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An Argument for Competency Based Self Esteem
In the study of human development, it is vital to understand one's
self by determining an individual's self-concept of his or her self. Self-
concept, defined as one's awareness of personal characteristics,
attributes, and limitations, is also directly linked to the development of
self-esteem. Self-esteem takes the idea of self-concept to a higher level
in understanding human development: it is the evaluative component of self-
concept. It has two kinds: the "loved and worthy" kind of self-esteem and
competency based self-esteem. The first kind, which is often referred to
as "feel-good" self-esteem, provides a
| 509 | Cornering New Markets at Ace Hardware Using Research
"Know your enemy" is a frequent caveat in wartime, by military men and
women. Business may be war, but even more important than knowing the enemy
is to "know your friend," the consumer. This should be the true
catchphrase of a good businessperson's code of conduct. The one way to
know one's consumer, one's friend, is through accurate marketing research
of consumer demographics and desires.
Consumers themselves desire information. One of Ace Hardware's
strengths as a company is the quality of the information regarding home and
yard care it provides to its customers, as well as the quality of its
selection of current and developing in-store and brand name product lines.
Today, fewer and fewer people are taught to be
| 1354 | Leslie Silkos Ceremony: A Glimpse Into the Lives of the Pueblo People and Their Culture, Ceremonies and Traditions for Spiritual and Physical Healing
Leslie Silko's Ceremony is a highly informative and insightful work that
offers a closer glimpse into the lives of Pueblo people and their culture.
The author focuses on the various ceremonies and traditions that are
considered essential for spiritual and physical healing in such traditional
societies. The story revolves around the disease that Tayo has contracted
during wartime and that appears to consume him completely. Through Tayo and
two other young men Rocky and Emo, Silko has tried to reveal the
inferiority complex that Pueblo youth suffers and the desperation with
which they seek access to the world white. These three young men from
Laguna enlist in the Army to achieve their ultimate goal of being a part of
the white world
| 1818 | Wole Soyinka: A Leading Playwright and Poet In His Native Nigeria
Wole Soyinka is a leading playwright and poet in his native Nigeria, and in
the book Myth, Literature, and the African World, Soyinka presents his view
of African literature and its relationship to other literature's in the
world and shows how African literature particularly represents and links to
religious and social ideas in the African context. This book is made up of
lectures given by Soyinka on related topics. Soyinka sees a political
element in defining Africa literature, just as he has been fighting against
the idea of Negritude while at the same time supporting the idea that there
is a distinctive African literature to be examined. Soyinka finds that
much recent literature has been in the nature of protest, with a sudde
| 1051 | Computer Security and Why It Is So Important
Although it is never possible to fully prevent the unauthorized use of
information from people with security clearances and access, the use of
security clearance and access is important to ensure that people without
security clearance cannot access the confidential information. In other
words, the concept of `absolute security' is a chimera. It is the nature
of security that makes it necessary to weigh up the threats, the risks, the
harm arising, and the cost of safeguards (Bach, 1986). A balance must be
found between predictable costs and uncertain benefits, in order to select
a set of measures appropriate to the need.
In most of the cases, the risks of security clearance involve on the
personal integrity, trustwor
| 697 | Race in Social Services
Children's Institute International (CII) is a private non-profit
organization that improves the lives of Los Angeles' most vulnerable
children by helping them directly and by strengthening the families and the
communities in which they live. The organization is an equal opportunity
employer and, therefore, race is not a factor that has any role to play in
either recruitment or career planning. Race is also not an eligibility
criterion for the organization's service programs that include the key
areas of child and family assessment, sexual abuse treatment, domestic
violence intervention, family treatment services, therapeutic day care, and
long-term foster family care. Thus, it is evident that race has no ro
| 585 | Revenge Explored in Hamlet and The Revengers Tragedy
William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton explore the depth and range of
the human psyche in their plays, Hamlet and The Revenger's Tragedy.
Through the characters of Hamlet and Vindici, we discover different
motivations to their feelings of vengeance, illustrating the complexity of
human nature as it relates to revenge. However, while both plays operate
under the same theme of vengeance, they are quite different in terms of how
each protagonist is portrayed and how each play is received. Hamlet,
because he relates his father's death to the state of the world, represents
a larger social commentary on mankind while Vindici and his antics
represent a play that shocks rather than provokes thought.
