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2003). As researchers speculate about the possible reasons for a lack of initiative they discuss concepts such as not wanting to ask for help (Brown et al., 2003), cultural factors (Diken, 2006; Pichette, Berven, Menz, & La Fromboise, 1997), feeling a sense of hopelessness that leads to a lack of initiative (Cagran et al., 2011), and perceiving professionals as uncaring or disrespectful (Rueda, Monzo, Shapiro, Gomez, & Blacher, 2005). (ADD REFERENCE ABOUT POSITIVE REAPPRAISAL, GLIDDEN & NATCHER,…

In an educational environment, any strategic plan that aims to improve a school system is well founded in data analysis and evaluation. The Oak Ridge City School System is developing a plan that could improve the core task of teaching and learning across the district for the entire student population. Based on statistical data calculated for a variety of variables, an initial analysis of the eight schools in the system can be developed in order to develop the strategic plan for improvement…

Data, information, knowledge and wisdom are referred to as the DIKW hierarchy model cited in Figure 1. This visual metaphor illustrates large amounts of data at the bottom of the pyramid which are reduced to smaller amounts of information consequently creating more condensed knowledge and even smaller wisdom. For Ackoff (1989) data is a symbol and does not have meaning on its own. Information emerges from data that has been processed and hence data has now been given meaning. Knowledge is built…

Aristotle’s theory on people’s perception of reality was that ultimately, perception is reality. He said that the sole task of human consciousness is to perceive and that there is only one reality: that which man perceives. Perception occurs in being moved or affected, and it seems to be a type of alteration. From perception comes memory, from memory comes experience, and from experience comes a principle of truth and knowledge. Therefore, perception is the foundation for all human knowledge,…

The built environment is enriched with human physical interactions and activity, it can be interpreted that the concept of architecture is influenced by our five corporeal senses. The essence of architecture should be a memorable experience for the people. It should be recognised through its qualities based on our senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch where they can interact and engage with the space. By studying the human behaviour and the essence in phenomenology we could change the…

In Italo Calvino 's "The naked bosom," the protagonist Mr. Palomar undergoes an internal conflict of viewing a woman 's bare bosom as she sun-bathes along a beach. Palomar is discreet upon his actions, yet he fails to realize the implications of viewing the woman 's breast in such a derogatory manner. His inner restrictions, specifically society’s perception of nudity, compel his course of actions as he is torn from one thought to another. It is suggested that social conventions related to…

class handout on Romanticism it states that Blake and Coleridge who were also “idealist” because for them the mind is the jewel of importance; however, they also believed that the governing work of the mind is imagination (Romanticism, 293). In this sense imagination is vital for creating meaning for oneself and of that of what is “out there.” However, I do disagree with the standpoint of “Each (Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats who) confined not only that the imagination was (the) most precious…

Though humans have been perceived and acknowledge matter through senses including taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing, but activity of the brain is not considered to be a sense. Descartes believed that there are solely two substances to ever exist, mind and matter. Descartes supposed that the body is nothing but a statue or a machine where the way the body functions can be accounted for mechanically except for the activities of the mind where none can be seen, touched, smelled, tasted or…

without some form of medical help and I interpreted as someone who let me down when I really wanted him to appear at a celebration that was important to me. But before I got angry, I heard from my grandmother that he passed away and it made perfect sense. By this realization, I was using the casual attribution theory which consists of identifying the cause of a person’s actions such as “why did my grandpa not came to my birthday party?” because he passed away the day before. 7) Describe a…

it with Christian theology, it would not, I gather, sway a dogmatic atheist. Nonetheless, it does serve to defend Montaigne and his views as a skeptic, as well as a Catholic, showing why Montaigne, while clinging to divine Truth, calls both man’s senses and all aspects of his knowledge into…