Essays on Cynthia

Reflective Essay on an Organizational Problem

Introduction In my summer job, I and my fellow group members faced some issues in completing the project assigned by the leader. My leader made a group of members, including me from different backgrounds to complete the project plan for new stadium. The leadership style of our leader was autocratic as he did not assign the responsibility to anyone to make decisions, but retain all authority by himself and made all key decisions related to project. In addition, he was not involved in the two-way communication to motivate the employees to achieve organizational goals. In turn, the issues occurred ...

Survival, Resilience, and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand

During the US Civil War, the Union’s famous Gen. Sherman once said that war is “all hell.” Many military commanders, as well as the countless victims of warfare, have echoed this sentiment down through the ages. Certainly, warfare reveals humanity to sometimes be far less than humane. The worst characteristics of human kind are often brought to the forefront by the nature of war and its relentless objectives. But as horrible as warfare can be for the average soldier in the trenches fighting next to his comrades, it can be (and often is) even more nightmarish and unimaginably ...

Attribute Standard 1312 issued by the IIA indicates that Internal Audit Departments purporting to follow IIA Standards must have an external assessment “conducted at least once every five years by a qualified, independent reviewer or review team from outside the organization. Two such organizations include World Com and Fannie Mae. The two organizations were in the news owing to various reporting and internal audit practices that may have resulted in their collapse, as is the case of World Com or hefty financial losses for their shareholders and other stakeholders. Consequent to such observations, the objective of this paper is ...

Introduction

This historiographical essay relies on the works of six authors to discuss the nature of guerrilla warfare and its implications on political, social and economic stabilities of the nations in Latin America. The articles address aspects of terror acts carried out by both insurgents and regimes to engage each other. The historiographical essay is also important in using historical accounts from articles to discuss the factors that contributed to success of revolutionary wars in nations such as Cuba and Nicaragua. The approach taken by the essay is chronologically reviewing by year of publication, what different authors wrote on the ...

Introduction:

This study seeks to examine the relationship between famous athletes in television commercials and consumer behavior. The research topic is significant since celebrity endorsements are common techniques used to market products by companies. Many local and multinational brands utilize celebrities in advertising. The main reasons for this is that celebrities have large followings of fans that greatly associate with the celebrity. Therefore, the celebrity can easily sway this target market towards purchasing a specific product. Brands pay celebrities to become brand managers, brand ambassadors, brand characters, offer expert advice, and as role models of a desirable brand quality. The ...

In the current century, the accounting and finance field have witnessed increased efforts to converge accounting standards to globally accepted universal standards. The fact owes to the dire need of increasing comparability of the financial statements of different firms in the various countries. Undoubtedly, there exist key areas of departure in different accounting standards applied in different countries. Of more interest, is the difference that exists between the two dominant accounting systems used by various corporations around the globe. That is the U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). It is, however, worth ...

Feminism is defined as a particular movement that is organized to achieve the rights of women. The use of it is etched throughout literature. Two works where feminism is heavily illustrated are Henrik Ibsen's play, A Doll's House and Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Both works present prime examples of feminism in their display of breaking away from the traditional roles, and the consequences of moving away from masculine conventions. These works from the perspective of the writer, highlight the importance of women in society, and their respective roles and functions being different from the conventional viewpoints by the masculine ...

Introduction

Over the time, society, and the United States citizens have blamed the media as portraying black women in a negative light. However, the roles that the black American women play are a result of their willingness, and as such, they are indeed the cause of the negative portrayal that they receive. Apparently, several black American women in the United States are willing to take up any role and undertake in with the intention of earning some dollars and improving their living standards. Readiness to take up roles, which encompass violence, mismanagement of money, poor etiquette, and rowdy behavior, are ...

I have read the article about the young couple that spent a lot of money for plastic surgery. These two persons spent more than 300 thousand dollars for many surgeries to change their appearance and become like dolls. They state that they are very happy, they like the results of plastic surgeries and they do not want to stop this process. Despite the fact, that passion for plastic surgery is very great for both of them and their parents are not against this passion of their children, they do not say exactly why they do this thing. I disagree ...

