Community Article Reviews Samples For Students

Analysis describing your thoughts about the photographs in relation to their subject, form, content, and meaning.

The four photos show some sort of movement which is captured by an unobtrusive medium. This is because the human subjects in the photos have their back turned to the camera and appear unaware of the photographer. They represent a moment in time in a busy day as people in different occupations go about their duties. The short shadows of the various people or forms captured in these photos indicate that they were all captured either just before or just after midday in natural light.

The use of perspective to indicate distance and depth is done successfully. This helps to capture ...

In the research that was conducted in the first article entitled; the use of a hydro fiber dressing that contains silver, in the filling of the abscess cavity after the incision and the drainage in emergency department (Alimov, Lovecchio, Sinha, Foster, & Drachman, 2013), clinical study design was used. This study design took the form of prospective randomized control trial. The sample size in this case was ninety-two patients (Alimov, Lovecchio, Sinha, Foster, & Drachman, 2013). These patients were more than 18 years of age and were suffering from cutaneous abscess. The ...

The belief by the Chinese that an eclipse emanated from dragons that devoured around the sun made the Lydian and Medes soldiers declare peace between their communities. The members of the two communities had an obligation to bang pots and drums in order to startle the dragons. The decision of the congressional leaders on to solve the crisis between the tribes left the citizens muddled. The men in power had to make a choice so that the community members could follow. The economy of the community was negatively affected by the crisis, which affected the Lydian and Medes community. Consequently, ...

Economic transformation has led to tremendous change in the role, scale and meaning of major urban airports worldwide. The major gateway airports are attracting spatial concentrations of commercial activities, leading to transport induced growth (aerotropolis). In Australia, airports are becoming major business centers and are being leased off to private companies by the government. The airports are no longer public goods but profit oriented ventures. As a result of development of these airports by these private companies, complications arise which relate to land use, environmental impacts and implications, infrastructural transport and stakeholder relationship. The impacts of airports are a challenge to ...

Pulmonary contusion (PC) is a common consequence of blunt trauma to the chest. PC occurs in 30-75% of cases of chest trauma, and in many cases this is further complicated by severe bone injuries of the chest wall. Despite much research into the subject, mortality and morbidity has not significantly improved in the past three decades. Advances in imaging have similarly failed to have any impact on outcomes.

The consequences of PC are manifold and include both local and systemic effects. Some of the local effects are: laceration of lung tissue, hemorrhage-filled alveoli, reduced compliance, increase in shunt fraction leading ...

Article Review

The article Developing Trauma Training for an Indigenous Community: Hopefully Not Seagulls is written by Gail Green concerning treatment of post traumatic disorders among the aboriginal communities in Australia. The article outlines an empirical model that directs individuals to identify trauma responses and various ways to treat the post-traumatic disorders. Green working with the organization Australian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTS) seeks to progress in terms of knowledge, policies, and ethical standards promoting treatment of trauma. His model, Conservation of Resources theory, which outlines that, treating stress drains resources, insecurity due to threats and horror, and struggles to ...

Educational Technology & Society

2007
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Educational Technology & Society

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This Research paper deals with the potential of social software. The concept of social software is quite naïve. According to most of the emerging writers of the concerned field, systems like wikis and blogs (or at least, collections of blogs) can be put in the social software category. YouTube, MySpace, Flickr etcetera can be added to the genre.In e-learning, the social software provides the learners with a choice as whether they wish to control or to be controlled in a learning transaction, and also, it establishes and strengthens the social connections, ...

Article Summary

Kuo, J. R., & Linehan, M. M. (2009). Disentangling emotion processes in borderline personality disorder: physiological and self-reported assessment of biological vulnerability, baseline intensity, and reactivity to emotionally evocative stimuli. Journal of abnormal psychology, 118(3), 531.
Borderline Personality Disorder is defined as “A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.” The essential features of a personality disorder are “impairments in personality (self and interpersonal) functioning and the presence of pathological personality traits” (APA, 2013).
In 1993, Marsha Linehan proposed a theory of Borderline ...

