Essays on Margaret Thatcher

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‘Institution’ Definition: Substance abuse disorder or substance use disorder (SUD) refers to repeated use of alcohol or drugs causing significant damage to health, and disability (SAMHSA, 2015) Epidemiology: A 2013 national survey among Americans 12 years and older revealed that 17.3 million were either dependent or abusing alcohol and 4.2 million Americans were found to be dependent or abusing marijuana. (NIH, 2015) Risk factors: There are many risk factors for SUDs. The risk of developing certain disorders can be traced from family history. The psychological dysregulation including cognitive, behavioral, and emotional domains are also considered risks. Environmental risks include ...

Current Event Article: How Airlines Cut Cost

Every business organization faces a particular cost structure that determines its total cost. This structure embodies various types of costs that an organization incurs in its different operations. Cost minimization is one of the primary objectives of firms. Thus, organizations must critically evaluate its cost structure to ensure it is able to optimize its objectives with the existing resources. This paper will analyze the article “how airlines cut cost” published by the Economist to demonstrate how technology is effectively applied by business organizations to reduce cost (The Economist, 2015). Technology has a significant impact on the cost structure of ...

The U.S health care system has undergone changes over the years, with advancements in technology and education, promising more changes to occur in the future. Nurses and nursing practice are at the center of these changes. During this exercise, the views of three nurses; Simon Troy, Karen Smith, and Hannah Wesley were taken into consideration when analyzing the changes in both healthcare and nursing practice. The nurses were in agreement that the future for nurses in the U.S was characterized by both opportunities and challenges. The American health care system is rapidly embracing the concept of continuity of care, ...

The Empire’s New Clothes is a documentary film that portrays the inequality in terms of financial and political landscape that any society faces today. It is apparent that the documentary makes use of past records to present its arguments convincingly. In particular, the timing of the release of the film was perfect having been only a few weeks before the general election took place in the United Kingdom in 2015. Such timely release seems to be a deliberate effort by the producer to tap into the heated conversations and opinions that were already in circulation in the mass ...

Introduction

The human family in all its forms and all its habitat has undergone struggles to restore the world in order and create a peaceful society. As long as we can remember, the struggle to attain security and peace has been reflected in the various lifestyles of the entire humanity. The nation-state remains the largest single component that comprises of human grouping willing to achieve a peaceful coexistence. It has not been easy to maintain peace in the world we live as nations have engaged each other in conflicts. The detrimental effects that resulted from the first and second world ...

Many a time have people heard about politicians who do plenty of talking. However, verbal rhetoric is only meaningful when backed by actual deeds aimed at the improvement of what politicians oversee, which is society and its welfare. The incumbent Senate President of New Jersey, Stephen Sweeney is one of such politicians who may be said to utilize his legislative authority to its limit. He has showed his aptitude in areas, such as education, property ownership, taxation, healthcare, and the protection of different social categories. Of course, as with other prominent politicians, however renowned, Sweeney has made some controversial ...

The term Thatcherism emanated from the belief in a combination of free market policies and upholding family values. With the emergence of Thatcherism, the role of the Friedrich (2014) presented a convincing argument against the British arguing that they would create an oppressive society where the citizenry would not have freedom by abandoning liberalism and individualism. He further argued that socialism had its roots in exaltation of state above its citizens and central planning of economic policies. For him it was undemocratic to impose the will of a minority upon the majority though central planning. The centralised planning systems ...

A Midwife’s Tale is a detailed biography of Martha Ballard, a midwife in the late period of the 1700s to the early 1800s who wrote a diary of her daily operation’s ranging from 1st January 1785 to 8th May 1812. Ballard’s everyday life can be categorized as being a very extraordinary woman that lived an ordinary lifestyle in the community of Puritan. Ballard’s life represented many women in America in the late 18th century who had less power and minimal rights compared to men. The book continues to illustrate the daily chores of Martha Ballard, ...

