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Despite the fact that times have changed, teaching in schools in the United States for the most part seems to be stuck in some old routine that has been in place for years. Though the world has become a global village, the teaching methods have not changed with the times. It is still about, listening to the teacher, writing down notes, and reading from textbooks. The teaching approaches in schools need to change so that students can be provided with the necessary skills that serve to not only make them better but also more competitive individuals in society (Wallis and Steptoe). According to the authors Wallis and Steptoe, it is not just enough to be a student, rather a student who is also a global student and who has certain characteristics. So what does it mean to be a global student? First and foremost, a student who can be referred to as a global student is one who is well versed in the world and world issues. This kind of student is well informed on issues to do with global trade, can speak other languages other than his/her native language, and is also sensitive to foreign curriculums. The authors state that “kids are global citizens now, even in small-town America, and they must learn to act that way”. In order to produce such kinds of students, there is a need for changes in the school curriculum. For instance, it should be mandatory that each student take up at least one foreign language as part of their course work to improve their language skills. Still, some classes may be taught in a foreign language. This is the case at Seattle’s John Stanford International School. While most subjects are taught in English, mathematics is also taught in either Japanese or Spanish. The students are then given the opportunity to perfect their language skills through video conferencing with sister schools in other countries such as Mexico. In addition, the social studies curriculum that is currently only fixated on US history should be completely overhauled. Take the case of the John Stanford International School in Seattle. In addition to American history, the students also cover the history of such countries as Asia, Africa, Australia, and even South America. Secondly, the author states that the global student “needs to be comfortable thinking outside the box.” Also, the student should be conversant with various subject disciplines. The student is familiar with different disciplines such that he can combine them and come up with new innovations. In the Henry ford academy in Michigan for instance, students have to carry out a class project, developing an environmentally friendly sneaker, that combines concepts in business, design, chemistry, and earth science (Wallis and Steptoe). The 21 st century
A monarch that comprises of members of the Al Saud, the ruling family rules Saudi Arabia. The king is the imperial ruler who appoints ministers and consultative councils. The monopoly encourages dictatorship and corruption. This portrays Saudi Arabia in a bad light to the international community. The laws that govern the state of Saudi Arabia are based on the Muslim religion. These are the Islamic laws. These laws are conservative customs and practices of a social nature. They deny other people the freedom deemed as a human right. They also deny women basic human rights. The modern infrastructure and magnificent tourist attractions in Saudi Arabia are not fully utilized by tourists due to the fear of the Islamic laws they have. In the modern world, there are many misconceptions about the people of Saudi Arabia. For a long time, people around the world based conception of the Saudi Arabia nation on the influence brought in by the media. In current years, there has been a growing interest in international news. The news portrays Arab nations on their strict provision of Islamic laws and their negligence of human rights. Travel advisory has been placed by many nations against the republic of Saudi Arabia due to their breach of human rights. The media portrays the negative aspects of the laws imposed on Saudi Arabia and breach of their human rights. It is portrayed that the nation abuses its prisoners and detains people incommunicado. The press also emphasizes that the nation gags the media and restricts speech, peaceful assembly and change of government. Other religions presented in the region are oppressed. Many workers and women rights are suppressed. The global image of Saudi Arabia was tainted by its strict implementation of Islamic laws, breach of human and women’s rights, corruption and torture allegations. The September 11 terrorist attack in the New York City further dampened the image of Arabic nations Saudi Arabia included. Before the 9/11 attacks, Saudi Arabia was known for its Islamic religious shrines and its oil reserves. It was the most stable country in the Arab league with strong international relations. The United States believed in their reforms. After the attacks, Saudi Arabia appeared to support the religious act behind the attacks and these dampened relations with the west. It further portrayed itself negatively to the public. Aims The aim is to examine the perception of Saudi Arabia. The aim is to establish the knowledge, attitudes and practices of Saudi Arabians in the management of their national image. The paper seeks to examine views and opinions of Saudi Arabians. Specific Objectives The specific objectives of this follow-up survey include the following:   * Explore the opinion of people on the image portrayed by Saudi Arabians.   * To identify modes of perception of image portrayed.   * Develop recommendations about priority interventions needed to address the urgent situation. Methodology This research is based on a web-based surve
