Essays on Curran

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Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). Exploring the Correlates of Perceived Job Dangerousness Among Correctional Staff at a Maximum Security Prison. Criminal Justice Policy Review. 00 (0). DOI: 10.1177/0887403415623618. The signs of mental health disorders do not reveal themselves at work most of the time. Only in rare and isolated instances, will the potency of the problems manifest. In addition, the other correctional officers and staff might not have adequate knowledge to corroborate evidence. Hence, this peer-reviewed paper will provide the parameters for testing. The variables, components, variances, and ...

Annotated Bibliography

Introduction The correctional system in the United States is a complex and overcrowded problem in recent times. The staff in these facilities is often undertrained and overworked. They lack the professional experience and due to heavy attrition rates, are unable to operate any reliable mentoring programs. This gap increases the stress which exceeds the paradigm of work and invades the private lives of the correctional staff. This paper unlocks the psychological problems that fester correctional staff in the United States. Annotated Bibliography 1. Lambert, E. G., Minor, K. I., Gordon, J., Wells, J. B., and Hogan, N. L. (2016). ...

Multiculturalism in the classroom is beneficial for the students and for the general atmosphere at university. Students and instructors need to be from different nationalities because that is what enriches the experience of everybody and raises the influence of the university. People feel best when they are surrounded by people of various cultural, racial and ethnical backgrounds which is why multicultural classroom is what matters most when it comes to the benefits young people can have from their learning experience. The advantages of multicultural classroom are numerous because students have the opportunity to get familiar with other cultures and ...

In the contemporary society, living a moral Christian life is difficult, particularly because of the different messages that people receive from various sources, and as a result of the distancing between man and religion. In the context of a chaotic, rushed and often confusing lifestyle, spirituality often loses grounds in favor of practical concerns. Besides, the globalization of today’s developed societies means that people often live in diverse and non-traditional families, that communities become less homogenous and various religions can be found within the same families and communities. In this context, the Christian believer often finds that the ...

How Nokia Can Reconnect with the Consumers Protocol

Investigators & personnel Principal investigator Other investigators Study Personnel and their affiliations Introduction Consumer’s tastes and preferences in the market are very important to the success of a business. All the products produced by every firm are subject to the consumer demands in the market. The customers demand is affected by different factors in the market. It is the responsibility of every business to carry out the market network and determine the various factors affectingthe sale of their products in the market. The factors determine the success level of an organization within a particular market share. Research is very ...

Part 1: Research Proposal

Introduction The Constitution has always protected the privacy of citizens, but the increased advancement of technology is becoming a threat. Technology is threatening to redefine the privacy of individuals for it to operate efficiently. One of the inventions that have collided with the individual expectations of privacy, which are protected by the Fourth Amendment, is drones. These devices can be used for surveillance (especially against terrorism) and aid in the achievement of the requirements of the Patriot Act. The drones can capture high-resolution images and videos from a distance and transmit them to the source. The American citizens fear ...

Literature review

Section 1: Background Context and rationale for research priorities Lens handling intensifies the incidence of lens contamination. When lens are aseptically removed from the eye, they still have a high probability of harboring microorganisms. During storage, the frequency of positive microbial bioburden remains high than 50%. The presence or movement of microorganisms from the lens to the ocular surface is a route factor for contact lenses related microbial keratitis and inflammation. There is need to priotise research in this area because the results of the studies help people to understand the factors concomitant to infectious and inflammatory complications. When ...

The biological study of criminal behavior is known as bio criminology. The theories suggest that a person deviate from the social norms and moral values due to his/her biological makeup. The biological interpretation of crime originated from the Italian school of criminology. It was advanced in the nineteenth century. A medical criminologist called Cesare Lombroso did a research and proved that crime comes from biological traits that are in some human beings. The theories originated in the year 1810 (Ferrell & Hayward, 2011).The biological theories of crime include: Lombroso’s Theory-This was advanced by an Italian criminologist in 1880s. He ...

Socialization and Culture

Individual identity is shaped by two main factors, socialization, and culture. Explain how these two factors operate to produce identity.

Introduction

Individual identity is defined as distinctive qualities of an individual through which he is recognized. It can also be referred to as distinctive characteristics that are shared by any social group or category. Identity makes one individual distinguished from others as each individual is given a distinct personality that becomes his identification in a society (Gomm, 2004). The concept of personal and individual identity and its dependence upon two main factors of socialization and culture instigates with the assumptions that there ...

