...This organization is reflected by national and sub national groupings, religious, legal, and business codes, and our relations with others (both interpersonal and international), among others. Where history has recorded the associations and dissolutions among the peoples of the earth, in addition to their discoveries, from fire to the internet, from the wheel to the rocket, these recordings have helped organize and guide humans through the incredible past several thousand years of our development. Additional Reasons to Study History: Understanding and Improving Ourselves and Our World There are of course other compelling reasons to study history, as enumerated by Peter Stearns. The first, and arguably most important, according to Stearns is that history provides a basis for understanding, and ideally, living peacefully, among different peoples, although it is true that this knowledge is also used to wage wars. Through his argument on the historical study of alcoholism, Stearns also implies that it helps increase our understanding of social phenomena within our own society. The joy of studying history for its own sake is another reason Stearns touches on, which is arguably true of all disciplines. History is a tool, as well, for developing ourselves, as citizens, workers, critical thinkers, and moral beings according to Stearns. And while Stearns does not state it explicitly, the sum of his reasoning suggests the conclusion that George...
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Social Sciences Assessment Feedback Student’s registration no: | Word Count | Module Leader: Liz Richards | Personal TutorRichard Twine | Module code & title:SPY 1079 Introduction to Early Childhood Studies | Date29th October 2016 | Assignment title: Diagnostic Essay: Why Study Childhood? | | | Very Good/Excellent | Good/Very good | Satisfactory/good | Basic/Satisfactory | Unsatisfactory | Argument and understanding | | | | | | Referencing and quality of sources | | | | | | Organization and structure | | | | | | Presentation and academic practice | | | | | | Marker’s comments: | Mark (%): | First marker: | | ------------------------------------------------- This Mark is provisional and is subject to final confirmation by Progression and Awards Board. | Second marker: | | Student name: Robyn Fletcher Student Number: 22966188 Why study childhood? This essay will outline the main issues as to why we study childhood. It will be done by using multiple reports, book chapters and other reading materials with relevant facts to support the essay content. Firstly, what is childhood? According to the Unicef website(2015) childhood is defined as 'A precious time in which children should live free from fear, safe from violence and protected from abuse and exploitation. As such, childhood means much more than just the space between birth and the attainment...
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...There are many reasons to study history a few are, so that we do not commit the same mistakes as our ancestors, another is that u may need it for your profession, also that we may be knowledgeable if history ever pops up in a conversation and another reason to study history is that u are required to take it. We need history so that we will not commit the same mistakes as our ancestors. A sad thing is that even though we learn the past and know what to do and not to do we still do it anyway that’s why history seems to repeat itself so many times. History also helps when u start to work if you’re a lawyer and u get a case and you have no idea of how to help your client you can go back into history and see how another lawyer deled with a similar case in the past. Another profession history could help with is architecture u can see what types off buildings have worked best in deferent situations in the past and u can see were designs have worked in the past. Another job u could use history in is medicine u can go back in history and see how diseases have been miss diagnosed in the past and how to avoid making the same mistake. History is a great topic of conversation u could talk and talk about history for hours granted u know enough about it and that’s were your history class comes in handy. Lets say your hanging with your friends and there is an awkward silence you could start a debate a bout history it probably will never happen but hey you never know. Or you could...
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...Study the holocaust Trinity cooper Hey! I gotta ask you something. Do you know what the holocaust is about ,well if you don't I recommend you study the topic.. Im telling you to study it because many different reasons. It teaches you many different lessons. I'm gonna tell you those reasons and hopefully you would take them to consideration because the holocaust was a big part in our history and many still talk about it today. If you haven't learned about it than it was a time where many jews were taken from their family and put in concentration camps or killed on the spot by nazis. Some jews went into hiding like Anne frank and her family went into hiding and while in there she wrote In diary that u can purchase a copy of today so if you're...
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...Sarah Abuisnaineh ALP 10, Hour 4 Ms.Greenspan 10/23/12 History affects our world “Our ignorance of the past is not the result of a lack of information, but of information, but of indifference. We do not believe that history matters,” (Crabtree.) When studying history, the idea is not just learning about dates and people of the past, but using the knowledge learned and comparing events, understanding others backgrounds, and learning from previous mistakes made. The study of history in the school curriculum receives importance because it develops the skill to assess evidence, understand the background of the older generations, and gives students experience in assessing past examples of change. Studying history refines students’ assessment skills; it helps build experience in interpreting the actions and statement of past leaders in comparison to those in our present time. Consider the presidential elections. When people want to choose a new leader, they look at the past elections and see if the words of the candidates are being repeated. According to Peter Stearns, “learning how to combine different kinds of evidence allows one to develop the ability to coherent arguments based on a variety of data (Stearns, 2008).” Students that inspect the Iraq war should use the Vietnam War as a reference because it allows one to reflect, leading to an argument from the events. The war in Iraq started on March 3, 2003, when President Bush announced “the possibility of Saddam Hussein acquiring...
