Autism and the Impact on Family
Autism is considered one of the most debilitating developmental disorders in psychology. The purpose of this essay is to contextualize family life and the dynamics of family involvement regarding autistic individuals.
Essays
Cultivation Theory and Law and Order
Using Gerbner’s Cultivation Theory with the show Law and Order, we can understand how this exposure to violence in television can make the audience feel that their world is more violent than it is.
Stuart Hall’s Encoding/Decoding Model on Three iPod Advertisements
This essay will make the case for the utility of this model through an analysis of three Apple Inc. iPod advertisements via Hall’s concepts, arguing that his production-reception model is a useful approach to understanding modern mass media messages, especially advertising.
Don McKellar’s Last Night and Canada’s Popular Culture
As a Canadian film striving for its own identification among Hollywood’s entertainment apparatus, Don McKellar’s Last Night uses a recognizable Canadian style, tone and themes, and identifies itself, in the broader sense, against Hollywood.
Post-Fordism and Nike Inc—Sweatshop USA
This essay will assert that Nike Inc.’s organizational culture coincides with post-fordist industrial change by arguing the fragmentation and the pluralism of Nike Inc.’s employees.
Technology and the Call Centre
This essay will examine a call centre organization called CallMedia to discuss the many impacts that technology can have on organization’s culture.
Early Recollections Therapy
According to Adler’s Individual Psychology perspective, the meaning of individual behaviour coincides with their desire for either success or superiority (Adler, 1958).
Conlon Nancarrow and His Contributions
Nancarrow developed powerful rhythmic strategies, tempo proportions as well as metric synchronicity which resulted in an almost meta-analytic revision of music as a whole, suggesting that music required a step towards a new frontier (Thomas 4).
Sexual Harassment: Consequences and Prevention
Sexual harassment (SH) is a complex combination of legal and psychological issues that have received unparalleled attention in the last ten to fifteen years alongside workplace bullying and other organizational concerns.
Increasing Prevention of HIV/AIDS in Canada
The intent of this essay is to provide information regarding the devastating HIV/AIDS pandemic in Ontario, Canada.
Salvador Dali: A Personality Profile
Dali’s personality is complex, intricate and very attractive to biographers, personality theoreticians, and the public.
Ecocinema and Documentary Genre
In this essay I want to establish a theoretical framework for the ecocinema genre.
Fertility Decline in Japan
This essay will first provide a literature review and the overview of the theoretical framework of the habitus, followed by an inspection of the current scenario in Japan.
Money, Hoes and Clothes
This essay will describe the developments and transformations of the freestyle form. It will also describe the technique of real-time experiential exchange, followed by YouTube and the digitalization of the freestyle tradition.
Africa and its barriers to development
Africa is entrenched in civil, internal and external struggle which makes it increasingly difficult for the world economy to assist it. With political unrest, countries in Africa are equally facing community and global difficulties which hinder all prospects of development.
Mattel Inc vs. Mark Napier
For this assignment, I chose an audience that actively resists Barbie --this applies to the assignment requirements because Mattel Inc wishes to punish Barbie for Barbie's copyright infringements.
Ender’s Game and Speaker for The Dead
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead describe the maturation of a child from six years old to a robust and intelligent agent of interplanetary democracy.
A Doll House & Walter Mitty
This essay will analyze how Ibsen and Thurber explore masculinity as levels of potential male desirable roles, which the men in both stories wish to acquire.
Sonny's Blues and Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Baldwin’s narrator and Oates’s June were successful in overcoming social menace while Sonny and Connie were placed put under submission by social menace.
Point of View in The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman’s constructs The Yellow Wallpaper through time and space separations depicting the interval between the initial beginnings towards the end.
Russian Music in the time of Socialist Realism
In order to understand how this affected musicians, it will be critical to assess Stalin’s creed, socialist realism, and formalism alongside an analysis of the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM) during this period will provide an interesting insight on Soviet Russia’s use of music a
Social Self and Socialization
Jenkins (2008) asserts that "individuals are unique and variable at this level of socialization, but selfhood is a social construct" (p. 40).
Harry Potter and its Critics
To understand why fans hate it, why they enjoy these texts and find pleasure in them, it is imperative to identify what is causing the anti-Harry Potter frustration among a group of fans.
Media Bias, Framing in the Media, Agenda Setting Theory, Political Bias
The central focus of this literature review is the assessment of media bias. Media bias can significantly alter the scope of the political spectrum.
Narrativization in Canadian Television
The Border is a Canadian television series drama that describes current and controversial aspects of Canadian security, its functions, and the issues that have gained salience in raw news today.