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Everything that happens in nature seems to follow a certain order. For instance, a river has tributaries that flow in a certain direction. The river also follows a certain course and may drain in a larger water body that is far away from where the river originated. For order to exist there has to be a driving force. I believe that there exists a powerful force that dictates the order that nature follows. This force is more powerful than any other force in the universe. I believe that this force is God. God is omnipotent and omnipresent. As God is not physically visible, I therefore believe in the existence of a spiritual realm. This realm consists of other spiritual beings for example angels. I also believe in the existence of free will. Human beings are able to differentiate between right and wrong. They have the free will to choose what to do, be it right or wrong. With the existence of a spiritual realm, I believe in the existence of the soul and life after death. When the physical body dies, the soul lives on in the spiritual realm. A good example of the order in nature is a seed. When a seed is planted, it germinates into a seedling and later grows into a tree. Another example is how insects such as butterflies follow the egg – larva – pupa – adult stages of development. Existence of rivers, lakes, oceans, deserts and forests exhibits order. The different ecosystems support different life forms and this also shows order. For example, numerous species of fish can only survive in fresh water bodies while others can only survive in salty water bodies. None of them however can survive on land. This shows that there is order in nature. Everything that happens is driven by a force. All these forces also require a driving force and this is where God comes in. He is the supreme force that drives all other forces in nature and in the entire universe. I believe that everything in existence was created by God. I therefore reject the alternative philosophies of existence. These include the theories of evolution and the big bang. It is not possible for an ape to evolve into a human being as the two belong to different species. Evolution cannot explain the existence of other life species like the numerous plants that come in all shapes and sizes. The big bang theory also cannot explain the existence of life and the order in nature. None of the two theories can explain the existence of earth and the other planets or even the existence of life after death and the spiritual realm. Having this understanding will assist me to keep focused in life. I will appreciate the beauty and wonders of nature more. The knowledge of God will make me live a life that is morally upright. To keep with the Godly ways, I will endeavor to assist the less privileged in the society and to avoid oppressing other people. In order to take care of my body, I will eat healthy meals and exercise regularly. To prepare my soul for the afterlife, I will follow the religious teachings and exercise my free will to choose rig
Literature is a rather complicated topic for study. This complexity comes even more difficult when the topic of race and identity is involved in literature. “No Telephone to Heaven” by Michelle Cliff is the piece of literature dealing with this topic, and the present paper will analyze it with the strong emphasis put on Claire, the protagonist of the novel, and the factors that influence her identity and racial belonging. To start with, it is necessary to state that the novel under consideration is the story about a Jamaican girl whose father was white and mother was black. In this aspect, the story is autobiographical to some extent, as Michelle Cliff’s parents belong to different races, and she experienced in reality what she writes about in her book. Thus, the conflict of races taking place in her own family influences Claire and forms her attitude towards race and social relations on the whole. Claire’s father was eager to be accepted as a white in the society and left his wife who claimed her African origin: “I am a white man. My ancestors owned sugar plantations” (Cliff, 1996). Drawing from this and looking at her mother’s suffering, Claire formed hatred towards oppressors of her race and, after some years of searching the way, decided to join the guerilla detachment fighting for Jamaican Independence. Moreover, the background of Claire Savage also predetermined her identity and racial attitudes. From the early childhood, Claire remembered her teacher’s words telling her to search for the genuine knowledge and avoid the prejudice that might mislead her in her life, especially when the choice of identity was to be made: “He had warned them against false knowledge. That which was held in the minds and memories of old women” (Cliff, 1996). Thus, it was hard for Claire to identify her racial belonging and the concepts of her homeland, motherland, and foreign country. She first moved to the US with her father, then returned to Jamaica to join her mother, moved study to in the UK, and finally found peace for her mind in Jamaica as her only genuine motherland and homeland. In this aspect, Claire experienced the fighting of the concepts of wildness and tameness inside her. As a result,
