Essays on Barr

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Owing to the dynamic nature of the healthcare environment, investment in learning in the nursing practice is an imperative. For this reason, a master’s education in nursing allows practitioners have an expanded view in regards to the diverse needs of patients. The Essentials of Master’s Education in Nursing provides a snippet view of the program’s framework, one that advances and encourages imaginative and transformative thinking in regards to addressing healthcare concerns affecting the profession. A master’s education program equips nurses with practical know-how and essential knowledge that is an advancement of the graduate level (American ...

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The members of the LGBT community continue to suffer discrimination all over the world. Interestingly, the level of discrimination varies greatly from one nation to another. For example, Western Nations are more tolerant to homosexuality compared to Middle Eastern Nations, in general. Such variation in the level of discrimination suggests that there are governing factors that determine the perception of people towards homosexuality, making it an interesting topic in psychology. In order to fully understand how the perceptions of people towards homosexuality vary, it is important to set some variables and study them. There have been diverse studies performed ...

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The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is technological programming that gathers, accumulates, and evaluates data related to the earth’s surface. GIS interprets set of data on a single map, which is evaluated and interpreted subsequently. Over the years, the integration of the technology with the principles of Transportation Economics gained a significant attention of numerable economies. Particularly the metropolitan cities of developed countries that encounter various challenges related to the development and maintenance of infrastructure. It was found that GIS allows the Transportation Economists to develop and propose an efficient plan related to different routes and their smart integration. ...

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Zika virus also termed as ZIKV is a known to have gained worldwide attention, especially in the USA, South East Asia, and Australia. The Zika belongs to the Flaviviridae family which comes under the genus Flavivirus (Wikan & Smith. 2016). The Zika virus is spread though day time mosquitoes belonging to the Aedes family. Some of the most common mosquitoes to contain and spread Zika include A. aegypti and A. albopictus. The name of Zika originated in 1947 where it was first isolated from the Zika forest in Uganda. Based on evidence, the Zika virus was associated with varying viral ...

Question 1

It is not a prudent idea to have companies being required to take back their products for recycling and disposal. The cost of the practice may be too high to the extent of discouraging the business between the two countries entirely or have the costs transferred to the final consumer and the tax payers of the associated nations. A particular inefficiency is introduced in shipping back products, which strains the facilities that can be used for more productive activities such as the transport of high-value products. The practice would also have a negative impact on the profits of the ...

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In today’s age that is characterized by digital revolution and internet bubble, various marketing and advertising platforms have permeated every corner of our lives. The marketing and advertisement craze has for a long time taken hold of the diverse age groups of the targeted consumers, even toddlers who barely know what happens around them. Children from all over the world are exposed to tones and tones of these marketing and advertising activities. As a market segment, children represent a huge platform for the advertisers and product promoters. Unlike the early years when advertisements and marketing were mainly targeted ...

Barbara McClintock was a one time student at Cornell University under the auspices of one C. B. Hutchison, who was lecturing in genetics during the fall in 1921. Genetics had not become a widely accepted course during the time, and students used to study it as a preamble to becoming plant breeders. Having been born in Hartford Connecticut in 1902, she earned her first degree in 1923, her Masters in 1925 and a Doctorate in Philosophy in 1927. Her steady rise as a geneticist was inspired by C. B. Hutchison. She studied the genetic characteristics of maize concentrating on ...

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Equal access to healthcare is essential to the sustainability of any nation. In fact, lack thereof compromises the survival rates of any population as it heightens the mortality rates. In the article, of disparities and diversity: Where are we? Gloria Sarto seeks to provide a rationale for the high levels of differences in the medical sector. She compares the minority population’s accessibility to healthcare facilities as opposed to the largely white community in the United States. Through this comparison, she establishes a credible argument on the need to eliminate health disparities among people around the globe. For instance, ...

The essays “Why I Raise my Children without God” and “Dad’s confession: I almost left my disabled daughter” are both devoted to the problems connected with children and their raising, as well as parents and their feelings and beliefs. The first essay is devoted to the position of a mother of two teenagers – she decided to bring up her children without religion, but at the same time not prohibiting them to choose their own religion. She is a non-believer and provides a number of arguments, why God should not take part in upbringing and education. She believes that ...

1. Customers Who are the current customers/users? Include information related to demographics, psychographics and buying behavior, price sensitivity, customer satisfaction and loyalty. The current customers/ consumers of Google are the global users of internet that uses the company’s link to search different information. Therefore, it is difficult to obtain demographic information about the Google’s users. In addition, more than half of the Google search results is requested by people outside United State as it offers search website in more than 100 languages. With respect to psychographics and buying behavior, mostly the users of Google service are students, ...

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Contemporary academic analysis is concentrated on the issue of states’ emergence. The former is analyzed in different social, political, and economic contexts. Such state of affairs can be explained from the practical point of view, meaning nowadays there are many players at the international level which have recently appeared. However, in order to understand the nature of the aforementioned processes, the historical analysis is thought to be of great importance, since lots of contemporary phenomena took place in the previous centuries. Thus, in this paper, the correlation between the Sykes-Picot agreement, formation of the Palestinian identity, and creation of ...

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Organizations today focus on empowering consumers, using self-reliance advertisers and applying new technologies in advertising their products and services. Additionally, the advertising industry has become more conventional because traditional advertising skills and capabilities find no room in the modern business world calling for their transformation, refinement, and sometimes replacement. However, some companies like Kellogg's have decided to maintain the traditional way of advertising. Kellogg’s Company is one of the America’s multinational foods manufacturing company. The company’s vision is to enlighten and delight the world using quality foods and brands that are essential for consumer’s health. ...

