Essays on Becker

Introduction

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is among the most common mental disorders developing at rather early stages of the individual’s life and entailing a wide range of implications for physical and mental health, social interaction, behavior and further life. As findings of some epidemiological studies demonstrate, this disorder is characterized by rather significant prevalence among children of school age – from 3 to 5% (Dryer et al. 79). The effect of ADHD might create numerous difficulties for children in various environmental contexts, from classroom to home setting. However, disruptive nature of this health condition is even more outstanding as ADHD ...

Psychology is a discipline devoted to comprehending human being behavior. It seeks to enhance life satisfaction and quality by outlining actions or adaptive behaviors that can either promote or deteriorate a person’s well-being. Psychologists have instituted both personality and psychological theories that attempt to develop an understanding of drug onset. According to Association of Mental Health Clergy (AMHC), personality traits have been examined in relation to drug abuse to explore their significance as risk factors. The modes of thinking or personality characteristics influence the proclivity of a person developing a substance use problem. This essay examines the personality ...

Introduction

There are many accounting systems all over the world, which exist in order to help various companies with the management of their businesses. The relative new financial approach is the Activity-Based Costing (ABC). Following Kaplan and Cooper, it is the type of accounting, which helps to solve the financial problems by using different strategies and approaches to each and every separate financial facility on the bases of the consumed materials and information (Kaplan and Cooper). ABC provides proper management of quality for the service industry with mentioning the peculiarities of development and emphasizing activities that conduct the whole businesses. ...

Introduction

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder is one of the most common disorders emerging at early stages of the child’s development. ADHD might have both short-term negative effects on the child’s development and long-term implications for functioning in adolescence and adulthood. The symptoms of the disorder might develop already in early childhood and persist throughout childhood, adolescence and adulthood; the impact of these symptoms might impair the person’s abilities in social, educational and vocational domains (Redmond 133).

Overview of the disorder

Differences between ADD and ADHD There are many misconceptions about symptoms and categorization of ADHD with many people being confused ...

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Introduction Getting a job in the contemporary world proves to be a direct function of the relationship that one sets in the onset of an interview. If one is contextually able to exhibit a good relationship coupled with a positive and optimistic rapport with a tentative employer, then there is hope that if one gets employed, there will be a chance for a meaningful employer-employee interaction. Forging employer-employee relationships proves to be difficult for most people. Most of the jobs call for people to spend more time at work than they do with loved ones and family members. This ...

Military service is dangerous, demanding, and difficult. Transitioning from the military to civilian life can also be extremely challenging for many women and men who have served in the military. Military families are always forced to deal with numerous issues and challenges associated with the service members that return home from deployment (Becker, 2016). Some of them include financial challenges, limited access to caregiver resources, inadequate employment opportunities to fit the military lifestyle, and lack of family support groups. This paper examines some of the challenges that a military family may experience when a service member returns from deployment. ...

Medical genomic can be defined as the utilization of genome-based information in the making of clinical decisions. A broader concept, personalized medicine, is often used to describe the models of healthcare that emphasize the application of an individual’s unique environmental, genomic, genetic, and clinical information to the treatment and prevention of diseases (Brunicardi; Offit). In their practice, doctors combine the results of patient data, which include individual genomic information, family history, medical history, conventional test results, and symptoms. The combination of the data allows the physicians to diagnose diseases accurately and personalize treatment strategies (Alzu’bi et al.). ...

Abstract

For a century, Planned Parenthood has been working to improve reproductive health in America. With thousands of health centers spread all over the country, Planned Parenthood has wide reach that ensures Americans have access to reproductive health. Their efforts have ensured millions of Americans get sex education and get reproductive healthcare for poor Americans who cannot afford standard healthcare. Their role in American society cannot be limited to just the forefront for reproductive rights and availability and access to healthcare, as they are the agency that runs several programs to educate and facilitate communication. While the House Republicans claim ...

