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Abstract This study advances reporting medical errors as a viable approach towards the prevention of medical errors. Its recommendations are based on the fact that the existent of unproductive culture of secrecy slows down efforts to eliminate medical errors and conceals the overall goal of improving health care systems. This paper also identifies that reporting medical errors will induce a culture of responsibility among health care practitioners; based on the fact that medical errors can be contained through the introduction of a responsible culture. Despite medical systems being partially to blame for the increased incidence of medical errors, a short-term solution therefore lies in the judgment of health care practitioners to report medical errors. Introduction Up until five years ago, medical errors were not such a widely known issue in the medical profession. Studies done by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) exposed this issue by identifying that American patients who died due to complications developed from medical errors were slated at between 44,000 and 98,000 annually (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2010). Most of these complications were preventab
Even though the movie Provoked was rather questionable from the point of treating the whole situation objectively, it could be safe to say that it majorly contributed to the understanding of the concept of battered woman syndrome (Walker, 2006). This was an essential topic included in the movie in order to point out the prevalence of silent treatment when it came to intrafamilial abuse (with men, obviously, being the abusers). As one may also see in the Provoked , this behavior does not have anything to do with the socio-economic group or a woman’s race, as there are much deeper reasons forcing women to suffer in complete stillness. Therefore, the movie raises a crucial question that cannot be ignored because it relates to the idea of learned helplessness as well. The symptoms that are rather similar to PTSD simply cannot remain overlooked because many women become too passive when it comes to battling abuse, as they do not see any other viable alternatives available (Kiewitz et al., 2016). This is where this diminished perception actually starts working against them, and this is exactly what we can witness in Provoked . As long as the victim does not change their view of the situation, they will not be able to find a different solution to their problem. The current movie is a perfect example of why one should never give up and always stand up to any kind of provocation in order to protect themselves from potential abuse and misunderstandings. The story that the director told the audience can be directly associated with the question of whether there was any reason for the main character’s husband to do what he did. Therefore, it is crucial to gain more insight into why does the main character actually endure that while not leaving her abusive partner. Despite the fact that the movie does not answer that question explicitly, it is evident that the rationale behind the main character’s actions is founded on the “, but he loves me, and we can make it work” postulate. This might be the biggest lie of all time that transpires beyond the screen and happens all the time in real life as well, unfolding in the most unexpected ways ever. The inability to expose the truth and ensure that the abuse is going to stop as soon as possible often results from the family advice, where the woman is recommended to let it go and not pay any attention, as anyone might have a bad day. The uncomfortable state of exposing the truth is what stops many women from reporting domestic abuse, and Provoked is a perfect example of what might happen in the family when the woman is not ready to overcome her fears and respond to the offender. The main character was not too scared to exert an effort to change the situation, and it ultimately paid off, even if with drastic consequences f
The names of the Roman pantheon and Greek Parthenon figure in any discussion on the art or architecture history of the world. They do have a cultural, religious, and social tradition to narrate, and they convince a modern man that art and architecture are immortal. The time frame of both these great architectural monuments goes back to 2000 years, and the Roman pantheon stands intact even today as an unbelievable masterpiece of architectural, sculptural, and constructional excellence. In the same way, even though the Greek Parthenon is partly destroyed, even in its ruin, the reminiscent is sufficient enough to grade the great artistic works on it. One needs to have an understanding regarding the time frame, cultural context, and the architectural peculiarities of both these temples for a study in comparison. The Roman pantheon originally was a temple dedicated to all the major gods in the country. The Romans had a large number of gods and goddesses to whom they turned for support and strength for each of their needs. For example, Mars was the god of war, whereas Neptune was the powerful god of the sea. So it was natural for all soldiers to pay offerings to Mars before any major battle and seamen to pay tribute to Neptune so that he would protect them from any misfortune. The Romans were broad enough to accept gods and goddesses from other civilizations, and they even built temples for these ‘foreign’ gods in the Roman Pantheon. Isis, the Egyptian goddess of the earth, is a fine instance for this sort of acceptance. Thus, the Roman pantheon is a symbol of the mingling of various civilizations and religions. The pantheon, in its final stage, was designed by the great visionary Emperor