Essays on Life-Time

Intro

Emily Dickinson is an American poet, who is probably the most recognizable name in American poetry. Not much is known of her motivation regarding her poems as only 12 of the 1800 she had written were published during her life time and she left little in the way of explaining her thoughts regarding what she had written. What is known is that she did not think the majority of her poems were worth public consumption and had told her sister Lavinia (Vinnie) to dispose of them after her death. This was probably due to her poems being heavily altered ...

The continuity of the anti-social behavior can be associated to the life-course theory which explains the continuity and change in behavior over time by making a connection between the past events and experiences to the present (Laub & Samson, 2005). Based on this theory, the extent of continuity in behavior between childhood, adolescence and adulthood should be analyzed to draw on the life-course framework in relation to social control and crime. In the beginning, a person’s criminal tendencies can be traced back to his or her childhood antisocial behavior, until reaching the adolescent delinquency, and the last stage is ...

Background and Significance of the Problem

Over the last two decades, lifestyle related illnesses have become a problematic issue for the healthcare sector. The calls for primary prevention mechanisms have achieved remarkable progress in minimizing the incidences. However, with an increasing population and the strain on the available resources to support health living, the prevalence rates have remained stagnant. Diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses that has been diagnosed substantially within the healthcare facilities (Chan & Woo, 2010). However, the emphasis on people to assume proactive roles in the management of health has also taken a significant stride (U.S. National Library of Medicine, ...

Background

Over the last two decades, lifestyle related illnesses have become a problematic issue for the healthcare sector. The calls for primary prevention mechanisms have achieved remarkable progress sin minimizing the incidences. However, with an increasing population and the strain on the available resources to support health living, the prevalence has at some point remained stagnant. Diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses that have been diagnosed substantially within the healthcare facilities (Chan & Woo, 2010). However, the emphasis on people to assume proactive roles in the management of health has also taken a significant stride. The justification for ...

Passions which drive me to live a healthy way of life are related to my wish to treat my body as a temple for my soul. I have deep personal beliefs that eating balanced meals and leading an active lifestyle must be the only key to achieving personal happiness. Eating unhealthy food and not working out leads to the lack of enthusiasm, the zest for life and to melancholy, as well as to the overall lack of energy. I am passionate about living a healthy way of life because it gives me the energy I need to go through ...

How we view ourselves as male or female

Human beings have always viewed themselves as male or female through an individual’s genitalia and their reproductive organs. This is one way that has been used to describe humans for a long period. When the sex of a person is mentioned, the physical features are the main items that are checked to ensure the sexuality of the individual in the case. People therefore; think of their sexuality by linking it to their physical appearance and to their reproductive organs. This is taught from an early age and children can distinguish between males and females at such a young age. An example ...

No person can predict his or her own future, including the time of death. People prefer to refrain from overthinking this inevitable event, while starting families, businesses, having children and engaging in other significant human experiences. During the life time, almost every person acquires a set of obligations and responsibilities, both moral and material, and they are often transferred to the person’s parents, relatives, children, spouses and business partners in case of death. The acquisition of the aforesaid responsibilities begins during the young adulthood and sometimes even earlier, and although the death rate of people of these age groups ...

Christianity is a religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. The Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God, who is fully human and fully define as it is recorded in the New Testament section Of the Bible and that he is the savior of mankind as prophesized in the Old Testament. The basic foundation of the Christianity is found on the ecumenical creed; the Apostles ’ Creed, the Nicene creed, the chalcedonian creed and the Athanasian creed. These creeds are accepted by majority of the mainstream Christian dominations and are recited during certain occasions. The Christians belief ...

Marriage is one of the critical issues in society. As a matter of fact, the roles and functions of marriage make it one f the important union in human race. Those who are religious will assert that marriage was actually instituted by God and this makes it a crucial issue. Arranged marriage is one of the types of marriage, but in this case the marital union is decided by third parties. It is a type of marriage where the groom and the bride are selected by other people rather than making their own decision on who to marry. In the past, this ...

Did I Promise Never to make any Mistake? I remember making a promise not to make any mistake in my life. However, the experiences I have had, have prepared me to be keener than I used to be before. It is true that I have made a lot of mistakes which have cost me a great deal. Honestly, I became conscious of my memory when I got an opportunity to meditate. This is when I sat down at a beach hotel and started contemplating on what fate my life was following. I felt like laughing or crying but none of the feelings ...

What is the most common type of disease that affects the present day people? Is it common cold? Is it HIV/AIDS? Is it jaundice or diarrhea or any other disease that occurs due to germs and poor sanitation? Surprisingly, the answer to all these questions is no. The answer is depression (MNT). Every two out of three people all over the globe suffer from depression at some points in their lives. Even so, every person faces depression at least once in their life time. Sometimes, this depression is cured without any external help; in others the depressed must consult a ...

