Essays on Talk

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The social and fun-loving Brazilians would love to stand closer while talking with others that indicates trust. It is also rude in Brazil to exit before a meeting concludes. The Canadians value punctuality, and there is no class disparity in Canada as majority of the population belongs to the middle class. Canadian government and private firms follow a conservative approach in financial spending. It is advisable for someone from another country to meet a Chinese counterpart with a gift other than a clock since it represents death in China. Chinese dinner meetings contain many toast rounds. Germans love to ...

Masculinity is a set of qualities traditionally inherent to males. However, these features change through time. Some experts mentioned that the original idea suffered severely from the development of consumerism in 90s. Men were turned from the so called Caveman Masculinity to other behavioral patterns that would make them buy more goods. Levant and Kopecky are examples of authors who thought masculinity is in crisis. Like they mentioned in their book: “raised to believe that “real men” don’t feel fear, sadness or much of nay other emotions, we’re now told we should not only feel these emotions ...

Good morning class! I want to start by asking you some questions, before we even look at the painting I would like to share with you. If the answer is yes to the question, I am going to ask you to stand up. Then please sit down so I can ask the next question. Thank you. Ok listen carefully: Who here has ever wanted to be a painter? [Be sure to allow response time. This will also allow for involvement of children who are more kinesthetic learners than simply aural learners.] How about a writer? Has anyone ever wanted ...

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French language is an intricate language that involves many rules that are quite different from the English language. For English speakers, learning French is not always an easy task. In many of the French words, some letters are spelled out but only remain silent for reasons that most French speakers don’t even understand. Moreover, special characters that are not part of the English alphabet are present in French language, like Ç, Ǽ, and Œ. Some letters or characters, on the other hand, take on multiple sounds. However, no matter how complex it is to learn the French language, the ...

Overall impression

The centrality of SAP in the provision of business software cannot be gainsaid. The company develops software programs which enhance productivity for various companies across the globe. SAP ensures efficiency and productivity in areas such as customer relations, human resources management, accounting as well as enterprise resource planning. Because of these services, SAP has become a global leader in the provision of business software. It is against this backdrop that the University of Houston-Downtown invited the vice president of SAP, Jeff Word, for a talk with its students. Word’s introductory message to the students encompasses the working of ...

The use of cityscapes in cinema began in the mid-1920s with Berlin being the birth city of these new types of movies. Since then, cities have provided a production site as well as consumptions and distribution sites. The usage of cities in movies also assists in explaining different emerging issues within the modern urban society. Using cities as sites for shooting movies allows an understanding issues of the public sphere and social space (Mennel 32). Employing city landscape when shooting movies also help in promoting an understanding of modern aesthetics. Linklater’s movie Before Sunset tells a romantic story ...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a class of anxiety disorder, which has been experienced by people who went through traumatic event, such as car accident, sexual assault, combat trauma any traumatic event that affects the person day to day living after the event. PTSD is characterized by the re-experiencing of traumatic event, usually by having nightmares, intrusive thoughts, avoidance of the triggers or stimuli associated with the event and symptoms of extreme hyper vigilance The patients name is Carl, and he is middle age Native American Indian. He is married and has kids. He is currently working as a ...

Hypothesis

The genre of preference is tied to the personality of the person Procedure The interview will take place in a hotel hall, and the interviewee will arrive in the perception that the interview is bound to land them a management role with a big dancing group. Immediately the interviewee arrives, they will be guided to the interview room where other respondents are expected to meet them. No one is supposed to meet them as they come into the hall. Music will be playing in the background, but the respondents will be under observation via the room cameras and their ...

As the nation and world progressively go online to work, play, and communicate with one another, computers and cyberspace have increasingly become targets and tools of criminal activity. To be sure cybercrime has quickly grown to be one of the major challenges facing police and law enforcement officials. The television series CSI: Cyber attempts to portray how a team of special FBI anti-cybercrime agents would investigate and arrest the cybercriminals that haunt cyberspace. As in all television police dramas, the acts and actions that take place on the show are a mix of truth and fantasy. However, since the ...

