Orientation Article Reviews Samples For Students

A. What the researcher expected to find

Sexual orientation is an aspect that has raised eyebrows among individuals and also the public at large. It has become an imperative phenomenon in the current empirical attention within the victimology literature. The essence of this study is based on the fact that sexual orientation seems to receive increased rates of victimization mostly among the unfortunate in the society. The study has revealed that there is inadequate psychological outcome, mostly, for the lesbians, gay, bisexual and between the transgender crime victims (LGBT). The researcher tries to take a scrutiny concerning victim sexual orientation in a sample of 641 fatal crimes in ...

The Effects of Deployment on Families

What are the effects of deployment on military families? Deployment is the action of moving or relocating military personnel and materials to a different location. For service individuals and military families this act can be devastating and require adjustments that frequently have detrimental effects on all family members psychological, physical, and cognitive wellbeing. For this paper two articles will be analyzed to determine key concepts that are commonly discussed in both articles; strengths and weaknesses in both article’s scholarship; the significance of both articles to clinical practice with military affiliated families; analyze if and how articles classify into ...

ARTICLE REVIEWS

The world of business is characterized by several issues that together create the business environment suitable for the players. It is essential to understand that certain factors have a huge bearing on the business frameworks that govern the global markets. Below is a review of sample international business articles;

The article attempts to unravel the misconstrued notion that new technologies like the internet have normalized the marketplace and made it a level ground for all the players. It is critical to understand the underlying disparities that have been assuming by the proponents of new technology and those who continue ...

Source

The article chosen is by Lizardo Omar. It was published on January 3, 2011. The title of the article is “experiential stratification bases and consumption of high status culture”. It is from the journal of theory culture and society, volume number 28 pp. 678-696.

Purpose of research

The key question that the author seeks to answer is whether people in order-giving positions have a high chance of engaging in high status culture consumption in contrast to people in order taking positions. He notes that research has proven that culture consumption has continued to be shaped by variables that are associated with prestige and ...

Abstract

Sexual education for children in today’s society is significant to enable them make right choices in life. This should also include children with multiple disabilities. The sexual education should include how to express themselves, individual hygiene, modesty towards a person of the opposite sex and proper touching. When it comes to touching and setting personal boundaries, the instructor should respect the curiosity of child and show how to apply signs in recognizing strangers.

Sexual education is paramount for young children before they attain adulthood. This involves how to interact with member of the opposite sex, how to control ...

In a study aimed at determining the impact of definite states on the tensile properties of the white muscle of cultured Chinook salmon, a report was made (Jerret, Stevens and Holland, 1996). The aforementioned research paper covers the research methods used, results and the general conclusion. This paper critique covers a review on the problems noted in the experimental design, importance of the results and the future study as well.

Problems in the Experimental design

Interestingly, when fish recruited the white muscle they shifted from their ‘steady’ state to a 'busty' state. Subsequent work on the fish showed that the intermediate pink muscle was ...

The research hypothesis for the study is presence faculty knowledge in programs offered in nursing colleges along with the readiness to teach about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) well-being. The null hypothesis is an absence of department knowledge in baccalaureate nursing programs and lack of readiness to educate about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health.
On methodology, the research used both qualitative and quantitative data collection techniques. This was used to increase the reliability and validity of information collected from the research.
The dependent variable is preparedness for offering LGBT health in baccalaureate nursing courses while the ...

Bolander et al. (2015). Social networks within sales organizations: their development and importance for salesperson performance. Journal of Marketing, 79(6), 1-16. doi:10.1509/jm.14.0444

Overview - Summary of the Key Points

The topic of this article is related to salespersons performance. Traditionally, it was based on sales people relations with customers and their own activities. Off late, researchers have found other factors, playing a leading role in sales people’s performance. Main focus of this research is on sales people’s intra-organizational connections and activities, helping in realising high sales outputs as well as the role played by different traits of the sales persons. Other than the ...

Summary of the Article

The gay taboo at workplaces is no more in the contemporary corporate America. Most companies are asking their employees if they prefer disclosing their gender identity or sexual orientation. Collecting gay data in companies is not weird presently. The military idea of “don’t ask, don’t tell” which was being followed has since been abolished. In fact, almost half of the biggest businesses in the US are under pressure for being inclusive as they consider being diverse even in their promotions. However, caution needs to be taken especially in states or countries where gay lifestyle is prohibited by ...

Part 1. Differences between quantitative and qualitative research

Research is the parlance used to refer to the search of knowledge. It is described by Kothari (2004) as both a scientific and systematic search for information and an art of scientific investigation. There are two approaches used in research, namely quantitative and qualitative research and they vary greatly on how the research is done. Quantitative research only uses measurable data to analyze while the qualitative research approach mainly uses data that are narrative and subjective. The goal or research objective of quantitative data is to use statistical models using a systematic procedure. This approach uses various steps to progress logically ...

