The Qualitative Report Volume 11 Number 3 September 2006 538-549 http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR11-3/ponterotto.pdf Brief Note on the Origins‚ Evolution‚ and Meaning of the Qualitative Research Concept “Thick Description” Joseph G. Ponterotto Fordham University‚ New York‚ New York The origins‚ cross-disciplinary evolution‚ and definition of “thick description” are reviewed. Despite its frequent use in the qualitative literature‚ the concept of “thick description” is often confusing to researchers
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Freedom and limitations Freedom is the condition of being free and the power to act or speak or think without restraint. What does freedom mean to me? I can’t help but be thankful every morning that I wake up; I am a free woman. I pray for the men and women that go to the line every day to give us that freedom. Freedom comes in many different forms such as social‚ economic‚ physical and political. There are limitations to every type of freedom because you have the ability to abuse these
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Statute of Limitations (SoL) on debt is the maximum amount of legal time that creditors have to take you to court in order to recover debts owed by you. Once the statute of limitations period is over‚ the creditors cannot take you through the court system to recover their debts. Statute of limitations does not cover all forms of debt‚ for example SoL does not cover federal student loans‚ most type of fines such as speeding/parking tickets‚ past due child support or income taxes. Note: This information
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advantages and disadvantages of qualitative research and briefly quantitative research. This essay will initially present the advantages and disadvantages of qualitative research and briefly quantitative research. It will then go on to critique a qualitative research article yet due to the word count only several factors of this will be critiqued and the article is by Wills ’ et al (2005). Later it will consider the use of the research paper within the clinical practice area; and discuss whether
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Limitations: Regression analysis is a commonly used tool for companies to make predictions based on certain variables. Even though it is very common there are still limitations that arise when producing the regression‚ which can skew the results. The Number of Variables: The first limitation that we noticed in our regression model is the number of variables that we used. The more companies that you have to compare the greater the chance your model will be significant. We have found that
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The statutes of limitations‚ which is the doctrine that set time limit for charging someone with a crime after they commit‚ is a guarantee that people will be convicted based on the current evidence and sets the norm for officers to deliver justice. It is not fair that someone can sue you based on a story that happened a long time ago. Hence‚ considering the effectiveness in legal enforcement‚ fairness for the parties involved and impact on society‚ I strongly stand against abolishing the statute
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Both qualitative and quantitative research methods have their specific qualities which make them useful to a researcher‚ however in the course of this short essay I will explain why‚ for several reasons‚ qualitative research is better. As both methods operate within different assumptions‚ it is important to stem criticism for each method ’s respective theoretical base in order to adequately judge them. In the course of this essay I will highlight each method ’s theoretical assumptions and then I
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Assignment Limitations of cvp analysis. Cost volume profit analysis. In any business it is very obvious for questions like‚ what effect on profit can it expect if it produces more products? What quantity of products and services must a business sell in order to break even for the year? What happens to the breakeven point of the business if it decides to add or increase the quantity of a product or services they currently offer? to arise. The analytical technique that helps the managerial
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Methodologies serve as the guidelines that lead research work (Willis‚ 2007). The action of measuring is based in the necessity to evaluate an idea or to provide support to explanations or concepts; these measurements help in the connection of ideas and perceptions‚ in order to understand the social world (Neuman‚ 2014). There are two major categories of research methodologies‚ the quantitative and the qualitative‚ and they both are used to answer research questions but in different ways. The main distinctions
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though God is omnipotence and God has the power to do anything‚ but some philosopher argued that God has many limitations. For instance‚ S.T Thomas Aquinas argues that God’s power must be limited and may not exist at all. He mentions about the squares circle. If square circles cannot exist‚ then the fact that God cannot make one implies any defect in God’s power. Moreover‚ God has other limitations too. God cannot do things that require embodiment and God cannot do something that implies a moral fault
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