...Perspectives Life Span & Introduction to Sociology PSYC-2314-S03 In class we have been discussing the analogy of perspectives. A perspective is a way of seeing, also thought of as a ‘point of view’. This mental view or outlook can both enhance and constrain how we view the world in our own eyes. In the field of psychology and sociology there are many ways to perceive our world in which we live. No one perspective alone can define the world. Each perspective has its own distinctive strengths and blind spots. In class we have discussed different theories and analogies to better understand the complexity of perspectives. Perspectives will both facilitate and constrain perception. A good example of this statement is the Burke Theorem. The Burke Theorem states that “A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing- a focus upon object A involves a neglect of object B”. My understanding of this theory is that if you only focus on one perspective for viewing, you end up neglecting other perspectives, which doesn’t allow you to fully see reality as you could from looking with more than one perspective. An example given in class was how each student viewed the same exact water bottle. Students sitting on different sides or directly in front of the water bottle will have different views. Students sitting in rows towards the left and right sides of the classroom saw the sides of the bottle, while students sitting directly in front saw the front of the bottle. And on the other hand...
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...to compare and contrast the two stories by using rhetorical analysis. Both stories are very emotional and persuasive, and have two completely different but very strong arguments. The Virginia Convention, written by Patrick Henry who at the time lived in a british ruled america. Henry wanted to break free from the british, and felt strongly about his point, but there were other people who felt strongly that the thirteen colonies should stay with the british. Henry needed a very emotional and persuasive speech if he was going to get anybody to see his way of thinking. Henry states “ give me liberty or give me death” this part of the speech is very emotional, because it is basically saying that they better give him freedom or just let him die. “ should i keep back my...
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...Caleb Robinson Rob Gibney English 260 December 9, 2014 Bless Me Ultima Analysis Bless Me Ultima in my opinion was the best book we read this year. This book had many literary elements for me to discuss. For time sake, I’ll be discussing some of the many themes that were presented in the novel. First theme, the author illustrates a loss of innocence by using the character of Antonio. Also the author shows good versus evil when given power, like the curandero and a witch which hold similar powers, but have used it differently. Lastly, I'll write about is the conflict of how the parents have different views/ influences that will lead Antonio to make a choice on what he wants from life. Since Antonio’s brothers are away at war he is left as the...
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...look like? What I’m going to call the standard analytic approach (SA) says that: A) The way to answer WK is to analyse the concept of knowledge. B) To analyse the concept of knowledge is to come up with non-circular necessary and sufficient conditions for someone to know that something is the case. Is the standard analytic approach to WK the right approach? If not, what would be a better way of doing things? These are the questions I’m going to tackle here. I want to look at some criticisms of SA and consider the prospects for a different, non-standard analytic approach (NA) to WK. Here is one objection to SA: the concept of knowledge can’t be analysed, at least if analysis is understood in the way that (B) understands it.[i] (B) assumes a reductive conception of analysis, according to which analysing a concept is a matter of breaking it down into more basic concepts. Let’s say that a concept C1 is more basic than another concept C2 just if one can grasp C1 without grasping C2 but one can’t grasp C2 without grasping C1. Proponents of SA tend to assume that concepts like truth, belief, and justification are in this sense more basic than the concept knows and that that is why they can be used to specify non-circular necessary and sufficient conditions for knowing. If it turns out that such conditions can’t be given, and therefore that the concept of knowledge can’t be analysed, the net result of combining (A) and (B) will be to make WK unanswerable. If this...
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...on pro-social behaviour and discuss research support Pro social behaviour is when the acts are intended to benefit others. This is usually seen in fundraising campaigns whereas anti social behaviour is usually seen on the news. The social learning theory explains this by learning through media as indirect reinforcement; the media portrays pro-social behaviour as if you see people helping charities then you become aroused to do the same. Hearold in 1987 completed a meta analysis of over 1000 studies seeing the effect of TV on behaviour. Overall he found pro-social to be more effective than anti-social in effecting people. This study is recognised due to the large amount of studies it used so can be generalised to a lot of different places around the world. However, making a conclusion from this many studies is difficult to operate. Another explanation of the media influence is exposure to the pro-social messages. Children watching TV are exposed to a large number of pro-social acts. An early content analysis of US broadcasting found that on average there were 11 altruistic acts and 6 sympathetic behaviours per programming (Skrafkin 1075). However these acts are frequently appeared in the context of anti-social behaviour. From this we can conclude that studies continue to demonstrate pro-social content on TV is clearly as evident as anti-social behaviour. Howard and Roberts 2002 studied toddlers from the age of 14 months watching the Teletubbies. As a response of this the toddlers...