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...It is important to study Thucydides because Thucydides can help us to understand the way politics work in the world today.This should come later – it is not an introduction to a whole paper – always assume your reader is not familiar with your topic In his book titled, The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides brings to light, some of the causes of the war, as well as some of the consequences of the war. (This is a good opening sentence. It introduces the reader to the topic) Thucydides analyzed the Peloponnesian War on a deeper level (what do you mean?) to help us understand why and how things occur in the world. The world has a better understanding of war and politics in general because of Thucydides. Thucydides’ account of The History of the Peloponnesian War has taught us many things about how politics work in the modern world. (These last three sentences are a little repetitive and do not give a lot of information) One thing that Thucydides’ work on the Peloponnesian War has taught us is that states are only concerned with their own interests, and how their interests can benefit them (repetitive). Good! This is demonstrated in the conflict between Melos and Athens. Good! The Melians wanted to avoid conflict with Athens by trying to persuade them that the Athenians should not attack them because they were neutral and not allies to either side (Thucydides Book VI, p. 2). The Athenians did not comply with the Melians plea to maintain their territory. Instead,...
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...In actually,my chilhood was different from most people.About my third grade,i left my hometown and sudied in Shanghai.It was a strange place.Because of my parents’ work,i have to live with my parents’s friends instead of my parents.From them on,i started to learn how to solve some daily problems by myself,like tying my shoes.I also have to learn Besides,i sutdied in the boarding school which makes me live in the school from Monday to Thursday. So semi-independent life made me have a introverted personality.Except these,in general,i like the life.In school,i had built better friendship with my classmates.We have had meals and studied together.And I always played basketball with my classmates,especially after school.I still remeber that we were usually scolded by our teacher because of playing basketball to be late during lunch break.In addition,the situation let me know more customs of other cities in China from my classmates.To a large extent,it improved my introverted personality.Till now,i still often contact with my classmates in my childhood.Therefore,i become being willing to try to communicate with the strange and particiapte in some social acitivities.Although i still would not like to have too much communication with the strange now,i am extrovert and approachable when facing my friends. So i think it may be the influence of my situation. The first time that i would like to learn more about America is when i start to watch NBA which also makes me love basketball.It...
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...ICT is an acronym which stands for Information Communications Technology. However, there isn’t a universally accepted definition of it due to the concepts and methods applied to ICT are continuously changing; making it difficult to keep up with such changes. You may want to think about ICT through considering all the uses of digital technology that already exist to help individuals, businesses and organisations utilise information. ICT covers any product which can store, retrieve, manipulate, transmits or receives information electronically in a digital form e.g., personal computers, digital television, email and robots. So ICT is concerned with the storage, retrieval, manipulation, transmission or receipt of digital data. Importantly, it is also concerned with the way these different uses can work with each other. Within business, ICT is often categorised into two broad types of product: 1) The traditional computer-based technologies (things you can typically do on a personal computer or using computers at home or at work) 2) The more recent and fast-growing range of digital communication technologies (which allow people and organisations to communicate and share information digitally) Traditional Computer Based Technologies These types of ICT include: Standard Office applications – main examples Application Use Word processing E.g. Microsoft Word: Write letters, reports etc Spreadsheets E.g. Microsoft Excel; Analyse financial information; calculations;...
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...Studying abroad and traveling have always been two things that I have wanted to do since I was in high school. I think that I am beyond lucky that I am given the opportunity to study abroad through the University of Redlands. I am interested in studying in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona is my number one choice and I would be studying with the IES Liberal Arts & Business Program. Barcelona is my top choice for three main reasons; being able to become fluent in Spanish, studying Spanish art and architecture, and for the cultural experience. I have studied Spanish since 1st grade and I am at the point in my life where I am developing a passion for the language and I wish to become fluent in it. I am majoring in Business Administration and minoring in Fine Arts. Becoming fluent in Spanish will allow me to broaden my work horizons not just for the remainder of my college career, but also for the rest of my life. I wish to become an interior designer when I am older so being fluent in another language will allow me to work with more clients. I have always been passionate about art and design. I think that there is no better place to study these two things than in Barcelona. Barcelona is filled with different styles of architecture and art all throughout the city. Through the Liberal Arts & Business Program with IES, I plan to take classes on the architecture and landscape in Barcelona and also an art and design class. These classes will fulfill my CC and CP LAF’s. Since...
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...Why Study Business Research? Business Research is system that helps you analyze and disseminate information such ad data and insights for decision making. This process will help actions to maximize their performance in different scenarios. ROI stands for return on investment and doing business research will help you increase to the contribution of this return. There are different factors that will want you to have an interest in reseach methods, they relate to technology, business competition, government, managemtn, business methodologies etc. We have to pay attention to the information we research because not all the information is solid or reliable. It is important to address all the information to facilitate the process of researching. Business reseach will help identify and define opportunities and problems, monitor strategies, regine tactics and will help you understand various fields of management. Information and Competivie Advantage? It is important to understand the relationship between different business and their research. All this information will be critical to understand decisions that do with mission, goals, strategies and tactics. Goal: Every company have different goals there is a goal that all company would want which is sales. Sales goes in hand with market share, ROI, profitabiblity, customer relations, employee productivity, efficiency, stocks, etc. We have to learn about all this in order to do an analysis and this will increase the decision support...
