Essays on Blount

Abstract

The healthcare systems comprise of many services that can lead to the successful delivery of treatment to the patients. Patients can receive their treatment and then the member or the hospital can contact the third party payer to reimburse them. There are numerous reimbursement methods and clients chose one that they. The methods include; the Value-Based Purchasing Medical Reimbursement, pay for performance, fee-for- service and episode-of-care payment. Each method has both its advantages and disadvantages to either the patient or the hospital. An acute care hospital which provides quality treatment to the patients within a short period utilizes the ...

In the book People Buy You, the author of the book Jeb Blount shares secrets on how to be successful in business of 21st century. One may observe 5 levers of the book that help person become a successful sales expert: being likable, connect with other people, solve issues, build trust and impose positive emotional relationships. Thus, when the customers buy the goods from you, they firstly buy you and not the goods or services, which you are selling to them. Sales strategies are very critical in ensuring the competitive positioning of any organization in the market. It emphasizes ...

The word depression (/dɪˈprɛʃən/), a noun which was introduced to the English language by the turn of the fifteenth century, holds a wide range of meanings today. It can refer to an economic condition, an emotional one, or a physical one. The word even has a number of mathematical and scientific uses in the fields of algebra, geology, astronomy, and psychology. Depression originates from the Latin verb dēprimĕre, meaning “to press down.” Its current morphology is dated to 14th century French, depression (Oxford English Dictionary). The word first enters the English language as an astronomical ...

In an article about hip hop music and its intersection with jazz, Jared Pauley writes that both genres have often flirted with each other. Over the years, hip hop artists have utilized the flavor of jazz music through sampling. In the 1980s to the mid-1990s, hip hop acts "took jazz samples to the top of the charts while others worked directly with respected jazz musicians. With the new millennium, this trend continued" (1). One artist that has continued the trend is Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar is an emcee that has been on the scene for a number of years, ...

Introduction

Currently, college dropouts in particular among the young people are very frequent and devastating. A dream of every academic student is to join postgraduate institutions and further his academics to have his dream job with more employment opportunities. When joining college, every student do have a mission and a goal to achieve setting standards for their achievements at the end of learning period. In the process of learning, not all students are equal as we all come from different societal communities, creating separate social groups in the learning institution. Having this in mind some of the students family backgrounds ...

Richard Wright had every reason to consider himself an outsider. He was born in 1908, an African American in the segregated South, and as he grew up witnessed lynchings and other manifestations of racial prejudice. In the segregated South at that time, it was commonplace for African Americans to feel themselves to be outsiders. It could be argued that as his life proceeded Wright continued to find himself, either through circumstances or his own actions and beliefs, in the position of an outsider. His childhood was deeply unsettled with his family often moving house, and at one point Wright ...

Dread

In the first part of Richard Wright’s The Outsider we are introduced to the central character of the novel, Cross Damon, an African American. Damon works is a postal worker in Chicago and his life is fill of problems. He does not eat enough and he drinks too much, because he claims he has terrible problems sleeping. He is separated from his wife, Gladys, with whom he has fathered four children. He has a girlfriend called Dotty and he is also under pressure, because of the way he lives and has treated Gladys from his elderly mother, who disapproves of ...