Essays on Blume

The Meaning of Consumption Activities in Daily Life

The theory of consumption is one of the fundamental disciplines of microeconomics. It explores the economic decisions, especially in the area of consumption by private economic agents. The behavior of the consumer (buyer) in the market economy is based on the theory of demand (consumer behavior theory), which is based on how and how our needs are converted into a certain amount of demand; how from a variety of benefits we choose what suits us. Consumer behavior is the process of formation of the market demand of buyers offering a choice of benefits taking into account the existing price. ...

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Overweight and Obesity In the past 3 decades, obesity has been considered as one of the major health issues associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Many developed and industrialized nations have observed similar trends; however, the rate of obesity in the United States is considered to be the highest in the world (Choquet, H., & Meyre, D. 2011) Obesity is known to grow in an exponential rate within the United States. Based on a recent survey, 1 out of every 3 individuals in America are either overweight or obese. The data also revealed that the US was the only ...

Almost US, but still Latin America. This is the brief definition one can give to Puerto Rico. US is actively engaged in cooperation with the archipelago, but the chances that this area ever really become an integral part of the United States are still unclear. More so, it is a unique habitat with its own unique development system, including the judiciary. Puerto Rico is a dependent territory of the United States and has the status of "unincorporated organized territory”, which means that the area is under the control of the United States (and is not an integral part thereof), ...

Introduction: According to the rules of the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department and the law of Tennessee, a police officer can use deadly force in apprehending a fleeing felon after exhausting all reasonable efforts to apprehend him. The police department authorizes a police officer to enforce the shoot-to-kill policy instead of just wounding the felon. Is this act constitutional? The aim of this paper is to explain to the readers why the police officers in the Tennessee v. Garner case violated the Constitution by using deadly force against Garner. Thesis: Are the Memphis police officers liable for using deadly force ...

The United States is a very large and complex entity filled with diverse races, cultures, ideologies, philosophies, belief systems and perspectives. That said establishing a societal structure that encourages diversity and autonomy, but also establishes standards, rules and laws that outline the nation, is no easy feat. The American criminal justice system has been praised as one of the most ethical and just in comparison with other such systems across the globe. While that may have been true many years ago, many modern thinkers and American citizens, today feel that the criminal justice system is highly flawed and is ...

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Power quality is an essential factor as far as performance of the electrical machines and equipment are concerned. Quality plays an integral role in ensuring reliability and satisfactory service by improving the transmission and distribution of electric power. In order to serve a huge section of the world with electrical power, quality is paramount in order to reduce losses during transmission and distribution. IEEE defines power quality as the deviation of current and voltage from the ideal to the actual realization. It factors in the concept of ensuring high standard powering and grounding of the electrical equipment for the ...

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Ambrose Bierce is a prominent author known for his many works one of which is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. This is the story of Peyton Farquhar a planter from the South. The story is set during the civil war. Peyton has been sentenced to hang by the Union Army for his failed attempt at destroying the Owl Creek railroad bridge. The author leads the reader to believe that Peyton escapes the hanging by falling into the river below and reunites with his wife and children at his farm. This is not the case since it is revealed ...

- Henry Jenkins;

- The tone and justifications presented by Jankins in his article are comprehensive and concise. The concrete evidence and strengthened tone allows no space for disagreement. The example of media is the most obvious an intrusion in our daily life - In his attempt to establish the truth with daily life examples, he supported his argument with the use of video games that contains violence acts for youngsters. His raised concern that intense focus and inspiration of the audience does not allow the pupil to distinguish between actions to be adapted in routine life and ...

The term Union was used during the American Civil war to refer to the United States of America. It specifically referred to the national government and five border slaves stated and twenty other free states. The union was opposed by the Confederacy that was composed of eleven southern slave states. The United States army soldiers were provided by all the union states (Blume, 2012). The area of the border sent large numbers of their troops to the Confederacy, and they also played a significant role as a base of supply for Union invasion of the confederacy. Industrial resources came from the ...

In today’s era, violence is widespread. One example of this is political violence. This kind of hostility is used by the authorities and the government to reach their political targets. In that sense, though, the emergence of culture can minimize this kind of violence on political systems if they can carry out practices based on the culture, religious conviction, custom, and tradition of the society. These can be used to control or prevent the abuse of political power. Social control is what the world needs in order to make certain that the society and the people that enfold ...

