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Given the chest x-rays (CXR) results showing pneumonia, her elevated white blood cells (WBC) count, combined with elevated ferritin, D-dimer, and c-reactive protein (CRP), suggests that she has a systemic inflammatory response. Additionally, Beverley’s lymphocytes are elevated, which indicates a viral cause. Her physical symptoms confirm that she has low oxygenation despite oxygen use, fever, and such symptoms as lack of appetite, diarrhea, myalgia, cough, and runny nose. Despite her negative COVID-19 test last week, her symptoms point to a COVID-19 diagnosis. Pneumonia could be the correct pathology for Beverly’s weakness because the patient exhibits coughing, fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing, headache, tiredness, and appetite loss. Moreover, the CXR results and elevated WBC count show a high likelihood of pneumonia. The correct diagnosis could be influenza because the patient shows signs of coughing, fever, diarrhea, and headache (Azer, 2020). In addition, Beverley is feeling tired almost always and has an aching body. The accurate pathology for Beverly’s weakness would be COVID-19 since the virus is a mild illness that shows cough and fever as the primary symptoms, which she has. Furthermore, the patient appears to be having symptoms of tiredness, headache, runny nose, diarrhea, body aches, and difficulty breathing. In 2020, I witnessed COVID-19 patients die upon reaching the hospital due to shortness of breath. A cytokine storm refers to an aggressive immune response that is accompanied by interleukins, chemokines, interferons release, and other mediators (Fajgenbaum & June, 2020). The immune response is often hyperactive, which leads to a highly inflammatory reaction to the COVID-19 infection (Hu, Huang, & Yin, 2021). An elevated CRP in the blood is an indicator of inflammation, tissue damage, and infections (Landry, Docherty, Ouellette, & Cartier, 2017). Additionally, elevated CRP levels can mean that there is inflammation in the heart’s arteries indicating a higher likelihood of heart attack (Huang et al., 2020). Elevated ferritin levels show that a patient’s body has a condition that makes their body accumulate excessive iron (Huang, Pranata, Lim, Oehadian, & Alisjahbana, 2020). I have seen several instances where general patients with high ferritin levels showed many clinical conditions and poor outcomes. People watch the D-dimer level to determine whether they have a blood clotting disorder such as the deep vein disorder (DVT) that impacts the lower legs (Yu et al., 2020). When the D-dimer test is positive, a patient’s body can have high fibrin products degradation (Yao et al., 2020). After entering the body, COVID-19 viruses bind themselves to host receptors and use membrane fusion or endocytosis to enter host cells. Post-membrane
Introduction A hazardous waste refers to a material that possesses potential or substantial threat to the environment or public health. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) is the body charged with the responsibility of managing hazardous waste in the United States. In this respect, RCRA is involved in the regulation of the treatment, storage, as well as proper disposal of hazardous waste (Rushton 184). The RCRA categorizes hazardous waste as either characteristic hazardous wastes or listed hazardous wastes. Upon testing, characteristic hazardous wastes are known to exhibit such hazardous traits as reactivity, corrosivity, ignitability, and toxicity (Clark University para. 4). On the other hand, listed hazardous waste are those material defined by regulatory authorities as emanating from discarded chemical products or specific sources (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency para. 3). Owing to their reactive and toxic nature, it is important to ensure that hazardous wastes are handled and disposed of in the right manner. Our homes can also be a source of hazardous wastes. For example, we might find bug spray cans, old batteries, and paint thinner in our garbage, and these wastes qualify as hazardous wastes. Other examples of hazardous wastes include waste oil, waste solvents, and waste asbestos. Households, the agricultural sector, and factories make use of hazardous materials extensively (Environment Canada para. 5). At the same time, there has been a rapid increase in the consumption and effect of hazardous materials, in recent years. Factories have continued to use hazardous materials without taking into account the proper effective control measures and this has led to increased deaths from accidents and increased employee injuries. Employees who are exposed to hazardous waste are also more vulnerable to contracting chronic diseases. When hazardous wastes are not disposed of properly, this not only endangers human health, but also pollutes the environment (Rushton 189). The main sources of hazardous wastes are domestic, industries, and hospitals. Under domestic hazardous wastes, we have insecticides, batteries, and herbicides. On the other hand, industrial hazardous wastes include heavy metal, solvent, sludge chemicals, and batteries, among others. Hospital hazardous wastes include pharmaceutical wastes, infectious wastes, and sharps. The objective of the paper is to investigate the effects of hazardous wastes on human health and the environment shall also be explored. The paper will also attempt to assess the effects of the Gulf oil spills on human health and the ecosystem. Moreover, the issue of identifying hazardous waste and how to manage it shall also be examined. Finally, the paper will endeavor to highl
