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Introduction Confucianism is a philosophical attribute used in China and which is based on the ethical values upheld by the Chinese community. The philosophy originated from the teachings of the K’ungu-fu-tzu also known as Confucius, a philosopher who has influenced the ethical system in Chinese society. It was first designed and centered on sociopolitical teachings but since then, it has shifted and it is now based on humanism (Sinaiko 12). The concept which is a humanistic approach recognizes that human values are not stagnant and can be changed from one form to another. Three aspects are borne form this belief that people are teachable, improvable and perfectible as well. The ideology is focused on preserving the humane aspect of members of the society by employing different teachings based on different foundations. There are three foundations that govern the act of Confucianism in the Chinese republic. These are ren, yi and li (Sinaiko 15). The three foundations touch on different aspects of the Chinese culture. For instance, the ren is the act of being humane to other people in the community and it is collectively known as altruism. (Xinzhong 24) Yi on the other hand is the act of behaving in a morally upright manner. In this case, people are expected to do good things. The last aspect which is li requires that one be humble for the sake of the other person. In Chinese society, one opts to give up his or her life either passively or actively for ren and yi to be effectively achieved in the community (Xinzhong 25). From this philosophical context, it is obvious why the movie “Eat Drink Man and Woman” was created in such a manner. The idea was to point out the ethical context of the Chinese people specifically those in Taiwan. This paper is a philosophical review of this movie. In the review, the author provides their reflections on the main ideas of the movie as well as on Confucian ethics in traditional Chinese family life. The connection between Confucian ideas on one hand and Chinese family life on the other hand in the movie will be addressed. “Eat Drink Man and Woman” Movie Review: Plot Summary The movie was released in 1994 by the Taiwan Film Records under the directorship of Ang Lee. He puts into context Confucianism by dramatizing the manners of the Taiwan community based on facts about life, love, and modernity. He uses food to explain the ideology of modern people in the community (Vick 3). Synopsis There are three daughters in the family who are not married. They live with their father who is a widower. It is noted that food is the main aspect in the film whereby the father cooks traditional foods and none of the daughter likes his dishes. They perceive it as too outdated but their father loves them so much such that he encourages them to eat the food. During Sunday dinners, he prepares for them traditional food and the relationship in the family seems to grow deeper and deeper (Vick 5). The daughters are always afraid of him but in the film, the father can tell stories in different circumstances and this makes the daughters to have the urge to eat and have a d
Introduction The main difficulty with America today is that populace no longer believes in the subject the country was build on. Populaces have on the whole mislaid confidence in America. There was a time when America stood for liberty and the idea that one can make a decision their prospect. Those times are extended gone. America has shifted to a media run civilization. The way populaces think and the method they view the nation all comes from what they hear or scrutinize in the media. People are quickly starting to lose confidence in America as a single and magnificent country. Current Scenarios of American Politics In government today there is no most excellent man for the work. There is merely the person who can best marketplace themselves to the people of the country. There has been the past of people agitation for president that joint the country and gave expect to improvement that will create everyone’s lives better. In campaigns for leader now, it is who can assure the most and make people consider they will run the state well. Most promises complete by candidates are never still addressed in their government. If we analyzed then we come to know that in the Wisest Man in America the typescript have lost confidence in American politics. They have smooth lost confidence in America itself. Ferris states, “Democracy is a pretense now”¦Being aloud to decide which make of razor cutting edge is most excellent to slash your throat with ““that’s democratic system.” (Wetherell, p.119) this quote ropes the thought that the times are altering and democracy, what our state was built on, is no longer an American excellence. It may motionless be called democratic system but for myself and even Ferris consider that democratic system is long disappeared There was a occasion when democratic system destined that the populace had a speak in the government of the state. Now all the populace has a say in, is who gets selected to run the administration. The media has still further tai
