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Step by Step Therapeutic Technique as a Proposal for Change, 2008.
A discussion and overview of reality therapy as a therapeutic technique.
885 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 50.95
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The paper describes techniques used by reality therapy to help the patient change his behavior to fulfill his needs. The paper explains that the focus of reality therapy is behavior, not attitude, insight, feelings, one's part, or unconscious motivation. The paper further relates that there are six essential steps taken in reality therapy to bring about change and then discusses the type of relationship required for reality therapy between the client and therapist.
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Reality Therapy as a Therapeutic Technique
Description
Overview
Essential steps
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" Reality therapy is an active, directive, and didactic model for change that stresses the person's present behavior. A basic tenet of reality therapy is that individuals are responsible for their own behavior. It is s common sense approach and can be used by a wide variety of persons as well as highly trained professionals.
"The focus of reality therapy is behavior, not attitude, insight, feelings, one's part, or unconscious motivation. This model refutes the medical model and encourages positive growth and success. It concentrates on what the clients can do practically to change behavior to fulfill their needs. The client is asked to identify wants and needs. They are asked to evaluate their behavior, formulate a plan for change, and follow through with their plan."
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"Stepping Out", 2002.
An analysis of the 1978 painting by Roy Lichtenstein entitled "Stepping Out".
1,906 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 97.95
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The paper provides a detailed analysis, as well as a personal review, of the oil and magna painting "Stepping Out' by artist Roy Lichtenstein, which is displayed in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The paper shows how "Stepping Out" is a work of Pop Art and seems to epitomize the superficiality of the dating experience in America. The paper also describes other works of art by Roy Lichtenstein.
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"Artists like Lichenstein and Warhol represented the natural creative progression of twentieth century art. Moving away from the abstract expressionist vogue they depicted the everyday reality of mass culture. Themselves emerging from a background in commercial art, they used familiar objects both to allow viewers to relate directly to art and to offer social satire.
Contemporaries, Lichtenstein and Warhol matured in their art under the heritage of American forerunners Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns who planted the seeds of Pop Art. Rauschenberg constructed collages from household objects and Johns repetitively painted American flags and bull's-eye targets. These artists in turn emerged under the influence of European forerunners like Richard Hamilton who produced Just What Is It That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing? in 1956."
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"Stepping Out", 2002.
Examines Roy Lichtenstein's painting "Stepping Out"
1,991 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 102.95
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This essay offers a personal observation of the work of art entitled "Stepping Out" by Roy Lichtenstein. History and installation at the Metropolitan Museum, as well as biographical information on Lichtenstein are presented. Personal feelings and thoughts about style, composition, treatment, pictorial space, lighting, color, brushwork, thematic content, emotional response and the process of benday dots are offered and discussed from observation and supported by source material. A copy of the artwork is included.
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"Lichtenstein's best known comic-strip paintings, such as Eddie Diptych (1962), Girl At Piano, (1963), and Good Morning, Darling (1964), are blowups of original cartoon characters, reproduced by hand, using the benday dot technique and the bright primary colors employed in printing. Lichtenstein's later works, including Stepping Out, show the influence of Matisse and Picasso as cubism allows him to add a further evolutionary contribution to Pop Art. Lichtenstein's paintings depicting soap opera drama and comic strip hyper-emotionalism comment ironically on the culture they mirror. As Pop Art, Lichtenstein's work not only analyses his media haunted culture, but adds to the sick syndrome of human kind molded by mass media, controlled, even emotionally by ads, magazines, and television. Through his paintings Lichtenstein is showing how, like robots, as modern humans, we have no true feelings of our own, but are created by the media. In 1993 Lichtenstein was honored with a retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City."
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Stepping Outside the Frame, 2002.
This essay shows how Joseph Conrad?s 'Heart of Darkness' and Tadeusz Borowski?s 'This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen' demonstrate that it is not easy for human beings to step outside the moral structure, or frame of their societies.
3,705 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 164.95
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Joseph Conrad and Tadeusz Borowski, writers of different styles and different periods are seen within an image created by a third writer, Sven Lindquist, of a man walking down the street carrying a frame from which only his head and feet protrude. These men write about what might be called the "darkness" within the heart of the human experience. This essay discusses how in dire circumstances, such as those encountered in Buchenwald and imperial Africa, each human who steps outside the frame of his normal world, according to both Conrad and Borowski, risks stepping into the heart of darkness.
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"Sven Lindqvist?s words about the man carrying the frame in Exterminate All the Brutes provide an excellent backdrop within which to compare the narrative frameworks and content of Conrad?s Heart of Darkness and Borowski?s This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. What is striking in this comparison is how two writers of vastly different styles, consider diverse historical periods and come to the same conclusion: It is not easy for human beings to step outside the frame, or moral structure, of their societies, into a lawless situation."
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Step-Families, 2004.
This paper discusses research about step-families, an increasing phenomenon in the 21st century.
3,060 words (approx. 12.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 143.95
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This paper identifies the basic problem factors found in step-families as maladjustment problems for children, a lack of adequate communication, a lack of a sense of unity within the step-family, and negative cultural paradigms regarding the step-family. The author points out the Cinderella syndrome appears to be embedded in the cultural consciousness to the extent that it is harmful to the well-being of step-families, especially the children; this negative cultural paradigm can only be remedied by education. The paper stresses that communication can remedy almost all of the associated problems; children should be encouraged to communicate openly about their concerns and problems as experienced both inside and out of the home.
Table of Contents
Adjustment to Step-families
The Step-family Situation
Coping Resources and Adjustment Methods
The Role of Society
Cooperation: The Perception of the Family from Within
The Role of the Parent
Conclusion
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"The first adjustment is when the original family structure changes. Unless the child is extremely young, it will be necessary to some extent to ensure that he or she has adjusted fully to the first change before imposing a new one. A child who lost a biological parent to either divorce or death should be granted a chance to mourn this loss before having to adjust to yet another new situation. Furthermore, the new family should be sensitive to adjustment and self-esteem issues that the stepchild may harbor."
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Steps to Corporate Integration (Merger), 2006.
A review of the necessary steps in corporate integration.
1,215 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 66.95
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This paper lists, reviews and discusses the steps to be taking when merging companies. The paper reports that many mergers end in failure, which is why it is imperative that companies perform proper due diligence.
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Step 1: Pre-Merger Goals
Step 2: A General Meeting: Showing Executive Leadership
Step 3: Creating Positive Group Behavior
Step 4: Focusing on Refining the Organizational Structure
Step 5: Redefining the Corporate Culture
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"At this time, further consolidation of departments to save costs may be necessary--for instance, combining public relations with communications--or, conversely, creating new departments to serve the needs of the new entity. A commitment to organizational development as well as change must be made, as the company gains a better sense of where it wishes to head into the future. Ideally, communications department staff members should make an effort to begin to express this idea to shareholders and the public, as well as internal members of the staff as was done in Step 2. Developing the corporate website and company intranet to facilitate communication on all levels will also be an aid in creating channels to voice concerns and new ideas and dialogue."
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Twelve-Step Program to Escaping Dante?s Hell, 2002.
A comparison of the hell described in Dante's "The Inferno" to the twelve-step program required by an alcoholic to pass by AA.
3,585 words (approx. 14.3 pages), 9 sources, MLA, AU$ 161.95
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Dante?s "The Inferno" paints an incredibly vivid picture of what Hell is like. The journey Dante undertakes in order to progress pass his ?lost? stage and escape Hell can be likened to the 12-Step Program a recovering alcoholic must complete in order to finally escape from the clutches of drinking to excess. This paper explores Dante?s journey through the perspective of this 12-Step Program. By going through each step, one can witness the introspective and emotional self-examination Dante goes through, with a little help from his support group, in order to get out of Hell.
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"The first step that every recovering alcoholic must take involves the process of admitting his or her problem. Alcoholics must acknowledge that they are helpless when battling their addiction and they must admit that this addiction to drink has wreaked havoc on their lives to the point where they have lost control (Alcoholic Anonymous, 1955, 59). Dante?s predicament is no different to that of an alcoholic struggling to regain control over his or her life. At the beginning of the poem, Dante is portrayed as having gotten lost on the path of life and trying to get back on the right path. Using imagery, Dante recalls that ?in the middle of his life, he [finds] himself lost in a dark forest, having lost the right path while half asleep.? "
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The "STEP" Improvement Plan, 2007.
This paper discusses the "STEP" improvement plan, which is designed to improve the teaching and learning environment at all grade levels.
1,330 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, AU$ 71.95
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This paper explains that the main goal of the "STEP" improvement plan, which is an acronym for "Students and Teachers Educationally Prepared", is to provide teachers with the professional development and proper tools to educate students with technology, updated materials and content that are geared to promoting cultural diversity in an interactive learning environment. The author provides a detailed example of how the "STEP" works would be used by a teacher for a month of teaching math or science. The paper stresses that many U.S. students are not able complete math and science at their current grade level because of the lack of quality materials and curriculum; therefore, it is essential to provide the students with the "STEP" improvement plan, which contains lessons and materials that will increase their chances of passing standardized tests.
