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Bias in Relationships: The Nature v. Nurture Link, 2008.
An overview of how people learn to establish relationships.
1,510 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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This paper discusses the character and nature of relationships between people who are considered intimate. The quality in these intimate relationships that leads people to seemingly ignore or completely not recognize negative behaviour in their partners is examined with respect to developmental psychology and the process of learning to establish relationships throughout one's life.
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"An abundance of literature exists that reveals that relationships and the individuals involved in them typically turn a blind eye to reality. This is found to be true both from a cognitive aspect where the viewpoint is commonly held that people in relationships do not often see what others might see regarding their partners, as well as from a academic viewpoint where research supports the colloquial adage that, "love is blind," so to speak. Gagne and Lydon purport that, "In general, the perception that one's relationship is consistent with one's ideals appears to foster higher perceptions of relationship quality (2004, p.322). The import is that individuals in these intimate relationships are inclined; that is, biased, to ignore or downplay negative behaviours as they are manifested in their partner in the intimate relationship. Perhaps the explanation for this willingness to overlook or simply ignore the negative behaviours of the intimate partner has less to do with any sort of bias developed within one or the other partner and more to do with the degree of emotional investment that one or the other partners has committed towards the relationship and, indirectly, the individual."
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Relationship Between Humans and Nature, 2003.
Explores relationships through analysis of two Greek plays.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, $ 55.95
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Analyzes two Greek plays: "Oresteia" by Aeschylus and "Antigone" by Sophocles. Discusses the beginnings of theatre in Greece as appeasement of the gods by humans. Examines the use of the force of nature in both plays as metaphor.
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"The ancient Greeks understood that there was an intimate relationship between humans and nature, a certain give and take that needed to happen for the humans to get what they needed to survive. For them, appeasing nature so that they could ..."
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Relationship Between Nature and Culture, 2003.
A review of the work of John Muir, one of the most respected naturalists of his time.
3,337 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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This paper takes a look at John Muir, a respected naturalist who influenced greatly both the period of the late 19th century and the environmental policy of the US. According to the paper, the major impact of his work comes as a result of his methodical affirmation on the political scene, advocating a greater attention for the environment and nature in general. The paper reviews his work, "My First Summer in the Sierras" and "The Dharma Bums".
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"His work is pure description of the places he encounters in his journey and a depiction of his experience across the country. throughout his book there is a sense of a deeper aim for his writing however, that of drawing the attention on the unwanted exploitation of the Californian sights "...Muir considered himself primarily an explorer; he turned to writing relatively late in life as part of his effort to prevent unlimited commercial exploitation of the California wilderness." (Poupard 239). Thus, he tried to use his writing to integrate his subject in the wider environment of the political scene. "... [Muir] eventually [became] one of the foremost advocates for the growing conservationist movement, and he succeeded in having vast expanses of land designated as national wilderness preserves...Muir was a strident proponent of wilderness preservation who wrote descriptive essays intended to increase public awareness of the beauty of the American West." (Poupard 239). "
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The Nature of the Ring and Its Relationship with Gollum, 2005.
The role of the ring in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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The paper analyzes the central role of the ring in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". It looks at the power of the ring and how this single item drives the plot and actions of the book, with special reference to the character Gollum. The paper describes how Tolkien had to revise his previous work, "The Hobbit", so that its themes would fit in with the future role of the ring.
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"Since the publication of the legendary Lord of the Rings trilogy and its predecessor, The Hobbit, many aspects of J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction have become popular culture and literary commonplace. From elves and hobbits to dragons and dwarfs, these tales of rich fantasy have inspired readers and writers, alike. Yet, at the heart of Tolkien's books is one central object, one looming item, The Ring. This Ring was so all-powerful and all-encompassing that it not only drove the plot and action of each and every word Tolkien wrote, but also forced him to revise a chapter of his first work, The Hobbit, in order that it should fit together with his remaining three books and the world and characters they spawned. It is this revision and this power of the Ring with which this paper will concern itself."
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Franz Fanon and The Relationship Between Culture and Racism, 1995.
Franz Fanon defines racism in terms of cultural relativity. His thesis is that racism is the result of one culture breaking apart and assimilating another. Fanon says people of conquered cultures will never be able to fit the stronger accepted mold.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND RACISM
Introduction
Frantz Fanon does not define racism in the ordinary terms that many Americans used to. Within Western culture, especially within the last fifty years, racism is often described as scapegoating, or blaming those of another ethnicity or culture for social problems. Or even assigning certain genetic traits to those in these cultures, traits that could belong to anyone at anytime. Fanon discusses racism in terms of "cultural relativity," stating that racism is the eventual result of one culture, and its institutions breaking apart and assimilating another culture (Fanon, 1967, p. 367). Fanon wanted to point out what he saw as the effects of larger cultures and their ..."
