Essays on Elena

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Evidence-based practice is a technique that nurses use to make informed decision about how well to treat the patient based on the research, their expertise as well as the needs of the patient. The following are the levels of evidence present in relation to research and practice (Polit & Beck, 2013);

Level 1: Randomized controlled trials

Level 2: Non-randomized controlled trials Level 3: Observational analyses based on trials Level 4: Observational analyses that lack trials The levels of evidence are important regardless of the method used, because every clinician needs to have enough confidence on how significance the study is, so as to make informed ...

The case involves a guest of the hotel in Jamaica, where a guest was severely injured while working out in the fitness center of the hotel.  

Issues:

What jurisdiction and law should apply for the case? The jurisdiction and law that should apply here is the Jamaican law, in Jamaica. The US law in Miami cannot apply because, as stated in 28 U.S.C subsections 1391(a), a US court only has jurisdiction in such cases over the defendants where at least one defendant is domiciled in the particular judicial district. This principle has been affirmed in the case of Steven ...

Since the book Fahrenheit 451 was written in the 1950s, it belongs to an era starkly different than the present. There exist quite a few differences between modern society and that discussed in the novel, however, there are several ideas discussed and presented by its writer which are similar to today’s society as well. There are several similarities such as the need to have fast cars and always seem to be in a hurry. In the novel, the people are shown to have an urge to drive cars very fast. This approach is quite relevant today as people ...

LIMITED LEVERAGE

One thing that is clear from the vignette is Frank does not want to close his business and work for someone else. However, he must replace his primary asset, his truck, or he will be forced to close the business. Since he does not have the equity to purchase the truck, he must find the funds somewhere else. The only options are to find an investor or borrow the money. The vignette mentions nothing about an option to find an investor. He is adamantly against using debt. His daughter Stephanie suspects he does not know the proper use of ...

“Like Water for Chocolate” is a drama and a romance about the lives of women in Mexico The following quote is from chapter six titled “A Recipe for Making Match and it describes the way Mexican women thought about love, about passion and about life in general and everything was connecting with cooking. “My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this ...

The best recipe for a dish to be delicious is preparing it with love – Tita, the heroine of “Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel, is sure. That is certainly the formula Esquivel resorts to creating her novel, where love is a key ingredient, and the food for thought produced by the book is savory, hot and rich. “Tita remembered that Nacha had always said that when people argue while preparing tamales, the tamales won’t get cooked. They can be heated day after day and still stay raw, because the tamales are angry. In a case like that, ...

Published in 1889, Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is set in revolutionary Mexico of the early twentieth century. At that time, society and the family institution exercised an authoritative and oppressive control on women’s activities and expression; in fact, such control had existed since colonial times, Up until recent times, women had been playing a subservient role from which even in the twenty-first century they are still struggling to break themselves free. Not only were women denied participation in society and politics as individuals with their own voice and identity, but they were mostly confined to ...

The paper’s focus will be on the book ‘The House on Mango Street’, particularly, the experiences of the Esperanza family. An investigation of the experiences of Esperanza and her family is critically presented. The way Esperanza and her family relate with her family, community and the existing tensions is also established. As a coming of age novel, Sandra Cisneros’s book is critically analyzed from the social angle. The life of Esperanza Codero illuminates the struggles and experiences of growing up in Chicago. As a young girl, she serves an ideal subject from where we can study the ...

Introduction

This novel revolves around kitchen, and its contextual interpretation is in the Mexican society. The recipe was a major element to the Mexican kitchen, and it signified the life endeavors in this society. The thesis of this essay is a discussion on various attributes of the Mexican kitchen through the ailing Mama Elena, her three daughters and the surrounding love inferno between Tita and Pedro in the contextual ranch setup. 1. What was the general interpretation of this novel, and what impacts did it have? ( what conversations did it start or what understanding did the book generally bring to ...

Colonialism, social change as well as resistance to revolution and colonialism are overarching themes throughout the films, Salt of the Earth, the Battle of the Algiers and the Memories of Underdevelopment. This paper seeks to review the films with a view to exploring how revolution and resistance are dealt with, in the films. This exploration will also provide answers to the critical questions of the intention of the film makers while making the film. In this process, the paper shall conduct an audit of the success or failure of the filmmakers in putting across their message to the audience in ...

On January 21, 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that corporations had equal rights as individual citizens with regard to campaign contributions during political elections. This therefore implies that corporations also enjoy the protection of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights (Freedom of Speech). The court case was Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (Levin-Waldman, 2011, 178). The above reaction to the court decision is from the liberal side and I agree. I think that the decision was not good and not respectful of the rights of citizens. Democracy is no longer powerful when campaign elections can ...

