Essays on Ethnic Background

The rising challenges worldwide are mainly due to global inequality. Inequality has been seen to exist in most parts of the world affecting nations' development and growth. It may be due to various factors such as income and wealth inequality, lack of access to education, poor law enforcement systems, lack of care and compassion for the poor among others. Inequality has been portrayed in many aspects such as employment places, education, financial aid and medical services. This paper discusses the causes of global inequality and their remedies. Global inequality occurs mainly due to poor law enforcement systems in most ...

Nurses often play a very critical role in the implementation of healthcare policies; this is because nurses are well conscious and have a better understanding of healthcare systems and delivery mechanisms. Healthcare policy process becomes more efficient and also effective when all relevant stakeholders are involved in its formulation and implementation. The current U.S healthcare system is undergoing a lot of reforms in trying to conform to the new laws, regulations and policies put in place by various government agencies. The goals of these reforms are reducing healthcare costs, enhancing accessibility and improving the quality of care (Benton, 2012). ...

The Components of Cultural Match in Psychotherapy

Available evidence suggests that when clients from ethnic minority seeking mental health treatment are paired with therapists from the similar ethnic background, the rates of drop out is lower, and there is an increased utilization of treatment. Based on previous studies about culture, I believe this is true to a large extend. For example, Hofstede (2001) pointed out that there are six cultural dimensions in the world including uncertainty avoidance, indulgence, individualism vs. collectivism, long-term orientation, masculinity vs. feminism, and power distance. These cultural dimensions might affect the relationship between the client and the therapist, and also treatment outcome. ...

Gender Aspect

My female gender has affected my life in both negative and positive ways. The gender roles in the Hispanic culture have shaped my life because of being exposed to very tough roles and responsibilities that I have committed to undertake passionately. As a female in the Hispanic culture, I have been forced to portray high levels of responsibility in all my endeavors, be it religious and show maximum self-sacrifice in whatever I do. The exposure has helped me to develop quality values and principles in life that ascertain that I am always responsible in whatever I do. Through the ...

Purpose

The purpose of this research is to analyze the core reasons, which lead to the development of colorectal cancer among African Americans compared to individuals of different racial and ethnical background. The focus on social and personal criteria will allow finding the determinants of higher risk of the given type of cancer among this particular group. The purpose of this paper is to present a proposal for an evidence-based project about connection of social and racial affiliation with a higher risk for colorectal cancer.

Background

Since cancer is ranked among the most serious illnesses of modern times, there are numerous ...

Critical review of the book Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm was born in 1963. He is a Canadian Journalist, bestselling author, as well as speaker. He was the writer of the New Yorker magazine since 1996, in Fareham Hemisphere, in England by Joyce Gladwell, and his father Graham Gladwell. In his life, he was a young single-minded and ambitious boy, whose interest was writing and reading books.

His writings

He has also managed to write and publish five books at the tipping point; ‘How Little Things Can Make a Big difference’ (2002), ‘There is Blink: The power of Thinking without Thinking’ (2005), and ‘What the Dog Saw and the Other Adventures’ (2009), which ...

Introduction

It is not uncommon to hear remarks like, “Tiger Woods is letting your people down,” or “I knew it! Women cannot drive.” These are just some of the fainter forms of ethnic/ racial discrimination that do unnoticed in everyday life. Discrimination is the inferior or unequal treatment of people on the grounds of characteristics such as gender, religion or belief, race of color of skin, age, sexual orientation; political persuasion, civil status, ethnic background, nationality etc (Allen 891; Butler 308). In the contemporary world, discrimination takes subtler forms that in the traditional setting. Gender discrimination is one of the ...

Racism has existed since long back. Many authors have given differing views concerning racism since its initiations to its status in society. Jim (2007) notes that, racism occurs in different ways in society so that it significantly affect the society. The globe has become one small village and moving from one country to another has become easier nowadays. However, racist attitudes that some people in different regions across the globe hold have affected the interaction among people of different colors, ethnic backgrounds, and languages among other aspects . Based in this argument, it is clear that the author is well ...

