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The first and most straightforward option that may contribute to the solution of the food scarcity issue is the expansion of government programs intended for this purpose. Initiatives such as SNAP and WIC exist already with the express purpose of helping people who struggle to provide themselves and their families with adequate nutrition. As such, if they appear to be underperforming and failing to achieve their objective, a review and possible changes are advisable. With that said, an expansion of public food provision programs is unlikely to be the most effective option due to the costs that it will likely incur. Moreover, it will be associated with organizational inertia that will delay the effects of the change, which is concerning given the urgency of the problem. Overall, while a review and improvement of the existing public options will likely be beneficial, it cannot be used as the primary solution. Another option is to provide out-of-home care for children, whether using existing systems such as kindergartens and schools or through dedicated care facilities. Such an initiative can be public as well as private, which provides it with valuable flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing local circumstances. Moreover, there is already precedent for effective out-of-home care programs in nations such as Australia (Fernandez et al., 2019). Adolescents whose health is judged to be at risk due to nutrition or other issues are temporarily removed from their family’s household and entrusted to an alternate carer. They then return home once the matter is considered resolved and the family is believed capable of preventing the problem from resurfacing. With that said, out-of-home care also introduces several issues, many of which are related to the scale of the changes that will be necessary. The introduction or expansion of an effective oversight system that can identify issues in children before they develop to a dangerous degree, as well as a corresponding care infrastructure, is likely to be expensive and time-consuming. Parental consent is another concern, as many families are unlikely to be willing to relinquish their children to the authority and discretion of another, unfamiliar individual or organization. Moreover, separation from their family may be harmful to the child’s mental health, especially if they are too young to understand the reason for the procedure. The final issue, as described by Fernandez et al. (2019), is the potential difficulty in returning the child home safely. Parents may have ongoing problems that complicate safe reunification, in which case the adolescent will effectively be relegated to the carer for an extended period, which is not a desirable outcome. The final option for a solution that will be discussed here is improved education, both for families who struggle with food scarcity and for the general population. Consumption of unhealthy processed foods is an issue for many people facing poverty, as those products tend to be cheap c
Introduction Regional airlines are airlines that conduct regional operations by either contracting with major airlines and acting as a feeder airline for them and using the major airline’s brand name, or providing a means of transport to isolated and small communities under their own brand name. The airlines can also operate under their brand name and operate scheduled services as independent airlines. Sky West Airlines is one of the biggest regional airlines in the Unites States. Discussion Sky West Airlines is a regional airline based in North America. This airline operates under other large airlines as a feeder. Feeder airlines contract with major airlines and operate under their brand names. These airlines pick passengers from surrounding communities and deliver them to the major airline’s centers. Feeder airlines are also useful in operating on days when the use of large aircrafts is not necessary because of few passengers. SkyWest Airlines, together with Atlantic Southeast Airlines are owned by SkyWest Airlines, Inc. The airline’s mission is to ensure that the airline is the customer’s first travel option and also to provide employment and investment opportunities to people. SkyWest Airlines is headed by Russell Childs as the president and Chief Operating Officer. He has played a big role in strengthening the relationships between SkyWest Airlines and its partners. Mr. Childs has experience in construction, truck driving, and accounting. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in Accounting. Jerry Atkin is the chairman of the board and the Chief Executive Officer. There are other directors heading various operations like customer service, maintenance, flight operations, marketing, in-flight, accounting and information technology, among others. The airline was started in 1972 by Ralph Atkin, performing operations like aircraft maintenance, a flight school, air charter services and air ambulance services. Its very first fleet comprised of a six-seater Piper Seneca, a two-seater Piper Cherokee 140, a four-seater Cherokee Arrow and a six-seater Cherokee Six. In 1977, the SkyWest Airlines made agreements with American Airlines, United Airlines, Texas International and Hughes, and this allowed check-in and baggage transfers between the airlines for the passengers. Its operations and costs increased in 1978 when it became certified as a major commuter airline. In 1980 SkyWest Airlines had a total of 150 employees and flew eight routes in four states. In 1982, SkyWest Airlines received a permanent route authority to Nev, Elko, Ely and Reno. It flew about 87 flights daily and earned a net income of about $123,000. SkyWest Airlines bought Sun Aire in 1984 and became the eleventh largest regional airline in the United States, with a total of 250 employees. In 1986 SkyWest Airlines offered its stock publicly and traded its shares under the name SKYW on the NASDAQ exchange. The money earned enabled the airline to clear the debts owed to Sun Aire and SGU hangar. The money w
