Other Essays (Examples)

Nurse
How to gain a comprehensive and well-founded knowledge of nursing as a student?

As a student, it is important to keep an open mind when gathering knowledge of this profession. This attitude is most important in my opinion because of the continual changes the medicine world offers on a fairly regular basis. New treatments and new ailments arise consistently and it is up to a nurse's education to guide this process of examining and treating unknown problems. Comprehension requires a total and full understanding of the entire situation. Remaining overly focused on just the medical aspects of a nurses duties amidst certain other important aspects of this career such as the human aspects that cannot be taught. Knowledge and understanding requires the correct mental framework to fully maximize the potential of its power.

How other disciplines relate to nursing

Besides the obvious disciplines related to nursing, such as all things dealing with medicine,…

ind -- Science Fiction for Adults, a Drama of the Human Heart and Mind rather than Light-Sabers
Ursula Le Guin, the Modern Female Conscience of Science Fiction

Ursula Le Guin is one of the most highly respected authors of fantasy and science fiction of the 20th century. The award-winning Le Guin has long been praised for combining traditional elements of literary fiction, science fiction; with philosophical and ethical speculations on ways humans have experimented with alternative societies and philosophies as well as technology. Thus, Le Guin writes from a subjective humanist perspective, usually avoiding technical sciences as physics and chemistry in favor of cultural anthropology, political science, and psychology. This made her write 'against the grain' of other of her fellow contemporary science fiction authors when she began to gain fame in the 1960's. Her multifaceted focus has enabled her to remain popular today, long after the technological obsessions of travel…

In the Arab world, it can get that woman killed…literally. That is not to say that is the norm, but it's a commonly discussed and accepted precept with much (but notably not all) of the Arab sphere. Similarly, honor killings are considered acceptable, even with some people that have immigrated to countries that consider it cold-blooded murder.
As for whether anything has changed in the recent past that might change the tone and feel of this argument, the answer is not a lot. There is clearly a dichotomy in this world with the Western world (Europe and the United States) generally getting more permissive while much of the Arab world takes on a general anti-Western tone and actively resists any influence from the West. The chances of that fading away as a conflict, whether it be ideological or physical (and the latter does happen), is very slim. What is not…

Humanities and Other Modes of Human Inquiry and Expression
• Define the term humanities

Humanities are a term that encompasses many individual study and sciences. There can be a two way classification of all human knowledge. First is the knowledge of the space around us, but not directly linked to humans. For example, the study of physics, botany or astronomy does not involve expressions from human emotion and nor do they reflect human behavior or needs. They are more or less functional knowledge that can be used as technical knowledge for building and creating things or understanding nature. They have specific rules, methods and human thoughts have no place in the system. For example, in classifying plants, the human feeling of the beauty of a rose has no meaning. On the other hand this knowledge has no meaning either unless the knowledge serves humans. (Austin, 2009)

But the humanities is an order that…

Classical Symphony
Music, like other forms of art, evolved from numerous traditions that, when taken together, formed a new way of thinking about, and performing, certain types of works. Audiences change over time, and certain musical compositions that sound odd or strange to one audience are often accepted by others (e.g. The rioting during the premier of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring). hen people think of classical music, for instance, they tend to think of the three B's (Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms). Certainly, these three giants of music were part of the evolution from the Baroque to the Romantic, each building upon one another's work over two centuries. However, in that time there were numerous other composers who helped develop and forever change harmony, theory, instrumentation, and all manner of musical interpretation. e will begin with an overview of the Baroque era as a basis for our study of the classical symphony,…

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In spite of the fact that she is recognized for her work as an anthropologist and an ethnographer, it is difficult to determine the exact effect that her influence that this work had on her and on her writings. Given that she was coming from an environment that was somewhat similar to the hoodoo-related communities that she dealt with, it only seems normal for her to put across biased concepts at times. Her association with the Harlem Renaissance however makes her different from the people that she interviewed. Given her upbringing in the Harlem community and the fact that she was experienced in inter-human relations, her perspective in regard to hoodoo and magic practitioners must have been rather objective. To a certain degree, she was advantaged in communicating with African-Americans in the rural South as a result of her childhood experiences in the Eatonville community ("Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960,"…

Standards: The standards the university will set for itself are as follows

Maintain tuition at current rates (allowing for inflation).

Maintain or increase measures of demographic diversity.

No significant decrease in students with financial need as percentage of incoming class.

Maintain top faculty.

Historic: Historic expenditures of university regarding tuition, financial aid, and student services can be used for comparison.

Step 8: Action steps

Look back at the goal and objectives you developed last week for Step 5 of your strategic plan. Outline a series of action steps that could be implemented to achieve them; include a timeline.