Article Summary: Stop Googling. Let’s talk.

Introduction

A conversation between individuals required adequate usage of emotions, expressions, empathy, communication, articulation of thoughts, and focus over the fundamental context of conversation. All these aspects define the art of communication and effective conversation via human traits. Author Sherry Turkle, in this article, Stop Googling. Let’s talk speaks about the hampering effect of technology when it intervenes in the course of a normal conversation between individuals and causes a diversion of the attention. Hence, a mere presence of technology like internet can disrupt the core nuances (discussed above) of effective conversation ...

Childhood Norms

How do we see things differently as adults than when we are growing up? This how the novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, gave a huge image about Rosie Cooke’s life who grew up in a very special environment. She thought everything in her life was natural, even when she was growing up with a chimpanzee as her sister.Later, she reached the age where she learned the way she was living was unusual. Rosie’s story is similar to my story. As a child, everything was simple and normal for me, until I ...

Sherry Turkle in the article “Stop Googling, Let’s Talk” argues that the technology has drastically impacted healthy development of individual that leads to communication and self-reflection problems and should be reassessed and addressed to change the way it influences our lives. The author uses effective inductive arguments and backs them up with facts, personal observations and fragments from his interviews and studies that are reliably acknowledged. The purpose of the essay is strongly persuasive, as the authors proves the drastic impact of technology and calls for social reaction. The central argument is the need to fight long-term effects ...

Abstract

It is well known that very often people do not appreciate what they have. My essay is about the story that happened to me many years ago and showed me the true value of some things. This happened to me in my childhood, when my best friend went away and we could not say goodbye properly. My goal while writing this paper was to show how important it is to appreciate our loved ones, as we never know when we see each other for the last time. To write this work, I used personal experiences and feelings that I ...

INTRODUCTION

This paper outlines Marxian concepts in Workfare Street Cleaner, Crime Scene Cleaner, Poultry Factory Worker, and Stripper as in Bowe J Bowe’s book Gig: Americans talk about their jobs. The paper will use case studies drawn from Bowe’s book to explain the concepts. The study shows how Americans feel about their jobs and then relates their opinions to the concepts of Marxist theory.

CRIME SCENE CLEANER

Neal Smither is the owner of Crime Scene Cleaners. Their work involves cleaning up death scenes like homicides, accidental deaths, and suicide. He started the job after he lost his job at a mortgage-banking ...

Introduction

Pain is one of the common problems that affect many old people worldwide (Tse, Leung & Ho, 2012). Despite the high number of old people who are affected by it, this condition is normally undertreated. According to the Maslow Hierarchy Model of Needs, the high pain prevalence is likely to affect negatively the fulfillment of the psychological needs (Tse, Leung & Ho, 2012). This challenge comes in the wake of an increase in the life expectancy of senior citizens aged 65 years and above in the past few decades. Since 1999, the life expectancy of these group has improved by 11 ...

“A Serious Talk” by R. Carver covers the themes of separation, jealousy and identity crisis through the conflict development between protagonist Burt and his antagonist Vera with the help of limited narration, extensive symbolism, dramatic irony and absurd actions. The third-person point of view seems objective at first, but later clearly hints that the narration is limited to protagonist perspective, which shows how the main character is unable to let go of his wife. Moreover, it is seen in Burt’s attitude to Vera’s house, as if it is his own, and in his mention of multiple Vera’ ...

Introduction

Importance of quality initiatives a. Innovation the key to business success b. Key elements of innovation

a. Leading by example b. Flexible with strategies 4. Leadership style and workplace initiatives a. Transformational leadership 5. Conclusion

Abstract

Business organizations are constantly confronted with challenges of one kind or another, promoted by change in technology and consumer preference. This calls for a lot of initiatives on the part of a leader to implement in his organization to sustain its competence. Therefore, leaders are compelled to introduce new innovations on a regular basis An open mind and an attitude to change help leaders ...

