(Kleinman, pg. 70) In understanding the moral realm of health systems and their implications, we as ethnographers witness a compelling struggle between immediate, local, and personal continuities and a global force that which tries to shape and tween them. ... (Kaufert, pg. 288) It is on this front that patients find themselves fighting to gain back their health rights "what was lost through imposition or self-internalization of representations through medicalization processes. For these reasons, we are compelled to continuously embark on introspective discourses of current syst...

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Furthermore, my engagement with instructive texts such as Mieke Bal's "Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative" cultured an understanding of the many aspects affecting the quality of storytelling. ... Articles such as Lubomir Dolezel's "Poststructuralism: A View from Charles Bridge" and Simon Wortham's "Teaching Deconstruction" developed my understanding of Derrida's theory to be an argument in claim of the absence of intrinsic meaning in texts due to the gaps in their composition. ... Though the fictional novels mentioned thus far have molded the creation of...

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The English Literary Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. ... The Literary Canon allows us to dissemble and delve into a multitude of perspectives enabling us to gain an insightful and critical view upon these widely studied texts. ... It allows us to gain insight into the factors that affected the authors at the time and submerges us into a void of unanswered questions. ... Ultimately the English Canon supports treasured l...

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It is essential for social work and human services practitioners to have a clear understanding of human development and behaviour, for each individual is a product of a number of different influential factors. ... As Mooney (2013) explains, Erikson's theory has seriously examined the social and historical variables in regards to the development of children which offered a much broader perspective when considering children's behaviour in a time when there was little sympathetic understanding of children. ... This has proved to strengths associated with his theory and has enabled the u...

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And equally important is that my past and current work requires a good understanding of Health policy, planning and financing, I must confess though that my understanding of Health policy and financing is average yet I believe that a manager must have a solid understanding, supported by a strong academic foundation of how to manage and lead a team through challenging times hence the need for this training. ... My current employment is a good channel through which I can transfer the knowledge and skills gained in an optimized manner to current colleagues and future generations thus contributin...

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In modern USA, Islamophobia is cultivated by the self-identifying process of "othering" and is often capitalized on for personal gain. ... Americans should apply the attention needed to address anti-Muslim sentiment so as to develop a legitimate understanding of Islam that isn't skewed by media such as FOX News and CNN. ... American scholar J'Lien Liese examines the complicated essence of American schools' post-9/11 struggle to gain equity in self-confidence induced multiculturalism with patriotism and the War on Terror in "The Subtleties of Prejudice,". ... Beth Finke...

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The tremendous effort put into sequencing and assembling these genome sequences is a prerequisite to furthering our understanding of genetic information and its role in development, disease, and evolution. ... Because of the combination of our understanding of the genetic code and comparative genomic sequencing, we know that protein-coding sequences are under strong purifying selection and are, therefore, highly conserved between species (3). ... By comparing multiple species, we were further able to investigate the genetic mechanisms underlying the rapid gain and loss of binding events that w...

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The second type is called 'Prajna', which is a broadening of focus, whereby the meditator provides themselves with a space and opportunity for self-reflective investigation, and through which they can establish a connection with their own personal truth and develop a deeper insight and clearer understanding of how things really are in their own reality and in the world around them. ... The result of gaining this connection with ourselves is self-empowerment. ... By practicing these techniques we learn to dis-identify or disconnect from our pain, fear and suffering, gaining the unde...

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For instance, some of the main problems that can develop from an improperly trained or unethical rater can include things such as personal bias influencing the rating (harshness or leniency depending upon their personal relationship with the employee), not understanding or misinterpreting the evaluation standards or rating structure, comparing the employee to a favored employee rather than judging to the standard, being indecisive and "averaging " a rating, laziness (cutting and pasting " the employee's previous year evaluation or pasting from another employee's evaluation to save ti...

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This portion of the statement discusses the need for students to learn the history of other cultures and societies in order to be understanding of people from different backgrounds. ... Rodriguez also affirms in his essay, "If I rehearse here the changes in my private life after Americanization, it is finally to emphasize the public gain. The loss implies the gain- (350). He realizes that although he is giving up his more intimate "private language-, the gain of having English allowed him to communicate publicly and ultimately lead him to great things in the American culture he learned to l...

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As such, it is fundamentally necessary to understand the nature and purpose of Herodotus' history in order to gain a clearer picture of the extent to which the accuracy of Herodotus' enquiry is admissible. ... By better understanding where Herodotus might be placed relative to these two categories, finding where both historical and narrative traits are within the pages of Herodotus is the best approach to determine if he was a storyteller or a historian. ... Herodotus' Histories are the first instance of a narrative history; His work adopts a form somewhere between the previo...