Summary

Laveta Richardson, a mother, never thought that she would experience like those mothers seen on TV who grieve for their children’s loss to Chicago’s gun violence. On Thursday, Laveta Richardson was comforted by her relatives about the death of Venzel Richardson, age 14, the youngest among the siblings. Venzel was shot in West Woodlawn. According to the mother, her son Venzel was gone because there are people who do not have remorse and feelings. She cried hysterically said that her home would not be as before. Chicago police reported that Venzel, a freshman student at Dunbar High School had a ...

Ageism is the stereotyping of persons purely based on their advancement in age. This led to the formation of groups such as the Americans for Generational Equity (AGE). The group aims at sensitization of issues such as the availing of resources and healthcare and resources to the elderly. However, some scholars believe that the special treatment availed to the elderly results in discrimination against the young. Recent definitions of ageism include this factor. This means that the trend involves changes in the beliefs that people have towards how they should treat people of particular age, especially the old.
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Unequal development and economic status have been a persistent problem in America. The gap between the rich and the poor is high and is been amplified by several factors. How can an individual help reduce this gap? There is a great deal of actions that an individual can do. This concerns the development of alternative economic institutions including practical problem solving that have begun centered on egalitarian wealth, nurturing democracy and community life and avoiding climate catastrophe and fostering liberty.
A small, thoughtful group can change the world. The following are some of the areas small groups can focus on ...

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Introduction

This article discusses the classification of alcoholism and investigation of personality traits. As the subjects were selected 100 men with excessive alcohol consumption. They were interviewed by telephone or visual conversation. Thereafter, they were designed to a research center for examination. And as a result, the hypothesis that male individuals with excessive alcohol consumption do not have a specific ‘‘addictive’’ personality, was confirmed in this study.

Body

Authors tried to answer the question about do male individuals with excessive alcohol consumption have a specific “addictive” personality or not? The main ...

Description of Wheatley’s Essay

Margaret Wheatley’s Essay “Innovation Means Relying on Everyone’s Creativity” has two central points guiding a wealth of practical knowledge on organizational leadership gained through her experiences. The first is that organizations act in the same way as living organism. The whole of the organization can be seen as a species that will change according to alterations to environmental conditions. The second part of her thesis is “People only support what they create” (Wheatley, 2001). This means that in order to get support for new policies or changes to the organization, everyone within the organization must play a role in enacting ...

Another cultural aspect that was practiced within the community was circumcision. This was practiced like the Jews. This involved making offerings as well as feasts on those occasions just like the Jews. The children were named based on the occurrence of an event, circumstances or imagined foreboding during their birth. For instance, the former slave was named Olaudah that meant fortunate or vicissitude. Such names were mentioned with greater reverence. The community was characterized by high standards of decency which was followed like religion. Those persons who touched the dead were obligated to wash as well as purify themselves ...

The article has clearly brought out the importance of linking the school siting to the land use planning. Schools are very important elements of the local infrastructure since they have a direct influence on the functioning of the communities. It has been noted that constructing new schools especially the small ones within a neighborhood has vital land use implications for the growth of the residence. Through the construction of smaller schools near the residence of people would encourage smart growth policies which leads to better neighborhoods as well as more livable communities. Schools are considered to be serving a more integral role ...

Discuss specific examples of how Musicians' Village fosters a sense of community among its residents.

Musicians' Village is a neighborhood in New Orleans, which was built mostly for musicians after the hurricane Katrina. 80% of people who live in this community are musicians. That is one example of how Musician's Village fosters a sense of community. Music is very important for people living there. They believe they breathe music and that it is in the air, in the water, and for them music is everything. Al "Carnival Time" Johnson says that music is a form of life in New Orleans. Another resident, Michael Harris, says that he was in Brazil at the time of hurricane Katrina. There ...

CDC Trends and Analysis

The health of Americans requires improvement in various areas and Healthy People 2020 focuses on improving the Health of Americans by:

- Identifying and prioritizing health improvement opportunities through research and evaluation
- Bringing together all relevant stakeholders including communities for a collaborative effort
- Empowering people for informed decision making (Healthy People 2012)

Improvement Suggestions

Cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers is highlighted as one key factor affecting the health of a population (Perez and Luquis, 2008). Consequently, Healthy People should list cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) that will help improve the nation’s health through reduction of health disparity. This should be followed by continued effort to increase ...

