Essays on Ineffectiveness

Paper 2

Ontario’s HPV Vaccination Program In this paper, I present arguments that are supportive of the ethical inappropriateness of the Ontario government’s HPV vaccination initiative. I also aim at revealing the ineffectiveness of the program as a public health strategy constructed to combat cervical cancer. The program is ineffective in combating cervical cancer because the interventions arising from the screening program poses risks on women and especially the ones of childbearing age. In addition, I will use the utilitarian approach to support my views. In September 2007, the Ontario Liberal Government began a Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination ...

Question 1

The spirometer as well as the peak flow meter are among the key equipment needed in adequate assessment of asthma (Apter, 2014). As such, the spirometer measures the FEV (Force Expiratory volume) and the FVC (Force Vital Capacity) while the peak flow meter measures the efficiency in the flow of air from the lungs.

Question 2

Among the key symptoms and signs associated with asthma include; -Chest tightness -Shortness of breath -Wheezing -Fatigue -Coughing -Sleeping difficulties

Question 3

Asthma is usually associated with various precipitating factors that increase an individual’s likelihood of developing the disease. Among the key precipitating factors include; -Family ...

Ontario’s HPV Vaccination Program

In this paper, I present arguments that are supportive of the ethical inappropriateness of the Ontario government’s HPV vaccination initiative. I also aim at revealing the ineffectiveness of the program as a public health strategy constructed to combat cervical cancer. In addition, I will use the utilitarian approach to support my views.

The Ontario HPV Program Overview

In September 2007, the Ontario Liberal Government began a Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination intervention for female eighth-graders (Thompson, 2013; CIHR- IPPH, 2012). The federal government made an allocation of $ 300 million towards the intervention. Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, targets four subtypes of the virus. These ...

Successful planning, construction, and completion of a large scale project like the one undertaken for completing the One World Trade Center is not easy since it requires a strategic focus on the construction plans in a realistic manner. Project leaders need to give external reviewers an opportunity to have an outside view of the whole project and suggest ways that can ensure completion within the stipulated time while avoiding deviations from the initial budget. The delays experienced during the construction of the Freedom Tower create the impression of how ineffective functional operations can lead to major changes in designs ...

Abstract

Given the importance of human resource economics to address labor utilization together with its implications for the greater economy, the accumulation of human capital is one of the major related topics. Human capital collection greatly drives the instrumental economic considerations such as unemployment, employment turnover, and the functions of both the labor unions and government policies. Unlike most of the resources that depreciate with time, investment in human capital increases in appreciation and continually exploits the available resources. Although it may consume time, it ensures effective use of qualities and skills while enhancing other resources. The human resource plays ...

The world faces varied security threats that affect the operations of various sectors of the economy. These threats range from terrorist attacks to cybercrimes. To curb these threats, different countries have created independent units to deal with the threats. In the United States, the department of homeland security (DHS) has the mandate to ensure that America is safe from certain threats. The department has laid down interventions to ensure the achievement of their objectives. However, these interventions when applied singularly are always ineffective. When the interventions are integrated, they assist in the achievement of goals of the department. The ...

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Excessive computer use is increasingly becoming a worldwide social problem. The excessive use, otherwise known as Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) has resulted in a situation where individuals lack adequate socialization skills. Surveys in developed countries such as the US and Europe indicate an alarming prevalence rate among children. There have been numerous proposed solutions aimed at addressing the issue. The aim of this section is to offer a brief overview of these methods and offer reasons for their ineffectiveness. The main reason for the overall ineffectiveness is that children consider the computer and internet as cool technologies. Thus, one ...

It has often been said, documented and proven, that those companies who achieve comprehensive, cohesive, integrated marketing strategies, all focused on the same goal and with a concise result to account for. In addition, those companies that dominate emerging technologies, maximize today’s supercomputing, algorithmic communication infrastructures, and low cost infrastructures, are the companies that most often will achieve successes in their market segmentation, product branding, positioning, pricing, cost-effectiveness, and the growth and profitability corporate goals, always so sought after by both multi-national conglomerates, as well as, small to medium size organizations (Garg, 1999). Coca-Cola chose early on, it ...

The Department of Children and Family Services requires major changes in the management and organizational culture if it is to improve its operations. Major problems in the organization include high caseloads with employees regularly asking for better compensations and incentives such as medical leave. The management is very reluctant in providing the support needed by employees such that each manager has their own way of working instead of following an outlined set of policies. The organization is far from achieving a collaborative approach to management since every unit performs as a different entity hence limiting effectiveness of the entire ...

