Essays on Griffiths

Introduction

As the head of the information technology department of the Emirates Airline, there is a need to introduce varying degrees of change within each section of the unit to inject efficiency in the entire operations. As such, the changes will focus on customer booking and seat reservations to improve customer care and uplift the overall image of the department. The change is of low urgency because it is a long-term endeavor that will gradually ensure quality services to the entire clientele. Further, it is proactive and has been informed by the deliberations within the Department, aiming to introduce sustainable ...

Nurse burnout has been found to cause negative consequences among the nurses that include lowered quality of care, job dissatisfaction, and increased risk of negative outcome among patients. For example, previous investigations show that there is a strong correlation between nurse burnout and poor health care such as medication errors, patient falls, patient adverse events, and infections associated with healthcare (Alexander et al., 2015). According to Dall'Ora, Griffiths & Ball (2015), there is a close association between nurse burnout and job satisfaction as well intention to leave. Nurses burn out lead to not only job dissatisfaction but also quality as ...

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The Lawyer-Client Relationship The lawyer-client relationship should be based on trust and confidentiality. Under no circumstances should a client lie to his or her lawyer as well as under no circumstances should a lawyer incriminate his or her client for telling them the truth. A problem in trust and confidentiality will result to poor lawyer-client relationship, which could significantly impact the outcome of a case. Trust and confidentiality problems arise when the client withholds some information from his lawyer for fear that his lawyer will back out. There are clients, for instance, who are guilty of doing ...

Abstract

This paper explores the challenges faced by women in management positions in international organizations. In order to appropriately discuss the issue, background information on current related problems in the workplace environment is initially discussed. This establishes the context upon which women find themselves in a corporate world ‘built by men, for men’. Women are in a disadvantaged position since they need to maintain a balance between managing the business and taking care of the family; this is in contrast to their male counterparts who can allocate more time for their career. Within such a scenario, organizational as well as ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has been the ...

A Report on Internet Misuse in Business Firms

Business organizations rely heavily on internet enabled systems in the present age. This has necessitated unrestricted use of internet in business firms, especially in creative area like graphic designing. This report addresses the same issue in a graphic design firm where the author works as an account manager. The firm is doing well and currently has a strength of 14 employees. However the owner is concerned about the unregulated use of the internet which allows the employees to download almost anything or view inappropriate web content in the workplace. The concern of the owner is justified because the irresponsible ...

Video Games and its Cultural Implications

Introduction The advent of new technological innovation in recent years resulted in the introduction of video games which is now considered as an integral part of our life. Video games are almost everywhere, and they serve, not only as a means of entertainment us, but also as a form of socialization, skills training and to experience real-world events through simulations. Accordingly, there are myriad of responses towards the popularity of video games, and this is especially so with the linkage of this form of entertainment to violence and aggression, many examples of which represent extreme and realistic violence (Griffiths, ...

Healthy Work Environments and Nurse Burn Out (4)

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critique of an article on the topic of work environments and nurse burn out. The article to be critiqued is a large cross-sectional Swedish study that examines the associations among nurse practice environment, family/work conflict and burnout (Leineweber, et al., 2014). The intent of this critique is to provide evidence that the nurses’ working environment has an impact of personal psychosocial factors. The data for the study was retrieved from the survey-based Swedish section of the RN4CAST, which was multinational EU 7th Framework project. The original project involved RNs employed ...

Introductory Remarks

At this point, it is no secret the American society shows a degree of tolerance lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered individuals never enjoyed in the 20th century. The question emerges of why it is that people have grown more tolerant towards and supportive of LGBT individuals. Media categories, such as television and films considered the carriers of culture, influence people’s perception, as does the culture itself shaping it. Thus, the way such phenomenon as same-sex relationships along with their participants are depicted in television and movies determines how tolerantly the society will perceive such people. The major research ...

