Attitudes toward authority

A certain attitude towards authority (i.e. a low belief in the invincibility of a superior s wisdom) and... 

Desire to take charge, compete, be decisive, stand out Desire to be corporate leader, desire for power Positive attitude towards authority... 

After this description of the humanists literary propensities, Masson proceeds to discuss their mental habits, noting in particular their negative attitude toward authority and their rejection of dogmatism. They protest if their speech... 

The Medication Attitude Scale (MAS) was developed by the authors as a self-rating scale to quantify both general and culturally based attitudes towards... 

The author s attitude toward Leeuwenhoek s contribution to medicine is one of... 

Passage 1, lines 24—25) but does not give factual information to back this claim. The statement is important to the author s argument because he or she dtes it as one of the reasons his or her attitude toward plastic surgery has changed. 

The author s attitude toward the music of colonial New Mexico can best be described as... 

The author s attitude toward fishermen s beliefs about predicting... 

In Passage 1, the author s attitude toward the podatch can best be... 

Based on the tone of the passage, which of the following words best describes the author s attitude toward Donna ... 

Remember what you ve learned so far. Look at structure. Look for the main idea of the passage. Consider the purpose for which the passage was written. What clues can you deduce from the writing style about the author s attitude toward the subject Is the attitude positive Negative Objective Try to pick out individual words that further each writer s intent and support each writer s opinion. If it helps, underline or make notes on important points. Active reading techniques like these will keep you focused on some very detailed reading comprehension passages. 

As you begin to read the poems in this section, it is important to understand who is speaking in the poem. (The speaker may not be the poet.) Once you can identify the narrator, you should be able to get an idea of the narrator s attitude toward the subject, and this is easily discovered by the author s word choice. Through the images that the words make, you should be able to answer the questions correctly. 

Besides studies and surveys, which are available in limited numbers, general publications on factors that influence consumer decision can be considered as well. Most of the authors agree that customer satisfaction is the key factor for a positive attitude towards a new technology, and this can only be achieved if the services offered by this technology exceed the old ones. However, many agree that customer satisfaction is a very subjective matter and depends on a number of personal factors, such as personality, education and interests, so that universal selling arguments are hard to find. 

Now, the author of this book may lay claim to being a humble student of both Chemistry and what may be generalised under the terms Mysticism and Transcendentalism and he hopes that this perhaps rather unusual combination of studies has enabled him to take a broad-minded view of the theories of the alchemists, and to adopt a sympathetic attitude towards them. 

Thesis statement Both the Perrault and Grimm Brothers versions of Little Red Riding Hood reveal the authors negative attitudes toward women. 

In my opinion it would be a great tragedy for science if the theory of gases were temporarily thrown into oblivion because of a momentary hostile attitude toward it, as for example was the wave theory because of Newton s authority. 

In a discussion of public attitudes towards AIDS and homosexuality, the same authors formulate and test the following hypothesis ... 

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