Essays on Emanuel

Family law refers to the body of laws, rules, and guidelines that regulate issues arising from or relate to marriages, civils unions, and other forms of domestic partnerships. Naturally, children are a focus area of family law. Furthermore, adoption, or the assumption by one person or couple of the parenting rights of a child from the child’s biological parent, is a key element of family law’s focus on children. Interestingly systematic rules for adoption is a fairly recent addition to family law. That is to say, the formal and legal adopting a child is a modern concept. ...

Health policy entails the goals and decisions made so as to achieve the various health care objectives in the society. It just stipulates the future vision and establishes the expected roles of the people concerned in the health matters in the society. Health care in America has come a long way. In the recent past, health care was quite an expensive entity, but leaders have put in place measures to ensure that proper health services are accessible to every citizen. For instance, there is the Affordable care Act or else known as Obamacare, which was enacted into law by ...

Societies have their base on human interaction. For many years, human evolution has depended on communication for fulfilling needs and setting new challenges. The migration of tribes, the first forms of commerce, the birth of civilizations were all possible thanks to communication. One may see the evident impact of communication on the evolution of the world, which has obviously changed from the pre-historic times to the present. Even though communication has not always led to positive outcomes, humans have proven that only good and effective communication leads to success. The transformation of tribes into empires depended greatly on who ...

U.S. Senator, Missouri

2011-Present

Personal Background Martial Status: Married to Abigail Blunt Education: B.A. History, Southwest Baptist University (1970) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt M.A. History, Missouri State University (1972) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Previous Experience: Clerk of Greene County, Missouri (1972-1984) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Missouri Secretary of State (1985-1992) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt President, Southwest Baptist University (1993-1996) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt U.S. House of Representatives (1996-2010) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt

Committee Assignments:

Appropriations Committee 2011- present https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Commerce. Science, and Transportation Committee 2011-2016 https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Rules and Administration Committee 2011- present (became chairman 2015) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Joint Committee on the Library 2015- present https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Joint Committee on Printing 2015-present (vice chairman) https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt Committee on Armed Services 2013-2014 https://ballotpedia.org/Roy_Blunt

Sponsored Legislation

2016 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/browse?sponsor=400034#bill_type[] ...

The movie ‘Gone Baby Gone’ from 2007 is the directorial debut by the Hollywood actor Ben Affleck. The topic is the private investigation of the little girl’s abduction which went into the unexpected direction. This art piece got mostly positive reviews. In a center of the audience’s and critic’ attention is the very ending of the movie and the moral dilemma expressed by it. Dilemma is presented through the action of the main character, young private detective, Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck). He has to decide: will he leave the saved little girl in the hands of the ...

The health care reforms have brought about a dramatic change in the way people seek healthcare. Before health reforms, people choose to remain untreated, as treatment costs was too expensive. This scenario has changed with the introduction of managed care. More people are seeking health care and more transparency has been introduced into the care process. The healthcare has been reengineered to effectively integrate various players that form a part of the managed care system. The health providers, pharmacies, health delivery, payers, specialized services are integrated to form a multifunctional health care system. (Hoffman & Emanuel, 2013) Nurse’s role ...

Veronica Guerrero

Val Ierley Legalizing Euthanasia Euthanasia has become a hot-button topic in recent years. (Define euthanasia, current legal status, and cite) Politicians, pastors, and patients alike have been debating every angle of the issue, from whether physicians can be trusted to provide enough quality-care to what God would think. Legalizing euthanasia grants terminally-ill patients the right to die, preserves their dignity, and relives insufferable pain. First, euthanasia should be legalized to grant terminally ill patients the right to die. (Explain what is right to die, why it matters to people, and cite) Opponents express fear that legalized euthanasia will lead ...

One of the foundations of every just society is the protection of every person’s right to healthcare. This statement underscores the importance of the discourse on whether working citizens ought to pay for healthcare. The debate has been in the limelight since the beginning of the 20th century. Successive governments in the United States have over the years attempted to institute a universal healthcare system for the United States citizenry, but repeatedly the proposals for a free healthcare system in the country has been fought and defeated. In light of this information, this paper seeks to answer the ...

