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  • Wittgenstein’s Theory of Meaning

    Wittgenstein’s Theory of Meaning

    Wittgenstein’s theory of meaning is a theory meant to abolish the long time-accepted referential theory of meaning. In his own theory, the meaning of words is not about pointing to its bearer or to its reference; it is about the use of a word in a sentence or the use of a word in a particular language game. He presented his theory in a manner of presenting counter-examples. With these simple yet solid examples, many

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Pricing Analysis

    Pricing Analysis

    Pricing Analysis “Price is the one element that produces revenue. Price is also one of the most flexible elements: It can be changed quickly, unlike product features and channel commitments. Although price competition is a major problem facing companies, many do not handle pricing well. The most common mistakes are these: Pricing is too cost-oriented; price is not revised often enough to capitalize on market changes; price is set independent of the rest of the

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Karl Marx: Conflict Theory

    Karl Marx: Conflict Theory

    Karl Marx: Conflict Theory The most influential socialist thinker from the 19th century is Karl Marx. Karl Marx can be considered a great philosopher, social scientist, historian or revolutionary. Marx proposed what is known as the conflict theory. The conflict theory looks at how certain social interactions occur through conflict. People engage in conflict everyday to gain more power then others in society. Karl Marx is known for studying the conflicts that occur between different

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Price of Revenge in the Scarlet Letter

    The Price of Revenge in the Scarlet Letter

    Nineteenth century writer Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered to be one of the greatest authors of American literature. His writings continue to be integral parts of the literary curriculum of today. A major theme of Hawthorne’s writings is pride and it’s consequence. He viewed pride as real evil. In The Scarlet Letter, Roger Chillingworth is the embodiment of this fatal flaw. Throughout the tale, Chillingworth is described as the leech. This is interesting, because at one

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Vika
  • Summary of Durkheim’s Sociological Theory

    Summary of Durkheim’s Sociological Theory

    Emile Durkheim is one of the major leaders in the delineation of sociology. Durkheim set out on a mission to define how sociology should be considered and how the method of sociology should be used. Although Durkheim’s writing does touch upon certain moral, political organization, and intellectual issues, overall, Durkheim sets out to provide a theoretical construction for the study of sociology. Durkheim desires to understand societal life through various social constructs. His agenda entails

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Victor
  • Narrative Theory

    Narrative Theory

    The person never is the problem. The person has a problem. A problem is something you have, not something you are. You don’t have to change your nature. You have to fight the influence of the problem on your life. All of us need to select from the huge amount of information the world throws at us all the time. We need to organise what we see, hear, feel and remember into a meaningful ‘story’

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Prospect Theory

    Prospect Theory

    Summary of the learning points (ranked by importance to you) Today’s class discussed the mental accounting for money management. 1. Prospect theory. The theory can be represented by a value function, as shown below. The value function starts from a reference point, and is normally concave for gains, and convex for losses. It is also steeper for losses than for gains. The theory intends to explain why people behave irrationally when making choices. 2. Framing

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Max
  • Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory

    Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory

    The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word cognition as; the mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning and judgment (Cognition). Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental theory was a unique concept at the time of its inception. It was the first in depth theory on the subject and remained the standard of the field for quite some time. Throughout this paper, Piaget’s theory will be broken down into its four stages and each will

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Victor
  • Dependency Theory

    Dependency Theory

    DEPENDENCY THEORY Dependency theory is the body of social science theories which suggests that the wealthy nations of the world need a peripheral group of poorer states in order to remain wealthy. Dependency theory states that the poverty of the countries in the periphery is not because they are not integrated into the world system, but because of how they are integrated into the world system. THE PREMISES OF DEPENDENCY THEORY ARE: 1) Poor nations

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Janna
  • Price of Greed

    Price of Greed

    The Price of Greed Argh matey! Welcome aboard the ship that will lead to a world of pirates. Lets be cautious now the sight of gold can make any man lust with greed and in a blink of an eye they are lost in a world of gluttony. Now will enter a place where the desire for more has taken control over many men that are now doomed. Pirates of the Caribbean: The curse

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Top
  • Information Theory

    Information Theory

    1. Introduction Information theory is the mathematical theory of data communication and storage generally considered to have been founded in 1948 by Claude E. Shannon. The central paradigm of classic information theory is the engineering problem of the transmission of information over a noisy channel. The main result of this theory is Shannon's noisy-channel coding theorem, which states that reliable communication is possible over unreliable channels. It is possible to surround a noisy channel with

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Tasha
  • How Can the Theories and Models in Leadership and Motivation Help a Manager to Do His or Her Job More Effectively?

    How Can the Theories and Models in Leadership and Motivation Help a Manager to Do His or Her Job More Effectively?

    How can the theories and models in leadership and motivation help a manager to do his or her job more effectively? Two powerful tools a manager can use are displaying good leadership skills, and being able to motivate those around them. A highly motivated workforce is vital for an organisation seeking good results. Leadership and management although being seen as synonymous do differ, not every manager is a leader and vice versa. The emphasis of

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Steve
  • Personality Theories Paper

    Personality Theories Paper

    Personality Theories Paper Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) started his interest in psychology while attending the University of Wisconsin. Maslow received his bachelors in 1930, his masters in 1931 and three years after that he received his PhD in 1934. Maslow’s theory showed up during his work with monkeys. He noticed that certain needs took precedence over others such as the need of liquids over food, breathing over liquids and so forth, hence the theory of Maslow’s

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Evaluate Freuds Psychodynamic Theory

