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Introduction The issue of vegan diets has taken over the media and is currently perceived as one of the major questions that are not answered yet. Numerous researchers attempted to approach the issue by conducting surveys and experiments (Kluger, 2014). Some of these studies were able to elucidate the fact that food preferences mostly rely on an individual’s cultural and psychological features (McCracken, 2016). In other words, the smarter we believe an animal is, the more defenseless it is. For instance, beef eaters tend to accept as true the fact that cows are relatively unwise and cannot think (Kluger, 2014). If we expand on this topic, we will see that those who eat only fish do not consider livestock to be the smartest representatives of fauna. Psychologists believe that such an approach is rather effective even in post facto terms. It is safe to say that humans believe in justifying the food that they had consumed earlier. Therefore, humans treat similar representatives of fauna in almost the same way because of their “reputation,” charisma, or unreservedness (Kluger, 2014). This means that a hamburger is a conventional meal but horseburger shall not exist because humans are not savages. Such principled expedience can also be applied when we have to decide if we either want a shark or a dolphin soup (implying that dolphins are helpless and nice to humans, so there is no point to kill them and turn them into a meal ingredient) (Kluger, 2014). Regardless of the duality of this principled expedience, this seems to be the only way to deal with the ambiguity of our existence. Humans should not pretend that it is good or bad to be a vegetarian as there are upsides and downsides to that decision. Yet, one should realize that a vegetarian’s “truth” does not differ from the outlooks of carnivores or pescetarians simply because they chose their path and followed it successfully over the years. The thing is, exposing animals to cruelty and suffering is a bad thing, but “the truth” is a multi-faceted concept, and we should somehow put up with it. Nutritional Needs of a Child and an Italian Law The first reason why a vegan diet should not be imposed on children is that every parent should pay close attention to the needs of their toddlers. Especially, these needs should become a priority when it comes to nutrition (McCracken, 2016). Nowadays, there is so much information regarding this issue that it may be easy to get confused and make wrong decisions. Nonetheless, every parent should remember that the dietary habits of their children depend on their nutritional patterns during their early years. Therefore, it is critical to understand that a healthy affiliation with food should be developed from early chil
Introduction The twenty-first-century workforce requires students to be equipped with generic skills to meet the challenges of modern living in a globalized world. Evidence-based research continues to be drawn on to develop education curriculums. Recently, with the government’s goal of the No Child Left Behind Act, 2001 , brain-centered teaching practices are emphasized to enhance the learning experiences of students across ages (Beamon, 2004; Blank et al., 2007; Churchland, 2007; Grobstein, 2007; Martinez, 2004). The literature points to the importance of teacher understanding of brain development and its interaction with student learning. This is critically important to know for students who experience a learning disability, such as dyslexia. The following paper aims to present a critical review of current research into brain-centered teaching. It is anticipated that the review will find brain-centered teaching as effective for students in primary and secondary school. Review of the Literature In 1995 the Santa Fe Institute collected a series of essays into a book titled, The Mind, the Brain and Complex Adaptive Systems, which identified a mismatch between emerging research into learning theory and education best practices at the time (Zull, 2004). It appeared that research into the development of the intellect in children pointed to children below the age of three years as being heavily dependent on encouragement from socially significant others and external stimulation for the brain to develop optimally with basic social skills, such as being able to collaborate and to have a broad perspective of situations. Further, the collection of essays indicated that unless skills are stimulated at a very early age, trying to develop these skills later in life was shown to be increasingly difficult. Later research also supported the idea of elementary schools delivering learning materials to classes of 10-12 students to optimally engage the mind of young students (Newman & Dickonson, 2006). It was also becoming more apparent that teachers needed to develop learning programs that provided ongoing learning for themselves, as well as students. The understanding of content and process in ways in which a child would view the material would enable children to see for themselves how their minds work. Provided with the foundation for self-learning
