La Celestina in its cultural and historical context
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
La Celestina, written by Fernando de Rojas in 1499, is often considered one of the greatest works of Spanish literature, and with good reason. It set a precedent for future writings, both in Spain and abroad--even inspiring Shakespeare's masterpiece Romeo and Juliet. The play came on the heels...
Labor relations paper
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
House Bill 190, or the Protecting America's Workers Act (PAWA) , is a bill that was introduced to the United States House of Representatives in January of 2011. The bill would expound on particular safety provisions in the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH) of 1970. To truly understand...
Foundations paper
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
The United Way has many projects in which they provide services for. Some of these are help in education of the youth, their campaign for the common good, transportation services, and penny drives. All of these things go a long way to serve those in communities across the nation. They are a very...
My leadership plan
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
In the world today strong leadership with moral or ethical values is much needed, especially in human service work. The increase of unemployment and poverty has many people turning to people in this field for a variety of needs; counselors for depression issues, social service agencies for food,...
My ethical decision
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Every day we are faced with making decisions. It all starts from the time our alarm goes off in the morning until we go to sleep at night. Do I hit the snooze button and sleep ten more minutes, or do I just get up and start my day? Which outfit should I wear? Do I need to shave? What do I want to...
Jesus in comparison to Mohammad
Book review - 3 pages - Educational studies
Many religions are out there in this world and all have their different beliefs and god, gods, goddesses, and spiritual leader in which each follows. Many share in some of the same beliefs of finding peace, spirituality, and tranquility in their lives. How each find a way to achieve these goals...
Hinduism
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
There are many different religions in this world, but each one is different from the next. None of us can say whether one is better than another or if one is right and one is wrong. Trying to respect each other should be more important. One religion out of the many is Hinduism, which is more how...
Exploration of the Methodist religion
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
The Christian religion has many denominations but all have similar beliefs. For the most part they have the same beliefs and practices with a few differences determined by how each denomination branched off from the Catholic religion, which was the original Christianity. Anglicans, Methodist,...
Importance of psychology in nursing
Case study - 1 pages - Psychology
Walker, J., et al (2005), defines psychology as “the study of human behavior, thought process and emotion. It can contribute to our understanding of ourselves and our relationships with other people, if it is applied in an informed way.” Sharing the same sentiments is the definition of...
On ethics as emotivism according to David Hume and A.J. Ayer
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Many philosophers such as David Hume in the 18th century and Alfred Jules Ayer in the 20th century have argued that ethical judgments are, in one sense or another, dependent on emotion and do not express knowledge of any objective truths. Hume was a famous essayist, economist, historian and...
Internal anatomy of a bony fish
Book review - 3 pages - Educational studies
Most aquatic animals have adapted to the water so that they may breathe and move swiftly through the water. Some have even adapted by the color of their scales to blend in with their surroundings. Those fish, which live mostly in deeper depths of the water or are nocturnal, may appear red in...
Children obesity in San Antonio
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
San Antonio is in the state of Texas. It occupies an area of 7.07miles of land area and 0.13miles of water area (USA.com, 2013). The total population of the area is 45,307 which is a reduction of 4.39% of the 2000 statistics. This is much lower than the national average of 9.71% and the 20.59% of...
Feminist literary criticism
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
Female perspectives have long been overlooked in literature, as have female writers and protagonists of these works. Mirroring the cultural barometer of the times, females have been viewed, historically, as minor characters, present only to support their male counterparts. However, Kate Chopin...
Does rationality determine political behavior?
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
The merits of rational choice theory have been debated in their relation to politics for generations. While rational choice theory has been applied with success to other fields, it has long been debated in political circles, often because of the dubious nature of politics and of the ambiguous...
Crime and forensic television dramas and their effect on individual psychology
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
Advances in technology and communications provide increasing accurate tools for forensic science and are directly responsible for its development over recent decades. Communication has also provided the average citizen with forensic information, whether it is for the sake of fiction or actual...
