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Shaping of Understanding, 2007.
This paper examines how gender shapes our understanding of the world on many levels.
2,087 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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In this paper, the writer looks at how gender shapes the way in which we see the world, affecting our decisions and choices. The writer maintains that work, education, sexuality, war, health and popular culture are all, in some measure, influenced by our views of what it means to be either a man, or woman, or by the absence of any clear notion of those roles. The writer notes that the idea of a division accorded to gender is common to people at all different levels of technological development and social organization. The writer concludes that though much has changed, popular culture, together with almost every other aspect of society, keeps many stereotypes and pre-conceptions alive and well.
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"A frequently-quoted statistic states that women are grossly underrepresented in managerial positions even in large, and supposedly progressive, corporations. These careers do not involve much physical labor, but they do involve a considerable amount of logical thought and decision-making. As well, many of them require advanced degrees or other forms of educational certification. In the minds of many, these sorts of activities are still best performed by men. Women are also often paid less than men though they perform identical work. As a result of these attitudes, women must work harder in order to prove themselves. They must be over-diligent and over-devoted to their careers. Such tactics lay them open to charges that they are self-centerdly cold and unfeeling in the pursuit of their aims, willing to climb over others, and take advantage of those beneath them. The business world can still be a man's world."
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Historical Context in Understanding Literature, 2002.
A review of "Maud Martha" and "Sonny's Blues" in order to understand the relationship between history and literature.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper is an examination of the role history plays in creating and understanding literature. Two pieces of literature, Maud Martha and Sonny's Blues, are used as examples of history shaping literature and of the importance of understanding the history of the period in which the works were written to gain a full appreciation of the literature.
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"The Shaping of Black America", 2002.
A summary of chapter five in "The Shaping of Black America" by Lerone Bennet Jr.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss the book "The Shaping of Black America" by Lerone Bennet Jr. In understanding the chapter "The Black Founding Fathers", we can learn how blacks played an integral part in the shaping of America from their labor and contributions.
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The Bureau-Shaping Model, 2007.
An analysis of the extent the bureau-shaping model explains the power held by senior civil servants.
2,107 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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This paper assesses the bureau-shaping model in terms of how it justifies the power held by senior officials. It is divided into two parts and looks at the position of senior civil servants in some west European countries, especially with regard to the power they wield over their department and minister or equivalent. The paper also explores the failings of the bureau-shaping model in explaining the power of senior civil servants, and tries to find alternative sources which may help us in this regard.
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"In order to assess the extent of the power held by senior civil servants we need, firstly, to consider their background, i.e. from what sort of pool are these bureaucrats picked? This is dependent upon the type of civil service in question. For example, the UK civil service is not a technocratic one, and ever since the reforms made in the early twentieth century following the Northcote-Trevelyan report, there has been huge emphasis placed on examinations, especially for the upper echelons of the service (Kingdom, 1990: 14). As a result, many of those at senior level are products of an Oxbridge education. This elitist system has undergone much criticism, but its apologists maintain that "the pluralist nature of the British political system" compensates for any of its defects. "
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Constantine's Role in the Shaping of the Catholic Church, 2002.
A history of Constantine, and his important role in shaping the Catholic Church in both history and as we know it today.
956 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper explains the persecution of the Christian minority before Constantine, and how he led them to become the Emporer's favored people and a recognized religion that no longer needed to practice in fear. The paper focusses on the growth of Catholicism and Constantine's crucial role.
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"The first recorded persecution of the Christian people perpetrated by the Roman Government was in the year 64 AD. Nero was Emperor and he saw the Christians as both threatening and blasphemous to the Roman Empire. At that time, the Christians were seen as threatening by the other Romans because they would not partake in pagan rituals. Because the Christian Gospels opposed idolatry, and their First Commandment clearly ordered their followers to accept no others gods, it basically insisted that the Roman gods be rejected. Beginning in the third century, Edicts were composed by the Emperor and entailed persecution of the Christians. The Christians that would not pay public homage to the Roman gods were subject to torture and death at the hands of the rulers. In the early fourth-century, Diocletian was the main threat to the Christians; he ordered all of their books and places of worship to be burned. In addition, Christians were not allowed to congregate and were omitted from the protection of laws. However, all of this would end in 311 when Galerius issued a decree that allowed Christians to continue with their religious practices. These liberties were temporarily halted when Galerius died and Maximinus Daia once again ordered for the persecution of the Christians. Soon after though, Constantine was named Emperor after his father's demise. With Constantine's ascent to Emperor, the Christian people breathed a sigh of relieve; they knew that they would no longer be a minority people and fear persecution."
