Essays on Performing Arts Literature Reviews

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....

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....

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....

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.... ... .... ...

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.... ... ...

"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.... ... ... ...

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)....

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....

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 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....

"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....

"Survey in Multimedia Data Mining by Content in Social Media" paper has managed to illustrate one data mining technique that has been successful in the social multimedia domain.... The advance of systems, in particular the web-based social systems, has heightened in recent years in an exponential manner ....

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....

"John Locke's Book, Second Treatise of Government" paper argues that at the start of his philosophical journey, John Locke took it as his mission to set out the grounds of knowledge, ethics, politics, and religion.... He took on a task of immense proportions that he has inherited from the rationalists....

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 author of the paper under the title 'Theory of Multiliteracies Pedagogy' aims to reflect on the way that the multi-literacy teaching approach has enhanced the quality of learning and teaching, especially in the subject 'Society and Environment'.... ... ... ... The author of the following paper essay will discuss the 'multiliteracy design, and also give examples to explain how pedagogy has been enhanced by the application of these new practices with particular attention to three aspects of pedagogy viz....

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 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 paper "Difficult Conversations - How to Discuss What Matters Most" is a perfect example of a management book report.... Having difficult conversations is not one of the things that are challenging in life.... There are different topics that make difficult conversations and how successful one handles them determines the experience and relationships that they will have later....

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 "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.... .... ... ...