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A famous American contemporary writer, Barbara Kingsolver with an assist of her husband Steven Hopp and daughter Camille Kingsolver published the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle that touches upon the problems of living a sustainable life. Kingsolver family decided to hold a life of the locavores producing their own healthy organic food. The book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle includes the elements of different genres that make it be more charming, fascinating and completely convincing. Barbara was a story-teller from early age. In school she wrote an essay Why We Need A New Elementary School that was published and got many responses. However, young Barbara didn’t think about the writer career, she rather wanted to be a farmer. She always was politically active and was supporting the protests against the Vietnam War, sexism and racism (Sharp 871). The idea that the southwestern literature is mostly based on the personal experience we can see in the Barbara Kingsolver’s books. However, demonstrating this experience, the author encourages the readers to cooperate in learning. Kingsolver’s story is not just a personal narration. She demonstrates the way of living in a deep cooperation with people from the community (DeMarr 43). Kingsolver uses her own genre within the prose. She takes in to a new level using the narrative elements and making her pages fly. The book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is a novel but unusual. It is a sensual, smart and impassioned narrative about the year of locavores’ life that Barbara’s family holds. The book includes Steven Hopp’s essays and Camille Kingsolver’s inviting recipes. All these multi-genres elements make the book absolutely unique and charming. During several years, Kingsolver’s family eats only food that has grown in their garden or nearby to the home. Firstly, they decided to try to survive for one year producing their own food. The tax of subsidizing the food production dictated by the government policy leads to the impossibility to buy the locally produced food. All attempts to stand against of this system can be easily failed due to the multimillion-dollar advertising companies of the corporations. All this leads to the hearth diseases’ expansion, diabetes and malnutrition. Barbara Kingsolver sees the solution in the personal gardens where people can grow natural and healthy food. Her book is full of arguments why people should do this and how. Obviously, the literary tools and brilliant style of the author make her book very convincing. For instance, when the author describes her walk in the garden, the reader can feel th
Introduction A total of seventeen Arab countries with an estimated population of 250 million inhabitants are governed by a form of a system that attempts to incorporate both elements of democracy and religion. This system of governance used by these countries have only appeared recently with the emergence of the democracy concept which is a new ideology; traditionally all Arab countries have always been governed by religion do,ctrines that are very much like what Khaled refers as natural or caliphate political systems in his “Islam and Challenge of Democracy” article. In an attempt to embrace a modern ,ideology of democracy Muslim nations adopted two core elements of the democratic system; the rule of law and limited government which they hoped would achieve the necessary transition towards a democratic government system, but this has failed. Instead, what the Muslim countries made in selectively choosing to adopt and apply some few elements of a democratic system is a hybrid system that still placed much power in Islam at the expense of democracy. In this paper, I seek to demonstrate why democracy and religion are a mutually exclusive phenomenon that cannot coexist in the same government by analyzing the governance system of Turkey as a case in point. Features of a Democracy The concept of democracy is based on the ideology that allows citizens in a country to exercise their free will in choosing their leaders as well as in voicing their opinions. It is for this reason that makes the democratic system rely on electoral institutions that are meant to oversee the process of electing leaders in a national election activity that is meant to be fair and transparent. It is, therefore, a form of a governance system which gives citizens greater control to the instruments of power and a platform that involves them in running of the government. It is a form of civic governance in which the people directly elect the government leaders to represent their views. The origin of democracy dates back to prehistoric times in Greek where it was first used. Democratic systems can be divided into two major categories, majority rule, and liberal democracy. Majority rule of democracy is the type that is driven by the decisions of the majority in any one instance. The logic behind this democracy is that people cannot uniformly agree on any one issue, and at the same time, the people must be allowed to choose what they want. This form of democracy, like the rest uses a voting system which citizens use to express their desires. The other form is liberal democracy which is the most widely used worldwide. This form incorporates other values such as human rights, due process of law, civil societies, and so on. There are other forms of democracies that many other governments use, some not so democratic yet which are passed as free democracies. Democratic form of governance is built on two important tenets; freedom and equality; this are the hall marks of a democratic system. It is the reason why democracy is very popular especially in the modern world.