Leadership Theories
Leadership is a process that a group or an individual impacts a group of individuals to reach a certain or common goal (Parent et. al., n.d.). According to Parent et. al., (n.d.) the literature concerning leadership has transformed from the trait or behavioral approach to the transformational. This change also includes the transactional and charismatic leadership approaches (Parent et. al., n.d.).
According to Kouzes & Posner (2007), on the other hand, Leadership is a chance that can occur at any place or any time. It may happen in a huge or small house, the mall, the school, or in any group. This ...

Most management experts profess the efficacy of decision making in groups as compared to individuals. This review, however, would focus on certain Group Decision making concepts in the article by Jason Zweig by analyzing the positives and negatives of group decision making and applying these concepts to illustrations in the article.
This paper will begin by highlighting the positive aspects of decision making in a group. The most obvious aspects of group based decision making include a greater combined pool of knowledge, different perspectives that people within the group bring to the table, greater understanding of the rationale behind decisions, ...

Chapter 6 is about Goals. A goal can be defined as a desired outcome or a level of attainment for an individual. All people have goals in life and they range from performance of tasks to career goals. The desire to achieve certain goals brings about goal-directed behavior. Goal directed behavior takes note of the current situation that a person is in and the ideal state that s/he should be in, the difference between the two states is what brings about motivation. Goals can improve our performance as they allow us to direct our attention and focus on tasks to avoid any ...

Analysis of Articles

Analysis of Articles

The article is about the application of social psychology to motivate and lobby for social and political participation in anti-poverty campaigns and measures. The application of social psychology is from a social identity approach that entails group efficacy, group emotion as well as meaningful social identity. All these factors are important in advocating and promoting a collective effort towards the eradication of poverty in the developing nations and the achievement of any set millennium development goals (MDGs).
The social identity approach highlights the significance psychological reality that lies with social groups and their collective behavior. Group-based emotion ...

Implications of Interpolated Testing for Online Education

Implications of Interpolated Testing for Online Education
Technological advancements in the 20th century led to the development of novel innovations, which made a substantial difference in the way we live. Most of these inventions filled a gap in occupations and operations that are usually tedious, delivering the promise of ease and accessibility. Along with these advancements, learning has also become more within our reach due to the number of ways that education is delivered to the masses. Today, the traditional way of learning that is confined within the classroom is no longer our only option. By just a few clicks of a ...

According to ‘Guide to Management’ by Allan Murray from The Wall Street Journal, he identifies the leadership categorized under the main functions of management. He explains that leadership is not what one needs but what the people being led need. In this regard, it is expected that you put them first and dedicate your time to teach and lead them. It is from the time given that one receives. This aligns to the act of handling staff at their best hence getting a similar reciprocation. "Leadership is not like a suit you try it on, but rather something you adapt according ...

Reflection on the Reading Forest development the Indian way by Richard Reed

When human beings feel the urge to expand their resources to satisfy their needs and demands, they go an extra mile and destroy natural habitats. Humans have to find new horizons in search of these resources and this has turned out to be costly because there is so much that is lost in the process. It is in this context that one can place a story told by Richard Reed. In Forest Development the Indian Way. Guarani stood as a tribe that knew and understood their ecosystems so well that they engaged in activities that sustained it, until the rest of ...

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Educators in the West always promote individuality in teaching youngsters in their early childhood. They always make sure that every child has one set of toys, books and art materials to be able to explore and study on their own. It is teaching children’s independence and competitiveness. In the context of mainland China however, there is an inspiring way of teaching that educators are implementing. In an observation done by Freeman (1998), it brings another good perspective on how to nurture children towards building a community that does not leave an individual behind. It ...

Discrimination can no longer be eliminated in all the systems in the world because some needs it and some wants it to be done. Since the ancient years, it is possible that there is already billions of both resolved and unresolved cases of discrimination that have been filed in different courts, not counting yet the discriminations that has happened but not spoken of.
It is the form of isolation and treatment to any group of people most especially to those who are deviant to the society. Some of these groups fall under the categories of sex, religion, physical ...