Courses

Autobiography Racial and Ethnical Prejudice Both of my parents are white. My brother, who is four years younger than me and I, grew up in Virginia in a neighborhood where majority were white. It was however common to spot people from different racial or ethnical backgrounds in the neighborhood for instance African Americans and Asians Americans. My preschool and elementary school years, majority of my classmates and close friends were white. In those years, I had developed a negative perception about the African Americans from the experiences I had and from the history I read especially in regard to the ...

One of the hallmark characteristics of our modern world is multiculturalism. As Bill Bryson points out in his book, The Mother Tongue, “If you drew a map of Europe based on languages, it would bear scant resemblance to a conventional map” (Bryson, 1990). Most countries of the world are pluralistic. With notable exceptions, such as homogenous Iceland, most countries are composed of multiple linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This has been, and continues to be an ongoing source of conflict in our world and nations. Since every culture has it’s own unique traditions, understandings, values and language, there is not a mechanism ...

Introduction

In the current business world, many companies hire experts from the international scene to lead their local teams. Undertaking work in a foreign country demonstrates mobility, flexibility and cultural acumen, and these are the qualities employers are constantly in search for. Working away from the national country can be risky and daunting and it needs careful consideration. Accountants, auditors and finance experts make international moves all over and gain an advantageous edge towards employment opportunity. This paper provides an empirical discussion on the factors that might influence considering a move to Oracle Corporations in Singapore. The paper evaluates the business environment, ...

Essay #1. The research questions for this experiment involved the relative effectiveness of a shot and a nasal spray in keeping people from getting the flu. The hypothesis appears to have been that there would not be a significant difference between the two, with an eye toward proving that the nasal spray is just as effective as the shot. A nasal spray would be easier to deliver to patients and therefore more salable. 16 percent of the people who took the shot ended up getting the flu, while 24 percent got the flu in spite of the shot. This is a significant level ...

Research Objectives

Background One of the major issues experienced by nurses is grief. This grief is experienced as nurses start caring for the patients and it is more when the patient dies. The extent to which the nurses experience this grief depends upon their bonding with the patients. Grief is one of the major problems affecting the lives of nurses and ultimately the quality of healthcare. Unfortunately, healthcare professionals and hospitals do not provide the nurses with the necessary support system to cope with the losses. This has a negative impact on the social life of the nurses. Also the quality ...

Power Presentation 4

Trend 1: Global Competition - What does the term global competition mean to you? This is the worldwide market in which companies will have to struggle to prevail or remain at the top of their game with regard to goods and service delivery. This also calls for individual companies to meet the expectations of the consumers in order for them to prevail over companies that they offer the same goods and services with. - What experience do you have in dealing with people from other countries Having schooled and worked with people from several countries ...

Shaul Magid’s (2013) idea of Jewish identity is very different from the views of the past. Instead of looking at the people who make up the community as a whole, he took the elements outside Judaism and helped those factors shape the overall identity of Jews or what it means to be a Jew. Unlike the stereotypical images of the past, Magid (2013) fuses these different elements and separates Jewishness in a way that it makes sense in a post-modern world. His post-ethnic idea of Judaism is groundbreaking because he defines culture in such a multifaceted way. Instead of taking a look at Jews ...

INTERSECTIONALITY

Intersectionality is the meeting place, and overlapping space among different disenfranchised groups. More specifically, it is the study of these interactions as they apply to each other, to the society as a whole and the effects of these multiple systems of discrimination and oppression. It is also the methodology used in study of the relationships and subjects. Some individuals are members of more than one disenfranchised minority. Various groups that may or may not share members are nonetheless subject to the same forms of discrimination. The theory of Intersectionality seeks to examine how these various biological, cultural and social categories ...