The evaluation of any historic event is a good chance to learn the experience of the past and take the most important issues for consideration. Current paper aims at discussing and comparing several primary sources: the Digger Pamphlet offered by Gerrard Winstanley in the 17 th century and the charters and fueros that came from the 12 th -century France and Spain. These sources have one central issue – the relations between the representatives of elite and non-elite and the development of the tributary relations on the basis of the legal documents and norms settled by the current leader. However, there are certain differences in such kind of relations, and the analysis of these differences helps to understand the role of the documents in the history and their connection to the issues discussed in class. The charters and fueros, as well as the Digger Pamphlet, proves that the relations between poor and rich people had their own peculiarities and principles in different centuries and defined the quality of life according to the demands of a society: the comparison and contrast shows that the 17 th -century England wanted to promote the idea of freedom and equal rights and the 12 th -century Spain/France demonstrated its attention to the specific payments that supported the equality of the rights in regards to the services and duties completed. The question of land property and the rules that should to be followed was a burning one during a long period of time. It does not matter whether the events took place in the far 12 th century or the 17 th century, the main idea rests the same – people had to be aware of the certain norms and consider them not to destroy the order. The Digger Pamphlet and the charters with fueros serve as the bright examples of how the lives of ordinary people were organized. There was a system for consideration that controlled human lives and relations. There was a necessity to pay for living. There was an order for each society. Still, these are the only similarities that can be observed through the sources under analysis. The conditions under which the English and the Spanish and the French lived differed considerably due to the roles of various social classes. The English people were divided into poor and rich and had to follow the rules defined. The nature of tributary relations of that period was not equal, and the poor people wanted to promote some changes to improve their living conditions. Still, the idea of those relations was about the connection between the elite and non-elite and the way of how the payment was organized. The poor people were not satisfied with the existed inequalities: the manors should not regarded as the only lords of the land and the diggers had the intentions to deserve their rights on land by means of love and faith but not by means of fights and wars that had been used earlier (Winstanley n.d). They were ready to pay taxes the same way the elite did it. Still, they were in need of recognition at different levels to be sure of their future.
The True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Throughout the history of the planet exploration, the pioneers who dared to set their foot on a new terrain not infrequently faced a multitude of obstacles and barriers ranging from purely practical difficulties of settling in a new environment to spiritual conflicts between the cultural worlds of the aborigines and the newcomers. In the early decades of American colonization, the settlers found moral support in their religious background based on Protestant values. Mary Rowlandson in her captivity narrative Captivity and Restoration dwells on a dramatic period in her life when she was taken hostage by the Native Americans and approaches the events from the position of her Protestant beliefs, which not infrequently lead her to misinterpretation of human actions as those purely guided by God’s will. Mrs Rowlandson’s Protestant outlook reveals itself throughout the whole narrative in her reaction to the current events as those predestined by God and sent to mere mortals as either a challenge or a reward. The wife of a pastor, Mrs Rowlandson constantly quotes the Bible which stands for the symbol of her faith and, when she comes into possession of one, serves as a source of inspiration and moral support both for her and her fellow captives. Not once in the worst moments of despair did she open the Bible and find quotes that provided consolation for the woman who preferred to perceive the reality through her religious convictions: “God was with me in a wonderful manner, carrying me along, and bearing up my spirit, that it did not quite fail” (Rowlandson 10). The Bible represents Mrs Rowlandson’s guide through the hardships of captivity, and yet leads to a series of delusions that prevent her from seeing things as they are. According to the Protestant tradition, the Native Americans are viewed by Mrs Rowlandson as the representatives of the evil world totally opposed to the good Christians. The multiple epithets she uses to refer to the Indians are rather revealing: “murderous wretches”, “merciless heathen”, “the infidels”, “hell-hounds”, “barbarous creatures”, “pagans”, “wild beasts of the forests” (Rowlandson 6–9, 12, 18). Standardly considering the Protestant community to be the concentration of all holy and righteous, Mrs Rowlandson looks down upon her captors as hopelessly cruel and barbarous animals possessing nothing humane. However, such understanding of the Indians is utterly refuted by their attitude to the captured lady: throughout the whole period of her detention, the Indians take care of her not worse than of themselves, offering her food, shelter and remuneration for the small handwork she does for them. On one occurrence they even see to it that Mrs Rowlandson’s feet do not get wet while their own are soaking; on another occurrence instead of burning the Bible none of them needs, the Indians choose to offer it to Mrs Rowlandson (Rowlandson 16, 19). But despite all their efforts, Mrs Rowlandson never acknowledges them as humane and considerate creatures, and ascribes all the positive experiences to Go