In the title, The Plague, Albert Camus seeks to represent the plight of community infested with a deadly infection. Precisely, the outlines the problems faced by Oran citizens in their bid to ensure their survival and sustain their humanity. Arguably, the method used in the presentation of his primary argument is rather confusing. In some instances, he makes references to other established authors’ gives his personal opinions, or a conversation with some of the residents of the residents of the infested nation. Moreover, he uses different rhetoric appeals to coax the reader into believing his arguments. The primary goal ...

Organizational structure refers to the order in which the organizational communication, duties, and authority flow to the members of the organization. Organizational culture can assume many ways an outstanding example being the flow of authority from the top management to the subordinates. On the other hand, work design refers to arrangement or order in which work is shared and performed by the members of the organization (Cavanaugh 186). Both work design and organizational structure play a great role towards enhancing the effectiveness of the organization and performance as well. This means that they can either promote or hinder effectiveness ...

Discussion Questions

This statement by Drucker means the reason a business exists is to serve its customers as well as the general public. Any business is in place for a given purpose and if the business does not have any customers, then there is no reason why the business should be in place. With this statement, Drucker means that the customers of a business as well as the general public determine the purpose of any business. I agree with this statement because a business has to fulfill its purpose by ensuring that it meets its customers need while at the same ...

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to review the effectiveness of lifestyle on the development of dementia and Alzheimer's disease for at risk populations. The study considers quantitative study which involve the use of control and experimental groups in which the control group is motivated on the effects of lifestyle particularly lack of inactivity (exercise) and healthy eating in groups of individuals who are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's. An observation of the pretest and post test of the control and experimental group will clearly indicate the contribution and its magnitude of exercise and healthy eating in ...

Introduction

Over the years, the United States has gained global military, economic, cultural, scientific, and political dominance, which has allowed the country to have a significant influence on other nations. For instance, American influence and power have extended across different countries such as Iraq, spreading democracy and liberty through military invasion and the War on Terror. In addition, the United States’ political influence has been strengthened by its financial support to foreign countries through the U.S. foreign aid. For instance, Buchan argues that the U.S. has played a significant role in enhancing the relationships of the free nations of southern and Pacific ...

Is The UN Security Council Fit for Purpose in The 21st Century?

- UN Security Council is undeniably an organization dealing with global peace and security. Its successes and failures in global conflict management have been subjects of international scrutiny. The council’s activities on the member states from 1946 have supposedly remained constant with more members joining. UN Security Council however experiences a myriad of hurdles including lack of proper accountability of actions to member states. Ineffectiveness of organizations within UN Security Council, for instance, the Economic and Social Council accompanied by improper implementation on financial assets stewardship contributes to its hurdles. Additionally, there are invariable claims on competition caused by ...

Communication principles and misconceptions

As a newly married couple, it is important for each of you to understand the basic principles of interpersonal communication. Peter and Rose, communication is irreversible. Once one of you says something to his or her partner, it is not possible to take it back. The impact of what is initially said remains in the mind of the partner in an inventible way. This is why it is important for a married couple to think before saying hurting words out of anger. Abuses and arrogance should get no place in marriage context since the partner may forgive you, but the initial ...

Introduction

A health care system has two types of models in practice including; the traditional model and dispersed model. In particular, the traditional model employed in a health care setting involves primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care of patients. In that, a patient goes to primary care and receives treatment of the common problems diagnosed. The problems that go unsolved are referred to the secondary care, and the tertiary care is for those cases that require intensive care provision. The knack to communicate ideas and information successfully is increasingly acknowledged as critical to the success of the health care system ...

The American movies of the 2000s have been primarily dedicated to such important national and international issues as racism, gun control, poverty, drug abuse and crimes connected with it, as well as ambiguity and, as a result, ineffectiveness of national and international policy that is supposed to solve these and many other social problems. Among the most prominent movies of the decade are the 2000 Steven Soderbergh film Traffic, 2004 Paul Haggis film Crash and 2004 Terry George movie Hotel Rwanda. All three movies are based on completely different stories, but share similar tension born out of the social problems ...

Rehabilitation versus Incarceration

JUVENILE OFFENDERS 2 Introduction Crime is a prevalent factor in American society, and is committed among all individuals regardless of age, race, gender, or socioeconomic status. The majority of American juveniles, individuals under the age of eighteen, have admitted to committing some type of crime throughout their young life. While the majority of crimes by juveniles are considered petty, non-violent, and overall minor offenses, youths also commit dangerous and heinous acts of crime identical to what we see in the adult penal system. In the last 30 years, Sociologists, Criminologists, and Penologists have witnessed both major and minor ...

