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Introduction Do humans have a soul? What happens to human beings when they pass on? Can we confidently assert that the human soul is immortal? These are some of the fundamental questions that have attracted heated debate from time immemorial. This paper will address these questions from both the universal and the biblical perspectives. The Biblical conception of Soul The first book of the Bible, Genesis, clearly states that the first human couple (Adam and Eve) was created with an immortal soul. However, they threw away this precious gift when they sinned against God. As a result, God expelled them from the Garden of so that they could eat from the tree of life and regain their lost immortality. Since Adam and Eve were not allowed to regain their immortality from the tree of life, they eventually grew old and die. This means that human beings do not have a soul that lives on after their demise. However, God has promised his obedient servants an immortal soul if they remain faithful to him. For example, the Bible contains several accounts of people who were brought back to life. These accounts demonstrate the unlimited powers that God has over death. According to the book of Romans, God condemned humans to death when Adam and Eve sinned against Him. Since we are discontents of the first couple, we must die in order to pay for their sins. According to the Greeks soul is a transitory life of an individual. To them life is always transitory and never immortal or eternal. This is evident in the bible where most of the references are associated with the physical life and not an immortal soul. For instance, Acts 15:26 states that “Men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”. This clearly refers to the physical life and does not mention if humans could endanger their souls for standing up with Jesus Christ. Similarly, it is quoted in Revelation 12:11 that “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death”. This also refers to mortal lives that could perish. Luke 12:18 confirms that human souls can pass on and that an individual soul is the same as the flesh. We have confirmed from the biblical verses that the human soul and the flesh are the same and they all die. However, one of the questions that linger in the mind of many is what happens to the soul at the time of death. Psalms 89:48 says “What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?” This clearly supports the idea that human souls are also buried like the flesh. “Sheol” is a Hebrew word meaning grave. Job 33:22 states “thou hast brought up my soul from the grave thou has
Identification of Focus for Community Teaching Secondary Prevention/Screening for Vulnerable Populations: Rural Adult Citizens with Prediabetes Conditions at a High Risk of Developing Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Epidemiological Rationale for Topic Diabetes Mellitus is a highly dangerous disease, the epidemic of which has been affecting various populations worldwide. The number of people with this condition grows at a high rate. The statistical data show that “more than 29 million people in the United States and 420 million globally have diabetes, with a projected global prevalence of 642 million by 2040” (Reusch & Manson, 2017, p. 1). The need for providing teaching sessions for patients with prediabetes is vital due to the necessity of disseminating knowledge and self-management skills to prevent Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, as well as the multiple complications that might accompany the disease. Indeed, according to Rutledge et al. (2017), patients suffering from diabetes are at risk of developing “microvascular and macrovascular complications (e.g., heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and retinopathy) that lead to a decrease in quality of life” (p. 1). The scope of complications has psychological, social, and economic implications for individuals and communities. Moreover, rural citizens demonstrate an elevated level of a tendency to have diabetes. At the same time, patients living in rural areas “face barriers and challenges to accessing diabetes care” and less frequently participate in preventative4 care practices (Rutledge et al., 2017, p. 2). Therefore, the high level of comorbidity risks, diabetes prevalence in rural citizens, and their low rate of access to preventative care include the essential elements of the rationale for community teaching. The rationale justifies the application of teaching methods that would help the target population adhere to self-management behaviors, including healthy dieting, physical activity, blood glucose monitoring, and eHealth application use. Nursing Diagnosis The risk for changing blood glucose level, the risk for insufficient self-management, insufficient treatment and management knowledge. Readiness for Learning The level of community readiness for learning is an important indicator of the overall success of the planned teaching sessions. The preventative educational efforts provided for a prepared and acknowledged community is expected to be effective. The readiness of the target population might be assessed with the