An intranet is a part of the Internet platform that facilitates internal communication, and it is inaccessible to external parties. Only employees of an organization can use the intranet to gain access to information and application software. It offers access to information and acts as a central point for gaining access to organizational data. This platform can accommodate any form of data that an organization wishes to host and publish to employees (Callaghan, 2002). The organizational shall use the intranet for various purposes. Employees will rely on familiar Internet tools like Web browsers, newsreaders, and e-mail to gain access to the intranet. Companies that use the intranet have noted significant returns on investment (RIO) by making information available to their employees. Different organizations use the intranet for diverse purposes. In this case, the company will use the intranet to enhance information access, create, share, and use information across business units. Based on the nature of the organization, the intranet will be deployed to enhance accuracy, improve speed of communication, indicate information details, retrieve important data to support customer service, provide current information and save costs among others. The organization shall ensure that only employees can use the intranet. Therefore, information shall be developed to meet unique needs of various departments. Information will be laid out to enhance internal communications, improve efficiency and save costs. On this note, the company shall consider important information that can facilitate employees’ outputs in job-related tasks. There are constant changes in mission-critical information. Hence, the organization will ensure that the intranet updates employees of such changes immediately. Useful information will be readily available for employees to facilitate business processes. The intranet shall have information, which would not be expensive to provide to employees. It is imperative to recognize that the database must offer ease of accessibility and security to users. The organization shall provide some reference materials for its employees in general areas and specific contents about the industry. Overall, the organization will develop intranet contents based on a logical structure of departments, such as sales, marketing, human resources, accounting, research and development and customer care among others. The organization will recognize inherent risks with the intranet platform. Users may gain access to confidential data in the organization. Therefore, the company will strive to protect its intranet platform by ensuring effective security measures are implemented. Consequently, the first
Introduction The idea of running a school base on the choices made by school districts is not new. In his research on the effects that the principle of voucher system has had on the U.S. schools, Friedman identifies low diversity rates and the resulting impossibility for schools to meet the needs of the students as a result of the policy promoting government intervention into the school curriculum, standards, and strategies. Though Friedman seems to overlook some of the beneficial aspects of government supervision of schools, he still has a valid point by claiming that the introduction of general policies for schools to comply with leads to the lack of flexibility and, therefore, the impossibility to adjust to the needs of students with different ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds. Friedman’s Argument in a Nutshell According to the existing evidence, specifically, the argument that Friedman provides, the key issue that modern schools have to deal with, the lack of diversity should be the top priority at the today’s agenda of the American education. Consequently, Friedman makes I quite clear that the lack of diversity cannot be possibly addressed once the restrictions of nationalized institution are imposed on its members, particularly, educators: “Our problem today is not to enforce conformity; it is rather that we are threatened with an excess of conformity” (Friedman 97). Once the schools’ decisions and policies are regulated by school districts, and once the school authorities become highly dependent on the choices that are made by the people that are quite detached from the processes occurring at schools, the premises for maintaining even higher conformity levels are created. The fact that distanced regulation of schools leads to the inevitable reduction of diversity rates among the students, as well as the impossibility to create the environment for satisfying the individual needs of students with different backgrounds, therefore, makes it obvious that local regulation of schools and other education establishments must be allowed. The Few Benefits of State Intervention While the state government intervention has a negative influence on the education in general and the public school’s environment in particular, one must admit that certain positive effects can be observed with the reinforcement of the governmental supervision of schools (Chafe 104). To a certain degree, the power of the state authorities may improve the current landscape of public sc