Step 1: Audit of university expenditures: effective immediately

Step 2: Hiring freeze on faculty and administrative personnel. Replace retiring members with graduate students and adjunct faculty who do not receive benefits. Examine possibility of administrative staff reduction, letting go non-tenured faculty (especially in majors with few students) and consolidation of academic departments: Notify staff immediately about possibility of layoffs. Layoffs and…

Mergers, acquisition and other types of multi-entity deals have been common instruments in the economy to increase market share, gain new businesses and customers, expand the business and become more competitive. More and more in the last years, this practice has been common in the health industry, with hospitals attempting to achieve similar objectives through mergers and multi-hospital deals. An issue in their case, however, is that the health sector has its own particularities that may have an impact on whether market share can actually be gained with such means or whether internal and external factors create sufficient pressures to impede the process of increasing market share.
Adamopoulos (2013) argues that consolidation in the health sector (through mergers and acquisitions) is the only way that hospitals are going to be able to face an increasingly challenging environment that includes rising costs and new medical problems. This seems a coherent and…

Another technique to draw out group members is the use of a 'round' in which every group member is sequentially asked to volunteer information without commenting on the previous individual's words. This ensures that every member of the group has to participate but makes the experience far less threatening since everyone is speaking and the reluctant member can be less worried about negative feedback, since participation takes place in a non-judgmental context.
Not all exercises and techniques to draw out group members need to be so formalized, of course. Simply using friendly eye contact can make group members feel more welcomed and eager to participate. Activities that can be useful for all members can have the added benefit of drawing out group members. For example, having group members interview one another on the first day and 'present' their interview subject when the group reconvenes is one way to encourage all…

They were able to hear white masters with new voices renouncing this mastery. The Caribbean artists "were not only digesting Surrealism; they were, in fact, making it Caribbean" (68). Wilfred Lam's "The Jungle" includes both Surrealist and Picasso's flavor and also a unique Caribbean quality that displays "the interdependence of people, ancestors, spirits and natural elements" (68), mixed with undercurrents of colonialism and slavery, such as the symbolism of the tobacco leaves and sugar cane. Breton said Surrealism offered artists a mode of revolutionary thinking to "leap into the unknown" (70). The Aime Cesaire poem (67) "Notebook of a return to my native land," was considered by Breton to be one of the great prose-poetry works of the 20th century, parented by the three literary movements of the negritude, Harlem Renaissance, and French Surrealism.
p. 68 Mabille reads Lam's work with voodoo reference. Compares it to Hitler's cohorts in Europe.

"Mabille's…

As Baldwin indicates in "If Black Language Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me What is?" "It goes without saying, then, that language is also a political instrument, means, and proof of power. It is the most vivid and crucial key to identify: It reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from, the larger, public, or communal identity." This concept can be readily demonstrated in Anzaldua's essay, in which the power of language is repressed by her school teachers when the author was still a school girl. "I remember being caught speaking Spanish at recess -- that was good for three licks on the knuckles with a sharp ruler. I remember being sent to the corner of the classroom for "talking back" to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name" (Anzaldua 2947). The power of…

Malcolm X's contributions to the civil rights movement cannot be viewed in isolation, without taking into account his influences and contextual variables. By the time Malcolm X wrote his Autobiography, he had already developed a well-articulated and logical political philosophy. His influences as stated in his autobiography include Marcus Garvey, from where Malcolm X's father learned the ideas he passed onto his son. It was Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam that had the most formative personal influence on Malcolm X Although he does not explicitly refer to .E.B. DuBois, Booker T. ashington, or even much to his contemporary Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., these thinkers did have some influence on Malcolm X because of their great influence on American culture in general. Malcolm X did develop his political and social philosophies in light of the views and methods of King, DuBois, and ashington. hile all of these prominent…

Nursing alary Inequity for Florida RN, other states and gender / I choose Quantitative Research.
Explain your choice of subjects for your research (the sample).

Identify how you will recruit the participants for your research proposal.

Include a minimum of two scholarly references.

Qualitative research differs from quantitative in that the second uses statistics and is a data-based study testing the validity and reliability of a hypothesis. It is used to formulate an employ mathematical models, theories and/or hypotheses regarding the subject. The researcher asks a specific narrow question and collects statistical data to answer it. He or she is then hoping to use that data and apply it to similar instances. Qualitative studies, on the other hand, collect more information on a certain topic rather than testing the validity of the hypothesis. It asks broad questions and interviews participants collecting word data rather than quantitative results. Qualitative studies are, therefore, beneficial for…

This takes him to the house of rich man in town, Sabas, but when he arrives "he wished he had arrived an hour later and missed Sabas" (165). This is because Sabas was evil and corruption personified. He was not born rich but had taken advantage of the political situation of the country and was now reaping the rewards of his clever political manipulation. It is at Sabas' place where the colonel meets a young doctor who plays a significant role later as he tries to restore "health" to the colonel's household which was trapped in a time-frame. The colonel and his wife are unable to move beyond a certain point in their lives because of constantly waiting for the mail which colonel believes is the only possible way they can live with dignity for the rest of their lives. It is through the doctor that we learn about…

muckrakers and other progressives-U.S. late 1800s
In writing about the muckrakers and the other progressives who sought to effect social change at the turn of the 20th century, it is important to note the nature of that change. Most progressives actually believed in the United States social system and its extensions into areas of finance, industrialization, sanitation, and more that Progressives were concerned about during this era. They simply wanted to fix these things, rather than completely overhaul them or set up new social systems and institutions. To that end, muckrakers and other progressives effectively wrought social change by working within and with the current system. They created action at the federal, state and local levels by disseminating information and motivating people to action that sought to help the weaker elements of the country -- those that were exploited by big business and industry, and many of the other developments created…

