Essays on Contemplation

Since the dawn of our human civilization, people have been trying to find the most effective way of building their behavior. Historically, the patterns of people’s activity have been directly connected to the society itself. Therefore, the social and political utility of the human operations is one of the determining factors. As a result, the behavior of the community, formed by the patterns of personalities, has become an extremely complex system of reasons and consequence. Hannah Arendt addresses the topic of the human being’s behavior in the context of the political history. The Human Condition is her ...

Transtheoretical model is the most convincing model since it integrates the process of intentional change. This model is better than the other models because it incorporates the central constructs from the other theories into a comprehensive theory of change and applies widely to various fields of behaviors, populations, and settings. The transtheoretical model recognizes that change occurs in a progressive manner involving five major stages of change that can either take place in a linear of a non-linear way. The steps include pre-contemplation (not ready), contemplation (getting ready), preparation (ready), action and maintenance. This model played a major part ...

Self-efficacy is a potent and consistent construct that is relevant to performance and motivation. It has been used as a model of motivation in several applied contexts such as in health, education, occupation and other settings. Self-efficacy relates to the individual belief that one can perform a particular task or act in a certain way and exercise control over events (Sawyer, Peters, & Willis, 2013). This means it can be thought of as an aspect of hope or optimism. This is a critical determinant of behavioral change and thus self-efficacy and behavioral control are seen as synonymous constructs. Self-efficacy works ...

As a matter of fact and law, it is indeed true that to successfully bring a claim in negligence, the claimant has to prove on a balance of probabilities the existence of a duty of care, breach of that duty by the defendant and a resultant loss, harm or injury to them. This is known as "the three-part test" for negligence. In addition to these essential elements of the tort of negligence, no defenses should be applicable if a claim is to succeed. However, successfully proving the existence of these elements and getting remedies from courts is not a ...

Introduction

Nowadays, people are becoming more at risk of different types of illnesses. The acquisition of these diseases may have been caused by different factors, such as food intake, alcohol drinking, smoking, and many others. Generally, individual’s health may rely on how a person takes care of the body itself. Lifestyle plays significant roles in promoting good health as well as in disease prevention. One of the illnesses that affect many individuals is the Diabetes. The purpose of this study is to present the factors that influence the development of diabetes as well as the essential approached that can ...

Issues

This case concerns the analysis of the validity of the offer and its acceptance under the terms and rules of the contract law made in different forms by virtue of the advertisements in the newspaper.

Contractual relations are comprised out of two primary pillars as the offer and acceptance. In fact, the one party to the contractual relations should provide the other one with the offer. In case the second party accepts this offer this implies that these people have entered into the legal and binding relations. Given the merits of the case, one may see that Philip plays ...

BODY AND SOUL RELATIONSHIP FROM GREAT THINKERS

Body and Soul relationship The relationship between body and soul has been the main concern for many thinkers since the beginning of the history of philosophy. In this paper, we will be exploring this relationship from the perspective of three great thinkers: Plato, Aristotle, and Saint Agustin. They were all interested in this relationship, and as they do have common views, they also differ in many areas. The main concern that these three thinkers have is that the humans are made of both body and soul. They can see and touch the body, but they cannot touch the soul. ...

The first image is from the famous Chinese calligrapher and painter Zhao Zhiqian entitled “Flowers” (Wikimedia Commons). The second image is from a contemporary Minute Maid ad in Chinese their line of “Super Milky” fruit flavored milk drinks (Advertising Age). The most striking difference between the images is calligraphy/characters. In Zhao’s picture, the characters are set off from the picture, almost framed by it. Accordingly, in observing the piece, a viewer is forced to make a choice, either read the characters or view the picture. In other words, one cannot do both. The effect is to allow for ...

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, ...

Cardiovascular disease remains a major life threating disease facing many American communities. The risk is higher in the underserved communities especially in the remote parts of the country which west (2014) attributes to insufficient health education. According to Ewy, managing director of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart center, there has been a decline in the number of cardiovascular diseases related deaths from 40% to the current 34% of the total deaths in the America. The improvement has been attributed to timely treatment of causal diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure among other heart diseases that continue to ...

Learning is an important aspect of acquiring knowledge; people strive to gain knowledge because knowledge empowers individuals in the community setting. Knowledge includes all the facts, information, and relevant skills. Knowledge is acquired through experience or education experience gives an individual a practical understanding whereas education creates theoretical knowledge. Engberg-Pedersen, Troels assesses that practical and theoretical knowledge are interdependent. Most tasks require theoretical knowledge to practice them, the act of expressing knowledge regarding acts and skills is referred to as practical knowledge whereas the ability to have moral guidance and framework of how things should be carried out is ...

