Essays on Live

Sociology is the study of society, of the relationships between individuals, of the rules governing social lives, but also of how to break the rules (Babbie, 1994). The analyzed reading suggests that is no single perspective that is true or representative regarding all these aspects, and paradigms such as interactionism, functionalism or conflict are only several approaches through which they can be analyzed (Barbie, 1994). The article “An idea Whose Time Has Come” questions the validity of many of the mass media information fed to individuals on a daily basis and challenges the authority of rules, demonstrating that nowadays, ...

Introduction

People all over the world live according to their own preferences and needs, but try to orienteer better in the society by reading current newspapers and analyzing the environment around them. This way, news is extremely important in our lives, as it performs a variety of functions, beginning from the one of informative pattern and ending with the educational achievements. This paper is to evaluate the level of influence, carried by news into people’s lives along with mentioning changes in awareness throughout society in the form of the role of social determinants of health (SDH), which are mentioned ...

The article by Tatiana Schlossberg presents a simple and clear explanation of the close future of air conditioning systems and their influence on global warming (“How Bad Is Your Air-Conditioner for the Planet?”, 2016) Year by year the Earth becomes a hotter place to live and so far almost 90% of American homes have air conditioners. On the one hand, it allows to develop South and Southwest of the country, yet on the other, it leads to the construction of less energy-efficient buildings. In addition, air conditioners emit HFC gas, or hydrofluorocarbons, which traps the heat in the atmosphere ...

Every person dreams about his/her house. Nowadays people live more in small flats as it is not easy to buy or build a big house, but to live in a big house is nice. The big cities build many story buildings with small flats where people can feel free as in a separate house with a garden and a gate. I have been dreaming about my dream house since my childhood. In my head, it has to be a big house in the suburb of the town with great nature around and a small garden near it. I also ...

The Asian American community has long been referred to as a “model minority" which is a term used to refer to non-white ethnic groups in the US and the perceived notion that they can to find success and adapt to the American way of life seamlessly. According to Yen (2), the model minority is one that has achieved economic and societal success. They can blend into the ideal conservative lifestyle that Americans hold ideal such as strong family ties and hard work. Moreover, the Asian Americans are expected to attain success in the academic field and the entrepreneurial field ...

Even if it sounds paradoxically it is quite difficult to live in the contemporary world and simultaneously understand all events and processes that take place in it. We are surrounded by huge amounts of information. And sometimes the more one knows the more confused he becomes. However, one characteristic feature of the modern world, namely globalization cannot be denied, because it is inseparable even from our daily activities, even the most ordinary. Moreover, due to inexhaustible possibilities of the Internet, mass media and aspirations of people, our daily life, day after day only strengthens the processes of globalization. There ...

In countries around the world, children are suffering and dying from malnutrition, disease, and poverty secondary to drought or flooding. Changes in climate create many risks to the lives of children and their families as they struggle to survive in areas where food is difficult to grow and workers are poorly paid. Due to the increase in temperature and extreme weather conditions brought on by climate change, many communities are expected to suffer scarcity of clean water with the result of perilous diseases and health complications. Disasters and humanitarian crises may bring long-term displacements and disruption to educational, health, ...

Introduction

This essay will review the movie “Down in The Delta” that deals with the depiction of autism. It is an interesting movie that seeks to enlighten the viewer ON the plight of a young mother (Loretta) whose daughter is diagnosed with autism. Her struggles are explained in the difficulties she faces in raising her children, especially after her husband runs away upon learning about the condition of his daughter. The essay will be helpful in learning the stereotypes that are associated with autism by answering some questions that will guide this understanding. Does the movie support the current legislation ...

The Mawangdui tomb paintings has been analyzed very carefully by a number of experts who have different interpretations based on the belief systems prevalent at the time of Lady Dai's life and death. Given how rich Chinese history is, in terms of its beliefs, there are a number of texts and sources that can be used to explain this four-layered coffin and that has become the subject of much debate (Holloway). In the first reading, the question as to why paintings are even kept in tombs is asked and where one reaches the conclusion that it is probably assumed ...