Research is essential for the advancement of any field of study. Nevertheless, this becomes complicated when the object of the investigation is a human, as there is an accepted guideline that one should not do harm onto a person. In order to assure proper treatment of humans, ethical committees have arisen in many parts of the world, limiting the research that may be done. However, this comes into tension when one also takes into account the notion of liberty, as the two could contradict each other. In this sense, some would argue that ethics committees should not interfere in ...

Introduction

It was a unique time in history; slavery had been abolished, Jim Crow las were in effect but the civil rights movement had not yet begun. Voices like Langston Hughes spoke out against the racial oppression. Hughes himself wrote many short stories, poems and plays in his time. One of the themes that repeats itself in the works of Hughes is the word “mulatto”. “Mulatto”, a word used to describe a person of mixed black and white heritage, elicits a negative feeling or response from most people given the prejudiced nature of the word. Due to the negative nature ...

1. Introduction The health care system in the United States is considered to be unique among other developed countries, including those participating in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). What is more, the system is recognized as one of the most complex ones across the globe. This attitude towards complexity is mostly associated with high costs which derive from the necessity to cover the expenditures of doctors’ training and education, prices on drugs, equipment and technologies as well as costs of chronic diseases. Moreover, access to quality health care refers to another side of complexity, because uninsured ...

For centuries, animals have been euthanized to stop their suffering when they have become too old or injured. While the decision to put down a beloved pet may be emotionally devastating, there is no question of the ethics involved. In fact, many people would think to keep an animal lingering in pain and distress would be considered inhumane. Why, then, do we allow human beings to suffer in pain and distress? Does a human not have the right to a final relief granted to an animal? An animal does not have the ability to grant permission for self-euthanasia like ...

Medical health insurance in the American society is an issue that requires continued reforms and improvements. The majority of Americans are confused with the many private insurance plans available that are not standard for ease of understanding (Austin, 2010). Despite the fact that we have the private and government-funded insurance plans, most Americans believe that the private insurance plans take good care of their medicals needs in a much better way than the government plans. With the increasing medical costs and the many ailments that are in the society today, every person requires having insurance that will cater for ...

The importance of accountability in the health care industry

The core of accountability is answerability, which means bearing the responsibility to answer questions that pertain to the decisions and actions made (Brinkerhoff, 2003, p.11). This constitutes procedures or processes by which one subscribes to and is obliged to provide a justification as one is held responsible for his/her action by another entity who has interest in the actions. Given the nature of the word, two questions arise in the discussion of accountability: 1. what was done, and 2. why was it done. Sanction is another term that is closely linked to accountablity, and this denotes penalties in relation ...

Business Start Up

Business Start Up I would like to start up a business for software development. The company will have software developers to create applications for mobile and software for computers to target different companies. With the two products of computer software and mobile applications, the market is broadened. The top consumer targets include real estate companies, play stores for mobile, banks and financial institutions, and other startup companies that require website building and maintenance. Good business plans capture different aspects of entrepreneurship. A good business plan should present the planner as a classic capitalist who presents facts on how they ...

Currently, in all American states, sexually active teens can access contraceptives even if they do not talk about sex and pregnancy with their parents and even without the consent of the parents. Contraceptives are the devices or drugs that are used to prevent a person from getting a pregnancy that is not planned for. Some contraceptives like condoms even avoid the transmission of STDs and HIV. However, some federal and state lawmakers wish to take away the ability by teenagers to protect themselves and other involved parties like their parents, partners and babies (Eichner & Maxine 87). They would like ...

