...1 SAMPLE RESEARCH PAPER PROPOSAL Shamanism: An Exploration in the “Technique of Ecstasy” Introduction: The introduction provides a brief overview of shamanism as an ancient practice that is found throughout history and across cultures. This paper will examine traditional forms of shamanism, as well as neo-shamanism, the re-emergence of shamanic practices in contemporary Western culture. Ultimately, this paper argues that shamanistic practices are effective methods of healing developed and utilized as a spiritual path for thousands of years. Working Thesis: Despite the prevailing dismissive and often negative Western scientific attitude toward shamanism, this ancient method of healing is an effective practice that, through a transpersonal experience in which an individual undergoes a change in consciousness, the individual gains access to his or her archetypal, inner resources which results in healing, insight, and self-empowerment. Structure: I. Traditional Shamanism (the first part of this paper briefly answers the following questions concerning traditional shamanism): a. What is a shaman? This section discusses the definition (and issues of defining) the traditional concept of a shaman. It provides a brief overview of the origin and distribution of shamanic practices around the world throughout history. b. How does one become a shaman? This section discusses a shaman’s initiation process, training, and deathrebirth experience. c. What does a shaman do? 2 This section...
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...Legalization of Marijuana The plant cannabis sativa, better known as marijuana or hemp, has been used by many in different ways. It has been grown to provide food for villages and towns, and used for cloths, sails on early ships and most commonly rope. Many famous writings were written on hemp paper such as The Bible and a draft of the U.S. Constitution (Cronin, 1993). For many years people have smoked marijuana for recreational purposes. Although it was illegal to possess, smokers may still have partaken in the ritual of getting high, stoned, bombed, blitzed are only some of the terms that are used. Many will claim that marijuana is not a bad drug and many will say it is. In this argument we will identify that if it is true to fact or is it just a ploy by the government to keep it illegal. The use for medical purposes has also come to scrutiny as well. The majority of Americans choose the same issues as the most threatening to the nation. Invariably among these one will see “drugs” as a major concern of most Americans. There is speculation that this is due to a perceived association between drugs and crime (Inciardi, 1999). A good deal of the argument over government policy towards drugs centers on the least unhealthy and most socially accepted of the illegal drugs, marijuana. Marijuana, scientifically known as Tetra-hydro-cannabinol (THC), belongs to its own group among other legal and illegal drugs. It is neither a narcotic, such as heroin, nor a stimulant, such...
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...Why Has Star Trek Lasted For So Long: The Longevity of Star Trek Thomas E. Stevenson Limestone College Author Note Thomas E. Stevenson, Department of Social Work, Limestone College. This research was supported in part by a grant from the Sample Grant Program. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Thomas Stevenson, Department of Social Work, Limestone College, Gaffney, SC 29340. Contact: saevok09@gmail.com Abstract This paper will explore the science fiction show Star Trek. It will look at Gene Roddenberry’s original idea behind the 1960s show. What made it so appealing? Why has it lasted so long? Also does JJ Abrams’ Star Trek lack the Gene Roddenberry’s vision? ). It began nearly fifty years ago in the 1960s with the original show simply called Star Trek. The setting of the show is the 23rd century aboard the Starship Enterprise. The ship is commanded by a Caucasian man from Iowa named Captain James T. Kirk. His first officer/ science office is the half-Vulcan half-human Spock. The ship’s chief physician is a Caucasian man from the southern state of Georgia. The ship’s chief engineer is the Scotsman Montgomery Scott. The bridge communication officer is a black African woman Nyota Uhura. The ship’s helmsman is Asian-American Hikaru Sulu. Finally, the ship’s navigator is man of Russian decent Pavel Chekov. Why Has Star Trek Lasted For So Long: The Longevity of Star Trek From its beginning, Star Trek made a strong commitment to what is now...
