Selecting a qualitative study Qualitative studies have been conducted in regards to student participation in extracurricular activities in high school and four year universities (Astin‚ 1984; Tinto‚ 1993; Pascarella & Terenzini‚ 2005); however‚ a limited amount of research has been conducted on involvement in extracurricular activities among community college students from minority backgrounds. A qualitative study on the subject will allow the researcher to gain first-hand accounts on students’
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The doctrine of the mean states that for someone to be a good person they must occupy the “golden mean‚” meaning a person may become virtuous by acting between the extremes of excess and deficiency. For example during war‚ the two extremes would be for a soldier to be rash or cowardly‚ but being courageous is the accepted golden mean. According to Aristotle‚ virtue lies in between the two extremes‚ which are the vices‚ and thus a virtuous person is one who can find the mean that is relative to
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Qualitative and quantitative research about the Middle East and its many problems or any subjective matter encompasses the hypothesis. The hypothesis leads to a decision based on experience of the past and present state in the subject matter. A hypothesis eliminates
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is to produce new knowledge or understanding of a certain issue or topic. Qualitative Case research provides an opportunity to become more familiar with the material or topic being presented. This method allows for a more involved process and applying this method in my area of interest helps me by not implying or assuming a conclusion but rather an accurate answer based on was the research has guided the result. Qualitative Case Research emphasizes the importance of looking at variables in the natural
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anti-disinformation NGOs combat disinformation and how these methods could be understood as a unique form of capital that NGOs could profit from‚ both in the form of literal funding and symbolic recognition. To compile the data‚ I employed a grounded qualitative data research methodology by compiling mass amounts of
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4 PRINCIPAL OF QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTIC Understandability An essential quality of the information provided in financial statements is that it is readily understandable by users. For this purpose‚ users are assumed to have a reasonable knowledge of business and economic activities and accounting and a willingness to study the information with reasonable diligence. However‚ information about complex matters that should be included in the financial statements because of its relevance to the economic
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It’s been almost a decade since the classic teen movie "Mean Girls" hit the silver screen and this 30th of April 2014 would mark its 10th anniversary. The film has become iconic for its amazing comedic screenplay‚ written by the talented Tina Fey and its realistic portrayal of high school drama. From backstabbing popular girls to the art-nerd revenge‚ Mean Girls characters has surely taught female movie-watchers few important life lessons about high school‚ girl world and womanhood in today’s society
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Critical Thinking Monstrosity and Celebrity Culture in Mean Girls Mean Girls‚ written by Tina Fey and directed by Mark Waters‚ takes its viewers through high school from the perspective of Cady Heron‚ a young girl who never known what “high school” genuinely meant. Upon arrival‚ she makes friends with Janis and Damian‚ who were in the stereotypical “unpopular” crowd. They warn her to stay away from “The Plastics”‚ an exclusive clique that includes three drama-filled girls who are superficial‚
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Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is a social commentary on witch hunts in early America‚ as well as an Aristotelian tragedy. In Aristotle’s essay Poetics‚ Aristotle explains that a character flaw (imperfection or weakness in one’s personality or values) or an error in judgment can lead to tragedy. The word for this is hamartia. Aristotle also goes on to state that the tragic hero will find enlightenment through his or her lamentable situation. In Miller’s play there are two characters in particular
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Does “the end justify the means”? Does “The end Justify the means”. In the movie‚ Mississippi Burning‚ the end justifies the means in a way because when you think about it most of the time there are certain limitations to getting what you want. In the movie the only way to get the Ku Klux Klan to confess and give each other to the police was to trick them and make them think that the Ku Klux Klan was after them. In other occasions around the world at the time it was not always necessary to hurt
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