Dr. Augustine Kposowa is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. Professor Kposowa grew up in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where English was the language taught at schools, from basic education to higher education levels. Kposowa received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at the Saint Paul’s College in Liberia in 1977, he then got his Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Cincinnati in 1986 and lastly he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy…
I have always been interested in the human mind; always questioning why people think the way they do, or why people react the way they react in certain situations. When I was about twelve years old I kept asking my parents all of these questions they couldn 't answer, so they told me to read about it. Within a few weeks I was reading three different psychology text books that I had found at Goodwill. One thing that peaked my interest in social psychology was learning of Peter Zimbardo 's…
In a dissertation titled The Language of War, Harvard literature professor James Dawes attempts to explain the after-effects of war through a literary framework. Dawes suggests, “War dismantles the culture that constitutes the individual; it violates the boundaries…
Schools should be a place of safe learning not only for the students but for the teachers as well. There are many advantages of having security within our schools. One of the advantages of security in schools is that fewer incidents, suspensions and expulsions happen when schools have security measures in place (Wren, 2013). Another advantage of having security within our schools is being able to identify information prior to an attack, communities across the country can effectively establish…
Tiffany Newborn Mrs. Joan Henry Composition II 11 April 2017 I. Thesis: Women in the late 1800's were treated unfairly in the workforce, legal system, marriage and ethnicity, but didn't let oppositions stop their movement. II. Workforce A. LMA’S 1. White women who supported the confederate war 2. Rolling of bandages and sew flags and uniforms 3. Honor the men who died in the war B. Female Society of Lynn and Vicinity for the Promotion of Industry 1. Group's formed to promote higher wages, equal…
Noah Webster, the publisher of the first American dictionary, is cited by James Harbeck of BBC news as having said in his 1791 Dissertations on the English Language, ‘“As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government”’. Noah Webster, writing at the time of the political unrest between the English-speaking nations, provides…
These countries are in the stomping ground of major countries such as: China, India, and even the far off Japanese. These countries have helped developed an ever confusing culture to those of the South China Sea. Kaplan’s thesis essentially states that if the countries do not step up their game in the area of the South China Sea, the Chinese will take over causing an unstoppable force . His book feels like a call to action to the countries of Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand,…
Major Positions There are three main stages of behaviorism each reflecting a different position. Watson’s behaviorism was the initial stage that was centered on observation methods. In these objective testing methods, subject’s responses to stimuli were measured as opposed to other components such as intelligence (Schultz, 1969). The two kinds of response are explicit, directly observable, and implicit, occur inside the body. In Watson’s behavioral psychology behavior one looks at the whole…
Reference List: Electronic Sources (Web Publications) Summary: APA (American Psychological Association) style is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (6th…
wants to fix it – whether it’s for themselves or others. I am no exception. My parents were unconventional and believed in pushing boundaries. I went to a Waldorf prekindergarten class in southern Mexico while my Mom collected research for her dissertation. The first half of my…