Air Canada is Canada's largest carrier, which is one of the founders of the international alliance Sky Team. Today, it is capable of carrying out flights in 98 settlements in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia (Aircanada.com). Together with our partners, this company carries passengers to 160 destinations.

Part 1: Enterprise Strategy and Air Canada

1. The airline industry has always been a very high-tech and, therefore, up to date with the developing global trends and requirements. The complexity of the business of air transportation is magnified by high responsibility to air travelers. With increasing passenger flows slightest failure in the processing and transmission ...

Signs and symptoms of depression

Depressed persons may not experience each and every symptom of depression. There are those who experiences most of the symptoms while the rest only experiences a few of them. The degree of suffering varies from each affected individual. The severity of symptoms of depression differs among the affected persons and also over time. It is also important to note that there are also common signs and symptoms that affect every depressed person (Spek et.al, 2007). Although some of the signs and symptoms do not necessarily mean that an individual is suffering from depression, the severity determines if one is ...

Abstract

This paper focuses on a potential client for a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). The client to be discussed is Brett Mitchell, a twenty-five-year-old African American male who is unemployed, and the child of recovering drug-dependent parents. Studies show that Adult Children of Addicts (ACoAs) present with a range of symptoms that run the gamut of psychiatric and stress-related disorders, from substance-abuse disorders and other addictions to depression, anxiety, personality disorders, and maladaptive coping mechanisms. In the case of the client to be discussed in this paper, he is seeking counseling for identity confusion, depression and arrested psychosocial development. ...

“The Saga of the People of Vatnsdal” is a legendary account on lives of the islanders that lived in the North. It’s main purpose is to explain how the society of that part of the world functioned, what was important for the people, and how they resolved their conflicts. The stories are about justice, honor, and strong bonds that developed between men. There are many characters in the book, and each of them carries their own purpose (usually either an example of a proper behavior, or an anti-example.) In this paper, I’m going to look into the ...

Introduction

Flushed with confusion the international world of business theory and practice has arrived at an important moment in history. Issues of diversification stimulate the need for global conglomerates to pay attention to how they are planning to add new businesses to the firm, which are really separate from the core product or service. Acquisition and restructuring present challenges as well. Yet the bottom line in the quest for best practices in corporate-level strategies is to win, in terms of competition. One scholar asks the pertinent question whether the merging market economies, of the globe, are causing Asia and Europe ...

Sherry Turkle in the article “Stop Googling, Let’s Talk” investigates the impact of cell phones on the social life and explains the ways to reduce its negative effects and develop communication skills. She dwells upon the ways cell phones change the lives of modern people, as even having cell phone around in a room affects the conversation. Turkle claims that technology not only affects social connectivity, but also decreases the ability to emphasize and generally recognize facial emotions. The author suggests that teenagers not only are unable to start or hold a flowing conversation, but also are not ...

How Inner Speech and Outer Speech are Connected

As we all know, there are two different types of speech. Those are inner speech, when you are talking to oneself, and outer speech, when others talk to you and you talk to others. Moreover, these two types of speech are connected in a number of ways. One of those ways concerns what generates what. One of the scientists who have studied the issue was Lev Vygotsky. According to Jones (2009), who explored the works of Vygotsky, human being has «to first learn to do things publicly – ‘externally’ – with others before being able to do them ‘internally’». In order ...

Different works of art reflect various events that occur in real life. Works of literature either explain or provide responses to real life situations with the addition of a fictional twist. Literature works explore different real life themes, which allows readers to identify with the different characters. Tobias Wolff’s story titled “Bullet in the Brain” explains the last memory of Anders, a man who has lived his life being critical of others (Wolff). The story also explains the circumstances leading to Anders’ death as well as how his life had changed from when he was younger. The short ...