Video in Opera Stage

Introduction Advances in technology and the corresponding creation of digital technologies have significantly impacted the performing arts (Poole & Ho, 2011). Opera has not escaped the technological advancements and as such, new forms of opera have emerged in both digital and virtual formats (Symonds & Karantonis, 2013). Salter (2010) explains that since the 1990s, the scenography of opera has emerged with technological advancements transforming stages into video and monitor accompaniments. The obvious payoff is an enhanced experiential, virtual reality of the opera’s stage. The new technologies blur the lines between the opera’s stage and the motion picture common in ...

Multiculturalism is a defining characteristic of the Canadian people, where persons of diverse backgrounds and origins live in harmony. However, discord persists over the impact of various legislation and practices in the integration of immigrants as well as identifiable religious minorities. Multiculturalism, for instance, finds opposition on the premises that it promotes balkanization and isolation of ethnic groups. Proponents argue that such policy encourages herding of ethnic groups, where differences between groups are amplified as opposed to their common identity as Canadians (Kymlicka Par1). It is imperative for a multiethnic nation like Canada to institute mechanisms that facilitate feelings ...

Psychology of Human Sexuality

Psychology of Human Sexuality The sexuality of a human being is an uncertain thing. Physically, it is determined at the conception of the child, as the X and Y chromosomes will reach a configuration that will allow the newly formed organism to be classified as male or female. The genitalia however that are so vital to many in determining whether one is a boy or a girl will not be visible until upwards of 17 to 20 weeks during a pregnancy. The physical sexuality of a person is determined early on in life, but the overall gender they allude ...

The Effect of Social Media on the Selection or the Desire of UAE Nationals Living in Abu Dhabi to Choose a Tourism Destination- Research Prospectus

Abstract

The study seeks to find out the impact of social media on the choice of travel destinations by UAE national who live in Abu Dhabi. The problem that the survey aims to address is the role of social media factors in influencing decision-making by consumers of tourism services. The study acknowledges that social media plays an imperative role in influencing consumers’ choice of their travel destination, which makes an important aspect for the study. ...

Since the dawn of our human civilization, people have been trying to find the most effective way of building their behavior. Historically, the patterns of people’s activity have been directly connected to the society itself. Therefore, the social and political utility of the human operations is one of the determining factors. As a result, the behavior of the community, formed by the patterns of personalities, has become an extremely complex system of reasons and consequence. Hannah Arendt addresses the topic of the human being’s behavior in the context of the political history. The Human Condition is her ...

Introduction

Occupational therapy focuses on increasing participation in a client’s daily activities. It involves the identification of environmental barriers that limit the customer’s ability to perform his or her daily activities and eliminating them. This is done by modifying the tasks, educating and teaching the skills to the client to enhance his or her daily activities. More emphasis is placed on the needs and goals of the client. Young@Heart is a film about a chorus composed of senior citizens. They sing contemporary songs as well as pop and classic rock songs. Eighty is the average age of ...

Sustainable Built Environment

Introduction It seems that building development would present an impressive opportunity to reduce energy demand and also reduce carbon emissions effectively with combining current knowledge and expertise (Diakaki, & Kolokotsa, 2009). The highest cost-effectively feasible mitigation prospective is recommended to be found within the residential as well as the commercial sector. This is suggested to be producing a reduction of 29% in respect to the probable emission baseline for the year 2020. Life Cycle Assessment is also known as (LCA) is a technique for evaluating environmental pack of processes as well as products in their life cycle. It attempts to ...

People often speak about morality. They do it when they want to criticize someone or to justify their own behavior. They use the word morality freely enough, without giving a second thought to what they really mean by the word. Besides, it can hardly be denied that different people and especially different communities may act according to different moral principles. Thus, something which is considered quite moral in one community may look absolutely immoral in another, which leads to a conclusion that morality is, in fact, a very relative thing. Speaking about morality, people usually operate such concepts as ...

