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The cultural dissonance can have tragic results for individuals who are trapped between the boundaries of two opposing cultures. The culture difference hence is depicted between Lia Lee’s parents and her doctors. She eventually ends up in a vegetative state for many years not because no one really cares about her epilepsy, but because of cultural and linguistic barriers between her parents who are Hmong and the well meaning American doctors. Linguistically, her Hmong parents do not understand English spoken by the doctors at Ann Fadiman‘s book can be taken to generally act as a warning conflict ...

Introduction

Knowing that there are different types of culture is essential for every type of healthcare practitioner, especially for those who are required to treat and interact with patients. Examples of these professions are physical therapists, occupational therapists, medical technologist, physicians, and allied health nurses. These medical professionals treat their patients by either introducing an intervention to them, such as administering comprehensive exercise programs for rehabilitation specialists and prescribing medications and therapies for physicians and physiotherapist. Most, if not all, of these treatments require that the patient cooperates. In fact, patient cooperation is considered as an ...

Introduction:

The books that will be compared in this comparison essay are ‘The Hunger Games’ by Suzanne Collins and ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson. While ‘The Lottery’ focuses on the town’s people having to draw out various slips of paper to see who gets a slip of each with a black dot of pencil, ‘The Hunger Games’ tells of Katniss taking the role of her sister as she is called to participate in the Hunger Games and tries to survive in the environment with Peeta. In the ends, this book maintains that Katniss and Peeta won the Hunger ...

Accrual Base Accounting and cash based accounting are 2 methods employed by managers in financial reporting of the earnings of a company over a period. As per Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), a company has a choice in application of accounting methods which is often referred to as earning management.

Accrual based accounting is a form of measuring the income where the effect of transaction is recorded when the transaction occurs rather than being recorded when cash is received or paid, which is the cash based accounting method. This method enables the combining of the current cash inflows and ...

1. How are the demographics of the United States changing at present? How might these changes effect inter-ethnic relations in the US? And how could such effects be shaped in part by the structure of city infrastructure and related public policies? Finally, contrast how order and conflict theorists would differ in their analysis of the general trends you discuss. Make sure you draw on information and arguments from both the Eitzen text and the article by Anderson titled “Cosmopolitan Canopy.” 

Assimilation has been such a powerful theme in U.S. history that ...

Report on Case 1: Diagnosis of Hereditary Fructose Intolerance

Enzymes act as biological catalysts, they speed up biological reactions and are also capable of regulation. Enzymatic reactions can be anabolic – where a new substance is built from smaller ones; or catabolic – where a substance is broken down to yield simpler molecules. In the example of fructose, enzymes catabolize this simple sugar to substances that are intermediates of the glycolytic pathway, allowing fructose, a 6-carbon sugar, to be used by cells to obtain energy in a way similar to glucose (also a 6-varbon sugar). Aldolase B is one of the enzymes involved in the catabolism of fructose, and its ...

“BA First Year”

Everybody loves the works of nature, but when these works all found in one place then there is a scramble towards this place. This place is unique and one of the most decorated Nature has to offer. This information sheet will offer all the information about Arran Isle. From its location, information on accommodation, travel, natural resources, activities and food found in restaurants and cafes. This will help in understanding various aspects of the isle when touring and get to visit the best sites and sample the most thrilling adventures in Arran.

Arran Isle

Also referred to as The Scotland miniature, ...

Everybody has variety of goals to accomplish his/her dream in life. So, when I was in high school, I began to set my goals that I want to be achieved in the future. One of my very important goals is learning English language. I faced some difficulties with learning English language and I struggled with achieving this goal, but in the end, it was more than worth it.

In Saudi Arabia, while I was studying for my Bachelor’s degree of Art in Islamic Studies, it was obligatory for us to learn English language as a required subject for ...

Question 1

Management planning is a process of identifying, classifying and analyzing, implementing and reviewing the set objectives and goals of the organization in a given period of time. Planning is a continuous process with its achievements obtained after a specified period of time has elapsed. Management planning is concerned with the future causes of actions by examining causes as well as effects of current decisions made to the future plans. Managers plan in order to take advantage of opportunities and strengths available in achieving their management goals as their organizational function. Management planning is a systematic process that involves predetermined ...

Abstract

A large amount of the existing research work that has been carried in mobile networking are mainly based on the assumption that there is an existence of a path between the sender and the receiver. Decentralized mobile systems are however exemplified by network partitions and this has been one of the main driving factors towards the study and implementation of the fully context-aware protocols. This protocol is mainly based on the fact that nodes can be exploited as carrier of messages in the network partitions in order to attain delivery of network components. The nodes in context aware protocol ...