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the interpersonal reflection after viewing the given video, i.e., “The Class Divided”. The video is based on the exploration of the nature of prejudice. It has been established that in this video, Jane Elliott, a third-grade teacher intentionally developed a specific situation. The situation was mainly aimed at teaching the students about the feeling of feeling discriminated, on the basis of ethnicity, race, gender, orientation, etc. The given video is found to be the repeated representation of the classic documentary on the exercise of Jane Elliott, i.e., “blue eyes/brown eyes”. Jane ...

BUSINESS -

Business - Model Female Leader Award Introduction Leadership qualities that influence across cultures dead or alive have qualities that inspire, direct, challenge, and effectively change the world founded in strong ethical practices. Rhodes et al, (2005) describes how “converging political, industrial, and economic characteristics” aligned to ethical leadership practices prove effective (p. 87). The following is an academic exercise – a learning task demanding critical thought, organizational aptitude, and specific objectives toward achieving a better understanding about the human experience and what distinguishes leadership qualities influencing people across cultures.

Oprah Winfrey

Billionaire Oprah Winfrey is an internationally recognized first African American billionaire. ...

Introduction

However, one will actually note that every phenomenon has some its special conditions. Here, it is meant that the problem of a job search is particular in every country - from African to the West European one. At all, there hardly exists a generally agreed definition of the “job search” word-combination. Still, in general, this describes a process when people try to act so that they will be employed in the near future. This action starts if either an individual is dissatisfied with the current workplace or when he is unemployed. From now on, let us get to the ...

Introduction

Over time, there has been increasing interest in culturally responsive teaching that grew since the late 1980’s and the early 1990s primarily because of the increasing diversity in the country’s classrooms. This is coupled with the concern over the low rate of success by the many racial and ethnic minority students despite numerous years of reforms in the education fields. The ongoing reform of the Native American education is further influenced by the fact that after years of population decline to the historic low of around 237,000 members in the year 1900 the American Indian populations ...

The work setting in the office is not permissive for one to concentrate and produce concrete work. The nature of the office gives individuals fragments of time that limit their ability to do meaningful things. Fried (2010) argued that people such as engineers and thinkers would require long hours of uninterrupted time that is not available at the office. The distractions of the office are unique because they are involuntary. Fried noted that despite people thinking that social media distracts workers at the office, managers are the main distractors. For instance, the managers tend to keep on asking the ...

Section 1.

Other people tend to describe me as being diligent and disciplined, although not to the point where I neglect to be a caring person as well. Throughout my schooling, I was always one of the hardest workers in my classes. During middle school and high school, my teachers told me that I was one of the most frequent visitors during morning tutorials before the school day started. School was not easy for me, but I wanted to do well so that I would have the best chance at admission to a competitive college and then a successful start in ...

Bryce: After a year of applying, interviewing, jumping through all the hoops, I finally realized nothing I did mattered. I just couldn’t take another rejection. The bottom line is, no one wants me.

Bryce: I guess I’m not feeling much of anything.

Bryce: No. It’s okay. I’ve just felt too hopeless to talk to anyone. One example of an obstacle to communicating emotions in the situation is fear (Karalus, 2014). Bryce fears what the future holds because of his employment status or the lack thereof. He also fears that his friend Todd might mock him for still not having a job after six months. Another ...

It is no secret that the media has always affected people in innumerable ways. It is also very interesting to note that this power enters the consumer’s psyche without him/her being aware of it. In this regard, advertising has a profound and lasting influence on the consumers. In this paper, I will analyze how advertisements have a potent effect on consumers in relation to gender within the greater picture of culture. I will analyze selected advertisements for this purpose and how they transmit messages in relation to gender, sometimes in subtle ways and sometimes in very direct and ...

The Second Battle of Fallujah

The Second Battle of Fallujah The Second Battle of Fallujah (Operation Al-Fajr) took place in Fallujah 43 mi west of Baghdad. It is city with more than 300,000 residents and people often call it a “city of mosques”. Fallujah had not been affected by the military activity in Iraq until 2004, but then it became a hot zone where insurgency led to the large number of casualties. Fallujah’s residents used to be open to the Coalition forces, but on 28 April 2003 several local demonstrators were killed by the military and this incident caused a rise of ...