Reading: Learning and the Importance of Knowing: Student Perspectives on Centralising Indigenous Knowledge in their Preparation as Teachers

Question: What is the importance of knowledge in understanding the indigenous perspectives on the social practices of racism, dominant cultures superiority, ignorance and the blame factor?

Reading: The Challenge to Deculturalisation: Discourses of Ethnicity in the Schooling of Indigenous Children in Australia and the USA

Ethnicity is a phenomenon that surfaces in different institutions worldwide. The education sector is among these institutions. In the United States and Australia, indigenous children are susceptible to ethnicity in their schooling. The discourses of this ethnicity are significant to the schooling of these children. Settler societies in Australia and the USA evoked differential opinions concerning indigenous populations and incoming populations. In most cases, these opinions and invasions disrupted the organizations and operations of ...

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RE: Reference to the article – full citation
My name is “name” and I am a Nursing student from the University of fill-in-the-blank. Recently I came across the article “A primary care cardiovascular risk reduction clinic in Canada was more effective and no more expensive than usual on-demand primary care – a randomized controlled trial” from the journal “Health & Social Care In The Community” and wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some comments and other feedback that I was with regard to some of its content. In my opinion, this article does a great service to the field of preventative ...

In order to demonstrate the main trends related to the role of female employees of community corrections facilities, the author employed the results of the study conducted by Norfolk State University`s Department of Criminal Justice based on the data collected from the Virginia Department of Corrections. It is noted, that the Department during the period from 1970s to early 1990s experienced a gradual change in its work force in regard to the increasing number of female employees who mostly occupied the positions of parole and probation officers, with a certain amount occupying executive-level positions. The author concludes, that since early ...

SUMMARY OF AN ARTICLE ON EDUCATION

THE SCOPE OF THE PAPER
Homework is a widely used tool by the educators for varying reasons. The paper collects the results of many scientific articles on the homework strategies and influence of the homework implementations on the success. The paper aims to gather all the information from the other papers as much as possible and present the findings in an order.
In traditional education setting, the homework application has an important place. However, it does not mean that the homework application is fully perfect. The paper analyzes many dimensions of the homework application.

IMPORTANT FINDINGS

Many education scientist have ...

Integrating Hospitals into Community Emergency.

Article review
The contemporary terrorist attacks and natural disasters necessitate the complete scheme for response measures to be carefully examined. The hospitals and their integration to the whole response process are considered the weakest link. Therefore a special attention has to be paid to this particular section of the planning of the response process.
In the article Integrating Hospitals into Community Emergency the authors evaluate the role of the hospital personnel in the counteractions to disasters and the way the hospitals have to react according to the disaster’s type and location. The mechanism of an effective response ...

Power and empowerment are important intertwining issues in nursing. Nurses need empowerment for them to be effective in discharging their duties in the workplace. This is because their work involves daily interaction with physicians, patients and other healthcare professionals. Patients also need empowerment for them to self-manage their health. There are various approaches to power and they include critical social theory, organizational, management theories, and social psychological theories.
Critical social theory suggests that the group that has control possess more power than the oppressed group. This means that for the oppressed group to have the power, they must ...

Before I moved to the United States from Russia, I always wondered, what my life would be if I ever immigrated to another country. Would I have a hard time adapting to the culture? Would the people there be welcoming? Would the culture be significantly different from mine and would I therefore be unable to fit in? These were just some of the questions that I asked myself.
After however living on the United States for a number of years, I have slowly come to realize just how easy it has been integrating to the new culture. My outlook on ...

Abstract

The following work is aimed at reviewing the article by Dann van Knippeberg and Michaela C.Shippers (2007). Their article addresses the developments in the field of work group diversity since the publishing of the work by Williams and O’Reily (1998), offering a review of 40 years of research in the field of demography and diversity of organizations. Topicality of the study is called forth by an increase in diversity in groups that can be traced in all spheres of work. The article under study examines different approaches and conceptualizations of diversity with special attention to studying the effects of ...

