Role Models Research Papers Samples For Students

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The term paper begins with an outline of the paper structure. The definition of youth is discussed initially followed by the practical illustrations of the current youth going to lead tomorrow. Personalities like Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Rahul Gandhi, Sachin Tendulkar, Oprah Winfrey, Ali Hewson and J. K. Rowling etc. are discussed as role models of youth. The various challenges of the youth are discussed pertaining to problem solving, time management, Spirituality, physical and mental health of the youth, Decision making, Developing the right attitude, Managing people, lack of mentoring ...

Celebrities as Role Models

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Generational change or transition is irresistible among the young people. Many of the young people often adopt actions and habits of the new generation once they attain the age of proper inductive reasoning, yet the mentorship and direction still challenges the society (Spurgin 118). Many people who have the right qualities and values to become mentors and idols to the young people; however, celebrities affect youths, who follow them in quest of attaining their status. The question that remains unanswered revolves around the reasons why celebrities command such a level of control over the young people. The drive ...

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There is a continued demand for better minority representation in various aspects of professional American life including the police force, local school boards, city governments, and teacher labor force among others. In schools particularly, racial representation is of interest to policymakers, education practitioners, and parents. Many people believe minority teachers play a vital role in countering the existing negative stereotypes. They serve as role models and people that can relate to the minority learners’ cultural backgrounds (Egalite & Kisida, 2015). It creates an environment in which the learners are less likely to have biased subjective views of their abilities in life. The ...

Gay marriage remains one of the controversial issues in American politics. One of the critical topics associated with gay couples entails adoption of children for foster care. The issue of gay couples to adopt children is one of the political issues in the United States. These are based on the fact that the voters’ decision focus on the issue as one of the agendas towards elections. The political history and election decisions are based on whether the candidates support the gay adoption or not. Adoption of children by gay couples for foster care has been legalized in various states. ...

The use of social media has significantly increased with the last decade. This is as a result of both increased internet connectivity and numerous platforms for people to engage each other, at least online. Technological advancements in the area of information technology has led to the creation of Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, BBM, Instagram and Kik among others social media platform. It has also made it possible for millions of people to access and afford to purchase smartphones, iPhones and laptops for which makes communication easier and more convenient. This is a positive development as it has significantly reduced the cost and ...

Influence of Nurture on the Process of Becoming a

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This is a research paper that presents connections between family’s part in the process of becoming a successful adult. It concentrates on answering specific questions: “How do families with all their complexity influence their children’s psychological development since the early childhood? In what way are the family background and students’ academic achievements (successful/unsuccessful life) related?” These questions are answered through analysis of a group of 15 people from different familial backgrounds, each of whom had a simple task of telling about their childhood experience. Information obtained is later compared and contrasted with various scholarly studies of ...

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Teenagers spend a big part of their free time looking for information on new fashion in the market hence advertisements content must always give the impression that such products are offered. Social media platforms, televisions, and movies are among popular information sources where the youths can find information on appealing products. Teens develop their general behavior by modeling the traits of others including their favorite actors which then influences their dressing codes. This implies that role models in movies, television programs and magazines as well as the trendy fashion advertised in social media platforms trigger consumption among teens. Since ...

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Delinquency is major problems in American society. Delinquency, however, is not new problems. It has plagued societies throughout history. Delinquency is among the most resistant forms of problem behavior well known. Despite best efforts by the U.S governments, society has failed to make a substantial reduction in this problem of delinquency. The understanding of delinquency and the way to prevent and treat has improved and continues to develop under the control of the Office of Delinquency prevention and Juvenile Justice. Past research shows that many delinquency factors tend to increase the threat of later delinquent behavior. Among these threat factors ...

The power of media and its effects on the society cannot be underestimated. The media has a profound effect on people’s culture, values, and priorities. Perhaps the biggest influence the media has on individuals is its determination of reality. Today many societies fall victims to media influences. The media’s influences especially on kids are so palpable that scholars have debated if the media’s influence on youth and the society is sustainable. The media also is credited for positive roles that its plays in the society particularly in regard with information. This paper explores different theoretical approaches on ...

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Simone de Beauvoir in her book 'The Second Sex' has explained how society constitutes a 'woman' by curtailing her freedom from childhood. Women are assumed by the global society "as an already constituted and coherent group with identical interests and desires, regardless of class, ethnic or racial location, implies a notion of gender or sexual difference or even patriarchy which can be applied universally or cross-culturally" (Mohanty 1988). Some stereotypical attributes attached with the essence of women by the society are to a great degree influenced by the contemporary media representation. According to Gerbner, viewers who spend a considerable amount of time watching ...

