The Observer

at the Starbucks coffee shop at UCI. Two Starbucks employees were observed over a period of about 2.5 hours. One individual was female and the other individual was a male, both individuals appeared to be between the ages of 20-25. The observer was a concealed observer. Interviews were conducted using convenient sampling and snowball sampling. Interviews were conducted in the city of San Gabriel, California State University Cal Poly Pomona, and the University of California, Irvine to willing…

JC Second Person Personal Pronoun Sing. Sub. /yu si weh ah mean? / “Do you know what I mean?” /yu mussi born back a cow/ “You 're an idiot” (Pensacola Studio, 2014) /yu di ' guh work todeh? / “You went to work today?” Pl. Sub. /unu di ' hear di school bell? / “You heard the school bell?” (Jamaicansinting, 2012) Sing. Obj. /mi lob yu/ “I love you” (Wells, 1973) /me good yu know, but look “I’m Great, but not as good as you” At yu, di better one/ (Pensacola Studio, 2014) /ow yu…

In his writings, Freud argues that early life experiences play a key role in forming one's personality. In the late 18th century, Mary Shelley lost her mother only a few months after her birth. The influence of this experience appears in her writing. In a psychoanalytic reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the effects of the author’s loss of her mother at a young age manifest themselves in the creature’s lack of connection with his creator to show the traumatic alienating effects of her…

In the choice of research methodology, the researchers first have to choose one of the research paradigms like positivism, interpretivism, and pragmatism. Every research approach must follow the way of investigation such as epistemology, ontology, and axiology (Maxwell, 2005) as the essence of research philosophy. Therefore, I would like to follow the viewpoint of pragmatism as my research approach that should overcome some disadvantageous position of positivism and interpretivism, discussed…

“Insult, Aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor” by Nisbett & Cohen In 1996 Nisbett and Cohen aimed to see the difference in behavior more specifically aggression between cultures. He did this by gathering participants from the North and the South, the South was defined as being from Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas. All other participants were…

a politician, or even a parent. Even if it’s for a noble cause, “facades can be destructive because they are used to seduce others into an illusion” (624). Once the observer discovers the reality behind the curtain, then the person, once exalted, will more than likely be found hypocritical and undeserving. Then suddenly the observer holds no credit in the person’s words. Another way to destroy reputation, is through making a shallow assumption and providing a stereotype. There are thousands of…

The term Specific Learning Disability (SLD) exists as a kind of catch-all to label individuals who have deficiencies in “one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia”…

of war [...] who was despised by his parents; [...] the Romans called him Mars. Romans [...] glorified war, and considered him a mighty warrior [...] some Romans worshipped him, even leaving sacrifices at his altar” (“All about Mars”). The first observers of the planet Mars date back to the ancient Egyptians in the 2nd Millennium, the Chinese in 1045 BC, and the Babylonians in 400 BC. The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who developed the Heliocentric Theory, theorized that Mars was a…

The aviation accident investigations concentrate on improving safety. The reviews of the scientific and technical developments that have remained the driving force for the enhancing safety have gone beyond the scale of the present undertaking. Earlier legislations concentrated on aircraft impact on the ground and not safety on board. The first air regulation took place on 23 April 1784 (Bibel 23). The regulation prohibited balloons frying without a special license. The regulation gave the…

Data Collection All qualitative studies share main principles of data collection (Merriam, 1998, 2009). “Qualitative researchers use three main techniques to collect and analyze their data: observing people as they go about their daily activities and recording what they do; conducting in-depth interviews with people about their ideas, their opinions, and their experiences; and analyzing documents or other forms of communication” (Fraenkel & Wallen, 2009, p.440). I will use interviews and…