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Saussure's semiotics model in stand-up comedy performance

Saussure's two-part model offers a solid framework with which to understand how semiotics permeates everyday human communication. The signifier (a word, an image, an act, or a sound) conveys a concept. Together the signifier and the signified create the signs we see, hear, or even smell and taste.

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Marx and Nietzsche's critique of historical progress and social control

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Sue Jennings' approach to dramatherapy as healing and creative practice

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Albert Bandura's theories of social learning and self-efficacy

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Social deprivation as a cause of language and learning disorders

The objective of this work is to research and report social deprivation as it relates to learning and language disorders.

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B.F. Skinner's operant conditioning theory and educational applications

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Marketing satisfaction guarantees in the globalization era

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Freud and Foucault on desire and pleasure

For Sigmund Freud, everything human beings do is underlain by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. In defining the pleasure principle, Freud assigns it two components: sexuality, which Freud refers to as Eros, and aggression or Thanatos.

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The development and scope of ethical theory and moral practice

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Moral compassing and Josephson's six pillars of character in business ethics

What is moral compassing? Does it make sense? What about the six pillars of character? Do you agree that these serve as the template for ethical behavior? Are their other considerations?

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