). With divorce rates near the 50% level (Carlson & Meyer, 2014), maybe such advice needs to be challenged by hard reality before the authors do more damage than good
An Evidence-Based Remedy The Ideal Standards Model (ISM) may provide a hedge against increased relationship instability and the growing problem of family complexity. This model assumes that most, if not all, people use a set of ideal standards for evaluating whether a person could be a viable long-term intimate partner (Fletcher & Simpson, 2000)
Pay attention to your emotions. Feeling dejected may be an indication that the prospective partner has failed to meet the minimum acceptable level for an ideal standard that you value (Lackenbauer & Campbell, 2012)
In other words, the greater the discrepancy the more likely the relationship will fail and contribute to family complexity. Flexibility, on the other hand, represents the difference between a maximally fulfilled ideal standard and the minimum acceptable level for this standard (Tran, Simpson, Fletcher, 2008, p
He pointed out that American slaves are humans, and made by the same God who created the white man. Abraham Lincoln stressed this opinion by stating "that 'I never in my life was more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing' the Emancipation Proclamation into military law on January 1, 1863 (Guelzo, 2002)
Someone to Admire Scholars "routinely rate the presidency of Abraham Lincoln as the most outstanding in American history. Lincoln is 'so much a part of what it means to be American that for us to know Abraham Lincoln is to know America at its core' wrote one such scholar (Skidmore, 2002)
Therefore, it is beyond doubt that we exercise our emotional intelligence on our daily basis. Similarly, emotional intelligence enables us to behave in accordance with the desired social rules and regulations (Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee, 2002)
In addition, cultural change is evidenced by the fact that technological adoption seen in the current century has changed cultural perspectives of different societies across the globe. People of the 18th century relied heavily of autocracy while those of the current society rely heavily on democracy (Macleod, 2004)
Individuals can be classified as the talent smart (90% emotional intelligent), low performers (80%), and poor performers (below 70%). Irrespective of the emotional intelligence level, human beings use their emotional intelligence in their daily lives to execute as expected (Matthews, Zeidner & Roberts, 2002)
For example, scholars consider factors such as ability to be stable, effort, or internal cause, thereby, it qualification as locus of stability. Dimension of controllability focuses on contrasting the causes an individual can have control over them such as efficacy and skills (Stewart, 2006)
Moreover, we exercise our emotional intelligence when we read and understand social cues. Our demonstration to read and understand the social cues is evidenced by our abilities to interpret physical, emotional, and verbal expressions of other people (Zelen, 1991)
Wakefulness is yet another term that will feature to refer to the ability and the duration that participants are able to comfortably pay attention to academic issues in class or library. Sleep deprivation (Steadyhealth, 2007) is yet another term that will be predominantly used in this case to refer to the lack of sleep hours that are equal to the average sleep hours that will have been calculated from the collected data in the research
There will be a deep analysis of what had been written about the sleep trends and the activity of the human brain, the optimum sleep hours required for optimum performance. Some of the search terms that will feature in this research literature will be cognitive ability (Thoracic Sleep Group, 2010) to refer to the extent to which the various participants are able to recognize concepts and imbibe them
Bringing children with special needs into a mainstream classroom is not a new idea, but has in fact been employed in myriad educational settings -- with various levels of success. An article in the peer-reviewed Journal of Learning Disability Quarterly (Bakker, et al
Once again, parental involved with their children's education activities proves to be significant boost to the child's chances for success. In a study published in the Journal of Applied Behavior (Chaabane, et al
Moreover, there was a 90% satisfaction rate reported by the parent participants (Solomon). Another successful intervention involving the parents of autism spectrum disorder, published in the journal Pediatrics (Dawson, et al
The results show that when mothers receive training from the schools, children showed "less externalizing problems and more emotional regulation" than the general classroom integration produced. Meanwhile an article published in the Journal of Intellectual Disability Research (McIntyre, 2008) alludes to a study in which twenty-five families -- their children were considered "at risk" individuals -- got involved with interventions that required two-and-a-half hour sessions each week for twelve weeks
But published scholarly, peer-reviewed research is available that reports there can be successful outcomes for teachers and their learning disabled students when embracing parents as part of the intervention process to help bring these needy students to a higher place in their learning. For example, an article in the Journal of Autism (Solomon, et al
According to Fox News that was the biggest one-day fundraiser ever seen" (How Technology Changed Politics, 2011). The beginning of the Internet era and introduction of technologies such as email lists and social media have had an extraordinary impact on American politics (Davy, 2010)
Although his candidacy failed, it left a foundation of activists, known as the netroots, who mostly supported Obama in the 2008 race. "Obama's campaign utilized them extensively, creating a regimented campaign that out-fought and out-thought John McCain" (Harris & Smith, 2008)