Organization design, HR and line manager roles and responsibilities and high-performance work systems (HPWS)

Organisation design denotes how an organisation is structured, including the coordination of activities. It reflects how individual activities are coordinated under leadership towards the achievement of organisation goals. One important lesson I learnt is that organisations are not static hence organisational reviews are important to evaluate the organisation design. The organisation design defines the clarity of the overall objectives of the organisation, the key activities required to achieve the goals, coordination of the activities, clarity of individual roles, among other aspects. HR managers have the responsibility of establishing HR policies while line managers execute the HR practices and supervise ...

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Markets work as the most efficient way to allocate scarce resources for which there are alternative uses. This is the theme carried through Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics. And this is the point that Becker and Elias offer in their Wall Street Journal article. They make the case that people are literally dying from a lack of organs that they need to survive. And they make the point that it is especially true in the case of kidneys. Live donors can survive perfectly well with one kidney. Such donations are becoming common, but usually among family ...

Influence of American Revolution of the Civil War

Influence of American Revolution of the Civil War

Introduction

The American Revolution and the Civil War are two wars that have shaped American history and the American society. The American Revolution started with 13 colonies forming the Continent Congress declaring their Independence from the British rule in 1776 and ended with the Loyalists winning the Revolutionary War (Becker, 2013, p. 5). The Civil War was started when Southern states declared independence by seceding from the Union. South Carolina was the first state to secede in 1860 and they were later joined by Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North ...

Organizational change is an importance transition element that involves the active transitions of change management processes. The Becker Hospital Review considers positive change as essential in the rapid release of inpatient operations among critical care patients. Nonetheless, change occurs in a systematic manner as opposed to instantaneous existence upon random announcements. That is, when organizations experience change, they move from known to unknown methods of operations. For successful change management, therefore, it is vital to break change instances into distinct steps. The idea here targets the need for successful adoption through tailored approaches (MacDonald, 2011). Health is a vital ...

The increase in development of the Internet and computer technology in the past few years has lead to the intensification in new types of crime crimes and computer forensics throughout the world. Cyber crime is considered as an issue for the IT industry. The governments and cyber firms have struggled to fight against the act of illegal crimes in the world of Internet. Although, the majority of individuals would never admit doing this crime, just based on numerical facts a large percentage of today’s population have. In the modern world, a lot of people use online social networking ...

Introduction/Problem Statement

Despite much hullabaloo on women's equality and empowerment, it is not yet ascertained that the fairer sex is considered as equal when it comes to employment. Four decades after the enactment of Equal Pay Act, research finds that the salary of female bosses runs 35 percent short of their male colleagues. Statistics galore revealing the wage differential across occupations and industries. By contrast, critics on the 'right' opine that the pay gap is just a 'myth' as women deserve to get paid less because they work in less demanding jobs than male counterparts. Obviously, the issue carries much heft ...

Management in Sporting Industry

Management in Sporting Industry Sports industry has been prominent in recent years, making it possible for people who are naturally attracted to sports to pursue sports-related courses in various fields that suit them. To make it even more interesting, women have also been involved in internationals sports particularly football, drawing more attention towards international football. The fact that women are also engaging in international football is a positive aspect to all people across the world especially women, to see that they can actually do what they love and what they are most passionate about. On the same note, even ...

People Management

Part A Graduates constitute a large pool of supply for employers in the market that has the ability of supporting business development and eventually prosperity considering that they pose as a source of highly qualified and expertise workforce for businesses to attain short-term and long-term needs. The process of attracting and employing graduates may be a daunting task in terms of its resource intensive nature; hence, businesses may need to employ a number of ways get to the graduates and secure them for the various job positions. Due to the high competition that exists between firms for the best ...

