Essays on Territoriality

Introduction

The most important variable that enables mankind achieve beyond their imagination is communication. Communication is however only enabled through understanding different cultures and only then will we be able diversify and achieve greatness. This helps individuals resolve the numerous crises facing the planet since we understand different ways of thinking through culture. The book Beyond Culture by Edward T. Hall explains the different ways to improve interaction in different cultures. The book also discusses the problems that could be experienced when interacting with different cultures and the guided pathways in achieving the goal of breaking cultural barriers. ...

Analysis of Communication in a Scene from The Devil Wears Prada 1

The identity of the main character, Miranda Priestly in the movie The Devil Wears Prada is clearly constructed in the one of the first scenes of the movie when she interacts with her new assistant, Andy. Miranda strategic communicator who incorporates many of the concepts of communication, both verbal and more importantly in this case, nonverbal. Miranda defines herself in her opening scene as a strong, confident ...

Organization Culture

Sarros,Copper & Santora(2008) finds that most organizations concentrate in bringing the latest technological infrastructure to transform the procedures of work. In doing so, organizations tend to ignore the workers and organization culture which is the engine that has the most impact. An organization culture depends with the founders of the institution their beliefs and core practices. It is vital for an organization to engage the employees who design products to enable the organization become successful. Leaders’ decision-making criteria affect the behavior of workers. In this view Sarros,et al (2008) suggest that to ensure a high performance culture ...

Organization Culture

Sarros,Copper & Santora(2008) finds that most organizations concentrate in bringing the latest technological infrastructure to transform the procedures of work. In doing so, organizations tend to ignore the workers and organization culture which is the engine that has the most impact. An organization culture depends with the founders of the institution their beliefs and core practices. It is vital for an organization to engage the employees who design products to enable the organization become successful. Leaders’ decision-making criteria affect the behavior of workers. In this view Sarros,et al (2008) suggest that to ensure a high performance culture an ...

The ever increasing levels of population creates concerns arise in relation to matters of territory, personal space and privacy. With an increasing population, the world is becoming densely populated resulting in overall effect on personal space and privacy. It is instructive to appreciate the fact that as population increases, the overall habitable area on the earth remains constant in most cases thereby occasioning a relative strain on resources. The paper shall examine matters of territoriality, privacy and persona space. From the onset, it is essential to acknowledge the fact that with increased population, people have to compound with less privacy ...

- Drawing the line between crime and art - Graffiti, the Purest form of Art - What is Street art? Vandalism, Graffiti or Public art - The Culture and Politics of Graffiti Most people would be hesitant to call graffiti an art, because the current law treats anything painted on a wall or any surface, without the owner’s consent, as a form of vandalism. Nonetheless, while some people view graffiti as vandalism, members of the art community view it as an art of strange beauty on doors and walls scarred by spray paint and markers. In ...

1. Describe the concepts of territoriality, privacy, and personal space. The traditional explanation of territoriality was emphasized on the marking off and protection of a physical border line from invasion by those of similar kind. Of late, the definition has been modernized to refer explicitly to oversee the space around an organism, particularly the distance between themselves as well as with others of the same species (Linda 2010). In humans, territoriality falls inside three domains: the public, primary and secondary. Public territories are open to any person. They pursue the basis of first-come first-serve. Primary territories are that are ...

Leon Baradat discusses the concept of nationalism as a political ideaology. He argues that it emanates from the idea of a nation, which he defines as a community of people with a common ethnicity, culture, language, and or descent (Baradat, 2008). According to him, it is not necessary that a nation has physical borders, though having borders does not preclude a territory being considered as a nation. It is on such basis that he defines nationalism in the context of territoriality. He opines that in its simplest form, it refers to a sort of territoriality or property value (Baradat, 2008). He gives an analogy of a sandbox ...

