Essays on Colleen

In the history of American law and justice, the first juvenile court was established in1899. The Juvenile Justice and Correctional Process is made up of a few phases that are utilized to help the child whose age ranges between 7 to 18 years for the interest of the both the society and the youths. In addition, there are guidelines on judgment techniques, circumstances, and contribution that contrast inside states. Thus, the objective of this essay is to investigate the juvenile procedure and correction in California while considering the case study of Colleen a 15 year old who was arrested ...

Active Listening Stimulates Sex Life

The workbook titled “Building strong marriages” written by a group called Prepare & Enrich points out that active listening is the capability to let one’s partner know he/she understands the other by restating the message. In one sharing his or her wish list with the partner, he/she will be showing his or her assertiveness. Moreover, in offering feedback to the partner regarding one’s wish list, one will be showing his or her active listening skills. Indeed, when each person knows what the partner wants and feels and when both of them know they have been heard and understood, ...

Abstract

A caring disposition is a highly crucial aspect in service leadership. It is a fundamental attribute in today’s workplace settings that provide a unique system to which a good service leader can be assessed. In essence, a caring disposition encompasses powerful knowledge that is particularly efficient in formulating and implementing team approaches in ensuring the delivery of a successful leadership practice. This term paper seeks to discuss important concepts in caring disposition and how it promotes service leadership. The introductory part of the paper creates a clear understanding service leadership. In the first section of the term paper, ...

PepsiCo is notably a world leader in the production of convenience foods, as well as, drinks. PepsiCo has numerous portfolios with a representation in over two hundred countries. Worth noting is that it has been regularly considered as a world leader in its field but has often come in the second position following Coca-Cola Company. This makes the problem of competition as offered by its primary rival competitor, Coca-Cola, be the greatest challenge that PepsiCo faces.

Evidence

As having been identified by an employee of PepsiCo, the only sure way to success for the company would be beating Coca-Cola as ...

The harsh laws that prohibit the possession and selling of drugs revolve around the need to not only curb production levels but also to reduce the rates of substance abuse in the ongoing war against the same. Subsequently, the penalties set against distribution, from the societal to international levels, are harsher in comparison to those of possession. After all, unlike the distributor, whoever possesses a drug may have a legal sanction to do so within specific parameters. For instance, in the United States, the use of medical marijuana to alleviate pain is acceptable in certain jurisdictions. Now, possession aside, ...

A History

How the past is perceived and how the many stories we pass on from generation to generation are preserved has a great deal to do with what religion holds sway in that time and of course, how popular culture chooses to depict historical events. Many upon many visions of the past have likely been skewed to serve a greater purpose or expunge qualities and practices of a culture that do not paint a pleasant picture of those who are descended from those who participated in such events. Religion tends to give voice to the past in a manner that ...

Introduction

Education is essential in fostering cognitive and moral developments in a learner. In fact, Churchill (103) argues that learning institutions ought to base their curriculum on the betterment of student’s knowledge by fostering ethical values such as equality, fairness, lack of discrimination and respect for culture. However, residential schools threatened the development of this conservative ideology through the establishments of their education systems. They fostered not only cultural discrimination but also student abuse. According to the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, the establishment of these institutions was based on two core objectives, which included the isolation of young ...

With the advent of technological advancements, people have learned on how to use Twitter as a tool to share valuable information or tips. Businesses started using Twitter to market their business; they have used Twitter to give away discount coupons for their services and products. There is several business networking events that are being promoted exclusively on Twitter. Twitter is being used to promote business interests. Businessmen use Twitter exclusively for research and to follow fellow leaders in the industry. Businesses utilize Twitter daily to primarily monitor their brand in the market and to spy on their competitors (Prodromou 3). ...

The Chicago Tribune article titled High ranking US military officer goes on trial for sex charges had been published on March 4th 2014. The article is on the trail of Army Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, who was earlier the deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne Division. Sinclair’s court martial is one of the few occurrences in the US armed forces that involved high ranking officers. He is only the third army general in over half a century to face court martial proceedings. The general, aged 51, is accused of forcing a junior woman officer to have sex and threatening her ...

After I finished “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” my first thoughts centered on how tragic it is when parents fail to give their children a sense of acceptance. It’s clear that Colleen’s dad wants to do well for his family, because he works hard, but the price for this is that his daughter has so little self-esteem that she falls for the whiles of Arnold Friend and his golden car. There’s nothing wrong with Colleen wanting an afternoon to herself while the family goes out, but the fact that she does this on a holiday ...

Total return refers to all the returns from investments. These include capital gains, interest, distribution, and dividends (Colleen M. Jaconetti, Francis M. Kinniry, and Christopher B. Philips, 2012. P. 13). Therefore, the total shareholder returns is the actual measure of the total earning from an investment. The total share returns may offer insights on the current returns, but proves to be more useful if used over a long-term period (Janet Tavakoli, n.d). It can be used to compare the rate of returns in two successive periods. The total returns offer the best single indicator on returns. For example, assuming ...

