Essays on Demonstrating

The epistolary novel and intimacy are often branded as synonymous terms. The Coquette initially aligns itself as simply an epistolary novel, as the controlled expression of the writers, and limited point of view, offered by the letter form, allows the two leading men to reveal their true thoughts, whether they are the suddenly untempered passions of Reverend Boyer or the duplicitous libertinism of Major Sanford, in a limited and controlled way. However, the often stark contrast between these written confessions and other characters’ perceptions of the writers gives the reader a sense of intimacy, and involvement, in spite of ...

The “Son of Sam” Case

The Nature and Type of Defenses Used The main type of defense that was used in this case is the insanity defense. The insanity defense is a common-law excusatory defense under which a defendant in a criminal case asks the court to excuse them from criminal responsibility for their conduct. According to Math, Kumar, and Moirangthem (2015), the insanity defense rides on the assumption that at the material time, the accused person was ailing from a mental illness making them incapable of differentiating right from wrong behavior or appreciating the nature of the crime. The test for establishing the ...

Sustainability Report: FIA Formula E Hong Kong

Introduction In the modern business world, the issue of sustainability has been a major concern owing to the increased need to ensure environmental conservation. This has been amidst the need to lower costs for the purpose of improving profit and meetings the varying needs of different stakeholders in the business. Moreover, individuals, business organizations, and governments have continually prioritized the economic, social and environmental sustainability of business over any other business goals (Sebastian, 2015). Notably, sustainability has gained importance in the wake of various economic and ecological challenges. Traditionally, corporations around the world have merely been legal entities and ...

B. OBJECTIVE

C. METHODOLOGY Over a period of time of four week study three generations of flies starting with a parental (P) generation that has already separate the flies in each generation of each cross into males and females and separate the flies according to their mutations. Based on the observed numbers of each phenotype in each generation of each cross hypothesize the parental cross and use the chi-square (x2) test and if there is little difference between the observed results and the expected results, the chi-square will have a low value, thus, the hypothesis will be supported in this case. ...

Introduction

Placing eco-labels on the consumer products is thought to have immense positive effects on the consumer behavior. In particular, some studies strongly suggest that when the consumers become aware about the product origins and the method used in merchandising, their consumer choices become more ecologically and environmentally friendly. The purpose of the future is to investigate whether these assumptions are validated, or they are merely the results of unfounded marketing speculations.

Background

There is a strong opinion among the marketing professionals that the importance of eco-labelling is gradually, but steadily growing. Thus, several studies confirmed the assumption that traditional methods ...

Introduction

Objective of the Discussion One of the most renowned marketing gurus Phillip Kotler argues that innovation is the most critical aspect of a successful business nowadays (Burk & Lemley, 2009). Practically all known markets are oversaturated with offers, and the only way to succeed is by inventing new products and services or by changing the business and the marketing methods. Realizing that applying traditional cost-cutting methods of reducing overheads and attracting the new customers is no longer effective, the business community becomes focused on considering innovative approaches as the only effective method of keeping afloat and expanding the market shares ( ...

Communication in Nursing

Communication Argumentative Essay Introduction Communication encompasses a significant role in the nursing practices given the need for constant and clear interaction with the patients when providing care services. Furthermore, the areas of intervention, therapy, treatment, and health promotion rely on effective communication in order to develop strong interpersonal relationship with clients and stakeholders. Lastly, communication also provides opportunity in building competencies, collaboration, and teamwork. The discussion will demonstrate the key arguments about the importance of effective communication skills in various areas of nursing practice. In addition, the discussion will also determine the role of communication in enhancing interpersonal relationship ...

1. When staff work together as a team they can complement each other and deliver a consistent level of service.

True

2. A key to creating a team environment is recognising both team and individual contributions to achieving the goals of the group.

True

3. Simple rules can apply to any interpersonal relationship, but are essential for a leader. What are four simple rules that apply to leaders? 1. Focusing on creating positive partnership with subordinates in order to increase the quality of cooperation with them. 2. Paying particular attention to the ideas, needs, and problems of employees in order to ...