Pop Culture in relation to Psychology
Case study - 23 pages - Psychology
In this paper we discuss pop culture. Predominately the focus is on pop culture in relation to psychology and that indeed, takes up the vast majority of the essay. But in part 1 we give the reader a brief social-historical overview of pop culture (i.e., its impact and connection to society...
There is no hope of doing perfect research
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
The unadorned meaning of research is ‘scientific inquiry' or simply ‘to search again'. The intriguing word denotes the systematic investigation to increase knowledge and understanding or simply to arrive at facts. It is the careful subject of a study to set up new information or facts...
Economics and Social Policy: The Keynesian Perspective
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
At the onset of civilization, it has always been the aim of surviving societies to establish a kind of welfare state- one that is able to deliver the basic necessities and services to its inhabitants through various modes available. The delivery of services includes, but not is limited to, those...
Why is the biological explanation of gender so popular?
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
In a cover story published recently in The New York Times magazine, Daniel Berger, author of the book “What do Women Want? Adventure in the Science of Female Desire”, which is coming out soon, analyzes women's sex drive in the light of a new drug called Lybrido that is supposed to help...
Forest ecosystem
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
In an echo system there are living and nonliving factors which work together within the environment. This paper is supposed to be about the food chain and some of the living and nonliving factors while collecting information I discovered so much more. Each of the elements within the environment...
Do good leaders need to be intelligent ?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
Leader can lead in different ways. Some are more transactional leaders others are transformational leaders. Moreover, the human being can use his brain in different manners therefore intelligence can take several forms. In this paper, I will study the different forms of intelligence and...
The official language movement
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
Most Americans have trouble relating to Presidential candidates that are bilingual. The majority of Americans do not know another language besides English; they feel like it is the only one that is important. So when Barrack Obama was running for President it was a little surprising that he was...
Race and my community
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
I have seen much change as the years pass by. I have lived in Lima most of my life and grew up here. I would saying I know this community very well. I am White and have lived mostly in the same place. I have moved out of the house my parents owned several times, but I always seem to come back to...
Diagnoses and Treatment of Schizophrenia and Antisocial Personality Disorder , Expansions on Excerpts from: Mental Illness and Personality Disorders in the UK: A Prison Sentence?
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
“Diagnoses [of mental health disorders and illnesses], while expertly delineated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), rely heavily on the differential diagnoses method, in which clinicians systematically rule out other potential causes for present symptoms...
Case study: Korsakoff's syndrome, diagnosis, and treatment
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Korsakoff's syndrome is a disorder caused by a severe thiamine, or vitamin B1, deficiency. Recent reports suggest that in the UK alone, roughly 700,000 residents suffer from some sort of amnestic disorder or dementia, with 10 to 24 % of those cases caused by alcohol related brain damage...
The story of the Shawnee Indians
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
My name is Methoataske which means “turtle laying eggs”. I am 14 years old and belong to the Shawnee tribe. It is late spring 1831 and we are now embarking on our trip out west having sold our lands. Catahecassa, Black Hoof, our Chief has died. Our tribe is headed to the Mississippi...
Hispanic American Diversity - published: 10/06/2013
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Until I started the research for this paper I did not know how many different countries that Hispanic Americans have come from. It was hard for me to choose only four to write about for this assignment but I did decide to pick the ones I was most familiar with and which I was able to find the...
The migration of the Scottish people
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
In the 1600 and 1700's the Scottish began coming to the United States. Some of them “…were primarily for Quakers and Presbyterians who were experiencing religious persecution by the then Episcopalian Church of Scotland.” (Hess, 2011) Most did not come by choice. A lot of the...
The Japanese textbooks controversy: a comparison with France and Germany
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
“Few, if any, instruments shape national culture more powerfully than the materials used in schools. Textbooks are not only among the first books most people encounter; in many places they are, along with religious texts, almost the only books they encounter” . Textbooks are an...
Knowledge, power and development
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
United Nations report 1951: rapid economic progress and painful adjustments Truman: ‘fair deal' - the US and the world have to solve the problems of the underdeveloped areas (misery, food inadequate, poverty, disease…). He develops the idea that humanity has the knowledge to relieve the...
