Essays on Quiz

Cost-containing strategies used by the U.S.A The rising cost of healthcare continues to claim a large portion of the United States of America's budget leading to the introduction of cost-containing strategies. One of the costs-containing strategies used by the U.S. health sector is the price option strategy. The price option aims at controlling the amount of money paid to the provider. For example, the introduction of Medicaid and Medicare programs that control the cost of delivering care by reducing the number of allowances paid to providers. Second, the U.S. health sector utilizes the quantity option strategy to contain high ...

Self-awareness and Empathy. Awareness of another person is accompanied by an emotional assessment of the person, an attempt to understand things, predict changes in behavior and model their own behavior. Since this process involves at least two people, and each is an active subject, each should consider not only another person's needs and motives but also the way that person understands the needs and motives of the partner in the construction of strategies of interaction. Thus, self-awareness and empathy are the key conditions for teamwork and interpersonal communication. In this case, one needs to understand the very essence emotional ...

Health care settings function in a well collaborative manner where multidisciplinary work environment exists. In a complex care situation, such as transition care of patients, the role of nurse care professionals was believed to be vital in coordinating the care. For instance, in geriatric settings, it is these professionals who can take up the complex tasks to enable the elderly individuals in transition from the care center to their residence seek suitable care and therapy (Cortes, Wexler & Fitzpatrick, 2004). So, there is a growing research interest on how these nurses utilize their potential in administering the care quality for ...

The AIS Plagiarism Tutorial is a presentation and a required reading material for students before engaging into a writing assignment in AIS. The tutorial starts with basic definitions. According to the presentation, plagiarism could be defined as using of someone else works as your own. It could be in various forms. Self-plagiarism is the use of earlier works of the same author without proper citation. Policies and rules of the state of California as well as in the Code of Student Conduct of the SFSU stated that all writing assignment in any class should not be plagiarized or should ...

EDU-225

Introduction In this day and age, living within the Internet of Things it would be unwise to ignore the benefits technology can provide in the classroom. When used appropriately it can enhance learning experience for children of all ages; the unprecedented interactivity it provides allows for achieving greater level of involvement in the learning process. This plan makes an attempt to outline some practical uses for technology in kindergarten for improving the learning experience and communication between teacher, parents and children.

Section One: Mission and Vision Statement

Vision: technology will enhance the knowledge of children in kindergarten and help them as they strive for excellence ...

The United States government involves the separation powers to give each segment of the government the freedom to execute its roles independently (Thurber & Antoine 123). Based on my opinion, Madison believes that the separation of powers in the governmental setting will lead to the subdivision of roles; the three arms of government will have the ability to operate independently of each, other. Additionally, the division of roles will make it easy for the government to handle various tasks bestowed upon it by its citizens (Thurber & Antoine 124). It will be possible for one arm of government to act as ...

Based on the tallied results of the life expectancy quiz, my life expectancy figure years is about 100 years, which is very uplifting for me, considering that some people are not expected to live that long. It reinforced my resolve to maintain if not improve my positive habits, not just my diet and physical activity but also my emotions and identify bad habits where I can improve (FLAG, 2013). I expected that factors such as my family history, age, gender, diet, and lifestyle would affect my life expectancy. However, I am surprised that “little things” such as my educational ...

Key issue / Introduction

The Department of Homeland Security was created in 2002 to protect the homeland security of the United States. Cybersecurity is a goal of the department and involves the protection against the unauthorized or illegal use of electronic information or data. It involves the protection of computers, networks, data and programs. Cybersecurity involves a number of factors. Those will malicious intentions can have operated from any place in the world. Cyberspace and systems that are physical have strong linkages. Vulnerabilities to cyberspace are difficult to reduce. Those who invade and attack cyberspace are difficult to identify due to the complexity ...

Introduction

Learning a foreign language is a slow and progressive effort which requires constant and responsible practice. Independent study is absolutely necessary for progress, and the hours spent in the classroom are not nearly enough in order to achieve fluency. This is particularly true for languages which are considered difficult to master, such as Mandarin. In recent years, Mandarin has become one of the most important foreign languages studied in schools throughout the United States of America. Mastering Mandarin challenges students to a great extent, even though many of them choose to study this language. Consequently, many teachers use the ...

Essay

Communication Skills Communication Skills According to the result of the quiz I am a capable communicator, which means that I am able to avoid confusion, to try to see the perspectives of the future interaction with others. At this point I cannot but agree with Susan Sonnenschein, who says that ‘as competent users of language we must be able to communicate our ideas and needs’ (Sonnenschein, 1988).

In my opinion, I also try to keep myself clear and always find it unexpected if someone misunderstands me.

I communicate in an effective way in both written and oral forms. When communicating in the written form I try to be as detailed as possible. When talking with others face-to-face, I ...

Biological factors that might account for Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is ranked as one of the most severe mental ailments in different parts of the world. A person in 100 individuals develops the illness over a life span. It can develop any time but commonly shows up in the late teens to mid-20s. In addition, it is common in both males and females. Physicians are now embracing that, its results are dimensional across interlinked areas of signs; severity, functional or social disability, medication, employment and management factors. To describe and diagnose the philosophy of this disorder, numerous modern strategies have been suggested, since the prototype explanation by Kraepelin. ...