A delivery rate of 82% for the control chip and 100% rate for all the other parts in the assembly of the remote means that the entire product is going to take more time to assemble and therefore a longer time to get to the market. The original assumptions concerning the process which were pegged on the expectations of 100% delivery for all the parts are now not applicable given the control chip supplier’s low delivery rate. In the light of the new information, alternatives that are likely to meet the deadline will be considered. In the original process where all the suppliers were selected and each given the opportunity to supply a certain part in the remote production, the global supplier that is located in another country was given the responsibility of supplying the control chip. This process is now not efficient and an alternative must be established. In the alternative process, supply of the control chip is supposed to be shifted to another more reliable company so as to avoid the delay. Before the alternative process of selecting another supplier is implemented, a careful analysis has to be done as a way of trying to establish the reason as to why the company in the first process design has a delivery rate of 82%. The process of evaluating this old supplier will the a tough one given its location in another country (Bessant 1990, p.78). The reasons for this include travel if the evaluation has to be done on site, legal issues in dealing with foreign importers or contractors, and a difference in management traditions that may be existing in this supplying company due to the fact that it is in a different country (Deresky, 2008, pp. 208-209). In my decision making process, there are cultural business factors that will play a role. For example the fact that business related decisions are never made with emotions will influence my decision making (Petroski, 1992, pp .34-35). Therefore, I will look at the whole process with the intention of replacing it with one that makes business sense and not the one that appeals to my emotions. Also, the tradition of carrying out a thorough search for a possible supplier at home before looking out to other countries will influence my decision (Dean & Snell1991, pp. 776-780). A supplier from another country will only be considered if there is no local supplier. In evaluating the alternative process, I will the statistical process control technique of learning curves for organizations as they undertake various processes. I will apply the learning curves by coming up with learning curves for the two processes; the one of 82% delivery rate and the alternative. Then I will determine the learning rate of the alternative and then compare the two so as to pick the most efficient. The new process, if
Site design, interface, ways of providing information, and communication with users are essential aspects of creating a successful web project. The Waiting Room is a storytelling platform that draws people’s attention to current social issues through individual examples of people. It is extremely easy to use, as the site interface and its design are minimalistic, and nothing distracts the user from the necessary information. It is also fun to use, as it is interesting to look at the stories of living people, photos, and videos. Since this is a social project, it is difficult to talk about the degree of its success. The site’s central message is to draw attention to acute social problems, particularly within the healthcare setting. The content of the site includes primarily stories of people illustrating problems and associated emotions. The platform also provides an opportunity to share experiences and materials which are used to collect data and promote Safety Net initiatives. The project description emphasizes that this is “a location-based social media and community engagement initiative that aims to improve the patient experience through the collection and sharing of digital content” (“About the Storytelling Project,” n. d.). Thus, the design reflects the site’s primary purpose and message, which is to tell the individual stories of people’s needs regarding healthcare and existing social issues. The site’s target audience is the general public, which often does not face the problems described. Thus, the project seeks to broadly highlight the social issues of many people who are in less fortunate situations to improve the overall quality of life. The site interface is extremely simple, especially on the home page. Navigation is made through the sections which provide relevant information. The site’s design is laconic and restrained, using a white background and mostly red and black colors. This choice aligns well with the project’s symbol, which is the wall clock. The function of innovation is to provide limited information on the home page and emphasize the emotional component. The user can immediately understand that the project is addressing social problems by looking at the provided photos. The main advantage which makes the site so cool is precisely the emphasis on the main goal, which is to highlight existing problems. The entire project is built around people’s stories, through which important aspects are highlighted. Reference About the storytelling project. (n. d.). The Waiting Room. Web.
Introduction The Commerce Bank Cherry Hill is a New Jersey training centre at Commerce University, with Deborah Jacovelli being the dean of the university who observed that there were many innovative methods for energizing the company’s employees that had been developed. For example, people wore Halloween costumes and embellished their cubicles, which was not a usual behavior initially for the bank staff. The commerce bank was founded by Hill in 1973 and there very high expectations from all people that he would make it an exceptional bank. He reasoned that the bank should not be just like any other financial institution. He initiated a society bank with only $1.5 million in Southern New Jersey and since had developed it, without acquisitions, into Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware. Additionally, he created a retail business that had outlets, and operating from 7.30am-8.00pm during the week while Saturdays and Sundays have modified hours. The company had come up with a ’10-minute rule’ which demanded that the branches be opened 10 minutes earlier and 10 minutes after the normal closing hours. The SWOT of Commerce Bank Strengths These refer to the strong points of the company; some of the highlighted strengths include the following. Customer care -There is excellent customer care service whereby making them happy is the bank’s top priority. In addition, there are ways of strengthening customers relationship that were put in place by Jacovelli and her co-workers which consisted of an internal system of incentives and cultural training. Moreover, awards, commendations, and compensation were accorded. According