Essays on Carr

Clinical psychology is a branch of psychology, which main objectives is to address issues (both practical and theoretical) related to the prevention, diagnosis of diseases and pathological conditions, as well as psych correction forms of influence on the process of recovery, rehabilitation, addressing various issues and experimental study of the impact of various psychological factors on the shape and course of various diseases. (Trull & Prinstein, 2013) A common task of the clinical psychologist in the medical institution is its involvement in the differential diagnosis of various diseases, treatment and social and labor adaptation of patients. First, it is to ...

Trade unions, as well as industrial actions, can be dated back to the industrial revolution in the eighteenth century. Notably, labor unions are organizations that have been set up by workers in particular professions to enable them to achieve common goals. Several issues are usually addressed by the groups, including protection of the rights of the workers, improving working conditions for the workers, increasing the remuneration and benefits of the employees, and enhancing welfare among many other issues (Heckscher & Carré, 2006). In other words, trade unions exist for the sake of the workers. Members use the unions to discuss ...

Google is a search site for everybody. There can be found the information and news about everything. This site is free of charge and very easy to use. The information there is very accessible. Google understands what people mean and gives them what they want, so it is one of the most popular search sites in the world. Many people compare Google with the artificial intelligence. It is really good but it has a lot of minuses. One of them is described in the article of Nicholas Carr “Is Google Making Us Stupid”. The article is very informative. The ...

Behavioral interventions can be grouped as either antecedent-based interventions (ABI) or consequence-based interventions (CBI). CBI is a group of practices in which the problem behaviors are addressed by manipulating the reinforcement or punishment stimuli following an observed behavior, whereas ABI refers to a group of behavioral interventions that are concerned with the modification of environmental factors that are believed to precede problem behaviors (Tullis, Cannella-Malone, & Payne, 2015). Therefore, ABI strategies are implemented before the problem behavior occurs, so their unique quality is the possibility of problem behavior prevention, which makes the behavioral change easier to maintain compared to results ...

Position Paper

Introduction Gone the days when people had to move to the library to find out the desired page of some specific book kept on a particular shelf in order to access the required information. The modern age is the age of technology, and everything is made available on one’s fingertips through the internet. However, pros and cons of this revolutionary technology have been a controversial debate ever since its inception. The writer (of this paper) based on his insight into the matter has the following take on this matter:

“Access to an expanding amount of information on the Internet yields greater good than harm.”

Mostly, the harms are considered to be centered on ...

The demographic transition model and how it was developed by the demographers

Demographic transition is a model describing change in population over a particular period and it is based on two demographic characteristics; birth rates and death rates. The model was developed by Warren Thomson, an American demographer, after observing experimented changes of various countries’ birth rates and death rates over the last two decades (Wilson, 2007).

Four phases of demographic transition model

The four phases of demographic transition are; pre-transition, early transition, late transition, and post transition. During the pre-transition phase, population growth is described to be low. Crude death rates are higher than crude birth rates and so population is declining. During the early transition ...

In XXI century, when the Internet is spreading with unbelievable speed, electronic media becomes the most popular source of getting different information about all things around the world. The sphere of politics is no exception. Today, more and more people prefer to get information through the Internet, cable channels and other electronic media and not to use radio or newspapers, which were regarded as traditional information sources for decades. Young adults compose an overwhelming majority of these new electronic media users. Albeit, having access to the information that is always renovating, young people seem to be not engaged in ...

Introduction

Humankind has entered the age where computers do everything from taxes to math problems even sending emails to family members, many people have gotten to the point where their entire lives are governed by computers or the function of computers; the biggest aspect of this is children being born in the digital age and are being raised on computers or how to use them in non-ideal ways. Although computers are responsible for making life easier for people across the world, it has been noted that people have grown too dependent on computers to do what they used to do ...

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Nursing is a proper administration that helps people to distinguish and create approaches to help in the process of medical intervention and recovery (Blais, 2015). Orem's hypothesis supports a patient-nurse relationship, with consideration being the essential center and a definitive objective is wellbeing reclamation. In other words, it is essential in helping patients recover their health in a quick manner. In this case, it should be noted that patients expect to receive medication that best suits their needs, especially in advanced care. It is imperative to note that stakeholders in this case include patients, significant others, and the medical ...