Dear Editor,

I am a regular reader of National Geographic magazine, and I am writing this letter to express my praise for including articles related to animal behavior. I was excited to read the article, “Why an Eagle Really Grabbed a Kid” by Rachel Becker, published on 12/7/2016. It was about a wedge tailed eagle swooping down to prey on a young boy, at the Alice Springs Desert Park in Australia’s Northern Territory. It was an interesting event and I wished the author provided a more elaborate account of the events, rather than passing around what is already known from ...

Introduction

Environmental analysis is one of the most essential strategic tools, which is used in contemporary strategic and operational management. Among other issues, its primary purpose is identification of the internal and external components, which may potentially affect business performance of a company. One of the key ideas behind this analysis is assessment of different threats and opportunities looming on the company horizon. The data, which is collected with help of environmental scanning, is subsequently turned into the basis for decision-making. The practice shows that the today’s markets are dynamically evolving (Nag, Hambrick & Chen, 2007) . Every day brings a ...

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Ruva, C., McEvoy, C. & Becker Bryant, J. (2007). Effects of Pre-Trial Publicity and Jury Deliberation on Juror Bias and Source Memory Errors Applied Cognitive Psychology 21, 45-67. Is the decision of the jury as objective as it should be? In their article, titled “Effects of Pre-Trial Publicity and Jury Deliberation on Juror Bias and Source Memory Errors”, authors Ruva, Mc Evoy & Bryant, discuss the issue of jury impartiality by analyzing the degree to which the access to media information affect the decisions of the jury member and cause them to interpret the evidence either in favor or against the ...

The law in most of the countries has prohibited the sale of body organs. Although the organs are considered the property of an individual, the government still control and determine if they can sell their organs at choice (Atkinson & Sargent, 2007). The US government allows hospitals to harvest organs of dead individuals if their family does not claim them. However, in countries such as Spain, the government has allowed hospitals to harvest organs from the dead by enacting a law that allows hospitals to harvest organs from the dead unless the person had left a will prohibiting the harvest. ...

The institutional affiliation

Amazon.com, Inc. is considered as the leading e-commerce retailer in the United States possessing over $70 billion revenue in 2015. The company maintains a lean focus on increasing its operating income by constantly raising its revenue and managing its working capital and expenditures. Thus, the Amazon’s customer base demonstrates a constant increase, mainly because of the low costs; however, prices are not the sole contributor to its success (Becker, Uhr, Vering, & Ehlers, 2001). Amazon pursues a concentration strategy in which it uses the Internet as the major distribution channel. Well-organized product information and sophisticated algorithms make the shopping ...

Headache is a common complaint that afflicts most of the adult population at some point in their lives (Hainer & Matheson, 2013). Headaches are by and large a subjective phenomenon with few objectively measurable factors (McMurtray & Saito, 2014). Most headaches will be the benign, but a small percentage will indicate an underlying neurologic or systemic pathology (Hainer & Matheson, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the chief complaint, “I have headaches or a headache.” The paper will discuss the objective and subjective data that needs to be collected, headache triggers and drug treatments, and the health promotion strategies ...

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Apple Inc. was founded in the year 1976 and was incorporated under the name of Apple Computer Inc. in the year 1977. By now, the company is 40 years old and it is headquartered in California in the middle of Silicon Valley. According to the Store list from the official website, Apple Inc. has 479 retail stores in 18 countries, many of them are located inside shopping malls, but Apple has also built several “flagship” stores that stand alone mainly in big cities of Europe and the United States. Since the company’s formation, it has been ...

Introduction

Receiving education is a costly choice. There are costs to education in terms of direct monetary payments and an opportunity costs. The choice to go to school means forgoing waged employment. Therefore, there is an opportunity costs of the wages that would have been earned. Therefore, there is a need to compare the returns versus the cost of education to make optimal decisions. Estimating the returns to education for any population segment is useful in making decisions on the optimal schooling level at both a personal as well as societal level. From a policy standpoint, estimating returns to education ...

