African Culture And Personality: Bad Social Science, Effective Social Activism, Or A Call To Reinvent Ethnology? James E. Lassiter Abstract BACKGROUND This paper surveys and assesses the writings of selected African scholars on what they regard to be pan-African culture and personality traits, and patterns and processes of African cultural adaptation (1). Suggestions are also made for reinventing the study of African social, cultural and psychological characteristics, and using such knowledge to
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intent of this research the role of a doctoral student seems to have been studied from the inception of time. Countless scholars have attempted to classify and identify the parts in which a doctoral scholar, and where they fit within society as well as in the realm of academia. They have also studied how social or non-social activities would have on influencing the doctoral scholars on their journey through academia. The three articles that were used further to enlighten the readers about the role and
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New Testament scholars doubt the authorship of Matthew. The Gospel of Matthew, like all the other New Testament gospels, was originally anonymous and only attributed to Matthew, the disciple of Jesus, later in the second century. The author relied on Mark's Gospel for everything he knew about the life and mission of Jesus. There are two lines of evidence that proves the authorship of Matthew, the superscription of the ancient manuscripts and the patristic witness. According to NT scholar D. Edmond Hiebert
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(2006) “A 10-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Strategy, Systems, and Environment on Innovation in Family Firms”, Family Business Review, vol. 19, p. 1-10. Search terms: ‘Family business, innovation’ - Google Scholar - first page, third result. The article was cited 213 times (Google Scholar), which is a lot for rather specific and non popular
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These sites are the go to sites for students when completing academic work. According to Russell (2009), “students easily abandon the system of academic information available through their institution in favor of more intuitive sources like Google Scholar” (p. 92). This paper will analyze the importance of information literacy as it relates to the Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership Model. Loss Concept of Seeking Information William Badke, emphasizes that “showing students the magic is the
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from the primary texts of the Qur'an and hadith on a particular question. In a larger sense, a madhhab represents the entire school of thought of a particular mujtahid Imam, such as Abu Hanifa, Malik, Shafi'i, or Ahmad--together with many first-rank scholars that came after each of these in their respective schools, who checked their evidences and refined and upgraded their work. The mujtahid Imams were thus explainers, who operationalized the Qur'an and sunna in the specific shari'a rulings in our lives
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which was call the ‘environmental programming’ of behavior through DNA methylation “life at the interface between a dynamic environment and a fixed genome” {Meaney and Szyf 2005}. This article is discussing the different opinions between scholars as to nature vs nurture some believe this is due to genetic heredity or some chemical imbalance involving the DNA structure. This discussion is continuous as no two
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willing to pay a portion of my costs; nonetheless, the remaining expense is more than what is foreseeably possible. I have been awarded the highest academic-based scholarship that MTU has to offer--the Scholar of Excellence Scholarship Award from the Michigan Technological University National Scholars Program--yet, the remaining expected family contribution is still greater than my mother’s annual salary. The Coady Memorial scholarship would secure the means necessary to fund my attendance at Michigan
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counseling and psychotherapy theories can contribute to your professional development as a scholar-practitioner. Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories can contribute to my professional development as a scholar-practitioner in providing me with the foundation and the framework to interpret a client’s behavior, thoughts and feelings. A Counseling and Psychotherapy theory also provides the scholar-practitioner with a concept of how people develop and how one should be viewed as they go
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studies for both the scholar and the student who desires to know a bit more about this popular book from the Bible. I believe that the editors mostly succeed in this. The book was most helpful in giving background to the current trends in Psalms studies, introducing some of the key themes and interpretive issues in the book of Psalms, as well a wealth of footnotes and other information for further study. I like that the authors chosen for this volume where from well published scholars, teachers in the
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