Essays on Mann

Social Engineering is the art of deceiving or manipulating a person to engage in an activity which may or may not be in the best interest of that person. Social engineering encompasses activities such as obtaining the information of someone else deceitfully, gaining access to the computers of other people without their consent and getting a person to fraudulently engage in activities which they could not have engaged in ordinarily (Hagnagy 9-10). Further, social engineering does not consist of merely one action. On the contrary, social engineering entails a multiplicity of skills fitted into a particular framework which when ...

Introduction

Proper presentation of data collected during a study is imperative to the credibility of a research. In fact, lack thereof compromises the interpretation embraced by the people relying on such information due to the possibilities of miscommunication in the presentation process. As such, researchers ought to follow a compelling approach whilst communicating the results of their study regardless of the research design followed. With this in mind, it is worth acknowledging the fact that there are multiple research approaches followed in the delivery of psychological research information. According to the Emergency Medicine Journal, the popular research designs include observational ...

Introduction

In practice, Early Childhood Education is considered as one of the best environments for preschool age children based on a multitude of learning opportunities that it provides (Clark & Moss, 2005). This kind of early childhood education helps the children to foster in their language development, physical development and social ability in every dimension (Fasold, 1990). It is important that childhood teachers examine the trends in the today's society that influence the way the children play. Children's play behaviours will always be different depending on various contextual facts. For example, changes in the way technology get driven including children playing ...

Activity 1

In determining whether or not Don can set aside the contract with Evan, it is important first to determine whether a valid, enforceable contract ever came into existence or was formed between the parties. According to MacMillan and Stone (2012), the essential elements of a valid contract include offer and acceptance, consideration, capacity, intention to create legal relations, and legality. In the present case of Done and Evan, a contract came into being when Don unilaterally accepted Evan’s offer in the form of advice to invest in his (Evan’s) new consulting business and went on to sign ...

Heart disease, otherwise known as coronary artery disease, is a name given to a side array of conditions that impact the heart. These disease include arrhythmias, congenital heart defects, and. At times, heart disease has been called cardiovascular disease as if the two refer to the same issue. While they both involved the heart and human body, they are not the same. Heart disease refers to the aforementioned issues, among others, while cardiovascular disease refers to blocked, clogged, or narrowing blood vessels. Cardiovascular disease can often lead to an angina, a heart attack, general chest pain, or even a ...

History

Fashion photography is the use of a photograph to display clothing or accessories. Typically, fashion photography has a marketable intent as it is used in documenting or selling the particular fashion in the photo. Fashion photography has the ability to expose attitudes, ambitions, sense of taste of time, visions, desires, values, sexuality and self-image. The photographer hopes to give the viewer something to believe in. Baron Adolf de Meyer was the first American fashion photography to have impact on the fashion photography industry with the use of form, and light. Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue were the first fashion ...

Comparison of sales volumes

The mean is the average of values in a given set of data. In this case, the average sales volume gives the average volume of sales for each salesperson over the six week period. The means can be used to compare the sales volumes of the four salespersons and rank them. The mean is obtained by getting the sum of the volume of sales for all the six weeks then dividing by the number of weeks under consideration.

Determination of the mean volume of sales

Mean volume of sales = Total sales/6 weeks Salesperson A = (1774 + 1808 + 1890 + 1932 + 1855 + 1726)/6 = 10985/6 = 1830.83 Salesperson B = (2205 + ...

It is apparent that the 50-year-old male faces an imminent risk of cardiac complications due to the existing risk factors. Among the factors that could potentially form the pathophysiological basis of cardiac problems include; hypertension, obesity (BMI-33), smoking and varicose veins. These are the factors that require to be modified in order to save the patient from the cardiac risk zone. Largely, these factors can be modified through making behavioral and lifestyle changes. While all the above outlined factors present risk for developing cardiovascular problems, the magnitude of the risk posed by each of them varies. In this scenario, ...

Analysis of Australian Conservation Foundation

Introduction Not all organizations or sectors which could influence policy making could belong to the government. Non-government organizations could also play a role in policy making and influence the progress of society through policies and laws. These organizations could also influence the decision making process of the policy makers with regards to the issues of the environment. One of these organizations includes Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF). The ACF is a non-government organization which operates on Australia. It is considered as the leading Australian non-government organization which focuses on improving the environment and solving issues and problems associated to ecology ( ...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

CVD includes all ailments of the heart and circulatory system, including angina and heart attack. Other CVD diseases include carditis, cardiomyopathy, and congenital heart disorder. Edmunds (2014), states that CVD develops when there is plaque build-up on vessel walls. The mechanism of CVD differs significantly depending on the disease involved. For instance, coronary artery ailment includes atherosclerosis, and may occur due to hypertension, smoking, overweight, high-fat diet or diabetes. Despite the high deaths caused by CVD, it is approximated that 90 percent of CVDs are preventable (McGill, McMahan, and Gidding, 2008). Atherosclerosis can be decreased by controlling the risk ...