After analyzing the monuments of art, handed down to us from a distant era of the ancient Egyptian civilization, we can definitely identify the two main themes in the art of Egypt in the period around the IV millennium BC to 332 BCE. This is the theme of power and the theme of death. The power of the Pharaoh over the borders of Egypt, the Egyptian state supremacy over the neighboring tribes and kingdoms became firmly established. The question was how to combine it with the death, which is the worst thing that awaits man? It is not possible ...

One of the major challenges facing healthcare administration is the problem of diversified care. The modern world and all the technological improvements that are found in medicine mean that levels of care are better than ever, but this is not without challenges for administrators. An increasing number of specializations in medicine, for example, mean that administrators must prepare for an increasing number of units and specialists, which in turn leads to problems with funding and human resources. There are also issues associated with the fact that patients are generally more aware of technological advances in medicine, and may be ...

The 1979 Sale of Goods Act is the most comprehensive pieces of legislation on commercial law in the UK that governs, inter alia, contracts for the sale of goods, implied terms in sale of goods, rules governing the transfer and possession of property (goods) and also provides some of the remedies that purchasers (buyers) may have against sellers for defects in goods or otherwise (Dobson, Dobson & Stokes 2012, p. 10). This Act thus ensures the effectiveness of the legal relationship between businesses and customers, for it contains rules and regulations that seek to protect the rights of buyers and ...

Introduction

Consumption of addictive psychoactive substances can be traced back to the earliest records of the human history. In ancient past, these psychoactive substances were consumed in various occasions: some priest consumed the substances during religious ceremonies; some substances such as opium were used for medicinal purposes; were consumed by the general population as they were socially accepted. People later devised various potent compounds which were easier to administer. As a result of high administration, addiction and abuse of these substances began. As early as in the 17th century, the concern of overuse of these substances and the loss of ...

The Andy Griffiths and I love Lucy Shows

I love Luсу history bеgаn in the evening of thе 15 Oсtоbеr 1951 whеn thе USA wаѕ treated tо the first еріѕоdе оf a television situation соmеdу thаt wаѕ to run for 179 еріѕоdеѕ and еѕtаblіѕh thе ѕеrіеѕ аѕ a реrреtuаl fаvоrіtе. On рареr the "I lоvе Lucy" show was juѕt a ѕtоrу оf a mаrrіаgе but whаt a marriage, whаt a wife? 1950'ѕ tеlеvіѕіоn wаѕ аwаѕh with programmes аbоut family аnd marriage а ...

Introduction

A refrigerator is an electrical device used in temperature maintenance below ambient temperatures. To achieve this function, the refrigerator should be able to create a heat sink at cold room temperatures a temperature that should be lower than the ambient temperature while at the same time also rejecting heats having higher temperatures than the ambient temperatures. To achieve this refrigerant is forced to undergo evaporation at temperatures lower than the ambient temperature(Griffiths, 1937). When the refrigerant is compressed at high pressure and condensing temperatures above the ambient temperature results in the loss of heat and condensation back to ...

Factors Contributing To Language Change

Introduction Besters-Dilger, Dermarkar, Pfänder and Rabus (2014) define language change as the variation in the language’s morphological, phonetic, syntactic, semantic among other features over time. Language is always changing across social groups, space and time. In Nigeria exploration contributed to the development of English language in the country. Explorers associated with Nigerians making the citizens to learn and adapt to the explorers language for effective communication. From one generation to another, new pronunciation emerges, new and additional words evolve or invented by the population, morphology decays or develops over time. Hickey (2003) records that, although the rate ...

Abstract

A plea bargain has defined the court proceedings in the recent history of the criminal justice system. As such, prosecutors and judges have adapted to the policy to carry on activities while practicing copping plea arrangements so as to reduce the number of pending cases and the pile that characterizes most of the district magistrates’ courts. On one side, the idea of a plea bargain has greatly enhanced the efficiency of the legal systems. This is because it has reduced the time for prosecutors to work on various trials as well as reducing the instances of overcrowding in jails ( ...