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Introduction
Statement of Need
Plan Description
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"After presenting a specific test related topic to the class, the teacher will assist the students with completing research on the computer and network with international pen pals to complete the assignment. All student work will be closely monitored by the teacher through use of the internet. The student's activities, research and communications will be tracked and graded by the teacher. Students will submit all assignments through the website."
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The Stepped Pyramid of Djoser, 2005.
An examination of the great Step-Pyramid of Djoser, designed by Imhotep and the belief system it represented.
1,240 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, AU$ 68.95
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This paper asserts that the ancient Egyptian sage Imhotep has two unique claims to fame: 1) he provides historians with the best documented instance of the deification of a man, and 2) he is the first known individual of genius. In a truly ironic fashion, the mortal man who designed the Great Step Pyramid as a tomb for the godlike Pharaoh Djoser was transformed into a god almost 2,000 years later and became the Egyptian god of healing. This paper provides an overview of the sage and vizier, Imhotep, the Great Step-Pyramid and its reflection of the belief systems in place at the time. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion. The paper includes a photograph of the pyramid.
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Imhotep
Step Pyramid of Djoser and Its Reflection of the Belief System
Personal Reasons for Selecting This Topic
Conclusion
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"In sum, it is certainly not an exaggeration to describe the Step Pyramid as a one of the most remarkable architectural works produced by the ancient Egyptians. "That later generations regarded it with exceptional esteem is dear, not only from the veneration which they accorded to Imhotep, but also from hieratic graffiti on the passage walls of the southern building, which record the admiration felt by some Egyptians who visited the monument more than a thousand years after it was built" (Edwards 1955:63). In fact, no other known pyramid has been found with the same quantity of imposing buildings designed specifically to supply the needs of the king in his after-life. In their stead, the kings who ruled two dynasties later were satisfied with pictorial representations simply carved in relief."
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Salary Steps, 2002.
Uses a university library as a case study to discuss problems with the system of predetermined salary steps within an organization.
1,623 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 84.95
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In order to avoid the sensitive issues surrounding salaries, some organizations have taken a proactive approach and set forth specific salary "steps" within job classifications which are predetermined. This approach enables managers simply to move employees from one step to the next. This is commonly done in public sector jobs where salary information is published and public information (although not the salaries of individual employees). This paper examines the problem which arose in a private sector institution, Pierce University library, where the library supervisor had misperceptions regarding salary increases. The paper identifies the problem, analyzes it and offers alternatives to the present salary system. It also recommends that the university adopt both the strategy of implementing a diversity program and develop guidelines to help managers and supervisors determine merit increases and who is eligible for them.
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"Another advantage to this strategy is that by giving greater authority to those lower in the organization (the supervisors), the institution can expect to retain these employees in critical jobs for longer periods. The supervisors have day-to-day knowledge about how the various tasks are performed, and even if they do not actually prepare performance evaluations or determine merit increases, they should nonetheless be included in the discussions regarding both of these in order that the institution have the best information available to it as it makes these decisions (Weiss, 1998, p. 10)."
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12-Step Groups, 2002.
An observation of the use of 12-Step groups in therapy.
1,128 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 63.95
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This paper outlines the experiences and observations of the writer during attendance at three 12-Step self-help groups: Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a Cocaine Users Anonymous (CA) and a Shoppers Anonymous (SA) group. The 12-step abstinence based method pioneered by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is one of the most widely used form of addiction treatment. It describes the groups, their demographics, their activities, the relations of these activities to the course and the reactions of the writer.
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"Interestingly, several members stated that this was their second, third, or even fourth time of being ?in? AA. As Miller (1995) has commented, many individuals who participate in AA and other 12-Step groups drop in and out of attendance and membership, remaining ?clean and sober? for a period of time and then relapsing into alcohol use or other addictive behaviors. This group was no exception; five people with whom I spoke said they had earned their ?100 day chips? only to relapse and begin all over again. Most members stated that they attended an average of 3 meetings per week, but it was recommended that a daily meeting was associated with an enhanced potential for remaining ?clean and sober.? "
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Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps", 2005.
This paper discusses Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" (1935), an early, relatively unknown film, which marks and separates his films from those of all other directors of the 50s and 60s.