The article basically discusses the financial statements’ analysis of three companies, Walmart, Target, and Costco; though, the main focus is laid on Walmart. In the article, one would find the discussion of the types of queries that are bolster the management of any firm to gain confidence for the revelation of the financial information. Moreover, the four stages for analyzing the financial statements are also elaborated, following the analyses of the above mentioned firms through the typical financial indicators including profitability and turnover. First, the six kinds of questions for the management regarding the financial statements are; “recall, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation”. Of these six, the last three can assist the executives to identify the quality of the financial info disclosed. Questions relating to ‘analysis’ relates to the firm’s risk and return metrics, ‘synthesis’ relates to facts and perspectives of the firm, and ‘evaluation’ relates to the resolving of the dissimilarities of opinions the firm faces. In addition, the author states that the expectation of excellent queries can really help the company prepare the reports easily and honestly. Walmart has been selected as an example to demonstrate the overall financial statements approach; which has been performing outstandingly since 2002, and Costco and Target are used as yardsticks for the comparison. The analysis of the financial statements is done through four stages:  1. – Data adjustments stage in which the measurement errors are curtailed by the use of accounting rules, knowing the off-balance sheet entries and useful or un-useful assets. Further, financing and operating activities and effects are differentiated along with the adjustments done for the capitalization of operating leases and R&D costs.  2. – Ratio analysis stage revolves around the usage of the market-based numbers and the rations of financial statements in order to determine and compare the companies in terms of profitability, debt, risk, efficiency, etc. The benefit for using the ratios is their simplicity and ability to generate crucial queries, because these ratios are segregated into different categories such as, return, profitability of sales, turnover, and risk.  3. – Accounting Quality Analysis stage determines how effectively the company passes on its financial standing and performance to investors through accounting reports. It is to be ensured that the information in the financial statements is based on truth and fairness. Quality can be determined through both qualitative and quantitative methods, of which qualitative method deals with assigning scores to the company based on its activities regarding accounting failures.  4. – The last step is of Valuation, in which the previous stages determine the value approximation; moreover, the differences between the management and investors are determined by the gap between the actual values and market values. The smaller the gap, the better for both the investors and the company; otherwise, investors could bear the l
Introduction The need to search for information availability, and the speed in searching for global marketplace to increase competitiveness have altered the methods many organizations function. In addition, organizations have realised that there has been increased in the pace customers demand for some special goods and services, and satisfying customers’ satisfaction has become too complex and time consuming. Typically, effective organization management has been identified as a potential tool by which organization can significantly increased the level of customers’ satisfaction in order to achieve global market advantages. To achieve high level of global performances, studies have identified transformation leadership as potential tool to achieve performances oriented level. In addition, meta-analysis between leadership and performances has shown that effect of transformational leadership could be fruitful to organization success. Typically, the inspiration, and formulation of vision have made transformation leaders to overcome all obstacles as well as providing confidence in the achievement and execution of major goals, and organizational changes. (Dionne, Yammarino, Atwater, et al, 2004). Different organizations have put greater commitment on organizational changes in order to build global competitive advantages. To achieve these aims, great deal of researches has been launched to achieve organizational outcomes, which include high level of organizational performances. The outcome of researches from various scholars has identified transformational leadership as potential tool towards organizational changes. Typically, to achieve organizational success, quality of leaders is very essential, and this has been the potential tool towards achieving greater role in a competitive global environment. (Herold, Fedor, Caldwell, et al, 2008). Many studies have revealed that many organizations are seeking to increase their profit as well as achieving higher productivity. To achieve their aims, businesses are using leader’s motivation to lower the number of employees, increase the turnover rates. (Hautala, 2006). It should be noted that the impact of transformation leadership
Introduction Recently, companies have started paying more regard to the HR function within the organizational structure. It has finally taken a seat at the firm’s decision-making table and has been promoted from a partner to an equally important and powerful player (Lasserre, 2017). The main objective of moderating the HR function is to positively influence a company’s success – its climate, culture, strategy, and strategic capabilities. It is essential that a company understands that an HR’s fundamental role within the structure entails both human interaction and legal and professional/ ethical standards. As a responsibility, monitoring behavior is surely assigned to other firm functions as well. However, Enron and other recent scandals have shown that without a strong HR department, a company may find it difficult to adhere to legislation (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2017). The HR function needs to analyze these issues and come up with a viable decision as to how to reward employees and motivate them to serve the company’s goals. At that, honesty and personal integrity are highly appreciated, at least in theory. In practice, however, the HR function is often forced to “dance with the devil” and compromise its standards and principles (Sun, Robinson, & Polowczyk, 2018). Disagreements over human resource management are frequent and natural, and yet, many specialists do not know exactly how to approach them. They do not want to jeopardize their careers over one conflict and prefer to refrain from intervening (Sparrow, Brewster, & Chung, 2016). HR professionals are often confronted with difficult decisions that might lead to a