Nowadays, Internet has firmly established in the life of the society as a global information system. Being present in practically every home, Internet has considerably expanded the opportunities in the process of information search and exchange, communication between people, especially the so-called social networking sites or social media, which are very popular among people of all ages, especially among children and teenagers (Boyd & Ellison 19). Social media has both good and bad effects on the lives of teenagers. Because of this, parents need to monitor their children and enforce rules regarding the use of social media. Communication plays an ...

Video and Computer Games Industry

Organizations rely on environmental scanning to carefully monitor their internal and external environments with the aim of detecting opportunities and threats that may have a bearing on their current and future plans. Changes in technology have contributed to increased dynamics in the video and computer games industry, and companies have been forced to transform and adapt so as to stay competitive. Enterprises focusing on the retailing of DVD/CD/Computer games have been affected by the advent of competition especially from companies utilizing digital platforms to provide video and computer games to their clients (Grüsser et al., 291). There has ...

Criminal Justice

Crime Analysis and Strategies for the City of Amber Executive Summary The City of Amber is experiencing an alarming rate of burglary incidents for the past two weeks. In this regard, the Amber Police Department will be taking steps in addressing the alarming rate of burglary incidents in the city through a systematic approach in terms of allocating manpower, heightened surveillance, and vigilant patrol of the surrounding communities with the help of the civilian personnel. In order to establish peace and order back to the community through a preventive and pro-active solution, it is important to consider the crime ...

Dysthymia is defined as a persistent state of mild depression in which an individual can find no joy or even mild amusement in life. It is characterized by the feeling that the afflicted individual has been miserable for much if not all of their life, finding nothing to grow excited or even mildly enthusiastic about. Those who suffer through this mild form of depression tend to be withdrawn, moody, and even prone to becoming antisocial. Overall this disorder is akin to being uncomfortable with the act of living. This type of disorder can be persistent for years without going ...

Throughout the years, the world has advanced more through the usage of technology and the benefits it brings. In the beginning, there were only desktop computers that could do a limited amount of work, and now they have been transformed in portable tablets, laptops, and even phones. With this much portability on technology, it was certain that certain websites dedicated to keeping in touch with people were invented. The first successful social media website that was around during the early days of the internet was Myspace. Just like the social media websites today, a person could update their page ...

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Intelligence in computing is defined as the computational ability of machines to achieve desired objectives. Artificial Intelligence is the “scientific understanding of mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines” ("AI Overview", n.d.). The concept of artificial intelligence systems is formed around information processing systems that perceive, learn, and think about what they want and how they feel. A.I. is the science and engineering involved in the design of intelligent machines including computer programs that try to learn and understand human intelligence. However, AIs do not necessarily simulate human intelligence but instead apply mechanisms that solve ...

Beyond doubt, D.W. Griffith is one of the stalwarts in the domain of cinema who has left an immortal mark in the minds of the film critics and the audience with his seminal works of art that have been deemed to be among the best the medium of art has ever seen. The primary importance of Griffith’s cinematic works lies in the use of innovative filmic techniques that went on to define the language of cinema in the future years. A close scrutiny of the films like The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916) would enable ...

The Power of Mass Media and Their Impact on the Consumer

The mass media have played an increasingly significant role in contemporary societies. The term media refers to the technologies which can be used to transmit messages to an audience (Laughey 2007p.1,). Mass media then represents the massive reception of the information transmitted through the media, across wide spaces (Laughey 2007, p.2). From a capitalist perspective, the media became potent means of communication for enterprising, thus rising to power as business enterprises in the 19th century. As the radio and the television emerged, the interest in transmitting information to the public increased exponentially, and with it, so did the interest ...

Audience + History China Central TV, further referred to as CCTV, is a globally driven network seasoned in providing news from around the globe with an Asian target audience; however not limited to. Originally launched in Beijing on April 26th of 2010, the network spanned into America just shy of two years later on February 6, 2012 and also is reporting live feed in Africa, Europe and South Asia. Because CCTV is a major source in global news linked to Asia, the audience is mostly viewers from an Asian background or at the very least has significant ties to Asia. ...

