Exploratory Approach

Many of the research methods for which the research we have reviewed is classified as either exploratory or constructive. Rape culture, victim blaming, and rape myths encompass more gray areas (uncertainties) than mere black (wrong) and white (right) understandings. As few of the studies specifically sought to gain insight in what is considered consent, therefore they exploratory research wanting to purely define and identify the miscommunication and mixed opinions of interpretations of consent, as they consider this to be a root to the problem of rape (16p.907)(8p.470)(19p.518). A couple other studies we found went a different route and chose to test theories they had relating to rape and then went on to propose solutions

Pearce, M.J., Coan, A.D., Herndon II, J.E., Koenig, H.G., & Abernethy, A.P. (2012;2011). Unmet spiritual care needs impact emotional and spiritual well-being in advanced cancer patients. Supportive Care in Cancer, 20(10), 22-69-2276. Doi:10.1007/s00520-011-1335-1.

The United States has emerged into a disciplinary society where power is not only in certain institutions or is undivided in a particular social class, but power is dispersed through the people. The oppression by abiding people to discipline helps portray the diffusion of power. In order to analyze and fully comprehend how the United States consists of a disciplinary society it is best if we look through a Foucault lens. One of the reasons why its best to look at it through Foucault’s lenses is because he has always been interested in the way that knowledge and power increase knowledge. Also, according to Foucault, people ae dominated by surveillance, knowledge and discipline.

Peaceful protest is integral to American democracy. In the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for civil rights. From the eighties into the early twenty first century, gay rights activists marched for equality. Now there are once again marches for civil rights and even for refugees, people an ocean away. However, one must look further than the superficial aims of a protest to its motives to truly discover the root of the issue, that is, the protest’s impact.

The Athenian philosopher Socrates and the American writer Henry David Thoreau had varying views on many subjects, but many were also the same. There has been a long-established controversy over the duty of a citizen in a democracy, which both philosophers had their own take on. Should the citizen obey all laws, even unjust ones? Or, should they rebel for the sake of doing what is right? Democracy is ruled by the people, for the people. In both Socrates time and Thoreau’s, the question remains on whether this was, in practice, true. The two iconic philosophers’ opinions on the duty of the citizen in a democracy, the role of conscience, and the importance of non-violent resistance, still influence people to this day. Their views augment the understanding

As an undergraduate, I initially majored in exploratory studies so that I could better assess my skills and interests to see which major would be best fit for me. It did not take long for me to decide on a major of movement and sports science because of the focus on the biomechanics of the human body. I did not know that I wanted to become a physician assistant right away. Initially I thought about becoming a physical therapist or personal trainer, since I was interested in exercise. However, it didn’t take long for me to realize that my interests were more widespread than that. I was interested in the diagnostic aspect of medicine, so I knew that I did not want to become a nurse. Of course, I considered medical school but found that the PA

The goal of this exploratory research was to uncover students’ idea of productivity. I wanted to have a better understanding of what my students thought was a good use or a bad use of their time. To better understand my students, I held discussions, administered surveys, conducted interviews, and recorded personal observations. Both Lancaster (2009) and Betz & Kayser (2017) conducted research that mainly looked at students’ opinions on their day-to-day school lives. Betz and Kayser’s (2017) research emphasized the lack of children input in a research setting and how important it is to gain their perspective. However, collecting the children’s perspective is not to then compare it with the responses of adults; it is solely to have the perspective

The purpose of this project is to introduce a possible approach and solution to address inequality in the United States public education system. As such, it presents evidence to support the claim that academic outcomes improve when children participate in school-readiness programs prior to entering primary education. Moreover, the emphasis of this project is to present the process for an exploratory analysis using the constructionist approach and basic framework of the social problem process by Joel Best (2008, pp. 33-40). First, it introduces the claim that educational outcomes are dependent on socioeconomic status, advocates for compulsory early childhood education, and proposes the Initiatory Public Education Policy. This includes

In this essay “Protesting 101” the authors state that many protests are ineffective and in order for the leaders of the country or event to listen, the people should use leverage to achieve their goal. The authors go into depth about past protest and the effectiveness of it. Many protests can have a variety of people attending the protest. The number of people can range from more than a million of people to less than 500 attendees. The authors point out that regardless of the number of people attending, it doesn’t matter because the government or institution will most likely not listen and ignore the protest.