conflict of interest if picking a side means favoring one stakeholder other another. The question arises as to how the company can foster and encourage decision-making operating on professional judgment and courage. Only by ensuring this, can the organization move in a direction that would yield the best results in the long perspective and heed the interests of its most important critical constituencies and investors. The only way that HR professionals can resolve these seemingly intractable dilemmas is by reminding themselves that they should prioritize customers and stakeholders over top management (Cascio, 2015). The understanding that managers are not their primary customers can change an HR professional’s work ethic for the better (Rahim, 2017). In the case of Enron, WorldCom, and others, HR and non-HR employees have felt impelled to become whistle-blowers. Such frankness is rare because few are willing to risk the consequences of informing the emperor that he or she is wardrobe-challenged. Confronting wrongdoing can lead to being shunned for disloyalty or being terminated. Issues of frankness and openness go to the heart of an organization’s culture. Without them, the level of trust seldom reaches the point where an organization can exercise its fiduciary responsibilities as expected by external stakeholders. When indicted executives deny knowledge of any wrongdoing within their corporation, is this merely an exercise in survival or a sign of the lack of internal organizational frankness? In e
Google’s history Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the Google Company while doing their Ph. D at the Stanford University (Battelle 2005). The two founders launched and incorporated the company as a private enterprise in 1998, and thereafter, they obtained their first public offering in 2004. By 2006, Google was fully established and the founders repositioned Google’s headquarters to Mountain View, California. Since then, Google has grown rapidly. Google has the largest market share of the search engines. Google’s search engine has gained fame, and is used globally. Google also offers a social networking site called Google+. Gmail is one of the best and most efficient productivity software offered by Google and its usage expands on a daily process globally. Google has the largest market share in internet usage, social networking and cloud computing. An approximate of 80% of businesses uses Google products and services globally (Battelle 2005). The Google Corporation manipulates more than one million data centre servers globally. There is an increasing demand for the services of handling servers worldwide and Google anticipates managing over one billion data centre servers in the near future. As at 7 October, 4:00pm, Google’s stock price dropped by 6.61 trading at $865.74 per share. This represented a 0.8% negative change from the previous sales. However, Google’s stock price head towards trading at $1000 per share in the near future. Core activities Google is a technological company. Its key activities comprise of the search engine and online advertising. Google also deals with operating systems, hardware and software products. However, the main source of revenue for Google is the online advertising business. Google does an online business of selling and delivering products and services in more than 50 countries. Google has an enhanced mobile segment and home segment Motorola business. Through the home segment, Google provides video entertainment services. The consumers ought to subscribe with Google to access digital television services. The mobile segment manufactures and sells electronics. Google has acquired and collaborated with many other technological companies to offer an infinite number of products and services. Organizational structure Google uses a functional structure, where the top management team focuses on employing value-chain activity measures (Gibbs 2013). To ease the management of the operations, Google’s management team has subdivided the company into five departments as shown below. Each of the departmental heads reports directly to the executive management team, and the team reports to the board of directors. The small business units obtain a chance to innovate and invent things within the larger company. The multidivisional structure with small business units faci
The essay is an analysis of the movie Titanic written and directed by James Cameron and was released on 19 December 1997 and runs for 194 minutes. The movie is a flashback an epic romance and tragedy, telling a story of Lovett who hunts for treasure. Together with his squad, he looks for heart of the ocean; a necklace they deemed was in Cal’s safe. What they found was a portrait of a woman dated 1912 14 April. Upon the knowledge of the portray, Dawson Calvert contacted Lovett, she was asked if she knew about the necklace and she said that indeed she was the one Rose DeWittone of the passengers deemed to have die when the ship sunk after hitting a iceberg. She retells how she boarded the ship in a first class with her fiancé Cal a son of Pittsburgh rich man. The latter’s parents stressed the importance of the two to marry. Being disturbed, Rose contemplated committing suicide. Just before she slips off the ship, Jack comes into the scene and convinces her not to do that. The two later established developed a mutual relationship. Cal together with his mother did not approve of this kind of friendship but Rose defied this kind of orders (‘Titanic’). One moment she and jack found their way out of sight of Cal’s bodyguard, they went to room where Rose told Jack to draw her nude but putting on the necklace. It is later that thy made love. Cal discovered the portrait drawn by Jack. Cal framed Jack by lacing the necklace in Jacks coat who was later arrested. He was handcuffed. At this moment the ship had hit an iceberg and the ship was sinking, Cal, his mother and Rose were on board, the later escape to go and try to save Jack. The two later managed to get back to the deck, at this point, Cal made Rose