Counselling Theory
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
All counselling approaches may require need sort of theoretical basis, particularly person-centred counselling (Davies, 2012) which seems to necessitate a practitioner to have strong theoretical acumen to be successful. There seems to be a large disparity and diversity in individuals who receive...
Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Season of Blood is one journalist's passionate take on the genocide that occurred in Rwanda at the end of the twentieth century. Like the Armenian genocide of the same century, its classification as an actual genocide was something that many were slow to accept. Fergal Keane hopes to abolish any...
Lesbians in the United States
Case study - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Basically, “Lesbians are female homosexuals, women affectionately and sexually attracted to women” (Burn 79). More complex definitions exist, encompassing the politics of lesbianism or the self-labeling of lesbians. But the most important thing to acknowledge about lesbians is that...
The Most Important Legacy of World War I: The League of Nations
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
It is often debated which of the great wars had a greater impact on the course of history in regards to domestic and foreign affairs. In such a debate one simply cannot escape the legacy of WWI. This first war, with its innumerable casualties and changing tides, set the stage for WWII and made...
The Cuban Revolution
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Each country has experienced various changes in leadership. The nature of these changes vary. Some countries receive a completely new form of government. Others maintain the same form of government and gain different leaders. Cuba provides an exemplification of this phenomenon. Following the...
Push analysis
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Americans face multiple issues daily. Several of the issues identified involve the government. Sapphire published a novel that illustrated the various issues regarding the government. The novel, Push, does this by telling the story of a 16 year old that faces multiple obstacles. Federalism,...
Appalachian Trial Pilgrimage
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
The term pilgrimage may be specifically defined. It may be identified as a journey. This serves a ritual to many. People that take pilgrimages are usually in search of spiritual significance. (Coleman, Simon, and Elsner) They may also be in search of moral significance. The journey is often to a...
An identity reduced to a Burka
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Every culture has defining elements. There are also stereotypes associated with each culture. Sometimes the defining elements of a culture are falsely identified. An Identity Reduced to a Burka by Laila Al-Marayati and Semeen Issa La illustrates a stereotype regarding the Muslim culture. The...
Adverse identifications of women in earlier Americana
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Time is a term that is closely associated with change. Nothing remains the same over time. Progress and regress are presented in every aspect of life. Literature illustrates this on several occasions. This may be exemplified by observing Trifles by Susan Glaspell. Trifles illustrates adverse...
The high susceptibility of females to HIV/AIDS in sub-saharan Africa
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Imagine the following scenario. You are a twelve-year-old boy living in Tanzania, the oldest of five children. Your mother and father have recently perished from AIDS, and your only living grandparent has recently become infected with HIV. For this reason, he is unable to work to earn money for...
Sensation, Perception, and Attention
Case study - 1 pages - Psychology
Team affiliates respond in a different way to diverse acoustic stimulus. We will carry out an open discussion about each individual team member's threshold for acoustic stimulation as well as compare experiences and comfort levels for each team member using the cocktail party phenomena. We will...
Howard Garner's Multiple Intelligence's
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Multiple Intelligence was introduced by a man named Howard Gardner. His suggestion of diverse intelligences is referred to as ‘The Theory of Multiple Intelligences', which does challenge the thought of contemporary intelligence. Gardner's theory see's current position of intellect as a...
Sea Urchin Essay
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Many of today's essays, whether they are in newspapers or magazines, contain a central recurring idea stressing the importance of one subject. In Chang-Rae Lee's essay, he uses the dominant theme of a hidden delicacy found in a familiar place. The author uses this figurative food to signify a...
Why do you need life insurance?
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Life insurance policies are very important for you and your family while you are living, and when you die. A life insurance cover can help you earn an income replacement, options for debt repayments, and other benefits for your family. Buying a life insurance a policy is an important part of...
Psychological article critique: 'Childhood Family Violence History and Women's Risk for Intimate Partner Violence and Poor Health' by Bensley, Van Eenwyk, & Simmons
Case study - 1 pages - Psychology
This study investigated the association between a history of childhood family violence and subsequent adult physical health, mental distress, and intimate partner violence. The sample consisted of 3527 women living in Washington State. Data were obtained from the Behavioral Risk Factor...
