Essays Tagged: "behaviours"

Patriarchy in Kafka's Metamorphsis and Asian Cultures

(Although most cultures cannot be generalized with certain behaviours, however, certainJapanese traditions and values are common to all their people and is tau ...

(3 pages) 69 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Television and its Affects on Children

impression of what really happens in everyday life. It also influences their development and their behaviours. 'In fact childhood development experts say infants as young as 14 months old imitate beh ... safe and positive way. George Hottecker mentions these examples as positive ways of changing their behaviours and that 'television just numbs the brain!'(The Big Picture; Internet; George Hottecker)S ...

(3 pages) 103 0 4.5 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Describe the biological explanation of crime. Identify key aspects of crime that are hard to explain in this way.

ount of describing why people commit crimes. Structure-based explanations argue that human actions/ behaviours are driven by forces beyond their control. This can be administered by rules, views/opini ...

(4 pages) 125 0 4.3 Aug/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Personal opinion of the harm reduction model. A harm reduction approach

de me with the knowledge and answers I am seeking. I am aware of the plethora of addictions and ill behaviours that plague the population of our time, however, given that I am focusing on the harm red ...

(6 pages) 129 0 5.0 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

The dispositional and humanistic perspectives of personality

ic perspective on the other hand refuses to believe that people's traits, personalities and overall behaviours are pre-determined. A strong believer of free will, the humanistic perspective has always ... a whole. They would perceive a person failing to observe and learn from the consequences of certain behaviours, as simply having a certain personality type, which promotes these predictable actions an ...

(8 pages) 444 0 2.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Violence in Sport

njoyed a good game of Soccer, Cricket or Football. Although Australia is known for its less violent behaviours during game matches, there are still instances where it has happened, and it is a problem ...

(3 pages) 99 0 3.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

gender roles

et the example and attitudes for that given gender. "Gender includes a broad spectrum of attitudes, behaviours, and social expectations that we acquire during our lifetimes, through interactions with ...

(3 pages) 256 4 4.2 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The gothic and the grotesque in Flannery O'Connor's depiction of modernity in her three stories: "A Good Man is Hard to Find", "A View of the Woods" and "Revelation".

grandmother, parents and children. However, they are not described realistically: their shapes and behaviours are somewhat distorted, causing the effect of almost cartoon-like quality; they are more ...

(6 pages) 149 0 3.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Analysis of the use of music in advertising.

environment as well as in radio and television advertising. Music has been shown to affect consumer behaviours, particularly shopper behaviour (Milliman, 1986), as well as emotional responses (Kellari ... ider the possible outcomes of patronising one brand or store over another.When it comes to exchange behaviours between consumers and marketers', consumers always have the choice to save money or to sp ...

(13 pages) 376 1 3.3 Jul/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

"Tragedy of julius ceaser" by William Shakespeare.

ress this. This is demonstrated in William Shakespeare's play "The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar" by the behaviours of a number of characters such as Caesar, Brutus, Mark Antony and Portia. Through the sug ...

(4 pages) 64 0 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Intolerence.

olerance can only be defined as a beings unjustified objection to accept the views, beliefs, and/or behaviours of others. In other words racism, sexism or prejudice of any sort is usually the result o ...

(2 pages) 42 2 3.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Men must fight and women must weep.

t fight and women must weep"Essay on Gender RolesGender roles are those characteristics, actions or behaviours, for which acceptance and approval within a particular community, and at a specified time ... he ancient Greek society. This is shown, just as all gender roles are shown, through her actions or behaviours as well as in her words and reactions.BY shOsh xxOxx

(5 pages) 96 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Control system.

efficient flow of information, rules and polices are developed through trial and error to regulate behaviours. Some degree of bureaucratic control is used in virtually every organization.Bureaucratic ... provide incentives to meet goals. Operational procedures give explicit guidelines about appropriate behaviours.The balanced scorecardThe balanced scorecard integrates the various dimensions of control ...

(6 pages) 572 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

"The Fifth Business" by Robertson Davies.

eligionReligion is a very important part of day to day life. Religion is defined as the beliefs and behaviours people use to deal with things beyond rational explanation, or belief in the supernatural ...

(3 pages) 110 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Children and TV

d's life, aside from sleeping. Television has a large influence on children's attitudes, ideas, and behaviours. Teens witness 10,000 murders, rapes and aggravated assaults per year on TV, and four out ...

(4 pages) 43 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

A Critique of a health promotion tool (Breast awareness) and disscussion of health promotion models

Committee, 2001, p.101). The purpose of health promotion is to encourage the adoption of "healthy" behaviours. Health promotion is made up of 3 main concepts, which are Health education, Health prote ... els, is to promote health successfully the models purpose is to promote a change in the individuals behaviours or to adopt new behaviours. Behaviours are modified by a number of internal and external ...

(7 pages) 375 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Can Locke's goal setting approach to motivation be used to self motivate. 'this is a short introduction to the topic, should not be used for higher level work'

eation of goals, which affect the behaviour of the individual which then lead to the outcome of the behaviours. It can also be seen that the "Goal deficiency/difficulty" and the degree of commitment t ...

(2 pages) 147 0 0.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Cognitive Dissonance & Relative Deprivation

d Teaching: Cognitive Dissonance [On-line], UKAn individual can have cognitions about, for example, behaviours, attitudes, beliefs or feelings and the cognitions can be, for example, about oneself, an ...

(4 pages) 132 0 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The Human Resource Planning Process within an Organisation

hat require organisational supports to achieve the vision:Alignment We need to ensure the goals and behaviours of individual employees are aligned with department and business goals.Commitment We need ... their work contributes to the achievement of the business goals. Alignment: To ensure the goals and behaviours of individual employees are aligned with the organisation and business goalsEmployees und ...

(4 pages) 579 1 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

Outline and evaluate attempts at defining psychological abnormality

susceptible to a mental disorder.(b) Give 2 limitations of statistical infrequency (6 marks)Certain behaviours are statistically infrequent yet are not classified as abnormal. This includes such thing ... things as exceptional music talent as it is seen to be highly desirable. Therefore moderating which behaviours are infrequent and abnormal must entail some sort of criterion.A further limitation to th ...

(3 pages) 72 0 2.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays