C. L. R. James Essays

  • Ignorance Is the Lock, Knowledge Is the Master Key

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    you be in control or be controlled. For this reason, freedom of press and speech are constantly being fought for in many civil wars. Without knowledge, a person is subjected to the control of a person with greater knowledge. Works Cited James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Overture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd ed. Revised. New York: Vintage, 1989. "Tiananmen Square." Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World's Newest and Oldest Global Power

  • Point of View of David Brion Davis, C.L.R. James, and Orlando Patterson Regarding the Abolishment of Slavery

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    point in world history. Due to this it has become the discussion of much scholarly debate. There are three historians to highlight that provide key points to why slavery needed to be abolished and the significance of it. David Brion Davis, C.L.R. James, and Orlando Patterson all share similar and differing viewpoints for why slavery needed to be discontinued. This is important to discuss so we as humans who are building a society do not make the same mistakes again as we continue to learn from our

  • The Modernist Attributes of C.L.R. James’s Minty Alley

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    C.L.R. James was a key figure of the West Indian literary scene during the 1930s. Today he is primarily associated with his nonliterary writings in sociology and politics, and his fiction seems to have dropped from critical attention. Part of this shortsightedness stems from the fact that little of his fiction is readily available to a reading public in this country. Although a selection of his shorter work is now available in The C.L.R. James Reader (1992), the only extant edition of James' novel

  • The Simple Model Of Reading Analysis

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    THE COMPONENT MODEL OF READING: SIMPLE VIEW OF READING MADE A LITTLE MORE COMPLEX R. MALATESHA JOSHI and P. G. AARON The simple view of reading indicates that reading comprehension skill depends on decoding skills and linguistic comprehension (Gough & Tunmer, 1986; Hoover & Gough 1990). First study that analyzes the efficiency of the two formulas: R = D × C (Hoover and Gough, 1990) and R = D + C (Dreyer and Katz, 1992).The second study presents that analyzes by adding a factor or speed of processing

  • Harley Davidson

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    In 1903, William Harley (age 21), a draftsman, and his friend, Arthur R. Davidson, began Experimenting with ideas to design and build their own motorcycles. They were joined by Arthur's brothers, William, a machinist, and Walter, a skilled mechanic. The Harley- Davidson Motor Company started in a lOxl5-foot shed in the Davidson family's backyard in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This case was prepared by Professor Patricia A. Ryan of Colorado State. This case was edited for 5MBP and Cases in 5MBP-9th and

  • Literature: Operation Strategy

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    good or services. It has a high role in the business’s environment as it manages the transformation organisation’s inputs in to transformed products or services according to James (2011, pp. 8). These processes are existent in all departments of the business such as (HRM, Marketing, manufacturing, finance, etc.) Diagram 1. James (2011, pp. 8) and (Lewis and Slack, 2007, pp. 25) describe the business operational management recourses in to two main categories that produce deliverable goods to consumers

  • EFFICACY OF PANSIT-PANSITAN (Peperomia pellucida) EXTRACT AS AN ANTI-HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIC TREATMENT ON RATS (Rattus norvegicus)

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    Ping, K. Y., Darah, I., Chen, Y., Sreeramanan, S., & Sasidharan, S. (2013). Acute and Subchronic Toxicity Study of Euphorbia hirta L. Methanol Extract in Rats. BioMed Research International, 2013, 14. Retrieved January 30, 2014, from http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2013/182064/cta/ Zakaria, Z., Ahmad, Z., Somchit, M. N., Arifah, A. K., Khairi, H. M., Sulaiman, M. R., et al. (2010). Antihypercholesterolemia property and fatty acid composition of mardi-produced virgin coconut oils. African Journal

  • Ideal Reciprocity Essay Examples

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    order to be treated well themselves. This concept of fairness is called reciprocity. Initially youths ' understanding of reciprocity can be very literal and simplistic. For example, last week James, age 11, lent his brand new video game to his good friend Mark. This week, it is Mark who has a new video game. James is likely to insist that Mark should allow him borrow

  • Construct validity of Meyer and Allen’s Three Component Model

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    commitment and normative commitment dimensions exist, confirmed by researches including Meyer and Allen. The fact of the matter that the distinction between theses two components of commi... ... middle of paper ... ... 24, 285-308. O’Reilly, C., III, & Chatman, J. (1986). Organizational commitment and psychological attachment: The effects of compliance , identification, and internalization on pro-social behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 71, 492-499. Abdel-Halim, A.A. (1981). A reexamination

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Theory Paper

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    (2014). Positive CBT: From Reducing Distress to Building Success. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 44(1), 1–8. doi:10.1007/s10879-013-9239-7 David, O. A., Matu, S. A., Pintea, S., Cotet, C. D., & Nagy, D. (2014). Cognitive-behavioral processes based on using the ABC analysis by trainees' for their personal development. Journal of Rational - Emotive & Cognitive - Behavior Therapy, 32(3), 198-215. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.liberty.edu/10

  • Public Funding for Genetic Engineering Research

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    Public Funding for Genetic Engineering Research Science is a part of our everyday life, from the clothes on our backs to the food that we eat. It is science that has allowed for our advances in production, transportation, farming and even entertainment. Never in our history however has science effected our lives as genetic engineering will and undoubtedly already does. We stand on the threshold of an era where the manipulation of the genetic instructions or DNA in human cells is no longer

  • Hiram R. Revels Biography

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    With being born into a middle class, Methodist, and most importantly free family Hiram R. Revels was dentin for greatness. In Fayetteville, North Carolina, on the day of September 27, 1827 Mr. Revels was born. His parents were a free mixed African American and Native American Ancestry. Educating himself as well as others has always been a major aspect of Revels nature. Revels childhood was filled with in the year of 1842 he and his family moved to Lincolnton, North Carolina. While there he became

  • The Monoamine Oxidase A Gene

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    to the identification of two other much more common alleles coding for this particular gene. These two alleles are MAOA-H (high-activity MAOA) and MAOA-L (low-activity MAOA). [2] There is a clear correlation between physiological and chemical changes of the brain associated with males whom have the low activity MAOA gene. Since men with the MAOA-L alleles brain is bathed in excess dopamine and serotonin from birth the brain adapts by becoming less sensitive to these neurotransmitters thus decreasing

  • Hurdle Technology A marriage of preservation technology

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    1. Introduction Food processing and preservation methods such as heating, drying, salting, freezing, chilling, curing, sugar addition, and acidification have been applied against spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms in foods (Leistner, 2000b). On the other hand, these classical technologies have negative impacts to nutritional value (e.g. loss of vitamins and essential nutrients during heat treatments) (Lado and Yousef, 2002)and changes in sensory attributes in the food products (Raso and Barbosa-Canovas

  • Criminology: The Evolution of Crime

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    2013). There is a distinct difference between ideas, thoughts and scientific theories and the essential component is what C. Wright Mills calls the sociological imagination (1959). It is important for intellectual thought to move from individual experience to a social standpoint, this shift the perspective from internal to external, becomi... ... middle of paper ... ..., C. W. (1959). The sociological imagination. New York: Oxford University Press. Moffitt, T.E. (1993). “Life-course-persistent”

  • Attribution Theory

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    Psychological bulletin, 97. 74-84. Weiner, B. (1986). An Attributional Theory of Motivation and Emotion. Springer, Berlin, Germany. Wiese, H. J., Wilson, J. F., Jones, R. A., & Neises, M. (1992). Obesity Stigma Reduction in Medical Students. International Journal of Obesity, 16. 869-868. Wiggins-James, N., James, R., & Thompson, G. (2006). A2 PE for AQA. Heinemann, Oxford. Willner, P., & Smith, M. (2007). Attribution Theory Applied to Helping Behaviour Towards People with Intellectual

  • Emotion Theories

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    feels disgust it is the response of something bad or dirty. People who are social express their emotions more often but those who like solitude mostly hide their emotions. So emotions are also linked to tendency of one’s behavior (Schacter, Daniel L. 2011). Theories of Emotion: Origin: The different theories on emotions arose in the 3rd century B.C. at the time of Ancient Greece and Ancient China. While the western philosophical studies labeled emotions in many different ways. According to Aristotle

  • Neuroplasticity

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    was first proposed by Psychologist William James who stated “Organic matter, especially nervous tissue, seems endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity". Simply put, the brain has the ability to change. He used the word plasticity to identify the degree of difficulty involved in the process of change. He defined plasticity as "...the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once" (James, 1890). Biology The brain consists

  • Social Construction of Childhood

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    inevitably. However, the dominant understanding of childhood attributes biological and social development, as figurative symbols of developmental progress (James&Prout, 1997), but rediscovery of childhood in sociology is reviewed children as social constructions rather than dependent and passive natural category (Corsaro, 1997). Prout and James (1997, p. 8) gives key properties for future of developments in childhood sociology which points “childhood is understood as a social construction and appears

  • Prayer and Religion in School

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    understand the religious beliefs of others” (Passe, J., & Willox, L., 2009). This statement is so true. The more knowledge students possess about diverse ways of thinking, the better they can relate to and understand the world around them. The article goes on to say that “Without studying religion, how can a student possibly understand such topics as the crusades; religious prosecution; the formation of India and Pakistan…” (Passe, J., & Willox, L., 2009). It seems that the information is there to have, but