Essays on Krieger

For this assignment, I took the time to observe the built environment in my neighborhood. In my area, I noted that we have some fast food restaurants. The neighborhood also has some parks. However, I realized that not many people make use of the parks. Moreover, within the park, there is no kids’ stuff. The area also has groceries and sidewalks where pedestrians can walk and cycle as well. Moreover, the neighborhood also has public transport system. Such elements help to make up the built environment in my neighborhood. All these aspects of built environment in my checklist impact ...

Summary of the Dubai Reading

Kazim (2010) wrote a historical article about Dubai, tracing the economic steps of this important city from the early XIX to the beginning of the XXI century.

Dubai in the Early Colonial Period (1820-1945)

Kazim reports that the British took over the area known as the Trucial Emirates (the current United Arab Emirates, UAE) with the destruction of the Al-Qawasin, an Arab mercantile group, in the 1820s (Kazim, 2010, pg. 75). The British leveled the existing key mercantile cities, took over the ports and established their colonialism, which contained the trade only within the British Empire. This was a harsh blow to a region which traded ...

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 ...

Problems with Welfare: Research Proposal Welfare

Introduction Welfare system proves to be a sophisticated approach while seeking to incorporate various programs and users. According to the critics of the welfare system in the contemporary society, the system fails to offer sufficient state flexibility. Besides, welfare system does not encourage work among the target audience while contributing to the breakdown of the families. Similarly, the system has not been able to realize or demonstrate enormous implications, as well as influences towards the reduction of the issue of poverty among the society members. From this perspective, it is valuable to consider development and execution of this research ...

Regression Analysis and Time Series Modelling

Regression Analysis in Legal Scenario Multiple regression and time series analysis have played an important role in legal context also. For instance, in the famous supreme court case of McCleskey v/s Kemp, the appellant, who was sentenced to death, claimed that race of the criminal plays a very important role when the judge decides the punishment. Accordingly, David Baldus, a professor at the University of Iowa, ran regression on the number of death penalty cases, while keeping the race of the criminal, his past criminal record, method of killing and motive of killing as independent variables. Ironically, the outcome ...

Relationship between law and policy in healthcare

Health care law focuses on the judicial, executive and rules that govern the health care sector. The health care trade includes hospital systems, public and personal insurance system, pharmaceutical and drug making organizations; and therefore the individual practitioners who are involved in actual treatment of patients. All these various entities function inside a diverse and complicated rules and laws. All the practitioners, at one point or the other are trained in laws that guide the medical sector (Pozgar, 2011). The areas of focus include fraud and abuse, food and drug law, medical malpractice, and health care mergers and acquisitions. ...

Revolution in military

Revolution in military affairs can be attributed to use of new processes and new tools of waging war like system of systems, command and control, as well as network-centric warfare, all driven by information technology. The term “Revolution in Military Affairs” is used to refer to a major shift in the nature of fighting which is as a result of the application of new technologies which adjusts the nature and accomplishment of military actions, when these technologies are pooled with organizational and operational concepts as well as vivid changes in military doctrine, (Theodor, 1995, pp.3-9). The concept of revolution in ...