A Review of Literature

INTRODUCTION The United States has currently been struggling with a great deal of political warfare, social unrest and public protest from the inside and from terrorism, global criticism and immigration battles from the outside. There are so many issues that the subjects of debate seem endless. One of the most controversial and often debated issues today is gun control. There is no doubt that it is incredibly dangerous when offenders are armed when they commit crimes like burglary or in a car-jacking; more so when these offenders have every premeditated intent to kill. At the same time, not everyone ...

Climate change poses many risks to the lives of children. Because of the increase in temperature and extreme weather conditions brought by climate change, many communities are expected to suffer from food and water scarcity and perilous diseases and health complications. More disasters and humanitarian crises would bring long-term displacements and disruption to educational and economic activities (UNICEF, p.8). Given this situation, the future of children at the worldwide scale remains under peril. Governments and other agencies concerned on the welfare of children must do something to address this worsening situation, or the children will pay the price. Climate ...

Milton Friedman believes that in a free society we must not forget that there are two types of freedom and they should not be confused. The proper role of the government is to consider these two ways of understanding freedom - which are freedom from coercion and freedom of ‘free of cost’- and help individuals reach their objectives, interfering with each other as minimum as possible. The government should create opportunities to help people achieve their goals, knowing of course that there is no absolute freedom in society. It is important to notice that for Friedman, the society ...

Gilgamesh and Achilles are famous heroes from ancient epics of Mesopotamian and Greek cultures, respectively. The traits of each hero reveal clues as to their cultural ideals. The two characters share a sense of pride and a need for glory, but they differ in that Gilgamesh’s top quality is his strength where as Achilles’ is his fighting ability. Gilgamesh and Achilles are both mortal, but they differ in their key qualities. Gilgamesh has superior physical strength; this is his main heroic quality. He is also courageous and quick-witted. Achilles, on the other hand, is a proficient warrior. The ...

Day One: 26 January 2017

I attended a funeral in the early morning, in a Catholic chapel. It was a traditional Requiem Mass, so there were several hymns involved. All of these except one were sung in a call-and-response manner, accompanied by an organ, with a lone soprano singing the verses, and the congregation singing the chorus sections. The last hymn, the recessional hymn, was sung by everyone all the way through. As is usual for hymns, they were slow and quiet in nature, and had one single line of melody, as this was not a professional choir. This was live music, accompanied by ...

According to Benedict Anderson (2007), a community is formed through people coming together and imagining that they are one group. Primarily, societies are created as a result of several factors, which he explains in the first four chapters of his book. Notably, the identification of communities started rising during the industrial revolution due to the increase in the use of local dialects in most functions as opposed to the more general ones, like Latin. The local dialects were used in publications and other print products (Anderson, 2007). The concept resonates well with the theory of imagined communities because when ...

Sea Oak is a short story that depicts several characters living in poverty-stricken areas across the United States. Some of the characters explicitly express their desire to have a better life. One of the important aspects of the story is the fact that a character dies and resurrects temporarily. The author George Sauder’s has combined fiction with reality so as to demonstrate the extent to which individuals will go in a bid to escape poverty and suffering. By contrasting fiction and reality, the author has demonstrated that suffering is part of life and, therefore, inevitable. Even with assistance ...

Dear Finders and Losers,

In a second you will have a better idea what I am referring to. No, I am not trying to offend or mock you. I will talk about one of the oldest idioms that we still use in the era of Netflix, Snapchat and Facebook Live. The English language uses a lot of idioms that came from the ancient times, to be more precise Shakespeare times. Therefore, some of them are already outdated and do not connect to the modern reality. One of such phrases is “finders keepers, losers weepers” that has originated in the fifteenth century. A lot ...