Introduction and Background

The demand for creativity and innovation at the workplace is common for managers and business executives. Innovation and creativity are common tenets of the business strategies adopted by many corporations. Organizations also used innovation and creativity as the element through which they acquire a competitive advantage. Scholars such as Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) find that the concepts of innovation and creativity have gained enjoyed a lot of interest in the recent past. The interest in the concepts has resulted from a shift in how they are perceived. Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) report that the concept of creativity ...

Introduction

Feminism refers to economic, political and cultural movement formed to establish and agitate for the equal protection as well as legal rights of all women. It involves the philosophies and sociological and political theories that have a bearing on issues of gender and gender differences. Feminism also involves the agitation for women’s interests and rights as well as movements that fight for gender equality. In addition to the vibrant campaigns for the legal rights of women, including the right to vote, to enter into contracts and to own property, the feminist movement is solely responsible for the paradigm ...

The research project that I intend to carry out is in regards to whether the use of massage therapy is a useful method of relieving pain in patients under post cancer treatment compared to the use of traditional analgesics. I entered the keywords ‘massage therapy and pain relief’ into the CINAHL database search engine from which I got 11 results (Mann, Fiander & Morgan, 2013). On entering the search terms ‘traditional analgesics and pain relief’ I received 8 outcomes from the search engine’s database. The third article location strategy was typing the words ‘massage therapy on post-treatment cancer patients’ ...

My Name

At the end of the XVIII century, a lot of educated Americans have not shared the traditional Christian beliefs. In the first half of the XIX century, a religious revival comes as a reaction to the secular spirit of the age. It was the second major religious revival in American history consisted of several kinds of activity and ways of expressing religious duties. In New England, the revived interest in religion caused a social activity. In the west of the State of New York spirit of rebirth caused the emergence of new religions. In the Appalachian region of Kentucky ...

The topic of Piety has been best discussed and covered by Plato in the dialogue between Socrates and Euthyphro. The two speakers engage in a verbal discussion on the applicability as well as the meaning of the word Piety. This essay will start out with a brief overview of the dialogue and will proceed to critically examine the concepts discussed between Euthyphro and Socrates. Lastly, the essay would also briefly discuss Plato’s view from my own viewpoint, while also examining my own notions of Piety.

Overview

The story starts out as a dialogue between Plato and Euthyphro. While Plato ...

Productivity and quality are some of the most important concepts in every organisation. For an organisation to be successful, it should be able to produce high quality goods and services at the lowest cost possible. Both quality and productivity have the potential to raise the level of a given organisation to international standards. Several factors are associated with both quality and productivity. It is essential for the organisation to employ certain tools that would enable it to produce high quality goods with the potential of fetching high prices with low production costs. The tools used for measuring quality as ...

Health information exchange (HIE) is an automated dynamic way that allows patients and health care providers to appropriately and securely access and shares the vital medical information of patients enabling interoperability and ultimately a meaningful use of health information technology. HIE ultimately improves the speed, safety, cost, and quality of patient care (Thompson, 2006). Moreover, within Kentucky, Health Information Exchange is widespread, and the web-based portal is used by major health systems to transport records between one another. As noted by Mann (2014), more than 612 providers in Kentucky use the health information exchange with about 2,200 facilities. ...

Environmental Scan

Under Armour is a sporting apparel manufacturer and wholesaler for women, men and youth. Their products feature special moisture-wick fabrics engineered in a diverse range of styles and designs for the performance athlete in any climate and at any age. Under Armour's products are worn by athletes at all levels including professional as well as consumers living active lifestyles. In 2015, Under Armour grew approximately 20% in revenues from year prior, generating global revenues of $4..9 billion and maintaining an operating income of $503 million.(Mann 2016) The majority of its net revenues are generated from wholesale sales of ...

Landscape Project: Introduction Module

This paper is devoted to the issue of the landscape. The main purpose of this module is to analyze definition of the “landscape” at different scales and provide appropriate examples. One more task of the paper is to choose a site from possible three places in order to analyze it Also, it needs to provide a description of the chosen landscape-site and form the hypotheses of its physical, economic/political and social settings. 1) Find at least two definitions of landscape and cite the source: One definition of the landscape is that it is a particular area of the Earth’ ...

Mann (2002) outlined three approaches to explaining the account deficit in the USA. The first was the domestic perspective based on the country’s income and the product accounts. Mann (2002) opined that this point of view showed patterns of domestic savings as well as investments and how they reflect in trade and immediate account balances. A trade deficit would occur if the national spending went beyond the domestic production an indication that the country would be "spending beyond its means.” The second perspective was on international trade. Under this approach, Mann (2002) described the current accounts based on ...

