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Sociocultural theory has made a great impact on the learning and teaching process. Vygotsky’s theory advocates that learning is a process where participation in socially mediated activities is essential. This theory argues that social interaction precedes development, consciousness and cognition are the end product of socialization and social behavior. Vygotsky’s theory is one of the foundations of constructivism. (Vygotsky, 1978) According to Vygotsky (1978 cited Lantolf 2000) the sociocultural…

The public’s deteriorating relations with the government worsened post 9/11 due to the government’s increasing secrecy and lack of transparency. Not only did Americans distrust their government but they also resented it, which laid the ground for the reemergence of conspiracy theories. While many historians agree that conspiracy theory is a vital feature of modern society that merits attention, there is an ongoing dispute, among historians, about how best to study conspiracy theory. Recent…

Organizational culture is one of the most fascinating and exclusive topics for management researchers. It has been defined as a programming of mind, which distinguishes the member of one organization from one another (Hofstede, 1991) or a system of shared values and believes within an organization, which guides the behaviour of the employee (from French et al. 2008). Deal & Kennedy’s (1982) phrase ‘the way we do things round here’ a definition that might more properly describe ‘culture’, but…

According to psychological studies, the closer people get into death the stronger their instinct desires to be survival. And when human’s desire goes over extreme point, do they care about what wrong or right - their ethic – to behave as a human? The true answer has been remained mysterious for thousands years, however, the history shows that people behave differently in circumstances regarding to their belief system. That means the definition of good or bad ethic is neither absolute nor…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbours up. (Thoreau, 1966, p. 84) 1.1 Background of the study Transcendentalism flourished in New England as a philosophical, religious and literary movement in the early middle of the nineteenth century. Transcendentalism was an American movement in that it corresponded to the beliefs of American individualism.…

refutes this notion with: It is clear from Duncan’s own writings, public statements and documented accounts, that she understood her reference to the Greek world not as a rarification of their ideals, but more as a matrix that provided her with a conceptual framework from which to explore her art, her politics and her lifestyle: To bring to life again the ancient ideal! I do not mean to say, copy it, imitate it; but to breathe its life, to recreate it in one’s self, with personal inspiration: to…

Staging the Legacy of White Masculinity: A Dramaturgical Reading of Faulkner’s Light in August In Light in August, Faulkner adds an ensemble of characters to his fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi. Perhaps the most intricate of these additions are Lena Grove, a pregnant woman who enters Jefferson in search of her unborn child’s elusive father; Joe Christmas, a racially ambiguous man whose questionable blood triggers his alienation; and Reverend Gail Hightower, a defrocked minister whose…

Stylistic Analysis of Allama Iqbal’s Shikwa Back ground: According to Bassnett and Gundy (1993) “Literature is a high pint of language practice; debatable it makes the best skill a language user can express. Anyone who wants to obtain a thoughtful knowledge of language that goes away from the useful will read literary texts in that language.” Usually, literature is look upon to be the privilege of definite people who are capable with certain ability and understanding literature. Literature is…

It is premised on the assumption that in a color-conscious racially stratified society, one response of populations defined as inferior would be to accept as true the dominant society's ideology of their inferiority (McVeigh, 2004). For some African Americans, the normative cultural characterization of the superiority of whiteness and the devaluing of blackness, combined with the economic marginality of blacks, can lead to the perception of self as worthless and powerless (McVeigh, 2004).…

What is Agency Theory? The agency theory is an assumption that explicates a relationship between principals and representatives or agents in the business. Agency theory is conducted to solve problems in the firm or any business activities by mutual understanding between two or more groups or parties when exists any problem from agency relationship due to unaligned goals or varies aversion levels to hazard (Jensen and Meckling, 1976) In addition, Agency theory discourses problems which rise in…