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The past 30 years have witnessed a continued rise in the rate of adolescent sexual intercourses than any other period in the past. This is the same period when the world has witnessed a revolution in electronic media. A closer study reveals that the two events are closely related and connected and that media can influence human behavior. Social problems like teenage pregnancy and sexual intercourse can be attributed to irresponsible exposure to explicit media content. Adolescent’s life can be very confusing as they are usually very ready to make risky choices in a bid to be heard and seen. They are usually uncertain of their expected social behavior and will most likely do something that will get them a high rating from their peer. The media, have become the best platform that helps them to network with their peers, kill boredom, get entertained, get educations, news, information, stimulation, and emotional arousal. On average, teenagers spend between 23-24 hours watching TV every week. This translates to over 15,000 hours of TV watching by the time they are through high school compared to 11, 000 hours they spend in class doing studies. This trend is expected to continue in the next 10 years. Contents that were regarded as adult material some few years back are featured on the TV every passing hour, from kissing to sexually suggestive dialogues. Parents, relatives, and friends present 50% sources of responsible sexual education like birth control and abstinence. The media presents less than 25% of responsible sex education. The problem with TV and Movies is that teenagers tend to believe what they see or hear from this media. The music video is another source of sex information that has negative impacts on teenagers. It’s not surprising that only 15% of those who are 12 to 18 years old understand song lyrics, as most of them are drawn to the sexual nature and contents in a song. Television, the Internet, magazines, and movies are a major source of teenage sex education, focusing mainly on contents that affect teenager negatively; these contents include rape, homosexuality, abortion, divorce, and infidelity. There are little or no sex contents that have positive effects on teenagers. Abstinence, self-control, responsibility, and birth control are topics that are rarely featured in the electronic and print media. The availability of computers connected to the internet in almost every household in the United States has also contributed to negative sexual behaviors in teenagers. Adolescents now have free and easy access to adult content on the internet. The vice is not limited to computers and Television. Most of the video games in the market today are full of explicit content which includes gang rapes and suggestive dialogues. When kids are exposed to such content at an early stage, their minds become easily corrupted. Advertisement is yet another source of negative sex education. Many advertisers use adverts with sex appeal when putting their products on the market. Most products feature almost nude models when they are being launched
Introduction The field of games is a rather demanding area that calls for a fair deal of devotion if one is to succeed in it. Games come in different categories. However, inasmuch as each category wishes to attract fans based on its records of fabulous performance, it is crucial to note that various factors boost and or lower the performance. The paper narrows down to the baseball game. Major league and minor league baseball attendance are affected by a myriad of factors ranging from the motivational factors that attract fans, to ticket pricing. In between these two extremes, scholarly works have shown a number of factors to be significant in influencing the attendance in baseball matches. Meehan, Nelson and Richardson (2007, p.572) sheds light that, “A host of factors influences the demand for sports, including the price of tickets, fan income, the population of the drawing area, team quality, and the age of the stadiums in which teams play”. Other factors include crowd control, parking, and concession. These factors are what researchers have referred to as environmental factors. Fans of a given sport differ enormously from fans of another sport and hence the factors that affect their attendance in the matches are widely controlled to a different extent by the same factors. What this means is that one factor may have positive effects in drawing the spectators to cheer up a given match while in a different sport, it may produce the opposite effects. With this in mind, this paper introspect the factors that affect sports attendance with reference to principal and minor baseball league. The complexity and magnitude of promotions and marketing of entertainments products during the matches ardently influence major baseball leagues. Other factors that are given consideration in the paper includes but not limited to team quality, top prospects, ticket pricing, prospects of terrorism, influence of international players and location of base ball facilities. However, these factors widely act in a combination mode and hence they influence attendance compositely. Major and minor baseball league attendance Promotions Various scholarly works have con
