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The Most Appealing Ideas In his book entitled Rachel and Her Children , Jonathan Kozol focused on the problem of homelessness that is one of the persisting current challenges in the United States. In particular, the author provided some statistical data about the rates of homelessness in the country, the number of people living in the streets, and their demographics. Alongside these facts, Kozol presented multiple personal stories of homeless families and individuals told from the first person. The author’s idea to interview homeless individuals and listen to what they have to say is outstanding. Having spoken to these people and written down their stories for everyone to read, the author provided one of the most vulnerable populations in the United States with a voice. Homeless people who are usually viewed as faceless and invisible groups have names and backgrounds in Kozol’s book. In that way, the author managed to present a problem that has been there for decades from a new angle. He spoke with the people who never get to tell anyone how they feel and what they have been through. The author’s decision to explore the lives and issues of homeless people is truly remarkable from the humanitarian and social perspectives. With his book, Kozol might have inspired many researchers to focus on this problem and study it in order to find solutions for the problem of homelessness. As it can be seen from the book, individual people and families can be driven to live in the streets due to various reasons. Not all of the causes of homelessness can be prevented. However, it is possible that the author’s idea to publish the stories of homeless people could at least help address the challenges they face while doing their best to survive in the streets. The Implications of the Ideas in the Book for Me as an Educator First of all, discussing the implications of the author’s ideas for me as an educator, it is important to note that according to the statistical data presented by Kozol, children represent about a half of the homeless population. This data stands for a very large number of children living beyond the poverty threshold, in the streets, in horrible conditions, and without any opportunities for education. In fact, the author noticed that the discussion of the growth of the homeless population frequently intertwines with the discussions of the rates of illiteracy in the United States. Moreover, as it can be seen from the stories presented in the book, many homeless families tend to break apart due to the parents’ inability to support their children. As a result, children are taken away from such families to be put in foster care or placed for adoption. In that way, the problem of homelessness in the country gives rise to another issue – the increasing numbers of children growing up without parents. As an educator, I am well aware of the importance of a thorough care and a loving environment for a child throughout their early years and teen age. In that way, reading this book, I could see what the problem of homelessness represents for the new
Introduction In this paper, I investigate how an individual should develop and exhibit satisfactory employability traits to probable employers by outlining relevant competencies, personal audits, and learning outcomes. I have also enumerated my reflections and future development plans in regards to the skills and employer requirements that I lack. For demonstration purposes, I have delved into the internal auditor job requirements specified by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), whose capacity, herewith, serves as the potential employer. Body Identifying Competencies PwC has implemented a gratifying graduate recruitment project, which solicits for the best and brightest alumni ( Improve 2015, para. 4). The firm recruits persons enthusiastic about relationship building and value creation to equip them with exemplary development skills. The graduate program functions to ensure that the graduates nurture admissible expertise required in administering proficient services at the workplace ( Risk assurance 2012, para. 2). Regarding the Internal auditor (2015), outlined below are the varied skills and qualifications necessary for the commissioning of an internal auditor into PwC. Competencies and Abilities  1. Regulations. One should have an exhaustive awareness of the relevant statutes, safety rules, and business proceedings as appropriate.  2. Accounting Standards. The candidate should thoroughly acquiesce and accede to the statutory auditing concepts and standards, especially the Generally Accounting Accepted Principles (GAAP). Equally crucial is the adherence to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in combination with the FERC accounting guidelines ( Risk assurance 2012, para. 7).  3. Legal Requirements. The candidate must also have an in-depth recognition of the legislations incorporated in the accounting revenues, financing, and budgeting networks applicable in utility settings.  4. Computer Proficiency. The applicant should know how to pilot personal computers as well as the pertinent accounting software.  5. Cooperation. The creation of teamwork and concordance with the management are mandatory in the balancing of financial records and assimilation of enhanced systems.  6. Audit Procedures. The intelligence to execute audit procedures, prescribe amendments, verify accounting transactions, and implement special assignments is fundamental.  7. Good Judgment. Exceptional reasoning and intuition are paramount in establishing when adjustments are necessary for the current structures.  8. Reports Preparation. Equally imperative is the adroitness of formulating financial statements in conjunction with revealing haphazard accounting procedures.  9. Adept Communication. The applicant must also know how to disseminate all findings and recommendations in a coherent, effective, and transparent manner. 10.