Reader Response Based on Film and Readings- Pioneer Women in Medical Front

The book A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard based on her diary, 1785-1812, was written by the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in reference to the diary of an 18th century American midwife and healer, Martha Moore Ballard (1735-1812). The documentary film, The American Experience, was based on the Ulrich’s book. During the period of 3 decades (from 1785-1812), Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her life as a midwife and healer and housewife with children. Her records illustrate struggles and tragedies that she faced within her family and the society as a whole during ...

American Nurses Association (ANA) Scope and Standards of Practice vs. Public Health Nursing (PHN) practice Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing

American Nurses Association (ANA) Scope and Standards of Practice vs. Public Health Nursing (PHN) practice Scope and Standards of Public Health Nursing Like most professional associations, nurses organize themselves into groups of practitioners to not only perform functions they cannot accomplish as separate individuals but also influence policy making in their area of expertise and adjudge one another as equally and professionally competent (American Nurses Association (ANA), 2010). In such associations, the practitioners also create, establish, and ...

Thatcherism is typically described by analysts and political experts to be an ideology which espoused achieving a supported governing competency with the reconstruction of traditional conservative tenets with a focus on autonomy over a series of issues, they deemed as issues of “high-politics” Moravcsik, 1991). Specifically Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power in came on the heels of post War World II, a deteriorating industrial based economy and the provision of abysmal governmental services and a deep seated crisis of the state during the mid-1970s (Gamble, 1988). These “new politics’ within the Conservative traditions emerged during a recession and ...

Background to the Falkland Islands War

The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. They lie three hundred miles to the east coast of Argentina and about eight thousand miles to Britain. Stanley is the capital of the islands. The two nations have laid claim to the Islands since the British seized them in 1833. It was later made a crown colony in 1841. The Falkland Islands War broke out on the 2nd of April 1982. Most of the inhabitants at the time were of British descent. However, it is claimed that the British drove out the Argentine populations that had hitherto been ...

Origins

The New Romantics is a subculture movement that emerged from the working class youths of London. The movement began in the late 1970s and lasted to the later parts of the 1980s. It was associated with a new music wave and unique fashion. The fashion aspect of the movement emerged out of “Billy’s”, a club that was located on Dean Street, London. This nightclub held famous events which were called Bowie and Roxy Music nights. Young people found punk rock unattractive and wanted something different. It is this unique blend of post-punk and fashion that grew into the ...

Modern consumer capitalist democracy or, simply, modern capitalism, has been widely and profoundly criticized by numerous scholars, policymakers, and national leaders. Margaret Thatcher, Herbert Marcuse, and Ralf Dahrendorf were all critical of modern capitalism. But the question is, were their reasons similar or different? This paper critically examines the argument of each of these figures and then identifies the continuity (or discontinuity) between their ideas. Fundamentally, Thatcherism embodies the huge importance given to a small state and free markets. Instead of planning and controlling enterprises and consumerism, the role of the government is to avoid interfering. However, Margaret Thatcher ...

Nurse Home Visiting Programs

Nurse home visiting programs are used by public health nurses who work with families in communities. The nurses make visits to assess the needs, health status, and the environments in which the families are living in order to make the appropriate interventions and provide the available resources (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Hanson, 2015). The nurses assess the environmental status, such as paint conditions, aged houses, and dangerous equipment in playgrounds that pose safety hazards. The families benefit from the visits by getting recommendations such as the installation of fire extinguishers and smoke detectors in the houses. The nurses also ...

The Affordable Care Act is regarded as one of the major revolutions that the US healthcare system has experienced over the years. With its major objective set at increasing care access for populations in an equitable manner, including the disadvantaged groups, the ACA has been mentioned as an entity that has impacted on individual, family and community or public health (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2016). At the helm of the ACA has been the focus on public health and its revamping in a bid to rescue the currently ‘sick system’ to a desired ‘health system’. The ACA’ ...

The struggle for political power now - it is not a struggle of the party organizations or competition programs of their actions. It is a struggle of images, political images that create the rating, and image-makers, the press secretaries and the "stars" of show business, recruited at a time of political campaigns. The real personality and activity policies are needed only as an "information events", that is, serve as a kind of alibi for those who form the image. Replacing the actual political positions and actions, they ensure the success of the candidates, whose image, not a program or action, visualize and embody the ...