Malpractice is defined as a wrongdoing by an expert of a particular profession, for example, a doctor, lawyer, an accountant or a dentist. Malpractice and negligence lawsuits in the United States are quite common. Medical malpractice is described as any act or omission by a medical professional such as a doctor, nurse, physician or technician that causes harm, injury or death to the patient at the course of treatment. Simply put, a medical malpractice occurs when a medical professional for example a nurse or a doctor performs or fails to perform an action that in itself causes injury to ...

Cynthia Hohner shows a rather conservative attitude to leadership issues as she believes that one person`s leadership style can not dramatically change. However, different life stresses might significantly change those people`s traits, which were laid in childhood. As a result, a person might change from tyrant to a democratic leader and so on. Cynthia has a humanistic understanding of leadership, as her top priority is to make the employees` lives better. These qualities are quite rare and highly valued among people, who pretend to be the leader. A high score on the people`s leadership scale tells ...

English - The research paper

Even after decades, racial tensions and discriminations have not been erased completely. Racial injustices to African-Americans continue to pervade even today and compel President Obama to speak on the issue. With more than a third of the US population belonging to ethnic minority groups, it would be a mistake to ignore issues related to racism. Can racism spread its roots in the health care industry and if it has, is racism is a significant barrier to accessing healthcare? Those are tough questions and need some studies. The essay explores the disparities in health care systems experienced by the racial ...

Cranford, Cynthia J., Leah Vosko, Nancy Zukewich. “Precarious Employment in the Canadian Labour Market: A Statistical Portrait. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society 16 (2010): 6-22. Web. 1 Oct. 2013.

The increase of precarious employment poses a significant challenge to policies that support current income yet it remains a largely neglected part in policy-making. The article uses data from the Labor Force Survey and the General Social Survey to examine the relationship between gender, forms of employment and dimensions of precarious employment in Canada. According to the article, most women work in part-time and casual wage ...

Management- ART

Several major issues have been exposed in the case study, all touching on the issues that are brought about management and the decision making of the major shareholders. Not once has the major projects of the Filtration Unit of Applied Research Technologies failed. Although the management has always done its best to ensure that there is success at this unit, nothing successful has been recorded as originating from the unit. Despite having creative and good projects and ideas, and ending up spending a lot of money to popularize their products, the Filtration Unit has always been associated with making losses ...

Alaimo, Kathleen. Historical Roots of Children’s Rights and the United States.

This article examines the rights of the child by tracing the historical origins of the rights of children in the West over the many centuries. The article also tries to clarify the distinctive ways in which children’s rights are contemporary understood. The essay focuses on the idea of rights by connecting this idea to the changing perspectives about childhood in the West. The discussion derives much from the 1989 UNCRC which defines children’s rights. According to Alaimo (2), the UNCRC affirms not only the ...

An emotion regulation refers to the ability of a person to manage constructively and cope with his or her feelings. It can also be defined as means the process by which a person influence the emotions to have, when and how to experience the emotions. Individuals respond or express emotions in three ways. These ways are behavioural, experiential or physiological. Behavioural response means outward manifestation of emotions while experiential response implies internal reaction to an emotion. On the other hand, physiological response is body reaction to an emotion. Emotion regulation can occur prior to emotional response, antecedent focussed, or after emotional ...

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 ...

Keats, a contemporary of Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, is one of the 19th century romantic poets who dealt with the themes of beauty, nature, love, death, pain and fancy. He was inspired by Shakespeare and the classics and his poems contained a melancholy and sadness as a result of his tuberculosis and impending death. Keats deals with sadness but also infuses the elements of nature and beauty to his poems making it haunting and endearing at the same time. His poem Endymion is one such work which combines most of the themes he is known for. Endymion is one ...

General Forum Discussion

In “A Long Way Gone,” Beah writes that a young boy he was forced to become a child soldier and had to deal with violence as well as death. Later in his memoir, Beah writes that he was discharged from his military duties and given to UNICEF for rehabilitation. Violence had become second nature to him, and the rehabilitation process was rather difficult for Beah. However, he was successfully able to be rehabilitated and went to live with his uncle. After his uncle's death, another conflict threatens to send him back to being a soldier again. Beah had chosen exile instead of ...