The relationship between the presidential election and stock market is statistically significant. There is a positive correlation between the two. So the significance or the relationship between these two factors can be studied using a simple t-test or a correlation test. If the policies of the existing government change, it will affect the financial decisions of the public which will result in the fluctuation of the stock market. The future of the stock market can be also predicted by analyzing the relation between these two factors, since it always shows a cyclical predictable pattern. The theory that tires to explain the relationship between stock prices and Presidential elections is called the Theory of the Presidential Election Cycle. This theory was put forward by Yale Hirsh, which was developed based on the past observations that are being following in the election cycle. Business often prospers in a stage of steady government policies and in the situation of low taxes. During the election period the policy makes give increased importance for the maintenance of stable economic policies, so naturally the stock market prospers during that years. His theory gives an idea regarding the pattern of performance of the stock market in each of the four year of term of office of the president. It is also an indicator of the existing stock market timing policy. In the first year of the presidential office, the performance of the stock market is comparatively slow or weak. It is believed that the during the first years of the presidential term, more time is spend on trying to implement his election agenda and thereby putting the pressure of the economy down. Preceding the election, an 18 months period will be so crucial to the economy and also to the stock market. The stock prices will be low since there is a dilemma the economy regarding the person to be elected. The performance will be better in the second year of a presidency. But a bearish trend is shown more during this year compared to other years. The third year of the presidential term will show an increase in the stock market and shows a stronger performance compared to all other years. The fourth year also tends to be higher than the average trend. To explain the statistical relationship between the two in detail, first the relation between the prices and the human characteristics is explained. The human expectation usually will cause the price to fluctuate since there will be a shift in the supply and demand according to price variation. The stock prices are very sensitive and it fluctuates according to the human expectations. It is a natural process, leading to cyclical patterns between the stock price and the human behavior. The political parties will often try to influence the business cycle in order to succeed the elections. This is often coincided since the inflationary and the deflationary pressures usually follow in the course of fiscal and monetary policies. The political parties often control the economy through its physical and monetary policies. So any change or fluctuation in the fiscal and the monetary policies will affect both the timing and rigorou
The article by Vargas and Soriano is dedicated to an innovative solution in the educational field, namely the use of blockchain technology in Edublocs. In the introduction, scientists note the problems of the modern educational system that can be solved with the help of Edublocs (Vargas & Scott, 2019). The main feature of the blockchain is the impossibility of loss, damage, or forgery of an educational document. Since a block created once can no longer be changed, it cannot be deleted from the network (Fedorova & Skobleva, 2020). In this way, the reliability and integrity of the data are guaranteed, and the learning history can become completely transparent. This is followed by both a theoretical and a practical overview of the Edublocs platform. The first section of the main part presents the theoretical aspects of using the program, and the second demonstrates the interface of the platform (Vargas & Scott, 2019). The Edublocs blockchain platform will unite students, educational institutions, employers, and recruiters, as it will be developed taking into account their needs (Vargas & Scott, 2019). This will give the sphere not just a useful tool for interaction but will push it to significant changes and the emergence of new solutions. A separate section of the article is devoted to tutors: the authors note that the introduction of new technologies will require radical changes in educational institutions. These changes will primarily affect the transformation of management, management methods, financial management, and specific people (Ismail et al., 2019). Therefore, today it is necessary to prepare the teaching staff and staff for serious changes. In conclusion, scientists claim that the result of the introduction of blockchain technologies in education will be the automation of production processes and the provision of services. This means that those educational institutions that have switched to a modern developed digital infrastructure will be able to maintain economic stability. Using Edublocs will allow these educational institutions to remain competitive.
