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Glassmaking Technologies in the Late 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, 1351-1323 BCE

Description of Project The XVIII Dynasty of ancient Egypt is likely the most familiar period of Egyptian history for people today. This is due to the major news event of 1923, when Howard Carter opened the sealed tomb of Tutankhamun, a teenage pharaoh who ruled from 1332 to 1323 BCE (Schultz 2010). King Tut, as he was nicknamed by the press, was laid to rest in the Valley of the Kings in a tomb full of precious objects, with rich drawings on its walls that illustrated the young king’s life. Many of those objects were made of, or ...

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ABSTRACT Young people in the United States are battling depression in record numbers, reaching an all-time high of 3 million patients in 2015. Researchers are continuing to search for alternative or additional methods than therapy and medications to improve depressive symptoms in teenagers and young adults. Some studies have demonstrated that as possible option in easing depression is physical exercise. In addition to assisting mental health issues, exercise promotes social interaction, physical health, and appearance. However, research has focused primarily on adults and therefore additional studies are needed with focus on the impact of exercise on depression in young ...

Behavioral interventions can be grouped as either antecedent-based interventions (ABI) or consequence-based interventions (CBI). CBI is a group of practices in which the problem behaviors are addressed by manipulating the reinforcement or punishment stimuli following an observed behavior, whereas ABI refers to a group of behavioral interventions that are concerned with the modification of environmental factors that are believed to precede problem behaviors (Tullis, Cannella-Malone, & Payne, 2015). Therefore, ABI strategies are implemented before the problem behavior occurs, so their unique quality is the possibility of problem behavior prevention, which makes the behavioral change easier to maintain compared to results ...

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The study seeks elaborate on the nonprofit and for-profit hospital joint venture and giving growing similarities in their operation capacities. The growing need for improvement by nonprofit hospitals regarding healthcare delivery requires high capital generation and more funding. Overdependence on sponsors and well-wishers for grants do not support the community benefit fully. This makes nonprofit hospitals not to deliver high quality health care, and unable to settle bills and outsourcing high technology to support medication. The conversion from nonprofit to for-profit hospital, and joint venturing with for-profit hospital help in improving performance, delivery, and high-quality health care. The paper ...

Introduction

With globalization, organizational management is influenced by both internal and external demands, innovation and new economic paradigms. The new setting requires that organizations ought to grow, acquire new knowledge and reframe their central operations to meet the new demands (Qiu, Donaldson, & Luo, 2012 p 95). Therefore, the new paradigm is based on system approach, change in technology and the way knowledge is managed at the respective firms. For the purpose of this study, the organization that will be analyzed is Coca-Cola Company, which is a multinational organization. The organization operates in different countries across the globe and is characterized ...

This essay is an analysis to Richard Ford’s “Under the Radar”. Ford’s story, despite short, conveys a deep and textured plot and along with perplexing characters. The story revolves around the theme of early marriage, infidelity among professionals and the consequences in the revelation of these actions. There is not a hint of happiness or closure at the end and it leaves the reader free to think up of the ending on their own, with the lingering opinions on mistrust and deception. “Under the Radar” starts off with a young couple, Marjorie Reeves and her husband, Steven ...

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Use of internet and electronic technology has contributed to psychology through creating communication and relation platforms for psychologist and their customers. It is a mediating medium whereby the psychologists are connected to their clients through online mechanisms. Web sites, Web-based advertising, professional networking and electronic data storage are technology roles that are applied in the psychology practice. Furthermore, psychologists’ use technology in research and innovations. This helps in gathering more information relating to online therapeutic intervention and internet-based treatments. The new technology contributes new opportunities in the psychology practice and profession and it results is double edged. There are ...

In the capacity of a social media administrator, I identified that the conditions of severe competition in the market dictate the acute need for launching a new campaign which will get our company's brand more attention. The rationale behind this is that social media is dramatically revolutionizing the way the audience and brand interact. The fundamental goal of this campaign is to raise awareness about the company and our brand among the representatives of the target audience and attract as many of prospective customers as possible. Our brand will be promoted by means of regular content posting on various ...

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The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) Test is used by the psychologists to determine the extent of depression among the patients so that adequate interventions and treatments can be incorporated to hinder the extent of depression. There are certain errors that can effect the test specially when respondents fail to understand the questions and are under influence of drugs or alcohol, due to which their responses do not remain valid to draw conclusions. The errors during the manual calculation of scores can lead to false interpretation whereas the prevalence of construct validity is also required to incorporate the consistent level ...

In the business operation, outsourcing refers to the act of contracting out some business processes to a third party. The factors that drive business to decide on outsourcing their business processes are diverse. They include factors such as technological development, skilled laborers, costs such as labor cost and raw materials amongst other factors. Outsourcing can either be done within the same country or outside often referred to as offshoring and nearshoring respectively. Some of the major drivers that force businesses to outsource some of the business process include costs, strict government regulations, taxes and incentives (Carmel & Nicholson, 2007). In ...

There are different periods in the history of countries that play more or less significance roles. No doubt that First and Second World Wars immensely influenced the life and political situations almost in every country. These were the most disastrous event and their aftermaths were often disastrous too. In spite of these tremendous periods in the world’s history there were no less and maybe, according to some views, more important period in the history of America in the twentieth century. The period of the 60s is treated now as the time of innovations in culture, science, music and ...

HRM Issues in an Insurance Company

The Cases discussed below are related to Human Resource Management, experienced by the author as a human resource manager in an Australian Health Insurance firm. Each case has some distinct features typical of HR function and are addressed by the author using the relevant theories and practices on the issues. The cases are presented below

Scenario 1

This case represents a situation where a young male employee GS has been promoted as the manager in a regional office which is comparatively smaller than his previous location. His team consists of mainly part time female members, with similar and educational backgrounds and ...

