Essays on Journalism and Communication Literature Reviews

This work called "Critique of a Piece of Research" focuses on answer the following questions in relation to the research outcome.... The author takes into account the ethical dilemmas, the ethnographers' relationships, the concept of behavior, the cultural attributes.... ... ... ... This necessitates questions and clarification of terminologies and concepts, which the researcher uses in communicating research findings....

This book report "The Inevitable Doom and Its Symbolism in'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... describes the plot of this short story and main features of the Symbolism of Doom and it's an inevitability.... ... ... ... She became interested in writing after receiving Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a present from her grandmother....

An author of the following review attempts to discuss the development of the issue of drug abuse among American citizens throughout the end of the twentieth century.... Moreover, the writer seeks to investigate the relation between drug usage and rate of criminal activity in the US.... ... .... ...

This work "Human relationships Between Soldiers in The Thin Red Line" describes a war film that depicts several levels of relationships.... The author outlines the hardships of war, the greater level of tension among characters.... From this work, it is clear about a crucible in which the emotions and relationships of these men are placed into an acutely defined state....

The paper "Social Inequality in Movie The Help" uses "The Help" as a good example of a movie that was able to show viewers the social struggles that were happening in the southern parts of the US, when Jim Crow laws were still being used as a guide in segregating the blacks and the whites.... ... ...

This book review "Human Resource Management: Managing People in a Multinational Context by Peter J.... Dowling" presents the multinational world.... For expatriates working in a foreign land, it is as if at least two worlds are merging – this entails learning a lot of new details.... ... ... ...

"Judgment and Decision Making for Engineers" paper contains an analysis of such articles as "Choices, values, and frames" by Kahneman, D.... and Tversky, "Beyond discrete biases: Functional and dysfunctional aspects of judgmental heuristics" by Hogarth, R.... .... ... ... The predictions made by engineers are questioned when it comes to public safety since the public is not involved when making such decisions....

"The Dilemma Facing Developed Nations around the World" paper aimed at providing information on how the government has participated in ensuring that effective health care is provided to the aging population with chronic illnesses such as dementia and cancer.... .... ... ... This report seeks to establish the deficiencies in the health care system in Australia that has contributed to inefficiency and low productivity in Australian hospitals....

This literature review "Production of Biofuel from Waste Paper" presents one of the most promising substitutes to the use of conventional petroleum-based fuels that is the production of biofuel from renewable resources like plant biomass (Guerfali, Saidi, Gargouri, Belghith, 2014)....

This movie review "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum as a Feminist Film" discusses gender inequality and irrelevance observed within the society.... The film depicts not only political moral crimes but also stresses biased attitudes and the humiliation women face.... ... ... ... Conceived in Berlin in 1942, Margarethe von Trotta is two things: the most imperative lady chief to rise up out of the New German Cinema, and account film's principal women's activist movie producer....

The paper "Gender Equality in the Historical Context " is a perfect example of a literature review on gender and sexual studies.... The paper "Gender Equality in the Historical Context " is a perfect example of a literature review on gender and sexual studies.... In reference to Wood (2005), since time immemorial disparities between the two sexes have been inexistent....

The paper "A Critical Examination of the Concepts of Gender, Race, and Class in the Maltese Falcon" describes that the story of Sam Spade, and his relationships with women, and also a black private eye from Walter Mosley's novel to better understand the concepts in question.... ... ... ... For services he provides to Brigid, Spade extracts a hefty retainer, almost all of her money....

This literature review "The Teacher's Role in Bullying Intervention" presents the perception of preservice teachers regarding the seriousness and likelihood of intervention in online forms of aggressive behaviors, the forms of interventions they would recommend.... ... ... ... The teachers involved in the survey all agreed that online bullying or such aggressive behaviors were likely to occur online and that they would intervene to some level....

The author of the paper "The Life of Jesuit Saint Francis Xavier" will begin with the statement that San Francisco de Xavier was a saint and Jesuit missionary, universally identified in English as St.... Francis Xavier as well as referred to as the "Apostle of the Indies.... .... ... ... Francis was the youngest lad of Juan de Jasso, then a privy councilor to a king of Navarre, Jean Albert, and his spouse, Maria de Azpilcueta y Xavier, the only heiress of two loyal Navarrese families....

The review "The Healing Path Critique" focuses on the critical analysis of the Allender's book, The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life which stresses the influences of the pain that people often experience throughout their lifestyle.... ... ... ... Allender explains that an individual's life is difficult, but the means we often use to adjust to these challenges define the person we choose to depict....

The author of the paper "Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher's Approach to Anger and Aggression" states that social and emotional learning (SEL) entails the use of supportive context and relationships which make learning challenging, meaningful, and engaging for children (McDevitt, et al, 2012)....

