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Corporate Culture Business Psychology Andrea Shortell Culture matters because it is a powerful, latent, and often unconscious set of forces that determine both our individual and collective behavior, ways of perceiving, thought patterns, and values. Organizational culture in particular matters because cultural elements determine strategy, goals, and modes of operating. This essay is set out to explain the link in the cultural concepts developed through anthropology and their relation to developing and maintaining corporate culture. A theory propose... read more |
Breaking the First Two Rules English M. Alex Guthrie Chuck Palahniuk's novel Fight Club is an expression of dissatisfaction with modern society told in terms of one man's psychomachia, or mental struggle for the self. Analysis via the tenets of Freudian psychology lends insight into the actions of Fight Club's narrator, and also reinforces the novel's theme of the effects of modern culture on masculinity.... read more |
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Inheritance, Translation, Supplementation, Mythmaking English Ashley Aull With the help of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and Barbara Johnson, this paper analyzes the relationship between Ovid's "De Casu Icari," Peter Brueghel's "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus" and W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts." It tracks the evolution of Icarus as a signifier, repeatedly drowned, exhumed and manipulated in myth, theory, painting and poetry. In an examination of the roles of translation and mythmaking in artistic and theoretical re-readings, this paper ultimately including... read more |
Anger Management: an Analysis Psychology Becca Sonia Laptook Anger is a basic human emotion that transcends cultural boundaries. However, despite its universality, an exact definition agreed upon by all people is lacking. Physiologically, brain centers in the amygdala are connected to anger processing. Because the information processing that takes place in this brain structure is primitive, anger can be triggered inappropriately and without the individual's knowledge of the cause. In psychodynamic terms, past events and experiences suppressed in the u... read more |
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