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Political bias is in most cases inevitably attracted by investigations of the activities of the powerful and the wealthy. These activities are claimed to be more harmful both socially and economically compared to the robberies and burglaries of those who lack power and they are more so considered morally acceptable and legal. Many criminologists and governments have intentionally shied away from these issues which end up corrupting our political leaders and they spread like wildfire even to the new leaders. Political deviance has lead to the economic domination systematically exploiting the powerless, government control crimes and denial of human ...

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In any given community, certain individuals possess outstanding traits. Such traits are portrayed through their ways of doing things as well as their careers. Depending on their location, culture as well as the technological development such people are given more attention in the community. The attention that they are awarded by the community prompts them to develop certain traits to enable them to uphold their high status in the community. In some instances, they are given special responsibilities that are geared towards the promotion of certain aspects of the culture e.g. their virtues. Additionally, due to their ability to ...

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Tobacco smoking is considered to be a major health issues around the globe and is also claimed to be the most preventable cause of death in current time (Borgan, et al. 2014). Tobacco smoking is associated with 6 million deaths per year around the globe and is considered as one of the biggest public health issues by the World Health Organization (WHO) (Behbehani, et al. 2014). Based on current evidence and a report published by the WHO, 5 out of 6 million deaths are associated with direct tobacco smoking while nearly 600,000 deaths are due to non-smokers exposed ...

Saudi Arabia is one of the countries hit hard by tobacco epidemic and critically require saving. Consequently, a fully funded, sustainable, and broad strategy to control tobacco in such countries is necessary to promote quality health. To manage this strategy, a country heavily relies on the support of trained professionals in running programs aimed at reducing smoking. Sadly and much to the contrary, the health professionals themselves use tobacco more regularly compared to even the general community who they are supposed to care for.
According to our study, most tobacco users regardless of their gender prefer waterpipe as their ...

Hip-hop is a music genre popular among the youth and teenagers around the world. The genre has experienced significant changes from its inception to what it is currently. Besides, rock music, Hip-hop advocates lifestyles that are louder and daring than the modest or ordinary lifestyles. Additionally,Dalton (77) shows that the genre also has influenced how its fans relate and identify with each other, advocates the use of slang language. the Hip-Hop music is characterized by turntablism also known as Disk Jockeying, rapping, graffiti, dances such as the famous breakdance.
The genre was started in the 1970’s in ...

Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy-adventure film and one of Walt Disney' s original classics. It is based on the play Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J.M. Barrie. One of Walt Disney’s greatest financial successes, the film has often been criticized due to its unfavorable depiction of Native Americans. The film and the play upon which it is based, reflect American Societal norms at the time. The film has a lot to say about the psychology of the American male and female gender roles during the first half of the ...

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Rosa Parks was born on 4 February 1913 in Alabama. Parks grew up in Pine Level, Alabama, on her maternal grandfather’s farm. Parks had to experience racial discrimination early in her life, with race divided schools in Alabama. As a child, Rosa suffered from poor health, especially her sore throat. She was also weak for her age and used to be bedridden with her sickness. Rosa grew up in segregated South where she had to live in an environment that rejected African Americans to enter segregated hotels or restaurants (McDonough, 2010, p. 1-12). Her long struggle toughened her ...

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Teenage pregnancy is a major problem affecting teenagers around globe. This is serious problem since it forces young girls and boys to drop out of school. Chances of these teenagers getting back to school after giving birth or later in life are minute. Thus, the dreams of these teen advancing to college and securing white collar jobs with sustainable income are shuttered. As such these girls and boys are forced to become young mothers and fathers at tender age while doing two to three jobs to have enough income to take care of the baby. Additionally, this problem does ...

Introduction: Gay Subculture in America

Subcultures can be defined as the individual domains which fall within the canopy of a giant culture. The American society has been marked with various subcultures defined by their ethnicity, habits, rituals, age-groups, etc. However, each of the subculture is truly American in spite of their individual preferences and choices of living life. Among these various cultures, the most controversial one has been the presence of the LGBT (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, and Transgender) community members. However, the term ‘Gay’ stands as the community identity for this entire subculture because a lot of upheavals have occurred in the American Socio-political ...

Communication

Arabs and Arab- Americans for a long time now have faced stereotyping in Western films as a result of the negative way in which their cultures socialization and beliefs are depicted. This uncouth prejudice of Arabs has been as a result of being affiliated to terrorist and criminal acts. Stereotyping involves having false thoughts and ideas about certain people concerning their way of life, values and virtues. This misrepresentation of Arabs and Arab- Americans in films has led to a lot of negativity in the society surrounding these groups of people. As a result of the characteristics of Arabs ...

Membership in gangs has been a chronic problem in the United States, especially during the past two decades. According to recent estimates, there is an average of 27,000 gangs over the past decade, with an average of about 770,000 gang members during the same time period (nationalgangcenter.gov, n.d., internet). Of those gang members, approximately 42% live in densely-populated urban areas (nationalgangcenter.gov, internet). There are a number of reasons that make gang membership attractive to youth, as well as young adults. The primary risk factors for gang membership are poor parent-child relations, low school involvement ...

