Essays Tagged: "attitudes"

Symbolism in Grapes of Wrath

of the critical opinions, John Steinbeck utilized symbolism as a forum to convey the hardships and attitudes of the citizens of America during the 1930's in his book The Grapes of Wrath.The first asp ...

(11 pages) 192 0 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Executive Women: Substance Plus Style

article 'Executive Women: Substance Plus Style' deals with the issue of whether the 'abilities and attitudes of male managers are different from those of female managers' and that these differences h ... outcome of an experimental study that observed how role reversal training could possibly affect the attitudes of male business leaders.References1. Morrison, A.R., White, R.P., Van Elsor, E. (1987 Aug ...

(3 pages) 77 0 3.5 Feb/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Rape

anger and a need to overpower, dominate, and humiliate. We can also look at some of the historical attitudes from which today's beliefs and stereotypes have evolved. However, we must look beyond both ... are raised to be passive and men are raised to be aggressive. We are conditioned to accept certain attitudes, values and behaviors. Our conditioning is continuously and relentlessly encouraged and re ...

(4 pages) 243 2 4.1 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

The term "Criminal justice"

erent ways, social and criminal.Justice is in the eye of the beholder because we all have different attitudesabout right and wrong.Criminal justice is a term that refers to the area of social laws whi ...

(3 pages) 144 0 4.0 Aug/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Analysis/Evaluation of “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”

e up the intricate workings of Savannah. We learn about the attitude of the town as a whole and the attitudes of each person in the town individually. We are introduced to everyone living and dead tha ...

(4 pages) 68 0 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

" Propaganda vs. Reality" This essay is about political factor that is going on between United States and Iraq. Our reality between Americans, and other reality between strangers.

tion of propaganda is that the more or less systematic effort to manipulate other people's beliefs, attitudes, or actions by means of symbols such as words, gestures, banners, monuments, music, clothi ...

(5 pages) 220 0 3.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The importance of violence in "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor.

Find", Flannery O'Connor uses violence as aforce of both good and evil to demonstrate how people's attitudes and perspectives of lifechange when they are faced with a situation of violent danger. The ...

(3 pages) 369 1 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Persuasion in Response to Emotional and Rational Appeals

hat rational messages may encourage the generation of content based cognitive responses and lead to attitudes heavily influenced by these cognitions. Studies have also led to suggest that people in ne ... asks that were not directly related to the study. The first test included a survey of the subjects' attitudes toward animal testing. After this was completed, subjects read a persuasive message, then ...

(3 pages) 119 0 3.5 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

A report on how old people are discriminated against in the workplace.

r workers as it unfolds today. Baby boomers will begin to reach age 65 by 2010. Although prevailing attitudes in our society remain slanted against older workers, already there are profound changes ta ... dest expression in the workplace. We cheer roundly when older people demonstrate creativity, can do attitudes and athletic agility. An 88-year-old skier or tennis buff is looked on with admiration and ...

(3 pages) 264 2 3.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Evalution of My Coaches

brought a different approach to coaching. The varying techniques of coachingbrought about different attitudes and expectations during practices and games. I found that duringpractice, coaches had eith ...

(3 pages) 51 0 4.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Critical Summary of Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics

In the article 'Cultural Effects on Eating Attitudes in Israeli Subpopulations and Hospitalized Anorectics (Apter Et Al, 1994), the authors int ... ed with the non-Western ethnic origin of these adolescents could create complications such that the attitudes towards food will begin to resemble that of anorectics. In contrast, Apter also hypothesiz ...

(3 pages) 55 0 2.2 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

The Effect of Realism on Leo Tolstoy shown in "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"

theme of the novella, is an aspect of Realism that Tolstoy effectively used in this novella. Other attitudes of Realism that were used by Tolstoy were the plainness of the characters, a plot that con ...

(3 pages) 185 1 3.9 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Summary of A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf and sexism in this century

the release of Woolf's book and I think that she would feel proud and accomplished of contemporary attitudes toward women if she were alive today.Over the century's restriction on women have been les ... ey were very limited.I think that Virginia Woolf would feel proud and accomplished the comtemporary attitudes toward women if she were alive today.

(3 pages) 171 1 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Summary of A Room of Ones Own by Virginia Woolf and sexism in this century

the release of Woolf's book and I think that she would feel proud and accomplished of contemporary attitudes toward women if she were alive today.Over the century's restriction on women have been les ... ey were very limited.I think that Virginia Woolf would feel proud and accomplished the comtemporary attitudes toward women if she were alive today.

(3 pages) 98 0 3.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Hester in The Scarlet Letter

Throughout Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter, Hester's attitudes toward her adultery are ambivalent. This ambivalence is shown by breaking the book into th ... valent. This ambivalence is shown by breaking the book into three different parts. In each part her attitudes change significantly.Hester starts by seeing her act as a sin that she is sorry for commit ... re evil and were her fault, therefore she is sorry for committing adultery.In chapter five Hester's attitudes are the same but Hawthorne shows that these attitudes are not stable and are susceptible t ...

(4 pages) 160 5 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Linking Media With Fitness Perceptions, A Study on the Affect of Media on Fitness and Body Image

etic figures, while the third group was exposed to no prior data. The results indicate the students attitudes towards social fitness views and self-acceptance. It was my hypothesis that a correlation ... syche. A significant correlation was discovered between those who viewed the thin package and their attitudes on social fitness. However a low score in the self-acceptance scale in all three groups su ...

(5 pages) 207 0 5.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Comparison of Character Masks in the novel "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

ear and their true feelings may come to the surface. People may adjust their external behaviour and attitudes when around others because they may not like their true selves and either want to change t ...

(6 pages) 78 1 4.6 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Ideologies shaped by Hollywood. Speaks of Marilyn Monroe

institutions in society where priests and teachers act as spokespersons to spread a certain set of attitudes, beliefs and values. Similarly, Hollywood is also a very powerful modern day institution, ...

(6 pages) 161 1 4.3 Oct/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Actors

U.S. and Swedish Trends in Tax Reform

article 'The tax reform act of 1986: Did Congress love it orleave it?', Randall Weiss discusses the attitudes about taxes in the United States. He details the events and attitudes leading to the Tax R ...

(4 pages) 74 0 3.0 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Learning in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral,"

ning never ends.'The character of the narrator's wife is simply a bridge between the twocontrasting attitudes of the narrator and Robert, the blind man. Roberthired the narrator's wife to read for him ...

(2 pages) 207 0 3.0 Jul/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American