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Introduction What will be your reaction if you will find out that your friends, relatives, and loved ones are not going to live past the age of 50? The mortality question is an unsettling query, especially when you know someone who died prematurely. The realization that someone close to home has died without warning is an experience that no one wants to go through. The idea that someone died at the prime of life creates a terrible feeling that no one would wish on his greatest enemy. It does not require a scientist armed with a degree from Harvard University to ascertain that many Americans are obese. There is a high correlation between obesity and killer diseases. There are two primary outcomes when people are diagnosed as clinically obese: 1) Type 2 Diabetes and 2) heart attack. Even in the early phase of the research process, I am beginning to see that this attempt to learn more about the linkage of sports and health is shaping into something that is of great value to me. I will play baseball, volleyball, and basketball for free. I mean, I do not need extra motivation to play ball games. It is great to know that there are extra benefits, as well. A less than thorough research process has yielded positive results that encourage me to dig deeper. In the initial stages of the research process, I already discovered that this is a popular topic on the World Wide Web. It is also a hot topic of discussion in popular culture. For example, the New York Times and other major newspapers in America constantly reported about President Obama’s love for basketball. The Commander-in-Chief is a basketball fanatic. One of my favorite stories about his devotion to basketball was a story about his desire to encourage wounded soldiers that were rehabilitating at Fort McNair in Washington. President Obama utilized his considerable influence to assemble his own version of the Dream Team. He persuaded current and former professional basketball players to play in front of the recuperating servicemen. His team included notable basketball figures like Lebron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Magic Johnson, and Bill Russell (The Associated Press 1). I believed that the players had a great time with the president. Unfortunately, the media people were not allowed to enter the gym. Thus, there was no video about the said event. The president’s spokesperson said that Obama simply wanted to play. The idea that a sitting president has the strength and endurance to play a game of basketball is inspiring. The mere thought of John F. Kennedy or Bill Clinton playing basketball in the White House gym is enough to generate tremendous interest. But to consider an incumbent president playing with globally recognized players will certainly heighten interest regarding the sport. Obama’s love for basketball is not just for recreational purposes. I discovered that Michelle Obama, the president’s wife, established a non-profit undertaking called “Let’s Move” (Bumpus 1). The First Lady is encouraging Americans to increase physical activity. As I compiled informati
Introduction Clinical practice guidelines are developed to guide practitioners on the best approach to adopt when solving complications arising in their line of work. Medical practice guidelines were initially commissioned in the late twentieth century. Before then, treatment of complications relied purely on the practitioner’s best knowledge. It soon became a major problem as research intensified into various medical fields. Each region of specialization adopted different methods. Consequently, the need for standardized guidelines became apparent. Clinical practice guidelines are developed using evidence-based approaches (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2011, p. 167). Only the most promising recommendations become part of the guideline. It is the work of a multi-disciplinary subcommittee in a given region to determine the best evidence-based approach to any medical complication. In this report, the author will develop a nursing practice guideline touching on safety with regards to the use and handling of bicycles. Among others, the paper will highlight the scope of the guideline, the target audience, development committe
The way, in which media represents reality in general and people in particular, often turns out beyond contrived. Sometimes moviemakers decide to push the envelope and reinvent people’s perception of a certain phenomenon or idea; however, in most cases, media repeats what is considered acceptable in the given culture and at the given time slot. However, when the harmful and positive effects of media are evaluated, people’s ability to approach the subject matter with criticism is often left out of the picture. Therefore, while both Newsom’s argument concerning the biased representation of women in media and Gauntlett’s concept of media being interpreted by people from the stance of their own convictions and morals, are flawed at their very basis, as they ignore the age factor or, in more general sense, the audience that the films in question are targeted at. Newsom’s idea of media representing a wrong model for its viewers to follow has been haunting the realm of movie criticism since the very era of filmmaking. Indeed, the role models that are represented in movies often define the image of a woman within the society (Newsom 00:13:37). For example, there is no need to stress the effect that The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter had on the United States of the 1980s. It would be wrong to credit the movie for each of the 1980s alterations in nearly every realm of the lives of American women. However, the film has admittedly contributed to building up the atmosphere, in which these changes, including the social (the Planned Parenthood v. Casey case concerning the abortion issue), the financial (EMILY’s List contributing to women’s election into Congress) and the personal ones (the Kolstad v. American Dental Association addressing sexual discrimination) became possible (Ford 8). Much to his credit, Gauntlett also makes a very valid statement concerning the assumptions are made based on the appearance of elements removed from their context. Indeed, the lessons that most movies teach are related directly to the scenarios described in the films for the most part. Therefore,
