Essays on Bower

Dreams have always inspired artists to produce real visual images. Paintings in pre-historic walls are evidence that human beings have been representing their dreams since time immemorial. Artists in all generations since man’s civilization have been using dreams as inspiration for their works (Barrett 7). Artists such William Blake, Salvador Dali and Edward Burne-Jones, are among those painters that have used dreams as their inspiration. William Blake Jacob’s ladder (1800) William Blake was an English painter, poet, and printmaker in the Romantic Age. Blake was talented in expressiveness and creativity. Most of his works lack the influence ...

Business Level and Corporate Level Strategies

Introduction The industry that the following research will be based on is the telecommunications industry with the company of interest being Apple Inc. The industry has culminated in massive developments of technology such as in mobile devices and enhancement of communication on the global platform. Apple Inc. has been a leading innovator of various electronic gadgets, software, and even operating systems. It commenced its operations in 1976 and has its headquarters in California. It is in this regard, therefore, that the following article will conduct research about Apple Inc. It will analyze both its business and corporate level strategies, ...

Introduction of Topic and How It Relates to Education

It is widely acknowledged that the educational process is very important for community improvement. A person develops under various circumstances, but there are basic factors which impact every person, no matter how different his/her life is – that is family (first of all, parents and also siblings and relatives) and educational institution (school, college, etc.). The family is the first environment the child is born and develops in. It is the place where a person establishes his psychological, social, physical, mental, and behavioral character. Parents’ influence lays the ground to the majority of future achievements and failures of a child ...

The college experience is unique. For younger students, college is not only an academic experience but also a life-changing experience. The expectations students set for college education date back to early childhood and hence profoundness of experience. The case for college education becomes equally, if not more, unique for adult students. Indeed, adult students join college for reasons – and, for that matter, expectations – completely different from comparable reasons and expectations for younger students. If anything, adult college students join college for, primarily, professional reasons and, at lesser degree, for knowledge-seeking purposes, particularly for much older, retired students. In so ...

Development of sciences, broad distribution of scientific methods make academics mediate about research ethics. The ethic problematics gains a special acuteness and popularity with the rapid growth of the qualitative research methods. Researching various sensitive topics in the scientific world, the ethical divisiveness quite clearly manifests itself with multiple methodological decisions. Ethics (from Greek “etika”) is a philosophical discipline learning morale and virtues. In the sphere of modern scientific activity, ethics deals with peculiarities of moral relations inside the scientific community, determining codes of conduct, norms and rules. Social sciences worldwide accumulated substantial experience in dealing with this problem. ...

Risk taking is an important aspect of entrepreneurship and leadership. Risks are important as they allow people get what they want. Risk takers are known to be go-getters and will have whatever it takes to get what they want. Risk taking is taking shape in businesses. Leaders are known to be risk takers and a good leader will always have some element of risk taking. Richard Branson is one of the greatest business leaders who have developed a brand, The Virgin Atlantic from scratch to where it is now. It is his risk-taking nature that has helped him to go where ...

1. The HS2 Railway Network

On November 2013, the Government passed a hybrid bill to Parliament supporting the launch of Phase One of the High Speed Two (HS2) project (DfT 2013). Consultation ended in February 2014 and the Parliament is in the process of appointing an independent assessor to provide an outline of all issues surrounding the project. The HS2 project is a railway network that is part of the Coalition Agreement and the Department for Transport’s (DfT) business plan from 2010 until 2015. HS2 has two phases, which will be launched separately and thus, will be subjected to ...

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Technological inventions in the healthcare sector are ever-growing. Healthcare providers are always looking for advanced technologies that will help in the efficient and effective delivery of healthcare. There are numerous technology-based healthcare solutions, and most are striving to reduce the common face-to-face practitioner-patient interactions. There are numerous benefits of this such technologies, as well as a host of limitations. Technology has modernized healthcare delivery because modern technologies help empower patients to be in charge of their health, and this in turn minimizes doctor consultations (Katz, Nissan and Moyer 2004). Technologies such as telemedicine, internet, robotics and telecoms have revolutionized the ...

Patient Advantage. (2009). Proposal for a pilot study to identify cost saving measures in management of muskuloskeletal conditions. Patient Advantage.

The proposal gives details the methodology, objectives and expected outcomes of a pilot project aimed at identifying the opportunities for saving cost in the management of musculoskeletal problems, with a particular focus on myofascial pain. The literature reviewed in the proposal identifies myofascial pain as a major underlying factor in many cases of chronic musculoskeletal pain and yet it is grossly under diagnosed and under treated. This justifies the need for the study using the action research modality. The proposal identifies different methods used to measure the cost of healthcare which include direct costs, indirect costs, claims cost and goes on to ...