INVESTMENT ANALYSIS: ACTIVELY MANAGED PORTFOLIO

Unlike the passively managed portfolio, the actively managed portfolio relies on the theoretical basis that the market is not perfectly efficient. This inefficiency allows an investor to outperform the market by utilizing a certain skill or strategy. An active portfolio management usually requires short term, frequent trading, which could potentially result in large trading costs for the investor. Taking this into account, the task was to make a strategy as accurate as possible to cover the large trading cost and make profit. In building an actively managed portfolio, the selected strategy was stock picking. The reason for selection of ...

Sovereign Statehood Is A Modern Fiction That Has Been Universalized Through Imperialism And Decolonization. Critically Analyze This Statement Using Examples From More Than One Part Of The World

Introduction

Sovereignty in international relations is a concept that indicates that a state is constitutionally independent. In politics, a state is considered sovereign if it exists in a legal, absolute, and unitary condition where the state is equal to other states in international law and is not answerable to any other foreign state (Biersteker and Weber, 1996). A sovereign state has clearly defined borders within which people reside and the government of ...

Anna Smith, Aine Skow, Joann Bodurtha, and Sanjay Kinra embark on a study to review the impacts of health IT on care processes and patient outcomes in the management of pediatric obesity. They perform control experiments, cross-sectional studies, and pre and post-test trials from 2006 to 2012 on kids receiving treatment for obesity. The authors record the effects of IT treatment to the patients’ outcomes or care procedures. Two independent researchers retrieve the data and check it for reliability, quality, and validity. This essay formulates a succinct evaluation of the study design utilized by the writers. The design used ...

Business Internship Report

Business Internship Report

I come about the Bank of China internship opportunity through the company website. It offers a three months and six months internship in various departments at least two times a year. The application for the internship was online, giving my details and credentials to the career application form on the website. The response for the internship was three days later. I received, and email confirmation that my application was received, and they would like to do an interview the following week on Monday from 9.30 am. Five members of staff did the interview. I introduced myself, ...

Introduction

The First World War (1914-18) was triggered by the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which invoked several alliances between different countries in order. But, other events that preceded the assassination worked as a build-up towards the First World War that engulfed the whole world. The increasing nationalism, militarism and imperialism, also played a major role as states and people within started to identify themselves one nation. Also, the presence of the alliance system and the rise of Pan-Slavism started to light the fire. Combined together, these factors brought the world to the brink of a war, which ...

Hamilton, R & Herwig, H. (2003).  The Origins of World War 1. Cambridge, Cambridge The website is owned by the Library of Congress and has an abundance of scholarly works in the subject of history. The book offers the background to the war beginning 1914. It offers an insight into state bureaucracies that made the decisions as well as how past experiences of the two Bulkan wars helped shaped the perceptions on WWI. It points out specific individuals that were responsible for the decision making during the war as opposed to most books that place blanket responsibility on countries involved. ...

There are probably very few people who have not heard the words from their wife or husband, “How much do you love me?” There are uncounted numbers of poems and song lyrics dedicated to the topic of the breadth and depth of undying passion. A constant stream of books such as “Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus” and “Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships” tout philosophies for providing understanding and excitement for couples. Romantic love may lead to the life-long commitment of a monogamous relationship, but it is generally known that the first ...

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

Religious Studies Response

The Crusades are a chain of planned armed operations during the period of 1096 to 1487. The campaigns were initiated by the Popes aimed at upholding the Christian supremacy. The initial Crusades started in 1095 when Christian forces from the Western Europe acted according to the Pope Urban II’s request to wage a battle against the Muslim occupation of the Christian Holy Land. Jesus Christ preached the brotherhood of man and that love itself is God. The crusades would not have happened if the Popes considered the teachings of Jesus. Jesus would have never approved the crusades. (history.com) ...

Part A: Language arts program

Samples: In this question, there are two samples: that of eleventh grade students who took Western Australian state school exams after the introduction of new language arts program, and that of eleventh grade students who took the Western Australian state school exams before the introduction of the new language arts program. In this regard, it is noticeable that the two samples are independent samples, because measurements are supposed to be made on each of the sample. The samples would have been drawn from two different populations: in this case, the first population is the one that undertook the new ...

Introduction

There are about 33 countries that have implemented payment schemes to facilitate the conservation of biodiversity (Duchelle et al 13). For example, in Brazil, rubber tappers have engaged in an agreement with the government where there are provided with payments for their conservation efforts (Duchelle et al 14). Another example is in Guyana where the Conservation International has obtained a conservation concession from their government to promote the conservation of 20,000 acres of forest. The payment scheme as a strategy to facilitate biodiversity conservation is also currently applicable in the United States where farmers are paid for protecting ...

When considering the problems of importing exotic animals from foreign countries, it is necessary to evaluate the laws that currently exist, and determine whether or not they provide an effective means of safeguarding the animals in question. In this essay, it will be argued that the laws that are in place at this time do not protect animals from mistreatment in an adequate manner, nor do they effectively prevent the occurrence of disease.

One of the biggest reasons for importing exotic animals into the country is for private ownership, which is an ethically dubious practice that places the welfare ...