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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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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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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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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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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Values represent "the way things are" - a taken-for-grantedness in relation to the other - and thereby gain a kind of sacredness. ... Furthermore, utilising meanings that are established through other contexts than tourism promotion makes the claims of the advertisement seem less interest laden and hence more convincing, as the promotion tags onto the perceptual universe of the reader and makes use of already established understandings of the other. Thereby shortcuts to product positioning may be gained. ... Certain meaning structures may, however, be shared across cultures, which facilitate...

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In order to grasp a more narrow understanding of what a religion is and does, we cannot rely solely on a "textbook" that covers religions' scriptures, major figures and formal institutions, as this only provides a general vision of world religions, which often times "obscure the creative and flexible ways people practice their religion that may diverge from the ideal" (Guest 578). ... I came to this understanding of a "personal" religion during my visit to the Hindu Temple. ... Worshippers of Lakshmi are in search of beauty and material gain, which is why t...

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The main purpose is to organize students for efficient community involvement in the broader community by imparting multicultural understanding, comprehension, and skills. ... In general, diversity management programs are designed to amplify cultural compassion, expand understanding and acknowledgment of issues related to diversity, decrease unfairness between women and minorities, advance communication among diverse groups inside an organization, and modify headship practices and the culture of an organization. ... Managing Diversity through Diversity Training Programs Noe (2010) claimed that...

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Yet, particularly auditor violations resulted largely from auditors' failing to gain sufficient evidence to support the issuer's accounting, we must re-examine the auditing requirements for confirmation of completed sales to ensure that auditors can ferret out these and other abuses. ... Only by understanding the industry and the audit client's competitors will detection of aberrant results (such as unusual inventory turnover) become possible. Requiring a better understanding of the client's business and industry is imperative. ...

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In the novel "Changes in the Land", written by William Cronon, a collection of essays would be organized into a compilation of explanations and subjective reasoning to assist in a better understanding of how the two separate ways of living had such different effects on each other and the New England ecosystems. ... By reading and analyzing the novel, CHANGES of the LAND, written by William Cronon, we are able to gain greater insight and a better understanding as to why the two groups utilized the New England Ecosystems so differently. ...

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In effect critical pragmatism allows students the opportunity to elaborate on thought provoking opinions that defy the status quo without neglecting the 'operating procedures necessary for understanding and producing [them]' (Brandt: 1990). ... Success in tertiary coursework relies on sound knowledge and understanding of the discourse outlined and presented by lecturers and tutors to students. Gaining scope of a students' knowledge of such discourse is largely reliant on their results in assessment tasks, many of which are written pieces of work. ...

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Assignment Critically evaluate the usefulness of contemporary criminological theory for an understanding of crimes of violence. ... Also individuals with less power can be most likely to attack a rival due to their threats being insufficient to gain compliance (Goode, 1971), and those with superior power may find it unnecessary to attack the weaker individual due to the fact the weaker individual already fear them therefore they are unlikely to aggravate them (Felson, 1996). ...

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Not only did the old ways of engaging in politics change from trade unions to social movements but so did goals, trade unions fought for material gains of the collective that were part of them, such a pay rises. ... An important factor to consider when understanding social movements is that ordinarily it is a minority that starts them with the objective of correcting or changing the political or social structure they are contesting, only later does the social movement gain a following (Della Porta, 2006:3). ...

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The human relations movement saw the introduction of what is known in today's management circles as human resource management, which features those management functions concerned with gaining, maintaining and developing those people in the employment relationship. The systems theory approach, on the other hand is based on the idea that organizations can be viewed as systems and for the past twenty to thirty years has been advocated as an approach that will accommodate and gain the best from all past approaches to management. Senge (1990) describes "systems thinking as: understandin...

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Stainton-Rogers, 2001) Women however have nothing to lose by accepting rules ,conformity and concentrate on learning but rather a lot to gain by achieving a good education and so securing more powerful jobs. ...

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Assignment Billig has evaluated Tajfel and Turner's theorising of intergroup conflict as limited because of the emphasis placed on cognitive processes. Discuss Billig's evaluation and assess his arguments for a discursive psychological approach. Response Michael Billig was a student of Henri Tajfel...

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Elderly men and women from France are well known for regularly fly to the Gambia for sex with young girls and boys and in some instances taking them to their home countries to be used as sex toys in exchange for economic gains. ... Tourism has been recognized as a source of economic growth and a way for host countries to gain foreign revenue. ...

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John Locke, esteemed philosophical essayist and one of the most influential people of the 17th century, states in his work Concerning Human Understanding of Ideas that an "idea is the object of thinking," and that such thoughts originate from "experience," "reflection," and "sensation" (Locke). ... Although supporters for the recognition of animal sentience and animal rights are gaining traction, there is dissent among such groups and the emergence of fanatic radicals. ...

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Thus IMC is a term whose widespread use is comparatively recent, a fact, which might explain why there not yet is a common understanding of its real meaning and the lack of a generally accepted definition. ... And integration of all these promotional tools along with other components of marketing mix to gain edge over competitor by knowing the right touch-points using to reach highest level of consumer satisfaction is referred as Integrated Marketing Communication. ...

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After years of academic learning and gaining theoretical knowledge during primary and secondary schools, students wonder whether it is worthwhile to continue seeking education for the next six years of college and university combined. ... Also, only having knowledge about a course is insufficient in clearly understanding the hardships and problem one might have to encounter in the professional career. ...

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Understanding the dynamics of an open quantum system will enable one to control the system appropriately in order to delay the emergence of decoherence in the system, prolonging the time in which the system behaves quantum mechanically. ... Second, this is because they have varied applications, which are of great interest now that quantum technologies are gaining in importance in everyday life. ...

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