Essays on Sports and Recreation Annotated Bibliography

The bibliography 'Propositions in the Area of Organizational Change' will prove useful to experts in the field of organizational management, provides an overview of the emerging concepts of cross-cultural management and assesses the contributions of such researchers as Hofstede, Trompenaars etc.... ...

This annotated bibliography "Product Design and Manufacturing" presents a comprehensive view of the design of products in this book.... The authors present a diverse collection of ideas.... The book highlights crucial strategies for designing products offering greater utility to the client.... ... ...

"Analysis of Articles about City Power and Centrality" paper contains an annotated bibliography of such articles as "Power and position in the world city system" by Alderson, "Measuring centrality and power recursively in the world city network: A reply to Neal" by Boyd, J.... P and Mahutga.... ....

The issue of big oil tax breaks has captured the news for many years and has been part of the discussions by pundits with arguments for and against alike.... The issue of price of oil touches on very core of businesses across industries in manufacturing, agriculture or even service.... ... ... The paper "Big Oil Tax Breaks " is an outstanding example of a law annotated bibliography....

"Analysis of the U.... Immigration Sources" paper contains an annotated bibliography of such articles as "Path to Citizenship for Immigrants Draws Support Across Party Lines, Survey Finds" by Preston, "Uncontrolled Immigration and the U.... .... Health Care System" by Green, Alison, and Jack Martin....

The paper "Champions of Gender Equality" focuses on the fact that Female and Male executives as leaders of gender change are an article authored by De Vries Anne with the aim of examining how male and female executives champion gender change interventions.... ... ... ... The author begins by stating the disparity that exists in the current world in the workplace and managerial positions between males and females....

As the paper "The Suitable Age for Second Language Acquisition" outlines, one of the most important but widely debated topics in the academic arena is that of acquisition of a Foreign or Second language which most researchers and educationists feel has become a necessity at all levels of education....

The "Global Warming: Its Effects and What Needs to Be Done" paper tries to understand the effects of global warming and how it has negatively affected the environment.... It will further assess the solutions that should be devised to overcome this problem.... ... ... ... The National Academies' National Research Council(NRC) has presented several reports with regard to this and in a report in 2010, the NRC suggested that emission budgeting should be done and a target should be set for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from170 to 200 gigatons from the year 2012 to 2050 in the United States....

The paper "The Expansion of NATO Over Past Decades" seeks to analyze the expansion of NATO over the last twenty years.... Provides a review of the literature, that gives detailed information on NATO's various dimensions and the organization's transformation and decisions made.... ... ... ... The formation of a military alliance by the representatives from the United States and a group of European nations presented well-understood intentions....

The idea of this research emerged from the author's interest and fascination in how does film in the U.... influence people perception of Chinese culture.... ... ... ... The research will evaluate the effect of media on the perception of Chinese culture and how it portrays this culture.... This article discusses the most popular movies which depicted the Chinese culture by indulging in the themes of Wuxia and martial combat....

This paper ''Customized Learning Theory'' discusses the bibliography that gives a summary of each of the entries.... A common saying is that a horse can be led to the source of water but he has to drink the water himself.... This can be said to be the crux of the Piaget's theory of constructivism....

The paper "Being an Effective Educator for Gifted, Creative, and Talented Students" focuses on the critical analysis of what does it mean to be an effective educator for gifted, creative, and talented students.... Gifted students have to be handled differently from others.... ... ... ... Frasier argues that a multiple criterion is a method that provides teachers and other educators with a defensible and logical way so that they can be inclusive in their search for various types and expressions of potential for gifted performance....

This annotated bibliography "The Impact of Technology on the Health Care Field" discusses how technology has influenced finances with regard to healthcare and the healthcare sector.... In relation to this subject, the book covers a wide range of topics including historical breakthroughs.... ... ... ...

The paper "Reasons for Infant Deaths" reports on studies on why infants that have had an apparent life-threatening event die less often because of SIDS, what family doctors need to do to help prevent SIDS, find out the risk of the sudden infant death syndrome recurrence in families, etc.... ... ... ...

The main focus of the paper "Racial Segregation in American Schools" is on demonstrating that most extreme segregation in public schools is in the Western States, on mixing up students from poor backgrounds with those from privileged or rich families and so on.... ... ... ... While news media frequently heap attention on high-poverty schools that work, study displays that middle-class schools are twenty-two-times more likely to be doing exceedingly well than high-poverty learning centres....

The author examines the articles concerning stress management and mental health.... The author states that in the constantly advancing world, the need to have a quality stress management and mental health mechanism as one of the most crucial subjects of concern in ensuring success.... ... ... It is very important to note that this movie provides a diverse set of information on the subject of trauma....

