Outline and evaluate two theories on the maintenance of relationships (24 marks) The social exchange theory proposed that social behaviour is viewed as a series of exchanges between individuals‚ where each individual attempts to maximise their rewards and minimise their costs. In 1959‚ Thibaut & Kelley outlined a four-stage model of long-term relationships. The couple explores the rewards and costs in a variety of relationships and ‘costs out’ the relationship‚ identifying the sources of profit
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What is Literature? Language Department IPGK Pendidikan Teknik Based on your experience learning literature‚ what is literature? What are the characteristics of literature? Do you need to learn literature? • Traditionally‚ literature is “imaginative” writing. • However‚ the distinction between “real” and “fake” or “fact” and “fiction” isn’t always a good distinction; many classical works were non-fiction. Literature is Subjective • Since the 1980’s‚ the “literary
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Did anyone benefit from the Cultural Revolution? Few people would deny that the Cultural Revolution is one of the most significant events in China’s history‚ with its extraordinary effects on many groups of the population. The main aim of the revolution was simple: having risen to power‚ the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wanted to reform the Chinese population so that they followed the communist ideology – the favour of absolute social equality. While the initial impression of this aim seems positive
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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Good morning Ms Linton and students‚ today I will be informing you on why you must choose these two poems for the poetry speaking contest. The poems I have chosen are ‘The Man from Ironbark’‚ by Banjo Patterson as well as ‘He Started the Cycling Craze’ by myself. Narratives help the readers enjoy and understand poetry as it is a way the poets can connect to their readers by using storylines that may relate to them
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Understanding Poetry: Billy Collins‚ Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins uses dark rooms‚ oceans‚ hives‚ color slides and mouse mazes to describe his poem “Introduction to Poetry”‚ but also a way to analyze poetry in general. Growing up‚ students are advised by teachers how to analyze poetry. The speaker of Introduction to Poetry‚ Billy Collins‚ attempts to guide the readers by teaching them a unique and appropriate way to analyze poetry. The use of personification and imagery‚ by the author
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What is “postcolonial literature”? Postcolonial literature‚ a category devised to replace and expand upon what was once called Commonwealth Literature. As a label‚ it thus covers a very wide range of writings from countries that were once colonies or dependencies of the European powers. There has been much debate about the scope of the term: should predominantly white ex‐colonies like Ireland‚ Canada‚ and Australia be included? why are the United States exempted both from the accepted list of former
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Evaluate the view that working class failure in education is caused by cultural deprivation. Class is the most important influence on educational failure. Herbert Hyman argued that the system of values of the lower classes created an obstacle to their improvement. Hyman outlined the following differences between the system of values of the working and middle classes. The working class; place less value on education‚ place less value on attaining a higher occupational status and believe that
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Eloisa T. Vidal BSHRM 4-A Foreign Literature Topic "Non-native Graduate Students’ Thesis/Dissertation Writing in Science: Self-reports by Students and Their Advisors from Two U.S. Institutions" Author : Yu Ren Dong Abstract This article reports results from a survey of 169 graduate students and their thesis/dissertation advisors at two U.S. southeastern institutions about thesis/dissertation writing in science. The article compares the article compilation
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decision on his own‚ without consulting in with his team. He presents very individualistic attitude. It is completely different as far as we consider Hoshi’s way of making decisions. He‚ on the other hand‚ spent a lot of time convincing people working with him to agree to the new inventory-control system. Hoshi is a collectivist-manager. Another significant difference between the two managers is that Tom was task-oriented and counted for a quick and positive result of his decision‚ for an achievement
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Chinese and Harappan Civilization‚ the two different rise of the state Gordon Childe‚ an anthropologist‚ had criteria for the civilization. Based on his theory‚ Civilization must meet the size and density of cities‚ full-time specialization of labor‚ concentration of surplus‚ class-structured society‚ and state organization. Essentially in the same way that the ancient Egypt rose from Nile River‚ and Euphrates and Tigris gave birth to Mesopotamia Civilization‚ Harapan Civilization took advantage
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