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...an experiment with his dogs where he showed that the dog came to associate food with the sound of a certain bell, which caused the dog to salivate as a reflex. At the end of the experiment Pavlov showed that the dogs would salivate even when they just heard the bell ring without seeing the food. That in a sense in how classical conditioning is best described. My Experience with Classical Conditioning My mom has this dog named Lacie Renee Stringer who she loves very much. They spend a lot of time with each other and they even sleep together on my mom’s bed. She is a very loving dog and she loves to lick people so much that they are covered in saliva. However when we first got her she was so scared of people that she stuck close to my mom. Her personality was that of a shy scared little puppy. When she was first brought home she would run and hide from everyone and she would not even go near them. There was one occasion where I went up to her and bent down to pet her. She yelped and ran from me as fast as she could and hid underneath the bed shivering. I felt like I had scared the dog so bad that for awhile I tiptoed around her so she would not run away from me at all. I was conditioned into believing that I would scare the dog if I even came up to her the wrong way. So from then on...
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...Analysis and interpretation of “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan Most parents wish their children the best. That can be through spoiling the child materialistic, but it can also be seen, as they want their children to unfold their wings and become the greatest among basically everyone. From time to time it can even occur, that they want more than that as they choose to live out their own dreams through their children. The latter is what the text ”Two Kinds” by Amy Tan deals with. The short story Two Kinds is a text written with a first-person narrator. The agonist in the text is a girl named Jing-Mei. Both of her parents are from china, but they now live in America, where Jing-Mei is born. As the story moves on, we follow Jing-Mei, and how her parents, mostly her mother, have always had extremely high expectations to her. We see, that she enjoys this in the beginning: “In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.”(P. 107, L. 22-24). What we also can draw out of this quote, is the aforementioned expectations from her mother, as we hear that the mother is excited for her daughter perhaps being a prodigy. Following Jing-Mei further, we see that she goes through a development. Every night after dinner her mother gives her some tests, in hope of her daughter becoming a prodigy – and as time goes on, she grows tired of these tests. Ultimately this results in her disappointing...
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...Case Study: Southern Baptist Hospital Southern Baptist Hospital (SBH) had long resisted the use of marketing, believing it was not an appropriate activity for a not-for-profit organization. By the mid-1980s, however, the erosion of its market share due to growing competition forced SBH to adopt an aggressive marketing strategy. Its primary initiative was a campaign of television advertisements aimed to reinforce for the general public the image of SBH as a high-quality institution. Because the organization was starting its marketing activities from scratch, ad production and airtime costs were expensive. The television commercials were professionally produced and received critical acclaim from the advertising community. Following the public’s repeated exposure to these advertisements, a hospital executive requested information about the impact of the advertisements. The idea to study the campaign’s impact had not been considered earlier, and a belated evaluation effort was mounted to determine the extent to which the campaign had achieved the desired effect. Much to the consternation of SBH administrators, the evaluation found that the ads had had virtually no impact on the public’s already high perception of the institution, and no improvement in patient volumes, revenues, or market share could be attributed to the campaign. SBH administrators, committed to an expensive initiative, rationalized that the campaign had not aired long enough to generate the desired effect and...
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...English 1B October 20,] 2013 Analysis Essay, Draft 2 Schools and Its Responsibility With Students In “Kenyon Commencement Speech,”David Wallace shows the purpose of a liberal-arts Education, helping] students to make better decisions. As Wallace observes, “The really significant education that we’re supposed to get in a place like this college isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.”(2012 pg199). He means that colleges teach students how to think about life and how to make the right choices. Students do not like when people try to tell them how to think. He said that they should not be insulted. Colleges’ teachers know that students have the ability to think. They just want students to make conscious choices on their own free will. Wallace contends that colleges teach students how to overcome the sin of selfishness. Wallace goes and says that educations has to be more than just professors teaching classes, education is about live and knowledge. He says that “Education isn’t about filling you up with knowledge; it is about teaching you how to think” (pg 199). In other words, he is trying to inform students that in order to be considered fully educated and we have to make adjustment and as individual one must learn how to teach our self about life and how to control how and what we think. In the Kenyon Commencement speech Wallace imply that we are focusing in the wrong thing by saying “And the so-called real world...
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...The prisoner would be disorientated (Pearcy). The prisoner would be caught off guard by the world he sees outside the cave, since he is not used to it. He has trouble believing it is real. The prisoner’s view on reality begins to shift as he begins to explore the outside world. The prisoner sees the sun is brighter than the fire allowing the person to see dimensions and a reflection of themselves in the water (Pearcy). The prisoner learns the sun is the source of light leading to an intellectual journey of beauty and meaning (Trumpeter). The prisoner comes to the realization that the games he played while in the cave were useless. The prisoner is conveyed as the philosopher that seeks knowledge out of the cave and the senses. The sun shows truth and knowledge (Trumpeter). The intellectual journey embodies a philosopher’s journey for truth and wisdom. The prisoner is a prime example of this because in the cave he was ignorant of what was going on around him and it was not until he escapes to see the world that he finds the wisdom of what he was truly seeing and experiencing. The return is the last of the five points. After undergoing the journey, the prisoner returns to the cave to educate other prisoners on his findings outside of the cave. In reaction to the prisoner’s findings the other prisoners saw him as deranged and refused to believe him and...