This annotated bibliography "The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Attitudes" discusses Social media, such as Facebook, that provides society with a new and revolutionary forum to discuss attitudes, opinions, and emotions regarding personal or social scenarios.... ... ... ... Online news sites, such as CNN International, provide a plethora of information to members of society that is easily accessible using mobile devices or computers which has changed the scope of communications about relevant news information in an environment that is convenient and highly updatable in real-time....

The paper "Communication with Fibromyalgia" establish patterns of communication in patient-doctor interaction that is vital in establishing a viable relationship.... The patterns identified should be encouraged to be put in use by the professionals on the occasions of giving care to the patients....

"Biometric Security and Privacy" paper contains an annotated bibliography of such articles as "How to Abuse Biometric Passport Systems" by Heimo, AnttiHakkala, and Kimppa, "The Ethics Of Biometrics: The Risk Of Social Exclusion From The Widespread Use Of Electronic Identification" by Wickins.... ....

The paper "Children's Literature Studies" is annotated bibliography of such books as "The lost thing" by Tan, "The true story of the 3 little pigs" by Scieszka, J.... Wolf, A.... & Smith, L.... "The little house" by Burton, V.... L.... and "Where the wild things are" by Sendak, M.... ... ... ...

This paper focuses on how joining college means to give up time for students and devote all their time to studies and achieving high grades in order to be successful in the future, get a good job, earn for the family and basically live a happy life.... .... ... ... Unfortunately some people don't think that way; they believe that college is a burden to their life and that it isn't beneficial at all....

The paper "Stem Cell Treatment for Parkinson's Disease to Produce Dopaminergic Neurons" reports that through animal and human models, research studies have shown that dopaminergic neurons produced in vitro can actually halt the destruction of dopamine neurons in the brain as a result of PD.... ... ...

This annotated bibliography "Using Simulation to Enhance Critical Thinking in Nursing Students" focuses on teaching technologies that have the potential for creating an online community and facility for teaching human, interaction skills to nurses.... The bibliography analyses the challenges that teachers face....

The purpose of this review is to evaluate and review research completed within the last ten years comparing the effects of anaerobic exercise to those of strength training exercise such as "Exercise therapy in type-2 diabetes, Is daily exercise required to optimize glycemic control?... .... ... ... This study sought to determine if short-term aerobic exercise training improved blood flow following ingestion of glucose....

The bibliography "Lesson Planning and Planning Journal for English as a Second Language" focuses on the critical analysis of the process of lesson planning and planning journal for English as a Second Language course that features the Adult Migrant English Program.... ... ... ... Facilitation of the course will take place at TAFE....

‘Global supply chain risk management strategies' is a scholarly article written by Manuj and Mentzer (2008) examines global supply chains in the current context of free trade zones and other trade liberalisations.... They specifically state that numerous links interconnecting a.... ... ... The paper "Global Supply Chain Risk Management Strategies" is a perfect example of a management annotated bibliography....

This annotated bibliography "The Problem of Children's Obesity" focuses on the sources that make arguments on various issues related to obesity and backs them up with concrete research results.... They basically provide information on the causes of obesity, prevention and reduction measures.... ....

The paper "The Impact on Children Living with Domestic Violence" highlights that in many existing kinds of literature, many children perceived family hostility negatively, but mostly blamed their fathers, whom they pointed out to be the cause of violence in their homes.... ... ... ... Many researchers have studied the topic of household violent behaviour and its negative impacts on children....

Information Technology reporting and metrics has two issues that are paramount: regular reporting and effective IT security metrics.... A formalized IT security reporting framework is necessary for adoption by a regulated institution.... .... ... ... The framework should provide operational information and oversight in all sectors in IT security in relation to risk management framework....

The source discusses the different stereotypes and degrading images that are portrayed on television.... Some of the media is said to have a harmful impact on children.... The document discusses whether or not TV influences others or TV shows influence events that take place for reasons other than TV persuasion....

The paper contains an annotated bibliography of such articles 'The Intriguing Relation between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labor" by Basu, "Origins of Protective Labor Legislation for Women" by Susan Lehrer, 'Labor Standards and International Competitiveness" by Raynauld and Jean-Pierre Vidal.... ...

The paper "Chinese Tourism" highlights that the author compares the financial condition of the two nations and asserts that against our expectation that Chinese are poor than their Korean counterparts, the fact is that Chinese appear richer when their spending habits are observed.... ... ... ... A totally different perspective of the Korean behavior for the Chinese is presented when the author writes that 'there are places long assessable to the Chinese that have only recently been opened to other tourists'....

The bibliography "Is Parental Involvement Relevant to Academic Achievements?... focuses on the critical analysis of the discussion on children's academic successes.... In other words, it discusses whether parental involvement is relevant to academic achievements.... ... ... ... It goes without saying that doing well in school can lead to greater opportunities for children to further their education and in the job market overall....