Essay

Facebook was created about seven years ago by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard student. The aim of Mark and his friends was to keep all university students connected. Since it was appeared the whole world started to support it. Facebook now has approximately two hundred members around the globe. Every week about five million new members join it, which makes Facebook the fastest growing social networking site ever (Study Mode). For today Facebook is one of the popular social networking sites for communication and plays a significant part in lives of our society. It alleviates people’s lives since lots ...

I took the Human metrics Jung Typology TestTM and my results say that I have a slight preference of introversion over extraversion (6%), a slight preference of sensing over intuition (3%), a moderate preference of thinking over feeling (47%), and a slight preference of judging over perceiving (12%). To sum it up, this test claims that I have an ENTP (Extroversion, iNtuitive, Thinking, Perceiving) personality. When I think of the word “extrovert”, I imagine someone friendly, gregarious, and sociable. But when you combine the words “extrovert” and “intuitive” together, the meaning of the former becomes something much deeper. For ...

Part 1

Reflection on the genre of open letter Open letter is a letter that is written to an individual but whose message is intended for a wide audience. Usually, open letters are addressed to specific individuals but the message is usually conveyed to them through newspapers as well as other media (Bhatia 5). In most cases, open letters are usually addressed to public figures such as politicians, heads of corporate organizations and government institutions, artists, journalists and religious leaders.

Its significance

Writing open letters is motivated by various reasons. An open letter reflects the position of the author on a significant issue ...

One of the most important facets of human interaction is communication. Communication is an essential element to building personal and professional relationships. Furthermore, it can make or break a person in the professional field. Exchanging feedback with someone is bigger than being able to say “hi” and “bye”. Communication is not one-dimensional. It should be liquid and pliable like the endless options of professions in the world. There is no one way to master the art of communication. That fact alone is common knowledge. There are plenty of reasons why communication as a professional is important, and there are ...

How do we see things differently as adults than when we are growing up? This how the novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, gave a huge image about Rosie Cooke’s life who grew up in a very special environment. She thought everything in her life was natural, even when she was growing up with a chimpanzee as her sister.Later, she reached the age where she learned the way she was living was unusual. Rosie’s story is similar to my story. As a child, everything was simple and normal for me, until I ...

Question1: Precarious Work Environment and the State of Psychological Contract

Psychological contract refers to the beliefs held by individuals regarding promises made and accepted between themselves for their common interests. In a work environment, psychological contract of workers varies considerably. In many cases, there remains a big spasm between actual physical contract and psychological contract (expectation from the other party). The ultimately goal of any organization is to bridge the gap between actual expectation and perceived expectation (Sharkie). However, in dangerous or precarious work environments such as Steel foundries, Ice manufacturing, police job, fire-fighting, meat packaging and other heavy manufacturing, the state of psychological contract is often different from ...

In the Article “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk” by Sherry Turkle talks about what happens when society starts relying more on texting rather than face-to-face conversation. While the use of cellphones in some social situations with one’s peers is acceptable based on the rule of three. The rule of three says that at least three people in a group of five or six must be actively engaged in a conversation allowing the other members of the group to check their phones. There are many situations where it is seen as wrong. These situations include dinners with your kids, ...

In Michael Mann’s 2006 crime drama Miami Vice, Jamie Foxx’s Detective Ricardo “Rico” Tubbs acts as the more even-tempered, laconic and understated of the two lead detectives (including Colin Farrell’s more aggressive, unhinged Det. Crockett). In one scene near the end of the film’s first act, Crockett and Tubbs confront their informant, Alonzo Stevens (John Hawkes) on the side of an overpass, where he reveals that he had to sell out FBI undercover agents to the Colombian cartel to save the life of his kidnapped wife Leonetta. While Hawkes’ jittery, nervous, despairing performance is the ...