Question one: Explosives

The Oklahoma City bombing occurred at nine o’clock during the day in April 1995. It saw the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Two critical safety steps that were essential in the management of the disaster entailed the establishment of a safety perimeter that would limit the extent to which the first respondents could reach and the immediate withdrawal of the trapped bodies from the danger zones. The former essentially contributes in accountability and management of the respondents. It should be noted that the respondents’ desire to save anybody in the disaster must never ...

Indirect Health care cost of obesity

Total Cost of obesity

In this research presentation the author will discuss how obesity in United States of America impact health care costs. This topic will be approached from the perspective of direct and indirect costs. Direct cost is related to treating obesity as a health disorder in itself without accompanying complications. Indirect costs emerge from associating medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, heart failure and arthritis among other serious diseases medical science is now discovering. These add up to what can be considered the total health care costs of obesity in United ...

Conducting a plan investment review is an important part of sponsoring any retirement plan. A review can provide your firm with a valuable opportunity to review key areas, and to help ensure that every area is operating efficiently and also you are providing a compelling retirement plan benefitting your plan participants.

Retirment Plans

Q.1. Discuss the types of questions that a plans sponsor should ask during the design, implementation, and monitoring phases of the development of plan investment provisions. Please provide an explanation of why asking the question is important. Bring in supporting references where needed.

A.1 These days people are ...

Ang Lee's 2007 political romantic drama Lust, Caution is a beautiful, contemplative and breathtakingly tragic story about an undercover resistance fighter in World War II-era China, who begins to form a relationship with the man she is meant to kill - a collaborator with the Japanese. By presenting a hauntingly beautiful and poetic tale of a woman torn between who she is and who she is pretending to be, with tremendous stakes in the balance, Lee's film explores the ideas of performance and identity as a means to demonstrate her nationalism. Wong's character is presented as an actor, first ...

This paper contains interviews of two people from different backgrounds and different organizations. The interview intends to get vital information from the interviewees. Having in mind that an interview is between two people, there will be two different interviews in two different settings. One interview will be at a restaurant and the other one will be at an industry. In the first interview, john will be the interviewee and he is a supervisor in envy restaurant while the second interview will be in Gregory motor garage where Michael will answer several questions concerning his role as a supervisor.

First interview

Position ...

The Case Scenario

Recent clinical evidence-based guidelines suggest that a “watch and see” approach may be best in the management of pediatric acute otitis media. In this case scenario,
a team of nurses in the outpatient clinic are considering whether they should use this approach to manage AOM in the children they see. They plan to evaluate clinical studies before making their final decision. The nurses are also aware of the possibility of parental concerns concerning a change in treatment protocols. The studies are analyzed in this paper.

Cautionary use of Antibiotics in Acute Otitis Media

Acute otitis media (AOM) is the ...

The internet has brought a lot of benefits to the world and at the same time has increased the level of negative vices. Businesses are able to set-up websites that increase their visibility. There are certain volumes of sales and advertising are now conducted online cutting costs. Print and media advertising have higher costs. There are social networks and mail capabilities that allow individuals to interact, make friends, form relationships and even enter into long-term commitments. The people are able to express their views on any topic on the internet through blogs and personal websites. Anonymity is guaranteed for ...

The history of the American civil rights movement would be incomplete without the mention of two pivotal names – Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Both men were Americans of African origin who lived at a time when apartheid still had its nails dug deep into the American society’s flesh. They started movements, inspired a people and stood by their beliefs and principles till they died. While both men were active in the civil rights movement about the same time and had immense following among the people, their leadership style, personality and beliefs varied greatly.

How people perceive ...

I. Introduction
Peter Singer, in his article on All Animals are Equal, have arrived at an inference that both humans and non-human species have an equal consideration of interest, which is know as non-speciecism or the unbiased treatment of other species. He expounded on the idea by presenting both sides of the arguments when he said that racists, just like speciecisists, violate the consideration of equality principle when they are biased or prejudicial in their treatment of another race or species. He inferred that because of the greater weight that a particular race or species give to their own ...

Culture Competency

What demands have been served by “othering” people of color from certain ethnic groups, Middle East and Muslims, and other marginalized groups throughout U.S. history?
The concept of “othering” was hooked on the premise of categorizing people according to their designated group, and unfortunately, this practice had often resulted to certain groups labeled as inferior or superior than the others. In the case of the American society, categorization allowed the white race, who controls the greater political power, to show superiority over the other race. It is the mantra of this type of sociological order that the dominant group ...

