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Exercise Essay: Guidebook review Guidebooks in question: Buildings of England, London 4: North and The London Architecture Guide Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry’s book, The Buildings of England, London 4: North and the Iphone application, The London Architecture Guide, take different approaches in making London’s architectural history accessible. In this essay, I compare and contrast these two guides, ultimately demonstrating that although the application is easier to understand, Pevsner’s…

After reading the essay “Should Fast-Food Workers Be Paid $15 per Hour” written by a student who goes by the name of Trudie Makens, it was clear that her piece fell under the genre of “articles in public affairs” (27) even as an exploratory essay for a class discussion. The topic of whether minimum wage should be raised or kept the same is discussed through various viewpoints from minimum wage employees to a business perspective. The essay’s purpose is to allow the reader to be exposed to the…

3.9. Development of the Interview Questions Holstein and Gubrium (2002) stated that interviews are a way of generating empirical data about the life of people in the social world by asking them as special types of conversations. The interviews were contained of two schedules, one for the instructors, and one for administrators. Both schedules were open-ended questions. They covered three parts: Part A included participants‟ demographic questions such as gender, years of working in profession,…

The Scientific management theory was created by Frederick Taylor, developed in the early 20th century. He believed that labour and productivity was greatly inefficient because the majority of the labour pool functioned according to the “rules of thumb’. He proposed to replace the traditional “rule of thumb” by factual scientific knowledge. Taylor’s theory was a great improvement in the traditional approach to the management process. In the modern-day workplace with elevated level of…

Reflection Paper 2 Three Personal Goals This course helped in the understanding of research and how important it is to thoroughly examine the research article prior to utilizing it. The first goal was to be able to apply application to nursing practice. Application is defined as, “use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace” (Randall, 2010). This goal was partially met. Research…

This book review is going to be looking the work of Catherine Bell in her book ‘Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice’. In this book, Bell looks at people’s curiosity with rituals and the pre-existing notions of rituals. Bell hashes out the argument on connections that make a discourse on ritual to compel cultural activity studies. Bell acknowledges that there hasn’t really been any analysis of the term ritual that has presented forward one definitive definition, that shows its role in the way people…

Blinks In the book Blink, Gladwell describes a phenomenon he refers to as “blinks”. These are instances where your unconscious takes in information and processes it, so you react to the situation without having to take the time to consciously think. Throughout his book Gladwell provides a variety of situations where these are helpful or harmful, however he does not touch on how this process occurs or how it relates to attention. While we still are not sure exactly how attention selection works,…

five certain qualities: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility, and predictably and testability. Jogalekar first states that Berezow's defining qualities for what makes something scientific are reasonable, yet incomplete and narrow. He believes Berezow's criteria should be used more "like a ruler for psychology to examine its own gaps and goals" (Jogalekar 2013). His defense for psychology begins early on by confronting first…

Narrative Relevance Narrative relevance was determined by evaluating the importance of each T-Unit in developing the narrative. A 2-point rating system was used to determine the relevance of each statement. An utterance was given a 1 rating if the utterance was relevant and necessary to the story development. Conversely, a rating of 2 was given to the utterances that were irrelevant to the story and hindered the development of the story. Each T-Unit was given a relevancy rating, and the…

As discussed in the scholarly article When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own by Jacqueline Jones Royster, “cross boundary discourse,” contributes to human problems in society. Royster arranged her article to be clear and concise to her readers and began by stating her main interest for analyzing the problems that she faced and common problems in society as well. As her evidence and reasoning, she structured her article around three personal stories/scenes. She then concludes with advise…