57 Learning A Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports
1950Â’s Youth Culture
Youth culture in the nineteen fifties was a time that opened up the world to be integrated for whites and blacks. In this paper the fifties are analyzed through the clothing, styles, cars, family life, and most importantly entertainment.Talking to various members of my family I asked them if they c....
7 Suggestions for Better Integrating ICT enhanced
The New Educational Benefits of ICT in Higher Education
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7 Suggestions for Better Integrating ICT enhanced
Instructional Approaches into Campus-Based Higher Education
Markus Molz, Antje Eckhardt & Wolfgang Schnotz
Centre for Multimedia Applications in Higher Education, University of Koblenz-L....
A Critical Review of Research on How Children Acquire Death Concepts
A Critical Review of Research
on
How Children Acquire Death Concepts
A growing body of research has attempted to understand what children know about death and how they acquire their knowledge of death. For the past sixty years, this area of interest has been growing and many researcher....
A Functional Analysis of the Organisational and Human Resources Strategies at Malaysia Airlines
A Functional Analysis of the Organisational and Human Resources Strategies at Malaysia Airlines
November 2005
Table of Contents
2 PREAMBLE 3
3 COMPANY OVERVIEW: A FLIGHT OF DISTINCTION 4
4 VISION, MISSION, AND CORPORATE STRATEGY 11
5 THE HUMAN RESOURCES STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS ....
Book Of Romans
The letter written to the Church at Roman is thought of more as theological discourse written by the apostle Paul who identifies himself as the author. It is more than likely that Paul found himself in the vicinity Corinth for a time, probably in about AD 55 to 57 and from there dictated his lette....
Can Culture Be Managed
Can Culture be managed?
Whenever two or more people come together with a shared purpose they form a culture within its own written and unwritten rules for behavior. Families, workplaces and also communities all have culture. These cultures have a tremendous, though rarely recognized, impact upon ....
Career Goals
Running Head: CAREER GOALS AND LEARNING PLAN
Career Goals and Learning Plan
Laura C. Floro
University of Phoenix
Career Goals and Learning Plan
As a graduate student, one has entered a foremost stage of professiona....
Change Management Research
Abstract
In the Building a Culture for Sustaining Change simulation, the company CrysTel, and the consultant, faced a number of issues. Some of these were related to implementing organizational change. Others were related to leadership and effective management. Many other companies have faced and d....
Children of The River: Cultures and Traditions
A majority of the people in the world follow a culture based on their religion or region where they live. Different people have different cultures. Someone in Asia might celebrate the New Year differently than someone in America. In Children of the River, by Linda Crew, Sundara holds on to a handful....
Classical and Operant Conditioning in the Albino Rat
Abstract
This study examined the process of operant and classical conditioning of a single male rat (Albino Sprague-Dawley). The purpose is to show the outcome of different learning in rats. The results show that the rat was, in fact, able to make event-event associations as well as behavior-event ....
Cognition in Animals
There are different opinions as to whether animals think or not. During the twentieth century, few psychologists have argued the point that animals indeed do think, but in the last twenty or so years, we have seen a turning away from the restrictions of behaviourism and an open attitude to the stu....
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE A MODERN ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPT
FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
Department of Business Administration and Economics
Institute of Management
Chair for Organization and Leadership
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE – A MODERN ORGANIZATIONAL CONCEPT
Seminar : Organizational Practices
Supervisor :
Registrati....
crititcal thinking application paper
Running Head: Critical Thinking Application Paper
People are able of thinking and reasoning as part of our human being nature, but to what extent the decisions that we make, the actions that we take, and the explanations that we give are based on facts. Can we defend our points of view, or provi....
Developing a global dimension in the school curriculum
Introduction
Global issues are part of young peopleÂ’s live in a way that they never were for previous generations. Television, the internet, international sport and increased opportunities for travel, all bring the wider world into everyoneÂ’s daily life.
Society toady is enhanced by peoples....
discuss and justify learning and teaching strategies used in primary literacy
This essay will discuss and justify the teaching and learning strategies outlined in the Unit of work. Burnett & Myers (2004) note that language and literacy is the key to the way in which people live their lives. There are many different contexts in which language and literacy are used; speaking,....
Dracula
Dracula
Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, travels to Castle Dracula in the Eastern European country of Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with a nobleman named Count Dracula. As Harker wends his way through the picturesque countryside, the local peasants warn him abo....
Education
Pierre Tagny
English 150/006
Prof: Pardlo Gregory
December 06, 2005
Essay # 2
People have long assumed that university is the home of the educated and open minded people. People expand their personal horizons here. The public believes university students can deal with the cultural differenc....
Enhancing childrens learning through bicultural practice
Enhancing ChildrenÂ’s learning through bicultural practice
Description of early childhood setting and community
The early childhood setting I am evaluating is an urban centre with families from multicultural background. Most of the children are English speaking from New Zealand, England, and S....