Biography of Obama

Barack Obama was virtually unknown to the general public before the Democratic primaries of 2008, and had served briefly in the Illinois state senate and then a single term in the U.S. Senate before running for president. His background is absolutely unique among U.S. presidents, who have all been white men, while his mother was a white woman and his father an African from Kenya. He was also unusual in that he spent a great deal of his early life overseas, including with his mother and stepfather in Indonesia, where they were possibly involved in intelligence work. Later, he was educated at ...

Abstract

Adopting is the permanent acquisition of the responsibilities and rights accompanied with owning a child that previously was not yours. It is the process of acquiring parenthood though not by biological means. It is different from guardianship from the fact that adoption is permanent and the adopted child enjoys the privilege of having permanent parents. Adoption is held legal through the legal and religious laws. Adoption allows the child to have a right to inheritance and a right to have a family name. Adoption has history which started with the western countries and especially in the Roman Catholic. It was done to the ...

Specific Problem and Specific Thesis Statement

In the current global context, migration has become an economic attribute that completes and defines the concept of free market in a global society. The right to free movement and the right to work in foreign countries facilitate the cultural exchange between migrants and autochthonous populations. While the migrants come with their traditions and their own identity, the local populations absorb the migrants’ inherited customs while learning about them. Likewise, the immigrants living in the daily specificities of the foreign countries in which they reach become accustomed with the local traditions and trends and become assimilated into their cultural patterns. ...

The analysis considers a case of a male he who is 56 years. He weighs 11745.7 pounds and has a height of 5.5ʺ. He is married to one wife and they have four children, 3 girls and one boy. At adolescence, he was not sexually mature. Although he was at late puberty stages, body growth was occurring at a rapid rate. This included growth of pubic hair, growth of muscles, and deepening of the voice. These developmental changes affected how he interacted with the environment (Santrock, 2006). This was exhibited by creating different relationships, which were based on sexual traits, and developing a sense ...

The Need for Affirmative Action

Affirmative action was for the first time mentioned in the Executive order number ten thousand, nine hundred and twenty five in the United States. It was signed by President J. F Kennedy on sixth March nineteen sixty one as a measure to counter discrimination in the United States. President L. B Johnson issued Executive order number eleven thousand, two hundred and forty six in the year nineteen sixty five. This Executive order required federal contractors to hire with disregard to religion, race or national origin. An amendment to affirmative action added gender to this list of anti-discrimination. In Canada, affirmative ...

Nativism has long been a central human behavior, dating back to the very beginning of time. Outsiders in majority cultures suffer in many ways. Their linguistic hurdles in interacting with the majority culture open them up to the victimization that comes with being cheated. Whether taking place in ancient times or during the twenty-first century, it has been very difficult, at times, for new immigrants to succeed in their new land. Sometimes they go to a land that does not have enough opportunities for their new residents, and so things become tense between the original residents and the newcomers. So many ...

Abstract

Rochester is the third largest city in the state of Minnesota, United States of America. The city has a population of 106769 people going by the 2010 census in the United States (Green 2004). It has been voted as one of the best and safest place to live in the country. It is said that Rochester is free from the various vices that are found in many large cities in the world that make life difficult for some people. Some people claim that the city of Rochester is even free from racism, one of the greatest problems facing people in ...

Introduction

Operations and execution are definitely the supporting pillars of an organization, however in order to achieve flawless execution and seamless operations, it is important for every organization to build and follow certain values that not only define the ethical boundaries within which an organization works, but also creates the path to complete the mission which is set for future. In this paper, we will look at the basics of EEO and anti-discrimination in line with organizational values and will analyze the basic understanding required for a proper management structure, moreover we will move on to our specific domain and ...

Introduction

According to the report released by the United States of America (USA) Justice Department in 2003, approximately 10.4 percent of all African American men in all the states were incarcerated, imprisoned or jailed between the ages of 25 to 29 as compared to 2.4 percent of Hispanic men and 1.2 percent of Non-Hispanic white men incarcerated. This data is also closely related to the incarceration rates in the year 2001 whereby 46 percent of all the inmates sent to prison were African American while 36 percent Non-Hispanic white men and 16 percent were Hispanic men. In this and other ...