From the various aspects expressed in the book, I find out that sainthood means different things across different world religions and traditions. I can draw several conceptions from the reading that sainthood and holiness are quite related. Several religions ranging from Hindu, Buddhism, and Islam do have their different conceptions of sainthood. In my reading, I have embarked on establishing whether the notion of sainthood refers to the same thing. I have realized that though different religions and traditions have different standards for sainthood, the common consideration remains that a saint is someone pious and holy. I do not doubt that sainthood does not appear in a vacuum; it is recognized within the confines of religion. It means that one cannot refer to someone as being a saint without linking them to a particular religion in most cases. A saint, as seen by van der Leeuw, is not just a common entity, e. g. a medicine man, priest, or preacher. Leeuw feels that a saint is not there to fulfill any kind of representation. A saint, by his or her being, exudes power. This power exhibits itself. For example, a saint may perform miracles and even intercede for others. Thus, the saint’s very potency could exhibit itself through miracles. Another aspect of sainthood is that most of the saints are declared mostly after they die. The word “ saint” does serve as an object of veneration or intense worship, but again, this is not universal. Many religions and cultures are faced with many challenges dealing with the idea of sainthood, and these challenges have got everything to do with the saint’s ability to perform miracles. But I consider veneration to be a very important issue when speaking about the notion of sainthood. It is veneration that places the saint above the level of ordinary human beings. It raises the saint to a level that is far much higher in the realm of existence itself. This level is too high for ordinary mortals to even aspire to reach. It is so because, on top of miracles, the saint also receives visions and seems to have a strange supernatural connection. Due to this connection, the saint, in most cases, serves as the one who intercedes on behalf of the mortals. The saint serves as an intermediary between the mortals and the supernatural realm. Sainthood is not self-imposed; it is governed by a distinct calling; thus, a saint cannot be imitated. Sainthood is further strengthened by the deeply rooted virtues, hence making it more difficult to imitate. An in-depth insight into sainthood in other religions has widened my scope. For example in Islam, there is a distinguishing peculiarity: the prophets are inimitable, especially Prophet Muhammad, and their miracles are considered to be way above those of the saints. In Islam, saints do seem to have a distinct cadre different from that of the prophets – walis. The term walis designates that an active relationship reflects friendship. All in all, sainthood has the same expectation and meaning in different traditions but quite a different meaning in each tradition. But what I feel is that some specific element
Scientific research in nursing, as in any other scholarly discipline, is reliable scientific data. This data enables carrying out and improving the method of performing professional activities (Boswell & Cannon, 2018). Without conducting scientific research in the field of nursing, it is impossible to formulate a strategic view on the development of nursing services of medical institutions. It is also challenging to improve the quality of nursing care provided to the population, rational use of human resources, and the introduction of new technologies to the activities of nursing staff. Pearl City Nursing Home The Pearl City Nursing Home provides residence and highly qualified help for senior patients. Our facility is “Medicare and Medicaid certified and state licensed for 122 residents” (“About”, n.d., para. 2). Unfortunately, Pearl City Nursing Home does not have a special research committee. However, the facility integrates best practices in geriatrics with a full spectrum of services to meet the needs of our residents. It is worth mentioning that all the specialists at Pearl City Nursing Home perform various kinds of research in private, as they understand that it is a critical component of practice. Personal Experience As for me, recently I began to apply the achievements of the latest research in nursing of the National Institute of Nursing Research, one of the biggest medical research agencies in the USA, to my work (“About the NIH Almanac”, n.d.). The research concerned proper care of patients and communication with them as well as their relatives. I can conclude that the methods used in our work are effective and improve the quality of patient care in the Pearl City Nursing Home. Conclusion The Pearl City Nursing Home is a somewhat small facility that does not have dedicated researchers, but it tries to follow best practice standards for care. I have assisted in the process by looking into the latest findings and implementing them in practice. In my efforts, I have been able to observe that these methods result in considerable improvements in the general quality of patient care in the facility.