Abstract

The twenty first century has witnessed impressive advances in science and medicine, resulting in increased life expectancy. Unfortunately there has also been a dramatic increase in degenerative diseases such as diabetes and cancer. These development have brought the issue of euthanasia to center stage. The following essay attempts a careful examination of the issue, looking at the arguments opponents and supporters have put forward. Among the issues examined is the right to choose how one dies in accordance with the principles of autonomy and beneficence. It is argued that the practice of euthanasia only benefits the very few individuals ...

Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

It is becoming progressively regular for people to support the decision for terminally ill patients to be let to die, mainly to put them out of their misery. This can take place in two ways, that is, physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia. Euthanasia is an act in which the physician causes the death of terminally ill patients by administering lethal doses. During PAS, the physician prescribes lethal doses to patients but does not administer the drugs. The term euthanasia comes from a Greek word which interpreted as “good death”. In other words, it is “merciful killing”; ending an individual ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), which is often christened the Obama Care, provides provisions to Americans for more protections and rights in access to high-quality health care that is cheap to the many millions who are not insured (Rawal 16). By 2014, this law made it a requirement for all American citizens to have health insurance. The ones without minimum essential coverage were required to pay a monthly fee. In 23/03/2010, this act was signed into law. It was later repealed in 2012 to opt-out Medicaid. The law has caused many controversies among proponents and critics ...

In this world scientists are conducting life sciences research to accelerate better healthcare outcomes. For that, both clinical and basic science researches are done for the development of new treatments. The development of new treatments is necessary for various disorders. To understand the normal psychological or pathophysiological disease processes researchers are using animals for experiments but ethical violations are being noticed. Therefore, in this paper all those ethical violation issues will be discussed that are surrounding the clinical and basic science research. In addition, it will present the importance and need for animal studies over clinical trials that involve ...

Introduction

Colleges and universities are often at the forefront of new policy and research decisions in the United States. There has been talk for many years regarding the potential for college and university campuses in the United States to implement “green” policies; these policies may be anything, from simple policies banning plastic bags to complex policies regarding energy efficiency and water use (Emanuel and Adams 80). These policies allow colleges and universities to become more environmentally responsible, but they can also be quite expensive to implement. While the start-up costs associated with these programs might be significant, the long-term benefits ...

History

Researchers today have gone through a long process to be able to take their research study to human subjects. Minors, elderly and prisoners’ studies are governed by numerous regulations and protocols. Other human subjects who do not fall under these categories are also protected by the regular standards that researchers must adhere to; for instance, informed consent and confidentiality. This was not always the case though; the journey to developing the modern medical ethics people enjoy today took years of conducting painful and brutal experiments on human subjects. The history of medical ethics seems to harbor many unthinkable and ...

Decision-making is a cognitive process that aims at selecting a course of action that is best among several alternative possibilities. Every decision that is made ends up producing a final choice that may or may not prompt an action (Kohlen et al., 2015). The decision-making process should be logical if the best alternative option is to be arrived at. During the decision-making process, a nurse manager must weigh both the positive and negative alternatives associated with each available option before arriving at the best decision. Consequently, a nurse manager must also be in a position to forecast the outcome ...

The passing of the new law, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has provided new opportunities and direction for the troubled healthcare industry. In this instance, the healthcare industry has been plagued by the continuous increase in healthcare costs while at the same time, affected the quality of healthcare offered to individuals (Emanuel, 2015). The most vulnerable groups in the society comprised of the elderly and the poor, are the most affected by these adversities. Therefore, the PPACA has been seen as the right step in the right direction in the industry. In this instance, the provisions as ...

Abstract

This paper presents the ideal purpose of adopting a unitary global set of accounting standards to be applied across the globe. It presents the major characteristics of both the dominant accounting standards used worldwide, the IFRS and the US GAAP. It examines whether the IFRS or US GAAP works best for the present and the future needs of a global finance system. The various differences of these two accounting standards were shown. The major applications of the IFRS as the leading accounting standards and principles were also highlighted in the paper. It also provided various guidelines in this seemingly ...