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...first instinct we have is to look for it and if we don’t see it we listen for it. If we cannot see or hear it then more than likely we are probably not going to believe that the train is near and dismiss the person as being misinformed. Our senses help us to make ‘sound” judgments as to whether we believe in something, if we like or dislike something, and if we trust or fear something. Without our senses we could not function. Businesses use sensory analysis, a technique to test or analyze our senses for their marketing. A restaurant uses sensory analysis to find out if their products are feasible to market by analyzing the effect a food product has upon their clients. The International Organization for Standardization has set procedures for sensory analysis “to conduct sensory evaluations under constant, controlled conditions with a minimum of distractions, to reduce the effect that psychological factors and physical conditions can have on human judgment” (International Organization of Standards, 2007). Sensory analysis will gather information on the flavor, taste, texture, appearance and aroma and then use that information to develop their product, compare it to the competition, and a use it as a quality benchmark to ensure it meets certain specifications. Companies are willing to pay for this research because it allows them to know if their...
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...follower of Christ? What Christian beliefs constitute true/genuine faith? Being a follower of Christ ensures that one will go to heaven upon Christ return. A follower may go through trials and tribulations; but they also know that God will see them through the hard times, as long as they continue to serve him. Hebrews 11:16 states that “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. Believing in God pays off it will be an everlasting gift in the end; you will get to spend eternity with God in heaven. God expects your parents to help guide you to him. God considers parents the primary disciples of their children. He created the family to be the incubator of a teenager’s spiritual growth. God has given parents the responsibility of creating an environment suitable for their children to become a follower of Christ (Smith). God needs help like the rest of us; some believe that seeing is believing, this means that if you see your parents living in Christ you won’t stray and you will continue to follow in their foot steps. Most people get their beliefs of Christ during adolescence it’s the time when a person develops perceptions about religious thoughts and with proper guidance, can be a stronger follower of Christ (Monahan). When do you think most people gain their religious? Does being a follower of Christ mean you can’t be your self? Will all of your bad thoughts decreased? How...
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...MBA Career Abstract The purpose of this paper is to construct and support an argument on decision I made to pursue an MBA degree to further my career as a senior manager within the Automotive industry. The argument will be based on a “What’s My Jungian 16-Type Personality?” test and a general benefits analysis of postgraduate and specifically speaking MBA programs. The paper will evaluate on my personal score from the test. ENTP result describes individuals who are typically enthusiastic innovators, seeing new possibilities, different theories, and new ways of doing things. Further in the paper we will look at the benefits of undertaking MBA program including: better career prospects, opportunity to gain not only theoretical knowledge, but also listen to experience class mates. The paper will conclude with my personal expression regarding this topic. MBA degree to further your career Further education, which does not have to be limited to MBA program, is a major factor determining career opportunities and development. In the new fast paced world experience starts to play secondary role and personal abilities and education comes to the front (Barger, 1995). May we insist on the enormous importance of permanent knowledge acquisition for career development. Our career will hardly progress if we do not differentiate from our colleagues in terms of what specific knowledge we have and they do not. We may all be great managers, for instance, but if we also took MBA,...
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...targeted; Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses were also victims of Hitler’s plan. In recent years, events like The Twin Towers terrorist attack in 2001 and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami have brought enormous suffering to the world, suffering that can somehow be compared to the one lived during the Holocaust. Continuing is the analysis of Elie Wiesel’s horrific experiences during the Holocaust. Did these experiences affect his faith? Was his perception of humanity ideas impacted? The book Night starts describing Elie’s faith as one indestructible. As young as he was he had deep knowledge of Jewish mysticism studies. Elie believed in God; a God of love and unlimited power. He was told that God is the master creator of all world’s wonders and that these wonders where the emanation of the divine world. Elie concluded that if God was the creator of everything in the physical world and God is a God of love then the world should be a reflection of him, a world of good. Unfortunately, Elie discovered at a very young age that the world is not only a world of good; evil exists. He could not believe all the cruelty and evil his eyes were seeing. On top of all the violence the Nazis brought to the Jewish community they also...
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...CASE STUDY RTLS: Seeing Is Believing For Pediatric Hospital An Enterprise-wide pilot convinces pediatric hospital to implement an RTLS (real-time location system) asset tracking solution. How’s this for standing behind your product? When the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE, asked Skytron for a limited pilot of its asset-tracking solution, the supplier countered with a surprising proposal. “We asked Skytron if they would consider doing a small pilot for us,” says Ann Oddo Altoe, Assistant Chief of Information Technology for Nemours/Delaware Valley. “Could we do a couple of nursing units and see how it went? They said, ‘We’ll do a pilot for you in all million square feet of the hospital, and if doesn’t meet your objectives, we’ll pull it out.’” For Altoe and her team, the decision was obvious. “We felt fairly comfortable they had a good product if they were willing to go out on a limb.” For its part, Skytron wanted to show how easy it is to install its RTLS (Real-time Location Solution) asset-tracking technology, which is compliant with the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. Since the technology doesn’t tap Wi-Fi networks, deployment consists of plugging in sensors to the AC current, attaching tags to the devices being tracked, and installing monitoring software. The need for new wiring and routing devices is very limited, which translates to considerably lower deployment costs. As anticipated, Nemours kept the system after seeing it in action. It was...
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