Essays on Sensitizing

Parental Overreliance

Strategies The writer used many literal terms in her story such as satire which is the use of humor and exaggeration to ridicule people with the intentions of criticizing their stupidity particularly with the social problems affecting them. For example, she says, “I tore my 91-year-old father limb from limb with my hands in the town square; I believe no jury of my peers would convict me. Indeed, if they knew all the facts, I think any group of sensible, sane individuals would roll up their shirtsleeves and pitch in (Lho, 2012, para. 1).” Here, the writer is trying ...

For long, the war on drugs has been fought through many fronts such as the criminalization of certain drugs, harsh penalties for drug possession and military confrontation. The military is being used to combat drug trafficking since it is now believed that drug trafficking has become a national security issue. This is because drug trafficking has caused widespread corruption, undermining of democracies and has sometimes been used to finance terrorism. Military action mainly targets capturing or killing of leaders of major drug cartels. Military operations have also helped in chasing, tracking and capturing of drug smugglers. Military success can ...

The HIV/AIDS global epidemic has ravaged millions of lives across the world. In the past, prior to the discovery of effective control measures through medication such as antiRetroViral medication, the disease had infected millions of lives. At the present time, although the discovery of a vaccine has not yet been made, scientific research has made some leeway with regards to this issue. One would expect very low prevalence rate of the disease in the most powerful country in the world owing to the high level of medical technology and innovation systems available. However, this situation is further from the ...

Introduction

The use of internet particularly social media has become the part of the modern social life as it has made interaction easier thus bringing people close than ever before. In addition to daily interactions between families and friends, the Arab spring revolution in 2010 onwards saw the role of social media shift to a different dimension of mobilizing groups of people in achieving political changes for democracy. This is evident by the gradual increase in number of Facebook and Twitter subscribers in January 2011 in Egypt the subsequent use of You Tube in informing the world on the ongoing mass ...

Introduction

The health status of the American population has continuously been affected by disparities in healthcare distribution. While some populations have dominantly been able to access and acquire quality healthcare, other groups have been sidelined from accessing and acquiring such care. This has been caused majorly by individual and group factors which have at one instance or another affected the distribution, access, provision and acquisition of quality health care. Health disparity refers to the overall difference related to prevalence, incidence, mortality, disease burden as well as other unfavorable health determinants that exist unequally among individuals or populations. These factors are ...

Osteoporosis is a disease that weakens bone tissues. This disease causes the bones to become brittle and susceptible to fracturing (Compston & Rosen, 2009, p.47). This program with incorporate both health education and health communication strategies. The program will commence by organizing workshops that will be geared towards sensitizing women about the causes of Osteoporosis and how it can be controlled. This program with include women ages 20 and above. This is because Osteoporosis tends to increase as women approach middle age. At the workshops, women will be able to learn how to maintain healthy dietary plans so as to make ...

I. What is it Like to be an ADHD Person? (ADHD Signs and Symptoms)

What do persons with ADHD are like?

Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has been described as the most prevalent childhood disorder (Dell & Shultz, 2009). A person with ADHD has difficulty focusing on a particular task, which he/she finds commonplace or boring, which makes him/her to get easily distracted at it. He/She has a hard time controlling the things he/she has to do or say, as well as, the amount of physical activity he/she has to perform as compared to someone without an ADHD. Because an individual with ADHD has greater impulsiveness and restlessness, he/she may ...

Introduction

The rise of the Spring Revolution in Egypt marked a new discussion of the role that social media has played in creating political and social mobilization. Until then, the use of social media was entirely described as bringing people from different parts of the world together to socialize and update one another on the various cultural and social activities around them. Social media is the current social trend that almost every person is using to get keep up with the current events and also interact with friends and families. However, after the 2011 protests in most Middle East and ...

Introduction

The world of business has been undergoing consistent changes and innovations. Frontiers for competition have been shifting from traditional product to creative abilities and business efficiency. Intellectual capital is the latest in the bracket of new ideas that keep businesses running. With increasing competition and innovations, businesses have realized that the mode of competition has shifted from just sales to the efficiency within the organization . Key among factors of efficiency is the manner in which information and knowledge is stored, organized, retrieved and transferred within the organization. The edge lies in the organization identifying the facets of knowledge that ...

Duration: One lesson

Objectives At the end of this lesson, students will: Intelligences identified The lesson will address two forms of intelligences, which are linguistic and naturalistic intelligences Linguistic intelligence Activity: Understanding Multiple intelligences Students will go through the procedure below, using the above learning materials to try and understand what multiple intelligence is, from the readings on Gardners theory. This will help enhance their comprehension skills.

Procedure

- Begin the lesson with a 5 minute period for the students to write about their understanding of intelligence. You may prompt them to think along these lines; - ...

Introduction

Key figures in the caliber of Ingo Potrykus have made alarming contributions in public health which have immensely impacted globalization and social change to the extent that remarkable shifts have occurred in the discipline both locally and in the international arena.

Major Contributions to Public Health

Ingo Potrykus is significantly known for developing the golden rice project which is exclusive to the production of provitamin A. Also Ingo Potrykhus was very influential in organizing funding for the project and teamed up with Peter Beyer in launching a $2.6 million venture.

Challenges of implementation

The first major challenge was identifying the target countries for the gold rice projects especially, ...

Key figures in the caliber of Ingo Potrykhus have made alarming contributions in public health which have immensely impacted globalization and social change to the extent that remarkable shifts have occurred in the discipline both locally and in the international arena.

Major Contributions to Public Health

Ingo Potrykhus is significantly known for developing the golden rice project which is exclusive to the production of provitamin A. Also Ingo Potrykhus was very influential in organizing funding for the project and teamed up with Peter Beyer in launching a $2.6 million venture.

Challenges of implementation

The first major challenge was identifying the target countries for the gold rice projects especially, ...

Greenpeace is a non-governmental organization that protects and conserves the environment. This organization addresses issues that affect the environment such as global warming overgrazing and deforestation. In this blog we will address the issue of global warming and energy. Global warming is the average increase in temperature due to increased concentration of greenhouse gases. These greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor and chlorofluorocarbons. The gases are caused by natural activities like volcanic eruption and human breathing, human activities is the other cause and includes deforestation, burning of coal, fossil fuel and natural gas (Spencer, 2010, p. 112). ...