Sir Richard Branson, the chairman of Virgin Group, is an example in many areas. He is often cited as an exemplary entrepreneur, who achieved phenomenal results without any prior knowledge in the field or any kind of leverage. His success is attributed to a range of factors, from his entrepreneurial vision to his audacity to the controversial and borderline unethical business practices he is known to exhibit. Despite the controversy surrounding his figure, it is undeniable that Richard Branson is an exceptional personality, whose success can be at least partially ascribed to his outstanding leadership qualities and traits. The easiest way to start the analysis of Branson’s leadership qualities is from the trait he emphasizes most often: optimism. Virtually any interview or a book about him includes it in one form or another. First, Richard always emphasizes the belief in the business you’re dealing with (Branson 2014). While this is primarily an entrepreneurial trait, it benefits leadership in two ways: it inspires the people around you if you manifest it enough, and makes the role of a leader far less stressful and elaborate. At the same time, the ability to inspire the followers and make them believe in the idea you believe in is a key characteristic of the transformational leadership model, which centers around the idea of changing the surrounding people by imposing your inspiration and vision on them (Kwame 2012). The second manifestation of optimism is formulated by Branson: never give up. It is a well-known fact that the Virgin group is an enormously diverse entity, and with diversity naturally comes the need to wander into unknown territories. This leads to higher risks and, in some cases, failures. Virgin Cola is an example of the latter, which proved that no matter how good a leader maybe, he is not immune to serious mistakes. Virgin Megastores also exhibit troubling signs of failing. However, neither of these stopped Branson from exploring new fields. Even the most recent failed test of the Virgin Galactic space program did not stop Branson from moving forward. In this case, besides optimism, resilience is an important leadership trait that came into play, which not only guarantees the pursuit of the set goals but makes it easier for the team to deal with downfalls. Another quality that is important for any leader is the ability to reach out to followers by establishing effective communications. It matters little how good is an idea, vision, or a goal set by the CEO if he can not effectively transmit it to his subordinates. The communication capabilities also can be traced in two principles emphasized by Branson in his books. First, he states the importance of communicating on all levels of the company (Branson 2014). He rejects the existence of distance between levels of employees and believes that whenever such distance forms it should be eradicated. In this regard, he suggests organizing the workplace environment in such a way that it prompts and encourages communication between all company members. Second, Branson is known for actively building relationships. What’s more, he prefers doing it in person rather than relying
Pollution can generally be regarded as the state of making the environment to become unclean for the human habitation by the use of the impurities. The impurities which cause pollution are generally called as the pollutants. The pollutants can be categorized as being inorganic or organic in nature. At the same time pollution can be divided into many types depending at the site of effect. The types of pollution which are currently recognized by the global environmental bodies include the water pollution, air pollution, sound pollution and the soil pollution. Some of the causes of the pollution include the agricultural activities such as the use of the fertilizers, the spray of the insecticides and pesticides. But the major cause of pollution which has been regarded in this twenty first century is the industrial causes. Most of the countries which are regarded as being Industrialized and the other developing powers like India, Brazil and South Africa have the increased rate of pollution. Among the developed countries China tops in the pollution league as it has recorded seventy percent of the pollution rate in the major cities respectively.One of the major implicated cause of the environmental crisis is the industrial revolution which is taking place in the Chinese territory. Industrial revolution causes both the air pollution through the emission of poisonous gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and sulfuric acids respectively. At the same time the industrial revolution has been implicated in the water pollution by depositing the industrial effluents to the major rivers respectively. Moreover the industrial revolution can cause the soil pollution by leaving the persistent pollutants in the soils. This paper will try to analyze the looming environmental crisis in the Republic of China which is caused by the industrial revolution during this twenty first century. At the same time this paper will analyze the significance of the Shen-yang and the Three Gorges Dam to the China’s economic geography. China may be regarded as the leading country in the world with a lot of water pollution percentage. This has been attributed as a result of the booming industrial economy. The industrialization has consequently led to the industrial wastes discharge to the major rivers of the country which are mostly located near to rivers respectively. Some times e toxic organic materials have been discharged into rivers and this has increased the various toxicity of the drinking water thus making the water in china to be declared as being unsafe by the health department of china. According to the established statistics about three hundred million people in china lacks the sufficient drinking water (WHO,45-49).The industrial accidents which has increased in the recent times has also contributed to the increase in the rate of water