Corruption
Anti-Corruption

No one is immune from the power of corruption. Of course there are orders of magnitude and people can be corrupted in little ways that do not seem to matter, but many times the people that are corrupted are the very ones who are supposed to be manning the public trust. The very people citizens hope are the most incorruptible are, unfortunately, the most susceptible. Lord Acton said that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you super-add the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority."[footnoteef:1] Because these people have power they tend to believe that they are somehow above the law that they set for other people. Society sometimes seems to be made for the politicians and large business owners who control most of the money, or, at…

E-Commerce
During the last few years there has been an increase in online fraud of global scope and geometrically increasing proportions. Additionally, there are amateur fraud artists around the world who troll the Internet for credit card and financial information to use for fraudulent purposes. Thieves are reaping high rewards at the expense of both the target and the online retailer. obinson (2013) agreed when he wrote "credit card fraud on the Internet has reached gigantic proportions, and the merchants providing goods and services over the net are suffering tremendous losses through chargebacks from the financial institutions who serve the targeted credit card holders. " Merchants who offer a product or service online have to take the risk of losing the cost of the product sold online, plus the added cost of chargeback fees, and they even face the possibility of having their merchant account terminated by the financial institutions serving…

mental discipline in Buddhism, based on Jean Smith's Radiant Mind: Essential Buddhist Teaching and Texts.
BUDDHISM

Buddhism has been called a religion, a philosophy, an ideology and simply a way of life. Buddhism has withstood the test of time along with the other great spiritual traditions. It offers many different paths for people with different needs, capacities, and sensibilities. Many view this diversity as a refreshing alternative to doctrinal rigidity (Smith,1999). However, it's important to maintain respect for the differences, and to keep in mind the historic distinctions that exist within all religions and within all cultures. Some approach the spiritual life to comfort themselves and to soften the harsh experiences of life such as illness, loss, death, and grief. But many are drawn to the communal activity of ritual that offers a powerful experience of transcending the boundaries of the individual self in order to participate in a greater, more…

Spirituality in Nursing
My Spiritual Journey

As I contemplate the type of nurse I hope to become, it is impossible to do so without giving thought to my own life and how my experiences and spiritual beliefs in the Christian faith have shaped me and my leanings towards my chosen profession. For me, spirituality is about many things -- hope and strength, trust, meaning and purpose, forgiveness, a higher power, the values of others and love and relationships. Spiritual care is a fundamental part of nursing and through the lens in which I see the world, I believe it is about meeting people at the point of deepest need. I believe that to treat a patient holistically I have to attend to their spiritual needs with the same attention, dedication and commitment I give their physical needs. This is a central part of the human experience and the fastest way to help…

The world is more interconnected now than ever before, both with technological tools and also with population migrations that are occurring on an unprecedented scale. People who grow up in pluralistic, heterogeneous societies like the United States, India, or Canada take cultural diversity for granted. However, many people around the world live in homogenous societies with little contact with other cultures other than through what they read about or see in media. Plurality in a diverse society does not, however, automatically lead to social harmony or understanding. In fact, the United States continues to struggle with racist elements in its own society. Places like India that have for centuries been pluralistic also have problems with xenophobia. Discrimination, stereotyping, and suspicion create innumerable psychological and social problems, which can be remedied simply by changing attitudes and norms. Therefore, it is always important to reiterate the need for cultural literacy and cultural…

valuable because it enables others to conduct the same research to see whether or not the author was accurate in reaching whatever conclusions he or she made via the experiment. Replicable experiments play a large role in conducting empirical-based experiments. The reason is that if one individual conducted an experiment and reached certain findings, the whole validity of empirical-based evidence means that another individual should be able to conduct that same experiment with highly similar results. Therefore, replicating experiments essentially functions as a way of confirming the truth. The truth can always be questioned and examined from a number of different of points-of-view and, theoretically, should not change. The same concept applies to findings reached via research involving empirically-based evidence. The only way the scientific community can truly validate research and conclusions drawn from it is by replicating that research -- and those conclusions as well. Successful replications are…

American Tax System vs. Other Countries
The federal government first imposed an individual income tax in 1862 as an emergency means of financing the Civil ar. It also established the Bureau of Internal Revenue, predecessor of the Internal Revenue Service. Tax rates were 3% on income from $600 to $10,000 and 5% on income above $10,000. Later in the war the maximum rate increased to 10% of income." (Encarta)

My how times have changed. This paper will compare the tax systems of four different countries to the American tax system. The four countries that have been chosen are South Africa, Mexico, Hong Kong, and New Zealand..

First lets attempt to briefly (if that were possible) explain the American tax system.

The American Tax System

America has a progressive tax system meaning the greatest tax burden is on people who have the most income. The American tax system can be described as long and complicated. The…

In fact, when actual harm seems imminent, the government has more leeway to restrict the speech. Fighting words or words likely to result in harm to an individual fall into this category. The most notorious example is shouting "Fire" in a crowded theater. A more realistic example is the criminalization of terroristic threats.
) in an essay of at least two well-developed paragraphs, explain how laws related to capital punishment have changed since the early 1970s

At the beginning of the 1970s, capital punishment was legal throughout the United States, though execution rates varied tremendously by state. However, in 197, in the case of Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 38 (197), the Supreme Court suspended capital punishment throughout the states. The Court found that capital punishment violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. However, it is important to realize that the violation did not come from the actual…