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Cross-Cultural Romantic Relationships, 2003.
Examines the role language plays in cross-cultural relationships.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 9 sources, $ 55.95
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The paper shows how language functions to affect the shape and outcome of cross-cultural dating. It examines the social context of intercultural romance and discusses globalization as a part of personal relationships and social interactions.
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"This research examines the role of language in cross-cul.tural romantic relationships. It explores how language functions to affect, for good or ill, the shape and outcome of cross-cultural dating. First the re.search will provide a social context in ..."
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Human Nature and Buddha Nature, 2002.
Looks at the differences and similarities between the Confucian concept of human nature and the Buddha concept of Buddha nature.
2,650 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 97.95
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This paper is a comparison/contrast of the Confucian concept of human nature with the Buddhist concept of Buddha-nature. The two concepts are extremely different, but they still have much in common.
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The Environment: Nature and Society, 2007.
An examination of man's relationship with nature, and the ways in which modern man has learned to coexist with his environment.
1,853 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 59.95
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The writer proposes that nature and society have not always peacefully coexisted; while one cannot argue that nature does not support mankind's existence, throughout much of early history mankind dominated over nature rather than lived synergistically within the context of natural society. The paper explores how ideas about nature, society and their interconnection have transformed significantly from the early 19th century to the present. While early history in America is marked by a period of ecological imperialism, modern environmental trends are shifting more toward an Arcadian outlook. The paper concludes that mankind has developed a greater appreciation for the interrelationship between nature and society and focuses less on exploiting or conquering the environment and nature, and more on supporting the environment and discovering new ways of coexisting with nature.
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Introduction
Ideas About Nature and Society Early 19th Century
Contemporary Ideas of Nature and Society
Conclusions
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"As time progressed however, society began slowly but surely realizing the devastating effects industrialization had on nature. Slowly people began realizing that industrialization could not exist apart from nature, but rather everything man did to support industrialized processes influenced nature. Nature was not simply a source of natural resources for man to exploit, rather nature provided mankind the very sustenance he needs to survive. Slowly society began adopting a more conservationist rather than exploitative approach to nature. Prominent government agencies and members of ecological groups began realizing that nature and society must coexist in a more Arcadian manner."
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Organisational Culture, 2003.
A discussion on organisational culture and its relationship with strategic management.
1,797 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This paper examines the relationship between organisational culture and organisational strategy and how any strategic change must always be accompanied by appropriate culture change. It explores the three types of change that are apparent in organisations starting with apparent change, where new problems are confronted by choosing a range of different options permitted by the company culture. It then looks at cultural incrementalism where strategy stretches the existing organisational culture to include new values alongside the old ones followed by revolutionary change where strategic change is imposed upon the organisation, which does not comply with existing cultural values and believes and requires the organisation to create new values and symbols in order to achieve the desired change.
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"The opposite of strategic drift is strategic fit. This is also known as the process of incremental development. Quinn (1980) and Lindblom (1958)11 have argued that incremental development in organisations is not only inevitable, but also logical. Managers are aware that it is not possible to know about all the influences that could affect the future of the organisation. So to cope with uncertainty, strategies must be developed in stages, carrying members of the organisation with them. This allows the organisation to try out new ideas and experiences to see which are likely to be effective and to stimulate commitment within the organisation through continual, but low scale change."
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Nature and Emerson and Dickinson, 2002.
This paper discusses the complex relationship between Emily Dickinson's and Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas on nature as reflected in their poetry.
5,175 words (approx. 20.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 129.95
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This author believes that despite Ralph Waldo Emerson's great influence on Emily Dickinson and the similarity of their conceptions of the poet's role, she goes beyond his light-filled, hopeful conception of the relationship between humanity and nature. This paper discusses Emerson's serene conception of nature in which transcendence resides in the relationship between humanity and deity. This paper analyzes several of Dickinson's poems to demonstrate that she was far more skeptical and believed that, no matter how deeply and carefully one might read into nature, it retains its mystery.
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"In "The Rhodora," as Tuerk points out, the speaker's encounter with the flower "immediately results not from his own volition but in response to the sea-winds' piercing" of his solitude (6). The human being, the speaker, is shown at once to be fully entwined with the physical world and apart from it only by virtue of his perceptive and reflective capabilities. Therefore, human activities and the unmotivated natural forces are shown to intermingle. The 'force' of the wind that drives him is equaled, however, by the mere sight of the rhodora and beauty is shown to operate, therefore, as a force with a power perhaps even greater than anything merely physical in nature. The flower is then described in terms of its interaction with its surroundings--spreading, pleasing, dropping its petals, blackening the water, and being courted by the bird that might be attracted by it. This array of beautiful sights draws the speaker's attention in much the same way that it might eventually attract the imaginary bird."