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...fficial Wikipedia app for Android: Faster speed, offline reading, and more. Last edited 3 days ago by an anonymous user Personality psychology Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation between individuals. Its areas of focus include: Construction of a coherent picture of the individual and his or her major psychological processes Investigation of individual psychological differences Investigation of human nature and psychological similarities between individuals "Personality" is a dynamic and organized set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences his or her cognitions, emotions, motivations, and behaviors in various situations. The word "personality" originates from the Latin persona, which means mask. In the theatre of the ancient Latin-speaking world, the mask was not used as a plot device to disguise the identity of a character, but instead was a convention employed to represent or typify that character. Personality also refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings, social adjustments, and behaviors consistently exhibited over time that strongly influences one's expectations, self-perceptions, values, and attitudes. It also predicts human reactions to other people, problems, and stress.[1][2] There is still no universal consensus on the definition of "personality" in psychology. Gordon Allport (1937) described two major ways to study personality: the nomothetic and the idiographic. Nomothetic psychology...
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...The Purdue OWL: Citation Chart Category General Approach MLA The Modern Language Association (MLA) provides a method for source documentation that is used in most humanities courses. The humanities place emphasis on authorship, so most MLA citation involves recording the author’s name in the physical text. The author’s name is also the first to appear in the “Works Cited” page at the end of an essay. The most recent MLA formatting can be found in the seventh edition of the MLA manual. APA The American Psychological Association (APA) provides a method for source documentation that is used in most social sciences courses. The social sciences place emphasis on the date a work was created, so most APA citation involves recording the date of a particular work in the physical text. The date is usually placed immediately after the author’s name in the “References” page at the end...
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...Item 1 =========================================================== Managers within a strategic business unit or small organizations can make use of a variety of strategic techniques ideas and tools as part of the business planning process .Critically review the value of the main tools that exist to determine the most appropriate bases of competitive advantage including Porter’s thinking on generic strategies. ===========================================================Word count: 1579 =========================================================== 1. Porter’s Generic Competitive Strategies The Porter’s Generic Competitive Strategy defines whether a company follows competitive advantages through its share market scope. (Porter, Michael E., 1985) Competitive Advantage Competitive Advantage Differentiation Differentiation Low Cost Low Cost Broad Target Broad Target Competitive Scope Competitive Scope Narrow Target Narrow Target There are three generic strategies, either lower cost, differentiated, or focus. The focus strategy has two variants, cost focus and differentiation focus. A firm selects to pursue one of two types of competitive advantages. 1. Cost Leadership: Through lower costs than its competition or become a low cost producer in its industry. 2. Differentiation: By differentiating itself along some dimensions that are widely valued by customers to command a higher price...
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...Can WikiLeaks be Found Guilty of a Crime for Its Release Of the Iraq War Materials, Afghanistan War Materials and Diplomatic Cables? In 2010, WikiLeaks released three large groups of information – classified documents concerning the Iraqi war, classified Pentagon documents concerning the conflict in Afghanistan, and U.S. State Department diplomatic cables. There was an outcry from members in the U.S. government, U.S. lawmakers, and U.S. citizens as they questioned how WikiLeaks could have legally obtained and released this information. There were also those who applauded WikiLeaks and saw them as part of the new media, simply carrying on the struggle between the people’s right to know versus national security. In this new Internet age, where data can be immediately published to an enormous audience from anywhere in the world with the simple push of a button, and where wars are no longer declared on a country but on generalized “terror,” is a site like WikiLeaks protected? WikiLeaks Background WikiLeaks states on its website: WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organization dedicated to bringing important news and information to the public. We provide an innovative, secure and anonymous way for independent sources around the world to leak information to our journalists. We publish material of ethical, political and historical significance while keeping the identity of our sources anonymous, thus providing a universal way for revealing of supposed and censored injustices. WikiLeaks...