Introduction Since writing is a crucial skill for an educator, a person working in this sphere is to pay attention to a number of rules and details, improve, practice, and perfect their writing skills. There are various types of writing and each of them has a certain list of requirements. In order to master writing, one is to combine the knowledge of Grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, orthography, and syntax. Besides, in order to form a well-balanced paper, one is to work on writing style, word usage, logic, and connections. When all of these aspects are taken into consideration, the final result is flowing and easy to read the academic text. The purpose of this paper is to present the self-evaluation of my Grammar knowledge and writing skills according to the Grammar quizzes and to the information, I learned about writing and formatting academic papers on the advanced level. Types of Writing I have done Thus Far Being a student and through my career, I gained experience in writing of various kinds. For example, I have some skills in descriptive writing. This kind of writing requires a lot of stylistic devices such as epithets, metaphors, and similes. Descriptive texts are normally used to communicate one’s impressions about some object, person, or event. Another type of writing I had to use being a student was narrative writing. It is rather difficult because this kind of writing is used when one is telling a story, so logical connections, a chronology of the events, causes and outcomes have to be put in an appropriate order. Otherwise, the author of the writing is likely to confuse their readers and become the reason for misinterpretation of the events presented in the story. Persuasive writing is one of the most complex types of writing I have ever encountered. First of all, it has to have a clear point, which needs to be proved. Secondly, the opinion of the author has to be laid out in an accessible and understandable manner. Finally, it has to have logical and evidential support in order to be able to persuade readers. Such writing takes a lot of effort, critical thinking, and preparation. I also have experience in writing comparative papers, which take several objects or events and contrast between them. This writing requires a critical approach to the subject and reasonable evaluation. According to my experience, writing of any type is only successful when the writer as well-read and educated. Of course, practice makes perfect, so writing skills can be improved when one carefully follows the schemes and rules of writing, watches their word usage and logical structure of the text. How My Past Writing Compares with the Type Described in the Text Academic writing according to APA style includes all the most important basic elements of other kinds of writings, yet it is still different in some aspects. The paper written according to the sixth edition of APA is to be well structured, which means they need to include several parts such a
Introduction The Hispanization of the Philippines by the Spaniards during the late sixteenth century offers several interesting reflections, as this process of colonization cannot be compared to any other in the Spanish colonial history. In the first part of his work about the reaction and adaptation of the Filipinos to the Spanish culture, John Leddy Phelan outlines a profile of both the conquerors and the conquered, highlighting the commercial and religious forces behind the colonization, and how the socioeconomic structure, as well as the unique geographical configuration of the Philippines, contributed to creating unusual outcomes. Main body The colonization of the Philippines started in 1565 with the expedition led by Miguel López de Legazpi. The aim of the expansion was economic and represented the effort of the Spanish crown to gain a share in the profitable spice trade, dominated by Portugal; moreover, the geographical location of the archipelago made the Philippines an ideal market to trade the silver collected from the colony of Mexico with the Chinese silk. Nor it should be forgotten the coeval religious drive to convert indigenous populations to Christianity. In this case, most missionaries saw the Philippines as a bridgehead for further penetration into China and Japan. Interestingly, Phelan (4) notices how personal ambitions, desire for fame, and riches combine and confound with the ideal of the Reconquista , where the goal of eradicating paganism had gained the humanistic goal of Hispanize the natives. Hispanization and Christianization were to be attained by resettling the natives in large villages, where they could be indoctrinated in Christianity and taught to live like Europeans. However, the extreme fragmentation of the Filipino society hindered the process of colonization remarkably. Filipinos lived in small political unities, characterized by few social classes, with a complex system of rituals and working relationships similar to the idea of debt peonage and sharecropping. The fragmentation mirrored a rural economy based mainly on the cultivation of rice. Hence, people were reluctant to move into larger communities. A large number of islands, often with a mountainous morphology contributed to contrast a consistent Hispanization. Though the Spanish influence is essential and unquestionable, Filipinos maintained a robust cultural Independence. Phelan (27) notes how the role played by the Spaniards in Filipino society is very different than in Mexico: while in Mesoamerica the Spaniards colonized an isolated civilization, the Philippines were already in contact with the sophisticated civilities of China and Japan. Conclusion The spread of Catholicism was also influenced by geopolitical fragmentation. Moreover, unlike in the other Spanish colonies where the power of the Church was administrated by the secular clergy, the religious matter within the Philippines was in the hands of the regulars orders. Lack of regular flow of new friars, isolation and the influence of the free habits of Filipinos,
