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Introduction Human trafficking is a critical and pressing issue in North Carolina and the United States. In 2019, North Carolina became one of the ten states with the highest ranks in human trafficking (Winters, 2020). In 87% of cases, victims get in contact with organizations providing medical services, particularly emergency nursing (Donahue et al., 2019). Besides, trafficking in children is alarming, which requires the involvement of pediatric nurses. Therefore, the role of nurses in recognizing and reporting victims of trafficking is vital. Importance of Nursing Education Knowing the key signs that a person has become a victim of human trafficking and correct intervention in the situation can save lives and change the fate of many people. Public hospital councils for nursing should mandate nurses to complete an additional 10 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to recognize and report trafficked persons, adding this topic to the mandatory list of subjects. Such organizational measures will lead to a sharp change in the negative tendencies that occur due to the ignorance of the problem when victims contact social institutions. Besides, such measures will help increase crime detection and reduce human trafficking in the future. Education is recommended for emergency nurses and nurses working in pediatric offices in public hospitals throughout the state. At the same time, nurses from other departments must also receive appropriate training. Practical cooperation between departments and disseminating educational information among the population through posters will help overcome this issue. Relevance of the Problem Human trafficking is a humanitarian problem; therefore, medical workers will have a chance to cope with it. Practicing nurses are among the few officials who have the opportunity to contact victims of human trafficking freely. Since victims are usually in contact with emergency nurses, these health workers should take responsibility for identifying and reporting victims of trafficking. It is also important to provide victims with all the necessary medical care, prioritize hospitalization, and ensure their safety by limiting visits. Hospitalization is one of the few circumstances in which the lives of victims of human trafficking intersect with society. According to the study, 87% of human trafficking survivors reported that they visited emergency departments for treatment while in captivity (Donahue et al., 2019). Therefore, there is a need to educate nurses in understanding human trafficking victims’ problems and learning the signs or ‘red flags’ of human trafficking. Scientists note that in this case, health workers will have a better opportunity to recognize and intervene in the lives of trafficked individuals (Donahue et al., 2019). To this end, an onlin
The internet has revolutionized many business practices. Many entertainment companies are currently using the internet to fulfill the needs of their consumers. Netflix uses an internet-based model to market and sell its movies. Many companies such as Redbox are also using different online strategies to market their movies. Amazon is also a leading marketer of movies in many parts of the world (Wittekind, 2012). This research paper identifies how Amazon and Netflix compete with each other to deliver movies to their customers. Various movie companies such as Home Box Office (HBO) own Amazon’s hardware. This cable television network is a subsidiary of Time Warner. Amazon also shows movies from Epix TV channel. The practice has made Amazon a leading competitor in this sector. Netflix avails its on-demand movies to its customers in American, Europe, and the Caribbean. Starz Entertainment owns most of this hardware content. In 2011, “Netflix announced its partnership with Lions Gate Entertainment and Paramount Pictures” (Lusted, 2012, p. 47). The company also distributes various TV programs from Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, Disney, and Sony Pictures. Every company marketing its products via the internet should pay for bandwidth. Netflix uses AmazonWebServices to avail its movies to every user. Netflix pays for bandwidth in order to achieve its goals. Netflix’s prices for its movies are reducing because of the falling bandwidth. Netflix pays “around $200 million annually as bandwidth fee” (Lusted, 2012, p. 68). Amazon also uses similar approaches to pay for bandwidth. Customers can either purchase or rent a movie from these two companies. Netflix
Abstract This analysis summarizes and illustrates standpoint epistemology as well as addresses the possible shortcoming of the theory putting it in the context of relativism, essentialism, post-modernist, and modernist assumptions. The analysis starts with an overview of the evolutions process of standpoint epistemology; then, the philosophical movement is defined and the major ideas and arguments embedded into the theory are discussed. The analysis continues to address the issues raised by relativism and essentialism as well as critical ideas added to standpoint epistemology by modernism and post-modernism. The final part discusses the recent trends in standpoint epistemology in terms feminist movement. Introduction The concept of feminist epistemology began to form during the times of the second-wave theorists and yet it did not refer to a recognizable body of work. Instead, it was a broad concept that covered problems related to the account of knowledge that mainly concentrated on the perspective – whether feminist perspectives on epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, metaphysics