Bottled water is the world's fastest growing beverage, but customers prefer turning on the tap. Water Bottlers generally take advantage of consumer concerns regarding municipal water supplies, hence increasing demand for their product. A number of bottled waters, nonetheless, differ from tap water simply because it is distributed by bottles rather than through pipes (Mark, 2012) Tap and Bottled water come from basically the same sources: springs, aquifers and lakes, to list a few. Actually, a considerable fraction of the bottled water products on store shelves are tap water although treated and filtered with extra steps to perk up taste ( ...

The debut book by Laura Esquivel under the name "Like Water for Chocolate" was published first in 1989 and met an unexpected success among the readers and the critics. The success was so big that in 1992 Alfonso Arau, a talented Mexican director, has shot a movie under the same name based on this book. The movie was also a success and brought much fame to a director and the actors making it one of the most recognized non-American films in Hollywood. Moreover, the book itself and the popularity of it made the world publishers reconsider their cooperation with female writers and started ...

IT Management

Objective Technology is one of the cornerstones for the success of any business organization in the contemporary market. However, technology is dynamic in nature, and changes rapidly from time to time. To keep up with these changes, an organization should keep updating its technology; otherwise, its technology becomes obsolete. This is particularly relevant in the case of publishing companies. In this case, the objective is to assess the implications of hiring a new leader to oversee the transformation of the information technology department in the Penguin Group Publishing Company. The company also intends to implement a reorganization and downsizing strategy ...

IT Management

Objective Technology is considered one of the cornerstones for success of any business organization in the contemporary market. However, technology is dynamic in nature, as it changes rapidly from time to time. To keep up with these changes, it implies that an organization should keep updating its technology over time; otherwise, its technology would become obsolete. This is particularly relevant in the case of publishing companies. The in this case, objective is to assess the implications of hiring a new leader to oversee the transformation of the information technology department in Penguin Group publishing Company. Besides, the company also ...

Introduction

The fact that literary works are aimed at mirroring the reality of the human society whether local or global means that there will be a point of convergence among them. The mirroring of the reality of the human society is informed by the need to facilitate and sustain debates that will lead to the finding of solutions to better human society and life. The converse is also true that literary artistes have their works colored by personal, ideological and sociocultural settings and because of this, literary works will diverge on structure, ideas and themes. The case is exemplified by the ...

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Introduction For the past couple of decades since the onset of the Industrial Revolution, scientists have slowly began a campaign to raise awareness to the changing state of the planet. Records of high temperature changes, onset of diseases and erratic weather patterns have been reported worldwide, each change becoming more severe as the years progress. When it comes to erratic weather patterns, scientists highlight the now common occurrences of natural disasters such as hurricanes or cyclones. Although skeptics stress that ...

The ‘fast five movie’ commonly known as The Fast and Furious is an American action movie written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin. The movie depicts the story with the help of his sister, and friends Dom was saved from the hands of the authorities. The team is seriously pursued by Hobbs, who follows them to Rio de Janeiro in South America. Hobbs is caught between the two gangs fighting each other - Dam’s gang and Reyes’ gang. Although the movie has a lot of action and heavy compact, it presents a clear, real life situations faced by ...

The ‘fast five movie’ commonly known as the Fast and Furious 5 is an American action movie written by Chris Morgan and directed by Justin Lin. The following describes the plot of the movie; with the help of his sister and friends, Dom is rescued from the hands of the authorities. The team is the pursued hotly by Hobbs, who follows them to Rio de Janeiro in South America. Hobbs is caught in between two gangs fighting each other i.e. Dam’s team and Reyes’ team. Although the movie has a lot of action and heavy compact, it presents clear ...

Media Industries

Introduction During this semester we were asked to split up into groups of three to produce one episode of the Media Industries TV talk series on Bronxnet. For this practical field assignment, we were instructed to select two media professionals from any sector of the industries and invite them as a guest on our episode. Throughout this process we were exposed to various theoretical topics about the media industry and was later asked to choose two other group’s segments to critique for a writing assignment. My two choices are group one (Ana Acevedo, Johnsel Montes, Stephanie Feedor) and group ...

Communication

Communication

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Self-concept and self-image are almost the same thing. Self- concept refers to one’s belief about oneself while self-image is what one imagines about one-self . For instance, my concept tells I am an intelligent person, as I have always scored above average grades throughout my school. It tells me I am an obedient person, as I always listen to my parents and look forward to them. On the other hand, my self-image is how attractive and good-looking I think I am. Such qualities are judgmental. Similarly, self-esteem and self-concept can also be distinguished in a way that self-esteem refers ...

