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Introduction Emily Dickinson is an American poetess that has a rather isolated life deprived of friends and normal human communication. Instead, she was more likely to sit at home in the atmosphere of creative silence. Therefore, Dickinson’s pessimistic and monotonous life was reflected in her poetry where such topics as death and immorality were revealed; her works also manifest the feministic views and orthodox philosophy thus bringing the message of despair and frustration. In particular, in Dickinson’s After great pain, a formal feeling comes (Meyer 752) vividly highlights the topic of death and suffering. Through this poem, one could perceive the vivid emotions and incessant sufferings experienced by the narrator. Speaker’s Intention The poem is Dickinson’s hardest attempt to render the speaker’s extreme desire to overcome the grief and to achieve emotional equilibrium. The narrator, hence, takes a burden of the moral trauma and in-depth sorrow; the poem expresses his/her struggle for comfort and his endless rescue from a chain of horrible events. The speaker’s inner soul is torn apart by the struggle of emotion and reason. The depiction of an emotional paralysis of the speaker is achieved through a bright imagination of stone, wood, and snow in order to suppress the emerging pain and to comfort his restless soul. These inanimate objects characterize the lifelessness of his emotions, which enhance the effect of numbness and great pain, and overwhelming shock. The speaker’s attempts are also focused on the defense of his mental state already destroyed by the suffering. To enhance the speaker’s intention to mortify his emotional part her tries to compare humans with mechanized creatures: “The Feet, mechanical, go ground- A Wooden way of Ground, or Air, or Ought –regardless grown..” (Meyer 752). Nevertheless, by means of capitalization of such words as “Feet”, “Nerves”, “Heart,” and “Air”, the speaker emphasizes the profoundness of grief and the impossibility to overcome it, despite his enormous efforts to forget the pain and to live further. Through this poem, the speaker intends to show other people that stiffness is one of the ways to trespass pain followed by suffering; it is an implicit demonstration of how the grief may suppress. This work also reflects the experience of the speaker and the stage he/she has to overcome thus showing the inevitability of the given situation, which is illustrated by the last line of the poem: “First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go” (Meyer 752). By this line, the narrator shows that the only decision is humility and submission (Grabher et al. 148). The narrators’ comparative descriptive words impose a funeral feel where the emotions and pain are “formal”, the nerves are identified with “Tombs”, and the heart is “stiff” (Meyer 752). By this, the speaker highlights his frustrated states thus recalling to people as to entire humanity, and its separate bodily parts that are objectified. Regarding this, the poem is a desperate attempt to communicate to those pe
Being an educator professional is a challenging experience. It requires a lot of effort while preparing to become one and then carrying out teacher’s functions. It is vital to understand that a teacher’s role is not only sharing knowledge with his or her students but also shaping their worldview and making them ready for life in an economically, culturally, and socially diverse environment turning a teacher in one of the drivers of social changes. Receiving a certificate, Reading and Literacy, in my case, is taking another step to becoming an educator professional. Taking a closer look at the program outcomes, I have found out that there are areas where I feel both confident and verdant because I still need to develop additional skills and gain new knowledge. For example, as for now, I believe I am competent in understanding different types of assessments and their strong sides, selecting and interpreting them for specific purposes, using a wide range of texts from various resources in reaching set goals, and have some knowledge of the diversity of society and its value in building relations with people around me. However, I still need to learn how to employ different texts and assessments and “design [and] implement an integrated, comprehensive, and balanced curriculum” (Walden University, 2016a, para. 4) and instructions as well as apply them to practice and take advantage of my knowledge of and respect for social diversity in teaching. Because I am not a teacher yet, this program will add to my competence because it will help nurture the necessary skills of communication with my future students and creating a fruitful learning environment in my future classrooms. Moreover, it will be advantageous for fostering my development and achieving learning outcomes in M.S. in Education because this program will not only contribute to my apprehension of diversity and applying it to teaching but also benefit me in exploring and developing ways to monitor and organize my future students as well as treat them equitably and increasing the effectiveness of school by establishing productive learning environment (Walden University, 2016b). What is even more significant, my professional preparation can become a ground for enhancing positive social changes in my educational setting, community, and beyond. Bearing in mind that fostering social change implies finding ways “to apply what [was] learned in the classroom to the real world and make a difference in lives and community” (Walden University, 2016d, para. 1), it will be beneficial for a couple of reasons. First, it might become a source of positive social change because teachers are those people, who participate in formulating their students’ worldview. For example, treating students equitably today will teach them to treat everyone else equitably in the future. It is vital to be an example to younger generations because they are more passionate about the future and changes in society than older adults (Walden University, 2016c). Moreover, promoting social change is impossible without acknowledging and respect for social diversity whether it is economic, cultu
