Essays on Isaacs

Public health organizations are actively seeking social media and related technologies to disseminate health related information (Isaacs, 2014). Social media can be highly influential and can affect people’s behavior (Isaacs, 2014). Some of the benefits of using social media for health communication are: (i)it enhances the person’s access to health information, (ii) can be used to create awareness or (iii) to conduct mass campaigns on public health issues. (Cooke-Jackson, 2013) The risk of disseminating health information through social media are as follows: (i) People using social media are exposed to a number of health information on ...

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With the depletion of crude oil deposits across the world becoming a reality with every new day, the world has been forced to start looking at alternative sources of oil. One of these unconventional sources of oil is the bitumen oil found in oil sands. Canadian oil sands have been identified as the second largest oil reserves in the world after those in Saudi Arabia. Most of these oil sands are found in the province of Alberta. These oil reserves are estimated to be an approximate 175 billion barrels of bitumen and sit across an area of 140,800 ...

In summary, the article talks about the significance of the acquired knowledge and the efficiency of the actions taken depending on the quality of questions that are asked. With this, it maintains that questions have the right key required in opening the doors needed for dialogue, as well as, discovery. This means that the questions that have been asked offer an invitation to various breakthroughs and the creativity needed in the development of different sectors. The authors maintain that the questions can sufficiently ignite the much-needed change through the generation of creative insights where applicable. On top of giving ...

Examining and explaining Saudi Arabia's educational practices relating to parent-school-community partnerships

In Saudi Arabia, parents have taken their children to school and haven't been doing follow ups on the student's school performance and attendance. Parents will just pay tuition and buy everything that the child requires. They, however, never ask the child's progress, don't even know what the child learns. When meetings are called in schools, many parents won't attend as they think it's a waste of time. They believe that their only requirement is to enroll a child in school and pay the required fees. They leave everything else to the teacher. In some cases, children want to get ...

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

Psychology: Exploring the Relations of Micro Expression to Professional Performance

According to the studies conducted by Albert Mehrabian in 1971, in communication process, around 93% of human communication takes place through non-verbal mode. He divided the communication process into three parts; words (7%), tone of the voice (38%), and body language 55% (Mehrabian, 1981). Among non-verbal modes of communication the commonly used mode is the facial expressions. The face of the person expresses his/her emotions. Yet, some part of emotions is sometimes not clear to everyone. We all are not experts in identifying each and every expression of the ...

When news about the Gold Rush in California arrived in Japan, most people did not believe it at first. Only a few curious people travelled to America to find out how accurate the gold discovery was (Isaacs 26). However, within a few months’ time, news came back home with the confirmation, and more people decided to set sail for California. My family and I packed our belongings and formed part of that exodus. When we got to America, we settled along the Sacramento River, in the Northern part of California. Naturally, my husband joined other miners, but the kind of ...