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Introduction Currently, the planet is seemingly going through a COVID-19 pandemic, and the prestige of the nurse’s job should rise. There are tons of videos and sketches on the Internet about how doctors and nurses are equated with superheroes. Medical professionals take part in various photo challenges, where they photograph their faces after a difficult shift. However, not everything is so in reality as we would like to see on the Internet. Despite the circumstances of life, there is still a tendency for the depreciation of nursing. Main body Historically, the nurse’s image has consistently been that of a less skilled and dependent physician assistant. In different periods, the nurse demonstrated peculiar emotional characteristics: angelically kind, naive, stupid, hysterical, etc. I can see that in TV series, TV talk shows, comics, etc. Often the nurses look great there, but they are not valuable as medical professionals. It is essential here to touch upon a topic that feminists in vain ignored for unknown reasons. The total sexualization of the nursing profession is characteristic of many countries, cultures, and generations. Nurses want to marry young, promising, and attractive doctors. In this situation, the nurse confronts the figure of an erudite surgeon. It is essentia
Primary Moral Wrong Committed by Discrimination Discrimination is a social malpractice characterized by hatred, prejudice, and injustice. This malpractice is morally wrong. According to Arnold, Beauchamp, and Bowie (2012, p. 58), “the practice promotes inappropriate treatments on morally irrelevant grounds”. The practice also wrongs different individuals in the society. Moral philosophy (also called ethics) examines the behaviors and actions of human beings in their respective societies. Discrimination is morally wrong because every perpetrator acts against an immutable trait. For example, gender discrimination is unjustifiable because it affects the rights of many women. The beneficence principle (BP) compels individuals to do good things. This approach can play a significant role towards dealing with different ethical dilemmas. The other moral theory that examines the inappropriateness of discrimination is the Respect for Autonomy Principle. According to this principle, individuals have the right and power to achieve their goals in life. Human beings should also respect and support the rights of others. The Justice Ethical Principle encourages individuals to embrace positive actions that can support the needs of their neighbors. Discrimination fails to protect the rights, expectations, and liberties of the affected individuals. This is the primary moral wrong committed by discrimination. Primary Moral Justification in Favor of Affirmative Action Affirmative action “has become a controversial issue because it deals with sensitive issues such as culture, religion, gender, and race” (Arnold et al., 2012, p. 67). Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative offers useful formulations towards supporting the concept of affirmative action. According to this theory, human beings have to act in a positive manner. This practice will “ensure the maxims of their actions can become acceptable universal laws” (Arnold et al., 2012, p. 89). This argument explains why the world should never universalize any bad action. This situation explains why many theorists have justified the concept of affirmative action. Every society must identify and promote the best practices in order to support every struggling person in the society. Affirmative action also promotes actions that can eventually become moral authorities (Arnold et al., 2012). Moral actions are useful because they promote happiness in the globe. Affirmative action is therefore relevant towards reducing cases of inequality in different societies. Every individual in the universe should be ready to engage in acceptable actions. This practice will promote justice and equality. The moral justification that favors affirmative action is that human beings should be ready to embrace “good will”. This practice will produce a world that treats all peopl
Introduction Meno and Socrates in their dialogue are trying to understand whether the lessons of virtue are teachable. Meno says that there are different virtues in existence, but Socrates argued that each virtue is different. However, the quality of virtue is what is more important than its existence. The debate continues with Meno saying that virtue is being in a position to rule over people. However, Socrates disputed this by saying that it is not virtuous when you have slaved under your power and a ruling can have the consideration as virtuous only if it is just (Bostock 248). Socrates and Meno on Wisdom Plato is reported as talkative on wisdom, hence handling this topic about him poses a significant challenge. He argues that in order to understand wisdom, one needs to know its true nature. Socrates says that real wisdom can be found with God and that human wisdom has no value at all. However, Meno argues that respecting wisdom just as Socrates did is important for people to understand its importance (Bostock 248). According to Meno, people assume that they get wisdom from education and life lessons. However, Socrates seems not to agree with the idea by arguing that one can gain knowledge from education but not wisdom. Socrates drives the idea that virtue cannot be taught because if it could be then people could be having whatever virtue they want (Bostock 