Essays on Castellano

According to Healthy People 2020 (2017), DM tends to occur when the body fails to produce sufficient insulin or fails to respond effectively to insulin. Insulin is responsible for the release of sugar required to energize the body’s cells. Therefore, when the insulin signaling system is affected, the body suffers from elevated levels of blood glucose, leading to metabolic abnormalities. Healthy People 2020 (2017) identifies three types of DM as expounded below: Type 1 Diabetes- This condition is commonly found in children and young adults. Affected individuals experience extremely high blood sugar levels as a result of the ...

Assess the Security, technology, management and control functions within correctional environments.

Recently, the application of technology in correctional facilities has grown immensely as it assists to make prisons and jails safer. For instance, the millimetre wave imaging system has been used applied to scan visitors at these facilities. The system has proved effective because of its ability to look through an attire and sense weapons, non-metallic objects, and communication gadgets like mobile phones. The limitation of this technology is that it present the images of the body as they are making most people term it unacceptable. Moreover, most correctional facilities have implemented metal detection systems to scan both visitors and ...

The articles presented examine the emerging phenomenon of specialists proposing clinical responses to traumatic events with a philosophical approach. Eastern meditative therapies have been used for extended lengths of time and are becoming more accepted in some professional circles. The unique ideas of the feminist culture are also making headway into mainstream trauma treatments is crisis centers become more empowerment-based.

The basis of all counseling is to create social awareness and help victims of trauma cope and grow through intervention. Every counselor should have as his or her goal readjustment and function after crisis. According to James (2008), “Creating ...

Human service professionals learn practical skills, techniques and strategies so they can successfully intervene when families have been impacted by a crisis. A crisis may be in the form of a natural disaster such as a tornado, hurricane and/or flood. Each family is unique, therefore the way they handle the trauma of a crisis will be different for each family and for each family member. Predicting what the needs of a family will be if they experience a crisis is almost impossible. A crisis intervention professional has many resources available; a crisis intervention model is valuable as a guide for efficiently and effectively helping a family deal with ...

United States is ranked as the 12th freest economy in 2014 index, this is a point low than last year. The reduction in its score has been as a result of, deterioration in property rights, fiscal freedom, and business freedom. In addition to that U.S is ranked the second place out of three countries in the North America region, therefore, remaining very competitive and well above the world’s regional average (Barro 15). In the year 2013, the gross domestic products of United States, increased from the previous year and was recorded as 2.6 percent. According to Barro 17 the ...

History of the crime family

The Gambino crime family is among the five crime family operating in New York. It is named after its previous leader called Carlo Gambino who controlled the criminal operation of the family from 1959 to 1976 (American Mafia History par. 1). The family originated from the unification of the Salvatore D’Aquila gang and the Morello gang in the 1800s. The group operated in New York for close to twenty years until the incarceration of its boss, Giuseppe Morello. The conviction of the boss and underboss of the gang left a leadership gap that disrupted the gang’s activities. Salvatore ...

Communication with families and critically ill

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Introduction

Critical illness is a lived experience that is sudden and often than not, affects the sufferer or the patient and the family. The condition of the patient throws the family of the patient into a crisis. The critically ill patients normally fall into a situation of total confusion whether at the beginning of their illness or after they have been treated, and they are emerging from a comma. The confusion that they have can be lasting or momentary. The confusion and the various stress levels normally affect the communication between the critically ill patients and their ...

Gotti Junior is a son to late John Gotti, who was a powerful American gangster. He was vey powerful and famous. He was regarded as the most famous and powerful gangster in the American history since Al Capone. John Gotti had grown in poverty with his brothers and turned ton into a career criminal at an early age. His crime activities were mainly at the Ozone Park neighborhood, Queens. He easily rose to prominence because he was the family’s biggest earner. When the Federal Bureau of Investigations indicted several members of the family for selling drugs, Gotti took advantage of a growing ...

In the modern society, we live in a very complex world of gangs. This can be attributed to the contemporary problems and challenges such as poverty, high rates of unemployment, and inequalities that continue to plague both developed and developing nations of the world. A reaction to this is the rapid proliferation of gangs in neighborhoods, increase in criminal activities due to flourishing flow of illegal businesses, and constant cases of insecurity amongst the American people (Franzese, Menard & Cove, 2006). According to Jerome Skolnick, there are two different types of gangs; Neighborhood- based gangs and Entrepreneurial gangs. These gangs ...

Alzheimer is ranked as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Majority of Americans who die due to this condition are around the age bracket of sixty five years and older (“2009 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures.” 237). Research shows that death as a result of this disease is tremendously higher than due to other causes. Around the period 2000 and 2006, stroke deaths decreased by 18%, heart disease by almost 12%, prostate and cancer related deaths by 14%, but death by Alzheimer increased by 47% (“2009 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures.” 237). It is estimated that ...

News Corp

News corp. is one of the world‘s second largest media company, after the Walt Disney Corporation in terms of its yearly income Mphail (2010 (2010, pp.168). It has established a vast and diverse media holding all over the world, these holdings include; Limited, 20th Century Fox, Fox Broadcasting Company, HarperCollins Publishers and many others. News Corp has faced many challenges in the past years. Notably, from the difficulties they face, many people would say it is because of their on purpose actions. These challenges began when the company started engaging itself in illegal unethical issues in its operation.

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Significant Events of December

In the month of December – my birth month – a number of important events occurred, from memorable national landmarks to devastating attacks and gruesome murders. The following is a collection of these events, with information gathered from official resources to help tell these stories.

December 7th, 1941 – Japanese forces under the command of Admiral Hirohito attacked Pearl Harbor, with the goal of preemptively striking the US naval presence before potentially joining the Allies in World War II. Hundreds of Japanese fighters attacked the harbor, destroying four US Navy battleships and killing nearly 2,500 American citizens. This became “a ...