Outsourcing has become increasingly popular. One of the major concerns that firms have with outsourcing is the relationship between its core competencies and the task or activity being outsourced. In the strategic focus group that deals with outsourcing, several concerns are raised regarding the negative effects of poor outsourcing decisions on a firm’s competitive advantage. This means that the process of outsourcing should be done in an effective way in order to reap the benefits of outsourcing. In the first place, outsourcing refers to the act of identifying different parties and entrusting them with the functions of the company. A separate firm is selected on grounds of its expertise and resource base. In this paper, three case studies on outsourcing will be considered and the rationale for outsourcing justified (Mintzberg, 2000). Case Study One: The Reservation Call Centre for an Airline Airlines have myriads of activities that include preparing passengers for their respective destinations. This involves flight bookings and linking with passengers from other parts of the world. This is accomplished through a reservation call centre. A call centre for an airline requires skills and resources as listed below. List of Skills for a Reservation Call Centre’s Workers Employees at the call centre must have excellent communication skills. They should be eloquent in many international and local languages. They should also have an excellent command of information technology and specifically the skills and software used in call centres. At the same time, the employees should be knowledgeable in the management of databases for travellers and should have strong numerical skills. People working in the call centres should have up to date information on the passengers’ destination including the weather and the general political condition (Porter, 2004). Evaluation of the Outsourcing Situation Airlines operate
Introduction A stakeholder can be defined as an individual or a group of people having an interest in the success of an organization by seeking to bring about the intended outcomes and preserving the viability of the products or services of the organization. The stakeholders have power over the organization’s products and services as well as the programs (Anon. Interoperability Clearinghouse Glossary of Terms , N.d). In this case, where we are going to consider the socio-technical system, the stakeholders include the FDA, operators, CMC, and the hospitals composing of the medical physicist, doctors among others. The stakeholder roles, responsibilities, and the relationships among them Considering the case of treatment, cancer treatment facilities are often found in big hospitals. The hospitals require people who would operate these facilities. If the facility is large, the supervisors of those who operate the machines will be required. More so, a minimum of one medical doctor will be required who is a specialist in cancer radiation therapy, and also, a medical physicist would be required to carry out the maintenance and checking up of the machine regularly. More so, other people such as secretaries, nurses, janitorial staff, and people to deal with billing among others are also needed. The operators are the people who are responsible for the administering of radiation therapy. The responsibility of the treating doctor is to prescribe and plan the treatment and also to carry out checkups on the patient’s health every week. The responsibility of the Linear Accelerator Operator is basically to see that the treatment that has been prescribed is done in the most appropriate way possible when the patient comes to be treated. Therefore, the operator is placed in the position of a production assistant since the schedule is put in place by others, ensuring that all the patients put in the schedule for treatment at a particular time get the treatment. More so, the operators bear responsibility to those people who have to be treated to carry out the operation of the machine in a safe way and to handle these people respectfully and with kindness (Anon. Linear Accelerator Operators , N.d). In the case where there is an occurrence of a significant error -in the process of the operation of the machine during treatment- and the operator is unable to handle this error, most hospitals have a medical physicist and this would have to be called to check the machine within the shortest time possible. In the case where the hospital does not have a physicist who works on a full-time basis, this service may be obtained on a contract basis (Anon. linear Accelerator Treatment Facilities , N.d). The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s “Bureau of Medical Devices and Diagnostic Products” operated in conjunction with the “Medical Devices Amendments” of the year 1976. This was to make sure that medical devices were safe and effective in their use. The FDA had to approve the medical devices before they were to be released to the market to be purchased
Even though some people may regard the negative assessment of a younger generation that appears in social media feed as faulty, they are partially correct. There is, indeed, a significant generation gap between people who lived in the 1960s and the people entering their twenties today. There also is substantial evidence that people of one generation share similar characteristics since they grow in one social and political environment (Arnett & Jensen, 2019). The world has changed since the sixties, and people need more time to grow up due to the economic revolution, the sexual revolution, the women’s movement, and the youth’s movement (Arnett & Jensen, 2019). Today, people need to prepare themselves for a more complicated life, which makes them postpone their commitment to a family, stable job, or even to a specific geographical location. Therefore, the statement that modern people are more dependent on technology and try to avoid commitment is true, and it is not necessarily a bad thing.
