Essays on Mathematics Literature Reviews

The goal of the following literature review "The Role of Nurses in the Delivery and Monitoring of Quality of Care to Patients" is to analyze the application of various leadership styles in terms of its effectiveness in regard to professional nursing practice.... ... ... ... Nursing has a responsibility to contribute to health planning and policy and to the coordination and management of health services (ANON....

This literature review "The Most Significant 3 Pieces of Legislation in American History" focuses on Civil Rights legislation that finished what Reconstruction legislation started in terms of legally ensuring equality for Blacks.... It leveled the playing field for minorities, women and the disabled....

This book review "Fundamentals of Information Systems" discusses enterprise architecture for profitability, Stair and Reynolds (2012) give practical means by which companies who implement information systems can benefit in terms of profit-making.... ... ... ... Quoting a number of companies and institutions who are using mobile commerce for-profit purposes, the authors advised that all forms of electronic commerce are a positive development and trend that when all stages of information systems are adhered to strictly, project managers should be in a position to benefiting from their efforts through some of these means as electronic commerce....

This paper "Personal and Private Information Exposures and Opportunities" discusses how private information is made available on the web and how it provides opportunities for exposures.... The rights of companies to share data and the rights to have private information protected shall be considered....

EFFECTS OF COMPETITIVENESS ON THE UK CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Name Instructor Task Date Effects of competitiveness on the UK construction industry Introduction Competitiveness refers to the ability of an organisation to offer products and services in a competent and operative manner compared to other relevant competitors....

This research aims to explore ethical integrity in business management.... Ethics is about doing what is right, fair and just.... Applied to business management, ethics refer to a set of principles and standards governing behaviors, values, and propriety of relational norms in managing a business....

The paper "Race and Revolution by Gary Nash" highlights that an exceptional novel about blacks during the Revolutionary time.... This book takes on the hard subject of controversial issues of a country fighting for their freedom while oppressing another element of their population.... ... ... ... Black communities have lasted to this day....

The book review 'The Role of Vehicles in Tim Winton's 'The Turning' ' examines in detail such a topic as the role of vehicles in the Australian writer Tim Winston's storybook 'The Turning', showing how important the vehicles are for storytelling, how they can reveal characters, reflect their inner world, motivation and struggle....

The paper "The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams" discusses that Davis J.... has pointed out that recollection can make a person strong 'through soothing affects that are evoked in recalling a declarative memory of a loving relationship with a parent or other important person".... ... ... ... The Glass Menagerie has contributed to research being conducted on nursing – the parallel between theatre and nursing is drawn on the basis that both are performing arts....

The objective of this review is to take a closer look at the workmanship theories developed by David Pye.... Furthermore, the writer of the document "Workmanship of Risk and Workmanship of Certainty" will discuss the application of these theories in contemporary craft practice.... ... ... ... David Pye's theory of the workmanship of risk encompasses a scenario in which the workman himself determines the resulting object....

This paper seeks to develop a concrete explanation of what corporate crime is.... This paper also seeks to investigate adding gravity to corporate crime by shifting it from civil (in most cases) to the criminal spectrum and the motivating factors behind this push.... ... ... ... Corporate crime, according to Simpson, is a crime done by 'white-collars....

The author answers the questions about the book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair which is largely a representation of the nature of life led by the immigrants in America in the early 20th century.... Darwinism in a social setting is represented in the book showing the 'survival of the fittest'.... ...

This book review "Personal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humphreys" analyzes the work of a doctoral candidate at Washington University, Laud Humphreys, who researches what he referred to as "tea room trade" or the act of fellatio between two anonymous men in the public restroom.... ... ... ... It is generally acknowledged that Humphreys did everything in his power to protect the identity of his subjects, his involvement with law enforcement rendered that attempt precarious at best....

The author analyzes the book, 'The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science' by Norman Doidge which is a path-breaking research material that focuses on the myths concerned with the care and cure of the human brain.... ... ... ... The case studies are presented coherently with the invention in the sector of brain science which makes the book more appealing and easy to comprehend....

The paper "Summary of Life and Death in Shanghai Written by Nien Cheng" discusses that China conditions has improved significantly after easing policies it showed during Communists' reign.... Moving towards Mixed-economy and preferring evolution as a mean of improvement became positive omen for China....

The paper 'Carl Jung's Concept of Individuation' summarizes the philosopher's idea that everybody should get hold of the first stage (the shadow) and the second (anima/animus) before getting to the third stage (the Self).... 'Projection' on the people around points to the person's shadow essence....

This book review "The International Handbook of Creativity" analyzes the concepts of creativity in Kaufman and Sternberg's book The International Handbook of Creativity.... In their study, the authors have drawn some generalizations about how the world understands the concept of creativity.... ....

