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A number of different schools promote education and Americans’ awareness of different cultures, peculiarities, and backgrounds that aim at improving human lives. This is why if people want to know more about one particular country, they can easily choose the school and get proper education. According to Confucius, knowledge may be defined in the following way: “when you know something, recognize that you know it, and when you don’t know something, recognize that you don’t know it. That’s knowledge” (Freedman 16). Such definite and clear understanding deserves attention and recognition, and it is not a surprise that people are eager to create schools on such basis and share Confucius’ ideas all over the whole world. So many people are eager to become an integral part of Chinese culture and rely on the ideas offered by Confucius in order to get a chance to enjoy this life, evaluate ethical norms from another perspective, and clear up how to gain complete satisfaction. Confucius Classrooms are characterized by many positive and powerful aspects that help to promote such schools in future: people are eager to learn different cultures and have a chance to study them from original sources that are available in Confucius Classrooms; the development of such networks does not prevent the development of other educational spheres; and finally, these schools represent a really high quality of Chinese language education in the United States of America. Confucius Classrooms are one of the possible examples of how people organize their work and attempts to study Chinese culture, language, traditions, and cognition of this world. Confucius Classrooms turn out to be a good opportunity for different people to learn deeper Chinese basics. The establishment of “58 Confucius classrooms in 81 countries” (Kavalski 88) seems to be a good proof that such schools are obligatory and interesting for people of different cultures. For a long period of time, Confucius Classrooms have been developed in many states, and one of the most successful examples is the Confucius Institute in Florida that aim “to develop closer ties with China through Chinese language instruction and cultural exchange” ( University of South Florida para. 2). Some people may wonder whether it is so important to develop such close relations with China and to spend so much time, money, and efforts in order to implement Confucius Classrooms. Witness for this development, it is necessary to underline the fact that “China has always been a very important partner” (Brzezinski para.1) of many states in America and has always been a good example in the financial, economic, and manufacturing spheres. In order to learn and realize what makes this country so powerful and able to take leading positions, it is better to provide American students with a chance to gain proper skills and knowledge and to communicate with the representatives of this country at the proper high level. The results of properly developed relations will be beneficial for both countries, and what is more important, Americans will learn better the
It is essential to have adequately sharpened knives in any kitchen. Sharpening is an easy, accessible, and not-time consuming process that can significantly boost the cook’s productivity. People can spend less time and effort cutting food by using an adequately maintained blade. For this essay, I have watched the video “Which Knife Sharpener is Best? Let’s find out!” by Todd Osgood to understand which brand of sharpeners I should use to maintain blade sharpness efficiently. In this video, Osgood analyzes several sharpeners, both mechanical and electric, in order to demonstrate the quality of these products. He used a standardized procedure to dull previously unused blades with a baseline sharpness of 265 grams of pressure required to sever a testing piece of material. Osgood used six different sharpeners, including four mechanical and two electric ones, with their prices ranging from $11 to $67.4. From the cheapest to the most expensive, the brands of sharpeners that were shown in this video are Accusharp, Sunrisepro, Kitchellence, Bavarian Edge, Presto, and Work Sharp, where two last ones being electric. After extensive testing, the results have shown that the least expensive – Accusharp – took the least amount of time to fully sharpen a dulled blade, bringing it back to 190 grams of pressure (Osgood, 2020). Sunrisepro, Presto, and Kitchellence have shown average results while having more specialized options for sharpening that should be taken into consideration. Work Sharp and Bavarian Edge were able to keep the blade sharp for longer after the second dulling. In conclusion, the cheapest mechanical sharpeners have shown to be more efficient in most categories but one. Accusharp, which costs only $11, can achieve better results quicker, despite being the cheapest sharpener. Bavarian Edge is able to maintain blade sharpness easily, but it struggles to restore a wholly dulled blade. Work Sharp provides the most durable sharp edge, although it costs $67.4. Reference Osgood, T. (2020). Which Knife Sharpener is Best? Let’s find out! [Video]. YouTube.