Television is an essential part of our life. Films and shows, in particular, are a part of our entertainment. People watch films to relax, to know something new, to spare their free time, or to tickle their nerves when they watch horror films or gripping films. The firm’s task is to introduce the viewer to the unknown world of a film, to make the film’s events and worries penetrate into the person’s subconsciousness, and to leave the imprint there. When people watch a film they usually imagine themselves in the place of the main hero, they want to participate in the same situations, to meet the same people. But it is a real problem when the film is about a crime and the main hero is a murderer. We are going to discuss and analyze specific aspects of the film “Copycat” in this argumentative essay and to research information, we have gathered about that particular aspect. The “Copycat” is an American thriller about serial murder. As the film title indicates, the killer, Peter Foley (William McNamara), orchestrates a series of homicides based on the murders of previous serial killers, shown in a collection of press photographs portraying the victims of Berkowitz, the Boston Strangler, Ted Bundy, and other serial killers. By posing the bodies of his victims in locations that replicate the earlier photos, Foley emulates – or “copycats” – the larger narrative of serial death in general. In a method, his murders are a form of visual sampling in which he organizes images from a previous narrative (the killings of Berkowitz, for example) into a new discursive chain (Tietchen 2). One of the main heroes of this film is Dr. Helen Hudson, criminal profiler and psychologist, one of the greatest specialists in serial killers in the world. She suffers from agoraphobia and it helps the killer to keep her in suspense. One of the aspects raised in this film is the problem of violent imitation. This violence imitation occurs in reality very often. In Copycat, Foley’s method of appropriation speaks directly to the concept of branching multiplicity, the idea — perhaps understood too strong – by television news and tabloid journalism – that because an individual image can be reproduced, it can therefore be re-contextualized into various inter-and counter texts (Tietchen 5). Nowadays violence became a popular type of entertainment. Richard B. Felson writes in his article about violence imitations: one evidence that bizarre violent events have followed soon after their depiction on television, suggesting a form of copycat behavior. In one widely reported case in Boston, six young men set fire to a woman after forcing her to
A test is an inspective tool or practice where a part of the behavior, view, performance, or characteristics of the person or object being evaluated is scrutinized or evaluated within a specified domain and the result ranked using an unvarying process or procedure. Answers the question, what is a test? One factor that influenced the historical development of testing is the birth of the clinical psychology field of study that highly involved testing in its work. The wide nature of clinical psychology to cover counseling among other disciplines brought about more need for the development of testing. In the practice of clinical psychology, there was an acute need for a device of testing methods that brought about the need for a laboratory for analysis and medication. The high level of participation of these psychologists was in the military at the time of world wars one and two. The national government greatly invested in the education and progress of these psychologists in the field of clinical psychology, therefore, giving rise to the use of testing and the need for better working methods of testing. The scientific impulse was the curious need to make things more scientific wherein historical writings it’s evident that there was the pursuit of scientific measurement. In the field of education, educators also sought to make the education practice scientific leading to the making of new types of tests to achieve this. The need for having a scientific method and modes of analysis contributed to the development. The motivation that resulted from the success of previous scientific tests prompted the development of the test practice. In this same perspective, other fields of study greatly influenced the scientific influence that contributed to the development of testing. An example of this was in law, medicine, community work, and clinical psychology that emphasized the need for testing. The need and pursuit of reliable success also led to the development of the same. The need to quantify the facts of human existence and nature also prompted the development of testing. Looks at the origin of clinical psychology and explains its application in everyday life Test norms; this is a form of assessment and standardization in group testing to know the average attainment of a person relative to the group commonly examined. In the compilation of test norms, you will often use mean, mode and median. Test norms are evaluators of the individuals’ performance against the group they are exposed to the same assessment. Percentiles norms are the measures used to explain an individual’s location of performance within the homogenous group in terms of the percentage of individuals who have scored less than the in