Humanities are disciplines in the academic fields and are concerned with the human state. This study is achieved through critical and speculative analysis. Humanities include law, ancient and modern languages, literature, religion, philosophy, history, visual and performing arts. Some of the other subjects that are also categorized as humanities include anthropology, technology, communication studies, area studies, linguistics, and cultural studies. However, these additional subjects are at times referred to as social sciences. Ancient Greece formed the basis for the study of humanities in the West. However, the evolvement of the seven liberal arts took place during Roman times. The seven liberal arts include grammar, logic, rhetoric, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music. The seven subjects constituted a large part of medieval education and they placed a lot of emphasis on humanities as a “way of doing”, or skills. Classic humanities are concerned with the study of Western academic tradition. This is especially the case concerning such cultures as the classical antiquity that includes the Roman and Ancient Greek cultures. Today, classical studies are regarded as the foundation of the humanities, although the subject was very unpopular in the 20 th century. History entails the interpretation and study of the record of societies, humans, and institutions. Knowledge history is made up of not just historical thinking skills, but also a sound understanding of past events as well. On the other hand, the study of classical and modern languages acts as the cornerstone for the study of modern-day humanities. Although linguistics, that is, the scientific study of languages has been defined as social science, nonetheless, it still plays a pivotal role in the field of humanities. About the law, its study borders on the humanities and the social sciences as well, based on an individual’s research perspective on its effects and objectives. Humanism is about the perception that humans can still live a good life without religious or superstitious beliefs. Scholars who are involved in the study of the humanities are at times referred to as “humanists”. On the other hand, the term also finds use in the description of humanism’s philosophical position. However, this position has since been faced with a lot of resistance fro
Introduction: Status of Women in Haiti In the majority of developing countries, traditional gender roles are still in place. Men are considered to have the upper hand in all aspects of life, whereas women are expected to confine themselves to unpaid household tasks and some other acceptable activities, such as farming and selling goods on the market. It is uncommon for women in developing countries to earn enough money to be independent, as the gender role, which is prescribed to them, “restricts women’s ability to take advantage of employment, education and/or training opportunities even when they are technically available” (Padget and Warnecke 7). Haiti is no different. Padget and Warnecke claim that “in Haiti, women have long been considered second-class citizens” (7). Nowadays, however, “Haiti’s Constitution protects women from workplace discrimination as well as physical and sexual abuse, and guarantees the right to political participation” (USAID). Nevertheless, the first anti-rape law was not enacted 2005, and even now that the rights of women are protected by the Constitution, the government has no effective means of controlling domestic violence and sexual harassment (USAID). In a patriarchal society, such as Haiti, women’s reproductive rights are not respected, which leads to various health problems, including maternal mortality, and in order to solve these issues, significant changes have to be made both to the society and to the country’s health care system. Statistics and Causes of Maternal Mortality in Haiti Haiti’s statistics of maternal mortality are, indeed, horrifying: “the lifetime risk of dying from complications of childbirth for a Haitian woman is 1 in 83” (Séraphin et al. 1401). Most of the reasons for such a high rate of maternal mortality in Haiti are similar to those in other developing countries. For instance, access to health care for pregnant women is limited: Huber states, “the country has 2·7 million women of childbearing age and only 600 obstetricians” (641). Furthermore, since abortion is illegal in Haiti, and contraception is not available to the majority of the population, unsafe abortion, performed in anti-sanitary conditions by untrained assistants, accounts for 40 percent of maternal deaths (Huber 642). Other reasons include poverty, malnutrition, and lack of qualified assistance during childbirth; it is reported that, as of 2010, “Just over 50 % of pregnant women complete the recommended four antenatal care visits and only 25 % of pregnant women deliver at a health facility” (Séraphin et al. 1401). Addressing High Maternal Mortality in Haiti The issue of high maternal mortalit
