Running head: DROPOUT REVIEW Dropout Review and Intervention Final Paper Richard W. Fill Arizona State University EDP 514 May 14‚ 2008 Abstract Each year (US Department of Education‚ web site)‚ almost one third of all public high school students and nearly one half of all blacks‚ Hispanics and Native Americans do not graduate from high school. Our text (Aries‚ p. vii) points out that there is a psychological and behavioral transition
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Article Review 1 Publication: Sports Marketing Quarterly Title: “Spectator Motives: Why Do We Watch When Our Favorite Team Is Not Playing?” Authors: Fink‚ Janet S‚ Parker‚ Heidi M Link: http://tiny.cc/Q2Yzy Summary: This article studies the likeliness of sports fans to watch sporting events when their favorite team is not playing. According to the Nielson ratings system the NFL broadcast’s TV ratings are the highest rated program in the country. Therefore the advertising dollars involved
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Article Review Review of: Olson‚ Matthew S.‚ Van Bever‚ Derek ‚Verry‚ Seth. 2008. When Growth Stalls. Harvard Business Review‚ 51-62. The article raises the issue of revenue growth stalls that affect even the most successful companies. The article focuses on four major causes of the crisis. The first cause is the premium-position captivity that is”the inability of a firm to respond effectively to new‚ low-cost competitive challenge or to a significant shift in customer valuation of product
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Drug rehab is a long-term endeavor which requires dedicated efforts from both patients and their addiction counselors. The short detoxification period is necessary for addressing the immediate physical concerns of addiction‚ but maintaining sobriety takes months of therapy. Thankfully‚ medical professionals have developed a variety of highly-effective treatments for helping people stay clean. Unfortunately‚ most laypeople still think of detox as the main component of rehab. In order to better help
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Scholarly Article Review "An Empirical Research on Employee’s Emotions Influence Factors" Summary: Emotions and moods play a very significant effect on an employee in an organization. The article describes how moods and emotions rise or drop an employees performance in an organization‚ also a research has been conducted and employees emotions have been categorized and modelled explaining the factors influencing it. Emotion management has fairly been a prominent activity in the human resources
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of sugar addiction in rats for years. Until now‚ the rats under study have met two of the three elements of addiction. They have demonstrated a behavioral pattern of increased intake and then showed signs of withdrawal. His current experiments captured craving and relapse to complete the picture. "If bingeing on sugar is really a form of addiction‚ there should be long-lasting effects in the brains of sugar addicts‚" Hoebel said. "Craving and relapse are critical components of addiction‚ and we have
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HBR Article Review: Davenport‚ T. H. (2009). Make Better Decisions. Harvard Business Review‚ 87 (11)‚ 117-123 Karin Peterson Benedictine University Abstract That the current era of economic uncertainty may have been ushered in through a series of poor government and corporate decisions is implied through the rear view mirror. Could some of the events that shaped todays crises have been avoided through better decision making processes? Thomas Davenport (2009‚ p. 117) presents examples
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War on Drugs Policy Proposal John Cox POL 300 June 5‚ 2011 Benjamin Webb Proposed Policy for Mexico and the United States The United States and Mexico are fighting what could be called a never-ending war‚ the war on the illegal drug trade. Drugs flow across the US-Mexico border seemingly unrestricted‚ even though both countries spend billions of dollars each year attempting to halt the flow of drugs. Drug cartels in Mexico operate with impunity‚ and have little regard for laws‚ regulations
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ADDICTION TO TECHNOLOGY IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM Addiction to Technology is a Serious Problem Juan A Severino South University ENG2001 S08 Composition III Instructor’s Name: Randell Wolff 09/19/20011 Addiction to Technology is a Serious Problem Is it possible to become "addicted" to technology? Technology permeates every aspect of our lives; and we are surrounded by it. Telephone‚ Cell phone‚ Television‚ computers‚ and the Internet have made our life a little easier‚ a little more
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for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Review of Concepts‚ Research and Practice. International Journal of Management Reviews‚ Blackwell Publishing Ltd and British Academy of Management‚ pp. 88-105 In “The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility: toward the Moral Management of Organizational Stakeholders”‚ Archie B. Carroll focuses on studying the nature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and explains its component parts. He structures his article by first creating “a pyramid of the corporate
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