248). The practicability of teaching does not make any sense to Socrates. That is why he challenged Meno to define virtue and explain whether it can be learned. Recollection involves things known to individual spirit prior to birth and not just things learned in life. Through this explanation, Socrates says that all things people know are not wisdom, but knowledge further, saying that human beings try to gain it but only God has true wisdom (Scott 12). The reason why it is hard for human beings to have wisdom is that it requires them to be odd. People who think that they are wise to want to have power and wealth. However, wisdom requires one to be ready to do what is pleasing and helpful to others. In addition to this, wisdom does not relate to being able to carry out various actions but having a prominent state of mind. In addition, Socrates says that an action may be right and its quality determines whether it is an act of wisdom (Scott 12). Meno and Phaedo also argue that wisdom helps in determining the quality of a person’s writing or words because it reflects wisdom. Socrates concluded that wisdom is a virtue having special characteristics than the others (Scott 12). Conclusion Debating whether wisdom is a virtue or not can still progress and people can have differing views on the issue. Reflection and contemplation have been associated with wisdom and it can help one in making a wise decision, but it is not always a featur
Product Description Tervis Tumblers, a family owned company produces the ultra sonically sealed indestructible tumblers, which come in six different sizes together with a 2.5qt ice bucket. The company makes use of double walled technology in producing the tumblers as well as the ice buckets and this greatly aids in insulation properties as well as personalized design. The fact that Tervis tumblers bear specific logos, words, or pictures as per the customer’s request has greatly promoted the products. It is also worth noting that customers get a lifetime guarantee on the Tervis tumblers that they buy; this means that if the products are damaged during normal usage, a replacement is guaranteed. In the year 2006, the company’s sales grew by 38% through September, and in the same year, Tervis Tumblers was named the company of the year by the Sarasota County Economic Development Corporation in the United States (Anon Para 1). Tervis Tumblers currently has the headquarters in North Venice, Florida and most of its products are sold in the United States. Bearing in mind the quality of the products it is imperative to think of how well the product would sell internationally. Moreover, according to Lynn (Para. 3), most of the tervis tumblers cost between US $10 and US $14 whereas the ice buckets go for US $40 in the market. Cultural Influences Tervis tumblers have been widely marketed in many parts of the world but hardly in Africa. In Africa, one of the countries with the most stable economies and very high purchasing power is South Africa. In 2009, the country had an annual GDP purchasing power parity of US $ 488.6 and its Per capita GDP is US$ 10000; and according to UNICEF (2008) statistics, South Africa has an adult literacy rate of 88%. Due to these reasons, South Africa is an ideal candidate for international marketing of Tervis tumblers. In addition, South Africa has one of the most diverse and culturally rich societies in the world. Moreover, South Africans are very hospitable and the country is actually home a variety of cultures including the black people, whites, colored, and Indians among others (South Africa – Language, Culture, Customs and Etiquette Para 1). South Africans have very close family ties and they largely operate on mutual trust in their relationships. Those who live in rural regions are more culturally conservative than the urban dwellers and as such, city dwellers are often materialistic and live on the fast lane. Therefore, the immediate target market for the products should be the city dwellers. However, this will greatly depend on the specific ethnic group the company will be dealing with putting in mind that each of the three main ethnic communities – British, Boers, and native Africans – has unique cultural heritage and purchasing behavior (Ahlstrom and Bruton 228). South Africans highly value the creative arts, with many musicians, movie stars, and authors being highly acclaimed all over the world. Arts galleries are held all over the country, most of which cater for tourists. The South Africans’ love for arts is one aspect that would highl
Modern and postmodern literature through constantly intertwining bear a number of differences with the first one aiming to find meaning in a chaotic world and the second trying to evade this meaning, mostly playfully, and being a parody of searching it. While modernism is defined by rationality, transcendence, continuity, and depth, postmodernism is said to be characterized by irrationality, immanence, discontinuity or difference, surface (Gerhard Hoffman, 36). The depiction of the theme of love has always been vital regardless of the literary trend and modernism as well as postmodernism saw a number of literary works dedicated to immortal issues of love, death, and friendship. Sherwood Anderson, a modernist, wrote a number of novels with love as the main theme, his “Adventure” being one of the stories which depict love very vividly. Robert Lee Frost is known for their presentation of rural life and raising important social and philosophical issues in his works. His poem “The Death of the Hired Man” lives