Essays on Dig

Abstract

Medical care is an obligation of the government in the United States because all citizens are entitled to the access of healthcare services. Nonetheless, the healthcare programs are not only executed on the premise of providing health services alone; but such services are to be affordable as well. Medicare part D refers to the program where the United States federal government subsidizes the cost of drugs prescribed for the patients. It also covers the drugs and the associated insurance premiums, and all these are executed to benefit the healthcare beneficiaries. This paper analyzes the Medicare Part D and the ...

Executive Summary

In general, the diplomas mentioned in the paper below have brought revolutionary changes to my personality and mind-set. They have broadened my vision and changed my attitude towards certain concepts in certain ways (that I have explained in the later parts of the assignment). I feel to have some inborn qualities relevant to the subjects that I took up and these courses have helped me polish my skills and expertise, and update my knowledge. As the course progressed, I could feel my development as a learner stage by stage. My teachers, supervisors, and group fellows have come in as ...

The Fate of Greenland's Vikings by Dale Mackenzie Brown.

In 1721, Hans Egede, a Norwegian missionary discovered that the Norse were no longer inhabiting the two settlements that they had established around 1000 A.D. Since then there has been many debates on the cause of their disappearance and decline. For long, the theories about their disappearance centered around the oral traditions of the Inuits. The Inuit tradition held that the demise of the Norse was due to the contact between the Inuit and the Norse which was often aggressive (Seaver 1996, 119). In recent years however, owing to expanding archaeological findings and other limited documentary evidence there have ...

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The product that I have chosen is over-the-counter (OTC) medicines. Over-the-counter medicines are basically defined as those medications and drugs that a consumer may buy without a prescription of a health professional. OTC differs from the normally prescribed medicines; however, it offer benefits that can relieve pain, aches, and itches at the preliminary stage. The primary consumer market for this would be the health clinics and private pharmacies as there are still risks associated with the non-prescribed medicines and therefore, the dosages should be sold carefully. The major factors that may affect the sale of ...

The Big Dig project drew attention for different reasons, most of them appearing to be negative to the public. According to Virginia Greiman, the Big Dig drew attention due to its enormity, environmental issues, its visibility and the technology used in the project(Greiman, 2010). The Big Dig is a project that was able to capture the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Among them the $14 billion dollar count of the amount of the project from a prospected $2.4 million(Wald, 2007). Also, the details of the Big Dig construction seem to have been removed from the website ...

A lot has been said about the construction of the Big Dig. The highs and lows but most strikingly the death of the woman when concrete slabs from the ongoing construction fell on her car as she was heading to the airport and the four deaths of workers in the Big Dig while at work(Poole & Samuel, 2011). Another matter of concern is the large costs of $14 billion it took to construct the 8 lane road from an initial estimated cost of $2 billion(Smith, 2007). A cost that the government is still struggling to pay off and ...

The most beautiful and fascinating artistic aspect of the Chinese ritual objects was the use of bronze. In ancient times, vessels were made to be used for drinks and foods and came in different forms. Some of the containers had accents of rounded and molded handles which rest on well-created bases. Bronze vessels have a well-designed covering which depicts mythical images of mostly animals (Chang, p. 529). Since the beginning of the millennia, they left these vessels with shades of green. There was an addition of hues that helped in bringing a visual display of the art. In the ...

Status is a common term in every society with structure since some members set the pace while the rest follow. Pride is therefore a familiar scenario as members of a certain social status seek recognition and respect from the rest of the population. Pride is a prevailing theme in the Antigone and tempest plays that feature characters who demonstrated pride in different degrees. Both plays feature historical societies where power wrangles defined every society. They also feature members of high social status and close to power. Antigone emerged at a time of national tension when the king needed to ...

1. Capitalist Patriarchy as Seen by the Second Wave and the Corporate Wave Sheryl Sandberg and bell hooks look at the ideas of women in the workplace from completely different standpoints. A subtle, but telling, difference between how the two think is rooted in how they present their arguments. Sandberg utilizes statistics and foregoes the theory throughout Lean In whereas hooks’ “Dig Deep” eschews the statistics in favor of a more theoretical analysis. This speaks volumes about where the authors will take their arguments. Sandberg takes a more “pie in the sky” approach to the topic of women in ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct a comprehensive financial analysis of UK based telecommunication company, BT Group PLC for the year 2011-2015. As part of this analysis, we will be using the tools of common-size statements and financial ratios. In addition, to perform the cross-sectional analysis, we will also compare the financial performance of the company with its competitor entities, Vodafone Group and Sky PLC. Along with analysis of the financial performance using the above stated criteria, we will also perform broad economic environment analysis to adjudge the company’s performance in relation to the economic trends and will ...