The range of the word “drug” is huge, but the phrase “drug abuse” is generally centered around the use of some nerve intoxicating agents, which can provide some mental relaxations but ultimately takes a heavy toll on the user. Sometimes the performance enhancing drugs that are generally taken by the sports persons are also called drug. Uses of drugs like “ benzodiazepines, cocaine, methaqualone etc are punishable by law in some countries ” (Sacks 2007). In a survey by United Nations, it has been found out that there are more than 50 million drug users in the World (here the drug addicts use heroine, cocaine and other synthetic mental enhancing drugs) (Anglin 2005). The treatments for drug abuse are now getting much attention now-a-days. In some cases, behavior counseling has helped the addicted people to come back to the normal lives as far as possible. According to the doctors, drug abuse is a really complex mental illness that has profound effect on the patient’s body too. Drug abuse has many dimensions and the treatments have many components in them, each has a special attention to a particular segment of the treatment. Any medical practitioner treating a drug abuse patient has to be careful in many aspects, like:   * He has to be careful on the issue that if the addiction has effected the brain of the patient.   * Every patient is different and has to be treated with different perspective.   * The treatment should be readily available, unless it can create a lot of adverse effects on the patient (Sacks 2007). There are some new therapies like counseling, and specialty addiction care. These types of care are provided in small medical facilities and they mostly focus on psychosocial behavioral treatments, rather than resorting to medicines. Therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (which mainly focuses on dysfunctional emotions that present in most drug addicted patients) and relapse prevention (another method of controlling obsessive compulsive behavior) are getting popularity among the doctors. A lot of agencies have also developed their own specially designed programs to help the drug abuses, but these methods are not widely recognized still today (Arthur 2006). As with the other mental diseases, in the case of drug abuses, the use of medicines are not usually preferred until a very complex point as the medicines often create adverse effect on the patients health, both mental and physical, and that can lead to some other problems. There are some vaccines available for the immunization from drugs like cocaine. There is a research going on phencyclidine, which can cure a lot of drug addictions. But it is still in the stage of research, and expected to be available in a few years. In this aspect, we have to also mention that all these medicines are meant for adult males and females who are not pregnant (Anglin 2005). In the final analysis, we can say that the treatment of drug a
Introduction The human genome has been significantly changing throughout the centuries. As the nucleotide sequence is a piece of information by which the cells are governed, understanding the genetic background has a high number of applications and possible benefits. Hence, bioinformatics is a crucial area of science, which helps in determining the biological sequences (DNA, RNA, as well as protein) and creating a uniform database to store this vast amount of information (Wani et al., 2018). First, the Human Genome Project and after its successor, Human Variome Project, both implemented the techniques from bioinformatics for achieving significant results. This report summarises, analyses the role of bioinformatics today and uses practical evidence for analyzing the given sequence of aspartoa
Introduction and History Supplies to firms contribute to high costs, which eventually affect the competitive position of the firm. Firms have, in turn, adopted supply chain management practices to enhance the efficiency of their supplies-related costs and thus improve their positions competitively. Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) programs are one of the tools that firms use to achieve synchronisation of their supply chain. Vendor Management Inventory is defined as a distinctive storing that mainly focuses on the customer, and which uses Server Valuestreamguru. It varies from the other supplies management systems in the sense that ownership is maintained to a point where the item is not entirely finished or consumed (Dejnega 63). The VMI approach was first introduced in 1985 by leading US retailer chain WalMart and manufacturer Procter and Gamble. This system did not only help the firms improve their supply chain, but it also enabled them to fix their positions as market leaders. The system particularly helped WalMart to track supplies to its stores as an alternative to the replenishment process that was previously adopted by the firm. The initial system was time wasting and failed to effectively cater for the requirements of customers all at once (Dejnega 62). Advantages of the VMI Approach The VMI approach helps firms to reduce the amount of inventories that they hold at any one given time, while also improving on their service delivery. The approach aids this in numerous ways, both when the vendor is expected to replenish several customers existing in close proximity and when a single customer expects to be served with several products. The vendor may consolidate the numerous product orders such that only a single shipment is needed. Orders may also be consolidated easily as a result of using the VMI system of supplies (Salzarulo 2). This can be achieved when the supplier times the dates when inbound shipments will be received and coincides them with the outbound shipments schedules. This would eventually enable the supplier to cut down on the actual inventory that is held on the site. Vendors are able to achieve on-hand inventory allocation amongst the customers by virtue of using the VMI approach. This particularly becomes applicable at the time when the supplier replenishes several customers. Instead of sending fixed quantitie