Film Studies: Immigration film

Introduction The title of the film shall be “Instrumental Mind” and it shall be about an immigrant Indian girl in the US. The plot of the story follows that Anusha, an 18 year-old girl from Mumbai, India immigrates to the US to undergo specialized treatment of a heart condition. After recuperating, her programming talents lead her to being crafted into an IT team to develop critical software for cardiac arrest detection equipment.

The political purpose of the film is to show that in spite of the political clamor for the US to legislate against immigration, some forms of immigration ...

- Henry Jenkins;

- The tone and justifications presented by Jankins in his article are comprehensive and concise. The concrete evidence and strengthened tone allows no space for disagreement. The example of media is the most obvious an intrusion in our daily life - In his attempt to establish the truth with daily life examples, he supported his argument with the use of video games that contains violence acts for youngsters. His raised concern that intense focus and inspiration of the audience does not allow the pupil to distinguish between actions to be adapted in routine life and ...

English 113B

Computers and the internet are two important parts in the everyday life of people. It is important because it helps people to perform activities that could be too difficult or impossible. The communication among people has improved due to computers and the internet. For example, Skype is used for daily real time communication. Information has been availed easily from the internet. Lewis Thomas(2000) researched on computers, and how they changed life’s, he contends ''they can beat most of us at chess,memorize whole telephone books at a glance, compose music of a certain kind and write obscure poetry, diagnose ...

Secrets and Lies (1996) This movie focuses on the life and struggle of one woman in finding truths in her life. After her adoptive mama passes away; Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a triumphant black eye physician, searches for her birth mother. She is surprised when her investigation leads her to a plebeian white woman, Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn). Initially, Cynthia denies the claim, but she finally admits to birthing Hortense as an adolescent, and the pair begins to bond. Nevertheless, when Cynthia invites Hortense to a relative’s barbecue, Cynthia's already nervous relationship with her kin becomes even more complex. The film is ...

In San Diego, there prevails an association of the regional cities and county government regarded as SANDAG. As an association of 18 cities coupled with county government, SANDAG entails San Diego association of governments. The public agency serves as a plausible forum inculcated for the regional decision-making facets. SANDAG constructs consensus, inculcates strategic plans, acquires and allocates resources, plans, engineers, and manage the construction of public transportation. Moreover, the public agency provides extensive information on a vast range of topics that are impactful on the pertinent region quality of life. As such, the public agency is focused on the improvement of ...

Characters used in works of fiction react differently to different situations and this in return communicates something to the reader. These reactions elicit feelings that a reader uses to analyze how the story grows from the beginning o is climax and conclusion. It is of importance to note that in as much as these works are mere fiction, they are meant to reach out to the reader and make the readers act in a certain way in reaction to their actions. At times, when a character in a work of fiction dies or is hurt, the reader becomes sad or happy depending on ...

The phrase globalization may be described as the practice where services or goods, including capital or money, move freely amid and among states (John and Udayakumar 1, first paragraph). Globalization renders national boundaries porous and less relevant. Currently, globalization has an increasing effect on the economic prospectus of US corporations, employees, and families. Growing integration with the globe economy makes America and other economies productive. For most US citizens, this has resulted in absolute high living standards as well as real disposable incomes. Nevertheless, while the American economy benefits from globalization, it has never been a win-win state for all ...

History tells a very difficult life people had to live by during the holocaust. Within the walls of the concentration camps, people lived in fear of being killed any time. One may even reach a conclusion that a person would be better off dead than alive because then, they are at peace and not with the emotional turmoil that those who were alive lived with. A story is told by two writers, one who chose to cover the story of three women in the hands of the Nazi on their death march to and in the concentration camp, the story of Rosa, ...

- Mindy does not dress appropriately for the medical facility. Her dressing is casual and is too accessorized for a medical environment that embraces conventional dressing (Bryan 223). As a person working in a medical environment, she should ensure that she represents the decorum associated with the profession, right from her dressing. - Mindy’s personal ‘style’ detracts from the medical facility’s aire of professionalism. Dressing in miniskirts, coloring the hair, mixing colors and over-indulging in accessories is not associated with the medical workplace. Such dressing is appropriate for informal or social environments. - In my opinion, every employee ...