The risk that will be analyzed belongs to the sphere of business opportunities. NIB focuses on the active exploration of options outside its comfort zone without the appropriate strategic planning. One of the reasons for selecting this high risk is its ability to cause substantial harm to the company and result in massive financial losses. Additionally, utilizing available business opportunities is one of the main ways for any company to evolve, which means that the risk identification and analysis regarding this issue acquire the top priority for a firm that wants to develop and play a leading role in the world economy. For this reason, this very factor is selected for the analysis. Risk Identification One of the main ways to identify the given risk was through the in-depth analysis of the company’s functioning, previous experiences associated with similar firms, and investigation of traditional risks that are related to the utilization of business opportunity without the preliminary analysis and creation of the strategic plan needed to overcome all possible difficulties that might emerge in the course of new business venture realization. The effect of this aspect can be highly significant as it can occur at any stage of the business opportunity exploration and precondition its failure, which should be considered one of the most undesired outcomes undermining the company’s financial power and stability. Risk Analysis Having identified the risk, it is critical to analyze it to find its mitigation mechanism. The threat of business opportunity’s ineffective evaluation or failure can be considered quantitative. It will result in significant financial losses and might emerge because of the inadequate consideration of all factors that might impact the company at particular stages of its development and evolution. A drop in market stocks because of the inability to enter the New Zealand market will also precondition the deterioration of relations with NIB’s investors, which is critical for the future prospects of the company and its ability to compete with other actors who have interests in the same sphere. Risk Evaluation In evaluating the given risk, it is possible to admit that there is a high probability of failure because of the inappropriate planning and poor organization of preliminary activities. Considering the fact that NIB has already failed to grant a foothold in the New Zealand health insurance market, one can predict that the situation might b
Introduction People normally go for screening tests for specific reasons. There are different health related conditions at the family level that members may test. Screening tests enable families comprehend health related conditions in their lineages. Furthermore, screening generates accurate information, which informs patients decision-making processed. The results emerging from screening processes are crucial to clients. The interpretation of screening results is also crucial to providing clients with accurate information regarding their health conditions. Evidently, challenges associated with interpreting screening results are imminent. This increases the requirement that people interpret screening results with caution. In the subsequent sections, this paper discusses the reasons for excising caution while interpreting test results Possibilities for a false-positive result and a false-negative result Every family anticipates that screening should generate accurate information. However, screening outcome may hinder health related decision making in certain situations. Screening results may defectively discriminate between clients with disease and those without. This can happen when the outcome is incoherent with the actual clinical condition of client. The challenge may also emerge because of improper integration of screening outcome within the clinical contexts (Marotz & Allen, 2013). Therefore, an imperfect screening test may erroneously categorize a healthy client as diseased. This creates the false – positive result situation. On the contrary, it may also erroneously identify a sick client as disease – free (Marotz & Allen, 2013). This creates the false – negative result situation. There is the need for people in charge of screening processes to practice caution while interpreting results. The recognition that inherent operating characteristics of screening processes may generate inaccurate outcome requires caution (Marotz & Allen, 2013). The ability of screening processes to ensure accuracy in excluding or including disease on a client may be prone to errors. This is a genuine reason demanding caution while reading screening results. The Role of Screening Tools Several tools are applicable in screening processes. Generally, people in charge of screening processes regard the tools as perfect. However, some screening tools may have defects and problems leading to failures. The screening tools that have defects may not generate accurate outcome. For example, instruments employed in cognitive measurements may fail to generate accurate outcome (Spencer, Bornholt & Ouvrier, 2003). Furthermore, people in charge of the screening processes may openly abuse such tools thus affecting their accuracy. In addition, using screening tools designed for larger populations to test individuals may prompt cautious in the interpretation of outcome (Spencer, Bornholt & Ouvrier, 2003). These concerns make it worth for people tasked with conducting screening processes to exercise precaution. They need to exer
The article by Stephanie Armour published in USA Today in 2007, reports the problem of employers who enforce an “English Only” policy at workplace and have to face lawsuits from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. According to the employers who enforce such policies, they are justified because the policy can be legally adopted if the employer can show that such a policy is a business necessity or necessary from a safety point in emergency situations. However, employees argue that the policy is extended to lunch breaks and even to bathrooms, where the necessity for any such policy cannot exist. Irrespective of the side whose argument is correct, the policy is proving to be extremely costly for the employers. Flushing Motor Geriatric Center had to pay $900,000 to settle a lawsuit. With the number of US residents who are not fluent in English increasing, the chances of more such lawsuits are increasing. The strict insistence on the “English Only” policy also affects the efficiency of the employees since when employees are bothered by such trivial issues they spend more time discussing these at work and less time on the work. Another adverse effect of such a policy is that it adversely affects employee morale. Considering the huge numbers of employees who are not fluent in English and those for whom English is not their first language, such a policy can put fear in employees and bring about instability in an organization. Considering these adverse effects of the strict insistence on English Only policy by employers, it is safe to say that the policy is economically unviable. The adverse effects on efficiency and economy of the English Only policy on organizations far outweigh its benefits.