The review "The Use of Christian Symbolism in The Sixth Sense and The Matrix" suggests that while watching films, the next questions should be asked: Which aspects of religion are presented in the movies?... What is the purpose of the filmmakers in presenting religion?... What thoughts of religion have been strengthened, symbolized, opposed?...

This paper under the title "Ethnicity and Substance Abuse" focuses on the fact that findings indicate that ethnic groups have preferences for particular drugs.... Poverty, though an important cause for drug addiction, the affluent society does not lag behind in substance abuse.... ... ... ... Grace Ma writes, 'Substance abuse has four characteristics: (1) it is primary; (2) it is progressive; (3) it is chronic; and (4) sometimes it is fatal....

This book review describes the immigration issue, that has been at the forefront of political debate for many years now through the book written by Hiroshi Motomura, named Americans in Waiting.... The researcher outlines the analysis of the three typologies for citizenship.... ... ... ... Hiroshi Motomura in his book, Americans in Waiting, attempts to answer questions and to demonstrate how in America's view and treatment of immigration, has actually created the issues now faced....

From the paper "Analysis of The Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath" it is clear that McGrath spells out what he used to accept: "By "irreligionist," I mean correctly what the saying has dependably been comprehended to mean – a principled and educated choice to reject faith in God.... ... ...

This literature review "Children Roles as Child Soldiers" focuses on the different roles of child soldiers as outlined by different anthropologists showing the childhood crisis and illustrates it with examples.... The psychological impacts of child soldiering have been explained by theorists....

The paper 'Lord of the Flies by William Golding' focuses on William Golding who wrote the novel Lord of the Flies.... The setting of the novel is at the time when Europe is in the middle of a war.... A plane carrying a group of boys being evacuated from England destined for Australia is shot down....

But if we have to follow the thoughts of Michelle Alexander, the author of The New Jim Crow, we would be led to find and believe that there are too.... ... ... Right from the introduction to the end, this book is a compelling narrative of how a large number of unsung blacks in the American society e still facing the ire of a white domain, which now looks to mark an African American a felon at the slightest hint of aggression, and then treat him or her with the same brutality that the racist society offered to blacks....

The author of this book review "Play Therapy with Families" touches upon the child development.... As the text has it, Axline presented the case of Dibs, a five-year young child, who was emotionally disturbed.... Dibs had been considered as an extra 'special,' which suggests of social barriers.... ...

This work "The Globalisation of Markets" describes Levitt's scholarly work on the globalization of markets.... The author outlines that this work is an integral part of the area of globalization of markets and shopper even though some later works by other scholars negated and criticized his work....

The writer Etta Hollins presents a process in developing a perspective in teaching that embraces culture as a central unit in school learning.... The book covers a six-part process that enables the teacher to meet the students' needs regarding different cultural backgrounds.... ... ... ... Discussion within the chapters is intended to generate discussions and critical thinking and not find answers to the questions....

The paper "How Video Games Perpetuate Gender Stereotypes" expresses concern of gender stereotypes perpetuated by video games.... Most video games have gender-based contents that disregard the interest of female gamers, women characters' roles are mostly secondary to that of their male counterparts....

This review ''Mobile Devices and Applications: Mobile Development and Emerging Standards'' discusses how to identify discernable trends in mobile computing technologies and develop insights on how ETG can promote mobile development projects run by ECC-Mobile Ltd using established development techniques and methodologies....

The review " Lead Us Into Temptation- The Triumph of American Materialism" researches the upsurge of the consumption of goods and services in the United States has induced a new national culture and identity that once brought yearning, motivation and prosperity to American society but now seems to make people squander and suffer....

The paper "Taxonomy on Existing Techniques of Reducing False Alarms in Sensor-Based Healthcare Monitoring" states that Solet and Barach (2012) presented a non-technical approach to eliminating false positives in healthcare patients with intractable problems.... ... ... ... Solet and Barach (2012) developed a phenomenon referred to as alarm fatigue....

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 literature review "The Internet and Fame" discusses the internet that refers to the wired or wireless mode of communication where the involved people receive and transmit information for varied operations.... Initially, the computer era focused on operating systems and programming languages....

The author of this review "Product Placement Industry" discusses whether product placement in films and media should be controlled.... It is stated that while a beneficial relationship of the advertiser and the producer is achieved via product placement, the interests of the audience are neglected....

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 focus of this paper "The Concept of Human-Computer Interaction" is on the concept of human-computer interaction (HCI) that was developed in the 1980s primarily as a specialty cause for computer science that was beginning to embrace cognitive science and human elements in engineering.... ... ... ...

"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....

This literature review "Software Engineering Requirements" discusses the requirements engineering that is associated with the developments as well as documentation and maintenance of software requirements.... Software engineering requirements are about the development of software requirements....

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....