Essays on Separates

Philosophy and the Walking Dead: The Rules of “The Walking Dead”

AMC’s “The Walking Dead” is the story of a particular group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse, led by Rick Grimes, which has become one of the most popular shows on television. It was adapted for television from the comic books of the same title written by Robert Kirkman (Yuen, 2016). The show asks many questions within the story regarding life and death, what it means to be alive and what does it means to be human? It presents ethical conundrums and creates the basis for philosophical debate. There are priorities in the apocalyptic world, food, water, shelter, ...

Drug test

Impact of age and drug on the duration In this test, a drug was administered to 28 out of the 48 respondents. The age of the respondents and the drug were the independent variables while the participants’ months to death or end of trial or study time was the dependent variable. The observations were recorded for the 48 participants and the data was regressed using the Gretl software. To determine the impact of age and drug on the duration, we analyze the regression output. The measures of interest are the coefficients of the two variables, Z statistics, and the ...

Some are born leaders, others are not. However, for those who is passionate about being a leader, leadership is a trait that one can develop. Leadership potential is born out of how a person deals with and handles diversity. It is how one faces negativities in life and somehow coming out from it with a learning or two. Acquired skills from the struggles one face in conquering diversity is what makes a good leader. These events in the leaders’ lives help shape how they are as leaders, how they faced the challenges presented to them and how they were ...

Black Boy, written by Richard Wright in 1943, is a memoir of his childhood, split into two sections. The first section reflects on his childhood in Mississippi, and the second centers around his young adulthood in Chicago. The novel is designed to explore the plight of young blacks in America in an era when they were still navigating the violence of racism and findings their racial identity. As such, it deeply explores the concepts of race, class, and citizenship, and how those ideas are closely tied, and in some cases, greatly conflicted. Black Boy is primarily a book about ...

Introduction

The exchange of respiratory gas is limited by the capacity of the respiratory muscles to circulate air in the lung. Ventilation fails when muscles do not have the capacity to cope with the load brought by the mechanics of the pulmonary system. It is crucial to comprehend the mechanics of respiration/breathing not only for purposes of diagnosing how the system has failed and to offer the correct prescription for treatment of the failure, but to be capable of providing the most effectual temporary respiratory support through the use of a mechanical ventilator, as well. The first category explains the ...

Nursing:

Purpose The aim of the lab was to investigate what happens when a natural physical barrier suddenly splits a species within a given population.

Introduction

A species is a group of organisms within a population that can interbreed under natural conditions to produce fertile and viable offspring (The University of Miami, n.d.). In this context, a species exhibits reproductive isolation, in which physical and behavioral traits allow them to reproduce only with organisms that possess similar traits (Howard & Berlocher, 1998). Speciation describes how new sets of species are created and occurs when a group of organisms within a species separates ...

Introduction

This report is a consumer research project. It provides advice on sustainable consumption to a client who seeks to examine and identify the motivation and desires of people who consume sustainably. This will be done in two parts. The first part will examine and review the main factors that affect consumers in choosing to undertake sustainable consumption. The second part will be a set of recommendations on how sustainable consumption can be effectively promoted.

Part 1: Key Factors Affecting Consumers in Choosing Sustainable Consumption

There are several perceptions of the concept of “sustainable consumption”. One definition states that it is “the use of products and services that have a ...

1. Introduction It is difficult to limit a discussion of Alfred Stieglitz to just one profession, let alone just one artistic movement within the field of photography. He is one of the main figures in the art world in the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to his work with images, he was also an editor, collector, speaker, art dealer, gallery owner – and the husband and publicist of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe. Overall, though, he was the premier photographer of the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. However, the main thrust of ...