Introduction Quality outcomes and patient measures are essential in the healthcare industry. It is so because the two relate to what service patients receive and whether medical settings provide individuals with harmful factors. This assignment will create and describe a healthcare entity, mention the entity’s successes and failures, introduce a safety measure to be improved by nursing science, determine potential obstacles, and identify stakeholders for collaboration. Describing a Healthcare Entity This assignment focuses on a hypothetical acute care hospital in an urban area. It provides numerous services, including emergency care, acute care surgery, critical care, and others. Since it has 160 beds, this hospital is considered medium-sized. It is a non-profit hospital that offers its services to improve public health. The setting has been operating for five years to serve citizens of a single community. Thus, the following sections will comment on how quality outcomes and safety measures are represented in the hospital. Healthcare Entity’s Successes and Failures It is reasonable to rely on specific quality outcomes to determine the areas where the hospital under analysis is successful. A nurse-patient ratio is a significant indicator among these outcomes since it demonstrates whether patients receive a sufficient amount of care and considers the organization’s cost-effectiveness (Qureshi et al., 2019). Numerous scholarly articles focus on the nurse-patient ratio, and Wynendaele et al. (2019) claim that a 4:1 rate is considered optimal in acute care hospitals. This correlation means that a single nurse should take care of no more than four patients simultaneously. Since the hospital’s staff includes 40 nurses, it means the healthcare setting will not witness any nurse-patient ratio issues under current conditions. Furthermore, this state of affairs also contributes to the fact that the hospital faces reduced patient turnaround times. Consequently, one can suppose that the healthcare entity is successful in providing patients with sufficient and adequate care. However, the hospital cannot impress with such positive results when it comes to patient safety measures. As has been mentioned in the Part One assignment, these measures are “state policy, diagnosis, medications, surgical operations, infections, and injuries” (Ismail, 2017, p. 592). They cover many spheres that can be sources of a dangerous impact on people. Butcher
The relationship between Kafka and his father was lukewarm. Kafka hated his family mainly because his father was autocratic and his mother supported him. He had a deep sense of emotional and financial needs that his father couldn’t meet and this complicated his life very much. Therefore, he hated his father whom he saw as an impediment to his normal development. His father also set high standards for Kafka to achieve and these standards were way above the ones that Kafka had set for himself. This is why Kafka never developed feelings of love towards his father. His mother also supported his father and Kafka was leaving Kafka without anyone to defend him. His father was very autocratic and never let Kafka make independent decisions He controlled his entire life (Brod, p. 40). Kafka would often contemplate rebelling against his father and the close relationship that he developed with his only sister was a conspiracy against their dictatorial dad. The father was a burden to him and though at times he was to be good to the son, his deep feelings of hatred towards his father wouldn’t be shaken by any good gesture from the dad. The father had kept him inside a cocoon and he never grew up like the other boys. Kafka’s profession Kafka went to the university and studied law up to a doctoral level. He worked at the courts without a salary. He later took a job at an Italian insurance company. The job was not lucrative and it had very strict regulations from the dictatorial management. He would work overtime in that thankless job and he was not comfortable with his workplace. He later moved to another Austrian-run insurance company. However, he was a very committed and straightforward lawyer. He would empathize with the people he represented and represent some of them free of charge. He was a very responsible worker who related well with other employees and his seniors. With his diligence, he earned a promotion while working at the insurance firm. The promotions gave him more time off the job and he used this time to write articles. He published his first article in 1908.Many of his articles were later published in a bi-monthly magazine n his hometown. He started writing more pieces for magazines; the pieces were very bold and impressionistic a fac