Apparently, almost all cultures are associated with some kinds of stereotypes. While some of these stereotypes hold water, they are, in most cases inaccurate since they are biased generalizations based on subjective judgments. In the following arguments stereotyping will be presented as inaccurate with a special reference to the Mexican Americans, who, according to many researchers are among the most prominent victims of ill treatment, thanks to the stereotyped information available in American circles (Worthman. et al.2009:389). The findings of this paper can be used in relevant studies as it has been observed that the cultural group of Mexican American ...

Understanding the factors that lead consumers to buy goods helps companies to determine the best marketing strategy to employ in order to sell their products and gain customer loyalty. It involves analyzing the way consumers think and reason, what factors they consider when selecting a brand, how they are influenced by their surroundings, how much effort they put into knowing more about various products, and their motivation and decision strategies when choosing between two or more product alternatives. Apart from these, consumer behavior also includes how they purchase, use, and dispose the product. It also determines its relevance in society ...

In Laura Esquivel’s trenchant and fascinating novel Like Water for Chocolate, young girl Tita learns how to find her own voice in a patriarchal, restrictive Latin society through the art of cooking. According to Canadian author Pat Tryer, "Ultimately, Tita negotiates a voice through the elaborate, fantastical recipes she creates, thereby subverting gender suppression by speaking through the stereotypical women's sphere of cooking. These recipes and their fantastic results mirror and reinforce the central theme of the novel, that of the suppression of the female voice and its inevitable explosion of expression everywhere”. A wonderful work of fantastical magical realism, ...

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 ...

What was Joanna Reed’s diagnosis of the situation in the donor services department?

Employee commitment and relation is wanting in the donor services department. There is no coordination between them, as regards the conflicts they have among themselves. Dedication and loyalty to the department also lacks.

What should she recommend to Sam Wilson?

One recommendation is for Sam to hire another person to head the donor’s department as Jose seems to be so much concerned with the community issues. Secondly, there is need for policies that govern employee relationship and communication in the department, in bid to avoid personal problems influencing how employees relate.

Describe the managerial styles of Sam, Jose and Elena. What is the impact of their styles?

Sam and Jose have an almost similar managerial style. They are the type that ...

In twenty-first century America, the issue of immigration, particularly Mexican immigration (both “legal” and “illegal”) is ever-present in political, economic and social discourse. “The issue of immigration touches the Mexican-origin population more than any other ethnic group in the United States,” (Jiminez 2007, 599). With such attention focused on this particular ethnic group, it is interesting to consider the tribal, cultural, racial, ethnic, and national identity of this group. How do Mexican immigrants express their identity in the above-stated terms? What is the nature of Mexican immigrant communities? In what way are Mexican immigrants experiencing social exclusion both within ...

Virtually, every society is shaped by political norms that control the thought and actions of individual with regard to political issues. Equally, their political cultures define the attitudes of citizens towards the political system in addition to partial shaping of functions from political institutions. On the other hand, socialization entails the process whereby individuals recognize code of conduct expected of them with respect to the attitudes, values, and beliefs of their society. Politics and socialization are two fundamental societal aspects because political socialization enables the government to improve relationships with the citizens and as well, in communicating the roles, ...

Introduction

María Candelaria (Mexican: Xochimilco) is a 1943 Mexican film directed by Emilio Fernández. The movie won several accolades for the subject matter, direction, and acting. In 1946, it became graded as a classic in the history of Latin American cinema, when it felled down the linguistic and cultural barriers as the first Mexican film that ever won the Palme d’Or at The Cannes International Film Festival. The film can be simply categorized as a classical romantic-tragedy, but the qualities that truly made it famous were the expressions gender and cultural issues and the hauntingly beautiful cinematography of the film. Today, ...

Traditionally, Latin cultures have a strong patriarchal tendency towards favouring the man’s power and control; women are, habitually, seen as belonging in the home. In the three short stories seen here: The Tree by María Luisa Bombal, Blame the Tlaxcaltecs by Elena Garro and Luvina by Juan Rulfo, we are presented with two female central protagonists in the two former stories, and a narrative, in the latter, which portrays a supernatural town, the reader is presented with a terrifying force which both compels and controls the town’s residents in much the same way as a patriarchy controls and limits women. In The Tree, ...

Crossing the border has metaphorically demonstrated the determination one can develop for a better future. Ann Jaramillo uses her ground-breaking novel, La Linea to talk about the life of a boy named Miguel who lived in San Jacinto, Mexico with his grandmother and thirteen year old sister Elena. At a young age, Miguel’s parents left Mexico to cross the US border for a brighter future for their children. Ever since his parents left Mexico it has been Miguel’s dream to cross the border and unify with them. Addendum to this dream, he also sees himself as a rich man playing soccer for ...