Technology plays a key role in the lives of people in modern society. Modern life would not be livable, or at least tolerable, without personal computers, the internet, and cellphones. Certainly, my grandparents and parents did not grow up with the most-up-to-date communications technology, and my grandparents, especially, had no access to any of the modern communications advances that younger generations now take for granted. In 50 or so short years, modern communications technology has dramatically changed the way people socialize, conduct business, go to school, and use entertainment on a daily basis. Moreover, the exponential growth of modern ...

It has always been the desire of independent nations to act as such: making their own decisions in accordance to their national interest and sovereignty. It is true that nationalism in this regard condones any form of external intervention and manipulation, especially if these actions can directly influence a nation’s political wellbeing. Such is the case between Cuba and the United States, whereby the history between these two nations during the past century is tainted with controversies concerning not only economic and military policies, but more so about displacing a duly-sworn leader who is deemed as perilous by ...

This paper will conduct a literary analysis of Macbeth. The main purpose of the research is to examine the moral and ethical issues present in the play. In particular, the research examines different aspects of characterization, setting, and imagery in order to provide an in-depth understanding of the ethical and moral issues that surround Macbeth’s plot. From the play, it is clear that Shakespeare uses characterization to depict moral and ethical dilemmas in the play. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are both unethical characters in the play since they are engaged in a number of murders and executions that ...

The US government created a Committee on Public Information (CPI) that was to focus on managing the nation's propaganda efforts, staging pageants, turning out advertisements, press releases, billboards and creating films. The committee was responsible for providing an American ideology of World War I as it intended to educate the American public and gain support for the war (Creel, 1920). The United States recognized the strength that public opinion carries and therefore the government wanted to use this force. One of the ways that the US government tried to influence public opinion from the excerpt was through creating an ...

Reducing Problem Behaviour

Functional communication training, referred to as FCT, is among the most trusted procedures for dealing with severe behaviour problems. Carr and Durand described the treatment process in the publication, which has helped in evaluating and developing new treatment methods. The paper will review and tackle the procedures used in the treatment process and determine the credibility of each step. In essence, the paper will discuss and review the research methods employed by Carr and Durand will be considered and determine how the use of these methods can produce likely results. The study design in this experiment meets the standards ...

Personal Reflection:

Abstract Cultural bias is a condition that can have great effect upon the education of a student. In Canada it has been seen that while immigrants are quite welcome and even encouraged to settle within the provinces, they are still seen as second-class in several ways. Two of those ways involve their place in education and their cultural identities. While Canada is renowned for its acceptance of many various races and peoples, it is not as well known for its quiet assimilation of its immigrants into the Canadian culture. Immigrants are not paid as much, do not always receive ...

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1. It is the responsibility of a leader to earn the trust of his employees that they can have full confidence in their leader in hard times. For that, it is necessary that the leader should reflect ethical leadership qualities to gain the trust and creates a good environment of the organization. It can be said that it is the internal consistency, proactivity, and backup strategies that help leaders to prove themselves. By putting aside ego and anger while dealing with an employee, a leader can make his position strong within the organization. A clear and coherent ethical ...

Management: Empire Company Limited.

A SWOT analysis is a well formulated guideline for growth analysis. The guideline is almost applicable in all business enterprises; therefore, for the case of Empire Company Limited, it is the most appropriate method. Even though Empire has been in the market for 108 years, it still needs to analyze itself before taking out the best measures in alignment to its growth strategy and sustainability issues (Judge, 2012). The mnemonic SWOT is a word used in place of the four major aspects of evaluation, that is, strength, opportunity, weakness and threats. The four aspects of evaluation are evident in ...

The Transportations Systems Sector, Department of Transportation, is a US federal government body that is involved with the safety, timeliness, and security of the transportation sector within the country and overseas.

Position title and Job Responsibilities:

I work for the US government under the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation, Transportation Systems Sector as a Logistics Manager. As a logistics manager and head at the Office of Logistics Management, I oversee warehousing and transportation management through effective documentation and filing of processes and equipment status. In addition, there are responsibilities to develop policies that help in professional development and improvement of ...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia

Abstract The intensive care unit in most hospitals plays the role of providing care to patients dealing with life-threatening conditions. The technological and other set ups in these hospital units are vital in ensuring that these patients continue to receive the best regarding care while with the intentions of having them emerge with desirable outcomes. There are however challenges relating to the care that these patients receive since, in most cases, they are usually under mechanical ventilation. A patient under this condition faces the risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia if the ventilators are not handled with the required care. ...