The importance of Health Information Technology (HIT) to the healthcare sector cannot be overemphasized. The availability of information as well as the ability to exchange this information is very crucial to the efficient delivery of care across all levels of the health care system. These levels involve different stakeholders that include the care team, patients, and health care organizations among others, which in totality comprise a political, economic system. The diagnosis and effective treatment of patients depend on the capacity of care providers, whether individual medical practitioners or large healthcare organizations to access three main types of medical related or ...

Literature Review: Building Health Information Technology Workforce

Introduction Health information technology is an aspect of healthcare that involves the exchange of health data and information via an electronic platform or in an electronic environment. In its broadest form, health information technology encompasses the technology that is used for various operations management, administrative and even direct clinical functions in medical institutions. One of the most recognizable elements of health information technology is the electronic health records commonly abbreviated as EHR. An electronic health record refers to a record of a patient’s health information that includes medications, immunization, radiology reports, laboratory data, patient demographics, vital signs amongst others. ...

[Leadership Styles: How leaders are leading in the 21st Century]

There is a strong link between the strategic management of the company and leadership (Swayne, Duncan, & Ginter, 2012). John P. Kotter (1979) suggested that Strategic management only defines the course of organization, while on the other hand the proper leadership gives the perfectly generated business environment. There are many leadership styles that could be adopted for different sort of strategic decisions. The main theme behind the success of any organization is its leadership skills. The assignment aims to present the analysis about the leadership style of any of the leading organizations. ...

Analysis of ‘This Lime-tree Bower my Prison’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poem ‘This Lime-tree Bower my Prison’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge elucidates the complex joy of friendship and a man’s mystical union with the natural world. The poem is powered by an imaginative walk that allows the narrator to be a part of a journey that he could not physically make. Leaving the narrator home due to his injury, friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, and Thomas Poole go for a nature walk. The poem describes the scenes they might encounter in a walk taken without him. In this poem, imagination enables the narrator to embark on a visionary journey of anticipation and ...

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Use of Social Media and Digital Technologies for Growt..4

Employee Programs for Hiring, Development, Satisfaction4

Growth Initiatives5 The Opportunity for Future Success5 Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership.5 How Apple Incorporates “Disruptive by Nature”6 Growth Prospects6 References..8 A Brief History Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1976 laid the foundations of Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California (Linzmayer, 2006). The first computer released by the company was Apple I; it was a hand-built computer which became the most “collectible” PC of all times. Other personal computers initially released by Apple Inc. were Apple I, Macintosh, and Power Mac. The Macintosh was ...

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Language Style Matching websites, in essence, depend on the conversations or the chats that people may have with the aim of determining the extent to which they are close. Normally, the scores range from .5 to 1. In essence, where the relationship between the two parties is strong, then the score becomes high and gets closer to the 1 mark. However, when the relationship between the two parties is not close, then a poor mark is scored. In most circumstances, the approach of style-matching has been employed. One of the trends that have been experienced is that this approach cannot be ...

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Mckinsey is the most prestigious name in strategy consulting. It is a firm which is very proud about its intellectual property and ethical practices. Over the last 87 years of its existence it has rarely faced any charges of unethical practices until recently. In 2011, the charges against its former Managing Director and iconic leader Rajat Gupta shook the whole Mckinsey fraternity (Hill, 2011). Rajat Gupta was charged with providing insider information to make millions of dollars for some stock market firms. For the first time in its history, Mckinsey probably is reviewing and strengthening it ethical standards and practices. ...

Primates

The primates are perhaps the most instinctively surviving mammals on the planet Earth. Human beings are primates and the list of primates goes way back in time when, Homo sapiens like us, include familiar animals like chimpanzees, gorillas, and monkeys, in addition to a few lesser known lemurs like lorises, and galagos. Two primates from different suborders could be the Prosimii or the prosimians, as they are commonly referred to, and the Anthropoidea, to which we as humans belong. Ring-tailed and ruffed lemurs, found in Madagascar are prosimians, while orangutans, apes, and humans belong to the anthropoidea group and are ...

Audience Age Range: 18 to 40 years old

Gender: Male and Female Known as the perfect cardiovascular exercise, running is defined as “to go steadily by springing steps so that both feet leave the ground for an instant in each step”. It is a convenient exercise because there is no need for any equipment or training. There are a plethora of reasons why one should take on running as a form or exercise or a recreational activity. According to Bower, there are 12 health benefits that can be derived from running. First, running gives one a healthy heart because it improves blood circulation and reduces the risk of a stroke, heart ...

