Essays on Scully

How the World of Personal Computers and Communications

Were Changed Forever When Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011, he left behind the most financially successful and innovative company in the world. What is more important, Steve Jobs’ influence resonates with ever growing force every time millions of children and adults with minimal knowledge about computer software interact effortlessly with computers or mobile devices. When music lovers can access hundreds of music files and readers have hundreds of books at their fingertips without visiting libraries in person, it is thanks to the pioneering creative genius of Steve Jobs. Business people are able to carry their office ...

Proposition 36 - Literature Review

Before 2000 The three strikes law commonly referred to as Proposition 36 has had a long history. It started in the year 1994 when the state passed Proposition 184, which allowed courts to convict a person from 25 years to lifetime if that person had two or more serious convictions for a violent felony in the past. It also qualified the courts to double a person’s penalty of a convict if had been convicted of a felony before (Farabee et al., 2004). The initial attitude was that it was mandatory in all qualifying cases. This attitude came to ...

Reading is one of the most complex and amazing of all human abilities. While we might tend to think of the reading process is a single activity, in point of fact, many different things are going on in our brains while we are reading. The human brain has to do multiple tasks efficiently and simultaneously if we are going to be able to read, enjoy and fully understand any book or other written material. For teachers, there are five key elements of literacy instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary development, reading comprehension. All of these elements combine to ...

A key element of the nursing process is the ability to assess the patient holistically and define their needs within the preexisting socioeconomic, socio-cultural and policy borders (Melnyk, 38). Nurses in their day to day activities encounter or interact with patients with varying needs but depicting similarity of needs. One of the primary goals of care is to ensure that the patient, within any setting and in the presence of any healthcare provider is afforded quality care as that which he/she would be afforded by different personnel in a different setting (Scully, 93). The purpose of nursing theories is ...

Dentistry is a profession in the field of medicine that studies the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of various infections and conditions that affect the oral cavity such as the oral mucosa, tissue, and jaw disorders among other conditions. Dentistry professionals include dentists and other dental team members such as dental assistants, technicians, therapists, and hygienists. The dentistry team should raise awareness on the problems they face and come up with the solutions to curb them. These problems limit the dentists or rather discourage them from performing their duties appropriately. Most of the problems they face include the ease of ...

Most people believe that health is a condition of the body, in which only the organism is involved. Nevertheless, Western medicine has slowly been accepting that there are different components that make up a healthy person. J. L. Scully, in his article “What is a disease?”, discusses how to conceptualized human maladies in a way that is different than from what people generally believe. He relates disease to suffering, different cultures and the various aspects of the human experience. Basically, Scully believes that disease should be associated to suffering, both mental and corporal. He states, “What ought to concern ...

A backyard is a compound found at the back of a house, it is common in Western world suburban. People living in cold-weather leave the land surrounding their houses and plant vegetables during the summers and allow sunlight to reach the house windows during winters. When people build and leave spaces behind the houses as yards, there are possibilities of keeping some domestic animals and at times, wild creators may enter the compound looking for food and shelter. Backyard critters are the living creatures that are either wild or domestic and are found around the yard compound around the ...