Thomas is married to Vanessa Jebb who comes from a diplomatic family. Jebb’s father was the first acting Secretary General of the United Nations. Thomas Hugh was a professor of History at University of Readings from 1966-1975. In 1979-1991, Thomas High was the Director of the Center for Policy Studies in London. Thomas Hugh was an ally of Margaret Thatcher during Thatcher’s reign. In his argument, Thomas Hugh presents an argument that is usually pro-European and conservative.

In the book Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Thomas traces history from 1440-1870. He begins with the Portuguese ...

The Common Core Standard program is a federal program that regulates a set of standards for states to follow in preparing students for college and the job market after high school graduation. In essence, the states lose their ability to implement programs that cater to their unique demographics and local characteristics. In the vast career driven civilization prospering today, many young adults are expected to perform at a certain level. So the Common Core Standard program was developed to educate students using the mantra: clearer, higher and deeper that will lead them to prepare them to meet these expectations. Although studies have ...

Introduction

Developmental research focuses on the progression of changes occurring in an organism as it develops. Developmental changes are irreversible. There exist several differences in the magnitudes of development between periods of several years of growth. The development research psychologists seek to understand what changes cause the difference. Considering a speed processing perspective, aging results in the slow cognitive processing speeds inclusive of all the processing components. A prediction of the mean response times of adults advanced in age in comparison to younger adults proves how the cognitive processes slow down with age advancement. The simple linear memory and aging functions ...

Essay for Exam Chapter 25

World War II had left huge sections of Europe, especially Eastern Europe devastated. Many belonging to these states believed that communism and Joseph Stalin’s USSR was the much sought answer to their woes. Stalin used this to his advantage and built a communist buffer zone by seizing territories. This led to the fall of an iron curtain separating Eastern Europe from their western counterparts and the formation of the Soviet bloc. The cold war that resulted saw enormous changes in the social, economic and cultural life of people in both Western and Eastern Europe. Welfare states emerged to protect ...

Community health assessment is important in assisting communities become healthy.

Although communities are different, there are similarities by which communities mobilize and affect developmental changes. Assessment is one of the common components that collect data and input on community needs and provides a way to produce intended change in the community. There are two common community development approaches, including health planning and community development approaches. The health planning approach is more of a top down approach where public health professionals make important decisions. On the other hand, the community development approach is more of a bottom up approach where community stakeholders make important decisions regarding health programs that directly affect them. This ...

Introduction

Margaret Thatcher was the first female leader in the Western democracy. She was the first female Prime Minister in Great Britain, serving three successive terms in office from 1979 to 1990. She committed her life to the political service of her country. Apart from being a Prime Minister, Thatcher served as a leader of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State Education, and a Member of Parliament. During the early 1980s, Thatcher made the Western Alliance stronger, and this awarded her the richly deserved title, “Iron Lady.” Thatcher was among the most leading political figures of twentieth century Britain ( ...

History I Section 263

The practices of childbirth and delivery have changed drastically throughout history. With the advances in science and technology and growing knowledge over the years, America has been delivering healthier babies than ever. But unlike now, in early America midwives played a large role in child delivery and child care, “When the English settled in America they brought the traditional English customs and practices of childbirth to the New World.” Midwives were more than just someone who delivered a baby; they also acted as the nurse and were a friend to the pregnant woman throughout her labor. Midwives felt a lot of responsibility for ...

The Raven a 1935 film directed by Lew Landers is an American horror film. Derived from Edgar Allan Poe famous poem, the film has received much criticism both positive and negative for focusing on telling a story that had already been written in form of a poem. Some critiques argue that the film convey the same message that conveyed in the poem by Poe. In the poem, we see a different storyline from how the poem was executed. Even though there are several scenes where the choice of action resembles what the poem the raven was all about, it is evident that both ...