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...exciting and effective methods for addressing these matters, but if you cannot effectively communicate those ideas it is as if they do not exist at all. Furthermore, the process of writing helps to sharpen one’s ideas; good writing requires good thinking. Writing assignments in SPH courses have a variety of goals: to test your knowledge, to foster critical thinking, to enhance your research skills, to assess your communication skills and to prepare you for the myriad writing tasks you will encounter in your professional work. We expect you to carry out writing assignments with the thought and skill consistent with graduate level work, and we believe the improvement of writing skills is essential for the health of our profession. An MPH degree implies that you are equipped with the many competencies that are required to be a successful public health practitioner; effective writing is one of the essential competencies. Lucy Honig, Associate Professor of International Health, has been the writing specialist for that department for seven years, working with students on IH's required concentration paper and developing a departmental writing program. Professor Honig is also a prize-winning author (read...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION The dawn of the information and communication technology (ICT) in a business enterprise is inevitable. Companies that follow with the traditional way of doing business and cannot adapt with the times will be left behind, losing market share, facing operational and financial constrains and eventually fold up as a last resort. The company, One2One Wedding Planners Sdn. Bhd. that we are to develop the B2B, is no exception. Therefore the whole wedding planner concept needs to be revolutionalized through the E-business to promote the sale of the company’s products and services, to react to the present fast and ever changing business environment, and to capture a substantiate slice of the market share. Precisely, we are going to propose to the Company to make use of the capabilities of the computer and the Internet to sell its products and services to the general public. By having a web site in the internet, managers and staffs of the Company will be able to manage their daily business activities in an open environment. This means that the internet allows managers and staffs to interact with the company’s customers anytime and anywhere without having to meet up personally. 2.0 FIVE ADVANTEGES OG HAVING BUSINESS TO BUSINESS (B2B) 1. Removes location and availability restrictions The internet reaches across the world and spans all time zones. That means that when businesses take their operations online, they have the same capabilities. With a physical store...
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...COR 130 Individual Research Paper The Aztecs and the role of Human Sacrifice The Aztec was a culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. All the Nahua-speaking peoples in the Valley of Mexico were Aztecs, while the culture that dominated the area was Tenochca. At the time of the European conquest, they called themselves either "Tenochca" or "Toltec," which was the name assumed by the bearers of the Classic Mesoamerican culture, stated in Manuel Aguilar-Moreno’s book, Handbook to Life in the Aztec World. Sadly, many of the Aztec didn't survive after the arrival of the Europeans. But during the earlier years, the Aztec became one of the most advanced civilizations because of their religion, war, and agriculture. The Aztecs gained an infamous reputation for their bloodthirsty human sacrifices with explicit tales of the beating heart being ripped from the still-conscious victims, decapitation, skinning and dismemberment. All of these things did happen but it is important to remember that for the Aztecs the act of sacrifice was a strictly ritualized process that gave the highest possible honor to the gods and was regarded as a necessity to ensure mankind’s continued prosperity. The Aztecs were not the first civilization in Mesoamerica to practice human sacrifice; human sacrifice was practiced to some extent by many peoples in Mesoamerica and around the world for many centuries. But it was the Aztec empire that really took the ritual...
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...Contemporary Issues in Western Religions Nerkeda Bulter, Regina Edwards Lakisha Lewis Sinceria Lewis Religion/134 October 11, 2012 Stephanie Cripps Contemporary Issues in Western Religions This paper will reflect research on contemporary issues in Western Religions. The main objective is to elaborate on Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The other key focus is to uncover the struggles within its historical and modern times. Islam is an interesting subject because it has plenty history surrounding Islamic cultures, and the contrast between Judaism, and Christianity. Nevertheless, revealing how time has change from than to now also captivate some attention. Exploring the foundation surrounding Islam such as Abraham, and the other forefathers is rewarding when searching the history of these three religions. Historical connections Islam and Judaism share connections starting very early in history with the patriarch Abraham. Abraham had two sons, Ishmael, and Isaac, who eventually went on to lead two different groups of people. Ishmael led the Arabs who later became known as the Muslims and Isaac led the Israelites who later became Jews. These two different groups of religions grew and traditions known today in modern religion. Each religion shares a monotheistic belief and has similar...