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The study of marketing communication in management studies is gaining a lot of attention these days because it prepares marketing practitioners for more complete engagement with the technological changes taking place in the new global markets.       ... It offers an excellent opportunity to communication scholars having a good understanding of management and marketing mix. ... Having a degree or diploma in communication studies along with a good understanding of the management can help you to earn Rs. 20,000 to 25,000 at entry level positions. ... International business organizations and g...

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It'll learn to conceptualize and deal with the most common technical problems associated with a PC, gain the more skills to build, configure and troubleshoot PC hardware, and have a firm understanding of the system software. ...

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The western understanding of gender is based on set of culturally determined binary distinctions, such as public versus private, objective versus subjective, self versus other, reason versus emotion, autonomy versus relatedness, and culture versus nature; the first of each pair of characteristics is typically associated with masculinity, the second with femininity. ... Therefore, in terms of Eisenstein's argument that women's girl bodies determine democracy; free from violence and sexual abuse, free from malnutrition and environmental degradation, free to plan their own families, fre...

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The son, understanding that his father exhibited patterns consistent with absenteeism, now has a valid form of justification in his own mind that because he is named after his father, it is alright for him to exhibit the same form of behavior and this notion roots itself in the psyche of an adolescent. ... In regards to data collection involving surveys, the surveys would contain more open-ended questions to attempt to gain a more accurate understanding of the proposed correlation between adolescent psyche and being named after one's father. ... With this understanding in mind, data colle...

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A means to gain status for mobility within society means shedding of ones "kinship" and disassociating with the negative stereotypes involved in the subjugation. ... American society then perpetuates a standard of learning that is disguised as "proper" or "correct" but in reality, students are learning the "white way" submerging them into the dominant dialect in hopes of gaining social or economic prestige or acceptance (Villanueva 40). ... While language is an important part in the discourse of equality, Villanueva stresses the concept of "rhetoric...

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The ability of this compass to tell direction led to more people taking long-distance sea voyages because it enabled them to determine the exact direction they were sailing, not only enabling explorers to document their routes but gain an understanding of their surroundings, creating new notions about world geography, constituting a broadening of outlook. ... carefully studied and drew inspiration from the ruins of Rome surrounding Italy, gaining a variety of new perspectives and ideas such as the use of symmetry in architecture or town planning. ...

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What we can surmise from this was that sympathy for the Vietnamese people was secondary – if not a means to an end -- to global strategic considerations at the time, to which Mecklin added that "to communicate a sensitive understanding of the Asian masses to Americans, as well as other Westerners, [was] one of the greatest challenges of 20th century journalism," (4). ... Therefore, the more the Americans escalated the conflict to intimidate them, the more the Vietnamese could muster solidarity, lose "less and less to lose by fighting on", and gain a "capacity for endurance in suffering ...

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Human experience is knowledge or practical wisdom gained from observation or encounters, questioning what it is to be human. ... " Technology's dehumanisation is evident, as financial gain and glory is prioritised over rationalism. ... Shelley's social commentary "How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge" perceived in both texts in time gains insight into human experience dwindling in the face of science and technology's ambiguous nature. In "Frankenstein," Victor's morally ambiguous "Monster" seeks justice and understanding to his s...

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In typically developing individuals, mirror neurons underlie imitation and facilitate translating another's behavior into an understanding of his/her intentions. ... I noticed the students tended to struggle with their perceptions of how they present during job interviews and, more broadly, with their understanding of how communicative body language is. ... Within this population, would an emotionally expressive partner enhance their empathic understanding? ... While a highly structured intervention may yield gains, a potential challenge may be generalizing and applying the skills to t...

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Nowadays, societies of developed countries are organized around the unprecedented consumer appetite and display of commodities through which individuals gain their identity and prestige. ... It is generally believed that advertising manipulates the society through the products of consumer culture and promotes a false understanding of needs, which leads to a growing consumption of unnecessary products. ...

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Through these language techniques the audience gains an understanding as to how he came to want to remain youthful and attractive but time and events (Dorian destroying the portrait) lead to the death of Dorian Gray. ...

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There is nothing gained from relating it to a prior historical thesis because the evidence that supports the theory is independent from any other findings. ... This to me is very important because I agree with Hempel in stating, that the diversity of variables, tests, and constants are very important in understanding the significance of a theory or strengthening its findings all together. ...

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Hiring employees from other organisations means that the business gains competitor insights. Insider knowledge of other organisations and their operations are gained with external hiring and can be used as an advantage to gain valuable knowledge. ... There exists a slower learning curve with external recruits as compared to internal recruits in understanding the culture and demands of the new position as well as the working procedures of the organisation. ...

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Since the 1950s' a number of research has been carried out into the field of attention, for many; a lot of interest has been centred around understanding the mechanism within the brain that enables us to register, attend to and ignore inputs from our external environment. ... It will consider how well these models explain the mental processes involve in auditory attention and further aid our understandings of how we can selectively attend to information within our environments. ... The cocktail party effect is an example of how unattended information can gain a person's awareness. ...

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