The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dream - Nasdijj, Timothy Patrick Barru (2020)
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
The Blood Runs like a River Through My Dreams (2000) is the memoir of a man, Nasdiij (the author) who writes about his life and feelings. Being of mixed Caucasian and Navajo decent, Nasdijj feels like he does not belong to any of those groups. Nasdijj has a hard life, his dad beat him, his...
The effectiveness of guilt appeal in social marketing
Dissertation - 20 pages - Services marketing
The goal of our project is to develop an affective approach to Attitudes and Persuasion. Indeed, we want to understand and explain the role emotions can play in the evolution of people's attitudes towards a topic, a product, a cause, an advertisement, or a company for instance. Of course,...
The ICU patient - psychological aspects
Case study - 10 pages - Biology
The ICU sets, for their intrinsic characteristics in an environment that requires great mental and emotional adjustments of the patient. It is an unknown and threatening environment, and coincide with the disease and its likely physical discomfort, and fear the possibility of death that some...
Well being as a tool for effectiveness
Thesis - 53 pages - Human resources
nowadays, individual feelings and emotions tend to interfere with the work life. In our contemporary society, suffering is now due to a lot of new factors. People now have the opportunity to choose their career plan. When professional plans don't pan out as they expected it to, there...
A study on stress management
Thesis - 67 pages - Management
Stress is usually defined in terms of the internal and external conditions that create stressful situations, and the symptoms that people experience when they are stressed. STRESS MANAGEMENT is a very vital aspect of every organization. Stress management can be linked to our day to day...
An everyman's primer to the control of regret
Thesis - 15 pages - Arts and art history
Regret is usually defined as an emotion experienced by humans when they are unhappy with events that are beyond their control. This paper deals with man's ability to control his feelings of regret. Because of the complexity and irrationality of the human brain people often experience...
Thinking through Jung
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay is radically ‘Post'-Jungian. As with other essays that I have written it can only exist due to the immersion within Jungian psychology. But in effect I am working through Jungian psychology. Hence one is indebted to Jung but nevertheless, most definitely post-Jungian. Carl Jung...
Alienation in characters and in ourselves
Dissertation - 4 pages - Journalism
Human beings are by nature social creatures. We need to be raised by others, bred by other, and also to live with others. More than one short story this semester dealt with a theme that is the opposite of community- alienation. In the three short stories “Cathedral,” “The Man...
Concert review
Case study - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The stage was opened by the first violin choir. Flutes were followed by trumpet. They walked in majestically; they paused little the flute followed and then trumpet. The band began to jump in slowly. As they began again slowly, the instruments started to warm up. This gradually created a happy...
Intuition Reliability
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Intuition is a source of confusion for most people, this is because we chose to follow it, believe it, and it ends up leading us the wrong way. At other times, one may be right based solely on following their intuition. Safe to say, intuitional judgment may work in or against our favor. Intuition...
Sociological accounts of social movements - publié le 07/05/2009
Dissertation - 5 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Contemporary sociological accounts of social movements are mainly influenced by the ‘new American paradigm' (crossley) arguing that social actors are rational calculators. According to these sociologists, emotions associated with irrationality are opposed to knowledge linked with...
Working with Pain - Psychology
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
Emotional pain is a feeling of vulnerability and loss in the event of a major crisis in one's life. In its gamut, it includes a feeling of losing a part of oneself, loss of control and brokenness. Emotional pain is considered a consequence of living in a complicated world resulting...
Sociological accounts of social movements
Essay - 4 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Contemporary sociological accounts of social movements are mainly influenced by the ‘new American paradigm' (crossley) arguing that social actors are rational calculators. According to these sociologists, emotions associated with irrationality are opposed to knowledge linked with...
Sensory marketing - using the 5 track senses
Essay - 15 pages - Services marketing
Almost our entire understanding of the world is experienced through our senses. Our senses are our link to memory and can tap right into emotion. A bright fresh spring day has a particular smell to it. Manufacturers try to bottle this feeling of life's renewal. Then the marketers use...
Cake, Sarah Rose Etter (2008) - The isotopies
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
"Cake", written in 2008 by Sarah Rose Etter, tells the story of a husband and his wife who share a peculiar routine every two weeks on Friday nights: the husband watches his wife eat a whole cake on her own, and it gives him a lot of pleasure. This short story can be divided into three distinct...
What is 'Emotion Marketing'?