Abstract

This essay is a review and analysis of the article “The Fine Art of Getting It Down on Paper, Fast”, written by journalist and writer Brent Staples for the New York Times in 2005. The author is discussed here inasmuch as his ideas on the inability of professionals to produce a clear and direct piece of writing. The main idea behind the article is that the educational system does not provide the needed instruction on the matter, which is agreed upon and further evaluated as in what the solutions are and how long it might take to implement them.
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Q1. What is their hypothesis?

Q2. What are the objectives and endpoints and are they clear?
Q3. What ethical permissions were obtained and are they suitable?
Ethical permissions for research involving human participants were approved by Ethics Committee of Human Experimentation of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Q4.Is it double blind/placebo controlled and is the protocol appropriate in this area?

It is not double blind/placebo controlled and the protocol was not appropriate, since only females from a single university were allotted. This could be a biased study.

Q5. How suitable is the randomization?

The randomization was not suitable for the sample, since it chosen via advertisement but there were a suitable randomization for choosing both groups (Gregory et al., 1993).
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Q6. Has it recruited a suitable cohort of patients?

Suitable cohorts of ...

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Unicor is a critical part of the Bureau of Prison’s painstaking endeavors to reduce the number of offender reentries in prison. Unicor is the trade name given to Federal Prison Industries, or FPI. Its mission is to provide training pertaining to job skills to the maximum number of inmates in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Provision of this training allows inmates to find jobs when they leave prison, and that curtails the chances of habitual relapse into crime. This, in turn, brings down the cost of corrections which have risen considerably over time.
Unicor works ...

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Blumenfeld, having been gay himself, takes a look at homophobia from a critical perspective in as much he runs into the risk of holding and expressing biased opinion on the matter that has since become a common feature in debates especially in his home country, the United States. The writer expresses his reservation in the manner in which homophobia is being propagated by those who feel threatened by it. He also speaks to the fact that many are probably missing out on the ignored opportunities that present themselves during this time. Blumenfeld talks of the nature of the social ...

Strategies to develop local communities; Community Intervention

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Strategies to develop local communities; Community Intervention
Maryland is one of the most developed areas having significant and diverse population particularly including children, teenage and adult. Community based intervention is a very general term for the reforms which can improve or help the community to fight issues. It also refers to the target of “change”.
Any planner who works under this belt need to know that precaution is always better and effective than treatment and cure. For treatment, one has to take every case in detail and then design the ...

Reports indicate that over 22 million pre-school children in the world have weight that is more than their age requirement. This increase in overweight and obesity across developed and developing nations can be attributed to changes in dietary habits like increased eating of food prepared from food stalls, and food insecurity for example, lack of money to purchase healthy food. , assert that a higher weight at birth increases the risk of pediatric obesity. Families with a low or unstable income have both poor choice of food and limited ability to obtain healthy foods (Schwarz and Peterson). Low financial capability makes the ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. argues in his article War of Words: Critical Race Theory and the First Amendment that there exists a tension between civil rights and civil liberties with specific emphasis on the freedom of speech and hate speech or freedom from expression. In the description for fighting words and group defamation with the citation of court decisions in 1942 and 1952, Gates explains that fighting words refer to the words used in their very utterances to inflict injury or tend to initiate an immediate breach of peace. He additionally describes group defamation as designed to prohibit public expression ...

Summary

The success of the US economy should be measured on its ability to touch human life and protect human dignity. The article is written to address the effects of the US economy on the human life. It is an invitation to Catholics to analyze the Christian faith, economy, governance, and society. The letter is not aimed at advancing the economic discourse. However, it examines the moral principles from the Scripture and social teachings of the Church aimed at establishing what economic life should serve.
Economic life of a society should be discussed and shaped by its effect on human, ...

