Attention seeking

Community based participatory research (CBPR) in archaeology, or Public Archaeology, is a style of research that involves a partnership between the community and the researchers. This new approach to archaeology has helped forge an interest in local archaeology from the community and facilitates communal investment in archaeological affairs that relate to their heritage. CBPR offers great experiences for the individuals who participate, while at the same time assisting the community achieve a goal of significance. CBPR is an approach to research, wherein the community and the researchers involved work collaboratively through all stages of the research process. CBPR arose in the 1960s and ‘70s during the development of new approaches to educational…

Behavior 1: Talking Back/Swearing The behavior of talking back which is defined as any time the patient responds to her parents in a rude/sarcastic tone with intent to hurt her parents’ feelings. The behavior of swearing at her parents is defined as any time the patient uses profane language during a conversation either towards her parents directly or casually in the conversation. This most often occurs when the parent brings up a topic sensitive to the patient (i.e. the moving from their…

In the paper entitled, “An Experimental Examination of Rational Rent Seeking,” Potters, de Vries and van Winden (1998) explore the power of the rent-seeking model through laboratory experiments. Rent Seeking was an idea that was first developed by Gordon Tullock in 1967 in his classic paper, “The Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies and Theft.” In this paper, he discusses three separate but still related phenomena. Firstly with tariffs, he considers how import-competing industries spend real…

the same time, we can also assume that if the firm with a better demand forecast has more profits, it would allocate more money to investments and the firm’s expansion. Thus, the firm’s better demand forecast will impact investment and expansion. Comparing more successful firms to less successful firms, we would find that greater amounts of bribes are correlated with a higher growth rate of the firm, when in reality the main reason of the firm’s growth is its successfully established inner…

Bribery is defined as the offering of payments or other incentives to gain illicit advantages. The definition suggests that bribes are usually offered. This could support the argument that bribes encourage corruption. However, bribery could be more common that it is expected. The expectation of a bribe takes productivity and fairness to lower levers and creates a more advanced stage where bribes surges and corruption becomes a phenomenon. The last and most advanced stage of corruption appears…

Focus, according to the Cambridge dictionary, is defined as the central point of attention or interest, or the ability to give all your attention, time, and energy to a particular activity. Having focus will significantly reduce the amount of time you waste each day dealing with distractions. You will have more control over your life and be able to use the time you saved in a more beneficial way. Why is focus important Focus is very important because it has such a significant impact on so…

obtained a Fluid Reasoning score of 115, which is ranked at the 84th percentile and is classified as the High Average range, indicating a personal strength and good estimate of his fluid reasoning skills. On the Working Memory Index, which measures his ability to temporarily store and perform a set of cognitive operations on information that requires divided attention and the management of the limited capacity of short-term memory, Daniel scored in the Low Average to Average range the subtests.…

Csikszentmihayi’s definition of flow is the balance between one’s perceived skill and challenge. The athlete has complete absorption in the activity and they are so involved in the activity that nothing else seems to matter. Goals are well defined and the athlete knows exactly what to do. The athlete is aware of his/her actions but not of the attentiveness itself and there is total concentration on the task at hand. Performers report that they feel like they are full of focused energy.…

into what they were doing, I assumed that they learned their lines and performed them, but by studying the scene they are creating an overall better performance. Memorization and Line readings also interested me; I was always amazed how actors were able to learn all of their lines. The chapter really broke down how they did this, from breaking the script into smaller parts to studying the sequence of ideas, this allowed me to get a better understanding of how all of this is done. These three…

placed a bowl on the shelf, next the teacher said who won’t to go over to the house keeping area and bake a cake all three girls said me, the teacher said we need to clean up first the children begin to clean up then they went into the house keeping to begin making their cake, they pulled out the bowls, spoons, one child said she was going to call someone to bring her some eggs, next they begin to put on their mittens as if they were getting food out the oven, one child said I need seven eggs…