Psychology

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Nicotine is an alkaloid existing naturally in tobacco products. It is highly addictive, and intake cessation is often marred by high relapse rates. Multiple sources of literature document the adverse health effects that nicotine dependence has on the body, including cancer, mental illness and coronary diseases. This paper explores the psychological factors behind the prevalence and severity of nicotine addiction. Section one provides an overview of the concept of nicotine addiction and the reason for its pervasiveness. Section two elaborates the psychological development of nicotine dependence, indicating the thought processes and personal motivations behind the use of ...

In today’s society, athletes have been using different types of drugs to enhance their performance. But, the excessive use of drugs has a negative impact on the health and wellness of these athletes. For many athletes, to need to excel often outweighs the need to practice sound judgment in their fields. As such these athletes resort to the use of drugs as there is the strong belief that performance enhancing drugs have complete positive reactions on individual users. In recent years, the mass media has played a negative and a positive role in the way athletes perceive the use of drugs. The ...

This paper focuses on ethics and the role of managers in an ethical organization. The paper begins by explaining briefly what ethics entails, and why it is important to behave ethically. It will then explain about ethical leadership and why not all managers are leaders. The next section will describe in-depth about managers in their organizations and why they should practice ethics. What follows is the role of managers in an ethical organization. This section will describe how managers behave ethically, how they ensure everyone reporting to them behave ethically, and how they act as representatives of their organizations ...

The no child left behind (NCLB) act is a requirement in the United States of America began to function in 2002 and was pass unanimously by both republican and democrats (Burke & Heritage, 2012). It is very essential that every child in the society especially the ones’ from the destitute family entitle to not only education but proper and high-quality education. Since its’ inception, the act has brought an enormous and tremendous changes that has shaped the students in all the learning institutions across the nation. Every state has to ensure that the NCLB is implemented and enforced (Minnici & Bartley, 2007).
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The way social norms change and how well people adjust to these changes has always been fascinating. Growing up as a child whose mother was working, I have always come faced with viewpoints that I felt lonely and abandoned, because, they said, I lacked maternal affection. I never understood why affection was measured by the hours a mother spends with her child, because I was raised with much love and nurture, even though I did not see my mother as much as other children that had their mothers at home. I felt resistant to the concept that staying at home mothers ...

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The project deals with the problem of employees’ empowerment at Google. The opening paragraphs induct into empowerment as a type of democratic leadership style and the ways it applies to Google. Following are various techniques and approaches that enable company workforce to fulfill themselves in terms of creativity. The paper gives an in-depth look into the nature of empowerment techniques, as Google cafes, Moderator, TGIF, “Fix-Its, and “20 percent” projects, to name a few. The project reflects the opinions of prominent management experts and functionaries.
Keywords: Google, empowerment, techniques, approach, project, loyalty, leadership
Skillful personnel is important to any ...

Ethical leadership

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Ethical behaviour is a term used to refer to knowing the role that you are supposed to do as a leader and doing it in the right way. The term right have been controversial in the sense that it is relative and differs from one person to the other. Ethical leadership may be used to refer to a person who has a strong character in that they have the capacity to withstand and overcome the different temptations that come their way as they discharge their duties. The concept of ethical leadership is a broad concept that takes different dimensions and, therefore, has to ...

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Anthropology Date: December 13, 2013

Latin community is indeed a very important part of the American society. Throughout centuries Hispanics were playing an increasingly significant role in the development of the nation. Now days it is even difficult to address to them as a minority, as in various Southern states they already represent the most part of the population. All major governmental and informative resources in the American sector of the Internet also are practically bilingual and contain content both in English and Spanish. The overall importance of the Latino culture as system of moral values is ...

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Anorexia nervosa is psychological disorder in which a person has an abnormal eating behaviour, so that the person can lose weight. The word anorexia nervosa was first used in 1873, by one of Queen Victoria’s physician known as Sir William Gull. There are two types of anorexia which are the restricting type and binge-purge type. According to the medical term, this disorder is said to be lack of appetite (Kaye, 2009, p.450). The people who are suffering from it have fear of gaining weight. This prompts them to do whatever it takes to lose weight. Anorexia is mostly experienced ...

Terrorism is the unlawful use of force against individuals or property to intimidate or coerce the government or any segment with the objective that might either be political or social. Terrorism has increasingly been the focus of public concern, and hence this is where emergency medical services plays a vital role in responding to, evaluating, and intervening in potential catastrophic events. Basically, it is an entity that Emergency Medical Services often co-manages initial scenes in many medium to large-scale incidents that tend to involve large numbers of causalities. Thus, Emergency Medical Services offer a mechanism for the immediate response of trained ...