According to the symptoms that Cynthia presented in the vignette, there can be deduced that she suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which appears after a traumatic experience, determining the individual suffering of this disorder to be highly vigilant, to relive the emotions of the traumatic event, to manifest increased arousal and avoidance behavior, to start numbing or to indicate that his/her function is affected, over a period longer than a month (“Mental Illness among Trauma-Affected Populations”). At one glance through Cynthia’s general assessment about her concerns related to the symptoms and the changes in her behavior that she experiences ...

Introduction

Global events threatening security of huge numbers of people are recognized as important triggers for introducing changes to the systems of international and national law, so that in the future similar events can become preventable. The brightest example to confirm this thesis is introduction of the UN system and development of international humanitarian and criminal law after the World War II, which was associated with lots of events, which are currently being classified as crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes. Apart from influencing the international law, World War II had variety of implications on different spheres of life ...

What is the purpose of government?

A government may be defined as the control and administration of a public policy at a specific political unit at a certain time. It comprises a system that functions and exercises power. This is often done through customs, institutions as well as laws within a given state. A government is also involved in the management of public finances and resources. Socialistic government is that which believes in the state being controlled centrally with the state owning all the resources. Libertarian government on the other hand is that which allows citizen the right to own property. The most preferred mode of government is the libertarian ...

The Cask of Amontillado is a gripping story by Edgar Allan Poe which explores the realm of human emotions. The author pens the literary work and aptly exudes his expertise though the various devices which are used to enhance the tumultuous influence of the story on the minds of the readers. A close analysis of the characters and the theme along with the other literary devices will make one comprehend the excellence and the paramount influence of the story on the human minds. The author personifies his “hostile feelings and thoughts, symbolizing the repressed instincts of the personality” in the ...

America is a diverse country with different colored people scatter all over different states. It has a long history of colonialism and cultural evolution. When thinking of terms like “colored” or “race”, our first mind may often come with African Americans. Perhaps the civil war or the civil right movement has marked a huge monument in the American history, it has ended the injustice and cruel treatment of people living in the same country who supposed to be united. The slavery and the segregation were abolished; the hanging trees and violence were all over. However, racism still exists through stereotype causing by ...

Introduction

The research paper is about Antigone, the play by Sophocles. The paper provides a complete overview of the play. Antigone’s love for her brother and obeying the commandments of God are reflected in the paper. The stubbornness and inhuman acts of King Creon are also clearly revealed. Moreover, a comparative analysis of the tragedies of Antigone and King Creon are followed by the story, and Creon is proved the real tragic hero of the story.

Background to the myth of Antigone

The circumstantial events that resulted in the tragedy of King Creon begin as Oedipus arrives at Thebes looking for his real parents. To Thebes has ...

Entry One: When I Am Old, I Shall Wear Purple

The first thing I thought of when I considered the idea of aging issues was a poem by Jenny Joseph, who wrote Warning, the first lines of which are, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple/ With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me” (Sachteleben 2009). Joseph was born in 1932 in England composed this ode to being elderly in 1961. Although she grew up in a different generation, Joseph’s poem still resonates. In some ways, there is a certain freedom for the elderly. Many people spend their younger lives trying to do the right thing, ...

Abstract

This paper will delve into obesity, an epidemic in America, as a consequence of poor diets and sedentary lifestyles. The paper will highlight the historical beginnings of the epidemic, the affected population, causes and overall economic costs. Furthermore, we will examine current interventions from the local to the federal level and examine the role of the media in creating awareness. In conclusion, the paper will suggest possible solutions to the epidemic.

Introduction

Poor diets and inactivity have been cited as the 2 major culprits for the growing population of obese Americans. This is because obesity is by and large caused by ...