Proposal for Original Business Research

1.0. Introduction Human resource management has always been integrally attached to the business and its activities, as the degree of success or failure of a business largely relies on the effectiveness of HRM practices in an organization. One of the core areas to be pondered by human resource managers is performance appraisal when it comes to people management (Tooksoon, 2011). 1.1. Problem Statement High employee turnover is one of the most critical side-effects of growing dynamism of modern business climate. Employees are switching from company to company basing their decision of quitting for many good reasons. However, it is ...

“Shocking cinemas of the seventies “by Xavier Mendik focuses on specific films from the 1970s, and I feel that majority of those films lie forgotten or hardly discussed. He sheds light on the social and cinematic issues that made the films from that era. Mendik provides the information to attract both consumer and academic readers. However, at times, his style becomes a bit too wordy and lengthy. Still, the book is readable, maintains a consistent tone and most readers can dig into useful information on the movies from the seventies. The chapter –“Another one from the fire” is from ...

The Outline

Introduction The title, the author of the poem Introduction to the poem Thesis: In the poem, Mary Oliver presents a conflict between sentimental and practical and employs the literary and figurative languages to contribute to the central idea of keeping the family traditions.

The use of the literary language to present the logical and practical reasons

The use of the figurative language to depict the sentimental reasons The contrasting images in the poem Conclusion “The Black Walnut Tree” is a short poem of thirty-five lines by Mary Oliver, written in free verse. The poem is included in the collection called “Twelve Moons” that suggests Oliver’s searches for connections. The author continually ...

Isaac is one of the most distinctive figures of the Old Testament. He played an important part between his father Abraham and son Jacob. The Biblical book Genesis describes his course of life. The name “Isaac” in Hebrew means “laughed” and “laughter.” Isaac is best known as the Hebrew patriarch who was nearly sacrificed by his father Abraham. (Infoplease.com, 2016) The birth of Isaac was a real wonder. God told Abraham that his wife Sarah would be blessed and bear a child. She would be a mother of nations and kings. (Gen. 17:15-16 New King James Version) Abraham was ...

Photography may seem like just clicking pictures of anything and everything. And that is exactly what the lay man perceives it to be. However what photography really is; is quite deep when one ponders the notion. Photography if were to be termed in one word, that word would be vision. We can label it as vision, or seeing or simply imagination, they all point towards the same thing, which is making a perception and mental image in your mind’s eye, then using your tool at hand (camera) to give that image a shape in a picture. Some people ...

Introduction

Gender is one of the themes that Morrison explores in her novel Sula. Gender roles help to create unevenness in terms of the power balance between women and men. This unequal balance of power that is prevalent in the social environment of her characters in Sula ultimately becomes a part of them. The impact of this is that it becomes nestled in the psychological conflicts they encounter and experience. In this novel, these psychological conflicts play out on the sexuality platform. The sexuality of the characters results in the internalization of the unequal balance of power between women and ...

Communication

We have not inherited this Earth; we have just borrowed it from our children. Respected faculty and dear friends – It pains my heart to see the abuse we are inflicting on Mother Earth. Earth like an Angel Mother bears silently all the brutality that we inflict on her. Be it reckless mining, careless littering, or any other unnecessary practice that is absolutely careless and thoughtless, which is inflicted on Mother Earth has never been retaliated. She is like that Angel Mother who continues to love her children unconditionally, despite whatever is done by them. The human greed has no ...

(1) Data analytics and the big data movement both seeks to use data collected to gain competitive business advantages over a company’s competitors. However, three major differences floats out. First, dig data recognizes the fact that the volume of data from gathered from numerous devices like the internet or mobile devices of companies increases exponentially everyday. With big data, the ability to measure the amount of data will pave way to data better data management. Second, it recognizes that velocity of data created is as important or even more important than the amount of data gathered. Because of the ...

Choosing the Topic

Instead of coming up with the appropriate topic as the teacher, I felt that it was best to select a topic by first understanding what the children’s interests were, and this would be through an assessment of their conversations, drawings, observations, questions and parental reports. Most of the children were interested in pets that they had at home, and a majority of the pets that interested them were dogs. Their conversations and drawings revolved around their pets. I realized that this would be a relevant topic for investigation because it would focus on the following vital aspects of children growth and ...

It has been 11 years since the day “September 11, 2011” became synonymous to the term terrorism and the anti-terrorism campaigns of the international community. The attack became the start of the US’ fight against the various terrorist groups around the globe, targeting the higher ups of groups such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban. However, looking back on the day of the attack, one can wonder as to how the US federal government responded upon the attacks and how it utilized its forces to ensure the safety of the onlookers and the rest of the state. While ...

