Essays on Cleveland

Flourishing projects require upfront planning, and if this is not achieved, then the whole project lacks meaning. The elements needed to achieve a perfect project scope are time, cost and proper management (Munns, and Bassam, 81). The project manager should be equipped with proper knowledge on how to run, control and manage the institution efficiently. If the manager fails to meet schedule then here are some of the ideas that can be implemented to save the day. Firstly, the center should increase its equipment to help facilitate all clients visiting the institution. The clients will have a wide variety ...

Today not only in the United States but also across the world more children than was the case fifty years ago are becoming obese. These children are increasingly being placed at risk of contracting diabetes and other lifestyle diseases in their later life. Through scientific studies, researchers have established some of the reasons why more children are today being diagnosed with childhood obesity than before (Schmiege, Gance-Cleveland, Gilbert, & Aldrich, 2016). Their arguments revolve around the change of lifestyle being experienced today. On average, almost a third of the children in America are suffering from childhood and the numbers are ...

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The Safe Havens of Global Cities In his article, “The West’s Major Cities are a Bulwark Against the Tide of Right-Wing Nationalism,” Ishaan Tharoor writes about the celebration in London of the Battle of Cable Street, which was a protest that had various groups coming together to prevent a group of fascists from marching over eighty years ago (Tharoor). It was a time when there was a dangerous level of hatred and anger directed at the Jewish communities in Europe (Tharoor). Indeed, the events taking place at the time of those original Cable Street protests, occurred in ...

A native citizen of Spain and a recognized king of bohemian Paris, Pablo Picasso was a bright example of versatile talent and fantastic commitment to his lifework. He continuously tried new styles and forms, looked for new color compositions, used unusual materials, and, when two-dimensional images started to seem him boring, founded cubism to give them a new dimension. Together with Georges Braque, Picasso massively determined art development of the twentieth century. The widely recognized ancestor of Picasso’s cubism is his painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon) created in 1907 during the African period of ...

Don Eddy (American, 1944-)

acrylic on canvas

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Don Eddy is often referred to as photorealistic painter, inspired by photography for interpretation of images from real life. Naturally, the works of such painter often does not render the photo-reality of the world, but the distinction is not noticeable from the first sight. As in Don Eddy’s famous work New Shoes for H, which shows the window of the shoe store pretty realistically, but a human eye as well as photo camera cannot focus on the shoes, the reflection in the window and on the background at the same time, however, it is possible ...

Abstract

There are several heart illnesses which cause a large number of deaths from stroke, coronary artery disease, aortic and peripheral illnesses. The treatment of the illnesses requires a huge amount of funds and time. Therefore, there is the need to improvise or innovate new ways to prevent or detect it on earlier. The sophisticated mechanism needs to be put in place to analyze medical data to give signs of the illness through the application of analytic algorithms to provide definite signs. Technology is evolving bringing about significant changes in the medical industry, especially in electronic health records. It has ...

Abstract

The current discussion is aimed at the dissection of ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability of British Petroleum (BP) by taking the case of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in to consideration. By commencing the discussion with an overview of the externalities present in the oil industry, the pressures on oil companies are examined which is further evaluated through the application of stakeholder theory and the theory of utilitarianism. In the case of BP, it is revealed that the resort to CSR was primarily a reactive measure to correct its tainted brand image and save it from reputational risks. ...

Introduction

Technological advance has turned out to be an extremely affluent factor in lifestyle changes worldwide. Many technological inventions, innovations and devices are now an integral part of people’s lives, as their functionality contributes to greater convenience and comfort. Models and means of communication have been affected greatly by technologies, too: email, internet, social networking, and cellphones produce influence the way people communicate to the considerable extent. Cellphones have become a norm for modern social life with their convenience, accessibility and an immense array of opportunities available. Moreover, the cellphone culture affects not only adults but also children and ...

The Mugwumps were a political activist group that emerged in 1884. They were affiliated with republican cluster, but they were known to bolt from the Republican Party and supported Grover Cleveland, a democratic candidate, in the 1884 presidential elections (Oakes 19.2). The term Mugwumps is an Algonquian associated which means an important people or a war leader. Thus, they were an influential group in the society at that moment. The Mugwumps changed party since they were unsatisfied by the financial credibility of the republican candidate at that moment, Oakes. G. Blaine. The Mugwumps made a differential and substantial change ...