existed. Studies that explicitly concentrated on the issues posed began to appear in the 1980s including Rose, Jagger, studies by Harding and Hintikka (Camic & Cross, 1998). Feminist epistemology became a recognizable term that referred to a distinct field of study in the 1990s. Yet, feminist epistemology gained name recognition and constituted a substantive and established body of work only in the late 1990s (Camic & Cross, 1998). This analysis provides an overview of the feminist standpoint theory. Firstly, the standpoint theory is introduced and defined. The focus is then shifted to how the theory developed. The key ideas of standpoint epistemology are then examined including the notion of situated knowledge and claims to truth that is based on women’s oppression and their life experiences. Standpoint theory is then placed within the context of its’ critics and accusations of relativism and essentialism specifically. Finally, modernist and post-modernist assumptions about standpoint theory are addressed. Standpoint Epistemology: Definition It is better to understand the concept of standpoint epistemology within the multiple dimensions of feminism. The body of work on feminism is broadly categorized into three major groups: empiricist, feminist standpoint, and postmodern (Campbell, 2004). Under the empiricist perspective, the possibility of objective knowledge and empirical scientific work is accepted. Going even further, the possibility for feminists to join scientific enterprises and continuously reform science and organization of knowledge from within is confirmed. In contrast, the postmodern feminist perspective resists empiricist formulations, whereas scientific exploration continues in the field initially started by French theorists such as Foucault and Derrida and recently by Anglo-American social constructionists. Feminist standpoint is the most radical of
Introduction Whether we like it or not, we live in a digital world that runs literally on electricity. In our homes, schools, and workplaces, electricity is a crucial source of energy to make some of our tools work to help us with our current digital lifestyle. From our cars, laptops, hearing aids, calculators, and cellular phones, all these things require that portable electricity that flows from batteries. When there are power interruptions, batteries are used to rev up commuter trains, hospital facilities, and military operations. In fact, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (20 December 2007) reported that “Americans use nearly 3 billion dry-cell batteries every year to power radios, toys, cellular phones, watches, laptop computers, and portable power tools”. Thus, the usefulness of batteries in our current lifestyle is undeniably clear. However, what is critical is how we get rid of these batteries when they are no longer useful. These batteries contain harmful chemicals that, when improperly disposed of, could deleteriously affect our environment. These batteries can contain poisonous cadmium, lead, and sulfuric acid that can seep into our landfills and be released into the ocean, where they can kill sea creatures. When sea creatures have an intake of these substances, humans and other animals that consume seafood are also at risk. In this paper, we will delve into why the improper disposal of batteries can be harmful to our environment. This report will ponder on the various harmful chemicals that are used in manufacturing batteries and how they can have an enormous environmental impact. The first point is about the environmental impacts of the non-recycled used batteries and how these impacts affect people in their daily life. The second point is how effective battery recycling would reduce those impacts that are caused by used batteries. Lastly, recommendations will be made in order to convince people of the necessity of recycling batteries with lesser environmental repercussions. Batteries From Within The Encyclopædia Britannica Online (7 April 2008) characterized batteries as “devices that convert chemical energy directly into electrical energy.” Batteries can be of two general types: the primary battery and the secondary battery. The primary battery delivers current as of the result of a chemical reaction that is not efficiently reversible. Practically, this makes the primary battery non-rechargeable. Only one intermittent or continuous discharge can be obtained before the chemicals placed in it during manufacture are consumed. Then the discharged primary battery must be replaced. On the other hand, the secondary or storage battery is rechargeable because it delivers current as of the result of a chemical reaction that is easily reversible. When a charging current flows through its terminals in the direction opposite to the current flow during discharge, the active materials in the secondary battery return to approximately their original charged condition. According to Tchobanoglous (2002), there a