This paper will examine the importance and relevance of child care facilities in the corporate set up in the modern world, especially in the context of the increasing number of employees that desire to have such facilities at their work place so that their work life is not disturbed and their earnings are not adversely impacted due to large instances of absenteeism for taking care of children. Employers too stand to gain a great deal if they provide such centers for their employees which results in smooth functioning of the company by way of lesser number of employees being frequently absent from work. This considerably reduces the cost incurred by employers on fresh recruitments and training and they can retain employees for longer periods in maintaining a consistent and stable environment within the organization. It is well known that child care programs that are sponsored by employers yield a substantial return on corporate investment. In enabling programs that permit parents to go for work and bring about their full capacity in terms of work output from them, employers can avoid the recurrent costs pertaining to retaining and recruiting skilled employees. Such facilities greatly drive down turnover, reduce incidents of absenteeism and increase productivity at work. Hence corporate houses have come to realize that the work and dependent care programs initiated by them prove to be an investment on their employees as also in the consistent and unhindered success of their business. Such programs bring about credibility for employers in being preferred sources of employment in a labor market that is becoming increasingly tight. In the present corporate environment childcare facilities as provided by employers have become common parts of the package of benefits to employees which are almost the same as healthcare and vacation facilities. Having understood the importance of childcare in the work place and the impact that it has on performance of workers, many employers have started to offer a range of active programs in this regard. The most common facilities on offer are the child care facilities at the site of work. Although the facilities are not fully paid for by employers, the same are usually located in very close proximity to the worker’s place of work and is controlled and supervised by a child care agency contracted by the employer. For several employees this proves to be a very good facility which has a major role in the decision making process for workers in deciding whether to accept the employment, which they may not have accepted had the facility not been provided. Additionally, corporate child care facilities provide an incentive to employees to visit the child any time of the day. M
Maier’s approach I would take Maier’s approach in my performance session with James McGaran. Maier’s approach creates a friendly environment on which negative feedback can be released. It incorporates the Welchs’ view that “most employees believe they are unusually high performers” (Welch & Welch 2014a, p. 3). The belief requires that one starts with the worker’s strength because it would be easier to agree on areas of high performance. Maier’s approach requires that one starts with common things (Welch & Welch 2014b, p. 5). I would take the “other shoe” technique where I start by approving all the exceptional performance indicators before ending with the poor performance (see Appendix A). Employees are likely to pass the blame on someone superior or failure of the system. In McGaran’s case, he would like to blame poor performance in customer satisfaction on factors that are out of his control such as ATMs (Davila & Simons 1997, p. 4). The first step in Maier’s approach is “mutual identification of the problem” (Welch & Welch 2014a, p. 3). Shifting directly to the problem may give McGaran the impression that good performance is overlooked. It may also show that the firm focuses more on poor performance. It will be necessary to start with McGaran’s exceptional performance before shifting to finding the problem according to Maier’s approach. We would start with the best part which is financial performance. I would congratulate him for exceptional performance. I would not fail to mention that his financial performance is unmatched by any other branch in the company. It can be seen in the 2 nd quarter when his profit margin was 53% ahead of the closest Citibank branch (Davila & Simons 1997, p. 7). The next point to mention is his impact on people. It is the second-best performance of the individual. I would mention it as the second point because the rating depends upon my observation (Davila & Simons 1997, p. 3). It would give McGaran confidence that I do not contend with his high performance. It is the first step in Maier’s approach. The positive viewpoints from his team and low employee turnover would be some of the points I would use as back up. Controls will be the third to consider becaus