The paper "Immigrant High School Dropouts" discusses that dropping out of school is an undesirable thing by many parents.... However, the immigrant populations in America have proved to be more prone to dropping out of school before they complete high school.... ... ... ... The authors acknowledge the presence of complex variables with the potential of serving as barriers in education....

The ability to improve health care quality is a primary concern in different regions across the country of Australia.... In this paper "Resolving the Americas Health Care Crisis", there is an understanding that quality measurements and reporting in health care systems need to be re-examined.... ...

As the paper "The Suitable Age for Second Language Acquisition" tells, second language acquisition has always been a debated topic in the field of education because it has become quite a necessity for children to learn a second language which is one of the requirements for education at all levels....

The paper "Developing Service-Oriented Solutions" highlights that the authors of the article have presented a fractal software development model that enables service-oriented modeling and architecture method to come up with a new approach that goes beyond the cycle of software development.... ... ...

"The Incorporation of Immigrant Migrants in Growing Urban Areas in Saudi Arabia" paper contains an annotated bibliography of such articles such as "New facets of urban segregation in Southern Europe: Gender, migration and social class change in Athens" by Arapoglou, V.... P.... and J.... Sayas.... ...

"Award Winning Books" paper contains an annotedbibliography of such books as "The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian" authored by Alexie, and "Home of the brave" by Applegate, "Black potatoes: the story of the great Irish famine" by Bartoletti.... .... ... ... Forney's illustrations reflect Junior's cartoons and chronicle a native American's adolescence....

The paper "The Role of Literature in Shaping African American Culture" describes that TV is a powerful media, and Henderson believes that researchers have to look at what's happening inside the writer's room instead of just utilizing a contextual analysis, genre study, and audience reception.... ...

The author concludes that the state needs not increase sporting activities to reduce obesity because the obese are not utilizing the sports that are in place currently.... The paper "Obesity in the United States" discusses that obesity has become a fiscal, economic, and health problem in the United States....

From the paper "Multiliteracy in Early Years" it is clear that the instructional strategies and methods used should have the objective of enabling students to understand how different meanings are constructed using resources of language, image, and digital rhetorics.... ... ... ... The article first explores the characteristics of a multiliterate curriculum and then identifies four areas of pedagogy (productive pedagogies) - intellectual quality, interconnectedness, supportive classroom environment, and recognition of diversity- which could be improved for better learning outcomes....

This annotated bibliography "Blood-Borne Pathogens and Universal Precautions" reports on the essentials aspects of Perioperative, which introduce the peri-operative nursing in a framework of the process of nursing and the diagnoses of nursing instead of a former approach.... ... ... ... The study did not know the maximum rate of the implanted devices of vascular access and about eighty-two percent of the nurses used the recommended syringe....

This paper, Surrogacy in the USA, stresses that there is one issue today that has escaped most of the media's attention but a topic that is equally important to some people.... This issue is surrogacy, or to be more precise, the surrogate motherhood controversy.... .... ... ... As the paper outlines, the surrogate motherhood debate has moralists and ethicists arguing over many unanswered questions regarding this practice which has grown more widespread as medical science opened new possibilities for becoming a parent....

The paper "Human Resource Practices " is a great example of human resources annotated bibliography.... It is quite evident that there exist strong links between employee engagement and performance management.... Mone et al (2011) indicate that there exists substantial evidence that suggests that performance management can widely be conceptualized as a fundamental framework....

The paper contains the annotated bibliography of articles about the US foreign policy such as "The Case for and against extreme Immigration Reform", "Anglo-American-Israel Diplomacy: All the Presidents' messengers" and "The Road to Tahrir Square How Egypt's Revolt happened and what we do know?... ....

The paper "Asian Studies, Mau Tse-tung" is an outstanding example of a social science annotated bibliography.... Technological and industrialization has brought about many changes in the working lives of individuals in the society.... The issue of whether technological and industrial development has led to the increase or decrease of employment opportunities is a complex one....

All hospitals are fueled by the ultimate desire to excel.... This implies devising and implementing performance management systems, which outdo those of the competition.... However, very few hospitals have managed to be unique in this quest.... .... ... ... Assessing a hospital's performance management system will highlight the need for optimal internal evaluation and assessment systems....

This paper stresses that the ability to apply spiritual and cultural models is one which is congruent with every area of life.... Emotional applications in any environment provide stronger capacity for change and stability to manifestation within a given area of one's life.... .... ... ... As the paper, Spiritual Cultural Models, outlines, applying and understanding various models are able to provide deeper insight into the importance of spiritual and cultural changes within various environments and the impact which this creates toward one's life....

The paper "Refugee Challenges, Stressors, and Mental Health" aims at establishing the trends in factors influencing the mental health of the refugees and the barriers preventing the uptake of associated services to inform policy considerations for ensuring effective service delivery.... ... ... ... This annotated bibliography focuses on the stressors affecting the mental health of migrants and refugees....