Introduction

The origin of internet dates back to a time when people had difficulties in information sharing. The difficulties provided a foundation for a researcher at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, to develop the concept of an internet-based system. This system, as proposed, could read documents in the Hyper Text Mark-up Language found in Universal Resource Locators of websites. In the end, the researcher developed a browser editor in the form of WWW. The hyper-text system incorporated a simple interface that was so easy to use. Consequently, the world was now on its way to the on-line edition since the basic foundation of the ...

Introduction

Information systems have developed in its use in organizations. There have been developments and issues that have been implemented for the purpose of iadopting information systems in organizations. This paper will focus on the concept of databases in organizations.

Overview of database concept

Database concept has been used in organizations to present data and information so that it can be accessed and organized in the right way and manner. The database concept has played a key place in improving data management and access. Database systems have been there for a long time in organizations. Database management systems developed to the current state from plain and ...

Nurses play a pertinent role in process and program improvement in the hospital leading to improvement of care and organizational outcomes (Hickey & Kritek, 2012). The article by Yragui, Silverstein & Johnson (2013), reveals that nursing leadership is critical to an organization in preventing disruptive behaviors. Typically, disruptive behaviors affect staff, patients and visitors, a situation that adversely affects organizational goals. Certainly, nursing professionals are useful in offering solutions to curb hostile and disruptive behaviors in a hospital to enhance the quality of care and organizational outcomes. Hostile behaviors in a hospital may occur in the form of physical or verbal attacks, abusive language, ...

The enlightenment period or the age of enlightenment as it is commonly known is a period in the 18th century where the smartest minds of the time tried to explain formerly unexplainable phenomena using scientific methodology and reasoning as opposed to tradition and faith which were more puritan ideals (Nina, 365). Everything at the time was subject to critical reasoning. Some of the fields that faced the reasonable critique were politics, religion and most importantly literature. Before the enlightenment period the dominant force on knowledge was religion, especially Christianity. The 18hth century saw major transformations with many believing that the ...

Logical fallacies is a term that depicts the mistake of the reason of premise followed by a conclusion. The error is basically due to wrong reasoning either because of false inference, emotional belonging, mistake of reasoning or conscious / unconscious masquerade. The study of fallacies enables us to unleash the false reckoning and the reason behind the reading. From academic perception, the information greatly attributes in the development of authentic research that is constructively aligned with associated research and information. In the course of our day to day activities there are chances that we commit many fallacies without noticing. However, ...

In the course of our day to day activities, there are chances that we commit many fallacies without noticing. However, knowledge of the common fallacies could be useful in avoiding those fallacies. For example, there are various fallacies perpetuated in both the print and the electronic media. A case in point is a ‘WikiHow’ tutorial on ‘How to Get Rich.’'The article lists five key things: saving money, reducing living expenses, investing, enriching oneself through a career, and going mortgage free. The author of the article commits Dicto Simpliciter. Max Shulman defined Dicto Simplifier as “an argument based on an unqualified ...

Instruction

Individuals exist in a culture that is reliant on social relations whether with the outside community or close family structure. Individual personality and behavior mirrors who we are as persons. Our behavior and personality are factors that can be viewed to be beyond our control and psychologists have taken quite some time to study how people behave and the reasons for the divergent behavior in human being. This paper shall seek to analyze the character of Jenny Curran from the movie Forrest Gump using the personality theories of psychoanalytic and traits. Jenny Curran, though not a chief character, is very influential ...

EMPLOYMENT LAW: U.S. VS EU Employment laws hold greater significance because they tend to elaborate the rights of both the employees and the employers. They actually provide a structure to the workplace as they clearly define the responsibilities and duties of the employees as well as the employers. In addition, these laws also hold significance because they ensure the provision of focus of the business on productivity rather than wasting their resources on solving conflicts and problems. During 2012, around 19 major strikes took place in the United States where each involved an average of 1000 workers; the result ...

Upon first glance, the purpose of the news media is to provide facts to the citizenry to encourage educated civic engagement within the country. However, a closer examination of the news media indicates that there are a number of problems that exist in regards to this particular thesis. Media and democracy have a much more complex relationship than is often understood by the average layperson, and this can have negative consequences on the educational level of the public, as the average person may not have the knowledge or understanding of the complex relationship between government, democracy, and media to appropriately assess the ...

Elsa’s Post Response

Elsa, according to Lyons (2010), the organizational culture of a health facility dictates the relationships among the patients, families and the healthcare personnel, and streamlines the care delivery process, which is what you are talking about. Good relationships among the nursing care team enhance collaboration and teamwork, while partnership with the families and the community, which your health facility emphasizes as you assert, are important in delivering patient- and family-centered, evidence-based care (Greenstein, 2012). An organizational culture based on cooperation, transparency and quality is important in delivering the best healthcare services to patients (Lyons, 2010). The culture of the institution ...