1) Which sentence in the article do you consider to be its thesis? What point or argument does the article try to make about August Wilson, his work, or King Hedley II? In "'She Make You Right with Yourself': Aunt Ester, Masculine Loss and Cultural Redemption in August Wilson's Cycle Plays," authors Cynthia L. Caywood and Carlton Floyd explore themes and motifs that appear throughout August Wilson's work. Primarily, the authors discuss the need for divine intervention, a "Redeemer of the African-American community," to appear in these plays to give characters direction in the face of difficult choices about their ...

Response 1

The conflict between Native Americans and Europeans was inevitable according to Cynthia J. Van Zandt based on the grounds that Europeans at that time conquered numerous people to gain access to the newly discovered land. Europeans thirst for power more so had to conflict with cultural interests there by wars erupting between the two groups. Furthermore, since the Europeans wanted land, but the natives did not want to let it go, a fight had to erupt in a bid to retain their resources and drive Europeans away. According to Kenny, what started as a friendly gesture by Europeans getting land after giving ...

Even though the way in which Cynthia J. Van Zandt “Brothers among Nations” has structured her article is a bit frustrating, the insights that she makes are quite fascinating. The topic of her essay is centered in the mid 1600s when “Cheaspeake became the center of an extraordinary intercultural alliance” (Madaras and SoRelle, p. 61). Although Zandt moves and flows away from the line of interpretation, but I find the important thesis statement that emerges in her essay quite compelling. Van Zandt’s thesis revolves around “the ideas of liberty that flourished during the 1640s and 1650s” (Foner, p. 84) ...

Discussion Questions

Question 1: The view of symbolic violence as the product of a deeply ingrained sense of dominance within some sections of society is apt in describing the complexity with which the former is associated. For instance, society has in the past placed man on top of the social hierarchy and relegated women to subservience based on ancient norms and traditions. This then means that it would be inaccurate to assume that such skewed view of the social framework could be revised through simple appeals to the will as a way of redefining people’s interpretations of the role of each ...

Question 1

Cynthia Griffin has identified Edna Pontelliers lack of language in attempt to express her sexual desires as the central theme, however he has also established female sexuality as part of the general theme in the essay “Un-Utter able Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening” . In this novel, Cynthia looks at the way issues of sexuality are being presented and how people use varied means to explain or to present their position on the issues of sexuality. Cynthia has established that lack of language is a major blow to feminine sexuality and instead the females ...

Workforce in many organizations is composed of employees from different ethnicity background, race, religion, gender and cultures (George, 1994). This is what is referred to as diversity. With this trend in the workplace, top management therefore should set up policies and practices which enhance inclusion and harmony. Training is the best method of dealing with this diversity challenge. An organization which explores business opportunities in an environment with diverse culture should train its workforce in order to achieve its objectives. Successful communication and conducting business in a business environment with a different culture and races is a global challenge. Diversity training ...

(a)VIDEO ON “THE GIRL EFFECT” The video highlights a world in a mess which is crippled by epidemics such as HIV/AIDS, hunger, war and financial crisis. The plight of the woman in a society characterized by gender disparity and a lack of universality of a woman is portrayed. The video explores solutions to the existing world crisis and dramatically reveals the only tool at hand is a girl. An empowered girl is portrayed as the tree of immediate liberty from the manacles of HIV/AIDS, the chains of civil war and economic dependence, and the hunger crises. An empowered woman is displayed as instant coffee ...

“The Awakening” was written in an age when women allow society to dictate how they should behave and feel. In one summer Edna changed from a woman voided of feelings to one overwhelmed by her feelings, so much so that she feels she could no longer live in this society.

“The Awakening” is a book written long before its time; it is a satire of the prudish New Orleans’ society of the nineteenth century. In his essay, Robert Cantwell says: “The book was banned from library circulation, and the author refused admittance to the St. Louis Arts Society. Mrs. Chopin was disgusted, ...

The media influences the behavior of persons. Such influence could be negative and positive. In most of the cases, such media have damaging effect on the lives of people. Children are hardly hit by the problem. The model under study is Cline’s assessment of the effects that violence on television has on children (Olson 148). This paper seeks to analyze how television violence has influenced the behavior of children with regards to violence as well as the reasons for that.

There are many cases that explain how television violence has caused antisocial behavior. In majority of the television ...