Hamlet and Vindici respond to
| 1127 | Micah and his Prophesied Message
This paper attempts to describe Micah and his prophesied message.
Biblical historians have placed the time of Micah's ministry at
approximately 735 and 700 B.C. "Micah's hometown of Moresheth is probably
the same town identified as Moresheth-gath in the Shephelah (rolling hills)
of Judah." (Micah) As was custom, Micah was most likely known as Micah of
Moresheth and has been considered one of the Minor Prophets. The word Micah
has been defined to mean 'Who is like Yahweh'' Micah's village was believed
to have been captured by Sennacherib during his attack on Judah in 701 BC
because of the minor prophet's recollections. (cf. Micah 1:14).
Micah lived in a time of upheaval and war. Around the years 730 to 700
BC, both Israel and Judah were at a point of political turmoil. Historians
have confirmed that Samaria had been conquered by the Assyrians who exiled
the majority of the population. His
| 712 | Special Education: ERIC/OSEP special education program, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Rethinking Special Education for a New Century
In the past, special education has been an issue that went unnoticed
in school curricula and by school administrations. It is only recently
that more attention has been given to the needs of disabled learners. This
is a manifestation of the increasing compassion for less fortunate persons
in society. Moreover, ensuring the success of these children at school
will also ensure their success in the workplace and in society. This will
then also serve to improve the economy and society in general. Several
works have for example been written on the topic, three of which will be
discussed here.
The first is a brief focusing on the ERIC/OSEP special education
program, and concerns actions that schools and administrations
| 709 | Critique of ADA and Affirmative Action
Discuss the problem that might be associated with a male counselor
providing services to a female client. Are these valid concerns' Explain
and provide options.
Affirmative Action is designed to introduce individuals of different
races, ethnic groups, religious affiliations, and genders into occupations
and work places where they historically have not been present, have been
underrepresented, or have not been represented in leadership capacities.
However, the selection process can occasionally hurt members of those
populations the policy was designed to help. This is not simply because it
causes individuals to question the 'real' credentials of underrepresented
groups who would be qualified, otherwise, without such a program.
Affirmative Action negates the fact that ther
| 971 | Overview of Capital Punishment in the United States and The Death Penalty Opponents: Refutes Both and Discusses the Pros of Capital Punishment
Currently, 38 states have legalized capital punishment statutes. In
most states, the reinstatement's of the death penalty were a response to
public outcry over the perceived increase of violent crimes. There are
now more than 3,000 people on death row, and more are being convicted each
year.
Despite this legalized status, a vocal group of opponents have raised
questions regarding the constitutionality, fairness and effectiveness of
capital punishment. This paper argues that opponents of the death penalty
are misguided, and that the death penalty is a sad but necessary tool for
American society.
The first part of the paper is an overview regarding capital
punishment in the United States. It looks at which st
| 1890 | Nonverbal Communication: Associated With Movement
In 1969, Ekman and Friesen delineated communicative nonverbal behavior
as those actions that are evidently and knowingly planned by the sender to
send out a stipulated message to the receiver. Their delineation does not
take up the sharing aspect even though it takes up the aspect of purpose.
