A Purpose Greater Than Oneself

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    Coca-Cola Organizational Values

    Coca-Cola Organizational Values Team BUS/475 Coca-Cola Organizational Values The Coca-Cola Company is loyal to revitalizing the world, exciting confidence, creating value and making a difference. The team

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    Management vs Leadership

    2005, p.16). The aim of this essay is to answer the age old question as to whether management or leadership is more important to an organisation. Organisations, ranging from professional to social, have been in existence for centuries and the sole purpose of any of these organisations is to grow and succeed. Thus, it is without a doubt that any organisation would accomplish much without a source of management or leadership. Even though it is evident that both management and leadership are both fundamental

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    A Balanced Psychology and a Full Life

    Summary: This article is written by Martin E.P Seligman, and is largely about the modern interpretations of happiness and the way psychology has been dealing with improperly by only looking at how to minimize pain and not maximize happiness. He starts the article by recounting some of history of psychology that led to the current state of affairs, beginning at World War 2. He claims that right before WW2 there were 3 main objectives to psychology: curing mental illness, making

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    Everyday Hostel Life:

    knick-knacks of everyday hostel life and the broader social significance of it is the objective of my research. Since I am a college student, I chose to base my studies about hostel life at the university level for the sheer convenience of it. For the purpose of the research, I handed out a questionnaire to a number of university students availing the hostel and interacted with a number of ex-hostelites as well as non-hostelites and thus deduced my detailed observations from it. WHY HOSTEL? The first

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    Social Comparison

    Social Comparison and Temporal Life Satisfaction In his theory of social comparison, Festinger (1954) identified the idea that human beings have the drive to look at others in order to evaluate their own opinions and abilities. Social comparison is categorized into two forms, namely downward and upward. Downward comparison occurs when an individual compares to others who are deemed as socially worse off, while upward social comparison acts in the opposite direction. Over the years,

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    The Values and Goals of Roman Nobility

    providing an ideological and methodical archetype by which an individual stringently abided throughout the course of their life. Adherence to this regimented ethos brought glory to oneself, one’s ancestors (past and future) and ultimately to Rome. The nobility within Roman society at the time focussed primarily on the greater collective good of Rome, through an individual and ancestral emphasis on militaristic and political pursuits. It is understandable then, that their value system was structured on

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    Egoism

    egoism. Both of this theories have been studied, both have people supporting them as well as rejecting them. Psychological egoism states that whatever you do is for the soul purpose of self-gain no matter what the cost. Ethical egoism in definition is you doing things with the purpose of self-gain but not going farther than the social moral standard to accomplish those goals. I will show how psychological egoism and ethical egoism are false by showing how people sometimes do things because they just

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    Calvinism vs Arminianism

    beliefs and teachings by John Calvin and Arminianism is based on the views of Jacobus Arminius. Arminius was once a strict Calvinist who studied under John Calvin and later studies led him to doubt and reject many of the Calvinistic doctrines. To label oneself as either a Calvinist or Arminianist would need to fully understand each of their doctrines. PART ONE Calvinism ”The theological system of John Calvin and his followers marked by strong emphasis on the sovereignty of God, the depravity of humankind

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    Empathy Fatigue Paper

    is a way of surrendering and receiving God’s love, presence, and healing power. Furthermore, Ferguson et al. (2009) describe Centering Prayer as “a healing response to an identified problem of everyday stress” (p.305). The idea is that putting oneself “into the arms of a loving God” (Ferguson et al. 2009, p. 305) will heal one’s wounds. The healing of these past wounds is believed to lessen one’s likelihood of being negatively influenced by stress (Ferguson et al.

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    Social Justice and Violence

    social injustice is often more likely than social justice and only action by society as a whole can cure it. Health issues for persons living with injustice include malnutrition, disease, environmental decay, lack of occupational safety and access to medical care (1). One health issue, in particular, that afflicts every society is violence. Whether it is violence against oneself, another individual, or an entire group, causing physical or mental harm for any purpose robs people of their basic human

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