Thus, free will -- as demonstrated by moral choice -- is in actuality a series of discrete and connected choices, each dependent on those preceding it as they shape the individual's attitude.
De Beauvoir then describes the sub-man, who wishes he did not exist. Yet he is the very consciousness that is willing this non-existence, and is thus self-defeating. To escape his subjectivity, he immerses himself in the object, and Lives fro a Thing rather tan for himself. She derides nihilist thought, too, claiming that though neither the world nor the individual have inherent and objective justifications, as the nihilists claim, it is the individual's responsibility to create that justification. Several other attitudes, given archetypal names like "the adventurer" and "the passionate man" are described, along with their mistaken takes on morality and free will. The truly free will, de Beauvoir claims, is in understanding and accepting -- indeed, actively…

e. "The Public Beethoven" and "The Private Beethoven.") Rather than integrating both facets of Beethoven the person and Beethoven the artist, as Jones does in his biography, Geck wishes to show us the two different sides of Beethoven through a sort of dichotomous split. The result makes for a rather dense, at times tedious read. Jones's skillful integration of the two facets of Beethoven's life seems to flow on a much more natural narrative level.
One of the characteristics that distinguish each of the biographies is their brevity. Unlike more definitive biographical studies, which tend to number into the late hundreds or even thousands in page count, both Jones and Geck manage to condense Beethoven's life to less than two hundred pages. This brevity has both its benefits and its limitations. On the one hand, the general reader, who perhaps has an appreciation of Beethoven's music that has spurred their interest…

This conflict was the thought of Miss Brill that everything around her were just a play and that even her self was part of the stage show where is currently at.
Oh, how fascinating it was! How she enjoyed it! How she loved sitting here, watching it all! It was like a play. It was exactly like a play. Who could believe the sky at the back wasn't painted?

The detailed mentioned above only showed how at first Miss Brill thought of everything as common events that she has been seeing in her Sunday habit of spending time outside her home and watching things and people around her.

Miss Brill had the idea that everything was really a stage show when she saw a dog that trotted and acted like a dog in a real show. From there, the interesting thought that everything was a show conflicted with the reality that was…

Secondly, in my opinion, it is irrational and insensitive for the rich to continue spending billions of dollars on luxuries as millions across the world continue to suffer. For instance, why would an individual own several luxury cars while another person cannot even afford to settle his or her medical bills? Similarly, why should an individual have billions of dollars lying idle in the bank as scores of people across the world die of hunger? In my opinion, luxury items are insignificant when compared to the basic needs of others including but not limited to food, shelter, and medical attention. In the final analysis, it does not make much sense for one to live in luxury as others wallow in poverty. e therefore have an obligation to give up some of our luxuries so as to help the less fortunate amongst us.

Lastly, I am convinced that helping the poor would…

Chaucer basically offers an idea of the acceptance of the temporal quality of the world and how that relates to life and love. This can also be seen as a lack of consolation; however, in this lack of consolation he is admitting that there is no consolation and that that fact alone should act as a consolation. The man is destined to grieve for his wife as this is how the temporal world works. There is no consolation for the grieving.
There is not one of the two characters whom find any kind of consolation, though it is clear that the Dreamer is quite taken with the dream. e aren't able to say what happens next -- after he wakes up; however, it is somewhat accepted that the Dreamer and the Black Knight are a bit closer to making peace with their situations. Neither of them have been on a…

Pretesting a problem for generalization is helpful because the researcher can check to see if the groups are equivalent. Researchers can also assess mortality effects and determine if the people who withdrew are different from those individuals who finished the study. Pretesting may affect the ability to generalize results because the results can not be generalized to people who were not given a pretest, and pretests are rarely conducted in day-to-day living (Cozby, 274).

4. Distinguish between an exact replication and a conceptual replication. What is the value of a conceptual replication?

n exact replication is a researcher's attempt to exactly duplicate a study's procedures to determine if similar findings can be obtained. conceptual representation tries to replicate the findings of a research study by manipulating the variables in a different way. conceptual replication is valuable because the researcher can determine whether or not the results of the study are…

Enabling Others
Kouzes & Posner speak of "enabling others to act." What does this mean to you?

This means giving others the tools they have to succeed, and the ability to ask questions, make mistakes, and learn from those mistakes. People who live in fear of making a mistake are not productive, inspired, trusted, or empowered, and their results will reflect these elements. Leaders who lead by intimidation or control do not inspire trust in their employees, and trust is crucial in managing effectively. It is also important to give up control, so that staff members feel more in control, and that is at the heart of "enabling others to act." The point of having a staff is to accomplish more goals together, rather than holding on to those goals and only dishing out parts in the puzzle to the staff. A selfish and controlling manager is not concerned with the growth…

Convincing Others Needs 1-2 pages long.
Brave New

In all actuality, neither Alan Ehrenhalt nor Barbara Dority are exceedingly convincing in their arguments posed in the "The Misguided Zeal of the Privacy Lobby" and "Halt and Show Your Papers!," respectively. Ehrenhalt's conviction largely banks on widely rambling generalizations, while Dority's essay is littered with too many illogical conclusions or, conclusions which may in fact be logical, but for which the evidence that makes them so is not presented and leaves the reader wondering as to how certain effects may be produced from the causes the author mentions. To that end, then, Ehrenhalt's essay is the least illogical, and therefore by default the most convincing.