1. Introduction In terms of business, leading a change refers to the development and management of any change on organizational level. It includes identifying the need for change, devising the ways to communicate with managers and workforce, and considerations relating to its implementation and monitoring (Elearn Limited (Great Britain), 2007; Smith et al., 2014; Pugh & Mayle, 2009). This report is based on the analysis of change management practices utilized by the CEO of a coal mining company namely Patrick Dawson. The CEO has introduced a new appraisal system for its underground workforce based on the sample performance evaluation process ...

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For a while, the role of computers was ignored because people never thought it could be the next big thing in the world. They never understood that the invention was the best way of automating services and granting them a change within the system (Carr, 2003). The benefits accrued from the utilization of the computers have grown in various measures over the past decade, an attribute that has made their presence equivocal in the growth of various ventures. Just as Facebook did, many more platforms will be developed to help people communicate, share and be in touch despite the ...

Abstract

Profound education is the basis for the successful career development and personal growth of any individual. Many scholars are trying to give an answer to the question of what makes the learning process more effective. Different aspects of learning theory provide answers to some of these questions. Theories of learning can be grouped into following three categories: behaviorist learning theories, cognitivist learning theories, and constructivist learning theories. Many researchers pay much attention to the process of scaffolding that is actively discussed as a significant element of learning process. The researcher Albert Bandura has devoted a number of his scientific ...

During ancient times, the Greeks would turn to the gods for advice and intervention when presented with a problem whether it was to bring the rain to save their crops so that their families could eat or in the case of Oresteia, to decide whether or not a person accused of murder was truly guilty. The goddess they often turned to for guidance was the goddess Themis whose “ability to foresee the future enabled her to become one of the oracles at Delphi, which in turn led to her establishment as the goddess of divine justice” (Swatt, “Themis, Goddess ...

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Acknowledgements

This project paper demonstrates the integration of the knowledge I acquired from the courses in Master of Health Administration and Leadership Program and the collaborative application with this project’s community partner, MidMichigan Health to improve the community health in Gratiot County, Michigan. I am thankful for getting this valuable opportunity to work with a large healthcare organization. First and foremost, I would like to thank my parents who worked really hard to financially and emotionally support me in pursuing further education overseas. They comfort me every ...

Human Sexuality

According to Stahly and Corrigan (2012), gender identity is explained as a concept that involves the identification and perception of self in relation to one’s either masculine or feminine traits. The society perceives a clear distinction between masculinity and femininity and their associated roles and features. In this case, boys are expected to be rough and engage in sports as well as being assertive and confident with excellent leadership skills. On the other hand, girls are supposed to be gentle and sensitive, and also carry themselves with ease and poise. However, there are other categories that are not ...

There are some leadership characteristics that different between both of the characters. Sam Nolan believes that human intelligence can collaborate with technology to make employee’s jobs easier and the company will run a lot faster. Some of these things include linking the internal resources between each other, saving on the training costs, conducting job interviews more easily, and double the amount of internal employees hired. Tom Carr has no leadership skills. He wants to use the old management style and he does not care how his actions are going to impact other people. Sam Nolan is about globalization, ...

Introduction:

Physician assisted suicide is the act of destroying one’s own life with the assistance of a physician. According to Walker (25), in Oregon based on a terminally ill patient’s request a physician can prescribe a lethal dose of medication to take the life of a patient. To stop the pain what ethical issues surround the termination of the life of a terminally ill patient? Who bears the responsibility of making this decision? Is it the patient, the medical practitioner, or the patient’s relatives? What considerations are required before making the decision to end a patient’s ...

Is Google making is Stupid

Introduction The article analyzes the way the internet has taken over our whole world and developed a world where we are completely reliant on using the internet for everything we need. The internet has created a world around us that has led us humans to stop thinking anymore, rather use the internet for anything as their thinking device. The worst part is that the internet provides an easy pass to people and makes them lazy and dependent. The article provides a brief analysis of the situation at hand and how humans are becoming stupider with time. Today, people cannot ...

Introduction

Background of the Study Carr defines terrorism as an illegitimate way (through use of violence) of attempting to change the political, social, religious or economic position (Carr, 2007). In the 21st century, this vice has become the single-most threat to the security of many nations. From USA to Nigeria, South Africa to Kenya, the impact of terrorism has been deeply felt. The attacks on the twin towers of America’s World Trade Center and the move by Boko Haram to kidnap students in the name of promoting terrorism activities has led to high-profile discussions on how this vice should ...

Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare and The Bluest Eye is a novel written by Toni Morrison. Both Macbeth and The Bluest Eye deal with human nature and its striving to reach the best possible state of existence. The goal of Macbeth and his wife is to gain power at all costs which deprives them of humanity. Pecola also wants to improve her life which is why she wishes to have blue eyes. There is much suffering and fight for power in these texts as well as the age all problem of evil which affects all people. ...

“Is Google Making Us Stupid?”

Since its creation in the 1990s, the internet has been an immense tool in acquiring knowledge in an instant. To help with the pursuit of knowledge, search engines, such as Google, have continuously been created in hopes of being the better way of finding specific information. Recently, there has been some concern about the constant use of Google and how it affects peoples’ mentality. The people who are against using Google on every search claim that the engine is making people stupid by replacing learning knowledge and critical thinking skills with simply obtaining information at the quickest convenience. It ...

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Public and private schools, colleges and universities are increasingly spending much resources implementing technology for use in the teaching and learning processes in their institutions. Indeed, the proliferation of technology in the daily lives of people is spurring increased adoption of education technologies in these institutions. However, despite its wide acceptance in the private lives of many people, and evidence of easing daily tasks, adoption of technology in the teaching and learning experiences in schools remains challenging, with the full extent of its achievement still debatable. The advocates of integration of technology in the classroom acclaim that once technology ...

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Introduction Technology is often portrayed in popular media and literature as something that conflicts with man’s safety and well-being. Themes of apprehension regarding technology can be observed even in short stories, which aim to promote awareness towards the negative impact of technology to society. The American author, Ray Bradbury, is one of the many authors that express their activism towards the negative impact of technology. Two of his works, ‘The Veldt’ and ‘The Pedestrian,’ have themes that make people think about the underlying drawbacks of technology. In general, ‘The Veldt’ and ‘The Pedestrian,’ creates awareness about ...

This essay will discuss the concept of interpersonal relationships and the strengths and weaknesses of Narrative Therapy within professional and family relationship environments. The client is the expert on her/his life and the therapist focusses on the person and not the problem, conducting therapeutic conversations that externalize the problem. This is the concept of Narrative Therapy (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2004, pp. 343-344). Narrative Therapy views problems as separate from people and assumes that people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values and abilities that change their relationship with the problems in their lives (Freedman & Combs, 2000, pp. 400-404). For example, were ...

A good few decades from today, there was a time when manual labor was a significant part of a number of jobs of the day. Since then, technology has made more than remarkable progress, and as computer algorithms took over the simple tasks of the human mind, the businessman has invested more and more in the machine that could get the job done in less time and with more consistency. The labor force was in a fix over the possibility of running out of jobs that did not require as much skill and that worry carried on and is ...

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Every country exhibits two kinds of economy, these are the formal and informal economy. However, the formal sector is the most important for every country. It's what determines the country’s position of development as well as growth. Formal economy is made up of all the sectors of the economy that can be taxed. The formal jobs which contribute towards the growth and development of the country and are taxed to make up this kind of the economy. They include companies, industries, big businesses and some medium-sized and small corporations. So long as they pay taxes, the business no ...

ANALYSIS OF COMPUTING NEWS USING ACTOR NETWORK THEORY (ANT)

Module code Analysis of Computing News Using Actor Network Theory (ANT) Introduction Rapid development of digital information technologies has created a new dimension of relationships in the modern society. Nowadays, almost all people encounter with the IT during their daily life, either texting in their smartphone or sending an email on the laptop. At the same time, the interconnections among all actors involved in this process are the subject of constant discussions due to the difficulty of understanding the relationship between human and non-human objects. While it is hard to determine the links between these actors, as they are ...

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The objectification of women in cheerleading has been noted in many several news materials, research articles and online blogs. Women are presented in scantily clad clothes and are assigned to dance in provocative ways to ensure that audience is entertained. Overtime objectification of women and their body parts in cheerleading groups leads to women developing self-objectification traits. Female self-objectification has been defined as "regular exposure to objectifying experiences that socializes girls and women to engage in self-objectification, whereby they come to internalize this view of themselves as an object or collection of body parts” (Szymanski, Moffitt, & Carr, 2010, p. ...

