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...
Psychological profile: Andrei Chikatilo
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
Every human is capable of committing murder; however, there are only a select few who actually chose to do so. Murders are classified by their nature, whether or not they were premeditated, and the number of victims slain and the time span of the murders. Serial killers are those who generally...
How can we define 'abnormal behavior'? Discuss and evaluate how views on abnormal behavior have changed over time
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Throughout the history of man, there have always been individuals behaving against the current by acting or believing in so-called strange and outlandish ways. Some may view this as eccentricity or down right bizarre. Others may perceive this as signs of illness or distress and characterize the...
One brain two languages: The advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism
Thesis - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Language is such a vital part of our existence. We are confronted daily with language through interaction with others and within ourselves through our own inner dialogue. On the whole scientific inquiry and analysis utilizes language in communicating ideas and conducting experimentation....
Environmental racism
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
According to Fredrickson, America was able to largely ignore the “race question” until the American Revolution. Before the war for independence, Jews were mostly sequestered in ghettos and black people on plantations, so the need for a dominating racial ideology had not yet arisen....
A study on the deviance in a person
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
According to sociologist Travis Hirschi in his article Control Theory of Delinquency, the act of deviating from the norms in a given society is caused mainly, not by the social structure, but by the deviant himself and the strength of his connection to that society. In this paper I will try to...
Psychological anthropology
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Quoting Williams, Ahearn defines “structures of feeling” as “'meanings and values as they are actively lived and felt' by real individuals [Ahearn, p. 53].”'. The structures in this phrase are not static, but are always growing and changing in discernible patterns. Both Lutz...
Terror in the Mind of God: A book review
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The world has become a more dangerous place to live in the past fifteen years or so. According to Mark Juergensmeyer's book, Terror in the Mind of God; the Global Rise of Religious Violence, this can be attributed to religious terrorists, or activists depending on one's perspective, reacting...
Education and alternate assessment for students with important cognitive disabilities: Implications for educators
Thesis - 11 pages - Educational studies
Reform in education has turned to be one of the paramount public policy matters in the nation. As policymakers and educators race to rectify the several perceived shortcomings of an educational system through asking for more accountability, it is increasingly apparent that several reforms have...
George Best (22nd May 1946 - 25th November 2005)
Thesis - 3 pages - Sports
George Best was born in East Belfast on 22nd May 1946. Even from a young age his parents, Anne and Dickie, acknowledged George's passion for football. He was a Northern Ireland International football player. He was married twice with Angela Douglas-James who died in 1986 and with Alex Pusey...
Understanding the human consciousness
Thesis - 10 pages - Psychology
Human consciousness can be apprehended only from within as a concrete experience constantly present in all of us, it is not yet possible to give an objective definition. This is not something outside us that we can identify and analyze in neutrality, it necessarily refers us to a subjective...
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): Diagnosis and interventions
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is defined by the DSM-VI as an anxiety disorder that affects roughly 3 million Americans aged between 18 and 54 years of age. Diagnosis is reached by identifying certain characteristics of behavior, both compulsive and obsessive, and care needs to be taken to...
Understanding addictions through case study approach
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
Carol has had a history of “at risk” behaviors including promiscuity, drug and alcohol use, petty theft and relationships with inappropriate individuals. At twenty-four years of age she often uses drugs and alcohol to suppress feelings of depression, inadequacy and isolation and she has...
Psychology and altruism
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
“When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.” One of the most important aspects of the psychology of happiness is meaning. This is when you have figured out your strengths and are using them to develop yourself as well as others...