The business environment is constantly reinventing itself with businesses combining new methods to improve efficiency. According to Schoenbachler & Gordon (2002), it is now necessary for businesses to change or risk being driven out of business by competitors. Top of the factors that have been a driving force in the business scene is technology. Through the years, technology has constantly changed due to individual’s demand for efficiency. This continued development has enabled people to connect and communicate more easily. The incorporation of technology into business has contributed to the efficiency of service delivery to ...

Synopsis:

Tricia Monet, who is a young woman aged twenty-three years old, is hastily promoted from an assistant store director to a store director for a Personal Reflections retail store. Tricia Monet had no previous managerial experience as she had just been out of college. The jobs that she had done were the accounting jobs at her school. The only training that Tricia Monet had was a two-week course for the position of assistant store director. When she arrives at her new workplace, the director of the company hires three assistant store directors for the store. The first task that ...

In William Shakespeare’s drama, “As You Like It” the theme of love is a central ongoing them in the play. In nearly every scene, there is a reference to love, although each scene refers to love in a different way. Throughout the play, there are widely varying presentations and perceptions of love, from the courtly and romantic love among the nobles, to the not-so-serious love among the lower class, to the unpassionate love between friends.
Upper class love is depicted as those who are very much in love, despite the obvious fact that people barely know each other. ...

The use of oil as an energy source has economic effects on oil producing countries. There is a high demand for more oil owing to the increasing population growth and oil prices. Attributable to the rise in oil prices, there is a sweeping revolution in the use of renewable energy in the Arab world so as to promote the use of domestic clean energy. The rise of oil prices in the Middle East has enabled the push towards the use of renewable resources. The big producing oil-rich countries in the near future will eventually exhaust their oil resources, and ...

Anxiety can be defined as a normal reaction experienced by human beings and involves the physical being and the brain as well. Anxiety serves as an alert system that is triggered when and individual recognizes peril or risk. It is an imperative fundamental survival function. An individual feels sensations of anxiety when the brain and the body respond to a threat or peril.

Anxiety is characterized by quicker heartbeats and panting, unsettled stomach, tense muscles, shivering legs and hands and sweaty palms. This response is an element of the body that is meant to fight flight. This is the ...

Women in leadership – how successful are women in this day and age?

A leader has been defined as a person who has an ability to provide vision and direction to an organization and possesses the necessary attributes that can help in fostering the goals of that organization (Chliwniak in Growe and Montgomery, 1999; Donald, Dale, and Sonya, 2006). While various definitions of a leader do not mention the issue of gender anywhere, research show that leadership has been dominated by the male gender in the past. However, evidence show a modern female can make a good leaders just like his male counterpart; or even better. For example, studies conducted in education ...

Starting from 1920 RCA had been an electronic giant produced radios, and later, televisions, located in Philadelphia, a city of Camden. Aiming at profit maximization the company moved the parts of operating process several times inside of the US, and then abroad seeking for cheap workforce.

The major reason for moving a significant part of RCA operations is that the company intended to save labor costs by hiring people in rural areas, poor, young, uneducated, single, female and immigrants. Another fact that gives the evidence of this tendency is that RCA moved its plants several times during seventy years ...

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Abstract

Asthma and allergic reactions result in inflamed and swollen lung airways. Asthma is of two types, atopic and non-atopic. The asthma symptoms include excessive production of mucus, coughing, tightness in chest, wheezing, and difficulty in breathing. The triggers for atopic asthma are allergens and the hyper-responsiveness of IgE immunoglobulin. Genetic factors are involved in non-atopic asthma that relies on the propensity of developing asthma and hypersensitivity of airways. Epithelial cytokines, macrophage, eosinophils, and T cells collectively influence the fibroblast production resulting in muscle mutagenesis and bronchial hyper-responsiveness. ...

Introduction

In every society, the basic determinants of development are political system and economic position of that particular country. This is significantly shown by the way United States of America, Nigeria, and China organized and structured their political and government system in the 20th century. Moreover, political stability also dictates the speed with which economy of a country develops.

Economic and political system of Nigeria in the 20th Century

Economic system of Nigeria in the 20th century
At the attainment of independence in 1960, Nigeria was left relatively strong but with the undiversified economy. To remedy this, the state came up with proposals on how to increases economic growth and ...