The melancholic and resentful tone in My Papa’s Waltz is a striking message of the author to his own father. The poem is very moving and arouses a feeling of sympathy towards a little boy particularly because of the tone he uses. This is not a mere retelling of his childhood; rather it is a message to his dead – not a perfect parent. So, the author uses a very sound metaphor saying that the waltz was like being beaten up. The scene unveils a drunk dad waltzing around the kitchen with a little son, knocking over the pans. The waltz itself was not a pleasure to a boy as his father’s whiskey breath ‘… could make a small boy dizzy’ (Roethke 198). Although many think that author uses waltz as a graceful and beautiful dance, it is used here to highlight the irony and outline the author’s painful look back at his childhood. Moreover, the second person is used ‘your breath’ (Roethke 198) which means Theodore Roethke is addressing his dad as if trying to reproach the parent with the attitude to a little son. Furthermore, a father seems to be abusive to his child because a kid could not get away from the waltzing but was still having his ‘ear scraped a buckle’ (Roethke 198). The lines ‘But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.’ (Roethke 198) describe a possibility that a boy could actually be beaten up by the father or he was beaten up but still seeking love from his dad. This makes the situation even more pathetic. The look of the mother ensures the father’s incorrect and abusive actions. It is rarely observed that a father can play so roughly with the son. The words that the author used are death, beat, and scraped – all of these are negative connotations. Another poem called The Old Falling Down is also about a childhood of a lady – the author is Ursula K. Le Guin. The poem seems to have a sad ending saying: ‘when I get there to my high room, find no bed, no chair, bare floor’ (Le Guin 56). The author is trying to get back in time. Also, it can be interpreted as if she is dreaming. She sees an old falling down house that happens to be a symbol of her vanishing memories of childhood. She recalls the days when she used to be young and have her room furnished. Today, when she goes downstairs to an old, decrepit house, she closes her eyes and sees the way the house used to look. The hard attempts to get upstairs to her high room and ‘there are no stairs’ signal about the childhood to be impossible to reach (Le Guin 56). She will never ever return to that time and ‘I climb hand over clambering’ is showcasing how hard it is for her to accept the impossibility to return (Le Guin 56). Such climbing may mean the distance in time between the current years and the years of childhood, or the obstacle her psyche was putting up because the author had problems or was abused when she was little. However, she makes it and climbs up to her high room where she sees
Introduction MDD is a cluster of syndromes that comprises a mental disorder, which is marked by declined moods, followed by a decline in self-esteem and not being interested in pleasurable tasks. Its features involve a clinical course, marked by major depressive periods. These take like a fortnight, marked by low moods and displeasure. The condition is also referred to as major depression, unipolar depression and clinical depression. The disorder is disabling and comprises an individual’s lifestyle and family, loss of appetite and sleep distractions, which compromises one’s health (Greden, 2001). The patients of this medical condition end up committing suicide. The reason as to why I chose the topic is because it affects my life and many people around me in school and at home. Having the condition has affected my lifestyle, school work, social life and has compromised my career since I lose pleasure in all activities. I even devalue life as I find my self contemplating on suicide during the phases of depression. MDD affects people differently with different symptoms such as weight loss, pessimism, feeling guilty, loss of concentration, insomnia or hypersomnia, sleeping disorders, fatigue, hopelessness, irritability, loss of self-worth, disinterest in life and in severe cases, delusions and hallucinations may result. The disorder affects more of females as compared to males (Deb & Bhattacharjee, 2009). The occurrence of the disorder may be linked to other medical close to 20.0 % to 25.0% of patients with conditions related to cancer, prolonged pain, diabetes, stroke, hypothyroidism, medications e.g. sedatives as well as myocardial infarction, which worsens these conditions (Deb & Bhattacharjee, 2009). Health conditions that accompany MDD include drug abuse, panic, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anorexia nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and borderline personality disorder (Deb & Bhattacharjee, 2009). Literature Studies According to one study dubbed the ‘ epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder’ aimed at determining the prevalence of MDD. The study design used face to face research in 48 homes in the U.S by interviewing individuals over eighteen years. From the study, the MDD prevalence for a lifetime was 16.2% and that over one year was 6.6% and stated to be “10.4% mild, 38.6% moderate, 38.0% severe, and 12.9% very severe” (Kessler et al, 2003). Role impairment showed 59.3% over a year where 51.6% of the cases sought medical attention and were being treated for MDD. Treatment proved enough for 41.9% of the cases, adding up to 21.7% MDD treatment annually. The study concludes that MDD was a common condition with its distribution being extensive in the population. It is linked to severe symptoms and role impairment. There has been a rise in treating MDD, which offers hope for its management although lack of enough treatment is still a critical issue. The study maintains that “Emphasis on screening and expansion of treatment needs to be accompanied by a parallel emphasis on treatment quality improvement” (Kessler et al, 2003) Another study regarding MDD on 3,258 adults is presented.