Paper One: Language Development and Cognitive Development

Developmental Domain: Language Arts/English/EFL Sequence of Events: Instructor began the lesson with an introductory activity, asking the students what they did the previous evening. Students were encouraged to answer questions about their daily activities. After this, students reviewed their homework assignment, which was a worksheet about the book that they’re reading. Students then read the next part of the book—Where the Wild Things Are—and did an in-class exercise with the new part of the text. Students were then asked to cut and color monsters for a play of the book.

Reflection.

Because this is an ESL classroom ...

The result of the communication quiz indicated my score of 47. It implies that I am a capable communicator in most of the situations. However, I do face communication problems that affect my ability to communicate with others and understand their perspectives. It is important for a leader to have strong communication and listening skills to respond to others’ concerns and queries. The leader must be able to identify all stakeholders involved and have a clear vision to communicate with them. The result of the quiz suggests that I am having difficulty with planning with communication and it could ...

Discussion 1

The Walden’s Social Change Quiz classifies me as a socially conscious consumer. Precisely, an individual who is focused on protecting the environment and enforcing social justice (Walden University, 2016). My agency, the Union County Health Department plays an active role in advocating and advertising communal progress through social media campaigns and traditional methods. While evaluating health policy alternatives, I would consider social determinants as they help one understand a community’s condition.

Discussion 2

The quiz describes me as an Ultra-committed, change maker. Specifically, I was introduced to social change at a tender age and engaging in such activities makes ...

The “Are You Headed for Caregiver Burnout?” quiz is designed to be a measure of how likely it is that a caregiver will experience burnout related to the stress from their job. It is an interesting quiz because it focuses on the effects that caregiving is having on the personal life of the quiz taker, rather than on the workplace itself. It highlights a number of personal things such as alcohol use, cigarettes and coffee as well as on the caregiver’s sleeping patterns and time for leisure activities (Sherman, 2004). Research suggests that having time outside of work ...

Psychology

I believe I learn best through:

Taking short notes during study Taking quizzes related to the topic learnt Reading in a quiet place Playing Test results First Test Linguistic 42% Logical-Mathematical-44% Visual-Spatial 42% Intrapersonal 56% Interpersonal 81% Musical 31% Bodily-Kinesthetic 58% Naturalistic 33% Second Test Excellent EQ We are impressed! Congratulations on your exceptional EQ! If you scored in this range, there is a slight caveat however. You are either extremely high in emotional intelligence or extremely low. How is this possible? These results may reflect your high level of self-knowledge or a lack of it since you must ...

Section I. Reflections

My reflection on Assignment 1 incorporates that it will be challenging to motivate the teenagers to attend the 3D program. The teenagers will be unwilling to register for the program and even after being registered, they may not be consistent towards attending the program. This is due to the fact that teenagers will want to spend their weekend by means of engaging in some extracurricular and recreational activities. Moreover, the teenagers who already have encountered the situation of driving under influence will also refrain from attending this program due to their juvenile or resistant behavior. The revision for assignment ...

Feelings

After completing the numeracy quiz, I discovered that I had strengths and weaknesses in various parts. It was thrilling to learn the interconnection between fractions, ratios, and percentages. It is possible to convert ratios to fractions, fractions, to percentages, and percentages to either fractions or ratios. It was also exciting to discover that all these aspects directly apply in our lives only that we pay no conscious attention to them. However, it is frustrating dealing with fractions.

Evaluation

In the quiz, I performed well in percentages, metric systems, and ratios. Unlike other math units, this one was not entirely difficult. ...

Introduction

Making sweeping social changes in any educational system is a hard and often-times very long process. The changes are made even harder when they are indirect, and not necessarily institutional. The way students are taught and awarded for achievement has evolved over time in order to create a more balanced structure for them. Yet, even with these changes, bullying still occurs at all grade levels in primary school. There are multiple ideas on how legislatures can handle this issue, by introducing bills that incentivizes anti-bullying programs, by requiring schools to have specific programs, by ensuring that bullying can be ...

Portion Distortion Quiz Analysis

When we think of portion in general we think of the amount of something. Such as the amount of food we eat or a fraction of that. Americans face a challenge considering we over eat and take in more than we usually should. Not because we want to but because we can and there is nothing and no one to stop us. Portions deals with a smaller fraction of what we usually eat, meaning eat less or eat smaller sizes of the same foods. That way we have control over the foods and substances we intake instead of the ...

Many college students are expected to have their own personal laptops by the time they have started their first course. It is an understandable assumption since typing has taken the place of written notes for many students. However, there are cases where the student may have opted to have a desktop instead of a laptop for a better performance or they simply have not bought one. To accommodate this, (insert university) have placed computer labs in multiple buildings for students who do not own a laptop or left theirs at home. This is a good measure, but the number ...