Blackpool & Fylde Aero Club Ltd v Blackpool BC
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
For there to be an implied obligation on the local authority to consider the tenders duly received, it is presupposed that a contract existed between them and the club. To address this question, the earlier courts decided that a collateral contract had in fact formed between the two parties. This...
Case note for Bolton v. Stone [1951] AC 850
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Although the general rules for negligence had been laid down by previous cases, Bolton v. Stone [1951] AC 850 still gave the judges at the House of Lords some difficulty in deciding whether it constituted just such a case. As such, while upholding legal precedent, it also paved new grounds in...
Understanding military downsizing
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
On October 21st, 2011, President Obama held a press conference, one of many actually, where he stated “virtually all U.S. troops will come home from Iraq by the end of the year -- at which point he can declare an end to America's long and costly war in that Middle Eastern nation.”...
Discuss the job performance model and compare and contrast Maslow's and McClelland's need theories
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
As discussed in the text, the job performance model of motivation was proposed by the Organizational Behavior researcher Terence Mitchell. This model starts off with “individual inputs and job context are the two key categories of factors that influence motivation.” (Kinicki & Kreitner,...
Balancing work-family conflicts
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
At some point in our careers, we have all experienced something that is referred to as a “Work-Family Conflict.” The best way to describe this, and in the simplest terms, is that issues at home are taking a person's attention away from work or situations at work are taking a person's...
Develop a hypothesis for a problem at a local business (for example: high employee turnover). Determine if your hypothesis has adequacy for its purpose, is testable and better than its rivals. Then, use the Checklist for Developing a Strong Hypothesis (Ch
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Military aviation, as an organization, requires a vast amount of moving parts. Everything from the aircraft themselves, to the people who work on them, fly them, and event the support staff who ensure everyone is being taken care of when it comes to pays, allowances, and other quality of life...
HR-staffing and techniques for employee selection
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
ADNOC is the state-owned oil company of the United Arabs Emirates (UAE). The firm has thus embarked on a comprehensive program for the staffing recruitment and selection. There are a number of criteria for selection at ADNOC for instance the use of cognitive ability, job knowledge, personality of...
Knowledge management system: Integrated KMS to support the case study
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
There is a minimal amount of knowledge that is known with regards to what knowledge management system is and what it is not. Although scholars have always described the approaches that can be used in the effective development of KMS that is based on technology although very few of them discuss...
Gelato's compliance with Civil Rights Act of 1964
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
In Heartland Corners, 75 per cent of the white population has completed high school compared to 25 per cent of the other minority groups. How is the information important in considering whether Gelato is in compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
Leadership, governance and sustainability: case study of GM
Case study - 10 pages - Educational studies
On July 10 2009, the firm went through Chapter 11 reorganization after the firm had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 8th the same year. The government offered a loan to GM that would be converted into shareholding at the new firm which was formed General Motors Corporation. The sales of GM...
California traffic safety
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Traffic and traffic safety, especially in urban environments, tend to be at the forefront of most local government agencies. Statistically speaking, the numbers of accidents in an area are what drive the conclusions, decisions, and actions to be taken to better protect the population. Variables...
Developing a cultural diversity training program
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
According to Kinicki and Kreitner, authors of the text Organizational Behavior, “Diversity represents the multitude of individual differences and similarities that exist among people. This definition underscores a key issue about managing diversity.” (Kinicki & Kreitner, 2009, p97)....
In order to rage against the machine- The extended addition! Directors cut!
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Adorno is clearly aware of the hold that capitalism and business have over art and many other forms of expression; forcing them (music, TV, literature) to adhere to the “standardization of mass production,” but he does not account for the more modern forms of expression that work within...
Social politics of the plight of the woman
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Social politics is the process through which groups in various social structures make collective decisions. Social politics is influenced by various facets of the society such as religion, business, gender, academics and even sports. Social politics therefore encapsulate the attitudes, beliefs,...
Women in Mathematics
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The history of the world shows us that women have had an increasingly important role in our society. Women have always strived to attain equal stature with men and have been remarkable influential along the way. Hypatia (370-415) had a passion for knowledge. She could even be considered a...