to Commerce Chairman and CEO, Vermon, delivering above customers expectations was their core objective. Retail Experience – According to Hill, retail operations pay off much better than the banking sector as exhibited by the escalating stock price at commerce bank since 1990. Although many other banks have tried to push away customers out of the branch since it is the high-delivery channel, the commerce bank decided to retain them. Other banks wanted to push their clients online, but commerce bank rejected. On the contrary, commerce bank gives customers the best of every channel knowing that they are going to utilize them all. While the big banks attitude sees customers as a liability or cost, commerce bank sees them as revenue generators, it does all it can to retain them. Good infrastructure – commerce bank provided good service infrastructure like ATMs, call centers, branches and internet. The payment mode was facilitated through electronic transfers and cheques, which made the whole process much easier and faster. In addition, Commerce bank offered deposit and loan products, which earned
Identifying strategies to help children with special needs is a crucial step toward improving the quality of their education and designing the framework to promote the active acquisition of the relevant skills and knowledge at the earliest stages of their development. According to the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) and the related legal mandates, when a disability is suspected, it is required that the school should carry out a comprehensive assessment to understand the student’s current psychoeducational functioning and offer appropriate and tailored recommendations (e.g., classroom accommodations) from multiple professional perspectives (Dodd, Franke, Grzesik, & Stoskopf, 2014). Therefore, it is imperative to introduce a tool that could provide adequate and necessary information about the current needs and issues of the child. One tool is a multidisciplinary assessment, which has been defined as the evaluation of the areas of the child’s developmental strengths and needs (New York State Department of Health, 2005; National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, 2010). Elements of a Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Assessment The essential elements of a multidisciplinary assessment are often contingent upon the unique objectives and aims of the evaluation process. For instance, when endeavoring to meet the needs of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, one is expected to have a set of elements required specifically for managing the needs of the identified population on the list of the assessment elements (e.g., standardized testing, direct observation, review of academic records). Furthermore, the services of a psychologist, a speech pathologist, and an OT/PT, as well as educators, including the principal and the teacher, will have to be considered. The significance of collaboration between the school personnel, healthcare experts, and parents should be listed among the primary elements of a multidisciplinary assessment as well (National Association of Special Education Teachers, 2017). That being said, several items can be viewed as the constituents of an abstract multidisciplinary assessment that can be used to define a mental health concern in students. First, basic ethical issues need to be addressed, including informed consent for assessment. Retrieving informed consent from students or their parents (in case the learners have not reached full age yet) must be viewed as a crucial part of any multidisciplinary assessment; furthermore, students with mental conditions will have to receive the approval of their legal guardians (National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, 2010).
In the Victorian age when middle-class women were expected to conform to perhaps the most oppressive rules ever imposed on women in Britain’s history, there were still individual women who advocated the equality of the sexes and the independence of women. The most radical group in that time were members of that downtrodden class of genteel, educated women who were forced to earn their living as governesses, not just the ones who turned to writing but also the many anonymous women who showed their society that unmarried women without a fortune could survive and even prosper. Governesses “raised the consciousness” of Victorian women since they mostly taught girls since boys were sent to preparatory school at age eight; and the great majority of the readers who made novels such as Jane Eyre best-sellers were women who, as Enotes points out, had an “intense interest in the uncertain status of unmarried middle-class Victorian women” (3). It is the question of how an unmarried woman should live that engaged so many women and which the governess class tried to answer either by pursuing their profession or by their example or as literary models. In this way they created the women’s movement that culminated in the feminism of today. The woman novelists rarely pursued an overtly political agenda but one former governess who dealt with the question of sexual equality directly was Mary Wollstonecraft. She spent a year as a governess and was said to have been an inspiring and caring teacher to Lord Kingsborough’s daughters. She gave up her position in order to concentrate on her writing. Wollstonecraft’s argument in A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), is that women are not inferior to men, only their education is, and if that deficiency were corrected it might be possible to create a society based on equality and reason. As the anonymous author of the History Guide says, “Mary undertook the task of helping women to achieve a better life, not only for themselves and for their children, but also for their husbands. Of course, it took more than a century before society began to put her views into effect.” However, her ideas influenced the women who came after her, including Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë in whose novels reason was of the utmost importance in a relationship. Austen advocated “intelligent love” while Brontë insisted that reason must dominate passion if husband and wife are to be equals. These ideas were personified in Austen’s Emma Woodhouse (and contrasted by Jane Fairfax in Emma) and in Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and in that way Wollstonecraft’s ideas reached an even greater audience. Indirect as their methods were, novelists influenced public opinion perhaps more than they intended. As Mike Edwards says about Charlotte Brontë, “though it was her readers rather than the author who saw her work as having a practical impact on society, her novels are thought to have helped to advance the movement towards equality of status for women” (134). One often-quoted passage from Jan