Inductive Thematic Analysis

Introduction Drug crimes are increasingly becoming a major concern on both local and global fronts. Current research (Braun and Clarke, 2012) suggests that the thematic analysis of important data sources such as sentencing remarks would facilitate the efficacy of available strategies in these crimes. The purpose of this assignment is to analyse the themes that comprise the societal understanding of the occurrence and penalties of drug-related crime. The researcher uses information from seven courtroom sentencing remarks from Adelaide, Southern Australia. This inductive thematic analysis identifies overarching themes that are evident across all seven documents. The themes include “gender and ...

Depression is a psychiatric illness that is prominent with regard to incidence throughout the world (Marchand, 2012). This is a painful condition of despair, which is accompanied by dullness of thought and slow movements. A person feels deeply unhappy and completely unable to experience pleasure, has lost the purpose and meaning of life. There are also other symptoms such as disturbed appetite (overeating or malnutrition), problems with sleep - early waking up at 4-5 in the morning or oversleeping. However, the main criterion of depression is suicidal thoughts. Depression usually worsens overall health and wellbeing. Depression is often accompanied ...

In his novel, Tortilla Curtain, Boyle has employed the use of symbolism in different forms. The coyote is the predominant symbol that the author has used to represent immigrants and also bring across his main theme of racism and the immigrants relation with the white Americans (Becker 1). The two groups differ in their ways of life, character and even in their perceptions regarding one another (Roden 2). The coyote appears in different scenes of the book and evokes a reaction that portrays animosity between the two communities. The term coyote has always been used to refer to immigrants. ...

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History of Labeling Theory 4 Critiques of Labeling Theory 5 How Do Current Criminal Justices Policies Demonstrate an Application of the Theory to Practice? 7 Reflection 8 Conclusion 9

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Labeling Theory Introduction Labeling theory is the model of the ways, in which the self-distinctiveness and the performance of various people might be assessed or predisposed by the expressions applied to define or categorize them. This report will explore the strengths and weaknesses of labeling theory, along with the history of the labeling theory and its critiques. This concept is related to the notions of self-fulfilling insight and typecasting of ...

Introduction

Laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) has gained significant popularity as well as extreme attention over the last couple of years due to its benefits and positive attributes. LA-ICP-MS has been extensively used in the analysis of biological samples, chemical samples and gemology. The technique of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry is a significant technique for quantitative chemical analysis (Becker, 2013). Due to its numerous advantages such as rapid and direct analysis of samples, high sensitivity and high spatial resolution, it has been applied in numerous applications in different fields apart from chemistry. The use ...

Research Essay

As we live our lives, we tend to encounter various challenges every day. Our own thinking brings some of these challenges while other challenges are brought by the paradigms created by the society. Since the world has all kinds of people, we are likely to encounter the rich, poor, unhealthy, and healthy people in our daily interactions. These interactions are sometimes challenging, as we tend to question ourselves on how much we can do to help the world’s poor and the unhealthy people. This challenge presents itself in two ways. In one way, we personally feel that it ...

Introduction

Executive performance depends on management styles. As such, leadership and management figures in an organization could either be driven by aspiration or inspiration. However, for a business to be successful there is a need for inspiring leadership skills. Inspiration results in leaders that are charismatic and dynamic, where there is a natural connection with the people. Such leaders ensure that their workers are innovative and creative. On the other hand, aspirational leaders may also be charismatic but depend more on market share, size, geographic spread, and influence more than creativity and innovation.

Explain the skills and attributes needed for leadership in your chosen organization.

There are several skills needed by a ...

Mental illnesses are the mental disorders that cause changes in a person’s thinking, emotion, and behaviour. The illnesses are likely to cause problems to a person’s social and work functioning (Parekh, 2015). There is inadequate knowledge and skills on how to deal with people with these disorders. The involvement of mentally ill people in the criminal justice system continues to increase, which raises concern for administrators, policy makers, and treatment providers in the justice system. This is one area that requires change and people to be more educated on the subject. I had a chance to work ...

