Essays on Theory

One of the Ricardo’s view of the future market economy in the long term was the theory of comparative advantage. He introduced this theory in his book entitled the ‘Principles of Political Economy and Taxation’. This theory claimed the benefit of international trade could be...

Growing up is not an easy task for many children especially girls because they are voiceless, forgotten, and dehumanized. Given many challenges faced by women, this essay discusses the challenges faced by the narrator in the short story; We came all the way from Cuba...

For this discussion post I am going to compare and contrast two theories of aging as it relates to the care giver, explain one thing I learned that I didn’t previously know, and state one piece of information that will affect my nursing practice. There...

From the perspective of sentient beings, it seems obvious that time seems to be flowing. However, as hard as physicists have tried, no one has found any convincing evidence within the laws of physics that supports this intuitive sense that time flows. In fact, a...

In the words of Dr Meredith Belbin, a Team Role is “A tendency to behave, contribute and interrelate with others in a particular way. ” The concept originated in a study conducted at the Henley Management College in the UK. The Belbin Team Role model...

During class discussions, we have examined several approaches to sexuality and sexual practices. Queer theory is an extremely interesting but somewhat confusing topic to grasp, however, it is an important concept to understand. There are many queer theories, and various scholars are concerned with queer...

Leadership has been a mysterious and controversial topic of discussion. Researchers have tried to discover, what factors determine how a leader acts and what traits, abilities, behaviors, sources of power or aspects of the situation determine how well a leader is able to influence followers...

I come from an African American background. My family is primarily from the Westside of Chicago with some family members living in Tennessee, Minnesota, and Hawaii. My mother was eighteen when she was found out she was pregnant with me. I was supposed to be...

Even though perception of a wormhole is pretty difficult for a human being to understand. It can be explained and understood if the concept was projected. Imagine if space was a piece of paper of unimaginable length and width that can easily be folded on...

This report aims to explore different ways in which motivation levels and moral amongst managers, admins and staff can be increased; it will explore different ways to improve the emotional state of the workforce and to decrease staff sickness. Motivation has been defined as the...

Plato is known as a psychologist and a philosopher, who was a student of Socrates but also a teacher to Aristotle. Plato’s main goal was to help people to find a sense of complete fulfilment, or what he called “Eudaimonia”. He recorded his thoughts and...

There are five unique approaches to review and study of leadership theories and they comprise of the trait, behavioral, power-influence, situational, and integrative approaches. There are 3 different Key Variables in Leadership Theories: Characteristics of a Leader, Characteristics of Followers, and Characteristics of the Situation....

Applied Theory The key elements of Netflix’s strategy today are producing their own content to reduce content costs, increasing the number of high quality TV series’, make deals with Comcast and other ISPs to develop high speed internet service to its consumers and Netflix is...

The Award-winning movie Good Will Hunting is about Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard), who decides...

Leaning theories is an idea or concept that explain how human understand, learn and acquire knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes. This way of explaining allows you to gain classroom experiences and how can make an improvement or impact children’s learning. Theory is a way of...

According to McCleskey (2014), servant leadership style is suitable in today’s leadership landscape as it authenticates both a task and a relationship focus in a leader (as cited in Marques, 2014). This leadership model differs from other models mainly because it emphasizes on core personal...

Operant conditioning is one of the theories of learning founded by a famous American psychologist Skinner, but the real founder of the theory is Edward Thorndike. Operant conditioning is a process that attempts to modify behaviour through rewards (reinforcement) or through consequences (punishment). Reinforcement Reinforcement...

One of the Ricardo’s view of the future market economy in the long term was the theory of comparative advantage. He introduced this theory in his book entitled the ‘Principles of Political Economy and Taxation’. This theory claimed the benefit of international trade could be...

Most economists believe that consumer spending decisions follow the broad criteria set out in the life cycle and permanent income theories—two closely related hypotheses that, in the remainder of this article, are treated as a single theory. This theory holds that consumers wish to maintain...