Presidential Scholarship Essay Northeastern University
Essay - 1 pages - Educational studies
A goal often lost in the academic and educational world in the necessity of a concrete connection between our academic growth and its application to the real world. In my time at Northeastern, I have worked very hard to balance the knowledge I gained in the classroom with experiences that are...
Cell Phones: Dangers When Driving
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Not since the invention of cigarettes has anything been so trendy, and not since the mixture of alcohol and driving an automobile has anything been so dangerous—until the invention of the cell phone. With more than 200 million cellular telephone users in the United States alone, it is more...
Social Learning Theory and the Youth Gang Epidemic
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The existence of youth gangs is evident in large and small cities throughout America, and more often than not, delinquency and crime are associated with those gangs. Robert L. Akers and Robert L. Burgess developed the widely-accepted social learning theory in the 1960s, and that theory can be...
The Unforgettable Series of 1964
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Sports
During the 1964 season, the race was on for the National and American League Pennants. The New York Yankees and the Cardinals became the champions of their leagues, but the road was bumpy along the way. Still, in the end, the better team won. The Yankee management had been taken over by Yogi...
Managerial Styles That Lead to Success or Failure in the 1964 Season
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sports
In 1964, the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals played in the World Series. It was more than just a game. It was a battle between the older American culture and the modern culture that evolved postwar. Both teams were originally formed under the same management style and organizational...
The Analytical Evaluation of Mickey Mantle as a Hero
Essay - 2 pages - Sports
Throughout the history of sports, athletes have been looked upon as heroes. The idolatry of athletics in America has been socially constructed. Adolescents often dream about one day becoming a professional athlete. Athletes are viewed as having the best of both worlds: play the game they love and...
Mickey Mantle: The impact of the fatherly figures within his life
Essay - 2 pages - Sports
In the era of postwar America, baseball defined American culture and society. Mickey Mantle was molded into one of the greatest baseball players by his father, Mutt Mantle, and the Yankee's Manager, Casey Stengel. Throughout Mickey Mantle's life, he always had a fatherly figure in his life. He...
Censorship in School Libraries
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Educational studies
Public middle and high schools across the nation are pulling books off library shelves because parents, administrators, or teachers deem them inappropriate for student use. By removing books from libraries, faculty and parents are putting students in these censored schools at a disadvantage...
Gambling On the Internet- First Amendment Right or Economy-Drainer?
Essay - 2 pages - Sports
Internet gambling has been on a huge rise since the year 2000. Poker Stars and Party Poker, the biggest of the online poker rooms, are two of the highest earning companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. Many eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-something geniuses have made seven digit earnings on...
The Addiction of Gambling
Presentation - 19 pages - Psychology
Average casino visits a year equal 53.2 million (27% of U.S. population) averaging 5.7 times per person per year. As the economy becomes more and more unstable, gamblers continue to spend more of their paycheck. Society's youth are exposed to the temptations of online casino gambling. Such...
The Future Lies Within the Palms of Our Children
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
“Welcome, all of you, to the United States of America,” says the head of immigration at the U.S. Department of Justice. There are about fifty immigrants from all over the world who have chosen to come to the United States to live. She proceeds to say, “There are a couple of things...
Money Motivates
Essay - 2 pages - Sports
After successfully breaking the color line, Branch Rickey and the Brooklyn Dodgers decided to extend the noble experiment to the deeply segregated South. In January of 1949, the Dodgers announced that during spring training they would travel to Atlanta and Macon, Georgia. The team would be...
Branch Rickey and the Beginning of Baseball's Greatest Experiment
Essay - 2 pages - Sports
In the beginning, baseball was considered a “gentlemen's game,” with the majority of the leagues containing only white men. Very few black men played in the International League. A man named Cap Anson got blacks banned from major league. He refused to play with any team that had a black...
Baseball's Chaotic Response
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - Sports
On April 15th, 1947, the Dodgers started their new season with a new addition to their team, Jackie Robinson. He made his debut against the Boston Braves at Ebbets Field playing first base. The first series were a flop for Jackie Robinson. Overwhelmed by the pressure, he was unable to produce....
Developmental Trends in Children's Acquisition and Use of Display Rules
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Emotions are innate and adaptive processes that entail the appraisal of life situations for one's well being and a readiness to act to sustain the state of well being (e.g., Barrett & Campos, 1987; Lazarus, 1991). The occurrence of emotion, especially of a basic emotion, usually elicits...
