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What is Resilience?

Resilience is the capacity of individuals, groups, or systems to adapt positively in the face of adversity, challenges, and significant stress. It appears as a subject of study across psychology, education, social work, child development, organizational behavior, and military leadership courses. What makes resilience academically compelling is that it sits at the intersection of nature and environment — researchers debate how much of resilience is innate versus shaped by familial, communal, cultural, and societal factors. Because it touches nearly every aspect of human development and institutional function, instructors across disciplines assign it as a lens for understanding how people and organizations sustain function under pressure.

The papers collected here reflect a wide range of approaches. Some take a developmental angle, examining how resilience forms in early childhood and how social and emotional growth supports children's emerging autonomy and agency. Others use case-study analysis, applying resilience frameworks to individual subjects like the Antonio case. Several papers look outward at institutional contexts — exploring employee engagement, military leadership training, and supply chain logistics as arenas where resilience operates. Comparative and literature-review approaches also appear, weighing how resilience is defined across personal, familial, and societal levels, including the long-term effects of events like divorce on children's adaptive capacity.

A strong essay on resilience begins with a precise, scoped thesis that commits to a specific population, context, or definition rather than treating resilience as a vague positive trait. Evidence drawn from peer-reviewed research on developmental outcomes, caregiver behavior, or organizational performance carries the most weight. The most common pitfall is conflating resilience with stubbornness or simple persistence — a rigorous essay distinguishes adaptive, growth-oriented responses from mere inflexibility, grounding that distinction clearly in the literature.

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Positive thinking and Descartes' philosophy in achieving long-term life goals

¶ … Philosopher Rene Descartes wrote, "I think, therefore I am." While Descartes used this phrase to put into perspective his beliefs on the philosophical debate of existence, this quote resonates to most philosophical…

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Managerial likeability and connectedness in the international workplace

This paper concludes the dissertation on likeability by providing an assessment of respondents' answers to the questionnaire discussed in the first half of the dissertation. It analyzes the answers and attempts to discover a better notion of how likeability affects the international workplace environment across cultures. It concludes with suggestions for future study.

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Emotional literacy in education as a mechanism for social control

At the core of becoming an activist educator

Paper Undergraduate

Substance abuse as a primary cause of homelessness in youth

Substance abuse in homeless youth presents a truly daunting problem to the professional healthcare community. This issue is actually two: homelessness and drug addiction and thus needs to be treated in the most specific and dynamic manner possible. First, however, professionals in the field must seek to understand this phenomenon: the circumstances which both create and perpetuate it.

Essay Doctorate

Emotional intelligence and success in building a South American organic business

¶ … small company and brand from scratch. Owner is a woman from South America, with limited knowledge about business. She decides to go to college to learn economics while growing the company.

Essay Doctorate

Susan Ludvigson's "The Lilies of Landsford Canal": poetic imagery and technique

Susan Ludvigson was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on February 13, 1942 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls in 1965 with majors in English and psychology. She taught English in various Junior high schools before finishing a master's degree in English at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She began the PhD program in English at the University of South Carolina, taking classes with James Dickey, but was offered a job at Winthrop University. Ludvigson lives in South Carolina. and was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 2009. The essay is annotations on her poem "The Lilies of Landsford Canal"

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Sexual factors affecting human behavior and rape: a cultural analysis

Rape is widely regarded as a global health threat. This paper provides a review of the relevant literature concerning rape including how human behavioralists view these issues. An examination of cultural factors that affect the perception and impact of rape is followed by a summary of the research and important findings in the conclusion.

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Lord of the Flies characters and their symbolic roles

Lord of the Flies ONE: Main characters, setting, plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution. The four main characters The main characters – Ralph, Piggy, Jack and Simon – play critically important roles in the novel, and each has a pivotal part in the plot and the exposition. Ralph is presented as the organized person, the athletic and productive person among the group. Ralph is a good-looking boy, better looking than the others and yet he is the quintessential average English boy. Ralph had pretty good spoken language skills, but when things get stressful, he can't always find the correct words to express what needs to be said. On pages 101-102, for example, Ralph was approaching the boys, who were assembled for one of their meetings; "…he went over the important points of his speech… he lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them." Early in the novel Ralph is incredulous at the barbaric behaviors of some of the boys, but later in the novel he gets swept away by the frenzied dancing related to the hunting of a boar and the killing of Simon.

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Hochschild and Machung's "The Second Shift" and working women's burden

Arlie Hochschild and Anne Machung's book, The Second Shift, focuses on the ways in which women and men in two-career marriages juggle both work pressures and their families' needs. The authors place a great deal of emphasis on the struggles to deal with the demands of work and the demands of the home in a manner that questions the concepts of work, family and gender in a way that has been highly debated and cited since the book's initial publication in the late 1980s. In presenting a new description of the life so many individuals live but barely have time to understand, Hochschild and Machung validate the struggles of the working woman as they attempt to resolve the "stalled revolution" of shared responsibility between themselves and the men in their lives in terms of duties at home and in the workplace.

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Karen Horney's theory of self-actualization and neurosis

Karen Horney was a leading reformer and theorist in the field of psychology and psychoanalysis. One of the first major proponents of feminine psychology, Horney's ideas can be considered neo-Freudian.

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