Civility

In 2011, Laschinger, Leiter, Day, and Gilin-Oore mentioned how Civility, Respect, and Engagement in the Workplace [CREW] are things that everyone looks for in their job. However, Laschinger and his colleagues feel that [CREW] is still not visible in the nursing field. To solve these issues, Laschinger and his colleagues emphasize how having structural empowerment can influence job satisfaction, work engagement, and trust management. Structural empowerment is when an employee enters social…

Traditionally, disruptive behavior in the classroom resulted in negative consequences symbolized by the image of the misbehaving student wearing the “dunce cap” (Weaver, 2012). However, now schools throughout the United States have begun to adopt Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS), which is designed to increase the amount of positive affirmation that students receive when behaving appropriately in the classroom (Caldarella, Williams, Hansen, & Wills, 2015). Research has demonstrated…

What does affect your role in a social group? Your skills, knowledge, abilities or strength (physical or moral)? Are you sure that you will have the same social place with different people? It seems that we choose how we behave among our countrymen, but it is not. First and foremost, it all depends on the conditions in which the group is. Consider one of the most interesting and controversial experiments in psychology and sociology . Didier Desor conducted a study on the behavior of rats…

victims, but the men conducting this “program” were consciously ignoring them. The men equated the values of these victims of their own property and treated them like animals. The men that conducted the battle not only distorted the definition of civility, but they destroyed the ideology of what it means to be…

her parenting skills. Her intentions seem to be in the right place and focus solely on the child and not based on what is convenient for her. She is also concerned with the world in which we live in. As she describes, “she insists on competency and civility in the world in children live in.” As such, her strengths are her caring nature and her zeal for looking at what’s right in the world based on her believes. While these beliefs may be firm, she is willing to make adjustments and recognizes…

There are a vast number of poems that vary from overall message, level of difficulty, and use of literary devices. Poets will manipulate these factors to aid them in the process of creating a product that will embody their purpose. As a result of different mindsets and individual expression, certain poems are more difficult to analyze than others. To explore this concept it is necessary to analyze poems from each spectrum of difficulty. The poems “Messy room” by Shel Silverstein, “The Reason Why…

Carl Jung defines a persona as a different, modified version of an individual that helps one adapt to “the different roles [they] play in life.” He believes that the persona is something that is ever-changing, but is separate from the true personality of said individual. William Golding creates an interestingly dystopian tale showcasing the very worst of humanity in Lord of the Flies, a novel about a crowd of young boys who end up stranded on a deserted island. Roger, one of these boys,…

“Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson is a straightforward, yet neatly articulated poem that outlines the narrator’s journey from mortality to immortality. Surprisingly, throughout the passage, the narrator reveals her feelings about death and the infinite through the use of a variety of literary devices. Her diction while using strong symbolic, figurative language like personification, vivid imagery, and metaphors portray a rather calm and different outlook on death far from…

Technology is changing our lives and whether we like it or not we find ourselves having to go along with it. Writers, readers, composers, researchers and so on need to find a way to adapt to the change that comes with what we call “The Technology Era”. As always there will be two sides to any change; the one that will agree with it and open their arms to it, and a second that will forever talk about how great times used to be when things were done the only way they know to do things because…

Life of Pi is a meta-fiction that inquires the reader’s faith. Using meta-fiction to his advantage, Matel questions the disparity between reality and imaginary. In his novel, he explores the contrast of mother nature, her gentle aura and her cruel behaviour. Her gentle side is demonstrated through the protagonist’s interpretation of the fauna and flora. Whereas, her cruel side is illustrated by Pi’s vivid encounter with ferocious animals. Hence, in the novel, the author portrays the…