As the paper "Interface Evaluation Hardware Printers" outlines, usability is one fact that developers have realized that they can no longer avoid because it matters how effectively the interactive system is.... This has prompted user interface experts to look for techniques for evaluating the user interface....

This literature review "Postmodern International Relations" presents the international relations (IR) study that has different theoretical approaches, whereby a number of them originate from the discipline itself and others are borrowed from other disciplines like sociology and economics.... The paper 'Postmodern International Relations - Different Theoretical and Practical Approaches' is an actual variant of the literature review on sociology....

"Social Construction of Technology and Expository Continuum" paper argues that expository teaching is associated with some demerits including lack of modification of a lesson to suit the needs of every child, and uncertain level of student' attention.... ... ... ... Most people think that the biggest problem with expository teaching is the inability of children to pay attention, but the problem is that it is hard to know whether one is concentrating or not....

This paper ''The Cyanide Spill in Romania'' tells us that a serious incident in January, the year 2000 occurred in Romania involving the release of cyanide into a river near a metal's recovery plant near Baia Mare, approximately 100,000m3 of sludge containing both cyanide salts and heavy metals flowed into the Tisza River....

This paper "Relationship between Form and Meaning- Derivational Suffix of Adjective" begins by acknowledging that lexical items have been derived, blended, borrowed, inflected, and compounded into the English language and the main aim of these processes is word-formation.... ... ... ... The pertinence of this paper for English learners and teachers is definite: that making a judgment of the meaning of a word from dictionary or context definitions has resulted in confusion and as a result, a reasonable and effective learning strategy for form and meaning of the adjective is to help decode morphological structures so that word comprehension can be reached....

The object of analysis for the purpose of this paper "River Engineering Approach to Flood Alleviation and Navigation on the Mississippi River" is the documentary video that shows how the Mississippi river has evolved through the use of river engineering and its impact.... .... ... ... The documentary video is the focal point is on flooding and its effects and how river engineering has increased its frequency and magnitude....

The author of the present work "The American Invasion of Iraq" concerns itself with the criticism leveled against the Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, by realists.... Several arguments proffered by the realists, in this regard, have been analyzed.... ... ... ... The outcomes of this invasion and the setbacks suffered by the US, on account of this invasion, have been discussed....

The paper "Sex Workers and Their Specific Health Needs" summarises the major characteristics of sex workers, their social-economic status, and health deficiencies.... It included knowledge about protection use and how these sex workers perceive the risk of getting viral diseases such as HIV.... ...

This book report/review "Slavery and the Founders: Race, and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson" is about the birth of the American constitution on the one hand and the establishment of slavery as an institution on the other, are both two key but contradictory elements in early American history.... ...

This book review "The Non-Democratic Regimes" discusses nondemocratic regimes normally impose strict rules and conditions on the citizens.... In a non-democratic regime, citizens are normally denied most of their rights.... ... ... ... Even though research has found that most Islam countries are improving in their regimes, some are still stuck to their religious values....

The author of the "Risk Assessment in Criminology" paper critically discusses the usefulness of using static assessments to predict levels of risk in offenders.... Assessment is defined as a process of finding out about something to discover some issues.... ... ... ... Davies & Beech (2012) Reinforcing behavior change among the offenders need combined efforts....

The review "Major Disputable Issues on Vitiligo" critically analyzes the major disputable issues in treating vitiligo, a type of disease that develops when a person loses control of the functional melanocytes.... It is a skin disease, whose cause or origin has still not been discovered properly.... ...

The paper "Missed Opportunities in Dialogue between Psychology and Religion, by James M Nelson" highlights that there is no way to physically test whether or not human behaviour is genetically inherited, yet scientists were content to speculate that human behaviour is inherited via the gene pool....

This literature review "Globalization: History and Political Science" explores a global process and a revolution concept including economic integration, policy sharing, knowledge sharing, cultural stability, reproduction, relations, and discourses of power or may sometimes be variously described....

This literature review "Evaluating the Usefulness of Traditional Content Theories of Motivation to Hospitality Managers" discusses some of the traditional motivation theories that can be useful even in today's scenario if the managers apply them in their true sense.... ... ... ... The reputation and strength of any hospitality organization depend on the managers and their employees....

This paper "King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild's" revolves around the European colonialists and their behaviors during the colonial era.... One prominent thing about this book was the refusal of nine publishing houses in the United States to publish this book.... .... ... ... Adam Hochschild's book, 'King Leopold's Ghost' features exploration and exploitation of the free state of Congo from the period of 1885 to 1908....

