Essays on Weiner

Module 1

Question 1 They explained in scientific and practical terms the issues and concepts of human sexuality contrary to the myths prevalent about the topic during their time such as the belief that the sexuality of women only played the procreation role (Rathus et al., 2016). They provided explanations and research indicating that even women responded to sexuality as men did.

They did extensive research on extramarital sexuality.

They demystified the concept of homosexuality and bisexuality. They explained and provided research data on oral sex and masturbation. They provided more and clear insight on issues regarding prostitution. Question 5 The target population, sample size, and type of ...

Question 1

Yes, the genus Phoxinus exists. The common species of the genus is the minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus). Minnow is a small freshwater fish with dark spots forming an attractive banded effect. The fish has a small mouth, small scales, and large eyes. During spawning seasons, male fish develop bright red colors which are spectacular to attract the female. Minnows feed on plant debris, molluscs, algae, insects and crustaceans (Farrell 567). The existence of this species in a river indicates the availability of oxygen content in the riverbeds and streams. The feeding behavior of the fish involves shoaling and schooling. The ...

Breaking Barriers: Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care

Breaking Barriers Towards High Quality, Effective and Safe Health Care With more than 3 million in numbers, nurses comprise the largest section of health care professionals in the US. They spend a huge portion of their time to deliver healthcare services which makes them a viable force in ensuring and safety of care. A careful examination of the nurses’ capacity to support the health reform is essential, especially with the passage of laws such as the Affordable Care Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, among others, which aim to improve the design, financing, and delivery of health services (Sochalski ...

Organizational change is an importance transition element that involves the active transitions of change management processes. The Becker Hospital Review considers positive change as essential in the rapid release of inpatient operations among critical care patients. Nonetheless, change occurs in a systematic manner as opposed to instantaneous existence upon random announcements. That is, when organizations experience change, they move from known to unknown methods of operations. For successful change management, therefore, it is vital to break change instances into distinct steps. The idea here targets the need for successful adoption through tailored approaches (MacDonald, 2011). Health is a vital ...

Acts of Kindness

Group I Know My family had never travelled to Europe and they have always craved about taking the whole family to Europe. But, my father spent most of his money on his children’s education and a suitable home for us. After working hard for past few years, I decided to give my family a gift and take them all to Europe. I booked everything myself and gave my family surprise on my parent’s anniversary. I will remember the happiness on my parents face when they learned about my surprise gift. Even better was their happiness when they ...

Where there is sex trafficking, there is sex exploitation since it is often the vulnerable, the desperate, and the despondent who end up being lured into the prostitution trade. Prostitution is not beneficial to society as it evokes such problems as degradation of women’s rights, poor public health, and social disadvantages. Deshpande claims that, “Sex trafficking victims acquire adverse physical and psychological health conditions that require both medical and legal attention” (22). Basically, the author believes that young women and children face psychological trauma once they are free. They cannot make a fresh start because they have a ...

Healthcare policy analysis, one of the scopes of healthcare policy, is mainly involved in the development and evaluation of the different interventions that have been implemented to help in the improvement of the healthcare delivery system. Policy analysis in the healthcare system is mainly associated with the regulation and finance of different healthcare services. Other activities involved in the process of healthcare policy analysis include developing and analyzing data to serve as support for different policies, assessing new initiatives in the field of healthcare by utilizing different techniques which include cost-benefit analysis, evaluation of programs, analysis of implementations, and ...

Nowadays, many people are quite familiar with the “shadow business” that has many as many different directions and one of them is a prostitution. The following regulation must not have any kind of rights to exist in modern society as it yearly brings horrible consequences as sex trafficking, sex exploitation, and child sex trade. Deshpande et al., in his article Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls, illustrates how the illegal business made a fresh start more than one hundred years ago, and how the pimps searched the young girls in order to sell them into sex slavery. These young ...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the traditional institution of trade and economics among the Trobriand Islanders. The primary focus is on the symbolic interpretation of the acts involved in the kula ring and in yam production, display and distribution. The first section of the paper explains the kula ring and how it operated in Trobriand society at the time of the first ethnographic description of the Trobrianders by Malinowski in 1914. The second section examines how social hierarchy is expressed in trade within the kula ring. The third section looks at the difference between symbolic gift ...

FBI VS Jewish Defense League

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been in operation as a major criminal investigation bureau in the US. This national crime-fighting agency of security goal is to protect America and the larger international community from criminal dangers that affect the world today (US Department of Justice, 2011). It was started in 1908 when Theodore Roosevelt was the president of the US by Robert Bonaparte (Weiner, 2013). Robert Bonaparte was the then attorney general of the US. It started as a task force of special agents, whose work was to track the major crimes that were happening in various ...