Introduction Exercise-Induced Asthma (EIA), also known as Exercise-Induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is a respiratory condition that causes patients to experience shortness of breath, coughing or wheezing immediately after physical exercise (Spooner, Spooner & Rowe, 2009). The condition is common among children, and is often associated with other forms of childhood asthma (Kersten et al, 2012). With such a profound impact, EIA has received a lot of attention from the medical fraternity, with numerous studies being done on it. This paper reviews these studies and other study reviews on EIA and outlines the pathogenesis of the condition, its diagnosis, treatment and management. Pathogenesis of Exercise-Induced Asthma The onset of an EIA attack follows a constriction of the airways of the patient after physical exercise. The constriction is caused by loss of water vapor in the bronchi of a patient. This is followed by an increase in osmolarity of the liquid on the surface of the airway leading to an asthma attack. When water shifts from the cells of the epithelium to the airway surface, it causes a release of mediators from the inflammatory cells that cause constriction of the bronchi. Exercising in cold or dry air can lead to an increase in the severity of EIA (Kersten et al, 2012). The attack is also caused by inflammation of the bronchi and a dysfunction of the smooth muscles (Backer & Rasmussen, 2009). The greatest constriction of the bronchi occurs between 3 and 15 minutes after the patient has rested from the exercise. This phase takes between 20 and 60 minutes to subside. Some patients may experience a refractory period extending to 3 hours, during which more exercise causes less constriction. Factors that influence the severity of the reaction include the severity of asthma, duration and intensity of the exercise or activity, environmental conditions, and the interval of time since the previous exercise (Spooner, Spooner, & Rowe, 2009). Diagnosis of Exercise-Induced Asthma EIA occurs when continuous exercise causes the narrowing of the airway resulting in symptoms such as coughing, wheezing, tightness of the chest, premature fatigue and reduced stamina (Spooner, Spooner, & Rowe, 2009). These symptoms are the first indicators of the presence of EIA (hull et al, 2009). The symptoms are also seen to vary from patient to patient (Backer & Rasmussen, 2009). However, for a proper treatment to be given, a proper diagnosis must be done since the symptoms are not conclusive evidence of the presence of EIA. Medical practitioners use bronchoprovocation testing as a method of diagnosing for EIA. The most commom method used is the use of laboratory-based exercise test
Abstract The objective of this study is to conduct an academic review of geographic profiling theory and its application in criminal investigations pertaining to postal related crimes. Geographic profiling was originally developed as an investigative methodology tool for use in criminal investigations, especially for solving cases of serial crimes. This methodology has been adopted by law enforcement agencies to prioritize lists of suspects by using the location of crime scenes as the basis to identify the areas in which the criminal is most likely to dwell, commonly known as the “anchor point” or base of the suspect (Rossmo, 2000). The two primary concepts are: the ‘buffer Zone’, where criminals are considered less likely to commit crimes since these areas are in the immediate vicinity of their home. These areas are also known as the ‘anchor points’. The next is the distance decay concept that describes the idea that criminals commit fewer crimes as the distance from their anchor points increase (Rossmo, 2000). The techniques of geographic profiling can successfully be applied to those non-violent crimes like breaking and entering into mailboxes and the fraudulent use of information stolen from the mail. This study details the use of geographic profiling tool, a computerized system (Rigel) which is used to perform analysis of the crime sites to generate color-coded maps called ‘geo-profiles’ (Rossmo, 2000). This study examines and reports on the reported mail theft incidents in the city of Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam, British Columbia for the year of 2008. The data gathered has been evaluated and has been input into the Rigel system. The analysis generated by the Rigel system is applied to prioritize list of suspects to further provide investigative recommendations to the investigators involved in those unresolved criminal investigations. Introduction Geographic profiling theory is based on part of forensic psychology and environmental criminology. Geographic profiling in fact is an investigative methodology that makes use of the locations of an interconnected series of crimes to establish the most likely area of the criminal’s anchor point, commonly known as the residence of the offender (Rossmo, 2000). This method is generally applied to solve cases of serial murder, rape, arson, and robbery. However, the tool may be of use in solving single crimes such as auto theft and burglary; but the case must involve multiple scenes or other significant geographic characteristics (Rossmo, 2000). The basis of geographic profiling is the link between geographic crime si