Facts I work as an engineer at the Thermo Hydraulics Analysis Department of a nuclear power plant. During an analysis of the power plant, I receive a phone call from an engineer at the Eight Mile Road Nuclear Power Plant and he expresses his concern over the current design of the reactor in relation to the pressure valves and indicators. He describes an incident at a plant in Toledo whereby a pressure relief valve opened to relieve steam and decrease pressure due to over pressurization, but failed to close despite the fact that the indicator stated successful closure. The operator at the plant stopped high-pressure injection owing to an apparent recovery in the system. The plant was in a two-phase state, thus leading to a lack of capacity to accommodate termination of high-pressure injection. During a twenty to thirty-minute non-injection flow period, the plant recorded significant loss in fluid inventory. Information relayed in the phone call about the design flow of the nuclear reactor made me uneasy, and thus I wrote a memo to my boss describing the situation and the need to inform other power plants of the possible design flaws. He promised to present the memo to her boss to address the concerns. Two weeks later, after asking my boss on the progress of the memo, he informs me that her boss saw no need to forward the information to other plants due to the unofficial nature of the information. He also states that if I desired to pursue the matter, I should obtain official documentation from my colleague stating the facts of the entire incident. I inform the engineer at the Eight Mile Road power plant of the development and request official documentation and he agrees on condition that I provide a two-month window within which he can send the documentation. Situation analysis In this scenario, my decision is likely to affect several stakeholders. The stakeholders include me, the plant’s employees, the plant’s management, the company, members of the public living within the plant’s vicinity, the environment, colleagues in other power plants, and the nuclear industry. For instance, the decision may lead to the loss or maintenance of my job
This is the analysis of how people in an organization relate to each other, how their performance is affected by the environment in the organization either as individuals or as a group. This helps to ensure that the human relationships in the organization are well established so as to achieve the set goals and objectives. Job satisfaction on the other hand is the feeling of fulfillment one gets when their good work is recognized. To ensure job satisfaction, employees need to be recognized once they do a good job. This can be done verbally by congratulating him/her in a meeting in presence of others or giving them some kind of a bonus so as to motivate them. As an employer, one can also plan a monthly or yearly award system where the best employee in that particular time period is rewarded. Another way of making employees motivated is by giving them responsibilities. This can be done by giving employees work and leaving them to work on their own. This will make them feel satisfied with themselves as it shows that they can be trusted with what they are doing. To ensure that employees are satisfied with their work, treat all of them equally. This means that even if there are close friends or relatives, they should be treated as other employees with no favoritism. This will enable them to work together without fear of intimidation or suspicion from each other. Working environment should also be accommodative to all to ensure that employees are comfortable. For instance, new employees should be welcome and be orientated with the company’s environment to ensure that they are familiar with their surroundings. Similarly, the employer should be ready and willing to listen to his/her employee’s problems and solve them appropriately. This will make them feel that they are valued and consequently improve their performance. A company with good policies ensures job satisfaction for their employees. For instance, there should be laid down procedures on promotions and how one can advance their career. Such should be based on employee performance so as to encourage them to work hard to get that promotion. This will bring out fairness and thus provide more satisfaction. When it comes to communication, there are gender differences associated with. For instance, when communicating, men are mostly concerned with their status whereas women are concerned with gaining acceptance. For example, you may hear a man speaking of his achievements and his future plans while the woman will tell things that might be totally unrelate
