Essays on Gregg

Introduction

There are numerous debates about the death penalty in the United States. America continues to allow states to decide whether to apply the death penalty or not. There are 32 states in America that have the death penalty as opposed to 18 states that have abolished the practice. The United States of America continues to act as the leader of the free world. American exceptionalism is premised on the fact that America is a uniquely free nation based on democratic ideals and personal liberties. America has led the process of exporting liberal democracies around the world and many nations ...

Analysis of ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’

Introduction Jean Rhys’ ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’ is a story that gives a detailed account of the events that took place during the last days of the colonial activities of the English people in the Caribbean region. Rhys was born in the region and she experienced some of the issues that she narrates through the story that she tells in ‘The Wide Sargasso Sea’ (Ciolkowski 341). In the story, Rhys details the many issues that affected women during the colonial times in her society. It should be understood that the story by Rhys takes a creative narrative but it ...

Which method of financial analysis is most appropriate for a diabetic screening program? Provide your rationale.The best financial analysis method that can track the costs as well as the effectiveness of a diabetes screening program is the Cost-utility economic analysis. Unlike the cost-benefit ratio analysis where the costs and benefits are expressed in monetary units, the cost-utility analysis expresses the health benefits in a more natural unit of measurement in the case of a disease such as diabetes. These units include quality of adjusted life years (QALY) and/or per life year gained (LYG) (Zhang, Engelgau, Norris, Gregg, & Narayan, 2004). ...

Introduction

The paper is intended to apply and synthesize the concept of management information system to the case of Primus Idea of McGraw Hills for text book publication while considering its future implementation. The management information system is considered as critical for the decision making within the business. The management information system must be protected and secured to complete the system development project successfully. For this purpose, each step of the development must be well managed and secured. The steps of development of information system include system analysis, system design, system implementation and system maintenance. The purpose of the paper ...

Surgical fires happen rarely, but should be taken into consideration, for they can have serious consequences for the hospital’s patients, employees, and the institution as well. It’s necessary to learn the ways to prevent such fires and the ways to deal with inflaming if it happens. (“Surgical Fire Prevention”, 2012). The research on the matter shows that up to 650 surgical fires occur in the US operation rooms each year, with up to 5% causing death or serious harm (Rocos & Donaldson, 2012). According to Feldman, L., Fuchshuber, P. & Jones, D. B. (2012) nearly 44% of fires during ...

Introduction

The paper is intended to analyze the business task that one would like to be computerized. The purpose of the paper is to understand the application of Information System Development Life Cycle to the project of business task analysis for computerization project. In doing so, the paper will also discuss the operation feasibility, technical feasibility and legal and political feasibility of the business task going to be analyzed along with its tangible and intangible benefits.

Proposed Computerized Project

One of the tasks of the business that one would like to be computerized is the process of ordering and procurement. The organization has ...

Conflicting religious ideologies accounted for the atrocious attack on the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks. That single attack changed foreign policies and relations for the entire globe. However, it was not the first time that religious considerations had triggered violent conflicts that changed world affairs. The crusades also played a crucial role in influencing the political and international relations among different nations. In November 1950 at the Council of Clermont, Pope Urnbanus II called for an armed crusade to unshackle the holy land from Muslim rule. His call would shape or influence world history for many years. The causes ...

Introduction

No form of punishment engenders more controversy than the death penalty. Although capital punishment has been used since ancient times, its modern utilization is repeatedly called into question. The United States stands alone among Western world counterparts in its continued use of the death penalty. Among the international community, the general trend largely reflects a discontinuance of capital punishment. For instance, member states of the European Union have all abolished the death penalty (Shin, 2007, p. 505). Given the overwhelming number of nations that have since abolished the death penalty, it is somewhat surprising that the United States continues ...

One of the cornerstones of American legal system is the Eighth Amendments prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment” (United States Constitution, amend. VIII). Because the Eighth Amendment is silent on what forms of punishment constitute inherently “cruel and unusual,” flushing out the details has been left up to the Supreme Court. As society advances and develops, views towards punishment correspondingly shift. While it may have been a widely accepted practice to draw and quarter people three hundred years ago, by today’s standards, this punishment certainly constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. The most controversial form ...

Introduction

International trade, which involves an exchange of goods and services across the geographical boundaries of a country, is one of the major determinants of the economic stability of a country. The volume of trade indicates the effect of trade on the economies of the participating countries. The economy of the United Kingdom has continuously experienced expansion despite the presence of rampant unemployment and inflation until the 2008 recession. This resulted from the failure of the government to take actions to correct economic instabilities (Washington et al. n.p). The relative value of currency between countries involved in exchange is essential ...