Almost every year, the Bureau of Justice Statistics conducts a survey whose aim is to understand the challenges that confronts female parolees from the perspective of parole officers, social workers, and correctional officers. In 2010, the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency documented that 111, 387 women had been incarcerated in different federal and state facilities (Sipes). In fact, in 2002 the number the number of women offenders under solitary confinement reaches approximately 691,301 (Daniels). While the number of women incarcerated has decreased significantly over the last decade, there are still quite a number of offenders that are still under ...

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The conflict in Syria has raged on for over three years now with the various warring parties actively sustaining it. It began in early 2011 as a part of the series of demonstrations dubbed as the Arab Spring witnessed globally in a number of Arabic countries. The protests were aimed at the Bashar al-Assad led government that was dubbed as tyrant and retrogressive. After various crackdowns, these demonstrations evolved to deadly armed rebellions (Cole, 2013). The armed conflict pitted various opposition groups namely; Free Syrian Army and the Islamic Front against the Syrian government and its allies such as Hezbollah. The ...

Literature Review

In some instances, the performance of the entire group is dependent on the effort that the weakest member of the group gives. For instance, the slowest member in a production line determines the speed at which the production line operates. In a coordination game where players simultaneously carry out a certain action, the playoff of the players is dependent on the effort of the said player and the smallest effort level of any of the players in the group. Coordination games are important to microeconomists. The belief is that economic growth can be impeded by low output equilibrium. Problems in coordination can ...

Rushmore is a comedy-drama film that was directed by Wes Anderson in 1998. This film is about an eccentric teenager, Max Fischer and Herman Blume, a rich industrialist. The two were good friends and both had an admiration for Rosemary Cross, a widowed elementary school teacher. Max was a scholarship student at Rushmore academy where he spent most of his time on extra-curricular activities, other than his studies. Max is expelled from Rushmore after he attempts to break ground on an aquarium and he enrolls at Grover Cleveland High, which is a public school. Blume starts a relationship with Rosemary after convincing Max that she ...

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The acute respiratory distress syndrome is a form of injury to the lungs that impedes the supply and uptake of oxygen from the alveoli resulting in a state of severe hypoxemia, dyspnea, anxiety, and tachypnea. This review has established that genetics may be playing a role in increasing one’s susceptibility to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS. Moreover, biomarkers would also play a significant role in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. However, it still remains unclear on the type of genes and biomarkers that play a role in causing ARDS. It has also been established that young children (less than 2 years ...

Participation of children in sports is a wide and diverse topic in itself. Sports are essential for kids right from an early age since they not only play an imperative and important role in the physical development of the kids, but mental development too. A culture of sports among kids of elementary age group is not only considered a healthy trend but if often connected to the prowess and power of the nation since healthy childhood, considered the by product of sports, contributes to building of a nation. But over the years, with extensive study and research, it has been proved that ...

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Questions - How long has Louis been suffering from the addiction? - How many times has Louis had a mental breakdown? Are their any other sighs that you ex-husband has shown that concern his mental capability? - Has there been any support given to your husbands as far as his condition is concerned? - Has his drug addiction in any way affected his responsibility as you child father? - Is there a way forward? Holly is determining to file the case against Louis; her argument is that he has not been of any help to ...

Organizational testing and assessment tools are used frequently in the field of psychology. Business sometimes borrows these assessment methods to evaluate leadership, survey managers and their effectiveness, and critique employee performance. Since psychology incorporates the study of human nature, such applications are relevant and may help businesses become more transparent in their evaluation processes. Successful business leaders know that dedicated employees are a valuable asset. How does an employer determine which employees are valuable? How does an employer know which employees are the most productive? Some of the tools that have proven to be effective in the business marketplace ...

The following paper is based on the topic of collection development policy for university libraries. The focus is on St Mary’s University’s library called Louis J. Blume Library, but various comparisons will be made with other university libraries such as Curtis University Library-Sydney. An analysis of the university’s collection development policy is done to assess issues such as its coverage, depth of treatment, appropriateness for nature of the library and clientele, clarity and lack of ambiguity, scope of interpretation and the currency of the policy. The efficacy of the selected collection development policy and the purpose ...

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Society is an integral part of a man’s life. To be a part of a society, one has to fulfil societal expectations. These expectations require a person to behave in a certain way and to live a certain lifestyle. In other words, these expectations form the norms of the society. To be accepted in a society, it is important to follow these norms. Actions that lead to breaking of these norms are called deviant behaviour or deviance. Deviance leads to outcast from society. Having tattoos is considered one such deviance. This paper talks about prevalence and importance of tattoos in military. The four important reasons ...