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...! ! ! ! ! Assignment#3! MB!8600! ! WILL!SYRIA!BE!THE!NEXT!IRAQ?! > A!look!at!what!USA’s!move!in!Syria!should!be! by! Deep!Bhatia! Student!ID:!500128395! September!24th,!2013! ! ! 1! ! Table&of&Contents& 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 ! Introduction...................................................................................................................................1!! Methodology.................................................................................................................................1!! Summary!of!the!empirical!findings................................................................................................2! References.....................................................................................................................................5! Appendix........................................................................................................................................8!! ! 2! ! WILL&SYRIA&BE&THE&NEXT&IRAQ?& Introduction& What!began!as!a!relatively!minor!civil!uprising!in!Damascus,!Syria!in!March!2011!as!an!influence!of!Arab& Spring!(wave!of!demonstrations!and!protests!in!the!Arab!world)!has!now!escalated!to!a!full>blown!civil! war,!with!an!alarming!number!of!deaths,!and!the!news!of!chemical!weapons.!The!war!initially!began!as!a! protest!from!the!masses!against!the!allegedly>corrupt!regime,!led!by!Bashar!Al>Assad,!whose!main! demand!was!that!he!step!down!from!his!post;!however,!recent!tolls!have!estimated...
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...Management Control Systems, Eleventh edition. Homewood: Irwin, Inc., 2004 (abbreviated A&G) Supplementary materials (abbreviated S) are sold in a package by CopEz. Some supplementary items may be distributed in class or made available on the Internet. OPTIONAL MATERIALS FOR REFERENCE: Horngren, Charles T., George Foster, and Srikant M. Datar. Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis. Eleventh edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2003 (or another cost accounting text) Kaplan, Robert S., and Robin Cooper. Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1998. Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1996. Porter, Michael E. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. New York: The Free Press, 1985. Ronstadt. The Art of Case Analysis. Third edition. Lord Publishing, 1993. (1-800-525-5673) COURSE METHOD: The requiring reading for the course includes cases and chapters contained in the assigned textbook and supplementary materials. Most class...
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...RUNNING HEAD: Analysis of the Arts of Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas H. Benton 1 Analysis of the Arts of Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas H. Benton Student Name University Name Analysis of the Arts of Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas H. Benton 2 Abstract The 20th century is marked by development of new style of arts. The painters with the likes Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas H. Benton played pivotal roles in taking this form of art to the next level. Their works carry elements of modernism in them however they have different styles of depicting their arts. In this paper, we have taken Office at Night, Woman with Plants, and Sorghum Mill (Buffalo River, Arkansas) for analysis which are painted by Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas H. Benton respectively. Analysis Thesis Statement The works of Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas H. Benton truly represent the modern era of painting with some similarities and some dissimilarities. Introduction The painting of the 20th century was inclined towards developing a new form of art which carries modernity. It was a revolutionary period for painting and saw some great painters of all times. The artworks have huge impact of the modernism in them. Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, and Thomas H. Benton were the prominent painters of the era who have great contribution...
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...LIBERTY UNIVERSITY THE CALLING OF SAUL OF TARSUS A RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO DR. BRANDON JONES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS For BIBL 364 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY ONLINE BY e of Contents Introduction 3 Saul of Tarsus 3 The Damascus Experience 4 The Call 6 The Conversion Debate 8 Conclusion 9 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 Introduction The Book of Acts is a literary masterpiece filled with stories of miracles, faith, chronicles of the growth of Christianity, Holy Spirit encounters, and stories of supernatural conversions. It is one of the main books of the Bible studied to learn about the power of the Holy Spirit and God’s ability to use anything and anyone for His purpose. The “call” of Saul was one of the most significant events not only in the Book of Acts, but throughout the Bible. Christians in the Twenty-First Century owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to the Apostle Paul for his courage and obedience in answering the “call” of God. The spontaneous response to this call has a direct impact on Christians, Jews and non-Jews all over the world. The reason Saul’s call was so important was because it was a fulfillment of Jesus’s Great Commission. Saul’s pedigree as well as his character made him the least likely candidate to become one of the greatest Apostles to the Gentiles. This paper will examine who Paul of Tarsus was, the importance of his call, whether or not he was converted, and the impact his decision to answer God’s call...
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