Tendency

of the word “Trend” continued on for upwards of two hundred years or so. It wasn’t until 1863 that the meaning of “Trend” that we know today was first recorded. In this record, they used the word “Trend” to mean, “Sense of having a general tendency” This tendency can be of any topic. From fashion all the way to sports all the way to technology The change of meaning with the word “trend” is nothing new. When looking back in history, we can see plenty of word whose present meanings are completely…

individual's psychological well-being. Research published in the Indian Journal of Positive Psychology tested the levels of perfectionism and personality in secondary education students. The results found that students who express higher perfectionist tendencies had lower levels of happiness (Talebi, 2014). Lower levels of happiness in these individuals may be due to the higher standard they set for themselves. Contentment and “satisfaction” could result in a person feeling happiness, but if one…

Considering the ecommerce growth in the United States is 14%, can make you think the mortar and brick business are close to disappear, but the new tendencies shows something different, a good example are Walmart and Macys, they continue growing their business with their mortar and brick stores but also integrate the online shopping to its marketing strategy to maintain competitive in the retail industry. Business needs to embrace technology to remain competitive and a good way of doing it is to…

another digital device (Oxford Dictionary), today many selfies are taken by individuals are then uploaded to social media sites such as Facebook, and Instagram. Concern has been raised whether taking a large magnitude of selfies creates narcissistic tendencies in people. By investigating selfies I hope to show that while selfies can cause narcissism, there are positive factors for taking selfies. Using both a positivist and an interpretive approach allows…

where nature does not seem to play a role. There was a case, named David Berkowitz. He was a polite individual, and by appearances, his environment had appeared to be “normal”. It has been said that there are no warning signs of any serial killer tendencies found within Berkowitz and that his parents were great parents. However, people in his neighborhood had noticed that Berkowitz would eventually garner into a person who would release streaks of violence. Many psychologists have evaluated this…

high range. The report said, “People with high scores on this dimension have a strong tendency to actively organize the speaker's ideas into meaningful categories” (McShane, 2009.). The final area in the report was Showing Interest; my score was an eight from a zero to nine scale, which falls to the high range. The provide feedback stated, “People with high scores on this dimension have a strong tendency to use nonverbal gestures or brief verbal acknowledgements to demonstrate that…

Paddock’s movements and tendencies leading up to the attack. Diagnosis requires 2 of the following symptoms for 1 month, delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly abnormal psychomotor behavior, and negative symptoms. Eagleman identifies that schizophrenia is a young…

America brought European settlers and with them came a tendency to ostracize and misinterpret the natives who lived here. Due to the many cultural differences between the settlers and the natives, forming positive relationships that encouraged an accurate understanding of the other culture was difficult. Tensions arose from this and the Europeans and the natives fought hard against each other to claim the land as their own. In these conflicts the tendency to project ideas onto the other party…

type of measures that can be applied to them. Measures in descriptive statistics to describe the data set under investigation include measures of central tendency and measures of variability. A measure of central tendency is a single value that attempts to describe a set of data by identifying the central position. The measures of central tendency include mean, median and mode. The mean is equal to the sum of all the values in the data set divided by the number of values in the data set.…

horrors of war await us (Williams, 2002). Hobbes state of nature is one that is meant to be a powerful and deadly threat, preventing the natural violent tendencies of mankind. Those who are opposed believe that a person's judgement and reasonable sense would prevent an uproar. The issue being that the different morals, judgements, and violent tendencies among people is what would cause an uproar in the first…