Inuit. Russia/Alaska/Greenland/Canada. Language: Inuit. They are divided up into smaller bands; these bands are identified by locale, i.e., “baleen Whale-eating people.” They have their own Aboriginal rights and self-government. (Freeman 2015), Māori. New Zealand. Language: English, sign language. Māori art is known internationally for the quality of its product. The colour red represents prestige, power and status and it used a lot in the culture’s art and architecture. (Maori 2017). Akha.China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Norther Vietnam. Language: Akha. These hill people huts divided by gender. The swing festival, their most important festival, takes place in the ...

The high percentage of death in intensive care unit is always attributed to the withdrawal of life support machine. In Australia, research shows that a significant proportion of deaths that occurred in the intensive care unit preceded a decision supporting the withdrawal of the life support and this is a case in many countries across the globe including Australia. Withdrawal of life support refers to the process of discontinuing critical care treatment for a patient who is terminally ill, and the decision can be made by the family, government or doctor (Way, Anthony, & Curtis, 2002). The family can make ...

Introduction

After watching a block of photos made by journalist Paula Brownstein, it is hard not have tears in the eyes. This woman is a great photographer and she put her soul into these pictures. The main idea of these photos is to express the life of ordinary people in Afghanistan 15 years ago. Some pictures are really terrible. The culture and way of life of those people are quite different from European ones and it is very sad. The photographer chose the right position and light to show all the feelings of her characters. The key images are about ...

Identify 3 Social Determinants of Health in Community

Unemployment, lack of access to affordable healthcare, and lack of proper nutrition and fitness among children and young adults are 3 major social health determinants in the city of Hialeah. The rate of unemployment is 7% which is significantly higher compared to the state average of 5.6% (City of Hialeah 2017). Unemployment leads to various health disparities and social insecurity such as poor nutrition, lack of education, and access to basic healthcare services (Hialeah Healthy Families 2011). Most of the adults in Hialeah have poor education which prevents them from understanding the need to access or use preventative healthcare ...

altered the way we date? Dating is a great part of life for many young people these days. Relationships are very complicated processes that people are trying to arrange in their lives. There are different types of personal connections: friend, family member or significant other. However, we live in the era of technological revolution that has a direct influence on social contacts that people have. There is a number of advantages and disadvantages that advancement of social media and web technology have added to our dating lives. First of all, dating apps and websites have become a contributing factor ...

“If it has ‘science’ in its name, it ain’t (Minnick).” Those words were said to this writer by the smartest person he ever knew personally, a man with PhDs in Mathematics and Physics, a true scientist. He went on to explain that science, if it is science, can be reduced to mathematics and then can predict. “Science can generate electricity or flatten cities,” he said. The problem, of course, is that whenever one deals with the “soft sciences,” political science or economics (the dismal science) or sociology or history or any of the disciplines that are housed in ...

LEED Neighborhood Development (ND) rating systems such LEED-ND are designed for the certification of exemplary neighborhood development projects which show exemplary performance in relation to smart growth, green building, and new urbanism. Contextually, such development projects include whole neighborhoods, multiple neighborhoods, and even parts of neighborhoods. By reviewing the Pilot version of the LEED-ND 2007 certification document, it is evident that LEED-ND systems are designed to drive the marketplace towards acknowledging the central doctrine of green building i.e. the simple fact that our personal, economic and environment health is significantly influenced by our immediate surroundings which include the places ...

Short Paper

The short stories of Beauty and the Beast, The Frog King and East of the Sun and West of the Moon share that common theme of the happily ever ending after in marriage between a man who is not physically appealing. Apart from exploring the archetypal relationship of holy matrimony, there's also the relationship between a daughter and her father that is also explored in this story too - where the girl becomes a woman when she begins to look at someone for who they are instead of what they have or look (Hallett & Karasek, 2008). No matter which ...