Introduction Global exports and indicated as a percentage of GDP (gross domestic product), the direction of the strong growth of the mid-1980s of the last century and until the beginning of 2008. However, since then, it is scheduled to stop this increase. Macroeconomic shifts and changes have a direct impact on the global economy of supply chains. They provide challenges as well as opportunities (Mangan & Lalwani, 2016). Growth in the sea port transport and logistics industry is no longer mainly due to exports, which originated from Asia to Europe or North America. It is experienced growth of other areas also become more volatile, unpredictable and fragmented. Population and economic growth is concentrated increasingly in the major cities with the infrastructure has become a major factor in any growth in (Bookbinder, 2011). International emerging economies and mature markets have become an important part of the core business expansion for many of the organizations strategy. To the world is expected to the latest standards and logistics solutions providers established to facilitate this trend. However, as labor costs in Asia and the increased cost of transportation, and more industrial activities and get positioned closer to the end user of the product (Mangan & Lalwani, 2016). End consumers have also adopted the practice of tension products through many channels, which may range from traditional brick mortar stores to e-commerce over the Internet. It is therefore expected of modern logistics providers to support multi-channel strategies to suit the changing tastes of its customers. Customers’ products that have been made and the sources of the right way, as preferred. Reduce social, economic and trade and business as well as the environmental impact on the wider society and promote any positive effects that might arise. Supply chains have become increasingly complex and dynamic with the primary sources sites that are changed quickly and the usual purchase orders grow smaller (Bookbinder, 2011). Company under investigation is logistics arm of the conglomerate, Al-Futtaim companies. It is part of the most modern and progressive companies that are located in the lower Gulf region, based in Dubai (See Appendix A for SWOT analysis). Established in 1930, an organization working together more than 85 companies that carry brand-Futtaim include sectors such as trade, industry and services (Al-Futtaim Logistics, 2016). Al-Futtaim logistics, which is based in Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates and provides full connectivity of the state-of-the-art facilities, which occupies a strategic position in a number of the most important shipping centers in the region (Al-Futtaim Logistics, 2016). The Al-Futtaim duly certified by ISO 9001 2008 since 2012. The organization provides a wide range of modern supply chain solutions. Capabilities and extensive extends to: Warehousing and contract logistics services. Transportation companies; the distribution of goods and transport; and contract warehousing and logistics (Al-Futtaim Logistics, 2016). Logistics Company has many years of experience in a number of key sectors and
British Colonial Christian theologian Jonathan Edwards created a remarkable piece of writing, which is not only a perfect demonstration of this style of preaching but is also highly demonstrative as an example of Great Awakening major ideas. It can be claimed that this sermon, although Christian in its nature, is more damnation- than salvation-oriented (stressing the idea that God is “angry”), as Edwards primarily emphasizes the argument that wicked men are doomed to burn in hell, and only the will of God keeps them from being sent there right now. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God consists of ten doctrines, each countering the assumptions that the flock might hold about salvation. The author dogmatically claims that “there is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.” These are particular counterarguments that Edwards cites. First, although the wicked might think that they are safe at least till the Doomsday, Edwards is sure that they can be cast into Hell at any moment God chooses. Second, all the existing beliefs in divine justice are also discarded—since the wicked deserve punishment, nothing can prevent it. Also, the wicked may be deluded by their current well-being and believe that it indicates that they are safeguarded from future sufferings. However, Edwards argues that they are “already under a sentence of condemnation to hell.” Finally, another common delusion is to believe that God is kind and merciful, which may preserve people from hell torments. On the contrary, according to Edwards, God is “angry with great numbers that are now on earth.” Despite these strong arguments, Edwards acknowledges that individuals may be reluctant to accept them, may be resistant, and maybe will not even be impressed by them. The reason is the perceived grace and mercifulness of God. According to Edwards, it is only expectable from human beings to escape thinking about punishments for their sins and to rely on God to save them. One does not spend all of his or her time grieving over all the wrongful deeds of the past. And the image of hell cannot constantly haunt a person, so people’s perception of hell becomes abstract. Edward writes, “Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.” This is exactly the illusion, in which the wicked find themselves. D