Christopher is a main character and the narrator in the ‘Curious incidence of the Dog in the Night-Time’ By Mark Haddon who is a writer from Britain. Although the main character has some behavioural problems, he is a gifted child because he is a mathematician as he describes himself in the story. In spite of the fact that the issue of autism is not clearly explained in the story, the condition of the narrator is referred to as high-functioning autism or Aspersers Syndrome on the cover of various editions of the same story (Haddon, 2007). More to that, various incidences as well as some character traits of Christopher clearly illustrates how Autism had a great effect on his entire life. Bent on that, this essay describes how Christopher’s autism affected his daily life. Autism is a disorder that affects not only the perception but also the thought processes and the attention of a child. It is a disease characterised by a broad range of symptoms and the affected children always display behaviours, which are in appropriate for their age. In particular and as highlighted earlier, autistic children have a problem in social interaction, communication and behaviour. Reading through the story illustrates that Christopher had several characteristics, which would have qualified him to be classified as an autistic child, and as a result, such issues had a great effect on his life. Autism affects the social life of Christopher a great deal and at times, the condition lands him into problems. For instance, police once arrested him although he was released latter. It is uncommon to find a child who can gather enough courage to hit a police officer. However, due to autism, Christopher gathered enough courage and hit a police officer. Due to his behavioural problems, Ed who was the father to Christopher did not allow him to interact and communicate with other people especially when he was investigating the death of wellington. Consequently, he fails to know not only many issues that happen in the society but also his neighbourhood. For instance, while he was investigating the death of wellington, Christopher records that he met some people like Mrs Alexander for the first time although she was living in the same neighbourhood. Most importantly, Christopher was able also to gather important information because the same woman informed him that his mother was having an affair with Mr. Shears for a long time. In the view of the fact that he knew the information when his mother had already died, it is then clear that his condition prevented him from living a normal life like other people in the society. Unlike his age mates, he failed to know important information (Haddon, 2007). Christopher becomes too emotional when he is angered or when things work contrary to h
Introduction Racism is one of the ugliest forms of relations between individuals as it presupposes the biased and unfair attitude to representatives of a particular race because of its so-called inferiority. Unfortunately, In the USA, the given pattern had been part of the legal environment for centuries. After the War of Independence and the Civil War, the first signs of abolishment movements emerged. Citizens of the Northern states acquired the new vision of interracial relations characterized by a more tolerant attitude to individuals and equality. It promoted the slight improvement of minorities’ states. To depress these trends, various regulations throughout the South of the country were created. The Black Codes became one of them. They encompassed all laws needed to save the racialized society and prevent black people from becoming independent. It was performed via numerous regulations limiting all the most critical aspects of an individual’s life. For this reason, evaluating the Mississippi Black Code as an example of a document introducing the legal regulations to infringe people’s rights is critical to understand how limits on marriage, work, and arms helped to enslave people and postpone the rise of abolishment. Background The discussed set of rules emerged after the Civil War under the impact of the reconsideration of attitude to African-Americans living in the state. Slavery had the nationwide breadth in the USA at that period of time, but the South was more conservative in its views on this phenomenon. The Mississippi Black Code encompassed the majority of laws regulating all spheres of relations between the African-American population and other people, agencies, employees, and local authorities (“Black Codes”). The Code was created to replace