Dissertation - 7 pages - Services marketing
Emotion Marketing is a new theory, which will soon capture the attention of all marketers. It is about how a business can use emotion to sell its products or services, to enhance brand loyalty, and to build lifelong customers. The core idea of Emotion Marketing is to create and implement...
Arresting the alienation of foreign college students in the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
College life in itself is proven to be a challenging time. There are quite a number of factors that can inhibit college success. Some of these factors may be financial—such as the demand of scholarships, the inadequacy of monetary support from the parents, or the need to look for a part-time...
"It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round" - publié le 15/01/2009
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
"Where does the German begin? Where does it end? May a German smoke? The majority says no. May a German wear gloves? Yes, but only of buffalo hide... but a German may drink beer, indeed as a true son of Germania he should drink beer..." wrote in 1840 Heinrich Heine, who was quite critical of...
On the way to a successful integration on a US Campus. How can a French student succeed his integration? - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 23 pages - Educational studies
What makes 600 000 young people from all over the world come to study in the United States? Is it the reputation of the US degrees? The efficient teaching methods or the life on campus? Studying in the United States is a myth for a large number of students in the world. A lot of movies and series...
Realism Vs German Expressionism
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Art is a form of expression. Artists express themselves in many ways, including literary works and paintings (Finkelstein 71). This paper will focus on paintings as a form of expression. In addition, the Genres of realism and German expressionism will be compared to each other and contrasted....
Examining the security motivation model of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Dissertation - 10 pages - Psychology
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is condition marked by persistent and intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and the repetition of relatively stereotyped behaviors despite the recognition that they are irrational (compulsions) (Szechtman & Woody, 2004). Individuals with OCD experience a high need...
Mimetic rivalry in 'Envy' and 'Safe conduct'
Dissertation - 8 pages - Literature
Mimetic desire is the desire of an object, not because of a rational choice to fulfill one's own needs, but instead because that object fulfills the needs of a rival subject. It is meta-desire, desire of someone else's desire. Mimetic desire develops out of an attempt to imitate the rival...
Applied Personality Project
Litterature review - 8 pages - Psychology
According to social learning theory, personality results mainly from the interaction with and observation of the behaviors of others in one's social environments and experiences, a markedly less dispositional view than that offered by trait theory (Cilliers, 2021). The article does not put as...
"It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round"
Essay - 8 pages - Political science
"Where does the German begin? Where does it end? May a German smoke? The majority says no. May a German wear gloves? Yes, but only of buffalo hide... but a German may drink beer, indeed as a true son of Germania he should drink beer..." wrote in 1840 Heinrich Heine, who was quite critical of...
Living one semester abroad: Overseas experience report
Internship report - 24 pages - Educational studies
But when I look back now that summer seemed to last forever and if I had the choice yes, I'd always want to be there. Those were the best days of my life'. This quotation of Canadian singer Bryan Adams sums up pretty well what I think about my exchange program in the United States, with...
On the way to a successful integration on a US Campus. How can a French student succeed his integration?
Thesis - 39 pages - Sociology & social sciences
What makes 600 000 young people from all over the world come to study in the United States? Is it the reputation of the US degrees? The efficient teaching methods or the life on campus? Studying in the United States is a myth for a large number of students in the world. A lot of movies and series...
Humanities and contemporary issues: cheerfulness, wealth, and the material World
Case study - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
More research work has been done in the recent past to ascertain whether more money results in more happiness. This question has been an omnipresent one throughout the timeline of human history; however, not satisfactory answer is yet to be arrived. Societal researchers have unearthed a...
Drug error in a practice placement
Dissertation - 7 pages - Medical studies
For this summative assignment using a reflective model of my choice, I am going to critically reflect upon an aspect of my professional development which has been chosen from my professional portfolio. Reflective writing is considered a key component of portfolio assessment because it provides...
An Exploration of Diversity and Self Monitoring
Case study - 4 pages - Psychology
Today we live in a world that undeniably diverse, especially in the United States of America. We strive to have a peaceful coexistence of diverse ethnic groups, as we embrace our similarities yet still hold our differences close. Historically, the United States has had to deal with many issues of...
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Text analysis - 3 pages - Literature
The History of love is a novel written by Nicole Krauss and was published in 2006. First of all, this excerpt is astonishing as far as the figure of the narrator is concerned. As we do not know the novel and its plot, we will consider that the narrator is a masculine child feeling his...
