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The man who does is the man who thinks he can… this is a time-tested fact. You will always find positive people very sure of themselves and their abilities. They always think everything is possible. This is because of their confidence and positive thinking. People with vision have a decided bent of mind towards original thinking. They are able to look at things differently and can predict trends for the future. They are able to pick up future scenarios by looking at the present and past picture. It is this vision that foresees changes and eventually influences them. As a student, there are dreams galore and ambitions unlimited. There is a desire to be successful and famous. If this desire is laced with a positive thinking and appropriate action then nothing is hard to achieve. But all is easier said and done. The pressure to perform and achieve is so immense that young students get so caught up in everyday activities and lose track of their actual goals. Therefore effective time management and organization skills could be the best way to handle the hectic pace of life. The Pickle-Jar theory of time management gives a very thoughtful insight into the need for time management. Here one picks up a pickle jar and puts rocks of all shapes and sizes in it till it is full. Then one keeps filling it up with sand till there is no more room for it. Finally one adds water to it when everything gets mixed up. The implication is that the rocks are big and small priorities of our life, sand is the additional priorities that we have. Adding water indicates our inability to sort out these priorities and making a mess of our lives. ( Wright, 2002). The classic time management theory gives many wise lessons. With minor modifications here and there, time management skills might just fall into place. A student needs to chalk out a schedule with innate flexibility. It does not take rocket science to estimate the average time a project or assignment would take to compile. Consequently a student should work on it on a regular basis dividing the work over a period of time rather than crumbling under pressure just before the deadline. This would not only make the project work interesting, but also make the person develop a comprehensive outlook on the subject as there was no hurry to just finish it off. And of course he/she would not even miss out on the basketball game of that day! Another smart time management tip is to identify the time-wasting factors (including people) in your environment. Try giving them no place in your daily schedules. Courtesy demands might not let you completely avoid them but there are sure shot alternatives of keeping them at bay. Ask such people to join you in a cleaning exercise or contribute in an academic assignment whenever they come. They would for sure not want to be a part of your routine the next time! People can be tamed but habits are difficult to tame. Your own attitude of procrastination needs to be s
An the introduction to the book, the author traces back at some of the events in the past about the rise of some of the developed nations. Here he describes the rise and fall of these touted rich nations. He talks about the twists and turns, false and deceptive signals of the history of rich nations and their eventual symbolism. Here compares what was thought of China in the late twentieth century, as a nation of ancient civilizations to the early twenty first century where it is termed as economic giant. He talks about Beijing’s accession to WTO in 2001 to handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese sovereignty, describing the Chinese emergence. Here he links symbolically the disappearance of iron manholes in another region of the world to Chinese need for raw material and scrap. He also talks of world isolation in the 1990’s to changing economic scenario, with its rivalry with United States in many spares including human rights to economics. He also writes of the uncomfortable position of US over outsourcing, China’s unfair trading practices, and pirated consumer goods to intellectual property rites. He also highlights the changing economics to desertification of fertile lands, air pollution relate to respiratory lungs disorder and changing environmental base. In this book, he draws a whole line of issues for foreign trade to foreign relations to the environment. This book ‘China Shakes the World: A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future and the Challenge for America’ is written by James Kynge and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2007. James Kynge is a celebrated journalist and has been a recipient of several journalism awards. He was the China Bureau Chief for the Financial Times for seven years. He has written many books, namely with titles ‘China Shakes The World-A Titan’s Rise and Troubled Future – and the Challenge for America’, ‘China Shakes The World-The Rise of a Hungry Nation’ etc. In October 2006, James Kynge won the Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for this book. In this book, he describes the fast development of China as a world power. James Kynge has unshakable influence of China in most of his books. He has an illustrious career in journalism in Asia spanning nearly two decades. He originally served for Reuters and then as China Bureau Chief for the Financial Times between 1998 and 2005. In this course, James Kynge has covered many of the events during this time, which includes the Japanese deflation, the Tiananmen Square massacre, the rise to nationhood of the fi