An example of one of the numerous generalities that Ehrenhalt utilizes throughout "The Misguided Zeal of the Privacy Lobby" can be found near its conclusion, when he is trying to discredit the perceived threat to privacy that a…

When I think about this, and when I think about my potential Jewish classmate, I imagine a world where diversity is encouraged - not just preserved but also cultivated through mentoring, cross-generational dialogue, and continual experimentation. This diversity would be made to flourish locally and brought to higher levels, and in this world of my imagination, diverse peoples would freely interact with, understand, and learn from each other. For myself and my potential classmate, refusing to be enemies and refusing to be silent would be important, and we could talk together and favorably about each other's people, culture, heritage, ideas, values, and history. Rather then inflame the war, now is the time to use every instrument of law, diplomacy, and negotiation to find a way to peace. I don't know if the peace that so many people desire, whatever their race, will ever come to be, but I do…

Religious Field Search
AHMADIS: THE OTHER FACE OF ISLAM

For the purposes of this paper I visited the local Ahmaddiya Muslim Community or as they prefer to called Ahmadis. Ahmadis are a sub-sect of the Islamic Community. What attracted to me to study this community was that unlike the general image we have of the Islamic community, this community is non-violent and is considered heretical by the larger Islamic community for having a prophet in succession to Muhammad, the founder of the Islamic faith. In many Muslim majority countries the Ahmadis are banned and in many others they have been ex-communicated from the Islamic mainstream. Apparently -- as I discovered- one of the other contentious issues between them and the rest Islamic community is the controversy over Jesus Christ's death, which I found interesting given that I considered Jesus an exclusively Christian figure. To my amazement it turns out that all Muslims…

Cass Sustein's Politics By Other Means, which was published in New Republic in 2002; Mark Green's The Evil of Access, which was published in The Nation in 2002; Bill Moyers' Journalism and Democracy, which was published in The Nation in 2001; Anthony King's Running Scared, which was published in Atlantic Monthly in 1997; and, Peter Ford's Why Do They Hate Us?, which was published in the Christian Science Monitor in 2001.
The paper includes a synopsis of the main points of each essay, and an evaluation of the main points of each essay.

Cass Sustein's Politics By Other Means, is basically a review of Kenneth Starr's book First Among Equals: The Supreme Court in American Life. The essay looks at the Rehnquist Court and its successor, and compares the two, from the viewpoint of the author, and also of Starr, through the review of his book. It is argued that the Rehnquist…

They both are seeking wisdom and spiritual growth, but for very different reasons. Frankl has to find some kind of order and reason in his experience, or he will either go mad or die. Thoreau's spiritual quest is one of peace and harmony, while Frankl's is one of duress and oppression. He writes, "What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment" (Frankl 171). At that given moment in time, Frankl's life did not mean anything to anyone but himself, and he used this experience to develop his own philosophy on life and wisdom, just as Thoreau used his experience to develop his own philosophy. The two men had the same goals, but reached them very differently due to their circumstances.
It is difficult to judge who has the best approach, because they both did…

Hell Is for Other People
Me: Boy, you're here a lot earlier than usual.

Stranger: Yeah, I have a hot date tonight: hopefully, tonight's the night, if you know what I mean (Winks).

Me: You're sexually active?

Stranger: What do you mean by that? Of course I'm sexually active, why do you ask.

Me: Oh. Well, because the other day you mentioned going to church ... you said you were Catholic, right?

Stranger: (Laughs) Yes, I am...but that doesn't mean I can't have a little fun, you know? (Winks again).

Me: Aren't all unmarried Christians supposed to be celibate though? I thought premarital sex was a mortal sin ... "fornication," right?

Stranger: Yes, it is, but we all sin because human beings weren't created perfectly; only God is perfect.

Me: I'm sorry, but I don't really understand...as a Christian, aren't you supposed to refrain from all sexual activity except in marriage? Don't you worry about being punished for your…

Self and Others
The manner in which people view themselves has been shown to be an important predictor of their behavior, achievement, and physical and psychological health. There has been a growing trend in recent years to promote a positive self-view in young people through the avoidance of failure. Increasingly, positive reinforcement is provided for merely taking part and trying rather than succeeding or failing, with little regard to the long-term consequences of such practices. To help identify the long-term implications of such practices, this paper provides a review of the relevant literature to determine whether keeping children from having to face failure provides them with an accurate view of themselves as they relate to the people around them and others around them. A discussion concerning how, as these children grow and mature, they will likely deal with cognitive dissonance and failure in their lives is followed by a summary…

individuals might volunteer to help others by comparing experimental results with the self-reported motivations of Teach for America volunteers. Ultimately, the study demonstrates that volunteerism is rooted in self-interest, and this is evidenced by not only the experimental data, but by the actions of Teach for America as an organization as well as the self-reports of individual members. Although this does not help explain why volunteerism is held in such high regard, it does serve to demonstrate that volunteering and ostensibly altruistic actions are not as difficult to explain as one might think.
The question of why people volunteer to help others is difficult to answer succinctly, because answering it demands that one consider a number of relatively disparate fields of study and investigation, including everything from evolutionary psychology to management theory. However, one can at least begin to formulate a general explanation of volunteerism that seems to hold regardless…

