Perspective Essays

The text is reprinted from Contingencies: Journal of the American Academy of Actuaries, pp. 16-23, (January/February 1999 issue). It is also available as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report No. 42580. The article titled “Climate for Change An Actuarial Perspective on Global Warming and its Potential Impact on Insurers” is authored by Andy Peara and Evan […]

Developmental psychology is the study of human development and the changes that take place from conception on. Through the study of human development, scientists are able to uncover patterns of development in which they make hypothesis and theories from. In their observations, developmental scientists have offered many theories that explain the growth of a child’s […]

The difference between values and morals are not always clear. Certain values are universal, but this does not mean that they are absolute. For example, killing may be permitted in certain circumstances to execute a criminal, in war, or to preserve one’s life. But in each case, it is recognized as an exception to be […]

The Nature versus Nurture debate has been ongoing for centuries. People have tried to gain power through knowledge in determining what causes the human “mind to tick. ” For centuries leaders and scientists have performed unethical and immoral studies to determine why two people with similar genetic composition can come from similar backgrounds and turn […]

How do we tell wrong from right and right from wrong? When we make a choice is it based on our beliefs or what we value in life? As we move on with life, we never really think about all the choices we have made in our lifetime and sometimes we take those for granted. […]

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a system-wide approach in general education to prevent and/or resolve lack of student success. RTI provides the framework and means to meet the needs of all learners, especially struggling learners, by using data-based decisions to identify the students, link interventions and instruction to their needs, monitor their progress, and make […]

Fight Club is a movie where the director and cinematographer employ heavy use of computer graphics and use of camera angles and color. In this paper, I am going to analyze how the film director and cinematographer employ the use of camera angles, color and narratives to help convey a subliminal message to the audience […]

In Hughes’ poem RED, the last in his anthology, Birthday Letters, Hughes adapts/ subverts Plath’s style of utilising colours to represent various feelings and ideas. Early in their marriage Plath wrote to her mother claiming “I am so suggestible to colours…I’m sure a red carpet would keep me forever optimistic” Hughes plays on Plath’s decision […]

In the United States, explanatory theories of racial and ethnic relations have been concerned with migration, adaptation, exploitation, stratification, and conflict. Most such theories can be roughly classified as either order theories or power-conflict theories, depending on their principal concerns. Order theories tend to accent patterns of inclusion, of the orderly integration and assimilation of […]

Like many other things in our world, society is comprised of two different aspects: free will and constraints. As Americans, we experience the former daily and seem to take it for granted. We simply live and maintain our daily routines monotonously, completely oblivious to the fact that we are exercising our rights of freedom, doing […]

The essay will begin with an introduction to each approach, giving main assumptions and supporting evidence. Following this, the two theories will be compared and contrasted, looking at strengths and weaknesses. In conclusion there will be a short explanation of the main areas of similarity, and differences. Psychology and its many definitions has changed radically […]

Theories exploring the dynamics and origins of authoritarianism have been formulated since the 1930’s. Since the world started to experience the effects of totalitarian leadership during World War II, psychologists have been trying to test and explain the reasons behind this kind of extreme leadership and the blind obedience that supports it. The study of […]

Knowledge and management, when considered individually, can be perceived as vast concepts. The combination of the words “knowledge” and “management” represents the concept of organizing information for the benefit of an organization. While some acknowledge the value of harnessing organizational knowledge, others fail to see its importance. The idea of knowledge management originated in the […]

What does it take to behave morally and ethically? Do all people know what morality is and how it can be measured? Certainly, every single person has his or her own set of moral ideas and concepts of right and wrong. Consequently, various people may understand morality differently. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, morality is conformity […]

This is the first time that a fully comprehensive overview of the total commercial advertising marketplace has taken place. The Future Foundation economics and modelling team, with the IPA was able to cross-correlate Advertising Association Data with published information from the Bellwether Report, the Direct Marketing Association, the Institute of Sales Promotion and the Interactive […]

James Baldwin narrates a story that portrays the different aspects of cultural relationships of African-American people. Basically, the story talks about the different life choices of the two brothers who lived in the brutal African-American society. In this respect, the narrator shows how Sonny and his brother have used different ways to keep themselves safe […]

Pakistan, being a founding member of the World Trade Organisation, has fulfilled its duty by granting Most Favoured Nation status to India. After a long and intense discussion, the cabinet unanimously agreed to the commerce ministry’s proposal to give MFN status to India. New Delhi had previously given Pakistan the status of Most Favored Nation […]

Wal-Mart’s Customer Service Perspective Karen E. Wilkerson TUI BSBA Integrative Project BUS 499 Module 2 SLP Dr. Thurgood February 17, 2012 Wal-Mart’s Customer Service Perspective Customer service is interaction with your company’s clients. Ultimately, businesses are in business to make money; profitability cannot be achieved without customers. Customer service representatives provide much of this direct […]

In the story “Hills Like White Elephants” there are two main characters the American and Jig. The story takes place at a train station in 1927 in Spain. Jig is a young girl dealing with a woman’s choice. Although the word abortion is never used in the story, the reader is lead to that conclusion […]

Karen Anderson Social analysis – Homelessness Feminist and postmodernist perspectives ACAP Being Homeless in Australia, what does that actually mean? The statistics show that homelessness in Australia is a growing and a concerning problem involving people from all walks of life and in all parts of Australia. This paper will examine the evidence of homelessness […]

“The science of human development seeks to understand the causes and mechanisms behind the changes or consistencies observed in people’s lives, regardless of their diverse characteristics or geographical location,” (Berger, 2008, p. 6). Scientific investigation offers explanations for different aspects of human existence. The life span perspective includes various dimensions like biological, cognitive, socio-emotional, and […]

To overcome the limitations to current BSC theory, this paper aims to describe main factors of each balanced scorecard BSC perspectives and investigate interrelation between them with consideration to automotive parts sector in Iran. For this aim, we analyze the relationship between various perspectives in structure of balanced scorecard and measure causal relationships between various […]