Essays on Frustrations

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Introduction Nursing practice recognizes altruism through various interventions such as understanding different beliefs and cultures, advocating for vulnerable patients, taking risks on behalf of other workers and patients and mentoring other professionals. In altruism, interpersonal factors such as respect and compassion are considered virtues that cultivate a caring attitude towards others. As such, some people feel that altruism usually places heavy demands on the nurses’ self-sacrifice, thus overlooking the challenges that these nurses face while in practice especially with acute-care settings and psychiatric situations. In this regard, it means that master’s prepared nurses have a role to play ...

The Synopsis of the Story

As the world was ushering in the New Year, Chicago was met with a disturbing video that went viral. The terrifying video involved four black men bullying a white man. The four recorded their indecent acts as they kidnapped, gagged and humiliated the victim, who is disabled. The 18-year old victim is a subject of schizophrenia, a mental illness, and attention deficit disorder. Regardless of his state, the group appeared to derive pleasure in mistreating the young man as they laughed along. Even worse, they issued death threats without any sign of compassion or remorse. In fact, one of ...

Video Games and its Cultural Implications

Introduction The advent of new technological innovation in recent years resulted in the introduction of video games which is now considered as an integral part of our life. Video games are almost everywhere, and they serve, not only as a means of entertainment us, but also as a form of socialization, skills training and to experience real-world events through simulations. Accordingly, there are myriad of responses towards the popularity of video games, and this is especially so with the linkage of this form of entertainment to violence and aggression, many examples of which represent extreme and realistic violence (Griffiths, ...

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Parents have been accorded the critical responsibility of taking good care of their children, molding, correcting them and making sure that they become acceptable and meaningful members of the society. Time and again, children go wrong, and parents are left with the responsibility of correcting them and making sure that the children do the right thing. It is, however, evident that a good percentage of parents spank their kids when they go wrong. Researchers have also passionately provided their views on this issue. For example, according to a study done by Gershoff (2013), "We found that spanking was associated ...

One of the constant things in life, apart from changes, are challenges. This is because, life was not designed to be easy. The struggles that we experience in our everyday lives are part of the journey of our development as individuals. Every individual living in this world is a peculiar being. The problems and trials that each of us are facing, appear in various forms. The problem of some may appear less than what others experience, but this does not mean that life is easier for them. It is always possible that different people experience the same degree of ...

The film shows the plight of ordinary American people in the events of America’s Great Depression. They become migrant workers when they end up in a ranch in California. They are in search of work and opportunities for their family, but the best of opportunities are not given to them by the people they work for and live under. Food prices are ridiculously high on purpose such that they cannot afford good food; bottom line the ranch owners they work for oppress them. The camp in which they live in is crowded; the immigrants are starving and desperate. ...

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Social media applications such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Instagram have become a staple in our everyday lives. Because social media has become so prevalent within our society, it is easy to come to the conclusion that social media has a direct impact on our lives. Social media has both positive, and negative benefits that both work together to form our lived experience of the modern day technological revolution. The consequences revolving around of the misuse of social media have reported to have devastating long term effects on the individual. While, the positive benefits of social media could ...

The emergence of social media has been critical to the political world through aiding of participation. It is important that every party and stakeholder is involved in the political process. The essential nature of politics makes it necessary for certain groups of people to participate. The value of asserting political influence surpasses the imaginary benefits that people often lay against it. In the contemporary world, the use of social media as a tool for engaging on political matters has increased tremendously. Over the recent years, many groups have continued to assert their influence in politics by engaging the political ...

General Douglas MacArthur was a five-star general of the Philippine army. In this capacity and in his capacity as Chief of Staff of the United States Army, he played a prominent role in Pacific Theater during World War II. On May 12, 1962, he addressed the cadets at West Point Military Academy in a speech entitled “Duty, Honor, Country” for the acceptance of the Sylvanus Thayer Award. He was the recipient of this award for being an “outstanding citizen of the United States whose service and accomplishments in the national interest exemplify personal devotion to the ideals expressed in ...

When writing any information relative to cause and effect, there has to be clarity with a specified purpose in mind to include the audience who will be addressed, the subject matter, and finally the cause and effect relationship that will be discussed. The presenter of the information must be able to identify the cause and effect relationship and how it exists. But before beginning to write the essay, report, or memorandum, the writer must know what the definition of cause and effect. A cause is what causes something to happen and an effect is what happens because of the ...

The article is titled “Arsene Wenger has worked miracles at Arsenal-to abuse him now is shameful and embarrassing” and it is written by John Cross, the chief football writer for The Daily Mirror, specifically covering football stories in North London, a part mainly dominated by two English Premier League giants-Arsenal and Tottenham. The article was published on the Daily Mirror website on April 19, 2016 in the opinion section. This article criticizes Arsenal fans who abused the club head manager for dwindling performance in the league after being knocked out of the European championship and both domestic cups. Cross ...

Change Management in Bettington Trading and Sons

As a family company, Bettington trading and sons has experienced a commendable growth in business over some years. Transfer of management from one family member to the other with the help a professional board of directors has seen the company remain sustainable due to commitment and relationship building. However, a move to implement change in the organization by a family member tasked with managing the company has met frustrations from the board of directors who do not seem to agree with how this should be done so fast. The management is not in agreement on whether the company should ...

We live in a world where toys are color-coded blue for boys and pink for girls. TV commercials for certain products food included are focused on men on one hand and others target women. Women have been cultured to be fond of “chick flicks” which are predominantly romantic comedies whereas men are meant to watch action movies and soccer. Roles and plays have been highly gendered. These cultural assumptions have been in existence since time immemorial. Therefore, the thesis by which this paper is guided is two-fold: there is a direct causative relationship between the cultural assumptions on gender ...

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In his novel, ‘The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’, author Junot Diaz portrays two of the main characters differently. To achieve this, he employs the approach of love and the ability to get it to narrate a fascinating set of events. Through a series of events and exercises, Diaz succeeds in explaining how self-perception (appreciation) and self-esteem play a significant role in defining what one becomes. There is no doubt, whatsoever, that Yunior is Oscar’s foil. In every aspect, Yunior is everything Oscar is not, the inverse holding true. Through their love lives, the two are portrayed ...

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Training and development is a major function that varied human resource managers have to take seriously to ensure that employees are influenced to utilize the skills learnt. It is imperative to consider the most effective training methods such as the blended training methods that incorporate on job training and the technological based training methods. While on job training methods involve training employees on various functional aspects including wash fits, pant fits and dry cleaning, technological methods are aimed at improving flexibility of training. It is also strategic to consider the learning principles including motivational factors, self-efficacy and adult learning ...

When I was in the first grade, one of my friends dressed exactly like Troy Dungan, the weatherman on one of local news stations, as often as he could. That meant that he wore a bow tie and round eyeglasses (even though he could see perfectly fine). He would draw hypothetical weather maps over and over, just to reiterate the different symbols for the different sort of events (rain, hail, lightning, snow and the like) – symbols that no longer show up on modern television because of the different graphical elements available but still appear on the maps that meteorologists ...

Introduction

Training and development is a major function that varied human resource managers have to take seriously to ensure that employees are influenced to utilize the skills learnt. It is imperative to consider the most effective training methods such as the blended training methods that incorporate on job training and the technological based training methods. While on job training methods involve training employees on various functional aspects including wash fits, pant fits and dry cleaning, technological methods are aimed at improving flexibility of training. It is also strategic to consider the learning principles including motivational factors, self-efficacy and adult learning ...