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Introduction

Community policing aims at working in close coordination with the local community, involving citizens in all the aspects of law design and implementation. The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, established in 1994 as part of the U.S. Department of Justice especially supports such strategies. As against conventional reactive strategies, this is a step towards a proactive strategy consisting of community partnerships, organizational transformation and solving problems before they assume larger dimensions. As Maximino points out, the need for new approaches to police community relationships is evidenced by the violent shooting incidents in the US ...

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MEMORANDUM INTRODUCTION Medical marketing has grown an increasingly complicated cause of the fast developing business of healthcare organizations. The old model of focusing on just patients and physicians stopped working. So, it has become incredibly important for doctors to market their medical practices in order to build their own brand, gain new patients and improve business from the current ones. Nowadays, marketing teams need to broaden their consideration horizons and focus on the following criteria: Patients, Physicians, Professional Healthcare Administrators, Payers and Policy Makers (Mycek, 2015). The Texas Medical Center, Cleveland Clinic and New York-Presbyterian Hospital will be analyzed ...

When water sources start to catch flames, things are definitely going wrong. I remember talking to my father one day concerning the environmental degradation around our place and the particular harm it would cause to a nearby river. He then told be the tale of burning Cuyahoga River in Cleveland that caught flames due to intense pollution in the region. At first, I could not imagine such a thing taken place; hence, I was shocked to find out that it was actually true. After learning about the burning water source, I immediately felt anger and frustration on imagining that ...

Modern instances of racism are rather subtle and usually harder to completely analyze from what the victim recounts later. It ranges from a tinge of scorn from the clerk at the usual supermarket to the stench of serious human rights violation by the police. The concept that these acts of racism are isolated and does not signify any underlying pattern was vehemently upheld by many men and women of authority until recently. But as of today, they stand corrected. Even from a passive standpoint, after hearing from a number of such victims, we have come to accept that this ...

Bill Beane on Evaluation of Players

Bill Bean introduced sabermetrics in baseball, an approach that used data to capture players' performance, like hits, catchers and getting bases. He incorporated data from the industry, software developers, and the New York Exchange, over a long time, and generated relationships that guided his approach to signing players. He did not consider speed and strength (though he did not decant them), rather, he was looking at the qualities that made the player different. All major scouts went around the country, looking at high school players and stars, but Bill had noticed that players assigned straight out of high school ...

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Introduction ‘The Marrow of Tradition’ is an historical novel written by the African-American author, Charles Chesnut. The novel depicts life in the American South where slavery has taken its deepest roots. Published in 1901, ‘The Marrow of Tradition,’ provides a deeper understanding of the South’s post-war society. The novel, particularly depicts the plight of Black Americans as they struggle to keep their humanity in a hostile and racially segregated society. After the civil war, the Negro has not totally achieved freedom since they were still widely discriminated upon. Despite the promise of citizenship through the passing ...

1. Introduction The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries – OPEC coordinates and unifies the policies among the oil exporting developing nations. The increase oil production has an impact on the supply and demand side and impacts the prices and incomes of the OPEC countries. The examination will answer the research question what are the effects of increased oil production in the OPEC countries with the focus on the Middle East member countries.

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The Middle Eastern countries with the production of oil impact the international price of oil and also their incomes. The OPEC countries, which are among the biggest ...

The thirteenth century to the seventeenth century can be considered a period of ascendancy as there are many examples of dominance and the fight for superiority between various groups and empires: most notably through the Mongol Empire, the destruction of the Abbasid Empire, and the consolidation of the Ottoman Empire. In the thirteenth century, Mongol invasions were rampant all over Asia, leading through the Middle East and into Europe. They were sent by the Mongol Empire to gain territorial expansion across Eurasia and the Middle East. Mongol armies led by Genghis Khan invaded Iraq and Iran beginning in the ...

Diaphragmatic Breathing

Using diaphragmatic breathing technique, it is possible to prevent the panic attack. Diaphragmatic breathing is good to use when the anxiety is growing. But not everyone is able to concentrate in order to apply this type of breathing at the moment of panic or vegetative attack. Therefore, the most efficient way to use diaphragmatic breathing is when there is no panic yet, but the preceding excitement and anxiety have already appeared.

