James R. Houghton Essays

  • Cracking the Glass

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    alone but with a plan, a plan for innovation, and inspiration. This plan is known as Corning's Innovation Recipe; The Innovation Recipe was built upon the previous set of values dubbed Total Quality Management by the previous, now retired C.E.O James Houghton of thirteen years. He was much lauded as a great all inspiring man who at a time of great economic distress in which as Roger G. Ackerman puts it “ roughly half of the companies listed on the Fortune 500 fell by the wayside” or in layman's terms

  • A Comparison of Susan Hill's The Woman in Black and M.R. James' Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad

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    and M.R. James' Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad In Susan Hill's introduction to 'The Woman In Black' she mentions M.R. James' short stories as some of the greatest ghost stories ever written. Her appreciation of James' writing is one of the reasons for the many similarities and differences between the two texts. Hill was greatly inspired by the setting of 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' and this results in her novel being a similar reading experience to James' story

  • Intelligence And Intelligence

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    Intelligence: Are you smart enough to know about it? Intelligence, a simple yet complex term, present in everyday, layman vocabulary and argued by the foremost minds of psychology. Intelligence is currently defined as capacity for goal directed, adapted behaviour (Myers, 2014). The definition has gone multiple revisions because we have changed our very understanding of intelligence, initially used to describe academic brilliance and rote memorization, the current definition encompasses more fields

  • Ignorance Is the Lock, Knowledge Is the Master Key

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    you be in control or be controlled. For this reason, freedom of press and speech are constantly being fought for in many civil wars. Without knowledge, a person is subjected to the control of a person with greater knowledge. Works Cited James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Overture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd ed. Revised. New York: Vintage, 1989. "Tiananmen Square." Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views of the World's Newest and Oldest Global Power

  • Point of View of David Brion Davis, C.L.R. James, and Orlando Patterson Regarding the Abolishment of Slavery

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    point in world history. Due to this it has become the discussion of much scholarly debate. There are three historians to highlight that provide key points to why slavery needed to be abolished and the significance of it. David Brion Davis, C.L.R. James, and Orlando Patterson all share similar and differing viewpoints for why slavery needed to be discontinued. This is important to discuss so we as humans who are building a society do not make the same mistakes again as we continue to learn from our

  • The Modernist Attributes of C.L.R. James’s Minty Alley

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    C.L.R. James was a key figure of the West Indian literary scene during the 1930s. Today he is primarily associated with his nonliterary writings in sociology and politics, and his fiction seems to have dropped from critical attention. Part of this shortsightedness stems from the fact that little of his fiction is readily available to a reading public in this country. Although a selection of his shorter work is now available in The C.L.R. James Reader (1992), the only extant edition of James' novel

  • Commercialization In Hockey

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    Most aspects of life today in North America are influenced by commercialization. In hockey, this is apparent when watching any NHL game. From the advertisements on the boards and all around arenas, to the commercials between plays and the never ending team specific merchandise that is sold, it is quite obvious that hockey is a business. If that was not already clear, the hefty salaries that high calibre players receive should solidify it. Today hockey teams are structured strikingly similar to corporations

  • Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory and Method

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    Available from [online] 19/10/04 http://www.wilderdom.com/personality/L8-4StructureMindIdEgoSuperego.html The EGO develops soon after birth and works on the “Reality Principle”, the conscience is formed which aids our decision making, Davies and Houghton (1995 Pg 261) wrote…”once the ego has developed the infant no longer makes unreasonable demands on the caretaker, such as demanding food when they are out walking”. The SUPER-EGO develops at around the age of five, this works on the

  • Abnormal Psychology

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    Hopkins, H.S. and Gelenberg, A.J. (1994). Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: How Far Have We Come? Psychopharmacology Bulletin. 30 (1): 27-38. Jacobson, S.J., Jones, K., Ceolin, L., Kaur, P., Sahn, D., Donnerfeld, A.E., Rieder, M., Santelli, R., Smythe, J., Patuszuk, A., Einarson, T., and Koren, G., (1992). Prospective multicenter study of pregnancy outcome after lithium exposure during the first trimester. Laricet. 339: 530-533. Lish, J.D., Dime-Meenan, S., Whybrow, P.C., Price

  • The Work of James Jerome Gibson

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    I. Brief biography1 James Jerome Gibson was born on January 27, 1904, in McConnelsville, Ohio, U.S. and died on December 11, 1979. He was an experimental psychologist whose work focused primarily on visual perception. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Princeton University in 1928 and joined the faculty of Smith College. During World War II he served in the Army Air Forces (1942–46). In the Army, Gibson developed tests used to screen potential pilots. In doing so, he made the observation that