The two passages written by Bordwell and Toland provide the analysis of different aspects of Citizen Kane, one of the most legendary products in the cinema industry. Gregg Toland, an outstanding cinematographer, primarily famous for his work with Orson Welles on the movie Citizen Kane, in the paper “How I Broke the Rules in Citizen Kane” makes the analysis of his collaboration with Welles as well as the analysis of major achievements which were made in terms of this collaboration during the shootings of the film (Toland 569). Firstly, he explains the differences between the terms “commandment” and “convention” ...

Reflecting on focus and content of this course, what is an important challenge facing management of organizations today, and how would you go about addressing it? 

An important challenge facing management of organizations today is the changing perception and nature of work in post-industrial economies where majority of jobs are represented by the services sector. While a typical job was characterized by strict compartmentalization between one’s personal life and job-related life in industrial era prior to the 1970s, “work’s intimacy” (Gregg, 2013) is the new norm, and is resulting in intrusion of work in employees daily ...

The death penalty was introduced in America through the common law brought by the British (Garland et. al., 2011). Indeed the British carried out the death penalty in America during the colonial era. When America gained independence, the death penalty was transplanted to the laws of the independent America. Though it was not expressly provided for, they were arguments that since the Eighth Amendment only prohibits unusual and cruel punishments, it does not disallow death penalty. Accordingly, there were several instances of death penalties imposed.

The Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of the death sentence in the case ...

In a lecture presented by Dr. Samuel Gregg of the Catholic University of America Washington, entitled, “How can Liberty and Solidarity Address the Problem of Crony Capitalism?” he sought to explain the dangers of crony capitalism and the possible solutions entrenched within the Catholic’s teachings on liberty and solidarity. Accordingly, he first defined the concept of crony capitalism. Afterwards, he emphasized the danger of such concept when it thrives in a nation’s economy. The main danger, according to Gregg, is that crony capitalism diminishes that create power of every individual in the society, by limiting the opportunity for free ...

The issues in the network society have attracted enormous attention in the recent times. Rather than totalizing coeval working experience, the book “Work’s Intimacy” written by Melissa Gregg focuses on the ramifications and contradictions of professionals that hold a mid-rank, formerly defined as the white-collar workers. Mobile and online technologies have a great impact on the work, life and social relations of the people, especially professionals. After examining 26 professionals from four organizations, namely, education, telecommunications, government and broadcasting in Brisbane, Australia for three years, Gregg’s book bridges the gap in the existing literature on digital labor. In ...

The separation of duties within Kudler Fine Foods is important as it limits the amount of power any one individual holds (Gregg, Nam, Northcutt & Pokladnik, 2013). It also enables the management of conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts of interests, as well as prevents fraud. It requires that for certain sets of transaction, no single person will be able to perform all the transactions within the set (Ferraiolo & Kuhn, n.d.). As an example, fraud can be prevented in the handling of money by having one sales person take the order while another sales person marks ...

John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentoville, London. He was the first-born son of James Mill and Harriet Burrow who got married in 1805. His father was born in Scotland but had to move to London to advance his career in economy as well as in philosophy. John’s father and his close friend, Jeremy Bentham, played a pivotal role in equipping him with the knowledge that he would require to lead a successful life.

John began his education at a rather early age. He started learning Greek at the age of three. When he was eight years ...

The Dallas County Commissioners Court serves as both the legislative and executive authority for Dallas County. The court is comprised of four members, namely four commissioners and a county judge. The four commissioners each represent one of the four county districts and are chosen separated by the voters of each district. The county judge is chosen by the voter of the full county and serves as the head of the Commissioners Court. Unlike in other parts of the state, the Dallas County Commissioners Court does not exercise any judicial powers. As a sub-state institute, the Court can only exercise the specific ...

The Mayan apocalyptic predictions of 2012 have long since passed, and civilization has essentially moved on from its portents of doom and gloom. However, with Gregg Braden’s Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, elements of self-help spiritualism and pseudo-math are combined to create a work of New Age spiritualism that, while certainly illuminating to the converted, will not successfully convince those looking for philosophies to the universe that require greater rigor. Looking at the book through an air of skepticism, Fractal Time fails to convince, poorly using its own research and loosely connecting information together ...

Introduction

Emission of the toxic substance by industries is common all over the world. Toxic substances are emitted daily by industries and anthropogenic activities. Toxic substances are categorized into three categories namely organic, inorganic and metallic compounds. Examples of organic, inorganic and metallic compounds are methane, sulfate and mercury respectively. There have been reports of these substances having negative effects on the environment. Substances like methane are responsible for increased atmospheric temperature. Sulfates affect soil. Sulfates combine with atmospheric water to form acid water. Acid water has a negative effect of soil and microorganism living in it. Mercury, on the other ...

Introduction

The human species are claimed to have existed for hundreds of thousands of years. According to history, years ago people used to be nomadic pastoralist who moved from one place to another thus did not have a permanent home. A transition occurred, which caused the people to change their nomadic lifestyle where they used to hunt and gather fruits and began doing agriculture. This transition caused them to change and start staying in one place. The transition from the old ways of nomadic movement to the point where the people are actually staying in one place is what is described ...

Capital punishment is considered as legal sentence in 32 states and may be applied both by federal and state courts. In the United States, the traditions of capital punishment are borrowed from English common law. Historically, apart from the official, state-sanctioned executions, the United States had a peculiar phenomenon of public executions, also known as lynching. In the Wild West, sheriffs who acted as law enforcement officials, at their own discretion, sentenced offenders to death and sometimes carried out the execution. Electric chair, as a method of execution, was invented at the end of the XIX century and in a short ...

Introduction

The execution rate reached its peak of 98 executions in1999 after the Supreme Court has restored the imposition of capital punishment in 1976. However, there has been a significant change thereafter, since there was a downward trend in the executions due to the fact that there are some high-profile cases involving death row inmates, who had been acquitted after undergoing the DNA testing. According to the report of Christian Century, even though the number of the death row inmates who were executed in the year 2012 remained unchanged at 43 since 2011, the opponents of death penalty argued that the capital ...

Health Information Exchange In the U.S.

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Introduction. According to the HIE directory “Health information exchange is the transmission of healthcare-related data among facilities, health information organizations and government agencies, according to national standards for interoperability, security and confidentiality.” After more than two decades of working to achieve effective and efficient health, this goal is still not fully actualized. The utilization of personal health information is still not fully exploited to support optimal care because the creation and storage of data is fragmented since information tends to be isolated within physician practices, hospitals, pharmacies, laboratories, or clinics. In an effort ...

Introduction

Physical inactivity is a leading cause of disease and disability the world over (Gregg & Rowell, 2002). In order to reduce the risk of many diseases and chronic conditions, people need to increase physical activity levels. Diseases infest a body that is relatively dormant and inactive when it comes to physical activity (Wetzler & Cruess, 1985). This report summarizes the findings of an intervention to boost the levels of physical activity of a person. The initiative aims at increasing an individual's physical activity, the upper arms muscles and the chest. This initiative is justifiable for someone whose body is flabby, non-muscular, out ...

Coal Mining: Boon or Bane?

Energy is one of the determining factors in assessing the progress of a nation. In the absence of energy, people can not perform their daily activities. Trade and industries are put into a halt. Energy comes from renewable and nonrenewable resources. Renewable resources are those that can be replenished such as wind, solar energy, and hydro while non-renewable resources are finite—the likes of coal and fossil fuels. Thus, every nation explores all potential sources of energy. Because of the drawbacks of renewable energy resources (CIAB, 7), humans still resort to a more stable source of energy—coal. Before coal could be ...

1. Background Energy is one of the determining factors in assessing the progress of a nation. In the absence of energy people cannot perform their daily activities. Trade and industries are put into a halt. Energy comes from renewable and non-renewable resources. Renewable resources are those that can be replenished such as wind, solar and hydro while non-renewable resources are finite—the likes of coal and fossil fuels. In every country, access to energy is very essential to carry out their production. Thus, every nation explores all potential sources of energy. Because of the drawbacks of renewable energy resources (CIAB, ...

When any individual is asked which weapon is the most lethal of all, then most people would automatically say the gun is the most lethal. The gun indeed is one of the most lethal weapons around. A single bullet aimed at any lethal organ may lead to severe damages to the victim. In some cases this bullet may even lead to death. This implies that it comes with a lot of pain (Gregg, 2012). The sight of an individual carrying a gun is thus more horrific than it is pleasurable. It is common for state defense personnel, for instance the ...

Introduction:

For this paper, the two literally works selected are the road not taken and I used to live here once. The theme of symbolism of the journey will be analyzed for both pieces of literature. Below is a critical analysis that compares and contrasts how the theme has been portrayed in both works.