Introduction Cordial relationships with people at workplace are undoubtedly an important required quality for employees. Likewise, interpersonal relationships play a vital role in the growth of businesses. This aspect should be viewed in its broader horizon with various dimensions such as employee to employee, manager to sub-ordinate, firm to firm, managers to stakeholders, and firm to customer relationships. Accordingly, these communications are influenced by various factors such as personal characteristics, worker perceptions of firm and co-workers, and overall workplace environment. A number of studies have been conducted on the importance of interpersonal relationships in the success or failure of a business. Three important studies have been mentioned here.  1. In a study conducted by Murry and Heide (1998) to observe personal communications between boundary-spanning personnel and the influence of organizational factors in effective inter-organizational exchange, it was found that incentives and close personal interactions positively affected co-operation, while monitoring influenced in a negative manner (1: 314).  2. According to a study by Price and Arnold (1999), persons involved in business-to-business (B2B) relationships can easily differentiate between business frie
The study at the center of the present discussion is called “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis: A Case Study in Peripheral Trauma with Implications for Health Professionals”, and concerns some of the lasting implications the Tuskegee study has left on the African-American population. In particular, the concept of peripheral trauma is discussed as a phenomenon that affects particular parts of the population. Researchers note that racially or ethnically motivated occurrences can hurt the people who were not directly affected, negatively impacting their mental health and wellbeing (Alsan, 2019). Police violence, mass incarceration, and rough immigration treatment have all had a role in shaping the psyche of a black US citizen. The article summarizes findings on this consideration in the medical sphere, especially concerning the Tuskegee study. The mistreatment of black people during the experiment and a lack of disclosure has permanently scarred the relationship of trust between the medical establishment and the African-American community. This article presents one of the most important considerations for understanding the effects the Tuskegee study has had on the current black population and their relation with the Covid-19 vaccine. A deep look into the effects of the experiment needs to be made in the course of remedying the past. The challenge of finding approaches to solving this issue is evident, as both therapists and medical professionals need to find suitable approaches to working with this segment of the American population. Considerations of hesitancy and mistrust are especially important in the face of the recent pandemic. Covid-19 has spread like an infectious and dangerous condition people need to be always prepared for. With the combined efforts of various countries, the ability to produce a vaccine was secured. However, there are doubts about the safety and effectiveness of vaccination treatment among certain fragments of the population. For black people, the worry is justified by years of medical and physical exploitation and misleading practices, such as the ones used in the Tuskegee study. While discussing the effects of the paper, it is also important to note the other possible roads for inquiry its existence has created. The established connection between past events and current attitudes can be further examined to evaluate the effects of population trauma on the effectiveness of particular social programs and to examine better ways of working with a vulnerable demographic. Reference Alsan, M., Wanamaker, M., & Hardeman, R. R. (2019). The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis: A Case Study in Peripheral Trauma with Implications for Health Professionals. Journal of General Internal Medicine , 35 (1), 322–325.
Abstract Nursing retention is essential for healthcare organizations. Nurse retention strategies promote quality care and create a healthy workplace environment for nurses. A positive work environment helps retain experienced nurses and attracts new nurses into the healthcare organization. In this paper, the concepts of nursing retention and turnover are explained in the context of nursing shortage. Theories and concepts that have been proposed about nursing retention are also discussed. In particular, two theories, Kanter’s theory on employee empowerment and Neuman’s framework are discussed. The paper also relies on literature to recommend strategies that can promote nurse retention in health care organizations. The concepts and perspectives on nursing retention and related policies and statistics are also provided. The QSEN and ANA competencies as related to nursing retention are also reviewed. The paper concludes that through enhanced job satisfaction, nursing retention can be enhanced in hospitals. This in turn will result in improved patient and nurse outcomes. Introduction The attrition rate in the nursing sector has been on the rise over the past few years. While the high turnover can be attributed to various factors, its impact on health care delivery is alarming. High nurse turnover has often resulted in poor patient outcomes, reduced access to health care, the decline in profits of an organization and low job satisfaction. High nurse turnover in all nursing specialties is attributed to the nursing shortage currently felt in the healthcare sector (Rosseter, 2012). Given the negative effects of nurse turnover, strategies to reduce turnover and promote nursing retention have been adopted in most provider organizations. The financial effects of turnover have motivated organizations to begin to explore ways to enhance nurs