Nursing care delivery models describe which roles the healthcare provider needs to perform, the responsibilities for treatment outcome, and which healthcare worker has the authority in decision-making. Examples of nursing care delivery models include primary nursing, team nursing, total patient care, functional nursing, and progressive patient care. Furthermore, each model can be modified to adapt it for different demands. For example, the partnership care delivery model a modification of the primary nursing model, and modular nursing is a modification of the team nursing model.
According to a systematic review by Fernandez, Johnson, Tran, and Miranda (2012), team nursing proved to be ...

Selene James

This section of the project will focus on expounding and justifying the various interventions which will be supported by literature on the same. The RFP response entailed developing interventions to the tasks that would be fulfilled in the project. This section will substantiate these responses by giving a psychological view on the matter and addressing how the DHMC will benefit from these tasks. Furthermore, the objective will be to expound on the responses in a manner that relates to how health care providers in California should interact with people with disability. It also gives a psychological view on how people with disabilities ...

Should a teacher who has broken a serious law unrelated to teaching such as impaired driving, embezzlement, assault, among others be prohibited by teaching? This paper disagrees and wishes to express the position that such a teacher ought to be allowed to teach and that a clear distinction must be delineated between the teacher and the person in the teacher. This paper asserts that barring the teacher from teaching would be against the spirit of the law, would be equal to committing an injustice and would equally set a high bar for teachers that is absent in other professions thereby discriminating against teachers; a process ...

Hand Hygiene Project in the Hospital

Hand hygiene is a practice necessary for ensuring proper healthcare and safety among patients and heath care providers in hospitals. In attending to their patients, nurses and other hospital staff enter their rooms. They may be directly in contact with the patient, such as in giving medicine and food, or not. It is attested that in this way, people inside the room or even in the hospital premises could adversely affect one another. In the mid-1800’s, hospitals were identified to have acquired diseases transferred through the hands of the health care workers (McDonald & May, 2011). Having these infections is ...

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Although a lot of academic research and clinical studies have been done in some countries like Western Europe and North America on factors leading to overweight, it is only recently that affluent countries such as UAE have started to realise the harmful effects of obesity on health and the economy. As the government takes the help of experts on this issue it has observed that there are several factors leading to children being dangerously overweight, such as genetics, environment and habits. Therefore, it is important to tackle this problem through the joint efforts of the community, the private sector and ...

Leadership can be defined as the process of influence via which a person aids and supports others to achieve specific goals and objectives in a certain organization. This research is an in-depth analysis of two leadership theories namely, transformative and servant leadership according to Peter Northouse.

Transformative Theory

This theory was first initiated by Bernard M. Bass (1985) and James McGregor (1978) which became popular. The following concepts characterizes transformative theory of leadership.
- Idealized influence, which is the charismatic element where leaders become role models to the followers who in return respond by showing due to their leaders.
- Inspirational ...

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The physiological and lifestyle aging of older athletes can be caused by several factors. However, due to their exemplary physical and mental condition, these older athletes have been role models for successful stories on optimal aging (Sipe, “Training Masters Athletes”). In fact, the author stated that most of the trainers believe that working with master athletes is a rewarding experience because it serves as an eye-opener for younger athletes. Based on the changes observed in the group of older-adult athletes, the have advanced their physiological age as a result of the natural aging, but not on their lifestyle aging. The primary ...

Males of Asian descent have got an unpleasant rap in mainstream movies from all over the world. If they do not get depicted as a type of caricature, then they will often be stereotypes that they are humble as well as unassuming, the kind of people who will stick around somewhere in the background. Also, film directors view them as those who are especially not outgoing, and an exact antonym of the terms “handsome” and “sexy.” This kind of mentality perhaps became popular because there are extremely few famous Asians in the United States, from which most of the films ...

Colors, character’s position, their attitude, their dress code, their faces, the lights, the backgrounds represent stylistic tools that both Nicolas Poussin and Isak van Ostade use for expressing a meaning. They use all these elements as metaphors, symbols for their understanding of the family life. While Poussin reflects at the purity and chastity of the Holy Family, focusing on the infant Jesus Christ and his mother Maria for emphasizing the idea of how a normal, loving family should look like, Isak van Ostade targets other specificities of human kind, representing another side of humans, which is cruelty, vulgarity, and savage, ...

The problem of domestic violence is considered as one of the known human rights violations done in most homes today. Children and women are mostly the victims of domestic violence, while men are usually the suspects of these violent acts. Some women succumbed to stress are also capable of performing these acts. Despite the laws passed to persecute suspects of domestic violence on children and women, only a few have paid for their crimes. Many still practice this crime to many helpless victims, no matter how severe the punishment is. Many have questioned as to the extent of the effects ...