the previous slave regulations existing in Southern states (“Black Codes”). However, the main goal of the given document was not to improve the state of this population group; on the contrary, this law prevented black people from becoming members of the society of that period of time by introducing multiple limits and discriminative laws. In other words, it was the officially accepted doctrine aimed at the elimination of grounds for the generation of economic wealth and acquiring independence by black people who were considered as a cheap labor force and source of income (Van Daniel 54). Along with numerous elements of slavery present in this document, there are three that should be analyzed in detail. These are the limitation of the freedom of marriage, the limitation of the freedom of work, and the limitation of the freedom of weapon. All
Many suggestions have been made on how to delay the aging process in skin with a significant number being driven by empirical evidence. Hsu, Li, and Fuchs (2014) note that the intrinsic and extrinsic biological factors such as the changes in the stratum corneum structure and corneum along with the occurrence of lipids justify the use chemical peels as one of the methods to delay the aging process in the skin.. According to Weinert and Timiras (2003), the effects of the chemical ablations on different layers of the skin vary according to the type of chemical peel used. However, the type of peel used on the skin depends on the skin type, ethnic background, color, quality, and age of the recipient. Here, Pillai, Sundaresan, and Gupta (2014) argue that chemical peels trigger a repair mechanism that makes the skin to regenerate and become tight and even (or to develop a characteristically uniform pattern with different strains) in response to the inflammation on both the dermis and epidermis. Indications of medium to deep peels provide solutions for the treatment of fine rhytids, actinic changes, superficial scars, rosacea, and pigmentary dyschromias. Here, superficial peels are made in the skin in response to the chemical effects of trichloroacetic acid (TCA) (10–30%) which exfoliates and confines the epidermal layer within the basal layer (Weinert & Timiras, 2003). However, peeling of the upper reticular dermis
Introduction Online learning is a good environment which is rich with information and fit for successful adult education because the adults are able to grasp information with ease. With the introduction and development in technology most adults are now saving a lot money and time by taking online courses because technology makes learning easier for them. Online learning is fit for adults because they are very good planners of their time and they do not need persons to remind them what is required in their courses. Discussion Adult learners are also well organized hence online learning works best for them. Online learning offers adult students flexibility by enabling them to hold discussions online through chat rooms which are related to their courses. The discussions facilitate their learning because the chat rooms are interactive and hence enable all of them to participate in the discussions (Lynch, 2004). Online learning offers adult students a lot of resources and they are at freedom to choose what they want as far as their studies are concerned. Most adults would like to go back to school to further their studies but they are often faced by challenges of work schedules which are busy and cannot allow them to attend face to face classes. This is where online learning comes in and allows them to earn their education at home. Majority of adult students like to take courses related to Finance, Languages, Philosophy and History among other subjects. These subjects are offered in online learning hence giving them a platform to excel and thus enabling them to take any course that they are interested in (Salmon, 2002). Since most of them do not have a lot of time to study, the online classes take a period of about one hour and hence very convenient for majority of the adult learners. Besides, most adult students are said to prefer online learning when compared to face to face teaching. Online learning gives the adult students a chance to do better in their studies because usually they are ready to learn. The adult learners do not need to be motivated by their professors to learn because they are self motivated and hence easily coordinate themselves in online learning. The adult learners know their direction in life better and hence online learning exposes them to a lot experiences that help them excel well in their studies. The adult students are known to have a lot of experience by t
