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- Creator:
- Pierson, Melinda
- Description:
- Using the Loneliness and Social Dissatisfaction Questionnaire (Asher & Wheeler, 1985), significant differences were found for loneliness and social dissatisfaction among four groups of adolescents based on class placement and rank within placement. Results indicated that general education students were significantly less lonely than special day class students. In addition, the low-achieving group of adolescents was significantly lonelier and socially dissatisfied than the high-achieving group. Research must now focus on effective interventions for specific groups of adolescents who are at higher risk for feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Suzuki, Akiyoshi
- Description:
- Yukio Mishima, a Japanese novelist well known to people across the world, was not familiar with sports in his childhood and his adolescence. In 1955, at the age of 30, he trained his body and began to enthusiastically undertake sporting activities. Both before and during his sporting phase, Mishima wrote short essays and reports on sports and martial arts in newspapers and magazines. Those prose pieces were compiled chronologically according t o their themes into a volume entitled The Collection of Yukio Mishima’s Short Essays and Reviews on Sports . The short essays and reports in the anthology evidence Mishima’s views on life and death and his philosophy of sports, evincing the progressive chan ges in his beliefs as his devotion to sports and martial arts increased.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Escalera, Feliciana Merino and Cambronero, Marcelo L.
- Description:
- The present paper analyses the terrible phenomenon of genocide, which represents a particular case of crimes against humanity. We attempt at accounting for the causes at the root of the phenomenon, starting from two concepts, which we argue as central: the notion of ‘type’ and its impact to community construction, and the concept of ideology; the latter, understood as a philosophical perversion flourishing in an unprecedented manner in the contemporary world, allows the demonization of a group and the gestation of social processes conducive to destruction, especially because the targeted group is viewed as carrying a particular community ‘type’.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Ahadiatvt, Nasrollah
- Description:
- As the number and complexity of financial reporting standards (generally accepted accounting principles [GAAP]) continue to grow, non publicly-traded companies find it increasingly expensive to use the GAAP-basis of accounting. Likewise, small and medium-sized businesses often see no benefits in seeking the services of independent certified public accountants (CPAs) to audit or review their financial statements. Previous research reveals some evidence that small businesses are turning away from the GAAP-basis and find appeals in using other bases of accounting. This study investigates the significance of using alternative accounting basis as well as the extent of CPAs involvement with small or medium-sized firms for commercial banks’ lending decisions. Because banks represent a significant source of credit in most countries, particularly for small and medium-sized companies, bankers’ perceptions of reliability of financial statements has been used as the basis for this investigation.The study uses a cross-cultural design in order to detect any significant differences between the lending practices of the American and Asian-Pacific bankers. The results indicate that while both American and Asian banks require balance sheets and income statements in considering all commercial loan applications, variations abound with respect to other financial reporting issues. However, no cross-cultural differences were found concerning the choice of the accounting basis orthe required extent of financial statement verification.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Neville, Robert Cummings
- Description:
- In contexts of political philosophy, Confucianism is frequently identified as a culture with a long evolving history in China, with branches in other countries such as Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia that were amalgamated with other local cultures, and now with a broader diaspora. In the diaspora, Confucianism usually is associated with local enclaves of East Asian people situated in other countries like “China towns.” All these parts of Confucian culture have been historically evolving and have differed from one another by how they have adapted to the larger cultural contexts. But they have continuity with one another by lineages of interpretation of core texts among the intellectuals and habits of social and ritual formation, such as an emphasis on family and filial piety. In these contexts of political philosophy, it frequently seems beside the point for non-East Asians to claim to be Confucians unless they “go native” in some East Asian culture.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Bromley, Barbara E.
- Description:
- This article explores issues of public reactions often encountered by personswith disabilities. A recent trip to Disneyland provides an opportunity to experience as well as reflect on interactions between those with and without disabilities.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Feng, Chongyi
- Description:
- This is an analysis of a moral and ideological dilemma facing the Chinese authority, with a focus on its shifting position on so-called “particularity of China”. Originally the Chinese communists were Universalists who rejected their various rivals’ arguments about Chinese "particular national conditions" in order to justify their belief in and application of Marxism in China. In those revolutionary years there was genuine rigor in their intellectual exploration, in spite of Marxist-Leninist dogmatism. The recent embracement of the concept of "Chinese characteristics" and attacks on the “universal values”, however, seem to indicate that the universalist position has been abandoned altogether to justify the current political system in a special manner. It remains to be seen whether this effort will succeed in establishing an enduring political ideology for a “rising China” or otherwise quickly vanish into oblivion just as countless ideological catchphrases before it.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Ahadiat, Nas
- Description:
- A number of professional organizations have called on accounting faculty to use technology in their courses. Given the range of technologies available, the purpose of this study is to determine what technologies have widespread applications among accounting educators. In addition, the study investigates whether differences exist among educators in their choices of technology and the extent to which they use it. The information presented in this article also can be used by administrators to develop an effective policy designed to ensure broad participation of faculty in the integration of technology into the university curriculum.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona