Essays on Peto

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 ...

American painter John Frederick Peto created mostly still-life painting. A distinctive feature of his paintings was similar theme of dilapidated, time worn nature of what is depicted on his paintings. The objects of his attention include old books, lamps, boards, tubes, photos, everything that bears a particularly visible impact of aging, the inevitable influence of time and use. In the XIX century, when the artist lived and created his paintings, such images were not popular among the general audience preferring to see on the canvases something luxurious and rich. Only after his death, huge interest arose to Peto`s ...

Accounting Essay Questions (Two Articles)

Analysis of the Article 1. Sustainability accounting and reporting: fad or trend? by R.L. Burritt and S. Schaltegger.

Describe the core argument of the article.

The core argument of the article Sustainability accounting and Reporting: fad or trend by Burritt and Schaltegger is whether management decision making or the critical approach is better for the development of sustainability accounting. The authors tried to convince the reader that both approaches contributed to the development of sustainability accounting. However, the authors also stated that the improvement of management decision making should be prioritized. Burritt and Schaltegger described two paths to the presentation of sustainability accounting: critical path (sees sustainability accounting as the source of ...