Old and New Leadership Styles
Max Weber was correct that in modern society, the power of the bureaucracy increased exponentially with urbanization and industrialization, particularly when it was called upon to deal increasingly with social and economic problems. Such organizations were hardly designed to enable others to act within a democratic or participatory system, but to act on their behalf and direct them from above in a very hierarchical system. For example, during the Progressive Era and New Deal in the United States, the civil service was expanded to regulate capitalism in a variety of ways, to administer large parts of the economy and the growing social welfare state. Of course, with the growth in the power and influence of the civil service, opportunities for bribery, corruption, authoritarian behavior and catering to special interests instead of the public interest became far more common as well. Building public trust and confidence in…

44). On a final note, Decamps' reporting of the NLHCS indicates that "more than half" of the 1,925 lesbians in the survey reported having been victim of a "hate crime" and roughly one in twenty of the 1,925 lesbians had been "physically assaulted" due to her sexual orientation (Decamps, p. 49).
Consequences of child sexual abuse for adult lesbians. Batya Hyman is a professor of social science at Salisbury University in Maryland; she also has published an article that investigates the ramifications of childhood sexual abuse on lesbians as they get up in years. Hyman goes somewhat deeper into the issue than Decamps had gone, noting that there are several health concerns in adult lesbian women who had experienced abuse as children. Among health concerns: pelvic pain; gynecological problems; migraine headaches; asthma; epileptic seizures; digestive system problems; and an "increased lifetime risk of surgery" (Hyman, 2000, p. 200).

The author also…

They both spent their lives working for the rights of African-American women and challenging anything that got in the way.
As the women built stepping stones for each other, each women in the Black Freedom Movement began the next logical course of action in the fight for freedom. Septima Clark attended several of the workshops of Amy Garvey and came away with a sense of urgency to contribute. By this time of course the rights of Blacks to vote was a given and beatings in the street for speaking their mind was not allowed. Clark however, had a mission of her own and that was to attack and dismantle the segregated school system if she could. This was during 1960's when many of the nation's districts were still divided into Black schools and White schools.

It was a natural choice, given her love of teaching and education and the way her…

The Merchant of Venice, though ostensibly a comedy, is one of the more serious plays in the comedic genre. The Taming of the Shrew is far more humorous and light hearted, but it is not without its lessons. The specific lessons vary greatly depending on one's interpretation of the play, especially in performance, but one key lesson that most of the female characters fail to learn is the advantage of working in tandem with their husband. Petruchio manages to win a substantial amount of money through his new wife Kate's quick obedience; she has learned through the course of the play to at least give the appearance of docility and subservience, which the other women lack -- they have failed to learn anything from her transformation, seeing no problems in themselves form the outset. This failure costs them some cold, hard, cash.

It is in Julius Caesar, however, that Shakespeare most…

Though, Glass may very well be enlightened enough to do this, and nothing against him most people are only enlightened enough to take from each faith that which best meets their individual selfish idea of ambition. (PBS, American Masters; Philip Glass: GLASS: A Portrait of Philip Glass in Twelve Parts) in fact the synchronicity between this documentary and the article made me wonder if the ideas of the article were borrowed from the Glass work, as language, music and religion were all discussed in much the same way, with regard to Glass' life, excluding the fact that the article diverges from the Glass take on spirituality. It would seem challenging no matter the intelligence or skill of any individual to deeply understand and evoke any single faith let alone three or four in any meaningful way. The weakness of the argument is limited to the idea that the work…

Friend by Any Other Name
Sex matters between friends. No, not in the way you might think -- or the kind of sex that you might think. Sex matters in terms of gender: Male friendship and female friendship really is different from each other. Of course, there are always exceptions to statements as broad as this, and other traits of any individual dyad matters a great deal. ace matters as well as gender, and age, and physical disability, and personality.

But aside from all of these factors there are substantial differences between the ways in which men and women (and before them, boys and girls) conceptualize and practice the art of friendship. These differing definitions of friendship reflect larger social and cultural ideas about gender, a point that will be taken up below in this paper that examines how sex -- that is, gender -- affects friendships.

The basis for this paper…

Unlike many other corporations, Skype has embraced Nadler-Tushman's Congruence Model. In this case, Skype's looks at the various factors that influence the success of different changing processes. By doing so, Skype has been able to understand the different dynamics that an organization experiences when changes occur. Through this model, Skype has come up with various strategies to ensure that its interaction with other subsystems can detect or scan other changes in the external environment. There is a payment strategy that has enabled Skype shape its payment methods and enhance its capability developments. This has made it convenient for its users to use it more than other softwares, which have higher payments.
On the other hand, Skype has collaborated with other partners as a convenient strategy because it helps them in realizing revenue opportunities and improves customer's experiences. There is also a marketing strategy, which to Skype is a service strategy, and…

Racism and Society -- Literature Response
Race and Identity as Functions of Societal Labeling and Expectations

Two pieces of 20th century literature exemplify the alienation felt by African-Americans in the United States. One of those works, authored by Zora Neal Hurston in 1928, is the essay How It Feels to Be Colored Me, which vividly illustrates the degree to which the identity of a black person in the pre-Civil Rights era was defined by white society. More importantly, Hurston's work also illustrates how much of a conflict and perpetual struggle African-Americans experienced internally if they tried to maintain their own self-identity. hereas many blacks of that era bought into the expectations foisted on them by white society, others resisted this artificial identity that was imposed on them. Hurston clearly was shaped by this dynamic and bitterly resisted the self-identity that she was expected to have accepted and reflected to get along in…

Self-Image and Significant Others
Self-image refers to the internal picture than people hold of themselves, meaning it is who we think we are. However, in many cases, who we think we are may not the same as how others see us. In my opinion, a great deal of my self-image comes from how my significant others see me.