3,500 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 158.95
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This paper explains that Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" (1935) reveals the themes for which he will soon be famous such as human complacency, disparity between appearance and reality, the salutary effect of a night journey, the difficulty of trust and the fear of confinement. The author points out that the narrative structure; the structural movements of complacency, crisis and recovery; the use of complacent and oblivious characters but not pessimistic character and a well developed model of life, alternating between confinement and release, in terms of physical but not so much in terms of psychological, confinement. The paper relates that the film is truly a Hitchcock film as demonstrated by his use of the Dutch tilt, stairways, extreme high angles and emerging body parts.
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"Hannay takes Annabelle to his flat and the two wind up in his kitchen where we will be introduced to the icon of the checkerboard floor, the complacent character type, the beginning of the typical structural movement, and the themes of complacency and of the disparity between appearance and reality. It is here that Annabelle reveals to she is a spy. Refusing to believe her, Hannay plays the role of the complacent character and thinks he knows everything about the world around him. This character type is in every Hitchcock movie and they are all punished for their complacency. These characters have the predictability of the world taken away from them, and they spend the rest of the movie trying to recover. Complacency is not always punished with physical danger."
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Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF),, 2002.
This paper discusses Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF), therapeutic counseling for drugs and alcohol abuse.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 42.95
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This paper details a proposal for a drug and alcohol abuse counseling treatment program, to be based on Twelve Step Facilitation (TSF), a method disussed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Individualism in "Stagecoach" and "The 39 Steps", 2008.
An analysis of the themes of individuality, pro-social violence, and affirmation of the American democratic system in two classic Hollywood films: John Ford's "Stagecoach" and Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps."
1,839 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 94.95
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This paper analyzes the two films, John Ford's "Stagecoach" and Alfred Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps." It shows how they both fit squarely into the category of the Classic Hollywood feature and both display many of the sensibilities of the American Western. The paper analyzes these two films and reveals the extent to which they adhere to strict Hollywood convention. It also exposes the ways in which both films diverge from expectations to claim their respective places in film history.
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"Aside from the callous presence of the Law and Order League, the American establishment is represented by Mrs. Mallory and Hatfield. Though Bernstein attempts to dismiss their unfavorable depiction as a critique on European classism, they are nonetheless as purely and distinctly American as anyone else on the coach. That Hatfield refuses to offer his silver cup to Dallas illustrates the ridiculous pretensions of establishment - in this case, even American democratic establishment of which both Hatfield and Mrs. Mallory are or once were a part. Bernstein claims that when the Ringo Kid kindly offers Dallas the canteen instead, this demonstrates Ringo's embodiment of "the true, native, and natural American democratic ideal." However, this kind of collective support seems a part of any political system as much as it does democracy, especially considering democracy's general insistence on individual strength and competition."
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Alcoholics Anonymous and Its 12-Step Program, 2004.
This paper discusses Alcoholics Anonymous and its 12-Step Program and analyzes the relative value of such self-help programs and their usefulness to the nurse in planning client care.
1,860 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 35 sources, APA, AU$ 95.95
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This paper explains that AA has grown to be the single most influential organization in history that specializes in helping alcoholics recover from alcoholism; there are over 1 million alcoholic members in different groups in the United States and other parts of the world. The author experienced an AA meeting, which she thought was positive and hopeful because many people had been through very difficult times and needed the support and acceptance of the other people in the room. The paper concludes that learning more about AA gives, not only a deeper understanding of what works in treating addiction, but also additional insight into the inner workings of the addicted mind.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The History of Alcoholics Anonymous and the 12-Step Program
Some Reasons for Success
Some Reasons for Failure
Significant Meeting Events
Thoughts and Feelings
Incorporating the Knowledge
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"There were several significant events at the AA meeting. It is quite common knowledge that members introduce themselves, but it is another thing to see the people with the courage to stand up and say, "My name is Bud and I'm a grateful recovering alcoholic." Several people told their personal stories, which also took great courage. Later, I found they called these stories drunkalogs, and some of them were quite depressing and eye opening, like the mother who used to be so drunk when her children came home from school that they had to make their own dinner, and they were embarrassed to bring friends over to the house."
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"The Next Step in the Dance", 2002.
An analysis of the theme of true love in "The Next Step in the Dance" by Tim Gautreaux.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 56.95
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This paper will discuss the novel "The Next Step in the Dance" by Tim Gautreaux and illuminate the main theme of true love within the text. By analyzing the characters of the story, as well the plot and how it is written, a better understanding can be made on what he is communicating about love. The nature of the "love" in the tale will be talked about within the realm of Tim Gautreaux's writing style and how he expresses his main ideas.
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