Amazing Terracotta

Terracotta is a material made from clay. It has been used for many centuries by various civilizations and cultures across the globe. Artifacts like tiles, sculptures and pottery from Columbia, Europe, and Africa to India and China stand testimony to its popularity down the ages. Terracotta artifacts have been found by archeologists in their excavations hailing back to more than 2500 B.C. from Mohenjo Daro and Harappa and ancient Mesopotamia. Ancient Greek figurines of Tanagra and the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China are two outstanding examples of terracotta art work of the ancient times. In ...

Introduction

The purpose of this experiment was to observe collisions between two carts, measure energy changes and classify the collisions. It was hypothesized the momentum would be conserved during the collisions.

- Consider a head on collision between two billiard balls. One is initially at rest and the other moves towards it. Sketch a position vs. time graph for each ball, starting with the time before the collision and ending a shot time afterward Before collision, ball 2 moves with a constant velocity towards ball 1. Therefore, its position changes with time while the position of ball 1 does not change. After elastic ...

Crohn's Disease (CD): A Historical Background

Crohn’s disease is a persistent inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may impact any part of the gastrointestinal path, however, normally impacts the ileum (Yamada, 2009). It usually occurs to individuals of age 21 or under (Wilson et al., 2010). The CD may affect the quality of life (Baumgart & Sandborn, 2007; Morrison et al., 2009). It may need surgery (Pihl-Lesnovska et al., 2010). There is a steady global rise in the occurrence of Crohn’s Disease and it represents an increased hospitalization (Gibson, 2009; Morrison et al., 2009; Wilson et al., 2010). In 2009, the CD cases in Australia were ...

Introduction

Education plays an important role in teaching children valuable lessons that will help them change or become agents of change. This idea materializes in Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Told from the perspective of 9 year old Cassie, the girl leans valuable lessons, especially from bitter experiences of racism and injustice, which allowed her to grow and become an instrument or vehicle of change. The following discussion focuses on the lessons that Cassie learned, these lessons’ influences on Cassie’s point of view, behavior, and role in the story.

Coming of Age in Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry

Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear ...

1) When Clunas refers to “different meanings” of the jade tablet, he refers to the various critical approaches that have been applied when examining and analyzing the jade tablet and its meaning. These critical approaches are colored, inevitably, by the lens the approach is being seen through – a modern way of thinking may not have been what the original creators were intending. One reading discusses the “Chinese love of antiquity,” in which the people wish to outline their past through the artwork of the present. This tends to be placed in other details such as its own presence in a museum ...

The Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone is a stone slab carved from granodiorite, an igneous rock resembling granite. It acquired its name from the area where it was found in the in 1798. The British Museum estimates it originated during the lifetime of King Ptolemy V, around 196 B.C. Etched with Egyptian hieroglyphs, it displays a Greek translation of the king’s Memphis Decree issued at Memphis (British Museum 2014). Three scripts appear on the stele. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs comprise the upper text, Demotic script occupies the middle portion, and the text finishes in Ancient Greek. The text is essentially the same, translated ...

An interview refers to a conversation that takes place between two people or more with questions asked by the interviewer. The interviewer often asks questions to elicit statements, facts and answers from the person or people being interviewed who are referred to as the interviewees. In journalism and media reporting, interviews are their part and parcel of operation even though interviews can also be used in situations like qualitative research. Interviews in research seek to describe and give meanings of central themes for subjects. Allen et al, (2011). Interviews are usually completed by the interviewer but this will depend with ...

Mid-Term Reflection on Anthropology

The study of human existence is quite intriguing. A number of theories have been used to validate the origin of man, and it’s still fascinating to reflect on how man came into being on this planet. Anthropology is a vast subject, but for me, it gives me a lot of interest to study about skeletons, and other decomposed, human remains to understand the kind of life that person led. A dig into the unknown excites me, and when I come across a skeleton or a decomposed body, the first thing that comes to my mind is to know the person whom I ...

- The History of the Cotton Industry: When Christopher Columbus was exploring the Bahamas and Cuba, he found out that the natives were wearing clothes made of cotton. The natives had sleeveless shirts and mantles beautifully painted with different designs and colors. The French Catholic priest, Fr. Coeurdoux, uncovered how the natives processed its colors and designs. He brought this idea to his country and France introduced cotton throughout Britain and Europe. The new invented spinning wheel speed up the production of cotton. The fabrics made of cotton were easier to design than wool and were cheaper ...