Introduction The Internet has also changed the nature of information and rendered it conditionally factual. Since the Internet functions as a flat hierarchy, anyone can post whatever they choose. On the Internet it is not necessary to become an expert or acquire a license to post online; thus facts largely represent opinion. Facts also continually change online and are considered communal property, as in the example of wikis – as such, “reality” itself is under constant revision online. Information, Entertainment and Communication Information can be defined as facts; relative to mass media, these facts pertain to knowledge acquired about a person or a thing. Since information roots in fact, both are considered real. Entertainment typically refers to activities pursued for the sake of pleasure, enjoyment or leisure; relative to mass media, entertainment can take numerous forms, including television and film. Forms of entertainment have historically been fictional – stories about people that do not exist. Communication represents the raw exchange of information; it is the act of sending a message and receiving a message through myriad media channels – cell phones, emails, etc. Convergence These various media interactions have converged in our current society. Information and entertainment for example converged to create infotainment, shows such as Entertainment Tonight , wherein the personal lives of celebrities demand the same journalistic weight as the economy, global military action or other traditionally hard news items. Entertainment media now increasingly follows the reality show model, which employs non-celebrities and non-actors who speak their own words. Reality television is no less fictional than scripted television; reality television is heavily edited, and typically engages story editors and story producers to inflate dramatic situations. Communication convergence involves the concurrent availability of multiple forms of communication, such as a Twitter feed advertised during a television news broadcast online. In the early days of mass media, forms such as print, radio and television maintained a separate, defined space that rarely overlapped. With the emergence of mobile devices, the Internet and the ever more participatory culture of media, these formerly discrete media channels now find themselves subsumed by the über channel that is the Internet as of 2011. Convergence refers to the “flow of content across multiple media platforms, the cooperation between multiple media industries and the migratory behavior of media audiences who will go almost anywhere in search of the kinds of media experiences they want. Convergence is a word that manages to describe technological, industrial, cultural and social changes depending on who’s speaking and what they think they are talking about” (Jenkins 2006). The great leveling of media that the Internet facilitates leads to the “continued fragmentation and proliferation of media touch points and content alternatives [that] makes reachin
Introduction The juvenile justice system is currently facing many challenges, which may end in crisis if precautions are not applied in time. As one of the consultants of juvenile justice, I have examined carefully and predicted the fate of the juvenile justice system. If we do not make a changes in the system in serving and seeing that the well-being of the fellow citizens is maintained, the situation will be even worse. I have created a proposal to the state legislature on matters concerning the future of the juvenile system (Siegel & Welsh, 2011). Legislative proposal I want to address the private sector or the privatization involvement in the future juvenile system. I think the juvenile system will be in a better position if we contract some of the public services; garbage collection, health care, law enforcement, education, fire protection, prisons, public transit systems, construction, airport operations, and others, to private providers by the local, state or federal governments. We have had many financial problems in operating the services and the citizens are not pleased with all. The protests, the critics and many other complaints that they provide almost every day should not be assumed. The juvenile system is supposed to ensure that their well-being is maintained or improved (Roberts & Springer, 2007). Handling all these facilities and with the poor management and financial problems will not do any better. We all know that privately operated facilities can do or deliver comparable or even better services at a lower cost than public operated facilities. They can provide a wide variety of services because they are selective and flexible. Therefore, the company should delegate some services to the private sector. I am putting more emphasis on education facilities, which many citizens are criticizing for being ineffective and i
School violence has become an international issue in education systems because it has affected not only delivery of educational services, but also lives of students. Since education systems in various countries aim at enhancing intellectual capacity and shaping development of behaviors in society, it is critical in development of a peaceful and prosperous society, which relies on values and ethics. School violence is a global phenomenon for various studies show that due to globalization, developing countries are now experiencing high incidences of school violence signifying that they are adopting trends in developed countries. However, education systems play significant role in unifying diverse society as it provides a platform where children socialize and share different values of society and become assimilated into diverse society. According to Benbenishty and Astor, school violence is a global issue that needs concerted interventions from various countries and stakeholders in formulation of