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- 841: Research Proposal
- ... and harvest higher net profits for the employer (Meurer, Meurer, Holloway, 1997). Interestingly, a large body of research concerned with the impact of workplace wellness programs on industry suggests that these claims can be justified. Literature Review Edwin Locke cites M. Viteles definition of as "the attitude of satisfaction with, desire to continue in, and willingness to strive for the goals of a particular group or organization (1953, p.284). Job ... Kendall, & Hulling, 1969). They found that there were moderately strong relationships between each of the work climate scales and each of the satisfaction dimensions except pay (Schneider & Hall, 1973). Method Due to the amount of literature that has discussed the relationship between higher corporate profits, job satisfaction, employee morale, better job performance and employee wellness programs, it was decided to further research the topic of the effects of wellness programs on ...
- 842: George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes
- ... The author George Bernard Shaw -he later dropped the name George- was born in Dublin in 1856, the third and youngest child of an alcoholic father and an undomestic mother. He developed an interest in literature, music and painting at a very early age, but was never enabled to go to university. At the age of fifteen he became an apprentice and during he stay there he started writing short literary ... articles, such as the anti-war pamphlet ‘Common sense about the war' in 1914 and the ‘Woman's guide to Socialism and Capitalism' in 1928. Between 1885 and 1898 he wrote many critical reviews on literature, art and music for a number of important magazines. During this period he started writing his first play, ‘Widowers' Houses', inspired by the plays of the Norwegian playwright Hendrik Ibsen, whose social awareness and nonconformism ...
- 843: The Bogus Logic Of The Beak Of
- ... species, we read that observers noticed "a kind of hybrid that seems to display a resistance to the perch." (Trachtman, 119) This reviewer called this phenomenon an irony. Well, irony is wonderful in drama and literature--something unexpected happens. However, when an irony happens in a scientific model, it is time to re-examine that model. The author refers in a few places to the peppered or speckled . I recall my ... Charles Darwin. Rpt.; New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1969. The date is not a mistake. Darwin s heirs did not release his memoirs until 1958. _______. 1859. The Origin of Species. 1997. http://www.literature.org/Works/Charles-Darwin/origin/ (28 Dec. 1997). Diamond, Jared. 1993. "Who Are the Jews?" Natural History, Nov. 1993: 12-19. Drake, Stillman. 1996. "Galileo." Microsoft Encarta, 1996 ed. CD-ROM. Gillispie, Charles Coulston. 1960 ...
- 844: Stereotypes In Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own
- ... with that thought now, though if you look carefully you may find it for yourselves in the course of what I am going to say. (Page 5)” Stereotypes are often placed on certain types of literature. Non-fiction has, in many cases, been given a very dry and straightforward voice, while fiction takes up the opposite; it is allowed to be metaphoric and abstract. With the stereotypical view in mind, a reader would not expect the above excerpt to come from a piece of non-fiction literature. The classification of “non-fiction” guarantees that the personas depicted in the tale will be real people; Woolf’s non-fiction tale reads like a story - a personal anecdote shared with the reader by a ...
- 845: Elie Wiesel
- ... mother and younger sister perished there, his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were later transported to Buchenwald In 1945, at the end of the war, Elie moved to Paris, where he studied literature, philosophy, and psychology at the Sorbonne. With a strong desire to write, Elie worked as a journalist in Paris before coming to the United States in 1956. He became an American citizen almost by accident ... has translated most of his books into English. His books have won numerous awards, including the Prix Medicis for A Beggar in Jerusalem, the Prix Livre Inter for The Testament and the Grand Prize for Literature from the City of Paris for The Fifth Son. Wiesel's most recent books published in the United States are A Passover Haggadah, Sages and Dreamers. The first volume of his memoirs, "All Rivers Run ...
- 846: Reference Pricing How Effectiv
- ... most rational instincts about whether a product is good value or not. This leaves no room for impulse purchases and if this were true cognitive dissonance would not be a major problem. Most reference price literature concentrates on internal reference prices (Putler, 1992), and thus suffers from the problem of studying an unobservable phenomenon. If we are to "understand" reference pricing this is a key flaw. This goes back to a ... Barwise (1995) believes that in order for a marketing theory to be supported, it must be empirically generalizable. In recent research, Kalyanaram and Winer (1995) found that there is now sufficient empirical evidence from marketing literature to support the concept of the reference price. Their research looked at three key empirical generalizations: that consumers use reference prices to make brand choices, that consumers have been more sensitive to "losses" than "gains ...
- 847: Collective Action Frames
- Collective Action Frames Benford’s recent critique of the framing perspective in the social movements literature posits the need for a sociology of framing processes (Benford 1997). The framing perspective was inspired by Erving Goffman’s (1974) notion of “invisible structures” called frames (Ritzer 1992). The outcome of countless interactions that ... strategies. We first examine the concept of the collective action frame with an eye to its usefulness in mobilizing social movement support. Next, we describe According to Robert D. Benford there is an underdevelopment in literature on frame analytic methods, and an over-development of frame types that are specifically related to a social movement. Recent theoretical and empirical developments responsible for the concept of collective action frame entail an awareness ...
- 848: Macbeth
- ... a fate of his own making. Everyone has character flaws that he must live with; Macbeth simply allowed those flaws to destroy him. Works Cited Bradley, A.C. "The Witch Scenes in Macbeth." England in Literature. Ed. John Pfordesher, Gladys V. Veidemanis, and Helen McDonnell. Illinois: Scott, Foresman, 1989. 232-233 Shekespeare, William. Macbeth. England in Literature. Ed. John Pfordesher, Gladys V. Veidemanis, and Helen McDonnell. Illinois: Scott, Foresman, 1989. 191-262
- 849: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... pleasure. When Poe died he didn’t die with to much dignity but he died a legend of his time, and of all times to come. Pg.5 Work Cited 1. Blair, Hornberger, Stewart. American literature a brief history. Scott Foresman and Company, 1964. 2. Barnet, Berman, Burto. An Introduction to Literature. Little Brown and Company, 1967, 1963, 1961. 3. DoubleDay and Company. Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. DoubleDay and Company, 1966.
- 850: Edgar Allen Poe
- Many authors have made great contributions to the world of literature. Mark Twain introduced Americans to life on the Mississippi. Thomas Hardy wrote on his pessimistic views of the Victorian Age. Another author that influenced literature is Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known as the father of the American short story and father of the detective story. To understand the literary contributions of Edgar Allan Poe, one must look at his ...
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