Introduction The idea that criminal and offending behavior stands in the correlation with the genetic features of the offender is not a novelty of our time. Criminologists made many attempts to bring together the data concerning both features of appearance and some inner psychological characteristics to define the genetically inherent patterns causing criminal behavior. However, such investigations took an entirely new turn with the advancements in the neuroscience and genome studies. Today we can explore the brains of people committing criminal offences and analyze the specifics of their genomes. This paper’s objective is to explore different views on what can be done in the scenario when it is possible to define the violent and criminal inclinations in children of the age of four. Ethics of neuroscience and means of deterrence The discovery of the genetic components that are responsible for the violence and other criminal tendencies is helpful in many ways. However, it is nonetheless important to explore the ethical side of the problem. Before we find the precise relation between the genetics and criminal behavior, we need to consider and justify the actions we are going to take (Siegel, 2007). The first evident solution of dealing with the issue is, of course, removing the cause of criminal behavior. There are still some variations to such scenario. The first possibility is that individuals with some brain abnormality are inclined to the violent behavior. If the abnormality is removed, then theoretically the potential criminal in question is ‘cured’ (Palmer, 2013). However, there are some counter arguments to that based on the less optimistic scenarios. One of them is that there still is such thing as the presumption of innocence, and four-year-olds with that abnormality have committed no crime whatsoever. Therefore, it is hard to justify those actions from the ethical standpoint. If we consider the removal of that abnormality as a means of deterrence of crime, then we still need to reflect on all the possible consequences. They include the dangers of the operations of that kind and all the possible abuse of power of those who make decisions about the operations. Defective genes and isolation from the society The scenario of the actual defective gene responsible for criminal inclinations is more difficult to imagine. Many studies suggest that such thing is improbable to exist (Palmer, 2013, p. 5). Nevertheless, the idea of isolating people that only potentially represent some threat is quite against most principles of humanity. Another solution that can easy come to mind is special attention and surveillance directed at people bearing such genes. However, this solution has two downsides as well. Firstly, it still interferes with the freedom of those who have the gene, and secondly, it can demand immense resources from the government because we do not know how many people have the gene. Direction and guidance The humane solution is, of course, monitoring (but not surveilling) the people with the diagnosed ab
Climate change, the term which is also known as global warming, is a change in weather patterns over long periods of time. Changes in weather can either affect regions of the earth or the whole globe (Sagan & Mullen 1972). Global warming is already affecting plant and animal life on the earth, but the most devastating effects are expected if the current rate of changing patterns of rainfall, storms, droughts, and floods continues to grow in the future. For instance, annual distribution and quantity of precipitation have changed; when it is raining, it appears to be more intense in some regions compared to the previous years. Human activity is by far the most implicated causal factor. Emission of green house gasses is expected to increase as more and more developing countries move towards industrialization. Several mitigation measures are currently being explored by different players. The problem is aggravated by the fact that we have to deal with the current effects of the past emissions as we try to reduce the emissions of the present days. Reduction of emission has taken a political course, thus becoming more difficult to solve. Countries have disagreed on the amount of green house gasses each state is supposed to reduce. There are a number of areas in my life, career, and future that could be influenced by climate change They include the following factors. Water supply Climate change will greatly influence the distribution of fresh water all over the world. As the temperatures rise, it will rain more in some areas, while the other regions will get scanty rainfall per year. The tropic and the subtropical lands are expected to experience decreased rainfall. In these areas, occasional heavy rainfalls will be observed. Heavy rain will result in floods and intense erosion of the soil. The temperate regions precipitation during winter will fall as it will be raining rather than snowing. This will greatly influence the water flows. There will be observed a reduction in the level of the inundation during the spring time, and on the other hand, during winter, the level of water will be increased (Watson & Harrison 2005). As a result, during floods, more pollutants will be carried into the water bodies. Water available for drinking and household use will be significantly reduced. Scenario A man who has been out during the day walks into a hotel located right at the center of town. As he takes his seat, he notices that there is no ice in the freez
