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Success Secret: A High Emotional IQ
... of our performance and the way we
carry ourselves. Most corporations today look for communication skills,
interpersonal skills, and initiative skills in a person all those things
have to do with emotional intellect.
There are actual course that are designed to help people strengthen
the weakness that a person has within themselves. For instance,
Weatherland School of Management at Case Western Reserve University has
developed one. Most people that take the course show an 86% improvement.
There are even follow-ups three years later and the percentage is still
high. Through my eyes emotional intellect does mean ...
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Censorship In Society
... who are under seventeen can’t see the movie. So the people making the movie are forced to censor their material, so that a younger audience can see the movie. Also, some movies are deemed inappropriate and theaters will not play them.
Music is heavily censored, because some believe that music is the reason for most teen violence. They have stickers that are labeled ‘Explicit Lyrics’ pasted on them, or the bad word is simply ‘beeped’ out, along with that small portion of the song. It ruins the song. One band, the Insane Clown Posse was banned because of their lyrics, and their name. I may not list t ...
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It Feels It Just The Same: Animal Experimentation
... subjected to,”(Friedman, pg. 5). Researchers argue that without animal experimentation, scientific advancement would not be at the current stage it is at now. This may be true, but boundaries need to be enforced that will keep animals from being exploited and mistreated, and still allow efficient and necessary experiments to continue.
When discussing which experiments will be beneficial, the philosophical and ethical aspects must be looked at. Experiments that are felt as necessary and are carried out by scientist should not cause any pain or distress to the animals being used in the experiment. Peter Singer’ ...
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Mothers In The Workplace
... issue for mothers is the fact of whether to work or not. Mothers are
strong individuals with big hearts. No matter what the choice is, her
family will still respect her for her choice. Working and raising a child
is the best choice for a mother. Mothers who work, have less problems.
For one this means there are two incomes in the family and it also helps
with the pride of the mother. Another issue faced is the way a mother may
feel about a child going to a child care, in the long run she knows it is
the best. Mothers can find guidance if they are not able to find the steps
of how to deal with continuing to wor ...
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“Cultural Murders”
... Manson molded the young people into killers. They would be lucky enough to carry out his visions of Helter Skelter( Adler 54).
One of the youths picked up was Leslie Van Houton. She met him, and was very suprised at his advanced age and demunitive size. Within a month, Manson was running her life. Manson considered his followers as his family. Manson taught the family that true love required complete destruction of one’s self. They had to become empty so they could be filled with his love. He wanted compliant followers with devotion and dependance on him (Farquhar 5).
His family took many acid tr ...
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Torture, Not Culture - Female Genital Mutilation
... a poverty-stricken
community where people face hunger, bad health, over-working, and unclean
water ("Female...", 1714). This, however, is not always the case. As one
can see in the following story of Soraya Mire, social classes create no
real barriers. Soraya Mire, a 13-year-old from Mogadishu, Somolia, never
knew what would happen to her the day her mother called her out of her
room to go buy her some gifts. When asked why, her mother replied, "I just
want to show you how much I love you." As Soraya got into the car, she
wondered where the armed guards were. Being the daughter of a Somolian
general, she was always ...
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Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Breakdown
... extent unconsciously built upon the language habits of the group. In my own words the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is stated as a world or culture being set around a language, all societies are distinct in their own ways. An easier way to understand it is of thinking of two different terms, linguistic determinism, our thinking is determined by language and by linguistic relativity, people who speak different language, perceive and think about the world quite differently.
To help you get a better understanding of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis you’ll need a few examples. My father came to America to go to college in 19 ...
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The Effect Of The Greek Culture On Other Cultures
... a person cannot step in the same river
twice because the water flows downstream and even if one were to follow the
water downstream it would still be a different bank. Another group of
thinkers that arose out of Greek culture are the atomists. The atomists,
who were initially led by Democritus, believed that the world was made up
of two basic elements, atoms and voids. Atomist theory had a great
influence on the scientists who later developed the modern atomic theory.
Pthyagorus, however, may be the most important thinker of Greek times. His
mathematical theories of geometry had a vast effect on modern culture a ...
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Youth Violence
... prevention and intervention strategies are important, quality education, economic opportunities, safe and good homes, often go a longer way towards preventing violence (Osofsky 1997, p.5). Society can be better equipped to help prevent by attempting to understand the nature of the problem, and by implementing recommendations to solve it.
One of the best predictors of aggression and violence in young people is family abuse. Being abused or neglected as a child increases the likelihood of arrest as a juvenile by 53% (league of Women Voters of Texas Education Fund. 1994, p.3). In Houston Texas, Judge Eric Andell sta ...
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Intentional Destruction Of Native American Cultures
... homestead. Fertile Indian land provided the perfect
solution to this problem. Opportunists made and broke treaties with the
Indians in attempt to get their land.
Government officials wanted the United States to spread from ocean
to ocean. The Indian civilizations were in the way of this goal. They
pushed multiple Indian tribes into small reservations. This caused an
unwelcome blend of cultures. The government officials, in attempt to break
up the Indian tribe, passed the Allotment Act. This act broke the Indian
tribes into individuals. It allotted small parcels of land to Indians.
Many settlers adopted Ind ...
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