Introduction In the documentary, The Harvest-La Cosecha , Angus McLennan reveals the struggling lives of thousands of immigrant children who have turned into farm workers in the US. In the article, I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave, by Mac McClelland reveals the gruesome working conditions and low wages in the online-shipping warehouse. Just as is the case in The Harvest-La Cosecha documentary, McClelland reveals that the online-shipping business in the US targets vulnerable pool of people to offer cheap labor without asking questions. This paper attempts to explicitly compare and contrast the various working conditions covered across several class readings and documentary. The paper will also suggest possible solution for lessening the negative effects of these practices. Comparative analysis In the Harvest-La Cosecha documentary, there are many underage children working in the expansive farms everyday for more than the standard eight hours as stipulated the US labor laws. The children work for fourteen hours every day and do not have a single day off in a week. Despite the longer working hours under a hostile work environment, the immigrants are paid peanuts and they do not have health insurance or workman compensation benefits which as indicated in the federal labor regulations (McClelland The Harvest scene 1). The same pathetic conditions are observed by McClelland as a worker in one of the online-shipping warehouses in Ohio. McClelland is surprised by the dehumanizing and demoralizing work conditions they are subjected to. While working at the Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc., the “workers shipped products for online retailers under conditions that were surprisingly demoralizing and dehumanizing, even to someone who’s spent a lot of time working in warehouses” (McClelland par. 3). Slavery as a mode of production has remained a favorite in companies that function in markets that attract immigrant workers and vulnerable people. These companies thrive on discrimination and exploitation of labor supply to satisfy their selfishness. Since they are the masters of labor production tools such as wages, this group continuously disrespects the rights of the laborers. For instance, the labor strategies in the online shipping warehouses in Ohio are characterized by exploitation and depression of labor to ensure that hybrid slavery with bare minimal remuneration supports massive profit making at the least possible cost of production. McClelland admits that within the giant online shipping warehouses, “working more than eight hours is mandatory. Stretching is also mandatory, since you will either be standing still at a conveyor line for most of your minimum 10-hour shift” (McClelland par. 5). This trend is similar to the scenes in The Harvest-La Cosecha documentary where the young immigrant workers from Latino and African descent
Over-weight body condition is actually referred to as a condition of obesity. This is a condition where one accumulates excessive body fats which pose a great danger to the health of such individuals. Health diseases related to being overweight include cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer among others. It is therefore one of the leading causes of death. Historically, being overweight was associated with gluttony or overeating. However scientific studies have come up with other causes which include biochemical combinations, genetic reasons, and other cultural factors. Obesity conditions are usually defined by the body mass index (BMI). According to WHO a BMI that is greater than 25 is simply overweight. Other classes of obesity are defined according to the level of the BMI above this level. The Americans have been rated as the society with the highest levels of overweight (Nestle, p06). Thus this paper will discuss the major reasons why the United States is a major culprit of obesity. During the period of the early 1970s to the late 1990s, the average number of calories consumed by individuals was on the increase. This was greatly due to the change of diet. The change in the calories consumed was highest in the United States. This rate further increased as the level of technology improved in the production of foods. Studies indicate that the obesity rates in the US increased from 14.5% in 1971 to 30.9% in the year 2000 (Kuczmarski, p22). This was greatly associated with the change of diet by most Americans. Most of them resulted in the consumption of foods that had very high amounts of calories. The extra calories were mainly from excessive intake of carbohydrates from sweetened beverages. Americans are also heavily dependent on fast foods which contain a lot of calories. Studies have indicated that recent consumption of fast foods has more than tripled in the United States. This has resulted from the eating-out culture that prevails in the US. These fast foods contain very high levels of calories which contribute greatly to the levels of obesity. Other dietary changes result from the agricultural technology in the US which has led to cheaper prices for foods produced from corn, wheat, rice among others. Many individuals are therefore consuming this product as opposed to fruits and vegetables. The food industry is also blamed for the high calories contained in the packed foods. The high calories resulting from these foods are from the genetically produced foods which are then processed to make them more appealing and tasty (Flegal, p19). The sugar content is therefore very high. The food industries also engage in a lot of production for junk food which targets children. This encourages the consumption of such foods since the advertisements are mostly targeting children and youth who are the highest consumers of such foods. Media advertising on these foods is usual