In the article "Motivation Matters", the author introduces four conditions that improve students' motivation (Crotty). ... A great accomplishment and a great perseverance are the result of great interest. ... Geniuses who completed great accomplishments in their lives also have to spend years of working hard pursuing their dreams. ... Therefore, students who are interested in their subject will also be able to overcome setbacks and accomplish great things with great perseverance. ... In the article "Brainology", the author explains a program that motivates students by ...

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The author did a good job of including information from both disciplines rather than focusing on just one. ... Evaluation of the Authors There are three contributing authors to this article Elizabeth Wadlington, Alicia Enloe and Shirley Jacob. All three of these authors are professors of education at the University of Southeastern Louisiana. ... Finding information about the authors was difficult and I was unable to locate any substantial material. ... The authors did a great job of informing the reader of what emotional intelligence refers to and how it can be understand through definitions ...

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My understanding of this article is as follows: - The author has chosen seven major trends to discuss here. ... These trends and themes are of great importance to the way we view the current and evolution of these practices. ... Some of the terms the author use to descried how most therapist livelihood is impacted are cost effectiveness, accountability and pre-authorization. ... These proposals have generated a great deal of debate among the professional psychologist. PRAGMATISM Last but not least, the author of this article discussed pragmatism. ...

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After such a beginning, the author continues for the greater part of the work with logical proof about the present arrangement of education is not right, but rather his thoughts are. ... It is emphasized when the author expresses that in the new educational system and obviously, Freire uses the baits of "authority...on the side of freedom" (Freire 7), and the such to pull in the benefactor impulsive forces of the reader. In the entire section, and also all through the paper, Freire makes his point substantial by stressing on its others conscious attributes, and just on its great sides, while b...

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The authors of the article thought that medical drugs were prescribed all together too often among older adults claiming Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). The authors disagree with the prescription of drugs such as benzodiazepines for GAD because of its side effects such as tolerance, withdrawal, accidents, cognitive impairment, drug interactions, and toxicity. ... The authors discussed their population and their study and how they went about getting these groups of people together. ... To have a study done to try and get rid of the use of dangerous prescriptions is a great thing to try a...

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It is interesting to compare how the two authors Rodriguez and Freire looked at the educational system differently. ... He is the great mimic; a collector of thoughts, not a thinker" the very last person in class who ever feels obliged to have an opinion of his own." ...

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The importance of this passage to the story is that it tries to, although not in great detail, to explain to the reader the thoughts and mindset of the character, the Misfit. ... Finally, what I believe the author was trying to do with the choice of words that he uses like the name Misfit, and the way he speaks as an uneducated, and disrespectful man are done to portray the misfit in a negative way to add to the Misfit's criminal persona. ...

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The importance of this passage to the story is that it tries to, although not in great detail, to explain to the reader the thoughts and mindset of the character, the Misfit. ... Finally, what I believe the author was trying to do with the choice of words that he uses like the name Misfit, and the way he speaks as an uneducated, and disrespectful man are done to portray the misfit in a negative way to add to the Misfit's criminal persona. ...

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.　In the part, the author points out the many things about shopping that retailer do not know: In some stores, buyers spend three to four times longer than non-buyers, get them to shop longer - talking to employees helps, and we can determine where shoppers will walk in a store... ... Author's important messages As the title of the book presented "Why we buy: the science of shopping" the author proposes that there is a method to shoppers when it comes to shopping. ... Also by using demographical approach, the author presents the behaviors or patterns of shopping from children t...

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Transitioning from secondary school to university, living away from home, and receiving great amounts of homework of even greater complexities has been extremely difficult and stressful to deal with. ... In a study conducted by the authors, it was discovered that students who believed they had control over their time reported having greater satisfaction in their school, work, and social life, as well as fewer tensions (Fisher and Hood, 1987). ... The authors found that students were less likely to feel helpless if they were well adjusted to their new home and learning environment. ... Apart fr...

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Plato, Darwin, Freud were the builders of the great scientific ideas. ... psychology, they compare the key points of doctrine created by the author with his biography and personal characteristics. It turns out that in another biography of the author's personality or other psychological history would have gone in a different direction. ... These views are held by Leo Tolstoy, who in the novel "War and Peace" called great men "slaves of history." ... But psychology is not a model that would be recognized by most authors. ...

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On the one hand, they must be able to make a distinction between commercial and non-commercial content, although, great number of studies examining young children (under the age of four) indicate that they, unlike adults, do not consistently distinguish programmes from advertisements even when program/advertisement separation devices are used. ... However, marketers have a great number of means capitalizing on the strongly visual nature of the cognitive processing of children in this stage of development. ... According to the authors the development of consumer behaviour has four phases and...

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However, over the years researchers have provided a great deal of empirical evidence to suggest that there are a number of limitations in the testimony of witnesses that must be taken into consideration. ... The authors concluded that there was no clear relationship between the language that is used to question witnesses and the truthfulness of their recall in later interviews. ...

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The only original member from the first group of authors to help re-write Bloom's Taxonomy was David Krathwohl. ... Knowledge Dimensions These took a great deal of consideration due to many possible knowledge dimensions. ...

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Many authors have actually had a different point of view that emotional intelligence is actually a type of intelligence. ... Also, there has been a strong belief that there is a great link between the emotional intelligence and the quality of work life. ...

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Our author, Susan Wheelan defined for us Webster's definition for a group as "a number of individuals, assembled together or having some unifying relationship"(Webster's Dictionary, 1989) and she additionally offered other definitions of what a group is by several social scientists who differ in their opinions on the same topic. ... We are all members of groups and I concur with our author that those memberships to family, religious, work, civic, and social groups strongly influence our behavior in smaller groups. ... My primary source of reference for this paper is from the boo...

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Thus even someone with great social intelligence can be stumped by certain situations or people. ... John Green is the author of a popular novel The Fault in Our Stars, in which it is perceived that one of the main characters has terminal cancer. ...

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In the recent years, many disciplines have focused on understanding childhood. Researchers from psychology, sociology, human development, religious studies, and other disciplines have sought to analyze childhood. However, the fact that all these disciplines have held varying perspectives without the existence of a childhood studies as a core subject of study like feminism. This has limited the possibility of addressing research in childhood as a central subject of knowledge. Evidently, these disciplines have embarked on research, yielding interesting findings that have served to shed light on ...

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The experience of major depression is not solely a personal event especially when discussing young children- families are affected, school life is effected and certainly young children do not understand why it is they are feeling the way they are. When the sufferer is a child, the family is ultimately involved in all aspects of the experience from onset diagnosis, to remission and recovery. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is estimated 11 percent of children are taking antidepressants; from 1988-2008 the use of antidepressants in children has skyrocket 400 percen...

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