Factors That Can Affect Learning
People learn in many different ways. Even when not actively learning, your brain is still learning by taking in what is going on in the surroundings. From the time a child is born, the brain is constantly absorbing information. The human mind is always learning. But despite the fact that we are alw....
Female vs.Male Brain
Male and Female Brains
Abstract
This paper is a selective review of experiments and studies that have been conducted over the
past decade in an attempt to understand how male and female brains differ. The various methods
used to explore the question ‘how are men and women different’ are discus....
Futuring: Exploring the Future
In order to meet the challenges of the future, society needs to find out what can we expect in the years to come; so this heightens our awareness of the choices. Society can at that moment set realistic goals and develop useful strategies for accomplishing them. Society feels that it is not poss....
Gender psychology
As humans we encourage children to act according to their gender. Little girls' know that they must cross their legs when sitting and play with dolls. Boys on the other hand are rough, and play with toy trucks. As we fully develop we know what the norm is. But in some cases there are some people t....
Grand theories
Major theorists and our society tend to define learning as the acquisition of skills, behavior and knowledge. If we are to adapt in our society, we need to acquire skills and knowledge – both cognitive and behavioral. Theorists differ on their descriptions of the mechanisms of learning, depending o....
Healthy Eating Plan Comparison
Healthy Eating Plan Comparison
What is the continuance of a nutritional and healthy lifestyle? I know the answer to the question for a nutritional and healthy lifestyle is what I have chosen to maintain my well-being. Developing a healthy eating plan has taught me how to choose my foods wise....
How do the school and home (including TV) impact student achievement?
In todayÂ’s society, the art of learning is a key ingredient in the recipe for a successful
future. Once short term goals that are set by students are accomplished and a sense of
achievement comes to fruition, student performance excels. However, with so many
distractions nowadays, it is....
How important is it for mobile robots to have abilities of learning as animal behavior?
How important is it for mobile robots to have abilities of learning as animal behavior?
By Thanit Maleekaew
Introduction
At first glance, robots in the imagination of humankind look like robots called androids shown in many movies such as ‘C3PO in Star WarÂ’, ‘TerminatorÂ’, or ‘I, RobotÂ....
Imapct of Technology
Technology is everywhere. It is the alarm clock we wake up to and the cell phone we text on. It is the computer we check our emails with and the stop light we wait at to go to work. Not to mention the very thing we have made ourselves most dependent on. Think about it, where would society be or what....
Importance of Multicultural Education
Multicultural Education Jonathan Grant
When a child opens his first puzzle and the pieces fall to the ground, it may seem very confusing. What are they to do with this pile of shapes in front of them? It often takes a parent to explain to them that all....
Karma
The doctrine of Karma is a spiritual doctrine based on the theory of cause and effect. Although Karma does not exactly fit the definition of supernatural phenomenon it is a spiritual doctrine based on the philosophy that God is not responsible for the happiness or failure of an individual, rather,....
Language
If we receive a gift from someone, which we didnÂ’t expected, brings a lot of happiness to us. We get shock and sometime we scream. Sometime we get so excited that we canÂ’t express our feeling. When a child is born he/she gets a gift of language from the God. Which he/she canÂ’t hide and announce b....
Learning and Cognitive development: Piaget vs. Vygotsky
This essay will attempt to discuss and evaluate Piagetian and Vygotskian theories with reference to the teaching of mathematics to a culturally diverse group of second-grade learners at an urban primary school. In order to better understand the context, this educational situation will be further def....
Learning for the Sake of Learning
There is such a great push to be prepared for fact-based tests and therefore treating our brains like an encyclopedia rather than a window through which we can view deep ideas, beliefs, and concepts. Knowledge can be its own end in this way. It is crucial to merely learn for the sake of learning ....
Learning Styles
Have you ever wondered why you have difficultly learning from a particular instructor whereas another seems to explain things in just the right way? Did you ever question why the course that your friends said was so easy turned into a struggle for you? The reason behind some of these discrepancies ....
Macroeconomic Impact on Business Operations
Macroeconomic Impact on Business Operations
Money evolved from barter, barter is two traders that trade equal value of their services or commodities. There are two limitations in barter. First, the two traders must have, and want to trade, produc....
Macroeconomics Managing the Buisiness Enterprise
Macroeconomic Impact on Business Operations
Money evolved from barter, barter is two traders that trade equal value of their services or commodities. There are two limitations in barter. First, the two traders must have, and want to trade, produc....
Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion
In the mid-19th century, the West drew increasing numbers of American settlers despite the hardships of the journey and the difficult living conditions that waited them at their journey’s end. Thus Americans were immediately sized on the phrase “ Manifest Destiny”- believin....