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Understanding Texts, 2006.
This paper shapes a lesson plan for a high school class using performance methods to teach lessons in drama and literary comprehension.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 7 sources, $ 133.95
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The paper explains that drama is one of the literary forms that can be used to help students access both elements of literary history and a critical understanding of the text. Reading comprehension is only one aspect of understanding what is read and poetry, fiction and drama can be used to good effect to increase comprehension based not just on the words used but on what more is meant by the words in the text. The paper stresses how drama is especially useful because it involves performance and so can help in accessing the meaning of a text, both by forcing a closer reading from the first and second by providing another means of accessing the text in performance.
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A Colonialism of the Mind, 2006.
A review of the experience of Canadians in Somalia as an example of the epistemological structures that shape our understanding of the world around us.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 5 sources, $ 97.95
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This essay interrogates the question of whether our academic study at York University of the politics of continental risks reproducing the processes of recolonization of the global South. The Canadian experience in Somalia is cited as an example of the critical necessity to look beyond our good intentions as Canadians, and to interrogate the epistemological structures that shape our understanding of the world around us.
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"The final decade of the 20th century opened as one of the most dramatic, and promising decades in recent human history. The Cold War was officially over; the "good guys" had won and the Soviet "evil empire" was on the verge of collapse. In South Africa the long-enduring abomination of apartheid was coming to an end, and Nelson Mandela was freed to near-universal acclaim. The United Nations had become important as never before in resolving conflicts around the world, and its peacekeeping forces - to which Canada was a leading contributor - had earned the respect of much of the world."
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Understanding and Implementing Motivation Successfully, 2006.
This paper provides ideas and analysis of how to be better managers to employees in order to motivate them to do a better job.
5,003 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 126.95
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In this paper the author recommends ways of how to motivate employees and managers to do a better job. He clearly states that motivation is something that comes from within but that through training, managers can learn to be effective motivators by adjusting their managerial style to the needs of their employees. The author analyzes various areas of management, and looks at how to teach managers to use specific approaches that will motivate individuals, instead of making the mistake of targeting an entire workforce in the same manner. The paper offers different methods of motivation that can be used. The author concludes that many of the motivation problems in companies are not caused by the deficiencies of individual employees, but by expecting people to excel in tasks requiring qualities they just don't have.
Table of Contents
The Bell Shaped Performance Curve
How Has the Bell-Shape Curve Formed?
Benefits Gained By Understanding Employee Motives
Winner's Motives- Accomplishment Motive and Power Motive
Survivors' Motives
Security Motives
The Dependency Motive
The Conformity Model
Comfort Motive
Fairness Motive
The Friendship Motive
Motivating Employees toward Change
Motivating an Employee with a Performance Problem
Motivation & Goal Setting
The Importance of Having a Dream
Setting the Goals
Setting Objectives
Policies Leading to Effective Motivational Systems
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"People with a strong dose of the friendship motive spend a lot of time doing favours for people and trying to be popular. Their underlying motive is to make their private world as safe as possible by eliminating the possibility of adversaries. People with this motive don't mind being manipulated, and dislike disappointing people. For this reason, they do not excel in leadership roles-to keep employees happy they will make all kinds of exceptions to rules and give extra favours. This will result in a loss of discipline and productivity in the workforce. Motivating this group requires little effort since they are so eager to please. In managing this group, managers must be careful not to show undue favouritism towards them since they are so pleasing. It must be ensured that other subordinates do not conclude that they are an easy mark for a flatterer. The best way to keep this group motivated (and unagitated) is to speak to them in terms of continuing employment, i.e. if they continue doing a good job for you, you'll continue doing your best for them."
