... the connection between gender and helping behavior as well as the number of bystanders in relation to whether it will increase the willingness to help. This is to uncover the relationship between these factors, so people can be more prepared when faced with an emergency to know if they will receive any form of aid. By studying helping behavior, we can come up with ways to increase and promote helping behavior among the general public in order to bring about a caring and helping society. Stereotypically it is assumed that females would be more helpful than males, since they are perceived to be more expressive, caring and empathetic. This has been supported by a ...

... was slavery. With this slavery came accounts of cruelty and disillusioned violence. Without help from first hand accounts of slaves such as Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano, we would have never emerged from this dark era in American history. American music is the envy of nations around the world. From Led Zeppelin to Snoop Doggy Dog, American music continues to diversify and grow. American bands develop large masses of followers in nations of all different ethnic backgrounds. From Asia to Germany, American music continues to influence the music styles of the rest of the world. Proud American men and women joined the armed forces to ...

... 20 minutes. After this period I was told my mother was suffering from minor depression. I asked that she be retained in the hospital against her will if needed be, because of her suicidal threats and strange behavior. He then told me that she could not held involuntarily, but if she volunteered then she could stay. Because I felt she definitely needed help, I was forced to try to convince her to volunteer. She admitted to the counselor that she wanted to die, and I felt this was reason enough to detain her. I left the hospital that night only to have my mother call me in the morning at 8:00 am to be picked up. She had not seen, been treated by, ...

... varies. The perceived improvements of studied MkIS usage were higher in marketing than sales tasks. These findings indicated that instead of one MkIS, organizations would be better advised to develop MkIS sub-systems to support the different steps in the marketing management process and also sub-systems to support sales activities directly, although still allowing technical and functional integration when needed. According to marketing managers surveyed, those who invested in more sophisticated MkIS sub-systems such as direct mailing and telemarketing systems, have achieved good results in implementing and controlling their marketing efforts. Later discusses the ...

... Aggies had only 11 players left standing and all of them were on the field. One more injury and the Aggies would have to forfeit the game. Coach D.X. Bible looked up in the stands and found E. King Gill, a former football player and current basketball player, and asked him to come down and suit up. When interviewed later Gill remarked: "I wish I could say I went in a scored the winning touch down but I didn't, all I did was stand by ready to go in case my team needed me (Parks No 4., 108)." Although he didn't play in that game, he was ready and able to go in and give it his best. This readiness to support the team inspired the rest of the Aggies, and to this day, ...

... major wars such as the Napoleonic Wars and World Wars I and II, prices again moved upward. In the 1950s and '60s a so-called creeping inflation occurred, when the general price level in the United States and Western Europe rose by an average of 1 to 5 percent each year. In the 1970s inflation increased until it reached as much as 13 percent a year in the United States. Many countries have suffered from inflation more than has the United States. Israel had inflation of more than 100 percent a year in the early 1980s, meaning that the cost of living more than doubled every year. In Argentina inflation was greater than 400 percent in 1975 and averaged more than 100 pe ...

... land for farming than anywhere else in the developed world. At the time the U.S. Constitution was written, it was generally assumed that only property owners should have the right to vote and participate in government. The "Free Labor" thinking of the Republican Party before the Civil War was basically a form of the capitalist work ethic. It meant that if 1) you were free yourself; 2) your country was "free"; and, 3) there was no slave labor to take your livelihood, you could "make something of yourself," and become a capitalist or, at least, an independent producer, professional or artist. Americans in the North at that time were influenced by this capitalist "w ...

... support for self-directed inquirers. One role of the adult education can be stated positively as helping individuals to develop the attitude that learning is lifelong process and to acquire the skills of self-directed learning. Another ultimate need of individuals is to achieve complete self-identity. A third ultimate need of individuals is to mature. In this paper, the researcher is approaching methods to help adult learners to develop themselves with strong confidence. So it is very important to develop skills increasing adult learners through self-directness and self-efficacy. Since Brandura¡¯s (1997) original paper, self-efficacy theory has been applied in ...

... what beliefs should be taught. Religion is private and schools are public. Having any prayer in school goes against the basis in which our country was formed upon. America came into being because colonists wanted religious freedom. Our founding fathers carefully wrote the constitution to grant the freedom of separation of church and state. A prayer created and supported by a government violate the very essence of the spirit in which the US was formed. (Haas35) Therefore, having a prayer in school would be unconstitutional. “A radical amendment would attack the heart and soul of the bill of rights which safeguards the rights of the individual from tyranny of the i ...

... known to have happened in history. This means that biblical are historically unknowable. "In response, it has been shown that this argument engages in special pleading and begging the question in favor of naturalism" (Geisler 1992:82). As Christians we believe in the historical view of the biblical . Christians believe that the Bible is God's revelation of His involvement int he history of the world. "When God acts in history, He leaves behind His ‘fingerprints'. By examining the biblical record we can discover those distinctive characteristics of God's imprint" ( Geiser 1988:24). Raising of the dead is an event that shows the power of God. The most compel ...