theories and policies to avert increasing trends of violence in schools (75). Therefore, how can functionalism and conflict theory help us understand the nature of school violence? According conflict theory, violence is an inherent and natural tendency of human beings as it provides means of struggling and achieving resources. People in the society are constantly struggling to a achieve resources such as power, class, and status to keep abreast with social, economic, and political dynamics that shape lives. Smith argues that, most social conflicts emanate from unequal distribution of resources; power, class, and status, hence making people to struggle endlessly and eventually resort to violence as a means of achieving the resources (216). In schools, there exists inequality among students and staff. Given that there is great power, class, and status difference between staff and students, it gives a potential source of conflict. Sometimes tension occurs between student leaders and ordinary students due to power difference thus creating a conflict among students; moreover, students at times direct their aggressive behavior towards staff. Thus, existence of power, class, and status in schools forms the basis of violence that normally erupts
Over history, many issues have raised controversy in our society. One of such issues is the issue of homosexuality in our society. To be specific the issue of same sex coupling and marriages which attracts a lot of mixed reactions fro the members of the society. In as much as such an issue is controversial the society has had it’s creation of how life is for the homosexuals. Much of this creation has been influenced by the well presented life of gay marriages touching on men. These types of marriages have been highlighted so much by the media to the extent of the society accepting the issue of men and gayism as a normal occurrence in the society. The issue of women and same sex marriages or coupling in women has not received much of the publicity as has been given to their male counterparts. There have been stereotypic beliefs that lesbianism in the society would not be well accepted and as such any attention that had been given to such relationships had portrayed the negative picture. This perspective has prevailed for such a long time while it remained a fact that these people existed in our community. It is with the airing of the L Word show that this perspective has been changed or is bound to change. In my evaluation of this show it has gone along way in to changing the community’s perspective on the issue of lesbianism. This is because the show portrayed lesbians in a positive way just like other human beings. They are seen in the show through the different characters as they face challenges and overcome them. This is contrary to the traditional view portrayed where the lesbian characters involved in previous shows ended up in pathetic conditions which would make no one to identify with them or want to be identified as lesbian. It has mostly been associated with stigma, has been repressed and viewed as sinful. This is contrary to what we witness in this show since it tries to normalize lesbian relationships through the media just like gayism has been. I would also highlight that the show has made a step forward in recognizing all the members of our society. This recognition is regardless of an individual’s sexual preference and as such has acted as a voice for the minority lesbian members of he community. As the show portrays the lesbians are seen on a positive note. In their interactions they are seen supporting each other to go through the hardships that they face and eventually emerging victorious. Such a picture in the show helps one to get a glimpse of how life is on the other side of life of the lesbians. Even when hey are faced by challenges and isolation from their families they always stand with one another. Such high levels of friendships help them to find solace. The public appearances of lesbian groups to me are a changed focus on things by he community. Now that the lesbians can meet in public gather
Compared to the modern economic and consumption values, the Kimmerer (2014) proposes focusing on the ways people can contribute to the nature and learn from it. The author uses the experiences of her Potawatomi ancestors to show that grass, water, soil, and other gifts of the Earth can teach people how to live and interact with each other. For example, Indigenous nations were sensitive to the land, wind, and any changes in the nature, believing that their behaviors should change accordingly. Today, we tend to disregard even catastrophic expressions of environmental pollution, when the lakes and oceans are full of waste. Another example of disregarding the importance of nature is the fact that an average American recognizes the brands of companies but fails to know at least ten plants. It is also noteworthy how Kimmerer (2014) speaks about the relationships between people. The author claims that we should pay attention to the needs of others and offer care they actually need. It seems that such an approach is likely to make people more attentive and aware of their interactions with the world. In her article, Kimmerer (2014a) emphasizes that modern people learn from teachers and academic researchers, while the majority did not understand that to keep a balance, they should also learn from the nature. Most importantly, it seems to be rational to give back to the Earth and be grateful for its gifts. For example, it is critical to know the beings we live together on the planet since this knowledge can provide many insights on how to organize one’s life and solve problems. Reciprocity should be the basis for changing the view of the world to make it more ethical, sensitive, and biocentric.