The other in Israeli culture: Yearning for a home and a homeland
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Do our similarities bring us together, or do our differences tear us apart? This question can be answered varyingly and astutely, across (and within) cultures and societies. Eshkol Nevo's rich novel Arba'a Batim ve Gagu'a can be construed as the author's response to this question in contemporary...
Internship report at a pharmacy in France
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
A pharmacist is a healthcare professional with a mission of public service. The following paragraphs will give you a view into the life of a pharmacist. These details are compiled from an induction course conducted at the Central Pharmacy Boonefaes-Cadiou, located at Courrières. The goal of this...
Application of data mining techniques in designing knowledge base on student competency at the post graduate level
Thesis - 7 pages - Educational studies
Maintenance of academic standards is the prime concern of any educational institution. Education at the Masters level, involves the conscious involvement of time, money and effort by the candidates. With the industrial downturn and reduction in the demand for graduates at the job market due to...
Social construction therapy models
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
All forms of psychotherapy, including marriage and family therapy, have traditionally followed a medical model where the therapist is the expert, who can diagnose and then treat whatever psychological dysfunction is occurring within a family. The treatment of this dysfunction was the area of...
Case study analysis with respect to Holland's theory
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Holland's vocational theory is described, and then the case study set forth as a summary of the subject's educational and career history as well as the subject's vocational family history. The case study is then analyzed using Holland's theory in regard to the subject's personality types and the...
Psychological report: A case study
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Sam Johnson was referred for assessment because he is applying for a position at Liberty University as a resident assistant. This is a demanding position, and Mr. Johnson was tested for personality characteristics conducive to succeeding as a resident assistant. Leadership skills, emotional...
Self-esteem inventories: A comparison
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
As multi-cultural counseling becomes more commonplace, the need for assessments that can be used across cultures is increasing. While some test authors have attempted to write assessments that are culturally non-specific, or “culture-free,” it has been proven to be nearly impossible to...
The Beck depression inventory
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
The most current version of the test is called the Beck Depression Inventory - II (BDI-II). The original version was authored by Aaron T. Beck, Robert A. Steer, and Gregory K. Brown in 1961, and published by the Psychological Corporation. A complete kit, which includes a manual and twenty-five...
Study on the effectiveness of corporate education service with comparison between offline and online education service using SERVQUAL model
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Educational studies
In this research, we empirically evaluate the difference between off-line and on-line corporate education services in terms of their service quality levels. Especially, in order to judge the efficiency and effectiveness of the increasingly popular on-line educational service and to provide a...
The Iran hostage crisis
Essay - 2 pages - Educational studies
The Iran Hostage crisis occurred during a protest on November 4, 1979, outside of the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran. The protestors stormed the embassy, captured 66 people, and refused to release them until Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi came back to Iran to be tried for crimes against his...
Meeting needs of the newly-defined at-risk student
Thesis - 2 pages - Educational studies
The Term “at-risk” is not new to the field of education. It has been used since the 1980's to identify those students who were candidates for dropping out of high school, thus condemning themselves and society to a large block of unproductive, unskilled adults who would have to be...
Performativity and identity
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Performativity as a concept is fraught with innuendo and subject to both discussion and debate. By use of this term are we denigrating that to which we apply it to mere acting? Or, conversely does the term Performativity lead us to open doors into broader definitions and ways of knowing the...
The basics of irrationality
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
With the advent of the internet, there is an even wider exchange of ideas and beliefs between people. Unfortunately, this also means that any idea, no matter how ignorant of reality they might be or how fraught they are with pseudoscience or superstition, is also quickly spread across the world....
Strategic management assessment: Barclays Premier League & Manchester United
Thesis - 9 pages - Sports
The last decade has seen has radical transformation of the UK football industry, with economic indicators pointing to football has a viable business model (Johnson et al, 2008, p.20). A prime example of this is the Barclays sponsorship of the Premier League, who has recently announced a three...
A sample psychology experiment
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
In order to accurately perform a study, one can't simply rely on the standard experiment. Other types of study can be implemented to acquire more accurate results and conclusions. This paper will distinguish between these methods and contrast them with the standard experiment. The general...
Conscious understanding
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Any interest in human personality and culture must approach the concept of consciousness. Various disciplines have produced explanations of the foundation and context of human consciousness, yet their lack of assimilation perpetuates the ambiguity of conscious. Theorists diverge on either a...