An Examination of Style and Performance

Introduction Joseph Haydn may be the most underrated of all the great composers, especially when it comes to his piano music. Music students in every field, remain taught that Haydn is the “father of the Symphony.” It is this fact that keeps the student from seeking out, discovering, and delighting in his brilliant, often difficult, but worth the challenge of playing Haydn’s late keyboard compositions. Haydn’s major keyboard works are sonatas, generally representing his growth from his early years until 1794 with completion of his final three sonatas. According to Gordon (1996), Haydn often set the ...

A contract is one of the critical agreement that people and organizations go through on daily basis. It is worth noting that organizations and people go into a contract based on various reasons. There are critical components that must be considered when making some agreements. In analyzing the case study one, it is crucial to put into consideration various elements that must be considered for an agreement to be a contract. Some of the elements include acceptance, offer, consideration, as well as the intention of legal consequences. In case study one, there is no contract. These are based on the fact ...

Euthanasia, widely known as mercy killing, has been a topic of debate globally. The word ‘euthanasia’ is made by the combination of two Greek words eu (well) and thanatos (death). The terms euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide or terminal sedation are sometimes used inter-changeably to define a condition wherein a lethal injection is given to patients who are extremely ill. This intentional killing is for the beneficence of pain and suffering of the patient. The ethics and legality of euthanasia have been questioned in many countries and only a few have approved it. It is a complex and challenging issue in the field of medical care ...

Sodium plays its role in the human body as electrolyte. Its purpose in the body is to maintain normal blood pressure, helps in the absorption of nutrients, regulation of the blood volume and maintenance of the cell membrane potential. The quantity of sodium found in the blood has a close connection to the amount of water found in the body. The level of sodium found in the blood is determined by the amount of sodium and water consumed as well as the amount excreted in the urine. Some sodium is excreted from the body through sweating and stool. When sodium ...

Sales and contracts

In the business world, some companies to lease goods from the businesses that have already purchased the goods rather than purchasing themselves. Leasing basically involves the transfer of possession from one owner to the lessee. The rights of a person are different from the rights of a person who have purchased the goods. The lesser of good have the right for the consideration and the good have to be returned at the end of the lessee period.

A merchant is an important person under the uniform commercial code. In article two of the UCC; it is clear that merchants are very ...

Health research methods and ethics

Introduction Question A Chin and Lee (2008) explains that the ethical principle of respect for human participants in research studies involving human beings as the study subjects requires that the research participants be informed about the results of the study upon completion of the research. By doing so, the human subjects would feel respected and valued and not merely used or abused for the sake of achieving a particular medical objective. In application of the principle of respect, the ability of the individual to make own choices and decisions should be considered as Gallin and Ognibene (2012) corroborates. ...

H.L.A Hart. “There are two minimum conditions necessary and sufficient for the existence of a legal system. On the one hand those rules of behavior which are valid according to the system's ultimate criteria of validity must be generally obeyed, and on the other hand, its rules of recognition specifying the criteria of legal validity and its rules of change and adjudication must be effectively accepted as common public standards of official behavior by its officials.” Laws are systems that may prohibit individuals to carry out a variety of actions or that may compel an assortment of responsibilities on persons. ...

Effective Sustainable Planning

Introduction Sustainable planning is basically the efficient use of resources, which are human, natural, and technological to sustain current needs of a community as well as ensuring that these resources will continue to be effective to sustain the future needs. Over the past few years, sustainable planning has established support from several national and international organizations. Illinois is one of the states that have implemented programs in sustainable planning to resolve challenges in public transportation, energy conservation, recycling, natural hazard reduction, and other issues. In this essay, we will discuss the challenges that Chicago has dealt with in the ...

- Introduction Euthanasia, sometimes called assisted suicide, is the practice of allowing an individual suffering from a significant, terminal illness or injury to end their life before the injury or illness takes them. The idea of euthanasia is to allow the individual freedom from pain and suffering; proponents of the practice suggest that euthanasia allows people to avoid the pain and humiliation that can come from long-term palliative care. Euthanasia is a process through which medical personnel or families help the patient to end his or her life. There are certain situations that are not considered euthanasia-- such as “ ...