Ashby’s Ideas in Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture Productive work on creating an entrepreneurial culture is an essential condition for modern business because conducting appropriate communication in a team and a competent allocation of resources can become the foundation for the development of virtually any enterprise or company. Ashby in his speech notes the importance of such work and claims that “healthy cultures are created through open negotiation” (Creating an entrepreneurial culture 2013). According to him, it is essential to make a decision together and not to disregard the opinion of all team members (Creating an entrepreneurial culture 2013). Another thing that should be observed by successful entrepreneurs is that it is necessary to renew and refresh personal culture regularly. Working with colleagues and subordinates is a significantly important aspect of the work of any company, and determining the most optimal strategies for teamwork is one of the conditions for trust and reliable and fruitful cooperation. If members of a particular group oppose specific decisions, it can be a rather severe cause for the disruption of the work process. It was yet another fundamental Ashby’s statement. Organizational Culture According to Yildiz (2014, p. 43), for corporate entrepreneurship activities, organizational culture is an integral and essential component. The author notes that national culture is one of the aspects determining the type of behavior in the team and, as a consequence, the activity of the management of a particular company. Yildiz (2014, p. 40) remarks that the leadership of a specific enterprise should take into account the impact of organizational culture and assess the prospects for the development of the company, based on this knowledge. This author’s argument is probably one of the most essential and principal ideas of his work that aims at studying the impact of specific entrepreneurial activities on modern business. Culture of Originality The basis of Grant’s article is the idea of how to increase the chances of an organization to achieve a unique and successful strategy of work (2016, p. 89). According to the author, the advantage of the team is that working together to develop new ideas can be a significantly productive method of creating new perspectives and goals, which, in its turn, increases the range of opportunities for a specific company (Grant 2016, p. 90). Creative approach to work organization is one of the essential conditions for successful activity regarding competition and struggle for leadership. When taking into account this judgment, it can be noted that the organization of a particular enterprise strategy directly depends on the participation of employees in work, and the views and opinions of each member are quite crucial in the process of making joint decisions. Thus, the critical conclusion of all the three works is that in the process of introducing new business strategies it is essential to take into account the characteristics o
Introduction Imperatively, issues surrounding 3D printing in cardiology, and medicine in general, have elicited concerns and attracted the attention of scholars and other researchers. As such, many articles on the 3D printed heart and the 3D printing technology are available (Branch, 2015; Kawaguchi, Hatta, & Nakanishi, 2013; Potkonjak & Hartman, 2015). Materials Used in 3D printing Numerous literature resources on materials used in 3D printing technology, especially organ printing have been published. Many articles focus on the types and the suitability of materials (Li, Chen, Fan, & Zhou, 2016; Schmauss, Haeberle, Hagl, & Sodian, 2015; Lee & Dai, 2015; Munaza et al., 2016; Hinto et al., 2015). Lee and Dai (2015) attributed the probability of the success of 3D technology to the materials used since they support the cellular components during and after bioprinting procedures (Lee & Dai, 2015). As such, materials used for printing 3D heart should meet certain vital requirements/criteria such as “cytocompatibility, printability, ease of phase transition, and compatibility of bioreactors” (par. 9). The authors suggested that bioprinting materials could be grouped into two major categories, including curable mechanical polymers and soft with considerably higher water content (Lee & Dai, 2015). The complementing properties of these two major categories make 3D printing successful (Lee & Dai, 2015). The two major classifications can each be subdivided into live cells and synthetics materials to include collagen, hyaluronic acid, alginate, fibrin, PEG diacrylate (PEGDA), and polyacrylamide (PAAm)-based gels (Lee & Dai, 2015). Hinton et al. (2015) appreciated the complexity in cardiovascular anatomy (which requires elaborateness in studying and practice) and the need to address issues pertaining to cardiovascular transplants that have necessitated the adoption of 3D printing techniques in heart treatment. As such, there is a need to be meticulous in the selection of the materials used in printing 3D hearts and other complex organs. Therefore, Hinton et al. (2015) emphasized the use of soft protein and polysaccharide hydrogel in 3D printing. They asserted that creating material could be challenging if appropriate technologies are not adopted. Moreover, Hinton et al. (2015) emphasized the need for material thermoreversibility, and biocompatibility (Hinton et al., 2015). Kawaguchi, Hatta, and Nakanishi (2013) categorized 3D printing materials into three main groups, including collagen scaffolds, hydrogels, and cell sheets. Of these three types, the last two, scaffolds and hydrogels, require fabrication before they are adopted for building cardiac tissues (Kawaguchi, Hatta, & Nakanishi, 2013). Kawaguchi, Hatta, and Nakanishi (2013) noted that hydrogel materials have an advantage over the others since it is possible to do microfabrication through lithography and, therefore, create customized patterns when using hydrogel materials. Notably, the unique characteristics of every human being and every cardiovascular operation necessitate customization in the printing of tissues and the 3D he