Hadrian around 126 A.D. He was very much interested in Hellenistic culture, music, and architecture. Even though the original pantheon was built between 27 and 25 B.C by his predecessor, it was Hadrian who restructured and designed the structure to its perfection. It is said that “under his reign, Rome reached its maximum splendor, and the present structure is probably the fruit of his eclectic genius and exotic tastes” (The pantheon: Temple of Roman gods. Italy Guides). In the same way, the Greek pantheon’s construction was championed by the great Athenian politician, Perikles, during 447-432 B.C. The Athenians believed that goddess Athena was taking care of Athens, and so the great temple originally was dedicated to her. It was a custom for the Greeks to offer thanksgiving to goddess Athenia whenever they experienced any success on the battlefield. It is also interesting to note that both these temples were at a later stage consecrated as Christian churches. Much more than their religious significance, both these constructions are world-renowned and acclaimed by sculptures, painters, and architects all over the world for their artistic beauty and architectural value. The construction of the Roman Pantheon was so beautifully designed that even “Michaelangelo felt that it was the work of ange
Introduction Prostitution is one of the most controversial topics in Canada today. The current Canadian laws on prostitution came into force on December 6, 2014, following a Supreme Court ruling on the case Canada (AG) v Bedford (Scoular 17). In the ruling, the Supreme Court held that the law prohibiting the existence of brothels and living on earnings from prostitution unconstitutional. The ruling meant that it is legal to sell sexual services but illegal to purchase them. According to Schultz and Lavenda, the opponents of the sex trade argue that the practice involves the exploitation of women, especially those who are not financially empowered (31). Incidences, where teenage girls are kidnapped and sold to owners of brothels, have been cited as one of the main reasons why prostitution should be criminalized. However, Close argues that another section of society believes that prostitution should be legalized (35). The trade has been in existence for a long time and attempts to eliminate it have failed in various parts of the world. Criminalizing prostitution creates an environment where it is run clandestinely. The few powerful individuals who can hide from the law can end up kidnapping and exploiting young women knowing that they can manipulate the law. When the trade is legalized and regulated, it is easy to inspect the brothels to ensure that all the sellers are willing to be involved in the trade and are not coerced in any way. Their age and identity can be verified to ensure that no one is forced into the trade. The government can also earn tax from the trade if it is ma
Introduction Since the medieval days, western philosophers have often debated the nature of happiness and the definition of a good life (Collier, Frances, & Haliburton, 2015). Two of the most celebrated philosophers who have helped to expound on these issues are Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill. Socrates is another notable philosopher who has provided unique views about the good life. His works are widespread because he has provided the background for the development of these views by “newer” philosophers, such as Kant and Mill, who came after him. Indeed, Kant and Mill’s works seem to borrow from the principles of Socrates and other philosophers about ethics, morality, and good life. Although the timelines of their works seem to overlap, they share different views about happiness and the good life. This paper explores their different visions of life, through a critical analysis of their arguments about the morality and ethics of human happiness. In the context of this paper, the phrase “the good life” and the concept of happiness are used synonymously. This paper is divided into eight sections. The first one outlines what Kant and Mill say about the vision of the good life. The second and third sections of this paper compare and contrast both visions to find out the areas of commonality and differences in both. From this review, the fourth section of the paper outlines the more compelling view, which is that Kant’s vision of a good life is more superior to Mill’s vision of the same. The subsequent section of our analysis delves deeper into this position by comparing the relevance and importance of intention vs. consequence of action. This analysis sets the stage for the sixth and seventh sections of the essay, which explore how Mill and Kant’s philosophies are useful to modern societies and the treatment of patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The last section of the paper is the conclusion section, which summarizes the main points of the study and reinforces the main arguments of the paper. What do the Philosophers say about Good Life? The Good Life According to Socrates Socrates introduced the concept of the “examined life,” as a hallmark of his conception of the good life. He argued that through self-examination, people could find out “things” about themselves that would enable them to live a good life (Young, 2014). Stated differently, he proposed that self-examination would yield positive outcomes that would enable people to live a good life (Collier et al., 2015). In other words, he argued that the whole purpose of self-examination is to understand oneself and rebalance life in a way that would yield a “superior” quality of life. Based on this analogy, Socrates emphasized the importance of self-awareness as a prerequisite to the enjoyment of the good life. Broadly, this view demonstrates that the reward for self-examination is a good life. The Good Life According to Kant Kant’s description of the good life is non-techn