to board the lifeboat again with a promise that both Jack and Cal will be safe, the later then double-crossed Jack. Seeing this Rose found her way out to be with Jack in the sinking ship. With frustration, Cal ran after them while shooting. Shortage of ammunitions made him return and boarded the lifeboat. While Jack and Rose were at the top of the deck people were dying since all life boats had disappeared. A panel that could support one person is what helped them, Jack died as a result of hypothermia. With the return of a lifeboat, Rose signaled the crew using a whistle; she is saved and goes to New York where she changed her name to Dawson Rose. She later went to Lovett’s ship and dropped the necklace. This is one movie I like due to the romance, music soundtrack, the issue of social class. The kind of music played in the movie left me more connected with it, the song from Celine Dion “my Heart Will Go On” is in line with the love theme. Additionally, when the ship had hit an iceberg, the bandleader Henry called up his eight man team and started playing waltzes and ragtime. They all perished while sinking this was very touchy (‘Titanic’). Another music that made me glued and really felt what was happening in the mov
Introduction The War of 1812 was a critical historic moment for both the United States and the United Kingdom. The selected image is The Battle of New Orleans by Percy Moran, where the seventh American president, Andrew Jackson, is depicted in front of the American flag. His leadership during the War of 1812 played a major role in protecting newly gained independence from colonial England. The main argument is manifested in the fact that acquiring freedom is not enough, because one must also fight to preserve it. Description Figure 1. Moran, Percy E. The Battle of New Orleans. 1910. The given painting’s central figure is Andrew Jackson, who stands with his sword raised during the battle of New Orleans, and it can be seen in figure 1. The image contains an American flag, which signifies the elevated level of patriotism and freedom gained during the War for Independence. It was a pivotal moment for newly emerged America because the nation needed to stand its ground to defend its liberty against its old enemy. In addition, the painting shows a number of soldiers clashing in the midst of battle. It is highly important to note that American troops are located on the high ground, which means that they are on the side of righteousness. It seems that Percy Moran tried to show the overall bravery of Andrew Jackson and the moral elevation of the American side. Historical Background The Anglo-American War of 1812–1815 – This is one of the military conflicts that were part of the phenomenon of the Napoleonic Wars. From the time of the American War of Independence to the outbreak of hostilities, several unresolved issues arose between the United States and Great Britain. These include the neutral position of the United States in the European conflict with Napoleon, which was violated by the English Orders in the Council and the French Decrees restricting the foreign trade of the republic. This also includes the practice of impressments or capture of sailors formerly subjects of the British crown and the adoption by the US side of the embargo law. A rather complex set of contradictions between the former colony and the mother country is also interesting because it developed over time, evolving to the start of hostilities. The arguments for starting the war with Great Britain were the desire to resume trade, stop the recruitment of sailors, unite and rally the people, revive national pride, and conquer Canada (Kert 27). Opponents of the war operated on the fact that not all Americans wanted and wer
Insanity is a phenomenon recognized by humanity since the beginning of the history of the mankind. Different societies used various methods of the treatment of insanity based on their beliefs about its nature. The analysis of different approaches to insanity, its treatment, and the institutions created for people suffering from mental disorder reveals that the psychiatry has overcome many wrong beliefs and faulty methodologies during the last three centuries. The analysis of the real experience of persons struggling for overcoming mental illness shows that modern psychiatry should strive for further improvement to provide the adequate treatment based on the recovery of their body and soul rather than on making the people suffering from different manifestations of insanity to adjust to social norms. Insanity is mostly regarded as a collective name for mental deviations, which make the person unable to function as a member of society and control his/her actions. It is characterized by irrational behavioral patterns and mental instability. As a non-scientific term, insanity is not used in medical practice but, in fact, is considered a term that unifies all mental disorders presenting a significant danger to person’s ability to lead a normal life. The attitudes to insanity have changed throughout human history and numerous approaches to defining its nature and presentations have evolved. Careful analysis of the biological and the Freudian approaches to insanity helps to understand its nature better and track the changes in its definitions during the last two centuries. The main constituent of insanity considered vital by all of the approaches is the person’s inability to control his/her psychological state and actions properly because of the abnormal perception of the external world (Freud Dream Psychology par. 4). Such a disability leads to the person’s dependence because she/he cannot perform daily activities or does so in a destructive way. Insanity can result in passiveness and a lack of willingness to interact with the society that results in the patient’s isolation, or it can produce aggressiveness and violent behavior that pose a threat to everyone around the patient. Another typical symptom of insanity is an inability to perceive the world accurately, resulting in inappropriate attitude and j