This literature review "Resource-Based Theory: Importance of Resource Management" is about the theory of strategic management, which is based on the firm's resources as the foundation of its strategic management and efficient management of resources can lead to a firm's competitive advantage....

The paper 'Individual and Organizational-Level Consequences of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors' is a meaty example of human resources literature review.... Organizational citizenship behaviors have become important in the current organizational set up for various reasons, such as the increase in employee performance effectiveness and organizational success....

The paper "Mentoring and Coaching as Means of Human Resource Development" is a great example of a literature review on human resources.... Human Resource Development refers to a basis for the growth of human resource or personnel within an organization through the improvement of the workforces and organization in order to achieve an improvement in the performance of the entity (Delahaye, 2011)....

The paper "Mainstream Economics and the Case for Marxism as a Heterodox Alternative" is a great example of a literature review on macro and microeconomics.... It has thus been helpful in injecting science into the area of social interactions.... However, this strand has also had considerable....

This book review "How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs Book by Paul Willis" analyzes this book that explores all of the psychological implications connected with children reared in working-class environments and the impact that experience has on later career decisions.... ... ... ... We can say that for a good proportion, the disaffected - in relation to whom the conformist case can be better understood - this is in the form of partial cultural penetration of their own real conditions and a mystified celebration of manual work which nevertheless preserves something of a collective, rational, though incomplete, logic'....

The paper "Emerging Economies and Floating Exchange Rates" is a wonderful example of a literature review on macro and microeconomics.... Major emerging market economies include: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Columbia, Hungary, Hong Kong SAR, Russia, South Africa, Thailand and Mexico....

"Global Production Networks" paper argues that the ability to bring together aspects of production and distribution is among the most appealing features of GPN, which have been brought about by globalization, and it is this that has worked towards the unification of the global economy.... .... ... ...

This paper "Klinefelter Syndrome" explains what Klinefelter syndrome is, discusses its symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatments.... This syndrome is a genetic disorder the affects the male population.... ... ... ... The condition was initially detected in 1942 by Dr.... Harry Klinefelter at the Massachusetts Hospital in the U....

The paper "Corporate Social Responsibility Framework in the Banking Sector" is a great example of a literature review on management.... The paper "Corporate Social Responsibility Framework in the Banking Sector" is a great example of a literature review on management....

The paper "The Controversy of Division of Labour" is an outstanding example of a management literature review.... The paper "The Controversy of Division of Labour" is an outstanding example of a management literature review.... The use of division of labour in factories and workplaces has been a controversial issue since historical times....

The paper 'An Evil Genius in the Person of Daniel Plainview' focuses on There will be Blood, produced in 2007 by the trio of Paul Thomas Anderson, Joanne Sellar, and Daniel Lupo.... The film was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and based on the novel written by Upton Sinclair.... ... ... ... It is the story of a silver miner that had plans to be an oil worker as he embarked on his quest to become a wealthy man and ultimately hurt the people that stood in the path of fulfilling his wealth-seeking mission....

The paper "Use of Job Analysis in HRM Context" focuses on applying job analysis in the process of designing new recruitment plans, recruitment, and selection in organizations which are undertaken in order to attract sufficient job candidates who have the necessary potential, competencies.... ... ...

"Reaching Students and Their Needs for Learning in a Manner by a Short History of Nearly Everything" paper argues that when reading Byron's book A Short History of Nearly Everything, there is the ability to create different links with science and math.... .... ... ... In the book, A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, there is the ability to reach readers with scientific facts related to the cosmos....

"Advantages and Disadvantages of Cosmetic Surgery" paper discusses the arguments that have been put forward by those who view cosmetic surgery as an unsafe and unnecessary risk.... Secondly, it discusses the argument presented by those who view cosmetic surgery as a necessary part of today's culture....

This literature review "Bullying Reduction Approach" focuses on the support group approach that has been found to be very successful in overcoming the problem of bullying in schools.... In a study carried out in 51 primary schools and four secondary schools.... ... ... ... The method has no intention to blame anyone and the hence nobody is punished....

This literature review "Income of Parents and Children Education Outcomes" focuses on young adults who are raised by disadvantaged families and are not likely to finish their education.... Parents' educational attainments have an effect on their children's educational aspirations....

This essay tries to find the possible determinants of the positional rise to the 8th position of the Apple brand in the global brands.... The rise in position has been linked to effective strategic planning, some of the tools used in strategic planning have been analyzed and justification for the choice of each tool given....

This book review "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph A.... Schumpeter" focuses on a book written by an economist that applied all his expertise and experience to this work.... Even today this book is of great value to those simply interested in the complex science of economics, specialists, and students....