the reader in thoughts over the matter of death. The modernist William Carlos Williams paid special attention to the depiction of ‘local’ themes using mostly plain language making his works readable for any kind of audience. His poem “This Is Just to Say”, though very small, reflects the style of the poet and strikes the reader with the simplicity of language. Though the three works by different writers bear almost nothing in common they are significant for American literature since each of them is connected with the concept of love inconspicuous at the first glance. First of all, the meaning of love is realized through the story “Adventure” by Sherwood Anderson. This work is typical for modern American literature as what we may observe in it is the constant striving of the protagonist to find the meaning of her life, namely her love and her soul-mate. The story depicts the unrestrained desire of a woman to love and to be loved. One of the main aspects which are highlighted in the story is the significance of first love and its influence on the further life of a person if the relations were unsuccessful. It is often the case that the first love turns out to be the only real feeling the person experienced, just like with the protagonist of the story “Adventure”, Alice, who fell in love with Ned Currie when she was sixteen and never in her life was able to have true feelings for another man. Once she met Will Hurley but her attempt to build relations with him failed since she understood that staying with him she was simply trying to feel the emptiness in her soul fearing to stay eventually alone: “It’s not him I want” she told herself; “I want to avoid being so much alone” (Nina Baym, 1435). The practical value of this story lies in the fact that it tells what can happen if somebody is obsessed with the first true love and does not want any replacements. This obsession very often proves to be fatal and leads to the person’s spending the whole life solely. It has often been disputed whether it is better to spend the life with a person one does not love or to spend it alone. It seems more acceptable t
The article on “How mothering and Fathering an adolescent can be different” that Carl Pickhardt compiled evaluates the differences in how male and female parenting for adolescents is difficult (Pickhardt). According to the author, mothers and fathers possess different departure points that further affect their roles in parenting adolescents. Mothering an adolescent is relatively more manageable as the two are usually bonded emotionally from birth. However, it is difficult for a father to bond with a child as they are more distant. There is a need for the two parents to keep a connection with their adolescent (Pickhardt). The author claims that the difference between mothering and fathering an adolescent arises from how they approach and manage the hallmark behavior of parenting (Pickhardt). The adolescent pain that exists between fathers and mothers serves as a difference too. The article is related to the course concept as it explains the psychological bonding between a child and the mother that serves as a powerful intimacy (Pickhardt). Similarly, the father, who appears to be a disconnected and distant parent, has to support the mother and the child psychologically bonded to their adolescent to improve parenting. In addition, mothers often have a substantial parental focus and get psychologically attached to the child and harder to let go (Pickhardt). They are also relationally trained to be tolerant in emotional intensity with their child (Pickhardt). However, these aspects are not evident for fathers, and therefore the psychological attachment between them and the adolescent is not evident. While reading the article, the critical ideas that I have developed entail that parenting an adolescent is challenging for the fathers due to a lack of powerful intimacy with their children (Pickhardt). The lack of a mutual sense of attachment between the two parties is critical because it poses a challenge for the fathers to connect well with their sons and daughters compared to the mothers. Works Cited Pickhardt, Carl. Psychology Today. How mothering and Fathering an adolescent can be differe
Introduction Children are more prone to the surrounding factors that can pose a threat to their health. For example, they are prone to lead poisoning as a result of the paint that is used in households. The change in eating habits and the lack of regular exercise have resulted in many children becoming obese and overweight. The metropolitan areas have been affected by the built environment in a profound way. This paper aims to address these issues, while at the same time linking the policies involved in addressing them. Public Policy in Addressing Childhood Lead Paint Poisoning Children are highly susceptible to lead poisoning, especially in their homes, where the paint that is used to decorate their houses has traces of lead. The introduction of lead in household paints dates back to many years ago when the paint producers mixed the lead with different paints with a view that it would act as an excellent adhesive aid to the paint. The lead was also used in paints in order to enhance the viscosity of the paint. However, little did the paint manufacturers know that lead would eventually cause poisoning. Following this revelation, the US government has come up with effective policies that will see a reduction in the amount of lead that is used in paints. These policies are also meant to encourage the paint manufacturers to look for better forms of adhesives that can be used together with paints than the use of lead, says explained by the US Department of Health and Human Services (3). The best form of policy that the US government uses to control lead poisoning in children is the increased awareness to prevent the use of lead in household paints. In 1992, the Housing and Community Development Act (Public Law 102-550) was enacted to address the regulation of the amount of lead that was used in housing paints (US Department of Health and Human Services 4). The main agenda that this policy sought to address was the prevention of lead in paints so that children could have maximum levels of lead at BLLs< 10ug/Dl. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) continues to advocate for the prevention of the use of lead in housing paints. This is achieved through particular means like public awareness, effective monitoring, and taking corrective actions against those found to violate the set standards on the maximum levels of lead in
Introduction and thesis Cult of personality has a long history and is mainly connected with strong and charismatic and strong leaders, mainly in the political sphere. Fidel Castro is one of the brightest examples of the charismatic political leader who have managed to control people’s thoughts and actions in Cuba for already 50 years 1 . Scholars nowadays see inherent leadership traits in Castro whose personality was destined to become idealized by the overall promotion by the Communist Party and the media controlled by it. Accordingly, the cult of Castro’s personality can be considered a successful merad of the Communist party of Cuba to promote the very regime of communism in the country. Castro is a popular personality whose leadership adds greatly to the popularity of the Communist Party of Cuba in that he has helped maintain the party in power for half a century and has quelled any opposition from the beginning of the regime. This has been done in most part by controlling the media and reporters by manipulation to the extent that the media has turned its back to the whisperings of the common people 2 . In view of this study was designed to explore this topic. Argument Social economic background of Cuba before the revolution Before the revolution period in 1950s, Cuba was a rapidly though unevenly developing country in areas of health, education and individual consumption. The problem was how to distribute it evenly. The economy of the country was dependent on agricultural production mainly sugarcane growing and other seasonal crops which meant unemployment and underemployment between harvests. Coupled with low earnings of agricultural workers, poverty levels were high. There also existed great disparities in income distribution among families in the rural
Research has revealed that more than 80% of expenses incurred in the execution of supply chain operations result from poor infrastructure (Ayers 46). The quality of decisions made by managers has little effect on the effectiveness of supply chains. However, the quality of supply chain infrastructure affects the impact and type of decisions. For instance, many organizations incur heavy losses due to poor infrastructure. Bad design of warehouses, inaccessible supply locations and distribution centers, and poor transport systems contribute to the inefficiency and ineffectiveness of supply chains (Ayers 48). Improving infrastructure is imperative for organizational success because it reduces daily disruptions that affect the effectiveness of supply chains. Evaluation of infrastructure is imperative because it aids in the identification of challenges and obstacles that hinder the creation of efficient and effective supply chains. Also, it increases profitability through a reduction of operation costs (Ayers 48). For effective infrastructural improvement, effective channels of communication should be used to foster communication between people involved in various aspects of supply chains, For instance, logistics, procurement, and sales managers should provide data promptly to improve the process of making decisions. Organizations should consider embracing technology and hybrid solutions that lower costs and improve customer service delivery (Ayers 51). High-quality supply infrastructure benefits organizations by lowering sourcing costs, reducing inventory and storage expenses, as well as increasing revenues. For organizations to benefit fully from their supply chains, it is important for them to consider improving supply chain infrastructure. Supply chain risk and resilience Supply chains are always susceptible to two types of risks, namely external and internal disruptions (Ayers 63). In today’s business world, supply chain risk and resilience have become important aspects of managerial concern, especially in organizations whose supply chains go beyond regional borders into international markets. The risk profile of many supply chains has deteriorated because of the modern business environment that is characterized by uncertainties such as natural disasters, instability in supply and demand, and rapid changes in prices of products (Ayers 65). For that reason, many organizations and businesses are forced to prepare for disruptions that could affect their sourcing, sales, and distribution channels. On the other hand, supply managers should always be prepared for uncertainties to adapt their organizations to new regulatory requirements, which introduce changes in the global transportation setting (Ayers 66)