Executive Summary This report explores the controversies surrounding the use of Facebook. Facebook is two-sided as it brings along many benefits as well as disadvantages. Initially, a lot of enthusiasm embraced facebook upon its introduction. The momentous benefits of Facebook covered up for the shortcomings of the media (Tratter 2012). This report aims at giving people a better realization of the controversies surrounding Facebook. The report as well realizes the benefits of Facebook. The report also aims for Facebook management to check on the privacy policies about personal information. Introduction The use of social media has been on the increase. There are different types of social media such as Twitter, Google plus, linked, and face nook (Tratter 2012). Facebook is the widely used social media and people use it for different purposes. Individuals use Facebook to reconnect with friends and family while organizations use Facebook to increase profits. This report explores the privacy of policy on Facebook and the controversial ethical issues surrounding it. Overview of the Use Facebook Facebook is currently the most widely used social media (Gayle 2008). People connect with friends and family globally through this particular media. Friends share information and update each other on upcoming events. Facebook has also made it possible to exchange pictures with people who are far away to mark memorable fun moments. Facebook helps soldiers who are on duty away from their homes to keep in touch with their families. When tornadoes hit Texas, many people lost their pets in the chaos. Later, there were photo posts on Facebook of lost pets for their families to identify them. Facebook is also a channel for people to express their opinions and views to the government. Businesses also maintain Facebook pages to connect with their customers. Customers can make their reports about faulty products or their preferences and tastes, which serves as important market information. Recently this has proven not to be the only purpose for social media. Companies and international firms have made use of Facebook sites to promote their products and services. Advertising agencies can efficiently gather information on competitor
New approach to the issue of how to succeed If you want to understand Fifth Disipline by Peter Senge, you should clear your mind from everything you were taught because it is a fresh view on the things and new approach to understanding how to succeed in this world. The author presents a guide that helps to understand the modern world better and adapt to its changes. The contemporary society demands people to be up-to-date. That’s why, if someone does not want to become an outcast, that person should follow Senge’s pieces of advice. He enriched the book with his unique experience and examples that support and prove his opinion. Analysis of Chapter 1,2,3 Summary and understanding of Chapter 1 Uniting the powers to achieve success The author offers you to look at the world differently from what you are used to. Thus, you should understand that if you want to deal with difficulties and succeed in solving some problems, you should see the whole picture in general of what happens. The writer teaches people not to concentrate on some minor detail, but grasp the whole meaning. Everything in this world is interconnected and depends on each other. Thus, “we can then build “learning organizations”” (Senge, 2006, p. 3). These “learning organizations” seem to be the main reason to attain the most important goal in your life, to become prosperous. That’s why the extract centers on introduction and explanation of this issue. The author emphasizes that only if we unite our powers and expand our knowledge, we will be able to achieve something in this new epoch. Learning organizations’ disciplines The author describes five main components to create these new “learning organizations”. They are system thinking, personal mastery, mental models, building shared vision and team learning. These points demand you to change your world views. Thus, you should learn to trace and predict the consequences of your actions using system thinking. The next issue, personal mastery, requires from us to define what really matters to us in order not to loose our ambitions and plunge into routine (Senge, 2006, p. 8). Mental models and building shared vision dwell on the question that though we have different vision of the world and stereotypes, it can be our benefit if we combine our world views (mental models) to create the whole picture with various aspects. That’s why the author emphasizes the importance of the last discipline, team learning. We can be strong as individuals, but as a team, we are invincible. The fifth discipline of learning organizations Team work is defined to be of vital importance. That’s why the thing that can make all the five components work together should become the fifth discipline. It is system thinking. It seems to be meant to make a revolution in our minds to let us promote the next level, creation of “learning organizations”. Changing of the way of thinking This approach means to refuse from traditional passive learning in favor of active one. “