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Homo floresiensis nicknamed “Hobbit”. The fossil was found by Indonesian and Asian researchers on the Flores Island, the Island is located between Asian and Australia. The fossil was excavated from one of the caves in the island and is believed to have lived between 95,000 and 18,000 years ago. The Flores was in the early days separated from other continents, researchers believe that this is an area that was occupied by very few mammals. Few mammals and reptile species typically occupied the island during the Pleistocene period. The common reptiles that were found in the area included ...

Chapter One: General Introduction

- Introduction Public sector projects are an essential aspect of development and service delivery. Every government’s role in development is to deliver services through various sectors. Infrastructure is one of the main service delivery and development channels (Bardhan & Mookherjee 2006, p. 101). Government delivers service through departments, ministries, and agencies. These form public sector clients. Public sector clients are responsible for infrastructural development. Public sector infrastructure procurement is marred with a number of problems, which limit the capacity of these clients. Proper infrastructural procurement is dependent on the ability or capacity of clients to resolve problems associated with ...

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Procurement management strategies are important for every organization wishing to have successful service delivery ventures. However, certain problems influence the effectiveness of procurement strategies described in an identified construction company. Project complexities, disorganized supplier network and negative market shifts have been identified as major challenges facing the construction company hence minimizing its efficiency in procurement strategies. The positive part of the identified problems is that they can be rectified using recommended strategies all of which when implemented results to higher efficiency levels and a greater competitive advantage for the organization. This follows the example of other successful ventures that implemented ...

in Healthcare Environment in Oncology Care

Study Summary: Factors in the

Healthcare Environment in Oncology Care This study by Browall, Koinberg, Falk, and Wijk aims to characterize the factors that are important to oncology patients within the healthcare environment (2013). The characteristics of the environment during treatment, particularly long-term care for patients with likely incurable and life-threatening illnesses, has emerged as a crucial factor in the development of person-centered medical care (McCormack and McCance, 2006). Because of foundations in holistic human values, person-centered care is regarded as the equivalent to best quality care (Mead and Bower, 2000). The role of the nurse in providing ...

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After many years of operational activity in the US and world markets, General Motors Company (GMC) faced the problem of insolvency. It was on the point of bankruptcy after the world recession of 2008. Currently, the Company faced the issue whether it should merge with another company to return lost positions in the world markets. The aim of the current paper is to develop recommendations regarding possible mergers with other companies. The discussion is devoted to the opportunity of mergers and its influence on the solvency of the Company. The report addresses the issues of operational management of ...

Bruce Bower in his well-written article in “Science Today entitled “Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance” argues that” language style matching” is a communication asset between two people, then the reverse scenario of both employing different communication styles does nothing to help the interpersonal relationship between them. The reason for this is simple and only common sense. When two individuals talk or communicate to each other, then the use of similar language styles is usually a step forward towards better communications. Better communication means better comprehension, better empathy and therefore better quality of interpersonal relationships. So far so good, ...

An Observation of a Five Year Old Child

Abstract The aim of this paper is to do write up of observation of Ashton of five years old. The areas of observation includes the motor skill of the child, the aspect of the play, social developments of the child, language development and the adaptive skills as pertains to the boy Ashton. In my observation I will start with the discussion of motor skills which refers to the movement or motion of a child, it discusses mainly characteristic of motor of 5 year old, this is followed by play which generally looks into all characteristic of associated with a 5 ...

Bruce Bower’s article, "Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance" discusses the theory that romantic relationships are more likely to last between people with similar language styles. The theory suggests that a couple who similarly use words like “I, it, but and under in everyday conversations” (Bower, 2010) are more likely to experience a long and successful relationship. It seems to make sense that people who get along well have matching language styles, as being able to relate to each other is based, primarily, on the two people’s ability to communicate with one another. Therefore, people who ...

Popular psychology, mostly referred to as pop psychology or pop psych, refer to theories and concepts about human mental life and the performances that are majorly based on psychology and that gain popularity in the wider general population. These term ‘pop psychology’ can be used to explain consultants, teachers and entertainers who are basically known as being psychologists, not for the reason of academic achievements but because they have demonstrated that very image or have been treated in that manner in respect to their work.

Pop psychology can also refer to Popular Industry Psychology, a spreading network of daily sources ...