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Shaping of America, 1994.
Examination of how America was shaped by the frontier, native Americans, & by the slave system. Focus is on historical injustices.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 63.95
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" The Frontier in American History
American history involves a mixture of histories, cultures, and national backgrounds brought together in what was truly the New World when it was discovered by European settlers. At the time, there were several Indian tribes in North America and the larger civilization of the Aztecs in South America. The settlers from Europe brought their culture with them, and they only broke away from that culture slowly over a period of time as they created something new. With the advent of slavery in the plantation economy of the South, blacks from Africa were brought to the Americas and introduced elements of their culture. These different forces mixed and interacted over time to become the underpinnings of American history and what would become a distinctive American culture. "
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Shaping the American Individual, 2004.
A review of Jonathan Edwards's ?Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God? and Benjamin Franklin's ?The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin?.
952 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper examines how Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards can be looked at as two great individuals who ended the Puritan era and started an awakening and shaping of the American individual. It looks at Edwards's ?Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God?, his ?Personal Narrative?, and Franklin's ?The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin? in an attempt to show how each of these authors contributed to the ?Great Awakening? and shaping of the American individual.
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"In Edwards ?Personal Narrative?, he shows how through his own struggles he has become closer to god "I had a variety of concerns and exercise about my soul from my childhood; but had two more remarkable seasons of awakening, before I met with that change, by which I was brought to those new dispositions, and that new sense of things, that I have had"(Norton 466). Edwards sought out to awaken the public, just as he had been awakened by his own struggles with Christianity, and by doing this he believed he would become closer to god. Edwards believed that god had a plan that people should follow. If you followed this predetermined plan, and truly lived your life by god, you would become one of the ?elect? that would have a reserved place in heaven."
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Understanding Mental Disorders, 2004.
An analysis of the impact of language and culture on the diagnosis of mental disorders.
9,225 words (approx. 36.9 pages), 27 sources, MLA, $ 190.95
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This paper examines the current state of scholarship with regard to how language and culture can impact the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. The paper contends that there is much research but still relatively little in the way of concrete guidance for the therapist in everyday practice. The paper claims that is necessary for behavioral health professionals to first look at their own attitudes toward diversity and then for them to recognize and accept the reality of difference in the people they will deal with. The paper asserts that before a therapist can accurately create either a diagnosis or a treatment plan, he or she must understand where the subject comes from, not only as far as personal history but with respect to the cultural views that shape response to whatever happened to the person individually.
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Introduction
The Scope of the Issue
Language
Cross-cultural Prevalence of Mental Disorders
Methodology
Review of Literature
How Well is the Issue Being Addressed?
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"These issues do not just present treatment problems. How can one ethically diagnose and treat someone he or she does not understand? It becomes a most serious matter of being incompetent to provide adequate treatment to the Asian or Arab immigrant. It is also frequently the case that, as professionals, counselors are not aware that the African-American or Hispanic-American person sitting across the desk, comes from a different cultural perspective even though he or she may have been born and raised in this country. Bluntly, incompetence is not acceptable in any health care setting. It would seem that it is now necessary for members of the behavioral health professions to develop new skills and tools if they are to deserve the confidence and trust of the people they will be treating."
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The Shaping of American Shakerism, 2004.
A look at the influence of several factors on the founding principles of the United Society of Believers.
7,809 words (approx. 31.2 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 169.95
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This paper covers the founding principles of the Shaker society in the late 1700s and how they were influenced by other religious sects, Ann Lee's personal experiences, persecution and religious revivalism during the Great Awakening. It argues that these factors contributed to the formation of the sect and the practices that were adopted until the mid-1850s. It includes quotes from many Shaker texts and was written based on primary sources from the period. Annotated bibliography.