Community policing philosophy integrates strategies in law enforcement that encourage local organizations and community partnership and engagement to solve problems in the community and to proactively deal with issues in public safety (Kappeler & Gaines, 2005). Such issues of crime include theft, robbery, and burglary. In the U.S, the community policing philosophy was adopted following the 9/11 terrorist attack, and the need to prevent such future cases was deemed paramount. With community policing, people can be vigilant of their own safety through giving information that could be useful leads to combating crime and terrorism (Sullivan, 2005). In addition, the U.S ...

Law

1.) The parties have a contract the moment that Chou and Big Time Toymaker (BTT) entered the exclusive negotiation agreement. A contract is considered perfected the moment the parties reached an agreement which signifies their consent, the object of the contract and the consideration or price. It bears to stress that the first element to test whether a contract has been perfected is that there must be intention on the parties to be legally bound. The second element to test the perfection of a contract is when the parties have reached a reasonable agreement without the need for any further requirement. When these ...

Healthcare is an important perspective for any given nation. The government needs to frame policies and provide necessary funding to provide quality healthcare services to the people of that nation. There could be both public and private sectors associated with a given healthcare industry in that nation. However, we would like to focus upon the spending of an individual toward the healthcare. Today, man has turned more conscious. Hence, we can find, each of the developed countries spending nearly 8-17% of their Gross National Product on health care (Kocher, Emanuel, & DeParle, 2010). We can assume that, it is a large number, ...

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According to One World Nations Online, Spanish, next to English, is one of the most widely spoken languages in the United States as well as in the world. Including second language speakers, there are currently more than four hundred million people who speak Spanish. When we say ‘Spanish’, one of the attributes we can connect to it is the notion of romance or of love. Love, however, is about communicating and the primary tool of communication is language. It makes sense therefore to conclude that ...

The differences between the information communicated by written history and cinematic history occur on the presentation of the events. The purpose of both written and film media is to communicate. Both written history and cinematic history may communicate the occurrence of historical events. However, the viewers understand both forms of media differently. Cinematic history is able to create a mental picture on the mind of the viewer. Although the cinematic history creates a good mental picture to the viewer, they have a tendency of containing altered information. On the other hand, written history presents information that is more precise to the reader. ...

Suicide and suicide attempts in the western world have long been considered criminal and punishable. Ancient Romans and Greeks prohibited most suicide, or suicide among the healthy, and punished those who committed suicide by denying them proper burial rituals (Rosenfeld 24). In England and the American colonies, laws continued to punish individuals who committed suicide by denying them a proper burial and both English and American laws found anyone assisting in suicide potentially guilty of murder. In the last several decades, questions about euthanasia and, specifically, the legality of physician-assisted suicide have repeatedly found their way into the legal system ...

Immanuel Kant was a great philosopher during his time and has continued to be a prominent thinker in the realm of theology, history, and epistemology. He also one of the latter thinkers of the Enlightment and expanded the traditional thoughts on metaphysics by presenting sound arguments on topics such as law and history, and formulating moral values and philosophy. However, Emanuel Kant excluded religion in his philosophical ideas. Prior to the development of his philosophical theories, the ethical theories that existed were majorly based on the teachings of Greek philosophical thinkers such as Socrates and Aristotle. However, Kant was keen to ...

The concepts of palliative care began with the hospice. Originally the hospice was a resting place for wary travelers in the 4th century. In fact the latin term for hospice means to conceal or alleviate symptoms without curing”. However, by the 19th century hospice’s religious areas established hospices as places for the dying in London and in Ireland (News Medical). End of life care is a “modern” idea that began in the 1950’s and was first written about by Dr. Cicely Saunders (Loscalzo, 2008). She described her feelings and ideas based on the feelings of dying patients. Dr. Saunders ...