Holes, an American comedy-drama is the Walt Disney production released in the year 2003. The movie is based on a book published in 1998 by Louis Sachar with the same name. The novel has won the National Book Award and a Newbery Medal. The story of the movie is adventurous which has the touch of fantasy. The movie is centered on a young boy Stanley Yelnats IV, who believes that all men in his family are cursed. The boy was sent to the correctional facility of Camp Green Lake in the middle of the dessert. The charge against him was about stealing a ...

On the midnight of August 31 1997, on the streets of Paris, a tragic accident occurred. The victims of the accident included the most popular figure in the media fraternity to have hailed from the royal family, Princess Diana. The event generated a lot of heat from all sections from the local and international media, religion, government authorities and the royal family among others. However, that notwithstanding, it is not the actual accident or death of the Princess that generated a lot of heat but rather the role the media played in the accident and subsequently, the demise of the Princess. This ...

Russia has been quite active on the international front of late, particularly in the Syrian question where it has played an important role in holding back Western military intervention With President Vladimir Putin continually increasing his powers at home and going on a charm offensive in the West, the stature of Russia has grown immensely and is seen as a counter to NATO and the softer policies of the European Union. In his 2012 speech Vladimir Putin is talking about the new Russia which must face up to its challenges in a global context. In fact from the very beginning of ...

The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated

1. Explain the restaurant's strengths and weaknesses, and justify your explanation. The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (TCF) was established in 1972. It currently operates 177 casual dining restaurants under the brand names Grand Lux Cafe, RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen and The Cheesecake Factory. The company has already signed licensing agreements for expansion in the Middle East and Latin America. One of the main strengths of TCF is its extensive, innovative and evolving menu (The Cheesecake Factory (TCF), 2013). It has approximately 200 items in its menu which includes appetizers, pizza, seafood, steaks, chicken, burgers, specialty items, pastas, salads, ...

(Name of Professor) China was one of the most triumphant of the earliest civilizations. The Chinese today can brag that their civilization has the longest history recorded. The Chinese conquered the eastern part of the Asian land and extended independently from Europeans and Asians from the Middle East. Giles, Herbert. Religions of Ancient China. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1906: P. 46 Print. The Shang Dynasty came to power in the Huang He River Valley sometime between 1750 B.C.E. and 1500 B.C.E. The Shang were farmers. Their most significant crop was millet, which is a type of grain. ...

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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards, our dwellings shape us", so says Winston Churchill (Drmardy.com) in the House of Commons in 1944. Although he said this in various different ways, sometimes referring to "dwellings" as "buildings", this statement has made a profound impact on how much I wanted to be an archaeologist. I share Churchill's view that buildings, or any forms of art or architecture, initially assume the characteristics of the maker. Soon enough, when complete, the makers adopt the meanings the creation depicts. This is exactly what happened to me with the appreciation I have for the Arts. Thus, ...

Imagine being born surrounded by violence and war; a conflict that has no purpose nor ultimate objective other than to take lives; an environment of aggression and brutality that had no meaningful root causes and is typified by people who are murderous and bloodthirsty. Again, imagine being reminded what a beautiful country you were born into; a country with a natural splendor and spectacular urban architecture, much of it – like the mosques – of Islamic origin. Conversely, envision growing up encircled by never-ending bloody killings being perpetrated one after another, and cruel-minded young soldiers who use violence and war as a way of life ...

Anna was a girl who lost her parents when she was five years old. She became an orphan and no one took care of her. However, she did not give up hope. She worked extra hard and had excellent grades at school. After she graduated school, she became a detective because she wanted to find out how her parents died 20 years ago. Anna had a “special ability” - she could see and talk to ghosts on every Halloween night. She felt this “special ability” had changed her life a lot. She used her ability uncover many facts, but she never discovered the ...

With technological advancements happening around the world, should children and teens aged 7-13 be allowed access to social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and Multiply, among others? According to John Sutter on his CNN report (based on a Microsoft Research and Consumers Reports) "Many kids use [social networking sites]often with their parents' knowledge. A 2011 Consumer Reports survey found 7.5 million people younger than 13 use the site; nearly a third of 11-year olds and more than half of 12-year olds use Facebook with their parents' knowledge (Sutter 2012)." Giving children a chance at using similar sites ...

The cat scratches my extended hand when I bend down to check for a tag on the

collar. The claws are razor sharp and don’t draw blood, but I feel the sting. No tag.

Hmmm. I don’t recognize the cat who has been hanging around our five-acre property for

about two weeks, but cats come and go in this area because of living off a busy highway,

if you know what I mean. She is all black with long white whiskers, the longest I have

ever seen on a cat. I can hear her rumbling purr from where I stand over her. It is

intoxicating! I miss having a cat around since our big orange tabby Barney ...