For example, everybody has an inherited temperament. (arrat, 1991) Combined with various life experiences, this inherited temperament makes up our personality. Some people are naturally shy and quiet; others may be loud or outgoing. It is possible to change outward behaviors and people can learn to be more outgoing or reserved. However, while the outward behavior may change, the inward temperament usually does not. Therefore, someone who has learned to overcome shyness on the outside may still be inwardly introverted.

A person's self-image is made up of natural temperament and input from significant others, which…

Self and Other
George Herbert Mead is one of the pioneers of American philosophy as well as among the founders of Pragmatism. His work was published in several papers during his lifetime and even after his death. After his death, his students published four books in his name from his unpublished work. Mead's work has significantly influenced the 20th century social sciences. His theory of the emergence of mind and self is considered as a milestone in social philosophy. His contributions were not limited to social philosophy but his work also contributed in other areas of philosophy such as philosophy of nature or philosophical anthropology. Because of his significant contributions, he was being considered one of the greatest thinkers of his time.

The Self According to Mead:

According to the theories presented by Mead, self is characteristically different from physiological organism. Self is not present in an individual by birth but it develops…

Summary

The Keller/PSI approach to academic and professional training has been documented to improve student performance as measured by course completion rates and subject matter retention among students. On the other hand, there are considerable practical and technical problems implementing the Keller/PSI approach within traditional educational institutions. Meanwhile, there is little if any empirical evidence suggesting precisely how the Keller/PSI model benefits learning outside of the focus on the reduced deadline orientation that is the hallmark of that teaching methodology.

Substantial evidence exists to suggest that the success of the Keller/PSI approach is actually attributable to other changes typically attributable to Keller/PSI, such as the broadening of the range of media of instruction, despite the fact that those changes are natural consequences of the Keller/PSI design rather than deliberately conceived components of the approach. The empirical evidence of the increased success of CAPSI programs further bolsters that argument.

A wealth of empirical studies…

Jean Paul Sartre and Simone De Beauvoir on Freedom, Being-for-Others, And Sartrean Despair
Simone de Beauvoir and JP Sartre were two famous existentialists that converged and diverged on various concepts. These included the existentialist concepts of freedom, being-for-others and transcendence or despair. Their converged and divergences will be addressed in this essay.

Sartre was one of the most famous existentialists of all times. For him, existence did not base itself on an ethos of God-ordained morality nor did it have any transcendental meaning. ather meaningfulness of life -- or liberty / freedom -- depended on the meaning that one arbitrarily accorded life and he claimed that man is "what he makes of himself," or in other words "in the end one is always responsible for what is made of one" In this way, Sartre's philosophy integrated both optimism and despair: optimism in the belief that one can resolutely make something of one's…

Film plays an important role in all of our lives; it would be nearly impossible to find a person who has not been affected in some way by a movie. From the films we watch in our childhood, to the classics, and the more challenging cinema we see later as we study the art of filmmaking, the movies offer so much opportunity to consider the principles of art (Janaro & Altshuler, 1984). Because filmmaking is a multimedia endeavor, involving costume design, sound and lighting, music, skillful writing, graphic art, and performance art, considering filmmaking as a whole encourages appreciation of all that goes into just a few minutes of reel.
When I consider Tarantino films, for example, I think about how the filmmaker places the music front and center in Pulp Fiction. The soundtrack to that movie is as memorable as the characters. I also appreciate how filmmakers like Tarantino understand…

However, most financial experts think that given the need to further stimulate the economy to decrease unemployment, the Obama Administration has little choice but to continue to spend at a deficit. Unless there is job growth, income derived from taxation will continue to go down, and the vicious cycle of debt will continue. "Many finance experts say that Obama's basic strategy" of stimulus and middle-class tax cuts for Americans who are more likely to spend than save the additional revenue "is the right one for a nation still mired near the trough of a deep recession. But the effort carries economic risks. Investors could demand higher interest rates on Treasury debt because of worries that ashington will never act to bring deficits down. The recent debt crisis in Greece is a reminder of the kind of troubles that can arise -- and large nations like the United States are…

Thus, each counselor in training was exposed to identical client situations and cues. Their behavior and general strategy in reacting to those cues was then what was measured through quantitative analysis. Perceived rapport was then measured by the trained client replicate with a measurable scale of one to five. Such data was recorded with an electronic device which reported levels of rapport minute by minute during the context of the session. Out of the total fifty nine interviews, 2773 minutes were highlighted for analysis. The data collected from this time duration of interviews was then statistically analyzed using MANOVA based on the number of variables within counselor behavior that can affect the rapport with the client. This method effectively provided study designers with a reliable and measurable way to assess therapist behaviors and their effectiveness in building rapport.
What did the research claim to show?