Executive Summary

Third party providers of proposition player services are a nascent, but a highly promising segment of the United States gambling business industry. There is much strong evidence suggesting that the number of casinos and other gambling establishments in the country is dynamically increasing. Thus, the importance of providers of third party proposition player services will be increasing simultaneously. At the same time, the practice shows that there are serious human resources problems in this area. In particular, the employee turnover rate in this industry is unusually high, sometimes reaching 35%. This research proposal provides a comprehensive introduction into the ...

Despite the fact that the research results collected by Nielsen may be somewhat useful, they should not be trusted for any serious marketing initiative as they have serious factual flaws. Specifically, the manager of Nielsen mentioned that the participants of the project scanned all products they bought, and the research company automatically receives the data about their buying habits, allowable income and other characteristics, which may be useful in crafting effective marketing strategies (UNLV Online Education, 2014). The service advertised by them appears to be especially attractive because of global economic uncertainty. In particular, the companies from different industries ...

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, is a short story that was written in order to describe the total inefficiency of medical treatment for postpartum depression in its era, and to create a greater awareness of the lack of medical understanding of the condition. As such, the storm describes the primary character’s deteriorating mental health, as she descends into madness as a result of her depression. More specifically, her description of her environment, and the personification of the wallpaper directly represents her deteriorating mental condition. As the wallpaper’s descriptions become more vivid and charactuerized, the narrator’ ...

“The Sufficiency of Christ”

Paper Due Date The Beginning One day a man was warned that there were severe storms coming. As the man sat in his living room reading, he heard a ruckus on the street and went to the window. When he looked out, he saw a jeep with rescue workers who called to him to climb in and they would save him from the impending floods. The man declined help, saying, “No thanks. I’m waiting for God.” The flood began by filling the streets and covering the bottom floor of the man’s house, so he climbed the stairs ...

Introduction

In the contemporary community, culture plays a vital role in developing a connection between people and memories. The norms we have grown to see, experience and practice defines our existence from a given period. This resources of culture are essential in educating and helping the community to express the need and necessity of preservation. There are different ways and means of conservation of a culture that helps in defining, developing and implementing a logical protection about human life. For instance, there is the need of saving and protecting for something that has value and meaning to you. If not ...

The Great War was the bloodiest war in world history up to that point. Many historians claim that the buildup to the war was caused my militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism (MAIN). This might be the composite indicator, but special importance should be placed on the Dual-Alliance between Austria-Hungary and the German Empire. The two came together for a myriad of reasons, most importantly a shared fear of Russian aggression, and remained together for over thirty years. Thus, an entire generation grew up recognizing that the two Germanic empires were closely allied, and the knowledge pervaded the culture of ...

In her book “The Second Sex” Simone de Beauvoir discusses the role and nature of women in society, saying that “She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is Absolute - she is the Other” (Beauvoir 1993, p. 16). Beauvoir’s argument indicates the presence of male dominance in society that has existed for thousands of years. Furthermore, her argument indicates that problems related to class and race will inevitably become man-made problems because of their ...

Introduction

Canada is known internationally as a peacekeeping nation that does not take part in larger imperialist agendas and is a haven for refugees and immigrants. This has caused the country to adopt multicultural state policies meant to provide a safe and progressive environment for its diverse society. However, the country has a history of indigenous colonization, slavery, white settlement policies, and racialized immigration policies meant to settle people of color. Despite the multicultural policies being in place, Canada’s history has influenced racism in the nation with the Canadian minorities being marginalized socially, politically, culturally and economically. This essay ...

Introduction

The paper will review contemporary management practice involving a case study of one UK’s power and energy Services Company named Energy Co. One topic from HRO 383 curriculum that is related to the contents of the case is the company structure. The thing that relates this topic to the content of the case is the company’s leadership hierarchy that the case discusses. Therefore, the mentioned issue of staff resistance towards change results from the way the leadership of this company approaches the change process. The case study indicated the Energy Co. has been through a process of ...