An issue that was already decades old in a 1994 ethics article (Emanuel and Emanuel), the cost of end-of-life care is an issue that provides both an economic and actual definition of the limitations of medicine. Eventually, all patients die, but the question becomes what treatment and care should be administered to patients in their end-of-life stage. Therefore, this issue defines both limitations in medicine in that there are conditions that modern medicine have no treatment for, as well as limitations from the point of view of the inherent waste in spending limited medical dollars on treatment of patients so ...

Introduction

Tremendous change is being witnessed in the relationships between patients, physicians, and managed care facilities with the advent of managed care. Patient-physician relationships are changing, which were once based on the following Cs: - Choosing the physician by the patient; - Providing competence; - Communication between patient and physician; - Compassion; - Continuity of care and; - Absence of conflict of care on the part of the provider (Emanuel & Dobler).

There are three stages involved in strategic management. They are the strategic thinking, strategic planning, and the managing of strategic momentum. There are a ...

Types of contracts:

There are three types of government contracts two of which are; fixed price contracts and cost reimbursable contracts. Fixed price contracts are those that the price is negotiated at the beginning of the contract; thereafter the price remains constant for the entire period of the contract. Cost reimbursable involves the government paying directly for the cost of doing the work; this type of contract has a scheme for giving a fee or profit for the contractor (Blum, 2011). The main advantage of a fixed price contract is that the price of the contract is known at the beginning of the contract, this ...

Overview of the Company

In 1844, Henry Lehman, a German immigrant resettled in the United States of America. The 23-year old immigrant decided to make Montgomery, Alabama his home where he ended up opening a general store that was then referred to as “H. Lehman.” Three years later, in 1847, Henry was joined by his younger brother, Emanuel Lehman, and henceforth the store changed its name to “H. Lehman and Bro.” The youngest of the Lehman Brothers, Mayer Lehman, joined his two elder siblings in 1850 and together the three Brothers founded what was until 2008 referred to as the Lehman Brothers (LEH). From its ...

Abstract

Research in cognitive behavioral therapy demonstrates its effectiveness for people with a variety of problems, including couples experiencing marital distress. Dessaulles, Johnson, and Denton determine in their study that cognitive therapy is as effective as pharmacotherapy in managing depression and marital distress (2003, p. 345). Emanuel-Zuerveen and EmmelKamp determine in their study that cognitive therapy focusing on the couple is more effective than treating each person in the relationship individually (1996, p. 181). Dattilio’s article presents current techniques used in relationship cognitive therapy, typical cognitive distortions that couples in therapy possess, and other useful knowledge for therapists (2008). Along ...

American educational system of learning has been placed the best in the world best system by analysts. America herself has been rated the best country to work and live in the continent. However, the educational system of higher learning has experienced many challenges and in the way it is implemented. The system has undergone major changes and policy implementations for the last few decades to shape it as the world’s best. Though it have been said to be the best higher education system globally, we tend to overlook issues that the system struggles with its quest to maintain ...

Writing a Claim of Policy Essay

Claim- There should be a universal standard regarding the legality of physician-assisted suicide. 1. Overview, Purpose and historical background

Definition of Terms

Some of the key terms in this paper that the reader needs to be conversant with include, suicide, assisted suicide, and physician assisted suicide. Kopelman and De Ville write that suicide is the taking of one’s life without being forced by from one’s self will. This means that when a suicide is committed, the victim has the willingness to die with him or herself. Kopelman and De Ville continue to explain that an action is considered as physician assisted ...

Question 1

The role of a grand jury is to decide whether or not to indict a suspect after listening to the prosecutor’s witnesses as well as a statement of the alleged crime from the prosecutor. A petit jury on the other hand comes after the grand jury has charged the suspect and taken him to trial where the petit jury decides on whether the suspect, now the defendant, is guilty or not of the charges brought against them (Erwin, 2009, p. 81).

Question 2

Original jurisdiction is when a court hears a case for the first time like during a trial. The appellate jurisdiction is the power ...