Introduction Written and edited by Abdullah Al Shaiba, an editor with the Gulf News, “Implementing strategies takes time” article aims to convince the Ministry of Education to be patient and give its latest proposal a chance, because it will take time before the stipulated outcomes will be realized. The article was first published online on June 19, 2010. A complete reference for the article is available in the reference section of this critique. The United Arabs Emirates (UAE) recognizes education as a means to achieve development and affluence. The Gulf News reports four different education strategies launched within a span of eight years. This article was inspired by the impatience shown by the Ministry of Education on many educational strategies implemented to address challenges faced by the education system. These strategies target the students. However, it should be noted that students are not the only stakeholders in any educational system; other stakeholders include the government, parents, and private organizations. Therefore, for any single strategy to succeed, it should be holistic and comprehensive. Summary The article’s theme is true because implementing strategies usually involves more than one stakeholder. In addition, it requires investment of large amounts of capital, which cannot be raised overnight. Therefore, the reader will expect this article to examine the efforts the Ministry of Education makes to achieve its objective. What role will each stakeholder play in the implementation? What resources does each stakeholder need to implement the strategy? The author believes that ‘Education Strategy 2020’, which was launched in 2002, has more or less all the qualities necessary to accomplish the major objectives of the UAE. The strategy touches on major important aspects of education system. Again, the author commends the delegation of power by the ministry through the formation of educational zones. However, a new strategy that requires a complete overhaul of the previous one was introduced three years after the 2002 project. In deed, a new strategy always comes with a new minister of education; subsequently, the new minster of education introduced a third strategy. Each of these strategies comes with fresh policies, which do not relate with the previous. Similarly, the current minister launched a new strategy for 2010-2020. The author points out that the instability in education system adversely affects the student. Schools are divided into three categories viz. traditional, future, and model schools. Nevertheless, Schneider argues that country-specific education divisions can be reliably transformed into the ISCED categories (2008, p.5). The schools are managed under different educational system and therefore, the author believes that a big difference exists across the students because of the unprecedented fluctuation of the education system. Critique The author of this article has not clearly supported the title of the article. He fails to show how implementation of education strategy takes time. Instead, the author simply chooses to criticize how the Mini
Faulkner and Material Culture is a book written by Joseph Urgo and Ann Abadie and consists of a series of essays written by different authors. The essays give a deeper meaning between the things that Faulkner borrowed from the real world and merged with the things that he espoused in his way of life. The book starts with an introduction by one of the authors, Joseph Urgo, talking about what he thinks of the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. He continues to highlight the events that Faulkner has been to; for instance, in August 1931, he started working on light in August, which was under the title “Dark House”. Then in the month of November, he went to New York where he became the talk of the city especially after having written, “As I lay Dying”, “Sanctuary”, as well as “The Sound and the Fury”. Urgo also states the definition of material culture that ranges from objects created all the way to invisible features producing landscape expressions together with distinctive odors. There is also a note about the J
The case is an illustration of two ways of taking orders by a hardware; type 1 and type 2. The following is a summary of how these ways of taking orders operate. Type 1 An order contains one or more products. The online line system identifies product through a unique key. The operator can see the available stock on hand that can be used to satisfy the order. If there is insufficient stock the operator has the opportunity to back order the goods if requested by the store. The operator can also see the expected delivery date for new stock which comes from hardware manufacturing companies. Type 2 The remote device ordering system is accepted via another system which stores the individual store orders. Every hour the online system interrogates the subsidiary system and transfers complete orders then the online system validates the details on the order. Products are validated for a correct unique key and a decision on back ordering is made depending on the customer preference to have goods out of stock back ordered. New improvements It is a matter of fact that the warehouse needs to make new improvements to make it perform its function properly. The choices are few considering that the company does not have resources to finance expensive new warehouse system. In addition, the company is consumer centric and has no plan to expand the warehouse physical space. These are the main issues which should be considered while making the new improvements. Any new improvements made should improve the quality of service the customer receives. The store people need to differentiate between frequently ordered goods from those that are not regularly ordered. The warehouse could then ensure that the limited space at the warehouse is used majorly to store the frequently ordered goods. This would ensure that the consumer never fails to find such goods in the store. Goods which are not frequently ordered could be kept in manageable amounts so that whenever a customer makes large orders the ware house officials can negotiate for a back date. In addition, the company could make arrangements with suppliers so that in case of urgent orders, the supplier should be willing to give the warehouse some special treatment like sending goods directly to consumer and then getting the real amount of the goods from the warehouse later after the goods are send to the consumer. This would demand a lot of trust between the ware house and the supplier accompanied with some documentation. This method is effective for both type 1 and 2 ordering methods and