Critique

The following is the systematic critique of the article titled, “Implementing a Competence Framework for Administering Medication: Reporting the Experiences of Mental Health Nurses and Students in the UK” (Hemingway et al., 2012). The nursing critique has been done in accordance with the guidelines provided in the article title, “Step-by-step guide to critiquing research. Part 2: qualitative research” (Ryan, Coughlan and Cronin, 2007). The research article is published in the journal of Issues in Mental Health Nursing, which is a peer reviewed journal. The research article by Hemingway et al., 2012, is a qualitative study that employs an assortment ...

Storyville or as the locals simply called “The District” was the area of ​​New Orleans, residents and visitors of which attended for the carnal pleasures they could receive from living there numerous priestesses of love. Music lovers went there to listen to jazz virtuosos. Actually, this “red light district”, or Storyville, was established in 1897 by the authorities of New Orleans to put prostitution to order. The authorities legalized these “activities” based on the schemes tested in the Dutch and German port cities. Storyville was named after Sydney Storey, city council member, who is considered one of the founding ...

Introduction

For those people who have the knack to improve their diets and the surrounding, a shift from eating chicken and beef to consuming crickets, caterpillars and termites is a necessity. Insects are numerous, nutritious and ecologically bearable. In the contemporary world, persons have shunned the notion of including insects as part of their balanced daily diet, giving preference to the less nutritious and environmental unbearable food choices such as beef. The international organizations have been at the forefront addressing the need for the citizens of various nations to simulate the benefit of consuming insects. Additionally, this paper will argue ...

Greed -Nutrition

Bio Sociology as a discipline gives human beings the opportunity to be inquisitive of behavior and things in their environment. Every behavior and action traces its way back to the human anatomy and the environment. The act of greed did not find its way in the modern society without some prehistorical conditions attached to it. Presently, biology has worsen human greed making it difficult to distinguish greed and self-love as regards to healthy living championed by proper nutrition in the modern life.

Mimetics of Greed

In his wok in examining various aspect of the biologic and information theory, Rhymer (2003) presents a ...

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Video games do not promote antisocial behavior in teenagers

The video games industry in the last decades of the XX century has become a new, rapidly growing sector of the industry. Many people have become engaged in their creation and distribution. Generally, scholars, educators, and parents have considered that there is nothing-good coming out of a child’s interest in computer games. Some have even claimed that video games lead to increased level of aggression, violence, delinquent behavior and the child’s antisocial behavior. However now, it is safe to say that computer games are on the contrary a powerful factor in the socialization ...

Almost everyone in the world today agrees that the United States is the only superpower in the world. The reason as to why the United States is a superpower is because of its military achievements, particularly during the 20th century. During the First World War, the United States fought alongside and against the best armies in the world. However, the U.S. showed why it was the best among the best. One of the outstanding military regimens that contributed the military success of the U.S. military during the First World War is the American Expeditionary Force. The American Expedition Force ( ...

When did images begin to become important to the exercise of cultural, social, and political power in the United States?

The history of the image in terms of social, cultural and political power in the United States can be traced back to the first newspapers to be released - ever since Joseph Pulitzer published the World in 1882, featuring pictures and contests to attract new readers and add to the content of newspapers, images have become an important part of establishing American culture and history. With the beginning of the pictoral age of newsmaking came the sensationalism of entertaining stories that would galvanize the people and appeal to emotions. The 1890s saw the beginning of muckraking and yellow journalism, ...

In his book, Fascism, Richard Griffiths discusses how this word is an over-used term in its modern sense, specifically discussing how it relates to the ideas of: “authoritarianism, to ‘control freakery’” and how it can also “imply violence, extremism or racism; or the term can be applied to the political Right in general.” Griffiths adds that these and a “wide range of other attributes, however, made up ‘fascism’.” (Griffiths 1) Following World War One, the rise of fascism intensified in Germany, specifically, due to their nationalistic pride. When Hitler rose to be chairman of the Nazi party in 1921, Germany ...