Based on the data analysis, the…

In my personal studies, I have proven my ability to solve difficult math problems, as well as understand economic trends and international and domestic economic reports. In 2006, I entered the United States in order to study business at community college. After adjusting to life in the United States and learning of the opportunities available to me, I set my sights on the best -- the University of Michigan.
I am convinced that the opportunity to study economics at the University of Michigan will give me the best preparation for a career in financial analysis. The University of Michigan is highly regarded for its tradition in teaching economics and business to students around the world. I hope to nurture my economic and financial interests and abilities at your school in order to become a greater asset to…

They cause the cell membrane to depolarize by allowing the influx of sodium ions into the cell. However due to the size and hydrophobic nature of the channel protein, it has not been fully resolved by x-ray crystallography.
The secondary and some of the tertiary structures can only be deduced from the primary amino acid sequence. Voltage gated sodium channels consist of an ?-subunit responsible for selectivity and voltage gating (Errington, Stohr and Lees; Sands, Grottesi and Sansom). However some sodium channels also have one or two smaller subunits called ?-1 and ?-2. The protein has 4 homologous domains containing multiple potential ?-helical transmembrane segments. The segments are connected by non-conserved, hydrophilic intervening segments. The fourth transmembrane segment (S4) of each domain is highly positively charged, and thought to be a voltage sensor.

eferences

Errington, a.C., T. Stohr, and G. Lees. "Voltage Gated Ion Channels: Targets for Anticonvulsant Drugs." Curr Top Med…

role, you rely on various other team members to provide you with accurate information relating to the events which you then share with the client and sponsors. After sending what you believed to be the current floor plan to the client and sponsor, you realize that your colleague supplied you with an old version of the floor plan that inaccurately reflects the available space for the sponsor activation. How would you handle this situation, both with your colleague, and with the client and sponsor?
Colleague

Reprimanding colleague will only worsen an already potentially stressful situation. I would set up an appointment with the colleague where I can speak to him directly in order to find out the reasons for his failed assignment: did he mislay the original assignment; did he receive incorrect or misunderstood directions, is he under personal stressful situations that made him prone to error. I will keep an…

EMR and other related issues
Thielst, Christina Beach (2007). The new frontier of electronic, personal, and virtual health records. Journal of Healthcare Management 52:2.

Although Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Electronic Health Records (HER) are often terms that are used interchangeably, there are substantial differences between the two, as outlined in this article. An EHR is uniquely interactive. It prompts the physician to provide specific services to the patient and also encourages the patient to contribute information and advice during the treatment process. For example, while with an EMR a physician merely retrieves a list of medications and treatments the patient has received, with an EHR, the physician is prompted to give specific tests or introduce new treatments. It can even retrieve data from patient-monitoring devices for up-to-date information. Eventually, in the far future, virtual health records (VHR) may replace both systems. VHR will allow physicians to draw data from multiple…

Salary Inequities for Nurses in Florida
Inequities in Nurses' Salary Schedules

In the decade between 2004 and 2014, the estimated number of open positions for registered nurses was anticipated to be 2.1 million. This number reflects both attrition and the growth of the healthcare and medical fields that are responding to an aging national population. Best practices in staff recruiting in the medical arena call for an "adequate supply of nurse and high-quality patient care through competitive, transparent wage-setting, collective bargaining, and nurse/patient ratio standards" (Lovell, 2006).

An interesting phenomenon has occurred in research on the state of nursing in the U.S.: just over 20% of the nearly 50 studies conducted to analyze the nursing workforce recommended wage increases in order to attract more nurses into professional preparation programs and into the workforce. The U.S. Government Accountability Office conducted a study to look critically at the key factors that influence the emerging nurse…

Simple, bullet point, one-sheet explanations are the preferred method of learning research methodology.

Most were unwilling to invest in classes or even seminars regarding proper use of library reference materials.

The library "information desk" was perceived as unhelpful and further, unwilling to be helpful. The "barrier" between the patron and the desk disallows the librarian to visit the computer with the client and do one-on-one tutoring.

Desk staff refer less than 10% of the questions to reference librarians, even when clearing dealing with questions far beyond their purview (Ibid 210-12).

Using the standards suggested by Kuruppu, one is able to glean a broad critique of the Massey-Burzio study:

Issue

Massey-Burzio Use

Comments

Methodology

Focus Group

Good as a primary identifier of questions and direction, inappropriate as a data source; responses are too broad, lack the specificity necessary to tabulate, and only "suggest" data use or further research, does not define (Kuruppu 375).

Sample Size

38 Individuals over time

Admitted small sample size, too…

This is not stated directly, but is demonstrated by their individual reactions to the challenges of life.
The most important concept to remember about Mala is that she is a holocaust survivor too. Mala understands the reasons for Vladek's behavior better than anyone does, because she experienced the horrors herself. She may feel a sense of camaraderie with Vladek that others do not. She may see his reaction to society for what it is: a reasonable adaptation to what he experienced. This may make her much more tolerant than average regarding his behaviors. The complexities of Vladek's relationships are not revealed through conversation, but through how they get through the struggles that they face. This is symbolic of the silence that many holocaust survivors exhibited regarding their inner fears and feelings about the trauma that they experienced.

eferences

Spiegelman, Art. Maus: a Survivor's Tale. I: My Father Bleeds History. New York: Pantheon…