They elucidate that there is no compulsion that communicative actions
should have a common decoded definition; there could be communicative
actions without information where the sender planned to send out a message
but no one recognizes him. (Function and Impact of Nonverbal Communication
in a Computer Mediated Communication Context: An Investigation of Defining
Issues)
Non-verbal behavior associated
| 2247 | Dreams in Shakespeare's Richard III
Whatever view we take of Richard III as depicted in Shakespeare's play, his
dominance of the action cannot be doubted. He is the central figure of the
story, a demonic force that energizes the plot and constantly makes things
happen. The very fact that he begins the play by asserting that all is well
in England except with himself, and proceeds on the basis of his own
discontent to undermine the content of the nation, demonstrates clearly his
own self-centered vision. "I am determined to prove a villain" [act I,
scene 1, line 30] is his declaration in his first speech and that is
precisely what he does - not merely "appear" a villain or "be regarded" as
a villain, but actively "prove" a villain. Richard, however much he may be
a v
| 1769 | Misperception of Iraq
One of the most blatant and significant misperceptions floating around in
the world today regards the war in Iraq. In spite of official findings to
the contrary, including some admissions on the part of the Bush
administration, many American citizens continue to believe both that Iraq
possessed weapons of mass destruction and that the nation was somehow
linked to the terrorist attacks of September 11. Even though weapons
inspectors and other investigators found no corroborating evidence to these
claims, millions of citizens hold on dearly to this misperception,
believing strongly that President Bush was correct to have invaded a
sovereign nation. Many mainstream media sources have published articles or
broadcasts on the fact
| 619 | "The Inferno": I'll See You in Hell
Aligheiri Dante's "Inferno" is the first of three books in Dante's
classical work "The Divine Comedy." The "Inferno" pursues Dante's journey
through Hell on his path to discovering God. He begins at the bottom Hell
in sin, and must fight his way to the top through a variety of adventures,
where lovely Beatrice awaits him in Paradise. In modern times, Dante's
work is still quite applicable, because there are many people who deserve
to reside in Hell. Instead of nine circles, today there are three - High
Hell, Middle Hell, and Deepest Hell. High Hell is reserved for those who
have sinned, but not critically.
The punishment in High Hell would be similar to Dante's labyrinth, but
a great beast would not guard it. How
| 1075 | Human Beings Affected by the Gods
When people discuss god/gods/divinity, it seems that the intent is
always to show the supernatural beings as loving and watchful of humans.
There seems to always be the desire to see divinity as the ultimate
dispenser of justice-when humans are cruel, demanding, selfish, whatever,
we can depend on divinity to set things right. However, based primarily on
the two sources offered for this paper, one would have to take a very
different view of divinity. Based on the texts used here, divinity, by
whatever name, gender, cultural background, or number, seems, instead,
capricious, illogical and dangerous to humankind in general.
To begin with, there are the stories involved in the Old Testament
readings. Besides the creati
| 954 | HIPPOLYTUS BY EURIPIDES
Thesis: Contrary to popular belief, it is Theseus and not Hippolytus who
was the true tragic protagonist of Euripides' play. Theseus had the tragic
flaw that puts him in the same category as other famous tragic heroes such
as Brutus and King Lear.
The first reading of Euripides' Hippolytus generates an irresistible urge
to see Hippolytus as the tragic protagonist. After all, he was the one who
suffered all his life under the stigma of being an illegitimate child and
died believing his father was a just and kind man though he was not. And on
top of that, he met a very tragic death and was accused of something he
never did. In short, Hippolytus had some major traits of a tragic hero
including the fact that the people he loved killed him for a sin he had
never committed. But on secon
| 922 | Psychoanalysis and the Self: Sigmund Freud's Influence in 19th Century Philosophy and Science
Nineteenth century thinking was characterized by the emergence of two
revolutionary ideologies that influenced the course of human history for
the succeeding centuries: Karl Marx's conflict theory and Sigmund Freud's
method of psychoanalysis in psychology. Marx's analysis of the political
economy of the capitalist system led to the development of the Socialist
movement. Freud's psychoanalytical theory, meanwhile, emphasized the
pursuit for self-knowledge and individuality as the key towards personal
development.
This paper gives focus on the life of Sigmund Freud, mainly because
of his significant contribution towards establishing the kind of
contemporary society prevalent in Western societies-that is, an
individual
| 1388 | The Trade Deficit Causes and Solutions
There is a strong tendency among American politicians and economists
to attempt to deal with issues and problems in isolation. Politicians take
this approach because they apparent have difficulty dealing with
complexity. Economists take this approach so that they can factor
troublesome variables out of their equations. One result of the approach
of treating issues and problems in isolation is the development of
solutions that are ineffective when they are implemented in the real world
where isolation from other factors is no longer an option.
The tendency to deal with the issue of international trade in
isolation has led to policies that tend to make the situation worse rather
than better. The United States governm
| 1648 | Forms of Love
In Achebe's Things Fall Apart, we see self-love most expressed in
the character of Okonkwo. Okonkwo's accomplishments demonstrate an
affirmation of the strength, values, and beauty of the native Igbo culture.