Introduction

The current study entails the determination of the constituents of a high self-esteem in young children. The methodology chapter details the approach of the researcher into answering this question. This section presents information on the paradigmatic choices of the researcher. The chapter will also outline the ontological and epistemological positions on which the study is based. The section will also outline the research design to be used and a description of the participants and their location. The methodology chapter will also highlight the materials that the researcher will use, the procedure through which the study will be performed, the ...

PSYCHOLOGY

Eating disorders, (ED) have long been associated with a particular perception. One which is today turning out not to be the only influencing factor when it comes to these psychological disturbance that affect many women worldwide, and are in fact on a steady increase. It has for a long time been generalized and assumed that the emergence of certain eating disorders such as binge eating and anorexia in several countries –not just America- was ascribed to the media image of “thin” being beautiful. Though this is trues and many cases support this hypothesis, there are however new incites in ...

Geographically, most cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy were reported to survive within the indigenous cows. This was mainly in countries found in Europe, such as United Kingdom. It was again seen in those imported animal from Falkland as well as Oman. Also some reports were issued in Europe concerning the outcome of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in surveillance programs. According to the climatic condition, this infectious agent was found to be distinctive in temperatures above 600 degrees Celsius. It was a core contributor to the great spread of the disease in United Kingdom which had been found to reduce temperatures ...

I will begin by introducing myself so that as you go along with the reading of this document, you can have my background embedded as clearly in your mind. I am a male who is married now. I started working in the year 2003 as an administrative assistance and quit the job in the year 2006. Then later in 2006, I got another job as an HR specialist in a reputed organization and since then I am committed to this job. I would say that my academic background and upbringing has helped me groom my personality in a better ...

For long, the war on drugs has been fought through many fronts such as the criminalization of certain drugs, harsh penalties for drug possession and military confrontation. The military is being used to combat drug trafficking since it is now believed that drug trafficking has become a national security issue. This is because drug trafficking has caused widespread corruption, undermining of democracies and has sometimes been used to finance terrorism. Military action mainly targets capturing or killing of leaders of major drug cartels. Military operations have also helped in chasing, tracking and capturing of drug smugglers. Military success can ...

In "4 Artists Paint 1 Tree," the Disney documentary discusses four artists and their various methodologies in constructing the painting of a tree. Through interviews and commentary by Disney himself, the documentary provides a significant understanding to that of the animated world and all that it encompasses. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the differences, and similarities, if applicable, between the four artists and their techniques.

Initial Observations

Davis comments in the video that "the object [of animation] is not to select the best drawing, but to arrive at the drawing that would look best in motion" ("4 Artists" ...

Utilitarianism is a form of normative ethics. According to Utilitarianism, an action will be classified as moral or immoral based on the end result that comes from such an action. Therefore, Utilitarianism classifies a moral action as any action that maximizes utility (Graham 121-161). Utility refers the wellbeing of the sentient entities in the society which arises from the aggregate good that arises from the action. In order to understand the good, the concept of hedonism is applied. According to hedonism, anything is deemed to be good if it led to pleasure (Graham 39-52). Nonetheless, the concept of hedonism ...

Information Management

Information Management

Introduction

Education is one of the most important things that a person must obtain. The traditional face-to-face contact between the educator and the students inside the classroom has been a very effective teaching method among teachers. However, the emergence of computer technology also enables new techniques when it comes to the teaching methods of many educators, especially for college courses that involve information technology (IT) topics. Computers are now one of the main tools that are being used in IT-related courses in many institutions. Thus, even the educators who teach non-IT related courses are extensively using computers as ...

The employee performance management is a term which designates the strategies that a company undertakes to ensure that employees work within the guides of the enterprise’s objectives and goals. Coupon initiates the same in its activities by making sure that every employee remains true to his or her duties. The fundamental reason for employee performance management in the company is due to its vehement growth that has seen the company having many outlets including China and other parts of the world. In fact, being that most of its activities take place online, it becomes inherent to maintain good ...