There I was, standing in the airport holding my suitcase waiting to board a plane to New York City. We were going to New York City with my family to celebrate the New Year. For months, I had been counting down the days until we leave. Finally, the day was here and everyone in my family was full of excitement because it was our first to celebrate the New Year in New York. As for me and my younger brother, we had never been on an airplane before and therefore, had no idea on what to expect about the upcoming ...

Abstract

A clear understanding of historic lifetime traits of species is important in understanding the strategy of the male species. A Threatened species in the ecosystem need to be considered for safety using an intervention on their generic characteristics and behavior. Conservative measures for these species especially the elephant which has a considerable longer reproduction period need to intervene on the basis of anthropogenic interventions on the reproduction dominance. The result of the relationship between African male elephant’s age and paternity specific success tactic showed that paternity rises with age having a small number of active old bulls in the musth ...

Introduction

Obama's Health Care Plan popularly known as ObamaCare is officially termed as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA as abbreviated) which has been made in law as on 23rd March in 2010. The bill purports to provide "affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending and for other purposes". As per the report of PBS, 44 million Americans are without health insurance and the primary reason for this is the exorbitant cost of health insurance in USA. President Obama by enacting this law wants to make sure of every American ...

Marco Polo

Introduction Marco Polo was an Italian merchant traveler who immortalized his travel stories to Central Asia and China by giving an account of his journey in his famous book 'Description of the World' aka Livres des merveilles du monde in French. There are few European travelers who voyaged to China years before Marco Polo but the journey undertaken by Polo was the most remarkable. He spent 24 years of his life travelling in Asia and China, having spent 17 of those years in China alone. Marko Polo served as an inspiration to many subsequent European explorers. Marco Polo's ...

Psychiatry in the Film Industry

Introduction Cinema is a medium used to entertain people. It portrays many issues about the society, science and various myths. It depicts different psychiatric disorders such as suicide and drug abuse to schizophrenia and personality disorders. Gone are the days when films were used to negatively portray psychiatric conditions. Nowadays films are used for educational purposes as well as to change the negative attitude towards people with psychiatric conditions. Film portrays that even psychiatric people are geniuses and that they can solve complex problems. Mental conditions are portrayed in different ways in the film industry. Film is used to ...

In the introductory chapter Hegel begins by giving a couple of lectures regarding the relation between time and history. According to Hegel’s Philosophy of History, history can be divided into three distinct times or durations. These times include original, reflective and philosophic histories. Beginning with original history, Hegel explains that this is history that is written and composed during the life-time of a given historian. According to Hegel, historians are more connected to the events, phenomena, and actions that transpire during their life time. Despite original history being composed during the life-time of a historian, it does not mean that the ...

Closing Case: Boosting Efficiency at Matsushita

Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. (MEW) comprises of six major businesses: Automation Controls, Lighting products, Electronic & Plastic Materials, Information Equipment & Wiring products, Building products, and Home Appliances. In the year 2000 the market for these products was in deep trouble and was facing highly increase competition as well as both a deflation driven price decline. The employees’ moral was very low till a new CEO was appointed for the company. Mr. Kunio Nakamura brought very brave and dramatic changes to the company’s policy addressing all levels and departments of the company from research and development to employee benefit schemes. He pushed ...

Most urban kids grow up listening stories about roller coasters. Wide-eyed older sibling over excitedly gesture as they discuss the latest, scariest, coolest rollercoaster that they just rode at the amusement part. They just can’t seem to get over the experience and want to go for the ride again and again. Other stories relate the horror and fear that people feel as they zip through rickety tracks in an open air cart, swearing never to ride a roller coaster again! Children hear this tale so many times that, by the time they get to the amusement park, they ...

The legal doctrines which can be applied in this case of John Falstaff verses Revere Furniture company can be drawn from the physical requirements of the applicants to the position of a store floor manager. For instance, the applicants had to be in a healthy condition in order to meet physical demands of the job. The physical demands of the job included for example the ability of the customer to stand for along without break. Another doctrine can be drawn from the behavior of the plaintiff after he had resumed work from sick leave. The American with Disabilities Act Amendments Act ( ...

Summary of articles about the Theory in Landscape Architecture

The author of the article from Post modernism and Consumer Society, Jameson Fredric is an American theorist and analyst on contemporary cultural trends. Currently he is William A. Lane a professor in the program in literature and romance studies at Duke University. He has passion in study of post modernism which in turn has earned him many honorary awards. Among the works he has written is a well-known book called Sartre’s works which shows his interest in post modernism, cultural trends and some Marxism. His other works include: The political unconscious: Narrative as a socially Symbolic Act. This book was ...