The beginning of the 20th century has given rise to a great number of various concerns. The combination of different unique factors resulted in the triggering of processes which had an outstanding impact on the further evolution of society. This period of time could be characterized by numerous shifts in the social life and mentality of people. Understanding the central tendencies of the epoch, representatives of all layers of society initiated the struggle for their rights, aiming at the improvement of their status and well-being. However, the workers desire to protect their rights and attain the reconsideration of the pattern according to which they had to work was one of the major concerns of that period. The class of workers became the main force of the industrialized society and it was able to introduce significant changes to the structure of the world and its hierarchy. A number of scientists and authors have sought to determine the role of this very social class and the individual in the change process. It resulted in the appearance of a great number works. David Franks J.B. McLachlan. A Biography belongs to this very sort of books as it provides the precise description of the life and activity of one of the central figures of Canadian workers movement for their rights. The conditions under which Canadian miners had to perform their job were complicated. The owners of the mines were not interested in the improvement of the working environment as there was no lack of the working force. A miner had to work at least 12 hours a day and the reward was miserable (Frank, 1999). The fatal causality was quite common and a worker was not sure whether he would return home. The scale of the problem was very significant as even child labour was used by masters and their rights were not respected. The problem was also complicated by the fact that the government did not provide support to workers, protecting the interests of prosperous owners who paid taxes and guaranteed the stable income. Describing the given period of time, various authors traditionally give a great deal of attention to several important concerns, such as the struggle for eight-hour day, improvement of the working conditions and the role which individuals like J.B. McLachlan played in the process of change. David Frank in his book focuses on the precise analysis of that epoch and events which are almost forgotten by Canadians and workers. The author presents a reader with a social history of the Industrial Cape Breton, province of Nova Scotia, and the Scottish immigrant McLachlan. The given highly industrialized region was characterized by a great number of confrontations between miners, who comprised the majority of the population in the area, and rich owners, who did not want to improve the working conditions. David Frank tends to show the complex of reasons which triggers these processes and provides the detailed description of the McLachlans background, tracing essential steps in the life of the central character of the book. Such a deep investigation allows a reader to obtain the clear image of the main fact
The poem “Lines Written in Early Spring”, written by William Wordsworth, appeared for the first time in ‘Lyrical Ballads’. This was a co-operative attempt by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798, which is the clear expression of Romanticism in English Literature. When one tries to understand this poem, it can be seen that this poem is a lamentation of a naturalist who is worried of lose natural beauty. The theme of this poem is so close to the Romantic way of longing after the wonderful nature. Shelach J. Squire points out that, when one tries to analyze Romanticism in English literature, especially in the poems of Wordsworth, it can be seen that the transformation of actual landscape to a literary landscape can change the attitude of human beings towards nature. “An analysis of English romanticism, Wordsworth’s poetry in particular, illustrates how the transformation of an actual landscape into a literary landscape helped change attitudes toward wilderness and natural beauty.” (Squire, p.237-247). Annotated Bibliography To the poet, nature is the best company and he loves to sit lonely in the lap of nature. When the poem begins, th
Asthma is a disease of the airways and its inflammation is chronic. It affects the airways in the lungs. These airways produce a wheezing sound due to the narrowing nature of the affected airways. There is also breathlessness in the affected patients that makes them seem suffocated and sometimes coughing. This lack of airflow either stops or can respond to a certain range of treatment. If it continues, the patient becomes very much responsive to stimuli such as exercises, cold, stress, pollutants, and others (Neil, 2009, par. 1-5). Pediatric asthma is also referred to as asthma in children. Occupational therapy treatment is a profession in the health career whose main aim is to assist people to be less dependent on others and, have satisfaction in their day-to-day activities. They do use their know-how to assist people to engage in things that are meaningful and valuable. They also bring back independence in an individual who has any kind of disability or illness. They advise the caregivers of the victims and make them assist and promote the person’s level to be involved in certain daily activities. They also address the person’s performance level, activity, or environment where the performance is taking place. (The Nemours Foundation, 1995, par. 2-5) Asthma in pediatrics is very serious as they have narrower airways than in adults therefore they encounter many difficulties. A problem that may seem minor in adults may be worse in children. Asthma as it appears it causes various complications. The various problems caused by asthma include persistent cough, inability to exercise, nighttime symptoms that leads to lack of sleep, failure to attend school, hospital stays, troubled breathing, changes in the functions of the lungs, use of many funds for treatment, and death. As a result, it is very serious in pediatrics. It can be classified in several ways especially in pediatrics. Mild Intermittent In this, the signs and symptoms are not more than two days a week and the peak flows are more than 80% of a pediatric personal best and, a minimal variability in daily flows. This shows it is not a very serious problem. At this level, proper attention may not make the life of the affected child difficult. Mild Persistent Symptoms are there for more than two days or twice at nighttime. The flow peak is more than 80% of the child’s personal best, and less than 30% variability in the day-to-day flow of the peak measurements. At this stage, there are persistent difficulties especially in breathing, and can interfere with the child’s growth and activities. Moderate Persistent The symptoms appear daily or more than a week at night. Peak flows are not more than 60% of the pediatric personal best or less than 30%variability in measurements of peak flow. It is more complicated more than the above stages since improper observations may lead to advancement to the other g