Literature Review Undergraduate 3,818 words

Free Word Order and Scrambling in Language Acquisition

A literature review of free word order and scrambling in Japanese, Korean, and German, covering language acquisition theory, socio-cultural influences, and computational grammar.

Theories

~20 min read

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Literature Review Undergraduate 2,128 words

NEO-4 Personality Inventory: Annotated Bibliography

An annotated bibliography of seven studies examining the reliability and validity of the NEO-4 Personality Inventory across clinical, academic, and cross-cultural contexts.

Psychology

~11 min read

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Literature Review Undergraduate 1,445 words

Addiction Relapse: Evidence-Based Prevention Strategies

A literature review examining relapse prevalence, triggering factors, and evidence-based prevention strategies including mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP).

Drugs

~8 min read

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Literature Review Graduate 1,152 words

Annotated Bibliography on False Confessions in Criminal Justice

An annotated bibliography reviewing key studies on false confessions, interrogation techniques, jury perceptions, and policy reform in the U.S. criminal justice system.

Psychology

~6 min read

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1,559 words

Critical thinking skills applied to pursuing a graduate degree

Using critical thinking skills nearly always results in better decision making and therefore better actions. Personal change is always accompanied by a long list of critical issues that require thought and development in order to cement into a cost-benefit balance.

~8 min read

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1,482 words

Silicon Valley's dot-com boom and bust in historical context

Lecuyer, C. (2006). Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the growth of high tech, 1930-1970. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. This book illustrates the history of Silicon Valley. Lecuyer places the rise of Silicon Valley in historical context.

~8 min read

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2,695 words

Symbolism and satire in Turgenev's "Bezhin Meadows" and Dostoevsky's "Crocodile"

Entry #1 -- Bezhin Meadows -- Ivan Turgenev -- "I finally reached the corner of the woods… but there was no road there at all…an empty field was visible."

~14 min read

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1,746 words

How attribution theory helps people find meaning and control

In general terms, attribution theory explores and sheds light on aspects of the psycho-social perception of reality. More specifically, this theory refers to the way that individuals make decisions and judgments about the actions and behavior of others, as well as their own actions and emotions.

~9 min read

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5,791 words

How disability concealment shaped American presidential campaigns

The perception of American presidents as healthy and able-bodied men has always been one that served to convey confidence and support of them by voters during their campaign bids for the office.

~29 min read

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2,379 words

Richard Wagner's revolutionary music and political influence in nineteenth-century Germany

Composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist Richard Wagner lived during a vibrant time for German culture: the romantic era. Among his contemporaries were some of that country's greatest and most influential thinkers, like Nietsche, Marx, and even the twilight of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

~12 min read

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