It has been established that partner abuse and sexual assault take place more often and are indeed present in all races as well as social classes. Nonetheless, the issue is under-recognized by most physicians. These two issues have several harmful mental as well as physical consequences that are either long-term or short-term. Every two and a half minutes, a woman is assaulted in the United States of America. Victims of intimate partner violence or sexual assault suffer from mental illnesses for instance they are three times more likely to suffer from depression, six times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress depression. Additionally, they are 26 times more likely to use the drug, 34 times more likely to abuse alcohol, and are also more likely to commit suicide 4 times than national statistics. It is worth remembering that the effects are unseen immediately and for this reason, it is important to seek counselling as well as medical attention as soon as possible. Globally women suffer from sexual, physical, verbal, emotional abuse. It is estimated that in three women one has been physically abused, coerced into sex, or abused in other ways in her lifetime. Although the rate at which women are abused is on the increase, very few incidences are reported to the relevant authorities. Both sexual and partner violence share certain similarities; on the same note, they have certain distinct differences. Partner violence and sexual assault share a number of physical, psychological as well as social consequences. For instance, in both, the victim more often than not suffers from trauma as a result of bruises, fractures as well as lacerations. Additionally, both acts result in chronic pain for example headache, abdominal, pelvic, chest as well as pain. Other associated consequences include hyperventilation syndrome, problems when eating as well as disorders when sleeping. There are also cases where the victim will suffer from heart-related problems, higher risks of delayed hypertension, and arthritis. In both, it is very challenging to collect evidence especially for sexual assaults cases (James, 2007). However, the major differences between the consequences of the two cases of abuse rest on the fact that sexual assault leads to problems such as urinary disorders, recurrent virginal yeast infection
The Declaration of Independence was an assertion that there was no more war between the thirteen states and Great Britain and that these states were free and sovereign states. The original draft was written by Thomas Jefferson and was approved on July 4 1776. However, this original document was revised after Congress adopted it. After much debating and consultations, twelve affirmative votes qualified the adoption of the resolution of independence despite one abstention, that is, the New York delegates. This implied that the colonies had cut ties with Great Britain. However, after this successful voting and breaking off from Great Britain, the Congress focused on the draft of independence that had been compiled by a select committee. It took several weeks to months of severe debating before the Congress made some changes in the draft. These changes involved altering some words and complete removal of some segments that made nearly a fourth of the original text. Similarities between the Two Documents Both the Original Declaration and the Edited/official Declaration talked primarily on independence from Great Britain. They both start by asserting that people have the ability to usurp political independence, and that the basis of such sovereignty must be sensible. These two documents indicated that, as a matter of principle, people had rights and they should use these rights to change or abolish any form of governance that violates them. These two publications contained charges against King George III, regarding his violation of colonialist’s rights. These two documents talked about similar issues concerning the importance of sovereignty of people and diverse rights of people. Differences between the Two Documents The Congress reworded and deleted some wor
Introduction Popular culture in America has undergone myriads of changes. However, the definition of popular culture is ambiguous. As has been pointed out by Cusic and Faulk (2009) the definition of popular culture is “kaleidoscopic” (p. 458). Popular culture cannot be strictly associated with “mass” culture or economic commercialization or believed to be an ideological phenomenon with an underlying social and political underpinning. So one may take it to be a mixture of all these instead of one of them singularly defining popular culture. The easy is an endeavor to trace the current trend of popular culture in America and its evolution. The essay will view the trend through different lenses viz. social, political, and religious. American history Ashby (2006) has portrayed the trend of the American popular culture from blackface in the 19th century to the movie productions during the Great Depression to the rise of sports and MTV to the evolution of the popular culture in post-9/11 America. He posits that American history can be understood through the lenses of American popular culture. Post-70s America saw an upheaval of the social, political, and religious depictions through productions of Hollywood as well as the publications of the time. American popular culture has traced the stories behind slavery and reformation. Through famous novels like Gone with the Wind and Uncle Tom’s Cabin American popular culture has brought about a social and political ideology that was demonstrated through the American popular culture. The role of politics Lane Crothers (2007) has described a popular culture in its anthropological/ideological perspective to describe the idea of American popular culture. According to him, American popular cultural notion is created through the consumption of popular media. Popular culture through television has been demonstrating the social life of Americans largely. The media has largely depicted the power relations in society and how they can be toppled. One such