Besides the benefits from the research in stem cells, the research has proven to be one of the most controversial issues in the modern world. The prime concern is deciding whether its continuity is right or wrong. Many are arguing the issue of morality which involves the use of human embryos, genetic engineering, cloning and the biological impacts resulting from the research. It has spanned a strong debate in regard to its credibility in regard to ethical concerns primarily about creation, destruction and also the use of embryos. It does not stop there because of other issues raised about the species ...

Introduction

Traditionally, biology is described as that branch of science that is involved in the study of living things. this implies that biologists invariably collect information in the course of this study. Moreover, this also implies that biologists have to interpret this information. this process has been a slow and arduous one until the turn of the21st century. before this period, biologists have had to contend with the prospect of interpreting collected information with the help of the senses and sometimes, laboratory investigations. however, with the turn of the century and its corresponding development of information technology, this arduous task has ...

For this exercise, I wanted to learn more about how to succeed at university from a person who had already been through the experience and graduated.

This topic is important to me, as having only recently finished high school; I find it difficult to study at the university level. Indeed, I find university life to be far different from my experience in high school, as it focuses on preparing students for independence and their future professional lives. For example, as reported in an article by Jenna Johnson of the Washington Post, George Washington University Provost, Steven Lerman says you "have ...

Abstract

This interview was about university life, its experiences and how a first year student can succeed without facing difficulties. Cynthia was the interviewee. She is China and attended McGill University as a foreign student where she graduated with a major of Biology. The interviewer was interested in how Cynthia was able to succeed and the techniques she used to make the transition from high school to a university student. In addition to this, Cynthia was asked several questions on the university subjects and the study environment; whether it was easy or exhausting. According to Cynthia, the first year of university was not ...

David Parker Ray was born in November 6, 1939 in Belen, New Mexico. He died in May 28, 2002, at the age of sixty two years. His death was as a result of myocardial infarction. During his life, Ray was linked with serial killings. Approximately fourteen to sixty killings were executed by him. He did his killing operations in the states of New Mexico, in United States. In March 22, 1999, he was apprehended. The serial killer operated as from 1950 to March 22, 1999. Besides killing people, Ray was suspected of involvement in the torturing of women. His ...

Introduction

Cultural practices together with social practices forms a crucial integral element in each society or community through which individuals who are found in that community vividly distinguish each other from the rest of the people in the world. Due to these cultural and social diversities various aspects and views have been created among the existing societies. As an elaboration, some cultural and social practices from a specific country, region or community may be viewed with a positive note or view by another community or may be taken in a repulsive manner (Wingfield & Nesbitt-Larking, 2007).

SOCIETY, CULTURE AND SOCIAL THEORIES

According to sociologist from the United States of America, ...

Introduction

Social character exhibited by society members is significantly influence by a number of dominating external elements which are found in that given society. These elements usually constitute the practiced religious beliefs, cultural background, media influence and political administration found in any given country. Media is one of the factors which is known to extensively influence the behavior and character which is held by society members. This is through vigorous campaigns and advertisements which are designed to lure in any accessible audience. Some aired movies have a rating system which stipulates clearly that the appropriate group to watch that movie is of ...

Introduction

Social character exhibited by society members is significantly influence by a number of dominating external elements which are found in that given society. These elements usually constitute the practiced religious beliefs, cultural background, media influence and political administration found in any given country. Media is one of the factors which is known to extensively influence the behavior and character which is held by society members. This is through vigorous campaigns and advertisements which are designed to lure in any accessible audience. Media is a general term which is used to refer to any communication channel targeting a significant fraction of the community ...

Abstract

Accounting scandals are business scandals that arise following the uncloaking of financial misdeeds by some trusted personnel in corporations. Some of the misdeeds usually involves some complex methods for embezzling, understating, misdirecting money, overstating the value of assets or in other words, underreporting the available liabilities. This is mostly accomplished in collaboration with workers or affiliate in corporations. In companies with public status, this kind of innovative accounting qualifies to fraud whereby investigations and inquiries are commenced by agencies of the government in place. In United States for instance, some of the government oversight agencies that are eligible to ...