The ‘Glass Stereotype’ can be used as a lens for examining many other stereotypes. I will talk about the stereotypes about the black race. We first need to understand that stereotypes are common public beliefs about a particular group of people, an individual, race, sex or object. Stereotypes are not necessarily true. More than often, stereotypes are used to put people down. They, therefore, have a negative inclination.
Black males in the United States, for instance, are considered as very dangerous criminals. This may be attributed to the way media portrays this as well as statistics of law enforcement agencies. Nonetheless, ...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, is a type of group therapy that has the potential to assist those suffering from the adverse effects of disordered thinking, including eating disorders. This paper discusses a study conducted to examine whether DBT can possibly be used to treat Binge Eating Disorder in women. The study found that by the end of the treatment, 89% of the experimental group were abstinent in binge-eating behavior at the end of the treatment, while 57% were still abstinent at the 6-month follow-up. This indicates that, although the sample size was small, more research should be done on the ...

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Review of the article “Developmental Patterns in Small and Large Groups” by Susan Wheelan and Robert McKeage (1993)
The group behavior is has been always attracting attention of the scholars. Comparison of the groups of different sizes play an important role, as the results have wide real-world implication helping managers organize the groups in the most efficient way. As Wheelan and McKeage demonstrate in the literature review section, small and large groups had been compared by many criteria, from cohesion to productivity, with results often being contradictory. However, the previous studies had mostly concentrated ...

1. What are the 2 types of fibers found in muscle? What is the difference between the two in terms of function?

Slow Twitch (Type I)
This type is more efficient in oxygen usage and production of ATP, for continuous and long
activities. In comparison with fast twitch fibers they are slower but they get tired much later or
in other words they can work for a long time before they get fatigue.

Fast Twitch (Type II)

These fibers, in comparison with slow twitch fibres are better in production of strength or
speed than the slow twitch fibers, but they ...

Proactive management in criminal justice refers to prevention of crime by showcasing the presence of police in a particular crime-prone area. Criminal minded persons with an intention of creating havoc to the public become aware of police presence and avoid engaging in criminal activities for fear of negative consequences. At times referred to as proactive policing, proactive management of crime is the opposite of reactive management that responds to complaints after a crime is committed. The goal of proactive management in criminal justice is to avoid problems rather than to solve it. Avoiding crime provides the best solution to the criminal ...

Summary: Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities

Summary: Reading Erasures and Making the Familiar Strange: Defamiliarizing Methods for Research in Formerly Colonized and Historically Oppressed Communities

Purpose
- Kaomea’s first and foremost purpose through this article was to reveal how the educational system in Hawai’i and other previously colonized places, favours colonialist, indifferent, non-traditional and oppressive tendencies of schooling.
- The article tries to prove the prevailing disembodiment and demotivation of the kupana (meaning ancestral, traditional, of the forefathers) by the schooling system in Hawai’i and address the reasons for such developments
- The article tries to put forward the availability of ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Arguing over Images: Native American Mascots and Race
Many universities and other schools in the U.S. use the American Indian's motives as their symbols or mascots. This paper aims at collecting and analyzing regular people's views on these symbols and mascots. People assign some meanings to these mascots and their comprehension are based on their believes and some other cultural factors.
Mostly animal symbols of the Indian Americans are used as mascots. Just a few mascots are designed to tease the Indian Americans by using caricaturized versions of the symbols. The interviewers do not have a perfect information of ...

Anthropologists first used the word "tribes" to describe people groups they have studied through the years, all over the world. The term however proved to be insufficient, even politically incorrect as more knowledge of the discipline has been obtained, and accounting for the historical, political, cultural, and even inter-relational aspects of these people groups has become more and more complicated.
According to Béteille, tribes pertain more to people groups that are secluded, more or less self-sufficient, and homogenous socially. This definition was challenged when South Asian homogenous people groups were observed to be interactive with one another, ...

Columbia College

Introduction
This paper provides a critique of an article “Group dynamics and Team building” written by Nazzaro A and Strazzabosco J. Thesis statement: The possible ways to improve group dynamics and team building. The theories presented in this article are reflected from the “workshop on group dynamics and team building, presented at the WFH Global NMO Training Workshop May 16-18, 2002, in Huelva, Spain” Nazzaro & Strazzabosco, 2009, pg 5.

Summary

Nazzaro is from National hemophilia Foundation (USA) while Strazzabosco is a consultant and trainer in USA. The authors of this article, covers the topic of group dynamics and team building in ...