Engineering

Boston, Massachusetts one of the oldest cities, is a busy community with high percentage of roads chocked with traffic. In order to relieve the traffic issues and to provide the residents with more parks and recreational facilities instead of roads, an ambitious project was undertaken known as the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T). The project basically encompassed on the vision of building an underground tunnel, miles below the surface, without disturbing the daily routine and holding up traffic for construction. In order to achieve this daunting task many changes had to be undertaken, which could ire the everyday commuter. The following ...

Term Paper

1. Lesson 4 – a. Ingeo journey refer to a journey where our responsibilities towards environment is increasing and we are taking various measures and adopting various technologies to improve the situation. To some extent we are able to reduce adverse effect on environment but this journey will go on. The concept can be implemented on three “shelf in the bookcase”. Solar energy technology help in saving the electricity and also reduce the chemicals released while production of electricity. We can save a huge quantity of water that goes in production of electricity. The same concept work in case of renewal of ...

The current paper is devoted to the analysis of the discovery or the invention of Blue-Native Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (Blue Native PAGE). As well, the paper undertakes to find out the people who were behind the discovery. The paper is besides devoted to highlighting the functions or rather the reasons that prompted the inventors to come up with Blue Native PAGE. Blue-Native Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis (Blue Native PAGE) was at first described by von Jagow and Schägger. They initially discovered Blue Native PAGE in 1989 as a simple technique to isolate membrane protein complexes immediately from purified mitochondria. ...

Introduction

The United States debt is currently attracting attention because of the economic melt down in 2008. Enormous bailouts and rescue programs for falling companies led to an unprecedented increase in national debt. Despite disagreements about the mounting US debt others are convinced that it would bring huge risk. Some people claims that the national debt has something that was owed to its people and therefore there is nothing to be concerned about. However, economics experts believes that national debt may bring more economic catastrophe as debt rates is beginning to take up most of the GDP. As a result, the ...

Summary

Bilal Haq, a scientist from the National Science Foundation Arlingtion, Virginia encountered foraminifera on his trip to Qingdao in China. Foraminifera are small creatures that grow shells on their bodies. Their shells are varied and very diverse, as if they are created by visionary artists. Haq thought the foraminifera would make beautiful pieces of art and should be put on display. Haq’s fellow colleague from China, Zheng, agreed and put things into action by involving local craft workers. It resulted in a park for foraminifera since the end of 2009 and already a million people have visited (Larkins, 2012).

It is ...

THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE

Strategic management plan is a continuous process that controls and does evaluation of the business and the factors that affect it. It assesses both the external and internal factors that affect it. These factors are the SWOT factors which are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Strengths and weaknesses are the internal factors while the threats and opportunities are the external factors. This management plan assesses the company’s competitors and sets strategies and goals to meet all potential competitors and the existing ones. After assessing the SWOT environment, it reassesses each and every strategy regularly so as to choose ...

Today’s the big day, thought the sperm, the day I finally get out of this cramped room and I can swim free. Something in him was telling him that ejaculation was about to happen, and that it would happen in the environment he was meant for – the perfect one for fertilization. He knew he had a lot of work ahead of him, around him were about a billion of his brothers, all geared up and ready to get out there. As all of them knew, they had a mission to complete, a race to win – and only one of them would win ...

Introduction

The cost of health care in US has been rising for the past several years. According to Medicare report (2010), government budget on expenditures in the last two years has tripled compared with the amount spent in 1990s. In 2008 the government spending on health care was about $2.3 trillion which represents 16.2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). According to this report, the percent is the highest among all the industrialized countries in the world. The annual rate of growth of government expenditure on health care is 4.4 percent and it is predicted to increase ...

Description

The Russian folk musical instrument treshyotka, translated as ‘rattle’, is known to produce a variety of unique percussion sounds, similar to the clapping of hands.

The Russian Rattle is at its best when made of perfectly dry wood. The ideal choice of material is oak as this creates the best results in terms of musical quality of the instrument.

A Russian rattle is made of eighteen to twenty narrow wooden plates, each of these measuring around 16 to 18cm long. The plates of wood are connected with a sturdy string which is threaded through small holes in the upper ends of ...

Introduction

Several researchers from all over the word, going by the clarity of their findings, have come up with conclusions about the change in behavior of an individual. Some of these conclusions have been specific while others contain the kind of precision which leaves us with many unanswered questions. It is therefore logical to explore this matter in order to come up with some dependable information with regard to the dynamics that surround the behavior of consumers.

In the business arena, the changes in the behavior of the people in various capacities go along way in affecting the flow of ...