  • Counseling Processes

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    In counseling, there are many processes used by a counselor in his sessions with a client. These may be done in a specific order or however which way the counselor sees them to be appropriate. Listed below are the different processes that may be undertaken during a counseling session. 1. Before meeting a counselee, the counselor tries to find out as much as he can about the former. This is done so that he may discern what will help the client most. Also, he has to fathom the counselee's past so that

  • The Colombian Exchange and Christianity in 1450 and 1750

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    conversion of the natives to new religions changed the values and culture of a people and the idea only traveled and expanded over tim... ... middle of paper ... ...Company, 2005. 72. "Mvemba Nzinga (Afonso I)c. 1461 to 1543Roman CatholicKongo (D. R. Congo)." Dictionary of African Christian Biography. (accessed February 17, 2014). http://www.dacb.org/stories/demrepcongo/mvemba_nzinga.html "Nicholas Copernicus | Christian History." Christian History. (accessed February 18, 2014). http://www.christianitytoday

  • Great Gatsby-Santiago

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    This may be true in all cases, but it is clearly predominant in Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea. It is evident that Hemingway modeled the main character, Santiago after his own person, and that the desires, the mentality, and the lifestyle of the old man are identical to Hemingway's. Santiago is an old fisherman who lives in a small coast town in Cuba. At the time that Hemingway wrote the story, he was also an elderly gentlemen and was such an avid fisherman throughout his life, that books

  • The Character of Daisy in Henry James' Daisy Miller

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    What is the purpose of Daisy in the novel Daisy Miller by Henry James?  Why did James create such a beguiling and bewildering character?  Since the publication of James's novel in 1878, Daisy has worn several labels, among them "flirt," "innocent," and "American Girl."  Daisy's representation of an American Girl of the late 19th century is evident.  Her free-spiritedness and individuality reflect the social movement of the American middle-class.  The question of Daisy's innocence, however, remains

  • An Overview of Counseling and Psychotherapy

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    Barry H. Kantowitz, and Henry L. Roediger III. Research Methods in Psychology. Minnesota: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Gormly, Anne V. Understanding Psychology. California: Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 1986. Heiman, Gary W. Research Methods in Psychology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Hill, Clara E. Therapist Techniques and Client Outcomes. California: Sage Publications, Inc., 1989. Kalat, James W. Introduction to Psychology. California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1990. Kisker

  • Thomas Jeffersons Contribution to the Constitution

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    was relatively fast, from the formation of the committee. The committee consisted of two New England men, John Adams of Massachusetts and Roger Sherman of Connecticut; two men from the Middle Colonies, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Robert R. Livingston of New York; and one southerner, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. In early June, the committee met as a whole and unanimously insisted that Jefferson draw up the declaration. Jefferson wrote that the other members of the committee "unanimously

  • Worldview of Research

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    of Social Science Research Methods. Retrieved August 01, 2011, from http://sage-reference.com/view/socialscience/n295.xml. Gibbs, Graham R. (2003). CAQDAS (Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software). Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Retrieved September 02, 2011, from http://sage-ereference.com/view/socialscience/n86.xml Houghton, C. E., Casey, D., Shaw, D., & Murphy, K. (2010). Ethical challenges in qualitative research: examples from practice. Nurse Researcher, 18(1)

  • The Enneagram: A Mystical Symbol

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    about how one can understand his personality according to him the ideal personality is one that connect to all points of the Enneagram. 7 Rohr, & Andreas in their book “The enneagram” opposes the use of the Enneagram by the Christians. 8Lewis & James “The astrology book” authors define the heaven that Christians refers to as being different from the one we know by saying that Heaven in Enneagram is a symbol of freedom after the liberation of the false self to true self 9 Psychologist believes

  • The Scopes Monkey Trial

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    The Scopes Monkey Trial In a tiny courtroom in the county of Dayton Tennessee, the jury settled into their seats, ready to return the verdict in the most controversial case of the 1920’s, the scopes “monkey” trial.  Up to this point, the trial itself had been a media spectacle; the lawyers, the witnesses, even the defendant had become media icons in the commercialism of the twenties.  The trial itself was set up to be a media demonstration to challenge the constitutionality of the butler act

  • John Marshall's Effect on the American Judicial System

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    governmental system in the world. Works Cited Bork, Robert H. The Tempting Of America. New York: The Free Press, 1990. Burns, James MacGregor, J.W Peltason, Thomas E. Cronin, and David B. Magleby. Government By The People. 01-02 Edition ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002 Cox, Archibald. The Court And The Constitution. Boston: Houghton Miflin CO,1987. Dye, Thomas R. , L. Tucker Gibson Jr., and Clay Robinson. Politics In America. Brief Texas Edition ed. New Jersey: Pearson, 2005. Hobson, Charles