Abstract Understanding text is a very complex issue for students. Majority of the young readers fail to connect thought during reading, thus suffer from inability to reveal comprehensive meaning of text. Good reading habits entail ability to question, search for context proof within text, reread and find more meaning. The learner must be in a position to move through text and understand meaning during comprehension. Reading is an interaction process between the reader and the manuscript. This process guides reading frequency or automaticity, where the reader is able to interconnect dynamic texts to find exact meaning. There are various purposes of reading and each determines the appropriate approach or strategy that a learner ought to take. The reading may be for enjoyment, to analyze text critically, for a purpose of gaining knowledge, to learn fluency or become skilled in a particular language. Introduction Educators often ask students to reads and make worksheet reports about their reading, instead of ensuring that learners are able to comprehend meaning from reading materials. Comprehension calls for teachers to utilize more real world or practical examples and enforce instructions that motivate learners. An educator can implement various reading comprehension strategies in the aim of enhancing practicability. Some of the main strategies implemented worldwide by a number of proficient readers include ability to determine the important points from a reading. This calls for one to identify themes, and academic augments that focus to the less important thoughts or ideas. Secondly, it is critical to depict presumptions from the reading. This requires the reader to find some background knowledge of the text, interpret details, and generate logical conclusions. Comprehension also requires use of prior knowledge as well as experiences to realize meaning from text. The reader should in addition inquire about the writing before, during the period of reading and after analysis. This strategy assists in monitoring of ability to understand and find out if the text makes sense. Lastly, it is important for the reader to engage mental images or pictorial presentations as a measure of enhancing experience. It is not possible to implement any of this critical measure unless the educator is in a position to take appropriate actions and strategies to guide the learner. This research paper forms an analysis of five teaching strategies, required to promote reading comprehensions. The analysis is a comparison of various journal literatures. Different teaching strategies to use for reading comprehension Determining which text is important For students to prosper in acquiring reading comprehension, they ought to have basic knowledge that pertain to reading as opposed to only boast learning aspects as set out on the course outlines. More traditional ways of enhancing
Making the process of learning more insightful and attractive to students is one of the most challenging tasks for a teacher. Demanding not only that the students should be properly motivated, but also that the strategies and goals for specific lessons should be defined clearly and efficiently, it presupposes that numerous factors of learning environment should be taken into account. Incorporating the basic principles of instructional design will help both address the needs of the students and introduce a proper motivation for an entire class, therefore, enhancing the learning process and contributing to better understanding of the lecture material, acquisition and training of the necessary skills and efficient application of theories to practice. To help the students that have enrolled into the MATLT project learn to demonstrate the knowledge and skills related to learning using technology, such changes as the integration of the recent technological innovations along with information on the effects of these technologies must be provided. In the given process, it is essential to make sure that the principles of Constructivism and Interpretivism are being used, for these principles allow the students to see the numerous ways in which the same task can be accomplished (Instructional Design Knowledge Base, n. d.). By showing the students the variety of methods, which are all attributed to the same goal, one can make sure that in their teaching practice, students will be capable of integrating various strategies in order to approach a specific issue in q unique manner by analyzing the specifics of the case in point. Another challenge related to the MATLT program, which its participants are most likely to face in educational setting, concerns the demonstration of knowledge and skills in current and emerging instructional technologies (Horton, 2012). To help the participants of the program embrace the opportunities that current technological advances open in front of them, it will be required to create activities combining “instructional design, media and computing” (Newby, Stepich, Lehman, Russell & Ottenbreit-Leftwich, 2011, p. xvii). In other words, the activities that demand to draw further lesson designs from the feedback acquired from social networks and other types of modern media that can be used in the course of the lesson, should be created. It is imperative that the learners should understand what potential new media and technologies open for both teachers and students. Such understanding can be shaped by offering students tasks on analyzing the benefits of the latest technologies, such as the exercise demanding to define key positive features of specific devices for students and teachers. For instance, the activity of the given kind can include listing the qualities of such devices as smartphones and iPods, which can be used for interactive learning and efficient note-taking process. Despite the fact that in the process of distilling the instructions that will allow for defining the