The video under analysis is entitled “Layout at Arnold Palmer Hospital’s New Facility” and devoted to the description of the layout at Arnold Palmer Hospital’s new facility. In 2001, the hospital began to face major problems with staff efficiency and the lack of space. Therefore, the hospital administration designed a new kind of layout for the building which could serve as a solution to all the problems the hospital had (Amer). In general, the main goal of layout strategy is to create a cost-effective layout which will satisfy the competitive needs of an organization. According to the description of the layout design mentioned in Chapter 9, the main principles at which it is aimed are higher utilization of people, equipment, and space, improved communication with a client, and safe working conditions (Heizer et al. 394). In the new facility of Arnold Palmer’s Hospital, the administration tried to address all the principles stated above, and, according to the video, they succeeded in doing this. The principal reason why the executives of the hospital decided to build a new facility with a completely different layout was that they had been receiving many complaints from patients regarding long wait times several years before the implementation of their expansion plan. In order to address capacity issues in the new facility, the administration came to the idea that changing the form of the layout from the rectangular to the circular type would significantly increase the overall efficiency of the hospital (Amer). As a result, this unique circular pod design proved to be effective in the delivery of quality healthcare by means of reducing the distances between key places in the facility to a minimum. One of the main priorities for the new design was the distance that healthcare professionals, particularly nurses, had to cover to reach their patients. In this new structure of the facility, the distance between the nurse’s station and the patient rooms is considerably reduced, with 118 feet being the maximum distance between the remotest ward to the nursing station (Amer). The average time spent by a nurse to reach their patients decreased by 20%, thereby significantly increasing the efficiency of the nursing staff. First of all, this innovative design has many features of a work cell (one of the main concepts of operations management described in Chapter 9), the main goal of which is reorganizing people into small groups that focus on the quality provision of the same service. Particularly, this approach allows quicker access of employees to patients and medical equipment. Secondly, such design incorporates the so-called patient-centered servicescape, which is also described in Chapter 9 and focused on creating a tranq
Introduction Working in one of the industries that fall in the category of health sector is all that I wanted and demanded since childhood, however, my passionate and interests were not directed to specific institution or organization as I went through the primary course of education. Despise lack of specificity in these earlier years of career-building, I did not wave from looking forward to the establishing of the future professional foundation in the field of health service provision, as it was evidently affirmed by the exceptional performance in mathematics and science subjects. Therefore, it was not a surprise in my life to find graduating with a higher diploma in engineering pharmacy, which resulted after a compacted 17 years of study. Having set high goals in my career and professional development, I felt that graduating from the higher learning institution acted as a mark of one the major achievements in life, while it still meant a lot in the transition of my life. As a matter of fact, I didn’t want to procrastinate in getting myself within the job systems, and being driven by enthusiasm and ambition to practice all that I had gained from academic work, I relentlessly made applications to all those potential companies which I believed could offer or were having an opportunity for a pharmaceutical engineer, beside considering their ability to offering a good working environment to the entire company’s labor force. After trying severally in sending applications to a number of such organizations of interest, some corresponded by sending regrets, other kept dumb-mute without replying, while a few called for an interview in which I would fail some, while others we disagreed in terms of package remuneration and other benefits. Though the whole hassle for a job was not ease, fraught of confounding situations as expressed above, this circumstance was a short-lived one, as XYZ pharmaceutical company soon accepted me by we agreeing to the terms and conditions for each other, thus entering into the first contract. Overview of the job environment The accomplishment of the job deal gave a new feel to both us. Being the first one, it meant a lot in my side, especially in gaining enormous experience while making the organizations operations to run smoothly through the services that I promised to offer. In signing the contract with the XYZ pharmaceutical company, I agreed to delivery my services in a number of ways. First and foremost, as a person endowed with the knowledge and a little bit of experience in offering engineering services for a range of pharmaceutical machines and equipments, it was my obligation to ensure that all pharmaceutical packaging machines of the organization were in proper working conditions. This appeared to be the major responsibility that was given to me by the organization, which I did wholeheartedly. Here, I worked closely and concentrated more in dispensing my engineering services by servicing the packaging machines. Though being new in the field, I did find or encounter much difficulty in delivering in this particular task. I think and believe that this was because I had wide knowledge in the
