilization or restructuring of economies, adjustment policies stressed cuts in expenditure and the reduction of subsidies as well as limited public sector involvement that often augured well for education programmes. The reduction in expenditure on health programmes also caused health risks in the form of the deprivation of Africans of needed facilities and medicines, for example, for diseases such as HIV/AIDS."
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The Applicability of Structural Realism in International Relations, 2002.
An in-depth analysis of realism and the contributions of Kenneth Waltz, father of the structural realist school of thought.
3,150 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 27 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper describes, analyzes and proves in support of the Structural Realism thesis, as well as qualifies and considers alternatives to this theory. The Structural Realism theory provides guidelines and predictions of a states? behavior.
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"Kenneth Waltz is claimed to be the father of the structural realist school of thought. He created a new theory by deduction, studying international processes on international level, a level of system and not like a derivative of states foreign policies. In this sense power has to be understood as a descriptive construct for a better explanation of a single unit?s position. For analytical purposes we should consider international politics as a bounded realm, then discover law-like regularities and explain observed realities. It should be noted that previous theories were considered by Waltz as ?reductionist?, with a lack of explanation of states? environment, and the interaction patterns between states studied through examination of individual actors only. They also could not give a reason for the chaos and instability of the international system, although the states themselves remained stable.
As there is only a limited amount of possible outcomes for a great variety of actors and their actions, it is reasonable to suspect involvement of systemic causes. States, through their interaction, create a system, which in turn imposes certain constraints upon them. System theories explain how the constitution constrains interacting units within the whole, stressing the importance of power. Systems act through structures, which come in two kinds: those that socialize the actors and those that provide for rivalry and competition. Socialization consists in mutual influence of actors and production of uniformity. Competition is a second mechanism that forces states to accept common attributes."
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"The Structural Study of Myth", 2002.
A summary of the content of an article written by Claude Levi-Strauss called, "The Structural Study of Myth."
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This five-page undergraduate paper summarizes the content of an article written by Claude Levi-Strauss called, "The Structural Study of Myth." Information in an article by Jacques Derrida entitled "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences" is consulted as well in order to analyze how the terms "bricoluer" and "bricolage" apply in the context of Levi-Strauss' work.
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