Introduction Amazon.com, Inc. is a company that offers variety of services to consumers all over the world. The Company has since developed in such a way that it offers its services to consumers through the retail websites that the Company owns. Amazon produces programs to the seller customers that enable them to easily use the Company’s Website and their own Websites to sell the products they produce. Through its Web services, Amazon caters for the need of the developer customers. This is by providing them with the recommended technology infrastructure that enables them to operate any type of business (Amazon.com, 2009). Amazon operates in two known segments which are North America and International. Within these segments it offers co-branded credit card agreements, marketing and promotional services that enable the Company to generate revenue. The Company has acquired the rights to own various companies through purchasing. For instance in the year 2008 it purchased Shelfari which is a social network for those who like books, It also acquired AbeBooks in the same year. Towards the end of 2009 the Company obtained the ownership of Zappos .com. Inc. (Amazon.com, 2009). Portfolio of new business services The building of a portfolio of services is often considered as the first logical step in the process of implementing a new business. The ideal framework for building a service portfolio must be set and followed to the latter (Aaker, 1998). Jeffrey Bezo of Amazon Company is very much concerned with the growth of the company. This has made him to be more concerned on how to work closely with the relevant groups within the company including the business process owners, system architects and developers to bring success to the company (Hynes and Pradhan, 2008). Identifying Services In discovering the appropriate service there are techniques that are employed by business companies. In order to realize complete satisfaction of its customers, Amazon employed the process of “working backwards” which entailed identifying customer needs and working backward until they reach the minimum technology required to satisfy the identified customer need. This resulted into the company commanding a good base of loyal customers (Stanford University, 2008). Amazon has found it necessary to invest in the research and development; this has seen the Company take advantage of the propriety technology it owns. The Company has used this technology to improve on the process efficiency and offer support to Web infrastructure services. They’ve also gone as far as patenting “I-Click” that has enabled easy dealing with return businesses without repeating the entry of information within the system. There is also the development of the intelligence-based pricing system which works art
Introduction Muslims are the second largest religious community in the world after the Catholics (Saenz, 2005). Even though they are racially and ethnically diverse, they have taken on to themselves various connotations and there have been various perceptions regarding how Muslims are viewed across the world. In the same respect, it is also evident that different Muslims in different countries behave differently depending on the cultural practices surrounding them. This therefore means that they perceive the Islamic teachings differently and that the practice is not the same all Muslims. In some countries for example, it is mandatory for women to wear a veil while in other countries, this is not compulsory (Curtis, 2006). Going by the foregoing arguments, in spite of them being deeply rooted in their faith, Muslims from different parts of the world view Islam differently. This does not however mean that their practices are dwindling; it only illustrates that faith and religion are as good as one’s beliefs and perceptions. As such, the essay below is an attempt to analyze the teachings of Islam and thereafter, illustrate how they are interpreted and perceived by different Muslims from different countries. Islam: Beliefs and Practices The Islamic religion is characterized by many beliefs and practices that have to be adhered to by members of this religious group. According to Saenz (2005), there are over one billion Muslims living in the European countries and in other continents like Asia and North Africa. In addition, there are approximately 40 Muslim dominated countries in the world (Saenz, 2005). Even though the various practices of Islam are different from one country to another, nonetheless, we do have basic fundamental elements and teaching that they all look up to. The basic teachings of Islam revolve around Prophet Muhammad as the teachings were first revealed to him in the (Saenz, 2005). Prophet Muhammad later collected these teachings that he had received and compiled them into the Holy Quran. In order to get guidance and teachings in their day- to- day lives, the Quran is a very important asset of the Muslim faithful since they rely on it as a basis for leading an Islamic way of life, according to the teachings of Allah, though Prophet Muhammad. Besides being a prophet who role was to gather the materials in the Quran, Prophet Muhammad lived a life that was exemplary and that deserves to be emulated by all the Muslims. Five Pillars of Islam Every Muslim is required to adhere to the Islamic teachings which require that they follow the five pillars of Islam. The first of these pillars states that every Muslim has to