Search term – Developmentally appropriate practices in early childhood education. Database – ERIC The National Association for the Education of Young Children issued guidelines of developmentally appropriate activities which state that children should be in control of their learning by being active participants. Young children develop mentally, physically and socially as they explore objects. I wanted to see the differences and/or benefits of having tangible objects to explore while learning. Evangelou, D., Dobbs-Oates, J., Bagiati, A., Liang, S., & Choe, J. (2010). Talking about artifacts: Preschool children’s explorations with sketches, stories, and tangible objects. Early Childhood Research and Practice, 12, 2.

A second point, often missed by Foucault’s readers is he did not always advocate direct resistance. Foucault, on the contrary, never committed to confrontational or non-confrontational avenues of resisting, and evaluating the powers which grip our lives (?:?). Thinkers should, if anything, suppress the reactionary temptation. We should always take a reflective moment as power dynamics change; doing otherwise is

One of the most popular methods for solving the class imbalance problems is sampling. The most used sampling techniques are undersampling and oversampling. In undersampling, instances of the minority and majority classes are selected randomly in order to achieve a balanced stratified sample with equal class distributions, often using all instances of the minority class and only a subset of the majority class, or undersampling both classes for even smaller subsets with equal class sizes. Alternatively, in oversampling, the cases of the under-represented class are replicated a number of times, so that the class distributions are more equal (Crone and Finlay, 2012). Mujalli et al. (2016) indicated that using balanced datasets, especially those created using oversampling techniques, improved classifying a traffic collision according to its severity and reduced the misclassification of the minority class instances.

This essay will discuss Foucault’s and Bauldrillard’s views on today’s society. Foucault sees the current state of the society as a system of domination, while Baudrillard says that the society we knew has collapsed in to a world of images produced by the mass media. Both of them focus on the cultural dimension of the progression of the society and sees society as having moved on from modernity. Though both have different views when it comes to Power, Foucault focuses on the changing nature of power and the historical circumstances which assist the rise of specific discourses while Bauldrillard on the other hand says that power is a mere product of images, signs, and simulacra generated by the mass media which makes it not real.

There have been notable demonstrations throughout history that have succeeded but most of these rallies failed to achieve changes in public policies. The hodgepodge groups that participate have no formal affiliation with one another, no clear hierarchy, and no obvious leaders. The writer argues that even though the people are trying to make a difference by taking to the streets, the government’s response to such demonstrations is disappointing as they bring about little to no change to the targeted policies. According to him, it is very easy to gather an outraged group through social media. These marches, he argues, are detrimental to the community as it either ends in a violent confrontation with the police or it just dies out because of the lack of direction in the protestors; who are not kept engaged in the political

As poststructuralism would have it, human consciousness is constructed discursively. Our subjectivity is constructed by the shifting discourses of power which endlessly speak through us, situating us here and there in particular positions and relations. In these terms we are not the authors of ourselves. We do not construct our identities, we have it written for us; the subject cannot be sovereign over the construction of selfhood. Instead the subject is decentered, in that its consciousness is always being constructed from positions outside of itself. It follows then that the individual is not a transparent representation of the self but an effect of discourse. Spivak argues that surprisingly for these figures, when Foucault and Deleuze talks about oppressed groups such as the working classes they fall back into precisely these uncritical notions of ‘sovereign subjects’ by restoring to them a fully centred consciousness. In addition they also assume that the writing of intellectuals such as themselves can serve as a transparent medium through which the voices of the oppressed can be represented. The intellectual is cast as a reliable mediator for the voices of the oppressed, a mothpiece through which the oppressed can clearly speak.