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A descriptive essay is an essay that describes something like a person, location, thing, event, or process.  Descriptive essays can be non-fiction, but they can also be fiction.  The goal is to allow the reader to visualize whatever is being described.  Good descriptive essays evoke all of the senses, so that the reader knows how what is being described looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and feels.

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Paper Undergraduate
Organizational Structure, Culture, and Knowledge Dynamics
The paper highlights the role that knowledge base/information has in shaping the structure and culture of contemporary organizations today. In the analysis, three articles were reviewed to demonstrate this point. First article discussed explored the relationship between knowledge base and organizational structure, wherein the level of knowledge an organization possesses ultimately determines the structure and model it chooses to adhere to. The second article underscores the importance of knowledge about culture in determining the likely organizational culture in terms of employer-employee relationships. Lastly, organizational memory is linked with organizational structure, citing codification of information and electronic communication as catalysts to enhancing or improving organizational memory among members/employees.
Paper Doctorate
Criminalizing HIV Transmission in Africa: Laws, Rights, and Debate
The government of Africa has been moving toward criminalization of HIV transmission in its attempts to respond to the rising numbers of HIV infections however, those who advocate for human rights are concerned that these laws result in a violation of the rights of individuals living with HIV and ultimately resulting in the marginalization of these individuals. As well, it has been argued that laws criminalizing transmission of AIDS are counterproductive to the reason for their creation, which is that of slowing the rate of transmission and infection of HIV. There are arguments both for and against criminalization of HIV transmission that are valid and worthy of consideration. The question addressed in this research study is one asking if criminalization of HIV transmission is a valid option to slowing the rate of infection among the population.
Research Paper Doctorate
ADDIE Model Limitations and Instructional Design Alternatives
The ADDIE model is a problem solving process that has emerged in the last 30 years as the key process that is used to design, develop and implement training for medical students. Instructional design is the systematic…
Research Paper Doctorate
Qualitative Language in Research: Criticism and Understanding
¶ … language facilitates criticism and understanding? Why or Why not?
Essay Doctorate
Year 3 Science Literacy Assessment and Teaching Sequence
Literacy in Context Assessment -- Science
Paper Undergraduate
Kroeber and Kluckhohn's Definition of Culture Explained
Alfred Kroeber and Kluckhohn Clyde are the two leading anthropologists of America who considered the stock of definitions of culture, sorted out the common points and came up with a comprehensive definition of culture…
Research Paper Doctorate
Walter Fisher's Narrative Paradigm Theory Explained
¶ … relied upon within the world of communications. This discussion will focus on the theory of narrative paradigm. We will discuss when and why the theory developed and how the theory of narrative paradigm has been…
Paper Undergraduate
Horizontal Violence in Nursing: Prevalence and Workplace Impact
The core of the nursing profession is undermined by Horizontal violence. Horizontal violence affects the quality of health care that is delivered in institutions where this repugnant behavior occurs.
Thesis Undergraduate
Descriptive vs. Inferential Statistics in Psychology
Descriptive statistics is an style of analysis that is used when wanting to describe the entire population under study. But the population studied must be small enough to include every case, or each subject.
Paper Doctorate
Gender and Orientalism in Hwang's M. Butterfly
This paper analyzes David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer-Prize-winning drama "M. Butterfly" in terms of how it constructs a drama out of cultural preconceptions. The paper uses the argument made by Edward Said in "Orientalism" to understand the cultural differences in "M. Butterfly" as being imagined largely in terms of gender differences. The way in which "M. Butterfly" constructs itself in terms of gender-reversal is shown to be part of the way whereby a Chinese-American author appeals to a largely white American audience.