Chinese Outward FDI Determinants

China's rise as a global commerce powerhouse has generated a flurry of practical partnership engagements and research. The striking GDP growth has, moreover, further spurred interest in China as a unique economic development model. Holding on to non-democratic political practices, China has managed to maintain a steady rise in international status as an economic power by embracing free market, neoliberal economic practices. The cumulative effect has focused, consequently, attention on China's inflows. That is, by focusing on China's capacity for economic growth based on macroeconomic metrics, including GDP, China has been studied largely based on her capacity for investment retention (indicative, presumably, of " ...

Introduction

I chose this article because it examines the fundamental issues in contemporary society. This is so because it examines the cultural ideologies that degrade the old age in society. These cultural norms are motivated by the media, which attribute the female body with consumer culture. Therefore, society should realize that aging is a sense of maturity and should embrace it as a Self-identities associated to the appearance and performance of the bodies. Similarly, aging should be based on feminist and gender ideologies because it cut across gender, race and class in various societies.

Summary

The article uses a feminist approach to explore aging ...

What is the Story about?

The new marketing story is about that marketing strategy employed by a single firm, Apple Inc. The new in the article does not center on the wider implications of the telecommunications market even though there are mentions of other market players within the industry. The company is launching a new product into the market; the iPhone 6 ready to be sold to any willing buyers in the market. As part of the marketing campaign adopted by the company, the company is lowering prices for the consumers who buy the old iPhone 5S device online to help finish current stock that the ...

Communication in the simplest and most basic sense and aspect refers to the art where one person passes and shares information to the recipient for the purposes of relaying information. It is imperative to note that communication does not necessarily refer to the conversation. Since there are several non-verbal cues and non-verbal messages that one could use in order to pass information (Alberts, Nakayama & Martin, 2007). In the dating and relationship aspect, communication is uniquely dependent on the personality and behavior of an individual rather than follow a holistic and universal pattern. The above are the reasons as to why ...

In an intuitive investigation, Christiane Wilke seeks to reevaluate the significance of memorials in a multifaceted manner. His pursuit is hinged on getting the answers to three questions which revolve around the impact that memorials should have on us; with the ultimate goal of initiating a conversation around transitional justice and the need to incorporate theories of complex identities while ascribing specific relevance to memorials. His research is aimed at providing relevant evidence about the need to be cautious when setting up memorials because more often, their defined purpose ignores the existence of overlapping and congruent scenarios leading to their installation. ...

Introduction

This qualitative research presents an investigation on the positive effects of procrastination. In the article, it is believed that despite the negative effects of procrastination, there are positive effects as well. Procrastinators are differentiated in this article as active and passive: passive procrastinators are the commonly known procrastinators who lack control of their time, while active procrastinators are equated to non-procrastinators. The hypothesis being investigated in this study is that does procrastination has positive effects on attitudes and performance. Even though there is a general perception that procrastination leads to negative effects such as depression in students, the article views ...

Introduction

According to Californian Supreme Court marriage is an individual fundamental right that gives an individual opportunity to share his or her life with the person of choice. People who have entered into this union are recognized and protected as a family and must posses equal rights and responsibilities. The law then governs everything on the land and therefore no individual should be allowed to stereotype any one subject to sexual orientation.
The United Nations Human Rights Commission had declared that women and men of any civilization, race and religion have the right to marry a spouse of his or her ...

According to the dictionary definition, marketing is commonly understood as a set of activities related to buying and selling products or services. The main objective of marketing activities is believed to be the promotion to potential buyers. Although this is surely true in the majority of cases, professor Kasturi "Kash" Rangan and his research associate Arthur McCaffrey go beyond this narrow definition and suggest that marketers may do not have to limit their activities to merely selling products, but they can strive for a bigger goal of improving the existence of people on the planet. In this cases marketing activities should ...

Annotated Bibliography

Hurley, R. F. & Hult, T. M. (1998, July). Innovation, market orientation, and

organizational learning: An integration and empirical examination. Journal of

Marketing, 62, 42-54.

In this article, the authors posited that a market-oriented organizational culture should focus on innovation and not on learning. They asserted that organizations that had a higher capacity for creating innovations were more capable of achieving high levels of performance and of gaining a competitive edge. To prove this, they conducted a survey research by distributing questionnaires in the 56 organizations of a large government agency where 9, 648 employees participated. The results of the study were statistically analyzed and they showed that a ...

Effective strategic planning not only carries a company toward an objective, it anticipates changes in the External Environment, and positions a company to adapt. What are some of the changes Yahoo! may be anticipating?

Strategic planning requires a company to consider not only their internal strengths and weaknesses, but also to address the changes in the in the external environment. Firstly, Yahoo! anticipates that buyers will demand more integrated solutions and require more localized information. That is why Yahoo! is attempting to go into additional areas and to expand its offering. Moreover, the company is predicting a change in user demographics, thus targeting ...