The USA and Canada are two countries which are closely located to each other. It is essential to know that having a similar border, these countries also have a number of similarities, however, the differences are so numerous, that it is impossible to dwell about any similarity. It is possible to dwell upon many different aspects and to compare and contrast various issues in US and Canadian life, however, healthcare is considered as one of the most essential topics for discussion. The choice of the healthcare as the point for discussion is chosen with the purpose to understand how two bordering countries which have to interconnect and relate on each other differ in such global questions as healthcare, however, the similarities are also present and the fact that Canadian healthcare changer were completed after the American ones makes us think that Canada borrowed some points from the American healthcare reform. Lasser, Himmelstein, and Woolhandler (2006) conducted a thorough research where they compared and contrasted “health status, access to care, and utilization of medical services in the United States and Canada, and compared disparities according to race, income, and immigrant status” (p. 1). The researchers referred to 3505 Canadians and 5183 Americans in their research. Much attention was paid to gender, age, income, race, and immigration status. The multivariate analysis was used. The research started in November 2002 and lasted up to the March 2003. The telephone survey was applied. Therefore, those who are too poor to have a telephone were undersampled. The researchers identified the age of the respondents, their income and race to compare and contrast the healthcare status. Moreover, the place of birth was considered along with the level of education. The research gives a good picture for understanding of the relation of the countries to the healthcare of people and the equality in treatment. Neither America nor Canada provide equal healthcare for different layers of population. The difference is based on the income and race. Neither age more the place of birth affect the level of healthcare quality. Generally, Canadians get more quality healthcare than US citizens. Pointing to some of the most misbalanced aspects in the research results, the following may be referred to. About 13.6% of Americans lead sedentary lifestyle, while the same mode of life is inherent to 6.5% of Canadians. The chronic illness prevalence in the USA and in Canada is as follows, about 6.7% of Americans have diabetes in comparison to 4.7% of Canadians. About 7% of Americans and Canadians suffer from asthma. Hypertension bothers about 18.3% of Americans and 13.9% of Canadians. 17.9% of Americans suffer from arthritis in comparison to 16% of Canadians. Heart diseases are the reason for concern of 5.9% of Americans and 5.5% of Canadians. Major depression Americans and Canadians suffer during the in past year affect 8.7% and 8.2% respectively. The general conclusions of
Living under stress and tension has become the norm rather than the exemption for most people struggling to meet daily work demands and other family and personal responsibilities. Available knowledge demonstrates that although working is a critical component for our survival, relaxing and letting off steam is equally important as it promotes healthy lifestyles as well as provides the body with ample time to refresh and reenergize itself. There exists a wide variety of special places where people go to relax or find inspiration, such as museums, game parks, zoos, social networking sites, religious sites, libraries, bars and hotel lounges, and nature walks, among others. Individual preferences and tastes play a contributing factor in selecting a place to relax and get inspiration from. In my view, social networking sites, zoos, libraries and museums provides the much needed relaxation and inspiration to enable one focus on the demands of tomorrow. Visiting social networking sites offer great relaxation in that one is able to share with friends about the challenges and fears of life. Some social networking sites, such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Tweeter, offers interactive platforms that enables one to while away time in a much more beneficial way than sleeping since you get a chance to not only update yourself in regard to current occurrences, but you also get to share knowledge in a far relaxing state away from the limitations of the traditional classroom. What’s more, social networking sites provides one with a platform to relax while sharing and networking with friends with whom you share similar interests and passions. Visiting zoos and museums, in my view, is the most appreciated way to relax and also learn, albeit informally. The experience of feeding bananas to animals in the zoo sweeps one away from the hassles of the physical world to a splendid, warm and almost supernatural world where you instantaneously forget your troubles and enjoy the offerings and wonders of the world to unimaginable limits. It is imperative to note that zoo and game park visits are also inspirational in nature by the very fact that you get to see how animals interact and socialize with each other. Museums are places where you get to feel and experience our cultural wealth in a manner that is hard to copy in the physical world. The artifacts and tools used in ancient times provides a strand of inspiration on how civilizations have progressed over time and what we are able to achieve as we continue to interact with the environment. Libraries, in my view, are places where people should visit not only for formal educational purposes, but also to relax and acquaint themselves with content in their own free time. Some libraries offer a cool and enticing environment where one can unwind while perusing through the pages of a classical William Shakespeare’s novel or a magazine of the latest technological trends. The knowledge gained during suc