Essays on Specter

Behavioral interventions can be grouped as either antecedent-based interventions (ABI) or consequence-based interventions (CBI). CBI is a group of practices in which the problem behaviors are addressed by manipulating the reinforcement or punishment stimuli following an observed behavior, whereas ABI refers to a group of behavioral interventions that are concerned with the modification of environmental factors that are believed to precede problem behaviors (Tullis, Cannella-Malone, & Payne, 2015). Therefore, ABI strategies are implemented before the problem behavior occurs, so their unique quality is the possibility of problem behavior prevention, which makes the behavioral change easier to maintain compared to results ...

Microsoft Dynamics represents a system that encompasses some popular enterprise resource planning (EPR) devices. The whole system is perfectly geared to the needs of middle-sized corporations and in itself is backed up Microsoft a division of which it is, or to be more precise the EPR software being part of Microsoft Dynamics is included in the broader Microsoft Corporation. Lately the EPR software has been embraced by many organizations, even those of a larger size and their subdivisions. This fact testifies to flexibility of the EPR techniques. Naturally enough there are a number of EPR software systems which are ...

The Institute of Medicine (2001) highlighted that the U.S. health care system harms patients and frequently fail to deliver the potential benefits expected. In this regards, the issue of “culture of safety” is central in most health care institutions including the correctional facilities. Specter (2006) noted that hundreds of prisoners die due to medical neglect, brutality, and suicide stressing the need for safety of the patients in the correctional institutions. In my working station, the nurse leader is the leading promoter of patient safety during medical processes. The nurse manager has the responsibility to communicate evidence-based changes needed to ...

Politics has influenced the US criminal justice system in many ways. As we see now, during the presidential debates, the candidates express their opinions on different controversial issues, such as immigration, death penalty, privatization of prisons, marijuana legalization, and government assistance to the poor. These issues divide political parties and, what is especially important, divide the nation. It is not just about, what should be legal and illegal; it is about morality and interpretations of ethical behavior. As politicians express their attitudes toward these issues, they take one or another side. As a consequence, they are or, more likely, ...

Prisoners when in jail fall ill regularly and have to be tended to in the prison. The prisoners cannot be taken out of jail so that they can receive the medical attention required for their illness. However, they may at times get terminal illness when in jail. The terminal illnesses may at times restrict their movement to their cells or in the wards of the prison where they do not get any type of moral support (FAMM 53). Every patient in the world needs some form of moral support in his or her bid to get better and overcome ...

Assignment 2 Research Essay

Draft 2 The Fast Food Industry SUNGD1403 2016/3/10 Abstract The rapid development of world economies has been characterized by skyrocketing trend in consumption of fast foods. The causative variable for the surge in consumption of the said food is largely the need for instant gratification by most contemporary diners coupled with convenience, speed and ease of access associated with fast food industry which complements the need for most workers to save on time. Additionally, the paper looks into cross-sectional studies with regard to the existence of a causative correlation between the increase in the trend in consumption of fast ...

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Harry Ashfield and Danny Gospel languish in empty, meaningless lives. Both experience “tipping points” that inspire them to seek the Kingdom of God. Rejecting their pasts, they embark on spiritual journeys that lead them to sublimate everything to their quests for salvation. What follows are uniquely intimate and personal experiences that bring them to an understanding of salvation and the healing love of God.

Seeking Salvation in ‘The River’ and ‘Danny Gospel’

For Christians, salvation is a product of constant striving for a boundless and divine source of love. It is a spiritual phenomenon in perpetual motion. In Flannery O’Connor’s ...