We live in a world where there is good and evil. Since time immemorial, stories told by humans have always had heroes and villains. Human culture has always been rife with tales of heroism, both real and fictional, wherein awe-inspiring individuals faced immense adversity only to overcome it and accomplish good in the end. In the last century, these stories have taken a new turn in introducing fictional characters that are superhuman. The heroes in such storylines who’re more commonly referred to as superheroes are capable of feats that, by any standard, far exceed human capabilities. It is ...

Nursing information systems (NIS) are of vital importance to advanced nursing practitioners (APNs). The Electronic Health Record is one such system that records, stores, and transmits patient health information as generated through single or multiple encounters within the health delivery environment. Encompassed in this system are progress reports, demographics, vitals, medications, lab reports and medical histories (Atherton, 2011). The NextGen Ambulatory EHRs is an NIS developed by NextGen. The system offers EHRs associated solutions for both hospitals and private practitioners. Also known as NextGen Healthcare, the system is a generalized EHRs software that promises to transform various practices within ...

Technology

Introduction Anonymous hacker group gained popularity when it hacked the Church of Scientology website in 2008. The group is a structure-less organization that was created to be used by people of all genders, races, ages, nationalities, and religion, to popularize their cause. Since there is no formal membership, the group members communicate via chat rooms on the web or through previous connections2. The group’s symbol is the Guy-Fawkes mask that its supporters worldwide wear at rallies to hide their identities. The group does not have any particular goals, and its only guideline is anti-oppression and is seen to ...

Question: Heidi speaks of "being the expert". Choosing an area of tourism that interests you, at what point do you become an expert on that area? What credentials and/or collective information is needed to consider someone an expert? According to Heidi, to be an expert, it is very important to find one’s niche. This will help a person to narrow the focus. Doing too many things or having too broad a focus will not help in becoming an expert. Other people can give the tools, but it depends on you to find the path. She says that being ...

Briefing paper 1: critical legal thinking

Critical thinking is a development in lawful hypothesis and a system of legitimate radical researchers that rose in the 90s in the United States of America. Considered the major development in reasonable hypothesis and statutory grant in the United States of America to have embraced a discussed Left governmental situation and outlook. Basic lawful studies were focused on forming society taking into account a dream of human identity without the shrouded hobbies and class control that the researchers contended are at the base of lawful liberal establishments in the West. Giving to CLS researchers Duncan Kennedy and Karl Klare, ...

Miss Representation is an American documentary motion picture. It was released in 2011 by Girl’s Club Entertainment, to a limited theater release. It was shown at the Sundance film festival and several other film festivals, while also signing a deal to run on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The screenplay for the film was written by Jennifer Newson, Jessica Congdon, Claire Dietrich, and Jenny Raskin. Jessica Newsom also directed, and shared production duties with Julie Costanzano. With a running time of 85 minutes, the documentary had a shooting budget of $750,000, and box office earnings were not reported ...

Continuous quality improvement and patient satisfaction

Continuous quality improvement in care delivery entails the identification of problems, implementing the solutions, monitoring the process, and evaluating its effectiveness (Olds et al., 2013). Nurse leaders and managers are involved in the process of finding areas that need improvement in the delivery of care and once they find these areas, they put in place all the resources and structures needed for improvement. The overall goal of continuous quality improvement of care is universal. These quality improvement initiatives are the reason why the United States health care delivery system is experiencing significant changes (Finkelman, 2015). Some of these changes ...

Introduction

Surrealist is the work of art that has its roots in the early 1920s it was aimed at creating a connection between what most people referred to as dreams and fantasies to the reality. Surrealist work of art was designed to create a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious features of experiences to build absolute reality from primary imagination. Surrealist work of art developed from psychological processes and not any logical and rational process. Surrealist work art was aimed at establishing an evaluation of psychic characteristics (Barr, Alfred Hamilton, and Georges Hugnet). To develop psychic responses in the ...

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Lupus is a chronic autoimmune that can impact any part of the body resulting in a range of clinical symptoms. The affected part by Lupus may include brain, lungs, kidneys, skin, joints, blood vessels and other internal organs (Pisetsky, Gilkeson & St Clair, 1997). Lupus impacts the immune system by interfering with its capability of differentiating between antigens and normal healthy tissues. This incidence results in the misinterpretation by the immune system, and it directs the antibodies against the healthy tissues causing pain, tissue damage, and swelling. It ...

Essay

Abstract Researchers have long been exploring the various factors that affect the health condition of individuals and/or groups. They have reported the key factors that seemingly determine health outcomes for vulnerable populations, namely, socioeconomic status (e.g. income, education, and occupation), cultural practices, and social services (e.g. housing, medical care). These so-called social determinants of health largely contribute to health disparities. Health policy has also been reported to significantly influence the health condition of vulnerable population. For instance, in the U.S., health policy is more focused on 'cure' than 'prevention', which, in consequence, channels bulk of the resources toward clinical ...

The research problem will be to investigate whether the patrimonial political systems of Singapore and South Korea are democracies that surpass their liberal Western analogues in terms of national growth and even democratization in some ways. It appears that, contrary to the popular misperception, democracy is not necessarily a lack of restraint and complete discretion or at least a range of freedom like the right to media. Sometimes, states like Singapore being low on resources and facing external threats decide on less liberal norms and behaviors bordering on authoritarianism in specific aspects. Regulated merit-based selection practices and disciplining norms ...