Human resource management (HRM) is tasked with the challenging undertaking of hiring and assigning individuals to roles that they can perform efficiently. In this context, having high knowledge on the effective strategies and policies for recruiting and training employees becomes mandatory. This is practical with the recruitment and management of expatriate managers due to the sophisticated nature of their work. Recruitment entails searching and getting potential job candidates in adequate numbers and quality to appoint the most suitable individuals to fill the desired positions. The selection includes the procedure for collecting information to inform the decision of deciding the ...

History is a ‘process of interaction between historian and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and the past’ (Carr 1) this statement may be supported with the different types of evidence – from literature, sculptures, paintings etc. In the scope of this paper, three following paintings (from V&A Museum in London (vam.ac.uk 1)) - as they represent the contemporary historical periods, would be assessed and their link to the historical background would be provided. The first one is ‘The Death of Ananias’ – Raphael’s Cartoon and Tapestry; the second one is the ‘The Industrial Arts Applied to War’ ...

Casta painting is a genre of visual arts that was popular during the late 18th century in Spain and Mexico. The Spanish word casta roughly translates to the English word, ‘breed’; in other words, the genre of casta painting meant painting based on breed or one’s racial identity. (Frederick 496-499; Carrera 6). In order to understand the original meaning and tradition of the casta, it is important to trace back the roots why the culture of castas even existed in both Mexico and Spain. According to history, Spain was one of the countries in Europe that started the ...

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Supply chain management primarily entails the coordination of functions within an organization as well as tactics used to execute those functions. Also, it involves tasks’ coordination across the partners participating in the supply chain with the principal objective of ensuring improved organizational performance. The definition of the supply chain clearly depicts the nature of the coordination between the partners involved in the business and appreciates the primary purpose of the supply chain management. Apparently, this approach aims at improving organizations’ as well as the individual performance (Lee et al., 116). There are two main components of the supply chain, ...

The River and the Chimp is an analytical book written by David Quammen about how the HIV originated from chimpanzees in an African forest (Quammen, 2015). The acumen of this book challenges the many unscientific beliefs about the origin of HIV and spread. There is a great need to understand where this scourge originated to beat the diverse stereotypical and unscientific beliefs. By examining the works of David Quammen in the book The River and the Chimp, this research paper shall focus on discussing the origin of HIV. The knowledge of the origin of HIV is of immense importance ...

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The article focuses on the notion that every human being has the dignity of having been made the image of the Supreme God. It is considered the most fundamental principle every Christians’ moral life. God has bestowed an immortal soul to every humankind and the gift of intelligence as well as the reason to aid us in understanding the perfect order of things as established in His magnificent creation. Additionally, God has given the humankind freedom to endeavor as well as love the things that are true, beautiful and good. Nevertheless, all humanity suffers the ramifications of the original ...

Bullying refers to aggression characterized by repetitive intentional psychological or physical oppression involving abuse of power in relationships to control or cause distress (Carr-Cregg). In this respect, bullying may include physical violence and destruction of property, extreme criticism, and other verbal abuses. In some instances, bullying may be hard to distinguish from friendly jokes among children (“Bullying and mental health,” 6). Bullying in schools needs to stop because it has adverse effects on both the bully and the victim. Moreover, the bullied student may develop headaches and may fear visiting lavatories or travel by school buses were if the ...

World War I made a devastating impact on Russian empire. At the break of the war, August 1914, Russia responded by patriotically rallying around Nicholas II. Some of the effects included: overthrowing the Romanovs who had ruled Russia for over 300 years and weakening of the Russian military that relied on its poor infrastructure. In 1917, the Germans had gained full control over Russia. The realization of this impact made the Russian army to rebel orders given by the German military. Exaggeration on small events led to the Russian army’s interest to attack Germany. The results were devastating ...

All men are created equal are the strong immortal words written by Thomas Jefferson at the beginning of “The Declaration of Independence” that resonated through the entire history of American. Jefferson made a clear declaration of the nature law that “all men are created equal,” which says all men are born free, and each comes into this world with inclusive human rights of liberty, either of using or moving it at his or her own (Becker). Also, Jefferson continued to describe it a personal liberty that is totally given to an individual by the Creator of nature due to ...

The article “Is Google making us stupid?” by Nicolas Carr talks about the adverse effects of the Net in man’s way of thinking. This issue is something that’s been under discussion and has been a subject of studies by many scientists and scholars alike. Studies about its effects of man’s cognitive skills is also under way. The amount of interest that the Net has aroused in man shows that it has become an influential factor in man’s life, and with man’s continuous reliance on using it for almost every aspect of his life only ...