Why Diaphragmatic Breathing Helps?

Have you ever noticed how a frightened human breathes? He breathes deeply and frequently. This feature is designed to mobilize the human to take action - to escape ...

MANAGEMENT

Part 1 In today’s world of global challenges and competition, the role of managers and leaders is of critical importance. Managers need to make sure that the right kind of people gets hired for the right positions so that they are able to perform better. Managers also make certain that employees are given access to necessary resources so that they can deliver results precisely. The role of leaders is more pronounced than managers (Zaleznik, 1992). Leaders serve to motivate employees not by force, but through their charismatic persona and timely guidance and feedback. Without leaders, the employee would ...

The centrality of change in the management of organizations cannot be gainsaid. Change in the management of healthcare organizations can effectively improve quality health outcomes and increase patient confidence in the healthcare process. This paper underscores the effect of change in the management of Cleveland Clinic in East Cleveland and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati under the leadership of Delos Cosgrove and James Anderson respectively. Cleveland Clinic is a respected healthcare provider in the United States. For a long time, the hospital depended on a costly special care and patient care system that eventually slowed down the clinic’ ...

Based on the initial symptoms, the patient most likely suffers from hypothyroidism or low thyroid hormone disorder. Further clinical tests and an examination of the family’s medical history reveals that the particular disorder could be Hashimoto’s disease; also called Hashimoto thyroiditis. Hashimoto thyroiditis is classified as an autoimmune disease. In autoimmune disease, one's immune system attacks the body’s tissue specifically the thyroid gland (Skugor & Wilder, 2006, p.2). By attacking the thyroid gland, the disease reduces the gland’s ability to produce thyroid hormones of substantial quantity. This condition leads to hypothyroidism. Thyroid hormone deficiency presents with ...

In a sense, any rock music is revolutionary. By its very beat and sound it has always instinctively rejects restrictions and celebrates freedom and sexuality. At first, this music was not taken seriously by anyone. It was thought that this is another fashion that will soon disappear, as it was the case with charleston, boogie-woogie and twist. But this music very fast “won” the world. In the development of the music of the late 1960s trends towards an increase of its role in society, characteristic for the 1960s, manifested especially evidently: from another means of entertainment rock music through ...

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Brenda Spencer, at age 16, killed two people, injured a police officer as well as several school children when she opened fire on an elementary school across the street from her home while students were arriving for class. Brenda made startling proclamations about the school shooting. She claimed the shooting made her day better, and that the shootings were fun. After being sentenced to twenty-five years to life, she has been denied parole since the incident and remains incarcerated today. There is no comprehensive explanation for the crime of Brenda Spencer. Yet, her mental condition and the positivist theory ...

Cornel West “Race Matters"

Written by Cornel West and then published in 1993, “Race Matters” addresses the issues that are still contentious, urgent, and exciting. At the present time “Race Matters” is a book which helps us establish a true multiracial democracy arising the problems of religion, sexuality, poverty of the middle and lower classes of African Americans, everlasting struggle of black people in order to find themselves in the society as individuals. Americans are prohibited to talk about black sexuality. It is a taboo subject mainly because it is a domination of black power that white people can`t manage. However, its ...

When you are talking about two stars from the same league, there are going to be some similarities. In the case of LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki, you are talking about two future Hall of Fame players with NBA championship rings. You are also talking about two players who never played in the NCAA, going right from high school to the pro ranks as early as the league allowed. However, the career trajectories, the play and the personalities of these two stars show that they are quite different players. Both LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki entered the game young ...

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Spanish colonization in the Americas ended with the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War (1898). After sensationalist newspapers publicized the horrendous methods Spain used to stop the struggle for independence in Cuba, the American public felt sympathetic and public opinion inclined towards American intervention (“Grover Cleveland: American Interests In The Cuban Revolution”). The United States public sympathized with the Cuban rebels. The Treaty of Paris was signed Dec. 10, 1898, and Spain relinquished its hold on Cuba. US’s involvement in global affairs heightened during the cold war. The cold war was a period of rivalry between the ...