Chronological and subjective age in emerging adulthood: The crossover effect
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
The focus of this analysis is to analyze the research paper “Chronological and subjective age in emerging adulthood: The crossover effect” by Nancy Galambos, Pamela Turner and Lauree Tilton-Weaver (2005). Firstly, I shall provide an overview of the study and its claims and evaluate the...
Suicide and Durkhein
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Psychologists consider cases of suicide on a case by case basis, and examine the individual's “temperament, character, [and] biographical events” so as to understand the root causes of their suicide. In other words, psychologists emphasize the role of the individual's feelings,...
Process approach and grammar instruction in ESL writing classes
Thesis - 2 pages - Educational studies
To correct or not to correct grammar issues? This is the question that ESL writing teachers have been asking since the 1970s up until the 1980s during which they taught Writing as a process of generating ideas, drafting, and then refining the final product by attending to accuracy issues. It was...
Meals not so ready to eat: Ecology of food
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
Napoleon once said, “An army marches on its stomach”, and most soldiers would agree. So in 1975, the Department of Defense created the Meal Ready to Eat, affectionately known as MREs. Over the years MRE's have become the foremost source of food for our nation's troops. Meal Ready to...
Issue of instruction through delight in children's literature
Thesis - 7 pages - Educational studies
The literary label of crossover fiction to contemporary children's literature is commonly associated with J K Rowling's “Harry Potter” phenomenon. However, arguably it was Phillip Pullman's “Dark Materials” trilogy that operated as a catalyst for this change in literature...
Difficulties graduates encounter and the needs and expectations from companies
Thesis - 13 pages - Educational studies
Finding a good job one of the biggest concerns of students after graduating. From then, the question of whether graduates from universities could have a suitable job in the future may be far more complicated to be answered. There are many controversial points of view around this issue, and each...
Students and project work: Problems and recommendations
Thesis - 10 pages - Educational studies
Project work, as defined in the website of the Ministry of Education of Singapore, is considered as one learning experience that can help to provide students with opportunity to apply general knowledge of various fields to real life situation. In such attempt, Hoa Sen University has made project...
How to motivate students' activeness in taking part in classroom activities
Thesis - 12 pages - Educational studies
Gone are the days the lecturers taught while students just listened comprehension and took notes. Nowadays, educational career has been innovated about the teaching and learning method. More and more students are self - motivated in their own studies, they advance their opinions even oppose...
A personal experience on attention deficit disorder (ADD)
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
Someone once said, “Be careful what you wish for, for it might just come true.” I thought writing a paper from the personal perspective of an adult living with attention deficit disorder (ADD) , would be a comparatively easy task. I have written about the many unrelenting challenges I...
An analysis of nutritional requirement for athletes
Thesis - 9 pages - Sports
This paper examines the nutritional needs of the athletes. Though there are numerous sports, this paper evaluates Marathon and racing as the example of stressing the importance in athletes. This paper is designed to provide recommendations for British Athletes during the Olympic Games to be held...
An analysis of drug abuse in sports: Why sportsmen resort to drugs to enhance their performance?
Thesis - 4 pages - Sports
Athletes face tremendous pressure to succeed during an event. They are not only pressurized by their peers but from external groups like fans, family etc. At times this pressure becomes extremely difficult to tolerate and affects the performance of the athlete. The high expectations from them...
Evaluation of sports development as a policy initiative for the benefit of the society
Thesis - 7 pages - Sports
There is no denying the fact that sports contribute significantly to the development of the society on the whole. Sports education is considered to be the integral part of education. The role of sport development officer assumes significance since he is responsible for planning, implementation...
Factors influencing academic performance of pupils/students in an educational institution
Thesis - 3 pages - Educational studies
Assessment of pupils / students is one of the duties of a teacher, which can be in form of test or examination and aimed at measuring the level of attainment of educational objectives. However, there are three domains of educational objectives: the cognitive, affective and psycho motor. While the...
Strategies for improving biology teachers for optimum performance
Thesis - 4 pages - Educational studies
Biology is an important subject among the science subjects. Over the years, there has been much ‘hue and cry' about the issue of ineffective teaching of biology in schools, which is being attributed to the poor academic performance of students in the subject at the Senior School Certificate...