Organizational behavior entails research on individuals within an organizational setting. Such research is crucial for the effective management of organizational structures and requires particular focus on the behavioral traits of individuals while alone (private individuals) as well as in the context of interpersonal relationships such as observed in behavior of individuals while working with others in a professional environment as a team or a group (Sing). Studies on organizational behavior aim at actuating an understanding of the factors influencing groups and individual dynamics within organizational settings for better efficiency and effectiveness of these groups and the overarching organizational structure ...

The National Public Radio interviewed historian Eric Weiner and broadcasted his opinion on the subject of the future of history. Therefore, the author shares his thoughts on how other historians from the further centuries would evaluate our presence. This topic is very important as it shows the modern contribution to the human development. According to Weiner, his future colleagues will be surprised to find out nothing (Weiner). The author calls our time “digital dark ages”. One of the reasons to think so is that all the information which is stored nowadays will be unreadable for the future generations. The ...

Succession planning refers to the on-going process of systematic identification, assessment, and development of skills as well as talent to assure leadership stability and continuity for all strategic position in an organization (Mandi, 2008). According to Mandi (2008) succession planning refers to the definition of organization’s future course in relation to leadership talent and skills.

Need of Succession Planning

In most of the cases, succession planning focuses on the three key factors. First of all, it covers the needs of a company as senior management of that company ages. It is due to the fact that it is difficult for a specific ...

Improve Bus Tracking System

Improve Bus Tracking System The objective of this given memo is to describe the purpose of employing a tracking system in transportation to avoid sector to avoid passengers getting stranded in bus stops, get cold in ice winter-stricken station lobbies without hopes of boarding a bus in the next free minutes. The attached is the methods that prove the effectiveness of an improved bus tracking system – the global positioning system (GPS) service. The methods for testing the service are discussed as well. How an improved bus tracking system, modern technology enables passengers to track their bus and know their ...

Risk is defined as uncertainty in broad terms. This uncertainty can be due to a large number of factors, which depend on the type of risk. Some of the common factors which result in this uncertainty can be changes in input parameters, miscalculation of parameters etc. (Kuritzkes, Schuermann, & Weiner, 2002). Risk can result in large and unexpected losses and can really hurt the profitability of companies. However, risk is not always bad and little bit of risk can lead to better financial results. However, the relationship between risk and better results is a lot more complex and depends on ...

Even though he left public life more than 40 years ago, Richard Nixon is still a controversial figure. He had a meteoric rise in politics, and an even steeper fall. Nixon was considered to be a complex and transitional politician (Miller Center of Public Affairs 19). He had a number of positive accomplishments during his presidency, especially in foreign policy, but his methods were often less than completely ethical.

Biography

Richard Milhous Nixon was born January 9, 1913, the second of five children, in Yorba Linda, CA, a small farming community (“Richard Nixon Biography” 1). His father was a failed ...

Trobriand islanders are the inhabitants of Trobriand Island. This is a unique community of people, who despite the civilization and European colonization were able to maintain their authentic traditions and way of life. These people still live by primitive style of living, but some of the impacts of globalization they have taken into their lives. Many anthropologists explored Trobriand culture, but two of them succeeded the most. Let`s have a more deliberate look at this unusual islanders who were able to save their primitive identity among the world of civilization. Trobriand consists of the four main islands which ...

Abstract: Feminism is the collection of movements aimed at defining, defending and establishing equal social, political and economic rights and opportunities for women. Feminism is focused mainly on issues of women even though some men are also victims of feminism such as gender and sexism roles. Feminist theory also emerged from feminist movements which include general theories about origins of inequality and about social constructions of gender and sex. Campaigns are going on for women’s rights by the feminist activists. The activists have opposed sexual harassment, sexual assault and domestic violence (McDonald, P. 2008). Joseph suggests ...

Elton Mayo (1880 – 1949)

Workers are not only motivated by money but social needs should be considered too.

Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 – 1917)

He says that employees are motivated by money, which is opposite what Elton Mayo forwarded. Workers do not enjoy working but they need to be forced or supervised.

Abraham Maslow(1908 – 1970)

He said psychological needs of the employees are important and should be fulfilled.

Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000)

He believed in two-factor theory of motivation. He argues that, there are factors, which motivate employees directly (motivators), and other de-motivates them not to work hard (Hygiene factors).

Theory of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor is a motivational, which is important at work place. ...

Question 1

The terminology business cycle is used to denote the fluctuations in the economy in production or any other economic activities over a given period of time. These fluctuations occur around a long-term expansion trend and often involve changes over time between periods of high and vigorous growth and periods of relative stagnation (Tvede, 2006, p 7). The components of a business cycle include boom, recession and recovery. Boom refers to the economic period where businesses are experiencing large sales which results in high profit margins. During this period, the levels of employment are relatively high (Freiber, J. & Freiberg, K., 2007, p 41). Business ...