After reading the poem by Susan Minot “My Husband’s back” I began to think about love relations and their role in our life. How do they affect us? How much do they influence our lives? The author tries to show her feeling in this short poem, but everything is clear without any other words. The author is ready to travel everywhere to be behind the back of her husband. There is only one person in her life – her husband and it is may be not real love but love dependence. But from that poem it becomes clear that ...

My town of choice was Lisbon, Portugal. The longitude is -9.139337 and the latitude is 38.722252. It is the capital and the largest city in Portugal, with a population of 552,700. It is the 11th most populous urban area in the European Union. It is continental Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast. It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is recognized as a global city because of its importance in finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts, international trade, education and tourism. I chose Lisbon because I traveled there one ...

I would like to start with the words Megan Chao (1998): “For many centuries, discovering the fountain of youth has been just a dream for humans. Aging is an inevitable process in human life, the result of a highly variable biological cycle. (p.1) Nevertheless aging people continue living full of life, continue working and changing conditions of their lives to the better side. Czaja and Moen (2004) predicted “by 2010 the number of workers age 55+ will be about 26 million, a 46 percent increase since 2000, and by 2025 this number will increase to approximately 33 million.”( ...

In his article “Disconnected Urbanism” Paul Goldberger discuss the way technologies, cell phones in particular, affected people's lives. The author believes that when spending time on the phone people forget about their surroundings. They are not able to fully enjoy the place they are actually in. They are no longer connected to the places they visit. All in all it is possible to agree with the author’s words. The truth is that at present time cell phones substituted a number of things in people's lives. That is why it is possible to say that technologies negatively affected people's ...

Reflection

Question One Values are the things that are vital to us. They can also be described the things that we believe are essential in the way as human beings we work and live. My values in life include happiness, wisdom, love, friendship, success, hard work, truthfulness, openness, commitment, accountability, and joy. Ideally, I can describe these values as the things that are imperative in how I live as well as work. They help me in determining my priorities in life. In other words, these values help me develop a clearer sense of the things that are most vital in ...

Nursing Theory Analysis Paper

Many researchers globally have researched on the discipline of nursing and developed some theories aimed at explaining some health care phenomenon. Theories of nursing play a critical role in influencing the outcome of different areas of practice including research, education, administration, and nursing informatics. Nursing theories fall under the mid-range theory or grand theory classifications. The analysis below discusses the theory of Transcultural Nursing by Madeleine Leininger that falls under the mid-range category of nursing theories.

Analysis of the Transcultural Nursing Theory

Background Leininger is well-recognized psychiatric and mental health professionals of the 1950s. Earned her first diploma in nursing in 1948, advanced to a ...

Business

In today’s world of free trade, not all companies are viewed as equal. When it comes to companies dealing in products that cause harm to health of human beings, the attitude of the people, societies and governments is not very positive and this is not wrong from my point of view. I support the consumers in this case and think that the companies producing such dangerous products should be controlled by the government and laws.

Tobacco Industry

Tobacco is one substance that is extremely harmful to health and therefore, must be sold in a controlled environment. The governments of many ...

Age has been considered the biggest achievement one has to attain a lot of respect in the society. The elderly are considered as the most valuable members of the society because they have a lot to give to the growth of a community. In middle life, the number of the aged in the community was higher since people were expected to live longer. During the average life, the elderly were well cared for. They had many siblings who could be at their disposal to meet their needs. For instance, the Arabs and Islam law taught that the children should ...

Nowadays, it is extremely hard to imagine the world where there is no war, no blood and no struggle for power and influence. We get upset when we turn on the TV. However, it is important to remember that people were at war with each other from the very beginning of civilizations. People were militant because they wanted to conquer new lands and prove their strength to their neighbors. Many wars, including the legendary Trojan War, were fought for women. The entire nations were brought up prepared to go to war with other empires, including Spartans, Persians and Romans, ...

The Analysis of the Washington farewell

Introduction The farewell speech of Washington is a historical reference in the history of America. Washington used the speech to tell the citizens as a way to indicate that he was retiring from the office. In the farewell speech, he addressed some things that would one way, or another affect the living of the people and the country itself. For example, he talked about the importance of unity in all the states; he advised the citizens to live as members of the same country and not to live as members of a loose confederation of states. He said that ...

In each of the following situations, please select which mode of transportation studied this week would be the most advantageous. Explain your answer. [8A, 8B, 8C]

Sending 350 40-foot containers from Shanghai, China to Los Angeles, California.

Maritime transport is the best for these kinds of shipments because ships can fill a given container or what is known as full container load (FCL) (Rushton, Croucher, & Baker, 2014, p. 391). Additionally, container ships can accommodate stackable cargo, which will be prepared using a stowage plan (Rushton, Croucher, & Baker, 2014, p. 393). There is also the possibility of reduced damage in products, which may be caused when using other types of cargoes. ...

Chapter one of the book “Human-Built world: How to think about technology and culture “discusses the complexity of technology and its effect on the modern society. The chapter one elaborates how technology is confusing and complicated to define and comprehend. Furthermore, it demonstrates how technology is filled with ambiguities, burdened with human craziness and full of unintentional consequences (Hughes 1). The chapter gives the definition of technology from the author’s perspective and discusses how one may define it, its origins and how it is used today. The author praises the ideas of various intellectuals and their thoughts about ...

If we were to ask 100 people randomly to describe a criminal, most like they will describe the most recent experience they had of a crime or criminal. Most recent experiences could be what they read on the news on the way to work, in another word what they read or watched on the most recent media exposure they had, or it could also be a personal criminal experience they had. Some people live in neighborhoods that are dangerous so they have more experience with gangs, while others might have been robbed recently, either pickpockets or online fraud, etc. ...

The political elements of Star Trek show that the series had more insight than what is apparent. The show started in the 1960s when the Cold War was at its height. Many authorities argue that Star Trek is an exploration based on self-interest, colonialism, collectivism and control . However, George Gonzalez takes a different approach in The Politics of Star Trek where he undertakes a critical review of the story within the context of the actual implications of the actions of the characters. This paper will review the first two chapters of the book in order to present the critical ...

Given the background of the story “The Lady or the Tiger?” by Frank Stockton, one can easily tell that the princess-barbarian is in quite an ethical dilemma. If she points to the right door – where a lady waits to be married to her lover – she loses. Of course, if she points to the wrong one – where a ferocious tiger awaits the unsuspecting youth – she still loses. If you put yourself in her position, it would be truly difficult to choose her barbaric nature over love and that the author points out. Still, if the young man she loves marries ...

The novel “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson has touched hearts of millions of readers. It is a story that provokes everyone to think deeper about the regimes that we are exposed to and the lives that we have. It is a story that reveals the effect of regime on the lives of real people. This book provides a new approach for revealing the flaws of our society and how system may have effect on the lives of people. The author chooses North Korea as a setting for his novel in order to show the reader how ...

Humanity has developed and flourished over the span of centuries. As civilizations grew and develop, humans learn many things about nature. Ancient people realized the benefits of nature to humanity and began using it for hunting food, acquiring resources to build homes and to protect them from numerous threats from the environment. As humans learned other benefits of nature, they started to interfere with the environment and greatly change the way it was used. People started to change the structures of land and to remove trees from the forest in order to build farm lands and cities. People continue ...

Obstacle to Sustainable Development

It is proved that in places where people litter, take the environment for granted and where people do not appreciate natural resources, the atmosphere is not at all happy ((Blakely, Haley and Woodward). In 2014, the United Nations on the basis of three indicators such as life expectancy of citizens, availability of education and standard of living (poverty or affluence), calculated the index of human development in 190 countries around the world. It is not necessary to prove that the index of human development greatly depends on the ecology of the environment - in other words, to prove that ...