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Introduction

No one could have anticipated the scope of integration and pervasiveness of the internet in contemporary societies. Since its inception, the internet has undergone unprecedented growth in its reach and applications to become a staple in various sectors of the economy. A key technological revolution that accompanied its development was the emergence of social media as a primary platform for communication. Social media refers to web-based tools and services aimed at fostering community development through information sharing (Tarantino, McDonough, & Hua, 2013). They include blogs, wikis, sharing tools, networking platforms, media (e.g. video, audio, photo, and text), ...

Philosophy

Explain the connections between pleasure, contemplation, and judgment in aesthetic appreciation. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy; it is type of quality hypothesis or axiology, which is the investigation of sensory or sensori-passionate qualities, called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is connected with the logic of art. Style is once in a while called "the investigation of magnificence". Judgments of aesthetics esteem depend on our capacity to separate at a tactile level. Aesthetics looks at what makes something wonderful, glorious, appalling, fun, adorable, senseless, enthralling, bombastic, empowering, grating, agreeable, exhausting, comical, or disastrous. Tactile separation is connected to ...

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Question: What does it mean to think critically about the world today? To what extent is such critical thought an important guide for action? Critical Response to Maggi Nelson’s “Great to Watch,” Karen Armstrong’s “Homo Religiosus” and Karen Ho’s “Biographies of Hegemony”

“[The ultimate] could not be accessed by rational, discursive but required a careful cultivated state of mind(Armstrong 18)”

The above quotation represents the viewpoint of one academic as it pertains to critical thinking. However, as one read and analyzes the canon of literature available on the subject, one will discover that there are varying opinions related to the task of critical thought in today’s world. Additionally, there ...

Rubbish in Design

INTRODUCTION The question of rubbish in design has assumed increasing significance in recent years. The late modernity in artistic expression, particularly in design, has made a strong case of incorporating everyday elements into different artistic expressions including, most notably, painting, sculpture, photography and installations. In so doing, artistic expression has metamorphosed from a rather distanced engagement in "mundane" (made into loftier expressions by professional artistic design) into an actual immersion into day-to-day actualities in order to render "real" objects in different kaleidoscopic representations, particularly in still and video installations. The emergence of rubbish (assuming "rubbish" is disposable objects ridded ...

1.2 Religion, Mega Events, and Tourism 1.2.1 Introduction This section seeks to discuss into detail the association and interrelationship between religion, mega events, and tourism. In essence, the section reviews some of the perspective, observations, and critiques of these three aspects by previous authors. Jafari (1988) acknowledges that sporting events such as the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, Expo, and other related competitions which mostly attract audience from every part of the globe play a significant role in determining the tourism patterns. Understandably, they provide tourism opportunities for the host countries bearing in mind that visitors flock into the ...

Transtheoretical model of nursing in Obesity Management

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Introduction

Health promotion and nursing theories are strategically proposed to make people and health practitioners aware of managing and controlling different health related conditions. These approach mostly focus on primary and advanced care of a disease. Nursing theories and models are proposed in an expanded form of care that interferes with the whole environment surrounding an individual and involves a range of social and behavioral interventions. There are various nursing theories and models proposed from time to time to manage the health related issues. In this essay, the Trans Theoretical Model (TTM) based nursing intervention ...

Mysticism refers to the religious practice in which one believes that if they pray or think deeply they can gain knowledge of spiritual truth. A mystic is one who practices mysticism by directly communicating with what s/he considers to be absolute reality. Mystics also report experiences with God or spiritual encounters through insight and intuition. For instance, Elizabeth Seton was led by the spirit of God in her to other newer horizons beyond those shaped by her culture into liturgy, scripture, friends and external trials (Flannelly, 2000). Contemplation refers to the act of thinking about something deeply. In spiritual ...

People will always go to great lengths to avoid seeing the truth. People view the world in a prejudiced manner that allows them to see what they want to see rather than what they should see. Invisibility is a major theme in Ellison’s book “Invisible Man.” In the book, the narrator illustrates his invisibility in a bid to find his own identity as a black person in an era where racial segregation was rife in America. The narrator decided that the world lacks people of credibility and is only filled with blind men who cannot judge him for ...

PRIORITY STRESSOR

I chose poor dieting as a priority stressor I would like to change. I am aware of the existence of a direct relationship between dieting, exercise and the body’s level of risk for disability and diseases. That is, my poor eating behavior would be the primary cause of ill health. Presently, my diet mainly involves an indulging in fast foods and processed products. Items that make such a menu include French fries, sausages, burgers, and pies. Therefore, I need to reduce my intake of such products to reduce my risk of developing coronary heart disease and obesity.

RATIONALE

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“...August 8, 1967 marks the death of Joyce Wilson Jones whose mortal body was absolved by Christ, and she was laid to rest after being overcome by alcoholism. Joyce was my biological mother, and I watched her suffer stubbornly to the disease of addiction making this essay the most difficult one to approach, perhaps the most difficult of tasks in all my collage years….” Death is one of the major causes of denial since one may not be able to accept the reality of the loss, Knapp, (1996) “re-opened a deep, dark wound that lay dormant in ...