Kate Chopin’s late 19th-century novel The Awakening, and its protagonist Edna Pontellier, demonstrates a protagonist with a complex and layered inner life, pioneering the extent to which female lead characters in American fiction could be displayed. Throughout the novel, her sense of self as it is positioned within the societal expectations of wifehood and motherhood in the late 1800s is continually challenged, as she must weigh the pressures placed on her by her husband and community against her own individual wants and needs. In this respect, feminism and marriage play a significant role in Edna’s growth and ...

Introduction

Kate Stone is a known young southern woman who was involved in warfare during the civil war period. Women during the civil war witnessed a change in cultural and social structures. The civil war is viewed as an important turning point on the role of women in the society and the history of the United States. When women were left behind to take care of children while men went to war, a need emerged for women to quickly join the military. As a result, class lines and attitudes towards the war fell away. Women realized the need to take ...

Prager, in his article, delves into the ideas of poverty and how it relates to crime in the economy. He starts off by describing several scenarios of his ideas of what poverty entails by describing his paternal grandparents who were immigrants living in such a small apartment such that none of the children ever had their own rooms. He further explains that most of the American population that are considered poor by societal standards own essential items such as a refrigerator, a stove, a television, and even a fridge. They are, therefore, able to provide for their material things ...

Mothlight

Question A: Stan Brakhage’s Mothlight articulates the structure and limits of no-camera psychedelic, experimental film by demonstrating a clear, simple gimmick presented simply and without comment. The handwritten title, jumping around in the frame because it was carved onto every frame of film, establishes a homespun nature to the short film that sets it apart from most conventional film. Furthermore, the use of crushed objects on mylar film, playing them at high speed, illustrates the desires of experimental film to innovatively establish atmosphere and tone. The goal of Mothlight is to intrigue and unsettle, demonstrating that, while this ...

On a global front, creativity acts as a priority to educational systems and is primary to the debate concerning contemporary learning. In his Talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity”, filmed on TED in February 2006, Ken Robinson argues that the current education system places a significant role in killing creativity in children. He, instead, recommends the creation of a personalized approach that encourages creativity development. Ideally, Robinson develops his credibility on this issue using personal events, credible sources, and emotional appeals. In his talk, Robinson initially sets the stage by outlining three primary points that define his presence to the ...

In the article, The Stanford Prison Experiment by psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo, he describes an experiment that was aimed at demonstrating the influence of situational power on a person’s standards, morals, and attitudes. The experiment intended to explore the relationship between the guards and the prisoners, which ended up showing a deterioration of the established rules and morals that guide the manner in which individuals should behave towards each other. In that, the experiment showed the degeneration of character was so extreme, rapid, and unpredicted to the extent that it was to be cut short after six days, ...

Individuals with advanced age are prone to acquire a spectrum of illnesses due to a decline in their body functions. This group requires a thorough care management from the health care system to overcome further consequences. In such context, the present description deals with a topic entitled ‘Nutrition and Hydration in Older Adults’

Significance to nursing students:

This topic is important to nursing because nurse serve as the ideal candidates who could provide the care and warmth needed for the patients of this particular old age. In the nurse profession, geriatric nurses are special category of nurses who assist the older patients. The ...

Abstract

Television is a strong media form that can have significant influence to the minds of the minors. Behavioral and psychological effects of television have been documented in research studies, but what is most significant is how literature reviews demonstrated the impact of television shows in the communication of minors and their mindsets. Television, in its various media forms, has the ability to influence behavior and may result in persuasive effects in the use of words and other forms of communication in order to attract its viewers, especially the minors. As the young audience is exposed to television in its ...