This culture is being systematically destroyed by British colonials.
Okonkwo's self-love is viewed as a threat by the British, because he
refuses to abandon his native values and customs. When he is killed,
Obierika studies his dead form and poignantly expresses the negative impact
of colonialism on Okonkwo's self-love and the Okonkwo people, "Our own men
and our sons have already joined the ranks of the strangers...The white man
is very clever...He has put a knife on the things that held us together and
we have fal
| 904 | Plato versus Nietzsche on Philosophical Approaches to Love
Many philosophers have attempted to come to terms with the meaning of
love or to at least identify the ways in which different types of love
shape and influence human behavior. This essay will consider two
philosophical approaches to love, that of Plato and that of Nietzsche. It
will be argued that both Plato and Nietzsche distinguished between love as
eros which includes sexual love or romantic love and friendship or philia.
However, Nietzsche (65) suggested that with the advent of Christianity,
man's search for love became simplified in that what he did not obtain from
his fellows he could obtain from religion.
In The Republic, Plato (252-253) distinguished between the two
primary types of love: the erotic, romanticized love felt by individuals,
and friendship or love which was caring but devoid of any sexual desire or
connotation. Plato (252) recognized that "surely som
| 696 | Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard Conrads The Heart of Darkness and James The American
There are a variety of themes and conflicts in Chekhov's The Cherry
Orchard, Conrad's The Heart of Darkness, and James' The American. In
Chekhov's drama, we find conflicts of class, economics, and relationships.
In Conrad's tale of Africa we are provided with the eternal conflicts
between white and black, good and evil, and light and dark. In James'
novel of an American traveling in Europe, we also see class and culture
conflict, conflicts of economics, and relationship conflict. This analysis
will explore the major characters in each of these works while focusing on
a conflict that is central in each. A conclusion will focus on exploring
one theme that is central to all three works, the notion that culturally
imposed values generate conflict.
In Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, the main characters include Madame
Ranevsky, owner of the cherry orchard; Yermolai Lopakhin, her neighbor;
Leonid Gayef, her brother, Ranevsky'
| 2073 | Endangered Language
LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION
Ingrian, one of the languages of Russia, is an endangered language.
When a language is classified as "endangered" it means that the language is
in danger of extinction. Languages become extinct for a variety of
reasons, but the most typical one is that it is no longer spoken by a
majority of people in a culture or nation. Because of this its value is
undermined, it is seldom taught to subsequent generations, and it
eventually dies out with the few remaining individuals who can speak it.
Ingrian is such a language. Ingrian is one of the smaller Finnic languages
in the East Uralic family.
CULTURE & HISTORY
Ingria is located at the westernmost part of Russia, on the south
beach
| 1229 | Emperor Charles V: One of the Most Important Ruling Personalities in European History
Emperor Charles V was one of the most important ruling
personalities in European history. The lottery of birth placed Charles at
the center of a genealogical network that covered half Europe. His
father, Philip, was Duke of Burgundy. His grandfather was Emperor
Maximilian of Austria. His mother, Joanna, was daughter of Isabella and
Ferdinand, Spain's Catholic monarchs. The reign of Charles V coincides
with the beginning of the Modern Age and is marked by the Renaissance, by
the spread of printed material, the discovery of the Americas, and by the
Reformation started by Martin Luther.
Through his mother, he would inherit Spain and the bloodstained
kingdom of Naples as well. Charles, archduke of Austria and King of Spa
| 1235 | Emperor Charles V: One of the Most Important Ruling Personalities in European History
Emperor Charles V was one of the most important ruling
personalities in European history. The lottery of birth placed Charles at
the center of a genealogical network that covered half Europe. His
father, Philip, was Duke of Burgundy. His grandfather was Emperor
Maximilian of Austria. His mother, Joanna, was daughter of Isabella and
Ferdinand, Spain's Catholic monarchs. The reign of Charles V coincides
with the beginning of the Modern Age and is marked by the Renaissance, by
the spread of printed material, the discovery of the Americas, and by the
Reformation started by Martin Luther.
Through his mother, he would inherit Spain and the bloodstained
kingdom of Naples as well. Charles, archduke of Austria and King of Spa
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