The Selection and recruitment processes can be used interchangeably in many organizations, but the two terms differ slightly in meaning. According to Legge, K. (1995), a selection is the process of choosing the best employees to fill a vacancy in an organization from a pool of job applicants. On the other hand, recruitment is the process of identifying and enlisting the best-qualified people who express interest in the vacancy using internal and external sources in timely and cost effective manner. Selection and recruitment system, therefore, means the process followed by groups to fill the job vacancies. In government organizations, ...

In the novel Oryx and Crake by the author Margaret Atwood, the author should have focused more on the two characters Oryx and Crake as the title depicts. Instead, the whole novel is centered on one character Jimmy or rather Snowman. The story is seen as being told through the vantage point of one character as memories of events that happened in his life, this story is centered on human nature in the phase of scientific developments (Tolan 294). The story should have been written in a first-hand experience of events as they happen. The characters Oryx and Crake ...

Drug testing in the workplace is a mandate of the government which aims to ensure that employees are not influenced by drugs which could hamper their performance in the job, and not endanger the clients and the people that the company caters to. Drug has been one of the serious problems in the society which was found to have affected not only the vulnerable young ones, but almost everyone regardless of age. People resort to drugs for several different reasons, and most often than not, one’s venture to the use of this substance results to a longer dependency ...

The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 granted funds to states to create community mental health centers. The purpose of the Act was to provide community-based mental health care as an alternative to institutionalization. The benefit of the community-based care was to allow mental health patients and those with intellectual disabilities to live and work at home while undergoing treatment or supervised care (Office of NIH History, Public Law 88-164 Oct.31, 1963). Those most affected by the Act were the mentally health patients and mentally handicapped individual who were released from institutions, and their families. Indirectly, the Act impacted ...

Introduction

Every artwork is done with regards to the subject matter and artistic styles which varies from one art to another. Most artists embraces different artistic styles in presenting the artwork where most of their work are influenced by the main goal of the paintings as well as the events that took place at that time. This paper is going to describe three paintings and compare them in regards to their artistic styles and subject matter. Also, the factors that influence the changes in their artistic styles and subject matter will be elucidated. The work in chapter 21 is “The ...

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Introduction – Business Idea

Coffee Bean Importer (CBI) is the core business idea for the project proposal. CBI will be developed as platform where International vendors can come together to do business and list products, identify potential customers and generate sales leads. CBI would enable potential customers to browse through the variety of product listings, contact vendors, purchase products and get those delivered to desired location. The core business functions for CBI include vendor management, product management and customer management, while the support functions include sales, finance and accounting, human resources, ...

Abstract

The quality of financial reporting by various companies affects the economy of the country in more ways than one. Apart from the economy of the country, the quality of audit and financial reporting affects the operation of the company as well. Effective disclosure and transparent finical reporting provide a necessary condition to maintain and assure the confidence of the stakeholders. This study seeks to investigate the relationship that exists between the type of corporate governance and the quality of audit among listed companies in Australia's Petroleum and Mining industry. It presents a review of previous and existing literature concerning ...

The United States in the eyes of Europeans was an amazing country where democracy prevailed, instead of a monarchy, with no division into classes. In the United States, there was the freedom of conscience and tolerance. Thus, Americans have unprecedented freedom for the rest of the world. At that time of the Golden Youth and Great Gatsby the American Dream arose. It had its causes and long-lasting effects. The essay is going to discuss what is the American Dream and what cause-effect relationship does it have today. First of all, it is important to understand in full the meaning ...

According to the Journal of Vision, clutter is defined as “the state in which excess items, or their representation or organization, lead to a degredation of performance at some task” (Rosenholtz, 17). The popularity of home improvement shows such as ‘Hoarders’, has made the topic of decluttering a mainstream trending topic. Experts believe that decluttering one’s home leads to a direct revelation of one’s true self. However, in this essay, I argue that there are exercises other than decluttering, that cn expose us to our true paths. Marie Kondo, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, ...