INTRODUCTION

Everyone remembers stories beginning with “once upon a time” and ending in “happily ever after.” Some people see fairytales as antiquated ideologies that are not beneficial in the modern era. Others believe that they are harmless tales intended to spark children’s imagination. Fairytales can establish ideologies about good and evil and right and wrong. They are, also, filled with pointed gender role ideals and gender stereotypes that are, today, ethically questionable. In the last few decades, there has been a literary movement of taking classic fairytales and attempting to update them and eliminate many stereotypes. This leads to ...

It is worth mentioning that human rights are fundamental rights to any individual anywhere in the world. The globe is constantly changing and transforming to meet the needs of the increasing globalization and internationalization. In essence, different countries have different sets of human rights. However, there are universal human rights established by international organizations, mostly the United Nations. They are the fundamental freedoms. Such includes the freedoms of speech, religion, association, expression, and the right to life. Everyone is entitled to these rights, and there are disciplinary measures for countries or leaders who commit crimes that violate the fundamental ...

The Theme of Dystopian Society in the works of Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury

Introduction All the three books, 1984 that was published in 1948 and written by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World that was written in 1931, and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are the examples of dystopian literature. Dystopian literature is the kind of fiction that offers a negative perspective on the society of the future and the problems which are likely to be faced by humankind as a result of their political, environmental and economic activities. While utopian fiction portrays the future being advanced and prosperous as a result of the improvement of technology that assists them ...

In the world where we live, we exist with the perceptions that there are limitations to the feats that the human body could perform. This is why we presume that people who are disabled cannot take part in sports or any athletic event which requires the use of the body when one part or the other is not functioning at its best. People who have become disabled through one or the other unfortunate occurrence of fate think so otherwise because they have proven to us time and again that their limitations will not hold them back from going after ...

Leadership cannot be fully exercised without self-awareness. To be conscious of oneself is to have self-knowledge and to be mindful of others. A leader who has introspection is more likely to practice social change in the society. I believe I am becoming more conscious of myself because of a series of actions that I partake from time to time. There are various ways to become more aware of oneself, and it is entirely necessary to establish it since it will lead to social change in the long run. Firstly, keeping a journal is one way of becoming self-aware; this ...

In the modern world, the term “The Good life” is usually defined in a variety of ways by different people as every individual has his or her own perspective on what the term is all about. Basically, “The Good Life” can be termed as a desirable state of life that is predominantly characterized by high living standards or rather adherence to moral as well as ethical laws. “The Good Life” is an important issue to the society due to the fact that it involves individual’s lives which are not wasted with what can be regarded as mundane activities ...

Part 1: Active Shooters

There has been an increase in the number of shootings in hospitals as well as other institutions around the country (Hospital Employee Health, 2013). The increase in these cases has made institutions to start preparing their employees on how to react if such a shooting occurred in their organization. There are similarities in some of the hospital shooting cases. In St. Vincent’s Hospital, the shooting was unpredictable and could not be prevented. This was similar to the case of the Western Psychiatric Institute shooting in Pittsburgh (Thomas, 2012). The Joint Commission agrees that there has been an increase ...

Information and Communication Teachnology

ABSTRACT As telemedicine is used throughout the rural parts of Africa, there are many professionals and patients who find the entire process very beneficial because there is an allowance for a decrease in transmission of highly contagious diseases such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). If there are clinics that are found in locations surrounding rural Africa, there are strong concerns that patients will be able to transmit their diseases to other people who are otherwise healthy. With the use of telemedicine, the patients and the health care providers can see each other through a confined space and there is ...

Question 1: Statistical strategy

The strategy here is to analyze the distribution or variation of the data instead of focusing on the measures of central tendency. Measures of central tendency can be misleading especially where the distribution is asymmetrical (Graham 38-80). In this case, the median life expectancy of eight months does not necessarily mean a cancer patient dies within eight months.

Question 2: Shape of the distribution

The available literature shows that cancer patients have a median mortality of eight months. The distribution of the life expectancy of cancer patients is not normally distributed. The data is positively skewed. Half of the cancer patients live more than eight ...