In recent years due to an increased level of environmental contamination, the problem of environmental protection is very important. More and more people begin to realize the necessity of harmonious coexistence with nature. Under such circumstances, much attention is paid to green communities as the most appropriate form of living in balance with nature — one of the examples of such a green community in Copenhagen. Together with such cities as Hamburg, Nantes, Bristol, and Stockholm, Copenhagen is the project participant of the program, which is called European Green Capital. Twenty years ago, it was impossible to imagine the possibility of swimming in Copenhagens harbor because of its acute pollution. Nowadays, due to a special cleaning program implemented by local authorities, the harbor bath of Copenhagen is a favorite place of citizens. Copenhagen has made considerable achievements in the development of its green economy. There have been implemented many programs of eco-innovation, aiming cooperation with companies, working with students, and the creation of forums of any kind in the sphere of green growth. Due to the implementation of these programs and prudent municipal planning, Copenhagen is known as an environmentally friendly and green city (“Copenhagen. European Green Capital 2014” 7). The model of the green development of the city suggests various environmental initiatives and economic progress and an increase in living standards. In accordance with this program, the main aim of the local authorities is to make Copenhagen a carbon-neutral city by 2025. Nowadays, there is a tendency for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions year after year. It has been achieved due to a wide range of initiatives, which implied a re-equipment of old buildings, conversions of power stations of the city to biomass, and construction of new wind turbines (“Copenhagen. European Green Capital 2014” 23). Now more than 31% of all electricity needed for Denmark is produced by means of wind turbines. It is the highest figure of wind energy usage in the world. The aim of the Dutch government is to increase this proportion by up to 50% by 2020. The local authorities pay much attention to the development of wind farms. At the present moment, one wind farm is situated on the coast of Copenhagen, but in accordance with the governments green policy in the coming years, there will be built additional wind turbines. With this purpose, many investors are enticed. The most common definition of the notion of environmental injustice is a disproportionate exposure of some human groups to a higher levels of environmental risks than other segments of society (Kibert 172). The problem of environmental justice is intimately connected with the inverse notion, such as environmental injustice, which is sometimes called ecological racism. As a rule, it deals with the ecological discrimination of different social, racial groups, or even states and nations. The discussion of this phenomenon took place in 1970 th , mainly in the USA. The benchmark for the investigation of this issue was researches of the American sociologist Robert Bullard wh
Proper medical care is a basic need for all humankind. The distribution of quality medical care is dependent on many factors. Well-trained health personnel, health administrators and an active support staff are a necessity. However, in spite of their professionalism, errors still arise (Bates, 2002). This necessitates adoption of IT to help in tracking patients’ medical history and related literature. While this shared resources addressed many problems, it failed to address other relevant sources of errors. Misapprehension of handwritten instructions, dosage errors due to illegible decimal places, unnoticed drug interaction and dissimilarities in medical practice were common with traditional methods (Williams, 2002). CPOES is a computer system that addresses these problems. This paper explicates its meaning, how to develop and implement it, and its use in hospitals and other medical institutions. It also addresses such issues as legislation governing the use of CPOES and its potential success. Definition of a CPOES CPOES is a computer based application program. It allows doctors and other lawful users’ direct entry into a computer, analytical tests, medications, patient care, and referrals (Bates, 2002). It forms part of a broad medical database called health information system (HIS). HIS is a special catalog that contains all the information regarding patients in a given region. Depending on the kind of information structure desired by the authorities, HIS can be specific to a given health institution only, a database serving a state or an entire country. In this regard, CPOES performs the function of an access medium to the centralized database. Generally, CPOES is an application program installed in computers used in hospitals and ambulances. Usually, there is a constant need of recording medical data. According to Dixon et al. (2009), CPOE is software that ensures orders are perfectly captured and implemented. It provides a guarded way of making orders and subscription. Like any computer application program, it requires the support of other programs to accomplish its functions. In hospitals, highly robust software called “clinical decision support system” exists with CPOES. Clinica