The physical design features in crime prevention have been put across to reduce the occurrence of crime. To understand criminal psychology, one has to think like a criminal. A perfect situation for a potential offender to carry out crimes has to have some if not all of the dimensions of crime in place. This means acquiring a target, little or no risk, little or no effort and having the reward in sight. Most of the time a criminal may not be certain of the reward expected. For instance in a mugging situation, the victim may not have anything valuable on himself/ herself at that ...

Physical Design Features in Crime Prevention Kaplan (1978) Physical Design Features in Crime Prevention Kaplan (1978): In crime prevention, in order to be able to make a physical design feature, one must understand how a perpetrator thinks. A crime occurs when all the essential components align such as the target, the risks, effort, reward, and place. These are known as the dimensions of crime. A perpetrator will wait for the most opportune moment to carry out an attack. They get a target, for example in a mugging situation; the perpetrator will look for a person whom they thing is most vulnerable. ...

The Westphalian system came about because of the peace treaties of Westphalia and Osnabruck in 1648 that officially marked the end of the 30 years war that destroyed a larger part of Europe between 1618 and 148. It is viewed that the treaties did not only end the war but also triggered the beginning of a new international system considered as the foundation of the present-day nation state system based on sovereignty often referred to as the Westphalian system (Zwierlein, 2013. 38, 1, pp. 65-95) The Westphalian model and sovereignty have been key debated issues since it is claimed that ...

Let’s assume that al-Qaeda managed to hack into every major power grid in the United States and shut them down. The nation’s economy would be devastated. Such an act of cyber-terrorism would be catastrophic (Bernadette & Clemens, 2006, p.78-79, 122) for the United States. Although this is just an assumption, hackers constantly look for ways to hack into the U.S. government computer systems throughout the day (Mount, 2009). The fact of the matter is that the critical U.S. infrastructure is extremely vulnerable due to being accessible via the Internet. Perhaps the same can be said about other nations ...

The Effects of Population Density and Noise

Population density can be defined as the measurement of the amount of individuals in a given area (Lerner & Millon, 2003). The percentage is determined by dividing the number of individuals by the area. In the last United States census, the mean population density was 87 individuals per square mile. This measurement is not widely applied in the average individual’s daily life and is only considered as a fact of the growing population. However, when issues of pollution, noise, territory, privacy, and space are considered, then it clearly reflects the effects of population density. Many individuals are not aware of ...

Alienation

The concept of alienation is a one of the central constructs of Marxian theory. This concept was used for description of a capitalist mode of production when workers lost control over the means of production. In accordance with Knox & Pinch (2010) it is described as “a mechanism of social change” and relates another concept of deviant behavior in wider sociopolitical connotation (p.215). Later alienation was used by the early deterministic theorists because it was of a great interest when studying spatial variations of people behavior (Amin, 2002). Marx outlined several reasons of alienation. Firstly, alienated person feels like economic, social ...

Abstract

This paper is going to highlight the way in which the cultural and social factors influence traditional houses in Qatari Society. In order to achieve this therefore, it will be wise to bring out the connection between the house and the cultural and social factors. After bringing out this connection, it will also be prudent to connect the house with the context of the family. This is because the family forms an important institution in the society, which is in turn the melting pot of the cultural and the social factors. Therefore, in this paper, I will also explore ...

The world's populace increases by approximately 80 million people each year, according to the population reserve website, Population Connection. And with most of this inhabitants occupying comparatively small urban areas, it is not astonishing that population density is a mounting cause of concern. And while there are many unconstructive impacts of high population densities, there are also a few constructive ones.

A person living an area with a high population density will recurrently be making contact, deliberately or not, with the area's other human inhabitants. A municipality's busy sidewalks, subways and, buses, all serve as centres for the transmission of pathogens. An ...

Common property in economics refers to a resource system, natural or man made, that possesses characteristics that make it very costly, though not impossible, to exclude potential users from deriving benefits from the resource system even when such usage results in annihilation of the beneficial properties of the resource.

The commons problem arises as a result of each independent and rational person making an individual decision to maximize the benefits accrued from a common property. The overall effect of each individual action is the destruction of the common property; each individual action meant to safeguard personal interest results in an adverse effect ...