Substance abuse is one of the most common problems that heavily plague societies across the globe nowadays. Among the many negative aspects of substance abuse that compromise the development of a society is the increasing prevalence of teenage involvement in it. The increasing prevalence of adolescents that get involved with drug use is one of the most alarming social problems in USA that need attention and urgent action. Analyzing the impact and predominance of drug abuse among teenagers in USA, it is important to understand what sets the problem to locate the possible interventions that will yield the best results. ...

The Roman law code was written by the Romans about 450 B.C. The code targeted all the romans defining the privileges between the Patricians and the Plebeians. Such is Evidence by table VIII (4) that states that, “If a patron shall have devised any deceit against his client, let him be accursed” (Oliver Thatcher, 1901). From this premise, it is evident that all the Romans were the targeted audiences since the code was guiding the day to day interaction of the Romans. The main story line includes the court procedures and trials, debt collection, rights of family’s heads ...

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‘Subject’ Globalization and the British Economy The phenomenon of globalization has had a profound impact, on the way businesses are conducted throughout the world. Globalization is today omnipresent, and from London to Tokyo it has embraced the entire world. Markets that were inaccessible as early as some three decades ago are now wide open for the Western companies, and are now able to receive Western products and also sell produce to the Western markets. The cultural and technological exchange happened through globalization has facilitated the creation of innovative and exciting products, services, and concepts, and world is today ‘ ...

Introduction

Very few people emerge as a leader that is mainly driven by the personality traits and leadership approach of the individuals. These personality traits and leadership approach makes them successful. Moreover, the distinguishing traits and characteristics also enable a person to become an influential leader. In contemporary world of today, where strict competition lies between people, few are able to succeed in making their position strong as a leader. One such leader evaluated in this paper is Margaret Thatcher, a former prime minister of UK who had ruled for a period of 11 years (Northouse 2010, 302; Reitan 2003, 52). This paper critically evaluates her ...

Margaret Thatcher is an iconic political figure that goes down in history as the longest serving, and only woman, British Prime Minister in the history of politics in the United Kingdom. Famous for her stern political stance and policies on international policies and relations, Thatcher was nick-named the ‘Iron Lady’, a name that well stuck with her considering her general approach to policies and outlook into international politics. Having served Britain for 20 years, Thatcher stands as an important political figure that brought with her great political changes in the United Kingdom. Not only is she notable for her efforts ...

Executive summary

With the introduction of information systems, there has been easy management of information and automation of business processes. Research has shown that the users of Margaret Thatcher library have been experiencing massive difficulties due to lack of computers and e-learning materials in the library. A lot of time is wasted by students trying to look for books in the shelf. The key contributing factor is the fact that it is cumbersome and tedious to arrange the books. The management of Margaret Thatcher library is proposing an integrated library management information system that will assist students in both locating the ...

LITERATURE REVIEW: THE WONGA COUP BY ADAM ROBERTS

Literature Review Africa, throughout the 20th century, has become a byword for massive poverty, corruption and greed. It is an understatement to say that Africa is a place rife with hunger, given that its rich resources have become central to the interests of various exploitative factors throughout its history. European nations, in particular, have scourged Africa for its material richness, much to the expense of the lives of the people living there. Adam Roberts covers that reality in his book The Wonga Coup, which details a seemingly contemporary repeat of the European exploitation of Africa through the attempts of a mercenary group ...

Introduction

The Anglo-Americans and the Russians seem to be moving to attain the same goal – to hold in their hands the destinies and fate of half of the world (Alexis de Tocqueville). Many people begin their Cold War history with Tocqueville’s prophecy made about events that would take place over a century later. Like many forecasts Tocqueville made his by his projections of the past and the present and how they would meld into the future. It must be noted that at this time all Russia and the United States had going for them was continents that were rich in ...

Mise-En-Scene in Citizen Kane Clip

Mise en scene entails the principle aspects used in a clip to fully explore its meaning to the viewers. It involves the combination of aspects such as movements, background plays or insights, various opus amongst others. It’s basically the control of events by the director of the film. The first scene on the clip is done on Mrs. Kane’s boarding house. At the background of the scene we see the small child Kane playing with a lot of naivety outside the apartment in the snow. This is seen through the white window screen. The mother inside the house ...