The Knowledge Economy and Changes in the Research Systems
Presentation - 13 pages - Educational studies
Research is the activity that many believe serves to identify, create and attract excellence to the world of grant, despite the fact that certain governments are seeking to draw a line between « Research» and grant.
Life History of A Chinese Working Woman
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Ida Pruitt is an anthropologist at Stanford University who spent two years interviewing Lao T'ai-t'ai about her life in China (1967-1938). Lao T'ai came to Ida Pruitt's room for breakfast every morning, and although Lao T'ai did not eat, she would smoke cigarettes for hours while talking to...
Power and Independence of Hmong Women in Laos and America
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The Hmong are an ethnic group indigenous to the Southeast Asian peninsula. They typically live in the mountainous regions of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. They are rice farmers who are well known for their embroidery and the color of their dress, which gives its name to the different Hmong clans....
The Birth and Social Role of the Psychological Sciences: A Comparative Historical Perspective
Essay - 10 pages - Psychology
Taxonomical terms like depression, schizophrenia, neurosis, and psychosis, among many others, are today wielded with ease by doctors and are readily accepted by patients. While they are thought to be scientifically objective qualifications, a crucial examination of the social context of their...
Warped Eroticism: A Case Study on a Sado-Masochism
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
The film “La Pianiste” is not only a stunning work of art; it also brilliantly portrays the psychopathology of Erika Kohut, a repudiated piano professor at the Consevatoire de Vienne. By leading us into her private life and exploring her "abnormal" fantasies the film creates a striking...
Notion of the subject - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
“A subject position is a hard place, we cannot read it ourselves; we are given over to others even as we make inevitable public attempts to read our subject position” (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Discussion of the complexities of Spivak's notion of the subject in the context of race...
Class and inequality in Australia
Essay - 6 pages - Sociology & social sciences
If Horne described Australian society by its “climate so professedly egalitarian” and its “Fair go, mate”, McGregor points out that “it is impossible to live in Australia without coming to realize that the different social classes […] experience crucial differences...
Media Ownership, Political Economy And Media Content
Essay - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Mass media has undoubtedly become the main medium used to distribute information among the population. The functioning of the mass media is complex and the influence it bares on shaping the audience's opinions and attitudes colossal, making its control a great source of power. This ensemble of...
How canadians see multiculturalism
Essay - 24 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Canada is described as a multicultural society whereby different ethnic groups live together and try to respect their different cultural background. Canadian ethnic mosaic includes, in addition to the founding French and British groups, a large number of German, Chinese, Black, Dutch, Italian and...
Wake traditions in Ireland and Church opposition to wake and associated practices - published in 2007
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Foreigners often see Ireland as a deeply Catholic country. Yet when dealing with their traditional customs, the Irish can prove to be very disobedient to the orders of the Church. One of the best examples is probably that of the 'merry wake': the Church tried for hundreds of years to...
Immigrants acculturation in occidental countries
Essay - 8 pages - Sociology & social sciences
John Berry, a Canadian social psychologist, has developed a theoretical framework about the psychological concept of acculturation. Two main acculturation processes exist in Cross Cultural Psychology: integration and assimilation. Berry argues that not only integration was the mode of...
Organized crime in Marseille
Essay - 9 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Academic literature on French organised crime is scarce. Very few - if not any - criminology departments exist within French universities and higher education institutions. Moreover, public debate is centred on the issues of petty crime and unruly youths, as it was the case during the 2002...
Bodybuilding and its Influence upon American Sport
Thesis - 14 pages - Sports
American sports have evolved from the simple folk games and premodern pastimes of the colonial era to the highly complex, commercial spectacles of the early twenty-first century. (For the purposes of this essay sports are defined as competitive athletic games that demand a significant degree of...
Reflective paper, On death and dying
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
On death and dying, the book written by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1967 has been a turning point in death studies as well as in “patient care”. Having interviewed over 200 terminally-ill patients, she came to the conclusion that dying was a process divided in five stages: denial, anger,...
Feminism and criminology
Thesis - 10 pages - Psychology
The application of feminism to the field of criminology can be quite uncommon; indeed, in criminology it is men who supply the essential “standard case”. Until recently, criminology has been primarily focused on men and crime with little reference to women. Feminist criminology...