Introduction

Anxiety and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are two closely related disorder that affect children and youth between the ages of 1 and 14 years. The condition has been prevailing among many minority groups in the Australia and currently it affects the majority groups. The Australian Bureau of Statistics recorded an estimate of 115, 500 of Australians, which represents 0.5 percent of the total population, had autism in 2012. The number recorded a 79 percent increase from statistics collected in 2009. The age of the victim determines ASD prevalence with high cases affecting children between ages of 5 to 9 ...

Introduction

The project in this study is a quantitative study of analyzing racial relationships through prosocial behavior. As a quantitative research study, it has a formal and objective methodology for calculation the responses of the participants. The results will be obtained in numerical format and used to describe and test the results. The relevance of this project is exemplified in the UIUC campus life. As UIUC is a racially diverse campus many groups still hold on to their cultural groups and do not interact with other students of different races. The pockets of the racial groups are not integrating with ...

Trust in Negotiation

Introduction Trust is a relationship that exists between two or more parties whereby the trustor gives the right to the trustee to hold title to an asset or property for the well-being of the third party (Docherty & Jayne 2004). In a negotiation process there exist two types of trust namely living and testamentary trust. Living trust shows effects during the lifetime of the trustor while testamentary comes through the will of the deceased individual. The study by Ury and William (1993) shows that trust can apply in negotiation if the party benefiting is under age or is mentally disabled. ...

Under the existing Tinker (“Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District”) standards, should the online speech, created by Ms. Erikson on her private laptop, outside the schools premises and without intentionally targeting the students at school be considered on-campus? Should the actions of Ms. Erikson, which neither reached sufficient magnitude in the classroom, nor made the students unable to participate in the classroom discussions, nor required the school administration to pull down their ordinary duties, as well as did not create a hostile environment to the defendant, so that he could not attend classes, be considered substantially disruptive?

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INVENTORY OF STATEMENTS ABOUT SELF-INJURY (ISAS)

This will help us to establish, among others, the following: Effect-regulation, interpersonal boundaries, self-punishment, self-care, anti-dissociation/feeling-generation, anti-suicide, sensation-seeking, peer-bonding, interpersonal influence, toughness, marking distress, revenge, autonomy. It takes the following stipulated format as per the previous studies by Glenn et al (2013).

SECTION I: BEHAVIORS

This questionnaire asks about a variety of self-harm behaviors. Please only endorse a behavior if you have done it intentionally (i.e., on purpose) and without suicidal intent -i.e., not for suicidal reasons (Glenn et al 2013). 1. Please estimate the number of times in your life you have intentionally (i.e., on purpose) performed each type of non-suicidal ...

The Court of Appeals should reverse the district court’s decision, and grant to Ms. Eriksen a motion for preliminary injunction, because Ms. Eriksen engaged in constitutionally protected free speech. This case encompasses the violation of First Amendment rights and this court ought to “conduct an independent examination of the record as a whole, without deference to the trial court.” Bery v. City of N.Y., 97 F.3d 689, 691 (2d Cir. 1996). For the First Amendment issues, the appellate courts must make an independent inspection of the whole record in order to ensure that lower court decisions do not ...

The Apology, by Plato is a version speech that was given by Socrates to defend himself from charges made to him. Some of this charges included being analytical into things that were below the sky and earth and hence believing in different gods (daimonia) from the city gods, corrupting the youth and making the stronger arguments being defeated by the weaker argument, and also teaching people for a fee. In the Apology, Socrates was not making any excuses or apologizing for anything as the word literally means. He is not sorry for anything but making defenses for his actions and beliefs. ...

Introduction

Managing the dream is a book written by Warren Bennis, who is one of the most renowned leadership writers. The author explores all aspects of leadership from a theoretical and a practitioner point of view. The book is a perfect representation of leadership, which comprises of numerous essays that represents the author’s thinking towards what leadership entails. Bennis focuses on the core competencies of the aspect of effective leadership, at both the individual and group level in his book. Managing the dream is a tool for team leaders and managers who aspire to be effective in their leadership roles (Bennis, 2000). This paper ...