Background The key resource on the current cardiovascular health of the U.S. residents is the American Heart Association, which produces annual reports on the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases and stroke across the U.S. population. For instance, the 2016 report states that cardiovascular diseases account for 30.8% of all deaths in the U. S., even though the death rates attributable to CVS declined by 28.8% between 2003 and 2013 [1]. The risk factors for CVD include cigarette smoking, physical inactivity, high lipid values, and excess weight [1]. The concept of ideal cardiovascular health was invented by the AHA in 2011 to outline the goals of the organization in the ten-year period. The ideal cardiovascular health is indicated by seven metrics, which include health behaviors and individual health factors, as well as by the absence of clinically manifested CVD [1]. The seven metrics of the ideal CVH include “not smoking and having a healthy diet pattern, sufficient PA, normal body weight, and normal levels of TC, BP, and fasting blood glucose in the absence of drug treatment” [1]. The study by Mujahid et al. aims to determine the differences in ideal CVH across the different neighborhoods, races, and ethnicities. The AHA mentions that certain cardiovascular health predictors vary significantly between different neighborhoods, as well as ethnic and racial backgrounds [1]. The role of race and ethnicity in cardiovascular health has been addressed in several recent studies; however, Mujahid et al. consider the racial and ethnic differences in the light of neighborhood factors, thus offering a new way of looking at these differences [2]. Methods The researchers use secondary data from the 2002 Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis baseline sample (MESA). The study sample included 6191 participants who consented to participate in the ancillary MESA Neighborhood Study. The authors examined the seven indicators of the ideal CVH among the participants, referring either to the clinical test results or the self-reported questionnaire data. Stata version 12 was used to analyze the data. The key independent variables addressed in the study included race, ethnicity, and neighborhood characteristics. The dependent variables included the seven individual components of the ideal SVH and the overall CVH score. Results Overall, the study showed that ideal cardiovascular health was only experienced by 4.1% of the study sample, which varied in terms of age, education, and neighborhood charact
A good designis described by whetherit achieves the end results desired. For a project to besignificant there has to be a project manager who should have the qualities needed for managing the project. The quality of art depends on the viewer, since we cannot always rely on the understanding of art experts to influence our decisions regarding good and bad art. An art project can be said to be significant based on the assessment of several characteristics that include uniqueness, beauty, skill, natural meaning and acquired target. Beauty cannot be influenced, and comes naturally to an individual. A person’s opinion of beauty can be influenced by color, texture, pattern and presentation, among other factors. The skill and technique of art is measurable, based on an individual’s experience or interaction with other works of art. This feature can be influenced by the talent indicated, level of attention given in the work and consistency of the art work. Another important feature of art work is the meaning portrayed, whether it is emotional, political or just a random concept. The next aspect that makes a project significant is its uniqueness, which depends on the message being relayed by the artist, as well as the way it is expressed. The last aspect, fulfilled intent, lo
Personally, I enjoy the looks from the Roaring ’20s, as the styles from that era look simultaneously refreshing and old. I enjoy the fashion of this era for a multitude of reasons. First of all, the Roaring ’20s style is a product of the cultural boom that some historians even call “the cultural Civil War,” which was caused by the mix of previously completely segregated cultures (History.com Editors, 2010). Although I do like this style, I do not think that it is accessible to anyone. There are not many pieces available freely for purchase, and they tend to cost a significant sum of money, to the point where the shops that sell them partially turn into museums (Basin, 2018). Even a hundred years later, this style remains valid, especially with the uprise of the accompanying music genre — electro swing. Figure 1. Flapper Dress.Note. This dress is retro instead of vintage. From Unique Vintage 1920s Black sequin fringe del mar flapper dress, by Unique Vintage, n.d. The second vintage style I come to like is the 1990s fashion. It only relatively recently became an authentic vintage, as vintage is clothing that is 20 or more years old (“Differences between retro & vintage clothing,” 2020). However, this style was accompanied by massive societal changes that made it possible for people to express themselves more freely. Due to these changes, clothes for both women and men became less visually separated, and fashion took a turn towards a unisex style. It is also worth noting that clothing became more utilitarian in many ways. Even among famous people, it became a norm to wear clothes that were less restricting and allowed significant freedom of movement. The 1990s attire often looks cozy and less constricting, and I find it very liberating. While there were many different trends in fashion during that time, this loose clothing is a major feature of the ’90s (See Figure 2). Figure 2. 1990s Style. Note. From 1990s fashion: styles, trends, history & pictures, by RetroWaste, n.d.