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...Coming into college, I knew that I wanted to study abroad. I had heard from older friends that their time abroad had been life-changing, and I wanted to experience it for myself. I grew up travelling internationally because my extended family lives in China, but I have never intentionally gone abroad for school. I was always to visit family or for tourist purposes. After talking to my academic advisor during orientation, she recommended that I study abroad during the fall of my sophomore year which I thought was too early. My advisor also suggested that I study abroad over the summer, but I knew that I wanted to go abroad during a semester, not over the summer. I wanted to study during a semester because I wanted to experience the culture for...
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...Seminar-1 Article Analysis: Why do we study Calculus? Name: Salman 1. * This article is very interesting, I came to know about a lot of great contributors to our life like Newton, Pluto, Aristotle, and Leibnitz and their famous work .In a summary of this article would say that I came to know how different field of science and economy benefit from the calculus. Economics, physics, Astronomy and General Science all these field of study have huge impact of Calculus; they need help of Calculus in one way or the other way. * Primary Topics: Kepler’s laws: 1. The orbits of the planets are ellipses, with the sun at one focus point 2. The velocity of a planet varies in such a way that the area covered out by the line between planet and sun is increasing at a constant rate 3. The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the planet's average distance from the sun. (Reference: Article: Why do we study Calculus?) * Numbers are uncountable and we can measure the change of them with respect to time 2. I found these topics covered from the material of the first seminar, they were the applications of the material topics. * Change in one variable in respect to the other variable * Rates of change * Limits * Graphs and distance of one point from the another point I found that the knowledge of these points was applied for the calculations of the things discussed in this article like velocity of an object, planets...
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...If you live in the United States, you must have rarely or even never thought about studying foreign languages. Indeed, why would you? English is spoken in both Americas (mostly), Europe, Slavic countries, and even India; only China, Japan, and some other far east countries have problems with the English language. However, being able to speak a foreign language – at least one – nowadays is becoming a necessity. Spanish, among all other foreign languages, seems to be the most necessary for the United States, and every U.S. student should know it. Why? For the United States, Spanish is not a foreign language anymore. With a regular flow of new immigrants from South America, as well as with the extensive growth of a Spanish-speaking population, which is large already, Spanish is rapidly becoming the second most used language in the United States in terms of the amount of speakers. According to a Pew Research Center report, an estimated 37.6 million people in the U.S. speak Spanish as their first language; in 2060, analysts predict the United States will have 128.8 million people for whom Spanish is their native language, thus turning the country into the world’s largest Spanish-speaking country (Businessinsider.com). Considering all this, Caucasian, African American, and Asian students (and actually people of all ages) might want to be able to improve communications with such an enormous group of people; soon enough, it will be a regular situation when in some public places, there...
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...to (Robins & Judge, 10th, p.2), Organizational Behavior studies the influence and impact that individuals, groups, and organizational structure have on behavior within organization for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness. In the business world today, Organizational Behavior is an essential tool for managing effective teams and it helps to understand and predict human behavior in an organization. It studies on how organizations can be structures more accurately, and how several events in their outside situations effect organizations. It has become more significant today than in previous years because organizations must master to adapt to the rapidly changing business cultures that have stemmed from a competitive market. In order to know how to handle a new workforce, and cope with the challenges of the new environment, the employers need to deliver their message about behavior and attitude of groups, and individuals in corporation. According to Graham and Krueger (1996), soft skills were never a part of management training and it was precious that employers were advised for possessing those skills. If employer can understands on an employee’s adaptability, personality, and creativity, motivating that employee the way he need to be motivated is never a gray area and a guaranteed success. Question (A): Why it is important to study Organizational Behavior? The study of organizational behavior is one of the most significant...
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... TONY JOSEPH COURSE: ECON210 DATE:.04/25/2015 Executive summary Purpose: Consideration of Social Media to bring about the benefits the company can derive from its use in the marketing of its products. Scope: This report has been designed such that it can be used in implementing the recommended changes. It includes a comprehensive analysis as to how well the social media with the use of Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and blog can widen the scope of the company in achieving growth and success. How: The methodology implemented in this report involves study of academic journal articles, academic resources, websites linked to social media. Table of Contents Page 1. Introduction 4 2. Social Media – The Buzzword 4 3. Benefits of Social Media 4 4. Social Media – Costs 5 5. Downside of Social Media in Marketing & Branding 5 6. Plan for Using Social Media in Marketing 6 7. Conclusion 6 8. References 7 Report on Social Media for the Company Introduction The Report for the company brings about the exploration of social media to market the products. The use of social media in marketing has great benefits attached. The...
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