There are two sides of a human being that portrays one while giving a speech to the audience. The first side of a speech is the professional part of you and the personal part, which are guided by what you feel about the current issue. This is evident in the speech that Mr. Keating gave while launching the international year for indigenous people of Australia. What is seen in the speech the prime minister gave is a complete version of the professional part of the home. He was expressing was what the law ought to be used to take care of the aboriginals ...

Film studies

Introduction In the present day films are indentified through movie stars which has been successful in the past, sometimes it comes to certain genres. Singing in the rain, stardom and the famous music would be narrative based on singing. Genres are making a knowing statement about Hollywood and the importance of history and the state in 1950s and shows pros and cons of Hollywood throughout.

Nowadays, the films are based on conventional classification (for example, in the TV listings magazine) "thriller", "westerns" and so on and the genre in modern society, every adult familiar with the TV, so it ...

Introduction

The aim of the research paper is to discover and investigate the principle of tragedy so that we can get an insight relationship between human conditions and the tragedy in literature. The research paper aims to discover the various types if tragedy that befell Macbeth and other characters in Shakespeare’s play. This dissertation will also identify how these tragedies are important in defining and modeling the society. Shakespeare uses the character Macbeth to communicate the theme of tragedy that can lead to destruction and failure of all ambitions of a human being. He discusses a series of tragedies that Macbeth ...

Consumer behavior is the process of selection, purchase and development of a consumption trend of goods and services (HOYER and MACINNIS 2008 pp. 39). Consumer behavior develops in stages; initially the consumer finds out the preferences, and then selects the commodities with high utility levels. The consumer then makes an estimate with the available money and the expected expenditures. An analysis of the prevailing prices of compliments and substitutes is then made, and the decision on the suitable product follows. Consumer behavior is influenced by factors such as culture, social, psychological and personal (BROGAN, 2010). Consumer behavior is varying, ...

Abstract

Whether the effects of media on society are direct or limited has been a topic of debate for quite a long time. The effects of media touch on all classes of society. The effects of media touch on such spheres as the political sphere, the religious sphere, the education sector, the business sector as well as the entire corporate practice. Contrary to the assumptions of the limited effects theory, the effect of the media on society is direct. In other words, the media affects the society directly. This paper seeks to validate this argument through focusing on the scholarly views and ...

According to Conover, Skloot, in her book, addresses the gigantic issues of medical experiments as to “who owns our bodies, the use and misuse of medical authority, the unhealed wounds of slavery” (qtd in Skloot 2). Skloot addresses story in the history of the United State’s medical field whose past is clouded by a dark history of human medical experimentations. The dark history in western medicine shows a record of horrifying events of medical experiment carried out on patients. Unfortunately, many of such experiments have been performed on children, impoverished people, and other marginalized vulnerable groups. As if that is ...

Romanticism as a literary genre appeared in English literature with the publication of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads in the 1790s, which was followed by the works of poets such as William Blake, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelly, Lord Byron and many others. Subsequently, Romanticism spread to German and French speaking areas, with writers such as E.T.A. Hoffmann and Victor Hugo. It owes its roots to the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution, out of which it emerged as an ideological, artistic movement nostalgic for old hierarchies of the pre-industrial era, while its authors were characterized ...

What was British race patriotism?

British race patriotism defined the manner in which Australians identified with the British Empire in the early twentieth century (Curran, 2004). During this time, the Australian prime ministers wholeheartedly supported British military undertakings (Curran, 2004). British goods and services were also preferred and every school going child swore oaths of allegiance to Britain. Indeed, (Schreuder and Ward, 2008, p. 152) outline the oath taken: ‘I love my country, the British Empire; I salute her flag, the Union Jack.’ During this period, Australians felt that they were part of a global community of British peoples. The considered themselves united to the ...

Introduction

The case of Boy Scouts of America (BSA) v. Dale was a controversial case decided in 2000. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed the unanimous decision by the New Jersey Court and ruled that because the Boy Scouts association was a private organization it had constitutional tight to remove openly gay persons from leadership positions. The petitioners in this case were the BSA and their Monmouth Council. The organization was a private non-profit making whose work was to instill values in the youth. This organization emphasizes that homosexuality is not consistent with the values it aims at instilling. The respondent in this case ...