Introduction Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) has been a successful household name since it incorporation, with interest in publishing, television and radio broadcasting, merchandising and internet ventures. Its driving force has been built on the idea of better living through design. [1] The company has been able to transform various aspects of our life into successful ventures, such as, personal organization and meal planning in creative business opportunities. Though successful, the company has been through various challenges but none has been notable like the imprisonment of its CEO, Martha Stewart, in 2004 for insider trading and her resignation in an effort to save her company’s stock price that were performing poorly following the news of trial and conviction. [2] Following these developments, MSLO formulated and implemented new strategies to contain the situation and help to stabilize the stock price and market share. Stock price history The company’s stock is currently trading at $3.22 per share as at August 11, 2011, trading a volume of 341,593 shares and with an improvement of 5.57% from the previous day’s trading. [3] The company’s highest stock price was $37.40 per share in February 24, 2005, trading a volume of 3,604,300 shares prior to release of Martha from jail, and the company’s lowest stock price was $1.61 per share trading a volume of 190,400 shares following the its being hit by financial crisis. The impact of Martha Stewart’s conviction Following conviction of Martha Stewart by mid June 2002, the company’s stock price was almost half of what it was trading at the end of 2001, with Martha choosing to remain silent about the allegations only professing her innocence. In the next span of about two years, while the saga continued, the company was unable to recover its stock price, as it was at the end of 2001 mark. This conviction made a huge toll on the company’s profitability and cash flow, leading to halving of the 2002 third quarter projections. [4] These developments made the shareholders and other stakeholders to loss confidence in the company, something that further aggravated the situation of the company. By January 2003, many advertising customers such as Chrysler had withdrawn their contracts, with the company registering the first quarterly loss of $2 million and the Martha Stewart Living Magazine registering 31% drop in revenues. [5] With the shareholders feeling the effect of plummeting stock price, some responded by disposing off the shares while others were deeply agitated that they took legal action against the company. For instance, Howard Rosen, an
Abstract Water is a vital medium for biological reactions in plants and animals. The quality of water, which can be determined through monitoring the chemical, physical, and biological properties, affects its safety during use in various life-sustaining processes. The purpose of this experiment was to analyze water from a wetland for phosphate, nitrite, and bacterial content. Water samples measuring 100 each were obtained from four different points in a park bordering a river on three separate days. The samples were subjected to physicochemical analysis by measuring temperature and pH using a conductivity and temperature tester. The concentrations of chlorine, nitrite, and phosphate were estimated using a portable photometer. The lowest and highest temperatures were 17 o C and 24.5 o C, whereas the average pH was 8.5. The concentration of nitrite was lower than the maximum allowable limits in drinking water. Bacterial populations ranged from 2.69×10 4 to 4.82×10 4 cells. Phosphate was the major chemical contaminant in the wetland. It was recommended that nanoparticle filters should be used to purify the water. Introduction Water is a vital component that is needed in large quantities to sustain life. Water quality is a term that denotes the chemical, physical, and biological attributes of water. The quality of water varies based on the type of organism, human requirements, or purpose. A number of parameters can alter the condition of water in the surroundings, including chemical, physical, or biological factors. Physical characteristics of water quality consist of temperature and turbidity. Conversely, chemical features include factors such as pH, dissolved gases, and ions. Physiological reactions take place with a given temperature range, which means that water temperature should also be conducive for organisms that live in it. Important ions to consider in water quality include nitrite, chloride, and phosphate. Nitrites are salts derived from nitrous acid that can be found naturally in groundwater. However, these ions can also be introduced into water bodies from nitrogenous fertilizers via sewage, run-off water, or mineral deposits. The predominant bacteria found in wetlands are cyanobacteria, which develop symbiotic associations with plants due to their ability to fix nitrogen into utilizable forms. Nitrifying bacteria obtain energy from the oxidation of organic nitrogenous compounds. Nitrite ions can trigger the growth of bacteria if present in large quantities in water bodies. Phosphates are oxides of phosphorous that are important in water quality evaluation. The normal concentration of phosphates in water should be approximately 0.02 parts per million (Abu-Hmeidan, Williams & Miller 2018). Even though