More and more sexual harassment scandals involving celebrities have been breaking recently, and those cases launched a wide social discussion on what sexual harassment is and what constitutes it. Although different people may disagree on the borders between appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviors, the question persists: how can organizations prevent and/or address sexual harassment in the workplace? In this context, it is primarily necessary to investigate practices of addressing the issue of sexual harassment. First of all, Mainiero and Jones (2013) suggest that one should not confuse sexual harassment with workplace romance; a distinguishing feature of the latter is consent. If two people experience mutual attraction and engage in a sexual relationship, the situation may raise ethical issues; therefore, organizations should recognize that sexual harassment in the workplace can cause serious negative effects on the performance of the employees (McLaughlin, Uggen, & Blackstone, 2012; Nielsen & Einarsen, 2012). Moreover, if the employees of an organization develop a perception that the organization does not protect them from sexual harassment in the workplace, they are less likely to make maximum efforts aimed at achieving organizational goals. However, before addressing the issue of sexual harassment, it is necessary to properly research it, both in the general sense (i.e., what researchers say constitutes sexual harassment and how organizations can address the issue) and specifically in the context of our organization (i.e., exploring what the employees’ sexual harassment experiences are). Therefore, I hereby request permission to proceed with conducting research that will allow designing appropriate avoidance strategies for the organization, thereby allowing it to avoid sexual harassment claims in the future. In connection with this, I would like you to authorize the use of the company’s time to enhance the organization’s positive image among its current and potential audiences by researching the issue of sexual harassment.
Introduction In his book “Islamic Political Identity in Turkey” Hakan Yavuz discusses the relationships between the religion and state. In particular, he focuses on the interactions between Islam and political system in Turkey. The author argues that modern Islamic movements should not be viewed as reactionary. His work aims to break the stereotype, which has emerged in recent years that Muslim faith is inconsistent with democratic values, such as freedom of speech, tolerance, diversity, etc. The main message that the author wants to convey is that present day Islamic movements in Turkey support, tolerate, and even celebrate liberal values and principles. This scholars book is one of those works, which may bridge the gap between Muslim and Western countries. Main Text Hakan Yavuz believes that the political thought, which has dominated in Turkey in the twentieth century, ruptured “the ties between the politics and culture”(Yavuz, 267). In his opinion, Kemalism, the doctrine based on the ideas of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk transformed Islam in some backward and even regressive archaism, which only hinders economic and political development of the state. The author is firmly convinced that such belief is a common misconception or myth, which should be dispelled. The importance of this book cannot be underestimated, because at present, the international community looks at Islam with apprehension, most due to the activities of some Muslim extremists, who forget that this religious belief does not validate any form of violence. Hakan Yavuz demonstrates that there are virtually no obstacles, which may, in any way, prevent Turkey from becoming a full member of European community. In order to substantiate his argument, the scholar discusses current views about Islam and its influence on the political system. First, Hakan Yavuz states that Islam has often been considered as “as a set of fixed doctrines but negate the interactive agency of Muslims themselves” (Yavuz, 16). The author is firmly convinced that such interpretation is not acceptable because it disregards several important aspects. For instance, according to such approach, Islamic political identity is static or probably it would be better to say homogeneous, which is a very rude mistake. Hakan Yavuz demonstrates that Islamic political identity as any social phenomenon, is dynamic, it has a tendency to evolve. His views are reflected in the works of many other scholars. His book shows that democracy and liberalism can be quite applicable in Muslim countries. In addition to that, the author says that scholars and politicians often as regard Islam as obstacle to modernization. According to them, Muslim faith does not mandate any innovations or changes in the society, including democracy. Hakan Yavuz states that in the twentieth century, Turkey has witnessed the so-called “march toward Westernization” and in the course of this process, Kemalist government and its supporters have made Islam look as if it were backward, intolerant