Introduction

Humanitarian intervention as a concept can be traced back to the seventeenth century. This is the time when the foundations for the contemporary internationally recognized system of sovereignty of states and the principle that such sovereign states have control over all the matters within their borders was established. Since them, the concept has been reformed to enable the international community through the United Nations to protect citizens within sovereign states from human rights abuse, civil wars, ethnic cleansing and political abuse (Piereson, 2013). Although the United Nations charter does not allow the intervention in sovereign states, various humanitarian crises since ...

Introduction

Inevitably, the topic of economics is the most astounding and effective one for the economies, as the main crux of an economy and economic factors are always be effective for their future growth and effectiveness. Economics is a core subject that associated with almost every walk of life, and it can be used for different purpose all over the world. Economics is a subject that specifically associated with the earning and consuming the money accordingly and effectively at the same time. The two broad types of economics, on which the entire broad definition and outlook would be depending, are effective for ...

Immigration policies are put to try and control the amount of people being granted access or making illegal entry into other foreign countries. Different countries have implemented immigration policies in order to ensure there is a limitation to the growing trend of frequents and illegal immigration. Despite the regulations that have been put in place in order to regulate the immigration in the United States, there have been numerous setbacks that have led to the questioning of the effectiveness of the immigration policies. The implementation of the immigration policies has been affected by the labor market which views the immigration ...

Question One

Prior to the adoption of the prison system, jails were used for temporary detention, corporal punishment and imposition of fines. Capital crimes were punishable through public torture, humiliation, embarrassment, flogging, branding and mutilation. These forms of punishment draw from puritan punishment practices, which encouraged public shaming of wayward sheep. This is not unlike Arpaio’s use of perp walking, pink underwear and chain gangs for inmates serving sentences of up to a month to humiliate and use them to serve as an example to mothers and children that see them on the highway to avoid crime. Specifically, chain gangs hack ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Placebos and Ethics Introduction The only thing second in the medical field to successfully treating a patient is doing it ethically. Ethics are supposed to be held in the highest degree by doctors and nurses in order for patients to feel safe and optimistic about the treatment they receive. Treatments, under the Hippocratic Oath and several moral and ethical maxims must be provided in a safe, ethical manner in order for them to be considered justified practices. Examples include delivering chemotherapy to cancer patients, and antibiotics to patients with viruses. Other instances may involve obtaining conscientious permission from the ...

Affirmative Action, otherwise known as positive discrimination, is to render special opportunity for the welfare of the disadvantaged people who endure from discrimination. This concept was first introduced in the United States in the 1960s to fight against racial discrimination in the employment process. As it is intended to help defined-minority people getting opportunities, it fails to include actual minorities, the poor, as Affirmative Action becomes one-sided for the racial discrimination besides other minorities that resides all over. As a result, the concept of Affirmative Action becomes the subject of several court cases, and it has been oppugned upon its ...

Thesis: The death penalty in the United States is an antiquated practice that should be abolished. The death penalty fails to deter crime, is riddled with risks for inaccuracy and is unethical in a modern state that value human rights. Aronson, Jay D. and Simon A. Cole. (2009). Science and the Death Penalty: DNA, Innocence, and the Debate over Capital Punishment in the United States. Law & Social Inquiry. 34 (3), 603-633. This article argues that even with the advent of technology such as DNA, these sciences are still fundamentally problematic and able to make mistakes. With these mistakes ...

Criminal Trials in Drug Courts in Europe

Introduction According to Langbein, the modern European Trial is an investigation into the truth, but not a stage battle of partisans committed to distortion. This is true with regards to prosecution and rehabilitation of drug offender that is now revamped in European countries. The criminal justice system is critical in the formation of any civilized society; it is required that the criminal justice system should be robust and in a position to protect the interests and rights of the various groups within the society. It comprises of three distinct elements; these are the law enforcement officers, the courts, and the ...

Classic English Literature

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, born in the small seaport of Taganrog, Ukraine in 1860, was a physician who wrote short stories and plays. While he spent his early years under the shadow of his father's religious fanaticism, he managed to support his medical studies by taking tuitions. As a doctor, Chekov spent his daytime caring for the needy while he spent the nights writing. His medical background is clearly evident in much of his plays as evidenced by the apathy many of his characters show towards tragic events. His plays and short stories are influenced by his doctoral research at the penal ...

A brief review of its use and effectiveness

The word ‘war’ for any nation signifies the danger or uncertain situation imposed upon it by another nation or army. Acknowledging that the nation is in war, calls upon its citizens to do all they can individually and collectively to help the country fight the war. For the citizens, war and war threat situations have been seen to induce a sense of patriotism and unity, in the face of the common enemy. This is exactly what the politicians and law enforcement people seek to leverage by raising war rhetoric in crime prevention. War rhetoric is increasingly resorted to as a means ...