Research Question Choice “What are the stated differences between the attitudes of students and teachers to the iPad initiative in the UAE?” is the research question chosen as the basis for the interviews. Interview One The iPad initiative is the topic that has been lately discussed for a long period of time. Can you please tell me more about your feelings concerning the necessity to implement mobile devices in the classroom and your observations on how students accepted this initiative? In fact, I have heard about the possibility to implement this initiative several (to be more exact, four) years ago. My colleagues started talking about this topic, and I was wondering what could happen if special mobile devices were offered for students in the classrooms. I tried to search for more information online and realize if I wanted the same initiative being implemented in our classrooms. To my surprise, our University approved this initiative in 2012. I was ready and eager to check if the outcomes of that initiative’s use could be possible or negative. As for my feelings, I think I was lucky to use this new approach for teaching students. I believe that nowadays, people have to be technologically literate. It is hard to imagine the current world without technologies. That is why the idea to use mobile devices in the classrooms is a good opportunity for students to learn new material and improve their technological skills and for teachers to improve their technological background and to save time and efforts. Teachers do not have to explain the same concepts for a number of times. It is enough to create a post and ask students address any time they need clarifications. Actually, I think that the use of mobile devices in the sphere of education is a good chance to change and improve the current situation. I observe the fact that modern students like changes. They lose their interest in education working under the same conditions. The use of mobile devices is an opportunity to try something new. In my opinion, this initiative cannot be neglected, and its benefits like student satisfaction and readiness to work are evident even before its implementation. Interview Two You are one the teachers, who know a lot about the iPad initiative. It has been already implemented in your classrooms. Can you tell me more about the conditions under which it was implemented, if you were forced or eager to use iPads as a new opportunity in the sphere of education? I remember the changes that took place in 2012. In spite of the fact that it seemed like teachers and students were
The illegal tiger trade is one of the ethical and moral problems that affected a modern community. Bernard Shaw writes: “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.” Departing from the traditional emphasis on animal and humane treatment, many activists actively oppose the use of animals for any purpose and speak out against illegal trade, confinement livestock and poultry production, and use of animals in product testing, for pleasure and leisure activities. Other organizations conduct campaigns and demonstrations against the production and use of animals for fur; they also oppose trapping and hunting, whaling, and the killing of dolphins in the fishing industry or capture for display in zoos and aquariums. The illegal tiger trade violates the rights of animals and leads the population to extinction. Scientists claim that there are mass extinctions and ‘background’ or ‘random’ extinctions. The tiger belongs in a third category, of human-induced extinctions, and so joins vast numbers of terrestrial, arboreal, aerial, and aquatic species which have become extinct in just that way. However, it would be dangerous in the extreme to ascribe positive Darwinian notions of survival of the fittest to justify the extinction of, say, the dodo or the passenger pigeon. The statistics of human-induced extinctions can be mindboggling. According to statistical results, “Tiger Panthera Tigris is the most admired animal Thus, it included in Endangered on the IUCN (the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) Red List of Threatened Species, “with an effective population size of fewer than 2,500 mature breeding individuals” (Taming the Tiger Trade 1993). Tigers are one of the most popular animals in the USA but also one of the most popular animals for fur and hunting. After decades of being ‘on the fringe,’ animal rights advocacy has become a mainstream grassroots movement. Extinction explains the tiger’s disappearance. This extinction process inevitably operates over a very long period of time and, equally inevitably, climate plays a role of some sort in it. Climate change alters growing conditions, which affect herbivores; in turn, carnivores are affected. The main species under threat are the Tasmanian tiger (the last known wild tiger was killed in 1930) and Sumatran tiger (400-500 tigers in the world), the South Chinese Tiger (1000 wild tigers), and an Indian tiger (1000 wild tigers) (IUCN 2008). Meanwhile, it is no coincidence that Tasmania, the island that killed its tiger and has regretted it ever since has much of its landmass locked away as a World Heritage Area and parkland. This makes it one of the world’s most protected places. Conservation issues remain highly emotive in Tasmania because there is seen to be a close correlation between one form of environmental extinction and another. For many Tasmanians, old-growth logging has been so comprehensive for so long that it differs little from the thylacine slaughter in which their fo