The United States is finally climbing out of the economic slump that it found itself in in the early 2000s. However, the changing economy has not meant success for everyone in the United States-- there are definite pockets of wealth, while the poorer areas of the country continue to take an economic hit. In the article “In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters” New York Times reporter David Leonhardt examines the issues facing Americans of different social classes, looking into the ways in which social class plays a part in the overall success or failure of an individual in the current ...

Jennifer’s situation is one that is faced by many people every day, in a wide variety of scenarios. Persuasion is a symbolic process that the communicators employ in order to try to change others attitudes or behaviours regarding an issue in an environment of free choice. The art of persuasion is a process that involves the interaction between the advertiser and the individual. The process of persuasion involves the employment of symbols laid out in a careful arrangement with a dedicated course in mind.
Persuasion cannot force a person to do something that they don’t want to do. This is an indication ...

Research Article Summary

Mouchawrab et al (2011), published an article in the journal of IEEE on transaction software engineering which was entitled “Assessing, Comparing, and Combining State Machine-Based Testing and Structural Testing: A Series of Experiments”. The main focus of the article was on the cost effective way of testing state machine on fault detection which is model-based in comparison with structural testing. The study uses controlled experiments and review of the previous findings to reach its conclusion. Uniform modeling language UML is the main focus in the study as a method of testing. UML according to the study is the most effective ...

Over the past few years, the treatment of lung abscess has been undergoing various radical changes that have led to the improvement of knowledge of the mechanics and the physiology behind its treatment. Among the major changes in the medical field that have led to the improvement in the treatment of Lung abscess is the surgical handling of tuberculosis. Treating tuberculosis through surgical means has created more confidence in attempting surgical treatment on the Lungs, a procedure that was previously regarded as extremely hazardous. This paper will seek to discuss various ways in the treatment of Lung abscess as explained ...

Introduction

Rite of passage refers to the occasion or an event that classifies an individual to have transition from on stage of life to another. This activity encompasses Clitoridectomy, rite, Circumcision, and infibulations. It is valued and treasure within the community. It normally commemorates or rather celebrated through performance of fork dances and songs to entice the entire event. It exists in between the current or present time and the standing reality. The rites of passage classified into different distinct forms namely territorial passage whereby a person is required to go by certain set formalities (Kasomo, 2010). The other type of ...

Introduction

The Global health pandemics have been taking different shapes from the time immemorial. Various pandemics such as flu, SARS, cholera, bird flu, among others continue to cause deaths among world populations. Various interventions including preparedness for these pandemics have been taken by the policy makers at both local and international levels. However, the big question is whether the international community is prepared adequately to address these global health pandemics.
The taking sides’ issue number 10 addresses the above mentioned question where the authors in two sides have clashing views about the question. The World Health Organization in its ...

Leadership entails a social process where an individual commanding a group enlists the help of his/her subordinates to accomplish a given objective. The term relationship generally denotes family ties, but also refers to the state of binding or connecting persons. At the work place, meaningful relationships with colleagues help workers to accomplish their tasks effectively. With this regard, I support the view held by Drath that leadership is relationship.
According to Sloane and Drath (2) who strongly believe in the power of relationships to achieve results and positive change in organizations, it is prudent to lay the foundation for promoting productive ...

Fibromyalgia is a condition characterized by widespread of chronic pain and allodynia, which is a painful and heightened response to pressure on the skin. The reported cases of the disease in the clinics are the main source of determining the prevalence of the disease. These studies have indicated a very high prevalence of the disease. However, the clinical sources that are used in representing the distribution, as well as the disease characteristics do not give a better representation of the whole population.
It is for this reason that Frederick Wolfe and other researchers decided to undertake a study on the understanding the characteristics ...

Introduction

Enhanced partnership between police officers, community residents, activists and other public agencies have been significant in crime management, with statistics showing that community policing have capacity to control crime.
Community policing is favored by the increased crime rates motivating community engagement, police allocating resources and communities’ plurality of deliberations making a crime to be prevented in multiple ways. Crimes such as robbery and burglary can be effectively controlled before and when being committed. There was significant crime reduction in San Fernando Valley by 1993, this is 18 months after innovation of community policing in Los Angeles. For example homicide ...