The essays in the book by Richard D. Hecht and Vincent F. Biondo explain the key facets of the important interactions between the culture and religion. The focus of the authors is essentially from the post modern world although the relationships in the text are continually in flux history. Every chapter of this text moves so that the authors cover all the angles of a topic from various religious perspectives. Each part of the text shows the interweaving of culture and religion. It is worth mentioning that every chapter of the book helps the reader to comprehend why it is ...

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Individual approaches in social ecological health promotion programs involve focusing on individual based change for health promotion. It focuses on providing individuals with information that will help them in prevention mechanisms for diseases. It also involves instilling the belief that treatment interventions will improve the health of a sick individual (Schneider, 2011). This paper will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of using individual approaches in the larger context of social ecological health promotion programs. There are a number of benefits associated with individual approaches in social ecological health promotion programs. To begin with, individual approaches promote the uptake of health ...

For long scholars have noted that there are many similarities between the Egyptian proverbs of Amenemope; chapters III to XXII and the Words of the Wise particularly chapters 22:17 to 24:22. Although various individuals have drawn different accounts of the similarity, the general unanimity seems to be that the Words of the Wise borrows from Amenemope’s instructions. These two texts depict a concrete parallelism though not a literal copying of words. This paper examines the underlying parallelism; beginning with the specifics then analyzing it. It is evident from the two works that they both begin by asking the reader ...

“How Will Genetic Technology Shape Personalized Medicine?”By Colleen Cancio, published on Discovery Fit & Health online magazine, gives a brief insight into personalized medicine. Initially, Cancio observes that contrary to the general perception, the practice of personalized medicine dates back to the ancient times of Hippocrates. He states that Hippocrates prescribed different elixirs to different patients (Cancio). In general, Cancio focuses briefly on three aspects: background information on genetic technology and personalized medicine, the genetic technology that are being applied currently in the practice of personalized medicine, challenges of their use in personalized medicine, and how they will influence healthcare ...

Technology has come of age in the world today. Innovations everywhere are coming thick and fast. This said and done, there is one sector that has taken us by storm that is, the social networking. It is a means of communication among people through which they interact by sharing and exchanging details, information and ideas in virtual communities and networks (Beheshti, Jamshid 54-57). It introduces substantial and wide spread changes to communication between communities, organization and individuals. Social networking has turned the world into a global village. This is simply because people all over the world are able to keep in ...

When students move from their home country to a new country, no matter how ready they are, the experience is shocking. The shock of the new environment is devastating. It is the shock of being separated from their friends and loved ones. When familiar sites are not there anymore, they are open to a new type of food that they are not aware of. This is the effect international students go through when moving to a different country. Culture shock is a common problem that affects international students. Transnational students even though they had planned and ready for the change in cultures, ...

Colleen J. McElroy’s poem, “Military Woman: Evolution,” is a poem that describes the changes a woman experiences while spending a career in the military. It is written from the point of view of the woman herself. McElroy makes use of several poetic devices including speaker, voice, structure, tone, imagery, and repetition to demonstrate to readers that the evolution this military woman experiences is an evolution of not only her view of woman in the military, but also her self as a woman and as a military woman. McElroy’s choice to write this poem from a first person point of view and to ...

Introduction

While several changes in American culture have taken place, especially in fashion and film, more attributes are linked to the film industry, Coco Chanel and the Victorian era, which had great influence on women fashion and their relationship. To this end, Joshua Zeitz postulated that "??the younger generation has been changing through the last twenty years"?? (Zeitz, 2007). Moreover, "??girls, for instance, have found the accent shifted from chemical purity to breadth of viewpoint, intellectual charm, and piquant cleverness"?? (Zeitz, 2007). Women are normally influenced by the ever-changing fashion trends. Indeed, in many occasions, every woman likes ...

Cheating in school has become rampant in the recent years. This can be attributed to several factors that lead student to engage in such unethical and skewed behavior of cheating. Cheating in schools can be because the institutions’ negligence when dealing with cases of cheating hence, students finds cheating an easy way of passing exams. On the other hand, it could be that students are misled by each other into engaging in academically unproductive activities and later on finding ways of cheating in order to achieve good grades. The reasons why student cheat vary from one setting to another. ...

The Role of Women as a Wife and a Mother in the 1870s

Throughout history, men are considered the dominant actors in political, social, economic, and military events. Rarely could one see a woman’s name in historical events in these fields, even see literature depicting the successes of these women without first touching their not so grandiose history, which usually depicted many hardships as compared to the history of heroic men one hears about. One reason for this rare occurrence is the fact that women back in the early centuries did not possess much power, right, and liberty in a male dominated ...

The juvenile justice organization is rooted in the normal criminal justice organization. The major objective of a juvenile court might be different from the criminal court; however, the procedures have resemblance in application. The organizations are anchored in shielding society and seizing criminals responsible for their deeds. Once a juvenile, in this case Colleen M, goes into the juvenile justice structure, she goes through the intake procedure, detention, adjudication, disposition and aftercare (Scholte, 2002). The initial stage is intake. The intake procedure is also recognized as prosecution in the adult courts. In this stage, the court or prosecutor establishes whether ...