Essays on Drummond

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One of the most common strategies of criminal defense attorneys when representing a defendant who has an unusual condition such as a mental abnormality, is to argue either that regardless of their actions, they are nevertheless not responsible for the crime or that they never had the capacity to commit a crime. The reason that criminal defense attorneys can make these arguments is that criminal law recognizes a number of unique situations where otherwise criminal conduct should not be subjected to a determination of guilt and the offender should be exempted from the crime (LaFave, 2000). These arguments, which ...

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There are limited or no effective interventions for recurrence of coronary heart diseases among the patients who smoke. Smoking cessation interventions has been suggested to have little benefit; however, there is little evidence on its cost- effectiveness and efficacy of such programs for cardiac inpatients. This study describes the efficacy and cost- effectiveness of intensive smoking cessation methods for cardiac patients admitted in the hospital cardiac unit. The experimental design assesses the efficacy and cost- effectiveness of the intervention that includes face- to- face counselling in combination with the nicotine replacement therapy using 8 cardiac wards of hospitals in ...

In an effort to improve the education of American schoolchildren from kindergarten through 12th grade, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were released by the Council of Chief State Schools Officers and the National Governors Association in 2010 (Applebee, 2013); 43 of 50 states adopted them by 2013 (Conley, 2014). Attempts at voluntary national standards began with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1989 and over the next six years, a project in English language arts lost its funding after two weeks in 1992 and standards for history were voted down by the Senate in 1995. The ...

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Marketing is an essential functionality in the business set up. For the procedure to be effective, marketing has to have clear objectives that are set in the organization. The objectives can be cascaded down to the individuals who have taken up certain roles in the marketing department for instance. Aggressive promotion while at the same time making identification of the expected target for the particular service or product is of importance. The marketing content is also crucial, and this can be promoted by the presence of activities like marketing strategies and strategic marketing which can be solely managed in ...

Video Games Negatively Impact College Students’ Performance in School

Introduction For college students, a high rate of academic performance during school years is strongly associated with future career success. With this objective in mind, college experience supplies students with an environment where they have an opportunity to gain relevant knowledge and acquire related skills, which are likely to contribute to their future career paths. Recent technological advances have changed the way young individuals obtain new information and communicate with their families and peers. In this case changes in their social development are dependent on facilitating access to information, sharing personal data, and promoting communication via the Internet (Lepp ...

Health Care Administrator

Health care organizations require that activities run smoothly and efficiently to improve the quality of the services provided. The management of the organization has to ensure that the way the institution runs spurs proper service delivery, and coordination of activities is efficient. I visited a health care center and interviewed one of the management administrators to gain a deeper knowledge about the management of the health care institutions. After learning in class about the process of management in health care organizations, I had to look for experienced officers from the field. In this paper, I present the responses that ...

1a. The Evolution of Hospitals in the U.S. In the mid-Eighteenth Century, hospitals in the United States were essentially isolation wards used during epidemics. Institutionalized health care was provided for the lower classes in charitable organizations such as almshouses, which also provided support for the destitute (Mann Wall, n.d.). Right into the Nineteenth Century, the upper and middle classes were cared for at home. Towards the end of the Nineteenth Century, medical technologies were advancing and institutionalized care was becoming a better choice than home care. Medical practices became increasingly professionalized and tended more and more often to take ...

Integrative Essay

This particular story is an interesting genre or case of passage where Holmes is pitted as a messenger informing Watson of the on-goings. The readers find an interesting bit of the character traits of Watson. That is, he is a married doctor who lives in his house with his family. The statement can be illustrated by this assertion, “"it was in June, `89 - there came a ring at my bell my wife laid her needlework down "A Patient!" being that his wife informed him of what had transpired, he says that he was coming from his errands having ...

Until 19th century the attitude towards gender was clear: there was a strict limit of occupations available to women as well as there was an established idea of what a good woman should be like. The prejudices of many centuries influenced this sharp definition between men’s and women’s role. Women were considered inferior to men in a number of aspects, which is why they were made mostly to undertake household duties, and were refrained from education or training in any professional sphere. However, with economic and technical progress in early 19th century women became more independent. Several ...

First of all, I would like to focus on the story “The Man with the Twisted Lip” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is about Mr. Neville St. Clair, who has recently moved to the area. He rented a luxurious villa. Mr. St. Clair is happily married and had two children. His neighbors consider him to be a wonderful family man, and an excellent person. The character is engaged in commerce and seems to experience no financial difficulties. However, one day Mr. Neville St. Clair disappears. His wife asks Sherlock Holmes to find him. She tells Mr. Holmes ...

For a successful business there need to be strategic plans so as to offer quality products or services to the market and be the best among other competitors. For airlines, segmentation, targeting and positioning are the major factors considered. They first look out to what kind of customers exist, which one among the many are they going to serve and finally implement segmentation and maximize on products or eservices for that segment that they have chosen. Segmentation entails determining what kinds of consumers with diverse needs exist. In the airline industry, some customers demand speed and recital, while a bigger ...