Road Not Taken:

The poem Road Not Taken by Robert Frost was published in 1916. It has been described as one of the best known poems worldwide. The setting of the poem is unique; it immediately engages the reader and captures their attention from the start. It is one of ...

Community Health Nurse

Introduction A community is defined as a group of people that work, live and play in a particular environment at any given time. This group of people share common attributes and interests. Therefore a community assessment can be elaborated to mean the process of collection, analysis and use of data to facilitate a change in the collective health of a community. The process involves developing proprieties, assemblage of resources and the elaboration of a plan of actions garnered towards the improvement of the health system of the community. In this paper, a community health assessment would be done in the Scarborough community in Toronto ...

Abstract

The Globalization and the Mass Media are inseparable phenomena’s. As the role of Media around the world expanded, the transformation of people and knowledge is expanding as well, thus creating a global village as described by scholars and authors of globalization. The world is a global village, and several aspects of life are integrated because of this phenomenon. The role of both globalization and media affects several aspects such as politics, international relations, economics, and cultures. Culture is the essence of any society, and it is a big part of the identity and nationality. As the role of globalization managed ...

The ‘gang of eight’ unveiled a comprehensive immigration reform in April 2013 aimed at dealing with the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States and putting a halt to illegal immigration. The proposed bill by the group included the DREAM act principles to give assistance to immigrants who entered the US illegally when young, provisions for enhancement of border security and a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants. The effort of these eight members should indeed present a political desire of solving the immigration menace in the US, though this reform should take into consideration past experiences before ...

The Effect of Working Mothers on the Cognitive Development of Infants 0-3 years of age.

Prospectus: The Effect of Working Mothers on the Cognitive Development of Infants 0-3 years of age. Problem statement According to Ruhm (2010), a child’s first three years of life are of significant importance. Research has indicated early influences play a key role in brain development. This implies that, for an infant/child, these formative years are likely to have great significance on how the infant/child develops learning skills, emotional security, and self-esteem. In addition, O’Reilly (2012) argued that implications of maternal absence have generated widespread controversy and debate in recent years. These researches conform to Becker’s theory ...

Introduction

Imposition of the death penalty by the state has been practiced around the world for centuries; the first occasion in what is now the USA was in 1607. Since that time, capital punishment has been a tool of this country’s system of criminal justice. The purpose of this paper is to firstly respond to the question of how two specific court cases impacted capital punishment in this country and in particular in California, and secondly, to review the evidence for and against the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the death penalty being a crime deterrent in the U.S. Question 1: ...

Islam, Judaism and Christianity are popular religions across the world. Martin (3) noted that these religions represent almost half of the world’s religious believers, with Christianity and Islam coming first and second on the world’s most popular religions respectively. They have some features in common, but continue to fall into conflict often just like it has been throughout their history. This paper has two parts. First, it notes the common elements to all the three religions. In the second part, it evaluates both historical and contemporary conflicts with respect to these religions, and the efforts that have ...

The SCTP INIT scan:

This scan technique is applicable in both TCP and UDP protocols. The scanning techniques come with multiple features for information retrieval, which include the multi-homing. The technique gets its alternative name of half-open scanning since the scan does not initiate a full SCTP association. An INIT chunk is responsible for initiating the scan. This technique is applicable in cases where multiple ports are to be scanned since it is capable of scanning thousands of ports within a very short time. The scan is useful in SS7 related applications. This scan can be detected using a zone alarm and be blocked using an ...

The impact of student services in any community college is affected by the school climate. There are many challenges facing the delivery of student services in colleges. First of all there has been a growing trend towards diversity in the classrooms which teachers have to recognize and appreciate. If teachers do not structure their teaching methods to cater for the student then their ability to appreciate and apply college education is hindered (Brooks, 2004: Brimijoin, Marquissee & Tomlinson, 2003) There are many students who go to community colleges to attend remedial classes. It may become difficult for the college to offer ...

Executive summary

Security has become a big problem in today’s organizations setting. Intruders of al kinds have managed to successfully break into many companies’ web services as well as their networks. Several trials have been developed to curb the same from and secure companies’ infrastructural networks and exchange of information through secure channels, among these are firewall setups, encryption technology, and VPNs. Intrusion Detection is a new mechanism of instilling security in organizations’ networks. Application of this technique assists IT security manager to gather and utilize information resulting from recognized attacks and check if someone is attempting to break into your network ...