Dear National sales representative,

In the light of recent articles published about car accident involving one of your workers I would like to express my concerns about your working conditions that are getting ordinary drivers in danger. National sales reps should not be allowed to use cell phones while driving. Their business is not worth a single life that could be endangering because of carelessness and not paying attention to the road. Center for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that in the United States each day around 1.153 people are injured and 9 killed because of doing other activities while driving. Among ...

Argumentative essay

Abstract Introduction Detection Degrees of severity General risk factors Suicidal behavior Intervention Prevention Postvention Conclusion Abstract In the society of today, adolescents experience constant stress, and many of them consider suicide as the only possible solution to their problems. Examinations of the risk factors and prevention programs are extremely important because suicide claims more than five thousand adolescents per year. Determining the individuals who are at-risk is a difficult task because frequently suicidal signs are exhibited in a subtle way. Moreover, the occurrence of suicides depends on factors such as gender, sexual orientation, family problems, etc. everyone who deals ...

Do you feel that you or someone you know has ever experienced hidden bias in the work place or even during the recruiting and hiring process? Explain. Give examples. (Sasha Marshalls) In the workplace I can’t honestly say that I’ve ever experienced hidden bias or even during the recruiting and hiring process for a position that I’ve interviewed for. Just because I didn’t recognize it or wasn’t aware of it doesn’t however mean that it hasn’t happened before. I’m sure plenty of people know what it is like to be victim ...

In the modern world family is a foundation of our society. Moreover, it is very important for individuals’ growth and future success. In addition, there is no denying the fact that most every new family starts with a marriage. Actually, nowadays people differ greatly towards this issue. Many of them consider marriage as a very important and mandatory step for the couple. Others prefer to stay in the marriage-like arrangement due to the main tendency to individual independence in our society. Nevertheless, both of them face with different problems in their relationship due to the several everyday problems such ...

This commentary is in reference to the Ted x talk on challenging gender selection . The Australian speaker, Tereza initially mentions how millions of women across the world are missing due to a desire for male offsprings. She terms this as human rights violation. Tereza further elaborates on the importance of gender equality. She talks about gender biases and how society is restricted in its opinion of a certain gender. The speaker then introduces the concept of Gender Selection. It is a medical procedure where embryos are selected on the basis of their sex and then implanted in the uterus. ...

HCR 362, Section 2

Section 1 I believe that we talk too much about race in the United States. There is so much history when it comes to race. This history is constantly being talked about and trying to make people today accountable for what happened in the past. I do believe this is wrong. There is a common debate as to whether or not teaching history teaches or encourages racial discrimination. I think this is a very good debate. I do believe it is important for individuals today need to know what happened back then so history does not repeat itself. On ...

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Introduction

Company A (our company) is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is operating since 1970. The company grew from a small 20 people firm in the software business, to a global firm with 120 locations around the world and 60,000 employees. Revenues of the company for the last financial year were $52 billion. The company was built by the farsighted vision of its founders and it still places a lot of value in the development and care of its ...

Personal Statement

1. Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story. When I was a child, I was young, aggressive and rebellious; thinking back on it, it was likely a product of my parentage, which was never the most loving and accommodating of relationships. I did not work very hard in school in my younger days, missing the change to get enrolled in a prestigious high school by doing poorly in my third grade of junior high; ...

When I saw Janet first, she seemed like any other woman in her mid-twenties. She was comfortable to talk to, only, she seemed a little quiet and pale. She worked part-time at a local grocery store. It is her story that makes her different from others. She was sexually abused by her step-dad when she was ten. I was part of the youth support service team appointed to help her out and get her life back on her track. After a couple of meetings with her, we were able to get her to communicate, and gradually her story unfolded. ...

Critical thinking is an inherent part of professional life and a key to making sound decisions and coming up with effective solutions to every problem. It is rightfully said that “if problem solving is the car that gets your business to its goals, critical thinking skills are the gas” (“How to make better decisions,” n.d.). I believe that without using critical thinking a professional can make significant mistakes that will cost him and his company money and reputation. For me, this set of skills is always particularly helpful when I need to get rid of my biases, emotional influence ...