Marriage is a lawfully recognized relationship between a man and a woman who have made a legal agreement to live together. A wedding is a civil or religious ceremony conducted in the presence of the family and friends of the bride and groom, to celebrate the beginning of their marriage. In contrast with many cultures and religions, the actual act of marriage , begins during the wedding ceremony (Wikipedia.org) which is conducted in two stages: the first part involving the formal exchange of marriage vows in a religious house, and the second part involving celebration of the event . In both cases, a wedding is a dignified, somber and sacred contract between a man and a woman. The first part of a Muslim and Christian wedding – exchange of marriage vows – has many similarities. Both are contained in an act of worship {‘Ibadah’ for Muslims and the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony’ for Christians} that is conducted in a religious house . A religious official formally asks the couple if they willingly consent to the marriage . When the couple accepts their vows, wedding rings are exchanged between them. The religious official then announces the marriage to the assembled people in a speech , during which he talks about the past lives of the bride and groom, and their new responsibilities as man and wife. The religious official then makes a special address to God {‘prayer’ for Christians and ‘dua’ for Muslims} for the well being and happiness of the married couple, their families and the religious community {‘congregation’ for Christians and ‘ummah’ for Muslims} in general. The first part of the wedding ceremony concludes with the signing of the marriage contract (Muslims call it ‘nikaahnama’). The bride and groom sign the contract, which is then signed by two adult and sane witnesses. The marriage contract is then kept as an official record in the religious house , as well as registered with the local government authorities (Goamatrimonials.com). The first part of the wedding ceremony of Christians and Muslims is different in some ways. The first difference concerns the marriage contract. Unlike Christians, the Muslim bride and groom have the choice to accept the usual terms and conditions of the marriage contract or require them to be amended (Goamatrimonials.com). It is not mandatory for the Muslim bride to be present when the contract is prepared. She is permitted to give a verbal power of attorney to an older male relative to agree on her behalf on the clauses of the marriage contract, including the amount of the marriage-gift that should be paid to her. Muslims consider the mahr clause as mandatory because the Holy Quran says: “Give the women their mahr as a free gift” . Mahr is looked upon as a symbol of the groom’s dedication. It may take the form of cash, moveable or immovable assets. It may be paid during the wedding ceremony or later. It is also allowed to be paid in parts: one during the wedding ceremony and other/s later; such deferred mahr
Introduction Advancement in technology has various benefits as it makes it easier for people to perform tasks. Computers have for instance revolutionalised the way tasks are performed in levels no human mind can fathom. However, with more rapid improvement in computer technology one can clearly underscore its impact on human beings and society in general. One could equally speculate that the technology has an impact on a wide range of areas such as human relations, ethics, politics, religion etc. The Singularity is near Scholars and even philosophers have toyed with the idea that the computer could in the long run replace the human capacity to do tasks. This will lead to a situation where all human beings will resort to computers. Morris (98) argues that ‘… the ever-accelerating progress of technology gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue. Kurzweil sees singularity as a period during which the pace of technology change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.’ Kurzweil
Organizations use different methods to evaluate the individual performance of employees and create new effective programs for training and personal development. 360-degree feedback, peer-review, can be used as a key method of individual performance evaluation as it covers all important points of performance from broad environment. The four important steps are self-evaluation, peer review, direct reports and manager’s evaluation. Despite this opportunity, managers still have a long way to go in all parts of the organization. The role of 360-degree feedback may prove important. 360-degree feedback allows management to evaluate and analyze positive and negative factors of work, culture and motivation of an employee. Previously, managers cannot expect meaningful feedback. Organizations just have an appraisal process but it was very constricted (Baron and Kreps 1999). As part of the cultural initiative modern organizations have an opportunity to introduce 360-degree feedback, but, more significantly, management and performance evaluation is structured around the values. Employees are now being evaluated by supervisors, peers, and subordinates on whether they are demonstrating the principles in their daily practices. Initially, employees were very doubtful and uncertain to engage in the process. Most of the employees did not trust the evaluation process as it was anonymous and there was cynicism about whether it would really result in pheromone improvement (Armstrong and Baron 32). In spite of cultural and religious differences, 360-degree feedback is very effective as it involves independent sources of evaluation and provides a manager with overall analysis of the performance. 360-degree feedback to the employees on their job performance can have a important outcome, but much depends on such issues as the nature of the comment, who or what provides the opinion, and the receptivity of the employee (Simon 2007). During the employee’s evaluation, manag