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    impact employee motivation were found. In the case study organization rewards in use are positively impacting employee motivation and the reasons why rewards are impacting motivation was explained through the use of grounded motivation and reward theories. As the case study approach was chosen for this thesis the results and conclusions of this research are valid only to the case study organization and the conclusions should not be generalized outside the case study organization. KEYWORDS:

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    live in accordance with the values she regarded them as having a responsibility to follow. As was mentioned‚ a perfectibilist mentality can involve a high standard for oneself and others. When people fail to live up to these standards it can incur criticism. And if such standards are rejected‚ it brings the potential of offending the thinker and the lowering of regard for the transgressor. Angelina’s reaction to and defection from the Presbyterian Church is something befitting a person with a perfectibilist

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    Criticism Donna Woodford Woodford is a doctoral candidate at Washington University. In the following essay she examines the search for the meaning of life in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The first thing that readers and critics usually notice about Douglas Adams’s novel‚ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy‚ is that the book‚ written in a sharp and witty style‚ is remarkably funny. What may seem less obvious to readers‚ and what has often puzzled critics‚ is the meaning behind this light

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    Strain Theory

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    How does general strain theory differ from biopsychological theories? “Throughout history‚ one of the assumptions that many people have made about crime is that it is committed by people who are born criminals; in other words‚ they have a curse‚ as it were‚ put upon them from the beginning. It is not a question of environmental influences determining what they were going to do; they were ‘born bad’. Consequently‚ whatever society may do‚ these people will eventually commit criminal acts. The Mark

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    “God is the only substance that can exist or be conceived.” Spinoza’s criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism By: Jawad Samimi 01/04/2012 Substance dualism is often called ‘Cartesian dualism" ‎and is the assumption that mind and body are really distinct substances. Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) was the first early modern philosopher to hold that a thinking-thing is entirely different form an extended thing and mind can exist without the body. Cartesian dualism‚ which started the famous mind-body

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    BLC 122 THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION TOPIC: NARRATIVE THEORY CONTENTS PAGE 1. Critical writing 1.1. Definition 3 1.1.1. Narrative Paradigm 3-4 1.1.2. Good reasoning 4 1.1.3. Narrative Rationality‚ Coherence and Fidelity 4-5 2. Weaknesses of the theory 6-8 3. Strength of the theory 8-10 4. Examples of the theory 4.1. Article about Narrative Theory 11-14 4.2. Participation Observation & Interview 4.2.1. Respondent Background

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    Conflict theory Crime- crime and criminal justice is designed to benefit the upper‚ powerful classes‚ while overthrowing the lower classes. Example: "Thus‚ street crimes‚ even minor monetary ones are routinely punished quite severely‚ while large scale financial and business crimes are treated much more leniently. Theft of a television might receive a longer sentence than stealing millions through illegal business practices Unemployment- lower classes is usually the one who experience this

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    think‚ accurately— summarizes recent efforts to do just that.1 These entail the identification of and subsequent assault on something called “the critical” or “critical architecture‚” usually accompanied by a collateral assault on something called “theory.” At the risk of erecting yet another straw figure that tramples on the subtleties of Baird’s analysis‚ it might be fair to characterize such practices‚ variously named “post-critical” or “projective‚” as sharing a commitment to an affect-driven‚ nonoppositional

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    Expressive Criticism Expressive criticism is how the author conveys his thoughts‚ perceptions‚ feelings‚ and experiences in his work. In this tale‚ there are many instances where Chaucer includes mythical creatures and people to bring a more vivid image to the readers. The Wife of Bath’s Tale is an ‘AABB’ rhyming scheme tale‚ the author has just intrigue the audience with a different kind of story. In the beginning‚ Chaucer had not yet spoken of religion or figurative folk‚ but he has brought

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    According to Conflict Theory‚ society is: • A struggle for dominance among competing social groups (classes‚ genders‚ races‚ religions‚ etc.). When conflict theorists look at society‚ they see the social domination of subordinate groups through the power‚ authority‚ and coercion of dominant groups. In the conflict view‚ the most powerful members of dominant groups create the rules for success and opportunity in society‚ often denying subordinate groups such success and opportunities; this

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