Annotated Bibliography

Carer, N. (1991). Learning To Measure Performance: The Use Of Indicators In Organizations. Public Administration, 69(1), 85-101. Performance indicators (PIS) are fundamental in management of government affairs. For example, the Thatcher administration considered use of PIS extremely fundamental for administration. This article bears extensive research on the significance of use of PIS in management for public agencies, private businesses, and government departments. This article extends authority following proper analysis on the management of the British government by Margaret Thatcher. This is an indication that PIS can be used in the appraisal and management of large organizations ...

Just what do we understand when we hear someone described as having charisma, or as being a charismatic person? In many respects it is actually quite difficult to define in any concise manner. In fact according to Lee (2011) “It’s an unsatisfying thing to study because it can’t even be defined, much less taught.” She also – and interestingly – described charisma as “the most sought-after quality in the world.” Although that may be stretching things just a bit too far, it does present a challenge to explain it. This essay sets out to define what we mean by charisma and why ...

(City, State) The relations between the United States of America and China have remained outstandingly smooth since late 2001, even though there are signals that the policy of U.S. toward China is at present subject to contending reappraisals. In the year 2005, officials of the State Department revealed what they termed as a new framework of policy for the association. This was one in which the United States was uncoerced to work hand and glove with a non-democratic China at the same time as urging Beijing to turn into a responsible stakeholder in the global system and U.S. In December 2006, ...

Introduction

I worked as a claim specialist at a City Law department, where I was entitled to massive duties, which required proper skills and understanding to execute duties appropriately. This job goes with several duties that need be carried out accordingly. I was required to arrange for a court appearance, through subpoena among other ways of witnesses required for proper presentation of a case. I was also supposed to confer with the attorney assigned to a case concerning the facts developed during an investigation as well as assist the attorney before and during trial. I could also prepare the court calendars and attend calendar calls. ...

John Maynard Keynes founded the dominant school of economic policy in the Western world from the 1930s to the 1970s, and argued that an expansionary fiscal policy through deficit spending was essential to stimulate the economy in a recession or depression. During this period, social welfare spending, strong labor unions and regulation of capitalism were part of the social democratic consensus, but all of this came unraveled in the stagflation and oil shocks of the 1970s. Stagnation and decline in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union of the planned economies were evident and began to crumble under the pressures of inflation, ...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, covers numerous subjects centered on life in Chicago, focusing on the corruption and collusion rampant during those years between industries such as the meatpackers, the politicians, and criminal underground. It describes the squalid and hopeless living conditions of working-class families, especially the immigrants, the fights and failures of unions, and presents an alternative and negative view of capitalism as well as arguments for socialism. The book became a best seller but not for the reasons Sinclair hoped, its socialist message overshadowed by the graphic and sickening descriptions of working conditions in the meat ...

Introduction:

Politics and leadership have always been important parts of the world’s historical makeup and these will definitely never go away. Obviously one has to keep in mind that times change and the sort of leadership that was right and correct for the 19th century is probably anathema today. In his seminal book, Carnes Lord attempts to examine various world leaders who have made a name for themselves, be it as autocrats, as visionaries or as plain and simple democratic leaders. He also inserts an interesting but heavy dose on the politics of the renowned Florentine, Machiavelli whose ‘The Prince’ ...

Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of England in 1979 and after getting power she decided to implement the recommendations Edmund Davies committee. According to the recommendations of this committee a heavy increment in the salary of police force was given, in some cases it was approx fifty percent. New Conscriptions were done on a large scale and newly recruited police force was well equipped with arms and with new powers. According to Thatcher, the whole exercise was done to deal with the crime within the country in case of any war with any external force and to deal with other emergency ...

Notes on Margaret Thatcher’s Speech to the Conference for the Conservative Party held on 10th October 1980 at Brighton