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Nature in Literature, Drama and Poetry, 2002.
This paper explores how nature is portrayed in different literary works by such authors as Elizabeth Bishop, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jack London, Patrick Meyer, Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper compares and contrast how nature is portrayed in a variety of literary works. The works included in this paper are Elizabeth Bishop's ?The Fish,? Ralph Waldo Emerson's ?Nature,? Oliver Wendell Holmes's ?The Chambered Nautilus,? and Patrick Meyer?s ?K2," Jack London's "To Build A Fire," Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, Or Life in the Woods" and William Wordsworth''s ?The World is Too Much With Us." Some of the topics discussed include cruelty in nature, man's relationship with nature, the different elements of nature, the Romantic and Transcendentalist view of nature and the true communing of individual soul with nature. The paper concludes with the author tying all of these topics together by illustrating the similarities between human nature and nature itself.
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"Emerson is most concerned about how Emerson sees nature, and would like to see nature better as an American. Emerson does not consider that while observing nature everyone is not only changed internally by nature, whether by cold or by beauty, but also that the observer changes nature itself, even in as simple as something as walking through the perfect and untrodden snow. Just as animal life impacts and is impacted by nature; human beings exist a part of nature and are subject to natural forces. These forces include but are not limited to cold, illness, injury, death, birth, and seasonal extremes. The metaphor of the only observing eyeball denies such an impact."
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Culture and Identity: An African Perspective, 2001.
This paper examines the relationship between culture and identity from an African perspective.
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 4 sources, $ 34.95
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This paper examines the relationship between culture and identity. Language, religion and aesthetics are used to show how culture gives a people their identity. The paper is written from an African perspective with the help of books written by African authors.
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"According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, culture is the customs, beliefs, art, music and all the other products of human thought made by a particular group of people at a particular time. Culture can also be defined as a configuration of learned ideas and solutions to conflicts in human society. Culture can be divided into two namely material culture and non-material culture. "
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Culture & Society, 2002.
A study exploring the inter-relationship between the individual, culture and society.
3,750 words (approx. 15.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 103.95
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The paper explores the true meaning and distinct definitions of culture and society. It defines culture as the set of beliefs, values, behavior and material objects constituting a people's way of life, and society as a set of cultural rules. The paper examines the paradoxical relationship between who forms who: the individual on society, or vice versa, the society is molded by individuals. The author uses the example of this process by looking at tobacco use in our society, from cultural ban to outlawed societal ban. The author writes that people bring about change by influencing others first in small groups and then in society at large by enlisting the assistance of groups, the government, and the media.
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"Consider the idea of culture more fully. "Culture" is a label for an abstraction encompassing the total way of life for a group of human beings. Culture can also refer to the shared patterns of belief, feeling, and adaptation which people carry in their minds as guides for conduct and the definition of reality. Culture helps define such things as values, symbols, language, and norms and how they will be viewed and utilized in society. A value is a belief upon which an individual acts by preference, and the clarification of values is a cognitive act leading to specific and related behavior. Behavior is determined for the individual by what he or she values. Decision-making is governed by values. This is an ongoing process whereby individuals are continually evaluating alternatives and making decisions based on the values they hold and the degree to which the various alternatives open to them fulfill and serve those values. Culture helps define how people view these issues and how they make these decisions. All societies place a high value on the inculcation of values in the young, for this is the means for perpetuating certain cultural norms and thus values from generation to generation. Clearly, values may differ from one society to another, from one culture to another, even from one region within a society to another. Every society has a set of core values are to be transmitted from generation to generation. Other values may be associated with common practice, religious beliefs, or a basic world-view that is prevalent in the given society and culture, and these are also elements of culture itself. "
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Semiosis and Culture, 2002.
An understanding of the relationship between semiosis and culture through the use of verbal and non-verbal signs.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay will examine the use of signs, both verbal and non-verbal, in order to understand the relationship between semiosis and culture and to see how the two affect each other. For verbal and nonverbal codes vary culturally, and this understanding is a central tenet of modern semiotics.
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School Culture and School Safety, 2004.
Examines the existing and significant relationship between school culture and school safety.
32,586 words (approx. 130.3 pages), 101 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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This is a quantitative research study that is designed to assess the impact of school culture on school safety and school violence. The paper looks at what schools can do to create proper environments that are conducive to safety and whether there are identifiable behaviors within school culture that contribute to safety. The paper also analyzes the perceptions of teachers and administrators about school culture and order.
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"Another important point that is stressed when looking at school culture and safety is the fact that strong leaders generally make an effort to express sincere feelings toward students and their lives, and have a real belief that the students have the potential to become successful and productive adults (Kenworthy & O'Driscoll, 2000). Effective leaders create effective schools that are resilient to violence and other risks and promote resiliency in students."
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