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"The Shakers were just one of many utopian sects that appeared in late eighteenth century America. These groups were unique because their members believed that the essential nature of God?s Kingdom had been revealed to them, and that it was their responsibility to establish this Kingdom on earth. Utopian sects have an ambiguous relationship with the external society; since they perceive the world as an environment suited to corrupting individuals and alienating them from God, they sought to isolate themselves from its influence, but also regarded themselves as ?divinely commissioned? to spread their perfection . Shakers are in particular a reformist sect, because their early opinions of the world were transformed into a quest to influence the world while still maintaining distance from the surrounding society. In this way, the common Shaker was eventually isolated from the world during the age of the first American leaders, but this process was directly affected by the opening period of Shaker history. In 1787, under the original English elders, Ann Lee, William Lee and James Whittaker, the Shakers? religious ideas, social relations and worship were unorganized and informal. Early Shakers were united by their admiration for Ann Lee and their repugnance of sexuality, and expected the imminent apocalyptic beginning of celibacy throughout the world. When this did not transpire as planned, the hardships and isolation suffered by the group led to a more gradualistic interpretation of the sect?s mission. Along with focusing on spreading the gospel, Shakers also sought union and order in the formative period, and by 1826, the sect had been transformed from scattered followers spread across New England and New York into an organized society with unity of doctrines and rituals. Organizing into communities was a gradual process, occurring from the time when Ann Lee?s small colony at Niskeyuna first attracted attention in 1780 to the erection of the New Lebanon meetinghouse in 1785."
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John Clive's "Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian", 2002.
A review of this book that analyzes the life and historical writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay.
1,980 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 62.95
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The paper summarizes the main points of the book and critiques the author's effectiveness at connecting Macaulay's life experiences to his approach to writing. Influences on Macaulay's development as a writer of history, such as his family and upbringing, the intellectual era he grew up in, and his psychological development are examined.
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"John Clive is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and Literature at Harvard University, and he brings his knowledge of both history and literary style to bear in analyzing the life and historical writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay in his book Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian. The approach considers the works of Macaulay in terms of what they reveal about the forces that shaped them, including the family situation of Macaulay, the intellectual currents of the time, and Macaulay's psychology, showing how these forces interacted to cause Macaulay to think as he did and to begin to write history as he did. The book does not cover all of Macaulay's life but instead examines what the sub-title indicates--the shaping of the historian, the forces that shaped Macaulay up to 1839 when he started writing history."
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Factors Shaping Global Trade, 1994.
The roles and effects of corporate policy, government intervention and regional economic groupings.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 8 sources, $ 63.95
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"Introduction
Today?s economy is a global economy. American cars, once the proud output of Detroit, are now conglomerations of components from throughout the world, and may even be manufactured in Mexico for sale in the United States. Japanese electronics dominate the American market, and American soft drinks can be found in virtually every nation on the planet. Companies no longer think merely in local or even national terms, but consider the international community when developing their marketing plans. As a result of revolutions in communications and transportation, goods--and workers--can travel more easily than at any other time in history. Trade patterns have changed as a result of this freedom of movement, and nations have taken up trade policy as a matter of strategic importance. This research considers the..."
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Religion in Shaping the Country's Nature, 2004.
The role of morals and religious values in a nation?s economic activity.
1,874 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper argues that the role of religious ethics in public and economic life is the glue that gives men the reason to be economically prosperous and the element that holds societies together, rather than pull them apart. The writer believes that the religious principles espoused by Smith, Jefferson, and Winthrop created the social foundation on which America has been built. The writer states that to suggest that we can eliminate religious thought from public life and from economic behavior is to suggest that we can be our own god. Like Marx, such a philosophy is destined for a page in the history books, but it will not build lasting prosperity or success.
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"In our nation, the current politically correct cry is to separate moral issues from the public arena. The affairs of church and state should be forever separated. The associated corollary, one which is likely not spoken but clearly assumed by those who propagate the separation doctrine is that religious thoughts, morals, and ethics should also not be present in the market place. The assumption is that moral reasoning is only a bigoted and discriminatory belief system which seeks separate people, and is therefore harmful to the harmonious development of a nation."
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