    Evaluate Freuds Psychodynamic Theory

    Evaluate Freud’s psychodynamic theory. The godfather of psychology….as he has often been termed. Perhaps he was in his time. Sigmund Freud. Born in Freiberg, Morovia, to a poor family in the year 1856. His mother was 21 at the time of his birth, his father was 20 years her senior. Attitudes towards sex and women were very different at this time. Sex was very much taboo, women were treated as second class and children

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Jon
  • Theories in Evaluating Personality

    Theories in Evaluating Personality

    I always stumble upon one particular question over and over again- what do I think of myself? To be frank, I can never actually answer the question because I am still quite ignorant about who I really am. However, I got feedbacks from various people about what they think of me and the most repetitive characteristic is my jovial personality. May times people wonder why I am constantly smiling. They also find it amusing

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: David
  • The Economic Impact of Rising Oil Prices in Automotive Industry

    The Economic Impact of Rising Oil Prices in Automotive Industry

    The Economic Impact of Rising Oil Prices in Automotive Industry The rise in the oil prices plays a major role in the automotive industry. “The world consumes over 82 million barrels of oil per day (BPD), with the united states taking roughly 20 million BPD” (McFarlane). Oil provides 97 percent of the transportation fuels that helps to run the cars, trucks and other vehicles in the nation’s highway (Heinberg). Thus, when the price of the

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Edward
  • Management Theoris

    Management Theoris

    The Many Theories of Management For hundreds of years there has been a mystery on how managers can receive the best performance from their employees. Many "management experts" have based their careers on developing, researching, and testing the theories related to management. To properly define management a person needs to look at the origin of the word which is manage. Manage is defined as "to exercise executive, administrative, and supervisory direction of a business." (Merriam-Webster)

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Gas Prices

    Gas Prices

    Gas Prices Over the past few months' gas prices have become outrageous. The sad thing is that we can only look for them to continue to rise higher. The question of most Americans is "Why is gasoline so expensive?" That question is easily answered, crude oil prices. The gas price situation is unreasonable. There are many reasons for the irrational price of gas some being people are stocking up in fear of a shortage, we

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Emotional Intelligence and How Its Relationship to McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y

    Emotional Intelligence and How Its Relationship to McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y

    EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND HOW ITS RELATIONSHIP TO MCGREGOR’S THEORY X AND THEORY Y Inttroducttiion “When dealliing wiitth peoplle,, remember you are nott dealliing wiitth creattures of llogiic,, butt creattures of emottiion” (qttd.. iin braiinyquotte).. Thiis quotte from Dalle Carnegiie presentts a conceptt tthatt iis very iimporttantt tto tthe worlld of busiiness managementt:: our emottiions.. Riichard S Lazarus,, an expertt on emottiions,, defiines emottiions as “compllex human reacttiions tto personall achiievementts and settbacks tthatt may be

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: July
  • Cognitive Learning Theory’s Impact on Curriculum

    Cognitive Learning Theory’s Impact on Curriculum

    Nicole Phillips Learning Theory Paper Curr 558/Foundations of Curriculum and Instruction University of Phoenix Dr. Ginger Lewis Jacobs April 4, 2008 Cognitive Learning Theory Introduction Cognitivism focuses on an unobservable change in mental knowledge. Cognitivism came about as a rejection of the behaviorist views. Psychologists believed that mental events, or cognitivism, could no longer be ignored. According to Blanton (2007), there are many general assumptions of cognitive learning theories such as some learning processes being

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Bred
  • Eaquity Theories of Accounting

    Eaquity Theories of Accounting

    Following is an income statement calculated based on the different equity theories of accounting. Entity Theory Proprietary Theory Orthodox Unorthodox Residual Equity Theory Revenues $ 1,000,000 $ 1,000,000 $ 1,000,000 $ 1,000,000 Less: Operating Expenses Cost of goods sold $400,000 $400,000 $400,000 $400,000 Depreciation $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 Salaries and Wages $200,000 $200,000 $200,000 $200,000 Operating Income $ 30,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 Less Bond Interest $80,000 $80,000 $80,000 Dividend on Preferred Stock $30,000 $30,000 Dividend

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • Apply Counselling Theories to "the Orange Coat"

    Apply Counselling Theories to "the Orange Coat"

    Introduction The orange coat is a story told by a girl that has repressed a painful memory from her childhood. Ruth fears the full orange coat with sleeves shaped like cornucopia and has no idea why. She is absolutely terrified of the coat and no one that knows of her fear understands. This paper will discuss how psychoanalytical/psychodynamic, humanist/existential, systems, and narrative therapy might apply to Ruth's story. Psychoanalytic Theory The "journey" is often the

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Fredrick Taylor and Theory of Management

    Fredrick Taylor and Theory of Management

    Frederick Taylor Scientific Management Through Taylor's view of management systems, factories are managed through scientific methods instead of the use of the "rule of thumb" so widely used in the late nineteenth century, when Frederick Taylor devised his system of management and published the book "Scientific Management". The main elements of the Scientific Management as described by Taylor are; Time studies Functional or specialized supervision Standardization of tools and implements. Standardization of work methods separate

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Gas Prices

    Gas Prices

    During the past five days of following gas prices at two local stations, it was noticed that the prices were steady at both stations being observed. The first station observed was the BP on the corner of Buena Vista Road and Amber Drive. The gas prices stayed at 2.91 for regular, 3.01 for mid-grade, and 3.11 for super until the weekend and then the prices rose to 2.93 for regular, 3.03 for mid-grade, and 3.13

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Janna
  • Theories of Mass Extinction

    Theories of Mass Extinction

    Scientists have found the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilisations more than 4,000 years ago. Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say bears all the hallmarks of an impact crater. If confirmed, it would point to the Middle East being struck by a meteor with the violence equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs.

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Mike