example is that of Tom and Jerry where tom the cat always the bully is usually defeated in a game of wit by the small mouse. This discursive narration of American popular culture shows how power and politics play an ideal role in American society. Then there is a representation of American politics through media and music. Music especially hip-hop and rock had represented the political sentiments of the youth and the African Americans. The genre of power and politics being demonstrated through popular culture is also reminiscent of these musical forms. Political propaganda has been a molder of American popular culture as it had taken the form of ideological myth in the country. The American Dream has been typically portrayed through the coverage of presidential campaigns and speeches. Then American political propaganda during the Cold War and that of terror after 9/11 has achieved a new height in popular culture. Movies like James Bond or Rambo in the years of the cold war were reminiscent of the political propaganda that the American government undertook
Introduction Written by Mark Brundrett and Rachel Anderson de Cuevas in the journal of Management in Education, and published in 2007, this article is titled Setting an Agenda for Social Justice through Leadership Development. According to Wilkinson (2007), Brundrett is a professor of Educational Research in the Faculty of Education, Community, and Leisure and the head of the Centre for Research and Evaluation, in the Liverpool John Moores University. On the other side, Rachael de Cuevas is a PhD student in the School of Tropical Medicine in the Liverpool John Moores University (Theobald, 2010). Professor Brundrett started as a primary school teacher before progressing to middle and secondary school teaching and finally becoming a professor in the Liverpool John Moores University. He holds masters degree in education, and arts, bachelors degree in arts, and a doctorate degree in philosophy and education. His research has been mainly on education where he has authored and co-authored 12 books and numerous scholarly journals. Moreover, he is a board member of many advisory boards of different international journals. Major Thesis This paper addresses two main issues; one, the implicit nature of commitment in leadership development programs which until recently, has been practiced in the United Kingdom to enhance social justice through management of school system. Secondly, this article argues that recent legislations in education have fostered crucial reforms that would facilitate active involvement of school leaders in promoting social justice whilst in training. Article Summary The United Kingdom has undergone increased funding in leadership development evidenced by formation of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) and upsurge in national programs of leadership development. Nevertheless, these reforms came only after the election of a government mandated to advance social justice in 1997, that is, the New Labor administration. Hitherto, there was no elaborate system to incorporate leadership development in schools but this has changed with the creation of NCSL, which deals with improving leadership training in schools to align with the increased regulatory and accountability clause in the 1988 Education Act. The NCSL was established to “ensure that our current and future school leaders develop the skills, the capability, and capacity to lead and transform the school education system into the best in the world” (Brundrett & de Cuevas, 2007, p. 45). NCSL has continuously performed well and by 2001, it had structured the Leadership Development Framework to guide in leadership developments entailing core and extension programs befitting all leaders in school system viz. emergent leaders, established
The establishment of the Trump administration and a Republican Congress in 2017 opened opportunities to implement new studies on health policies and federalism. The repeal-and-replace proposals applied in regards to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have played significant roles in enhancing state authority in healthcare policy shaping and decreasing its power using reduced financial support (Thompson, Gusmano, & Shinohara, 2018). Altogether, five important healthcare developments should be mentioned in regards to Trump’s current presidency. In October 2017, the government stopped reimbursing American insurers for low-income deductibles and co-pay waivers. In December 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed to repeal the tax of Obamacare for those who do not have health insurance coverage (Amadeo, 2019). In January 2019, the government loosened the regulations on short-term insurances, and in February 2016, Trump’s administration makes it possible for states to impose requirements for work among Medicaid recipients. In May 2018, the American Patients First plan was revealed for lower prices on drugs. When compared to Obamacare, the new provisions have several important consequences for US citizens. If a person is generally healthy, the costs will drop as the new tax plan does not enforce penalties. Also, healthy individuals can purchase short-term plans that cost much less than Obamacare insurance. If a person has chronic illnesses, costs are expected to increase due to the reliance on ACA plans. When healthier customers abandon most insurers, companies will have to increase their prices leaving others no chance but to purchase health insurance plans at higher costs compared to Obamacare. Therefore, there are both positive and negative outcomes of Trump’s administration policies on healthcare.