Thompson River University (TRU ) • Business & Marketing

1. Explain the laws of nature as described by Hobbes (two) According to Hobbes the law of nature is encoded in our innate human faculties. There are two of such laws that Hobbes asserts: the first one it is in the best interest of every man to maintain as much peace as he himself would wish to have. If all men were to seek this peace to the extent that they themselves need and benefit from it, Hobbes argues that then all men would have peace. But in instances where one cannot find peace eve...

Employees and clients are two different target audiences. Each of the two writings observes the setting and situation of each audience. Clients have authority over the company. This means that the letter to this target audience had to address it with refined and invitational language. The hierarchy for the employee audience is reversed. The language and sentence construction is direct and authoritative. The demographics are also different. Clients do not necessarily have anything in common. Empl...

In his article, The Men We Carry in Our Minds, Scott Russel wonders through the years of his childhood. He recalls his first encounter with men; his father, and field workers in a cotton field toiling away under heavy guard and extreme conditions. He was just a young boy. Too young to perceive the difference between men and women and the roles each played in society. The men he remembers were hardworking men, most of them worked menial jobs and spent evening and weekends doing more menial work a...

Solomon Asch conducted his 1952 conformity experiment to investigate to what extent an individual in a group would conform to the influence of the majority

Define Regression and cite an example that demonstrates Hank’s regressive behavior’ Define and cites an example of one other defense mechanism that Hank uses. At what stage is Hank fixated, according to the Freudian perspective? Find evidence of fixation in the case. What would have caused the fixation? Which part of the structure of personality does Hank display most according to Freudian theory? What Therapeutic techniques would a Freudian therapist use? What level of consciousness wo...