Introduction

Terrorist activities are on the rise worldwide; USA has not been left behind following the recent Boston bombing attack. These attacks and constant threats lead to counteractive measures by governments in a bid to ensure their citizens’ safety. In respect to the US situation, the lives of Americans and other individuals end in these attacks. This causes fear among the citizens. The government has a responsibility of acting against these attacks; this ensures the safety of its citizens. The US Department of Justice prepared a secret 16-page memo in reference to the terrorism situation. This memo provides for the assassination of American ...

Miranda Rights

The decision of the Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona that a confession obtained through interrogation while in custody, and at which time the suspect was not informed of his/her constitution to have a legal representative present would be inadmissible in the court of law. However, only the accused can proclaim their constitution protection in contesting the involuntarily obtained confession. These Miranda rights, as they are popularly known, are necessary in the course of justice as they guarantee the constitutionality of the Fifth Amendment, Sixth Amendment and Fourteen Amendment. Fifth Amendment deals with self incrimination, Sixth Amendment relates to right to ...

Abstract

Rehabilitation refers to a series of activities and systematic efforts to restore a person into a useful state. Apparently, rehabilitation has the purpose of making a person that has deviated from the expectations of society become productive and acceptable in the community. Looking at the concept from the narrower definition of correctional rehabilitation, some aspects are added to the definition. Whether or not such efforts are effectual has been a topic of deliberation in the circles of criminology and correctional studies. The fact that rehabilitation has taken center stage in American corrections is the reason as to why rehabilitation has become such a weighty topic ...

According to the office of the national drug control policy, the United States government has already spent over one trillion dollars on the war on drugs. In the year 1980, the government spent one billion dollars on the war on drugs. Twelve years later, the figure hit 19 billion dollars. Currently, the government spends over 15.6 billion dollars every six months on the war. The war, which began during the era of President Richard Nixon, has not yielded much. The amounts of drugs that penetrate the borders of the United States are ever on an increase, with the number ...

According to the office of national drug control policy, the United States government has spent over one trillion dollars on the war on drugs. In the year 1980, the government spent 1 billion dollars on the war on drugs. Twelve years later, the figure had hit 19 billion dollars. Currently, the government spends over 15.6 billion dollars every six months on the war. The war, which began during the time of President Richard Nixon, has not yielded much. The amounts of drugs that penetrate the borders of the United States are ever increasing, with the number of addicts on ...

Background of police effectiveness

In the United States, the department of police dates back to the year 1626 when the office of the first sheriff was established in New York City. During this time, police leaders and senior personnel were democratically elected from among the general public. Internal security was left to the office of the sheriff and local militia. The order and regulations governing the police were not as strict back then since there was no code of conduct to oversee the operations of the police officers (Samaha, 2006). The absence of such codes of conduct was the reason behind the ineffectiveness ...

Introduction

When making a psychological test, it is important to carry out a comprehensive evaluation. This ensures that the constructed test is reliable and can be used to carry out tests in other psychological scenarios. The practitioner must undertake a given procedure in determining ineffective and effective test items. Pilot tests are used to determine the practicality of a psychological test.

Test evaluation is important because it helps it helps determine if the test performance is up to the required standards. Test evaluation ensures that the test can be used to produce unbiased information. Evaluation helps get rid of any mistakes contained in a psychological ...

Statement of Purpose

Political appointments are used to make full various federal positions of our government. These designations are employed to give a description of a scheme of picking out candidates in which the decision is made by an individual or board rather than by a poll of the populace generally, or through haphazard selection as used to select juries. The appointments may be in two ways, appointments made directly by the president which do not require senate confirmation and appointments which require senate confirmation. The president assigns duty to several levels of cabinet and agency officers. The appointments in most cases are normally ...

The Republic of Uganda has not witnessed a period of peace and stability in the entire country. The history of turmoil and instability dates back to the post independence period. Indeed, Uganda has suffered under tyrannical leaders such as Iddi Amin Adada who was responsible for the deaths of approximately eight hundred thousand people. In addition, the country has been rocked by several coup de tats in the government. In fact, even the incumbent president, Yoweri Museveni, ascended to power initially through a coup de tat. He later was democratically elected for the successive terms. Uganda, therefore, has been on the ...

Loss Prevention Policies

What are the benefits of a comprehensive control program? If you were advising this corporation, what would be the specific benefits for them? A comprehensive control system helps the organization departments achieve the set objective within a given time period and as per the scheduled format. All transactions will be timely with those in power (authorization) and recording of all information will also be achieved. Correct accounts will be keyed in the appropriate accounts and in the specified financial period. This will in turn facilitate efficiency and effectiveness in the preparation of financial statements. Internal control system facilitates authorized and ...