Memory and the Brain
Since the beginning of time people have attempted to keep track of things learned. Oral traditions, paintings and rituals, are the earliest types of records. The ancient Egyptians improved upon these methods creating and using pictographs and hieroglyphs. The invention of the alphabet marked the fi....
Methods for Teaching Multiplication
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Mnemonic Method in Adults for Learning a Foreign Language
Student of foreign languages often rely on various strategies to memorize vocabulary words. They would often find visual imagery to be effective in enhancing memory. Investigations have indicated that it may be possible to solve a given task by alternative modes or strategies. Memories are stored ....
Music Education: A Ringing Endorsement
Music Education:
A Ringing Endorsement
Imagine, if you will, a world without music. A place where nobody sings in the shower, all radio is all talk all the time, and movies lack future-predicting music: no more of the “Jaws” theme music when a shark is in the water. Never again would anyone w....
My opportunity
Learning and involvement have always been an important part of my life. I enjoy school and learning and being able to discover new things in life. School is important to me because I believe that an education can take you anywhere you want to go in life. I believe that I can further this goal at Tex....
Organizational Behavior and Termonology
Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts
Ann-Marie Marcucci
University of Phoenix
MGT/331
Organizational Behavior
Barry Dillard
July 18, 2006
Workshop 1
Organizational Behavior Terms and Concepts
Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior or (OB) ....
Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts Paper
Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts Paper
This paper will be explaining the following key concepts and terminology: Organizational behavior, Organizational culture, Diversity, Communication, Organizational effectiveness and efficiency and Organizational learning. This paper will al....
Problem based learning and learning in teams
The Internet has become important to society as it offers opportunities for everyone to share information, to organize teamwork, as well as to keep in contact with other people. The Internet, itself, is a collection of computers, cables and people connected together. It is considered the largest c....
Problems with Grades
Today in America all schools follow a grading system that has letters from the alphabet. ‘A’ meaning excellent, ‘B’ good, ‘C’ fair, ‘D’ poor, and ‘F’ meaning failure but the system has many problems. There are many alternatives to the use instead of the grade system. I believ....
Psychology of learning
Learning:
The main idea is Learning. Learning can be broken down into three areas of study: 1. Cognitive, 2. Affective, 3. Psychomotor. In Physical education and sport professional is concerned with facilitating learning in all three areas.
Cognitive Learning is concerned with developing a....
roman and greek societies
Ruling a land can be a lot of work, but keeping it to where is needed for a government to survive for many years is a hard thing to do. Society plays a very important role in a government such as Rome and Greece. Both of these lands have very different ways of running their cities and people. As I l....
Royal Niagara Golf Analysis
Part 1 Situation Analysis
1. Competitors
Because of the fact that there are over 700 golf clubs which provide golf courses in Ontario, Ontario golf course market is extremely competitive and no club is able to dominate the market. Around Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the lake, both of which lie f....
SCHIZOPHRENIA
The term schizophrenia means “split mind”. Schizophrenics have portions of the mind that may make them see, hear, or feel things that aren’t there, however in other areas they may normal. There are many theories about the cause of the schizophrenia disorder. Some believe it may be from stress, ot....
Serbian Orthodox
Serbian Orthodox
Growing up in a Catholic home I didn’t know much about different religions. I knew about God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost. I attended mass every Sunday with my family and looking around as a kid I remember thinking “God has all these believers”. It didn’t dawn on me until late....
small business is not a little big business
A highly competitive business environment has made organisations aware of the critical role of Human Resources Development as a strategic function. Increasingly, the contribution of employees accounts for an organisationÂ’s ability to compete, grow and produce value.
Unfortunately, Human Resources....
Teamwork
1) Definition of a Team
Businesses and organizations are increasingly relying on work teams to streamline processes, enhance participation and improve performance. Teamwork is of worldwide importance. Although teams are diverse and can take on many forms, all teams are defined by four characteris....
Technology and Elementary Education
The Nettle Creek School District began redesigning their technology curriculum last year. The state has begun requiring schools to create Technology Plans that must be approved by the state in order to receive grant monies. The process was also incorporated into our school improvement plan, which ....
Teen Suicide
Imagine a loved one a victim of suicide. It might be your son or daughter. It could even be your mom or dad. Suicide doesnÂ’t help anyone. There are endless possibilities why a teenager might commit suicide; but there are ways to prevent it and ways to help those who need it. There are infinite reas....
Turkana Tribe
While I was searching for a non-Western, small-scale society, I came across the Turkana tribe. The Turkana tribe is one of the remaining societies that carry on the nomadic pastoral lifestyle. Their ppopulation is between 250,000 and 340,000, and their spoken language is the Easter Niolitic Turkana....
Use of Behaviorism in Learning and Specifically
Use of Behaviorism in Learning and Specifically Instructional Technology
Behaviorism plays a large role in education. There are several assumptions that can be construed from the behaviorist idea and education such as, the emphasis on behavior, drill and practice methods, methods for breaking habit....