Edgar Alan Poe’s short story The Masque of Red Death is a unique piece, allowing the reader to experience Gothic fiction and analyze death’s inevitability through the author’s allegoric instruments. The central topic of the plague sets a specific mood to the story, helping a reader better understand the content and writing setting. The spirit is reflected through the writer’s tone, which directly represents their subjective perspectives. The tone of The Masque of Red Death starts to translate from a story’s title, anticipated to be dark and grievous. Indeed, the opening lines indulge a dreadful mood, followed by a permanent feeling of intimidation: The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal-the redness and the horror of blood” (Poe 1). The narration sets a mysterious tone, with Poe’s vivid imagery easily controlling the reader’s attention through suspense. One of the most mysterious symbolist elements in the story describes the seven coloured rooms. Each reader may elaborate on their perception of the colors; however, a common point of view is the representation of seven life stages, starting from birth to death. For instance, black and blood-red rooms exemplify death and life intensity. However, with no Poe’s elaboration on the symbolism, each reader is left to reckoning on the individual meaning, which induces mystical and somewhat anxious tones. The Red Death is one of Poe’s primary symbolist elements, which unmistakably is a representation of death. The author’s detailed portrayal of death attracts and simultaneously intimidates the reader, setting a frightful and ominous mood of the overall story: “And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night” (Poe 4). The Red Death image haunts the reader through the short story, constantly leaving a haunting feeling of inevitable death. The tone of the story is an essential tool for each writer for setting the correct atmosphere for readers, which Edgar Alan Poe masterly did in The Masque of Red Death. Throughout the story, the mysterious and dreadful symbolism retains the reader’s attention, constantly anticipating the next plot twist. The overall dark and menacing tone of the piece manifests itself, especially in the ending, where everyone dies. Thus, the mood is easily identified, expressing a frustrating deadly mood. Works Cited Poe, Edgar Alan. The Masque of the Red Death . 1850. ASU Public Library . Web.
The revenues of Levon Corporation became to decrease, and the company’s employees proposed to focus more on the project management approach in order to support the business. In spite of the fact that Levon Corporation had the “project-driven portion of the business” (Kerzner, 2013, p. 502), the executives refused to agree regarding the necessity of the project management implementation in the company. Thus, the executives also did not support the necessity to sustain the business portion that began to erode and promote the project management approach for all parts of Levon Corporation. The main reason to explain the executives’ position regarding the discussion of the employees’ focus on project management is based on the idea of the executives’ fear associated with the project management principles. Thus, the project management approach can make sales and marketing personnel and certain executives more powerful, and “a shift in the balance of power in the company” can lead to significant changes in the general executives’ roles. Still, the executives chose to listen to a consultant because he had no interest in discussing the shift of powers and he could clearly “identify the responsibilities of senior management” in addition to identifying the gap between the company’s performance and industry’s trends (Kerzner, 2013, p. 502). As a result, the consultant could say whether the implementation of the project management was necessary for the company’s growth and how it could contribute to the company’s progress. However, the consultant’s presentation made the executives remain apprehensive because the consultant started with demonstrating the negative changes in the company’s revenues. Furthermore, the consultant ended the presentation with saying that Levon Corporation could not overcome the gap between the business progress and industry leader’s growth even with the focus on the project management approach (Kerzner, 2013, p. 502). Instead of demonstrating the industry gap and accentuating problems associated with overcoming it for Levon Corporation, the consultant should concentrate on following three strategies to persuade the executives to support the project management recommendations:  1. While developing a presentation for the executives, it is necessary to demonstrate the graphs that present data on how project management approaches can contribute to reducing costs and increasing revenues in short and long perspectives (Harrison, 2004, p. 54).  2. It is important to present a chart demonstrating how the focus on the project management can change functional responsibilities. However, this approach does not affect the power of the executives (Park, Chinta, & Lee, 2010, p. 83).  3. The next approach is the focus on the effectiveness of project management to plan the future growth in the industry (Lock, 2007, p. 112). Project management works with the help of the properly deve