1a. The Evolution of Hospitals in the U.S. In the mid-Eighteenth Century, hospitals in the United States were essentially isolation wards used during epidemics. Institutionalized health care was provided for the lower classes in charitable organizations such as almshouses, which also provided support for the destitute (Mann Wall, n.d.). Right into the Nineteenth Century, the upper and middle classes were cared for at home. Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century, medical technologies were advancing and institutionalized care was becoming a better choice than home care. Medical practices became increasingly professionalized and tended more and more often to take ...

Increase Number of Fails in Delirious Patients in ICU

Introduction The submission criteria supported by this journal were well spelled out. Precisely, the author needed to present a brief description of the research proposal in an abstract. The content of the abstract had to be concise and detailed. Additionally, the originality of the articles presented had to be unquestionable, therefore, the authors needed to submit authentic materials to the journal before the evaluation process began. The criteria mentioned that the author needed to provide an outline of the methodology to be used in the presentation of the project. As a result, there was a need to mention the ...

Summary of the article

This article is about a study that was conducted to check the abnormal short latency synaptic plasticity in the motor cortex of subjects with Becker muscle dystrophy (BMD). Before the research could take place, the author indicates that the assessment of the cortical function especially with patients with BMD has brought about contradicting results. The researchers used the repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) so as to explore the excitability of the motor cortex. Therefore, the participants of the study were thirteen patients suffering from Becker Muscle dystrophy. Out of the thirteen patients, six of them are stated to have ...

All men are created equal are the strong immortal words written by Thomas Jefferson at the beginning of “The Declaration of Independence” that resonated through the entire history of American. Jefferson made a clear declaration of the nature law that “all men are created equal,” which says all men are born free, and each comes into this world with inclusive human rights of liberty, either of using or moving it at his or her own (Becker). Also, Jefferson continued to describe it a personal liberty that is totally given to an individual by the Creator of nature due to ...

Three nursing interventions for a post-operative patient

The three nursing interventions that can be offered to a post-operative patient include the diagnosis for acute pain, diagnosis for nausea and diagnosis for risk levels for infection (Heater, Becker, & Olson, 2008). Acute pain that is related to reflex muscle and surgical incision are diagnosed by complaints of restlessness, pain, irritability and facial grimacing. This type of pain can be corrected by assessing the location of the patient’s pain and giving him or her appropriate analgesic and teaching and then assessing their correct usage of the same. Other than drugs, other methods such as massage, distraction and imagery ...

Religion is an organized system of practices and behaviors, ceremonies, world views, mythologies, ethics, holy place, and sacred tests that relate to humanity. Different religious groups are made up of various elements. The elements may differ on grounds of what is being worshiped, sacred things, and divinity. All religions have their practices, and these may include sermons, sacrifices, festivals, rituals, initiations, matrimonial services, prayer, music, and dance (Doyle 107). In most instances, religious groups will always have sacred history and narratives, which tend to be preserved in sacred books, and holy place (Jung 112). Through religion, the origin of ...

Introduction

Athletes dedicate their precious time in practicing and training in the hope of ultimate reward for their flawless performance. The competitive environment and passion for winning add extra motivation to their will to succeed. For a perfect athletic performance, a healthy and strong body is a primary necessity. To achieve new limits in their career athletes take good diet and a proper training and exercise regime. Literature suggests that the use of vitamins and nutritional supplements also contribute to enhancing the performance. Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED) are newly discovered options that can be presented as the next step in ...

When a Ferguson grand jury declines to charge policeman Darren Wilson for murdering Michael Brown, Ta-Nehisi Coates watches as his son Samori walks into his bedroom and cries. Michael Brown is a young African American boy who was unarmed when he was shot by the police officer in Missouri. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, a winner of the National Book Award and a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Grant” 2015. Between the World and Me is a critical response he writes to his son that explains and details his experience of racism in the United ...