History is full of wars, battles, rebellions and revolutions between peoples all across the globe for a plethora of reasons, both, ethical and unethical. When issues cannot be resolved and unrest begins to stir it is, fairly, inevitable, especially when that unrest involves a greater dominating force oppressing a more vulnerable one. This is when rebellion can occur and revolutions begin. One of the most famous revolutionary wars is, of course, the fight for American independence from British rule. But there was another revolution that took place, in the same era, where people rebelled against their oppression in order ...

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The issue of hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking” an innovation how to extract natural gas from minerals such as shale rock has become very controversial as of recently in the United States. Large sections of the United States especially in the Northeast have lots of shale rock which has caused many oil and gas companies naturally to extract the region’s resources. This over time has caused many conflicts between the oil companies, local residents as well as local, state and federal authorities. Many people question how safe of a process fracking is and what are the unknown ...

The film our group watched to complete this assignment was the 2006 crime drama The Departed, starring Leonard DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Martin Sheen and Jack Nicholson (The Departed). Beginning in the first few minutes and continuing to the end, our group found a number of ethical issues and dilemmas. One of the most significant ethical issues that our group found was the decision by the seemingly moral and ethically strong police officer Qeenan to persuade the new police recruit Billy Costigan to infiltrate the local mob. Qeenan’s recruitment of Costigan, presents a number of interesting ethical questions such ...

While the films in the Batman cycle speak powerfully for themselves, the reception of the films – and the resulting commentary – go a long way toward showing the different culture in which the movies were made, and which they reflect. In 1965, when the original Batman: The Movie came out, the focus was on action and humor. A review from the time (Variety Staff) indicated that the film is “packed with action, clever sight gags, interesting complications and goes all out on bat with batmania” (Variety Staff, web). The reviewers also noticed that the “script retrieves every trick from the ...

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Ever since the emergence of theatre as a form of art, it has remained on of the most popular and expressive genres of art that continue to entertain as much as it informs. This is perhaps because for many years, theatre has been used as a social mirror of sorts; one that allows the audience as well as the performers to view the society in which they live for what it is. The ability of playwrights to craft magnificent and compelling theatrical pieces that highlight the plight of the societies in which they live arguably makes playwrights one of ...

“What the Church needs to know about the human mind”

Dear X, While science can explain religion, religion is not so well-equipped for the endeavor of explaining scientific facts. Science is well aware of the fact that the human mind evolved to believe in gods and that religion (main religions, that is) has not exactly updated its point of view when it comes to planetary history. It would be easy to explore Dawkins’ perspective and demonstrate religion’s detrimental role in the evolution of the human species in order to update religion regarding its limits. However, I would like to adopt a positive vision and focus on a different ...

Business Plan Proposal

Business Identification of Problem Poor publicity can affect a wonderful product and can lead to an uphill battle getting back into good standing with your customers, community, employees and stakeholders. Competent leaders are a necessity to rally teammates in tough times, even though acquiring and retention of qualified individuals may pose to be even more of a struggle. Recently, Transurban, the company that designs and operates the Express Lanes on I-495, I-95, and I-395, have taken on some bad publicity with civil lawsuits, deaths on the Express Lanes, back-ups on the lanes that are a result of user accidents ...

Many works of nonfiction and fiction, including Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, have suggested that there is a link between the Knights Templar of the Middle Ages and Freemasonry as it exists today. While the majority of historians and researchers do not currently accept that this is the case, there are certain slight indications that might point in this direction. Certainly a number of Masons believe this might be the case. But to consider the possibility that there is a link between these two organizations requires understanding what occurred during the dissolution of the Knights Templar in the ...

Leadership and Successful Entrepreneurship

In essence, operating a business requires the capacity to navigate through a wide array of potential risks. For organizations to survive there must be quick response and management of dynamisms of innovations and environments. Primarily, a leader refers to a person that people follow or one who organizes and directs people towards the achievement of common goals. Most leaders consider themselves as entrepreneurs irrespective of their contribution towards the foundation of the company. Leaders in business are those individuals who are particularly successful in decision-making about the direction of the venture, and they have the necessary skills. The world ...

Chinese and Americans might be perceived as entirely different kinds of people not only in the way they look but also the different cultures they have. Despite the perception that they are different groups, they have similarities in culture, violence and gender issues as discussed below. Chinese like cooking food at home and they eat together as a family around a table. Even if they take their food in the hotel, they eat together (Riess 12). The Americans, on the other hand, it is just part of the family members who make a meal together but not the whole ...

Criminal instinction is on the rise especially in the current world. This is perpetuated by the influence of media in the society. What people do not understand is that what is acted in the movies is mostly fiction or fictitious and cannot be done physically. The great impact of digitalization of the world has brought about so many injustices on the real world. Most people now try to relate what they see in the fiction world and at the end; they find their goal plummeted and the repercussions for that becomes very nasty. Media has brought about social injustices ...

Feminism refers to the fight by women to be accorded equal rights in politics, economics, relationships and family responsibilities, social and all the issues related to women. In the United States, there have been long standing fights by women to have their issues addressed effectively in order to feel equally positioned as their male colleagues. The fight to liberation can be categorized into three main branches under the wave theory. There was the first wave, the second wave and the third wave.

All the above mentioned waves had their significant contribution to the liberation of women from oppressive governance, ...

The ancient culture of Egypt has for years been defined by the distinguishing art of their pictures and writings which were referred to as hieroglyphs. It is said that this notion was developed and maintained by the wake of civilization which did develop and maintain their complex art of the written linguistic which was done through the pictures that have held an un diminishing fascination till today. According to one of the distinguished Egyptian Egyptologist formerly on the faculty of Brown University, small fragments of one of the known old remarkable book of the dead of the new kingdom ...