Introduction

In this project, the Hearcare incentive scheme, we will be elaborating different perspectives that are to be used in it including the vision, background information, the methods appropriate to be used, and finally the analysis of the results. We shall, also, look at the set goals such as the sales set to be met after a specific duration by different stores or sale points as well as the rewards that will follow in case these sales are made or accomplished on time.

Vision and the Mission

The vision as well as the mission of this project is to ensure that the sales made ...

Scene: Act 5, Scene 6-8

Setting: CAST: a. Malcolm - Badr b. Macduff - Irfan c. Siward - Tarek

SUMMARY:

We have chosen to interpret the Act 5, Scenes 6 to 8 of William Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth. These scenes portray how stand out to lead his soldiers towards the castle. Shakespeare provided a remarkable way of creating Malcolm’s character especially when he announced that Young Siward and Siward are the ones who will lead the first battle. Scene 7 on the other hand, portrays how Macbeth waited on the battlefield in order to defend his castle. Macbeth was eager to defend his ...

Literature Review

Chairman: Committee member: Committee member: Masters of Arts in Psychology 2016 Introduction With childhood obesity on the rise, there is increasing concern about the prevention and treatment of obesity. Current national data on childhood and adolescent obesity show 16.9 percent of 2-to-19-year-old children and adolescents are obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). An effective intervention to manage obesity is essential. The current weight management practices involve dietary modification, behavioral change therapies involving exercise, pharmacological therapy and surgical intervention. The purpose of this literature review is to explore the current research on Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an effective method for ...

A Comparative Study of Pragmatic Properties of the English and Chinese Language

Introduction Just like humans and knowledge, language is able to evolve. The question to consider is that are these changes good or bad? The establishment of a language take years to perfect and right now, no language in this world is flawless. Two best examples are two of the most spoken language in the world Chinese and English. Fact Monster (2014) uploaded a list of the most spoken language in the world, Chinese took the top spot with over 1,197,000,000 speakers around the world. English only came in third with 335,000,000 after Spanish. One ...

General features of melatonin

Melatonin is a hormone, which is thought to play an important role in daily processes of humans’ lives, being secreted by the pineal gland, which is an endocrine gland, located in the middle of the brain. After its discovery the first function (which later gave the name to this hormone) was the ability of this hormone to lighten one’s skin color. This experiment was conducted on frogs, however even nowadays everybody knows that our sunbathing results in suntan due to activity of melatonin. This is a so-called skin-darkening effect of melatonin. First discoveries of this hormone were done ...

Global Health

TED talk: " How we'll stop polio for good" This TED talk was presented by Bruce Aylward in 2011. In this talk, Bruce presented financial, moral, and scientific case for eliminating polio. He told that perhaps we are taking the polio vaccine for granted and have not considered the terrible outcomes of polio epidemic. With the help of global health funding policies and communities, we can remove the problem of polio. He also told that we have to learn lessons from polio and can apply the learned lessons to any of the upcoming horrific disease. He also enabled the listeners ...

“Mulatto” is a play written by Langston Hughes in the thirties of the previous century. The play explores the issues of the race such as lynching and miscegenation as well as the tragedy of family relationships between father and son during a difficult and controversial period in the social relations in America. The author received the national reputation of a dramatist due to the performance of “Mulatto” in 1935 by Martin Jones on Broadway. The play appealed to the public of Broadway because it examined the theme of tragic mulatto that symbolized the failure of the myth of egalitarianism. ...

People do not like to listen. People like to talk. They especially like to talk about themselves and what they think. People also do not like to be told they are wrong. These statements are not universal but are broadly true for most people in most situations. More to the point, if someone has made it to the point where they require mediation or conflict resolution it is a safe assumption that these statements can be accurately applied to them. Similarly, most people are bad at arguing. Many people who are bad at making arguments still enjoy doing so ...