Business Management School

Introduction
Business management entails the coordinating of efforts and resources within a department, office, company or organization to meet defined aims. In a field often described by the phrase ‘governance’, business supervisors make verdicts, offer direction and set an illustration for other staffs. Holders of the degree in business management may opt related areas, such as finance, accounting, public relation, human resource, marketing, and entrepreneurship or international business. The business management program is set to prepare the scholar with both theoretical and practical management background, in line with the current business world. Business management helps one to gain necessary ...

Courtship is a major element of many romantic movies. It is the exciting, fun and optimistic period of dating before a couple move on to a more serious commitment like marriage or other form of domestic partnership. It is a time when two people are deciding if they have a future together, and is more formal than casual dating, with an ultimate goal of marriage. (Jackson & Braboy) From a sociological perspective, courtship has been systematically studied since the 1940’s, with noticeable changes in the language, style, rituals and activities that constitute courtship (Sprecher & Regen). New theories about courtship ...

As a Supreme Court Justice, it is possible to see two opposing viewpoints emerge in the privacy debate. Should the government collect information from private citizens in the name of national security? The first viewpoint is "privacy and speech are values of great importance" and people typically embrace these values. Scott McNeal, CEO of Sun Microsystems, summarizes the alternative view: "You already have zero privacy. Get over it." Regarding privacy, the issue should not be whether or not we have privacy, but persuading people to care about their privacy issues. Every day, millions of people post their private information ...

Diverticulitis refers to the rupturing of the diverticuli resulting to infection in the tissues that surround the colon. Diverticuli refers to small bulging sacs in the inner wall of the intestine which are as a result of pressure within the colon as a person ages. The sacs are known as diverticulum in singular and diverticuli in plural. Scholars have argued that a lower fiber diet may contribute to the development of diverticuli owing to the fact that the colon has to use more pressure to push the stool forward. Diverticulitis then occurs as a result of faces being trapped ...

Although the company continues to come up with ways to promote structured data within the organization, this remains an ongoing effort and is not yet a completely solved problem. At most, company data can be said to be semi-structured.

Some of the company’s structured data management efforts include the use of tools for

storing and managing different types of information. For example, Team Foundation System is used for storing program codes, software defect information, and end user documentation. Team Foundation System is accessed using Visual Studio, which allows for these documents to be easily searched and sorted. Team Foundation System also has a version control system that enables the easy identification of the ...

Life is a process that entails continuous learning not only through difficult and horrifying moments but also through continued our past successes. This learning process remains throughout our lifetime and only disappears when we take an eternal slumber never to see the rising sun again. This paper intends to focus the learning moments in life by exploring the lessons learnt from both the worst and darkest moments and also through the different successes achieved in life.

Focusing on the worst darkest moments that I have experiences in life, my mind flashes back to the summer of 2009 when I ...

Introduction

The modern world of business is today becoming more tough and competitive as different companies strive to gain a competitive edge over others. In order for a company to become successful and stay successful in a competitive world, it is important for management to take a strategic risk. Following the traditional ways of business and staying safe all the time may cost the company its success since the company may be overcome by other businesses. One of the ways that management can ensure the company becomes and remains successful is through strategic management. Strategic management involves a collection of ...

Introduction

The central asset to the operation of any organization/company revolves around the functionality of the employees. Many factors that have a relation to the employees enable a company to achieve its objective. Some of the factors include productivity, customer satisfaction, quality, and the company’s image. The factors named above have a dependence on the coordination, training and motivation of the employees. A good company has the interest of its people at heart. The management influences the employees to have an urge to work for the company. Buddy has broken the human resource rule of dealing with his employees. ...

In 1532, one of the literary masterpieces of all time was published under the authorship of a Florentine philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli . The novel bore a Latin title Il Principe, translated to English as, The Prince. The book contains political treatise and advice to a certain political leader, believed to be Cesare Borgia, an Italian ruler whom Machiavelli served as an adviser . The book contains several political analyses particularly relating to leadership and the kind of leader that is necessary to lead a country to victory. In today’s contemporary political system, leaders are being badly criticized for ...

Clarissa's relationship with Sally Seton is one of the most interesting and controversial aspects of the novel, as it depicts a latent homosexual desire for Sally on the part of Clarissa. Clarissa and Sally had kissed at Bourton 34 years previous to that, and still remembers that as the happiest she has ever been - it was the "most exquisite moment of her whole life...Sally stopped; picked a flower, kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The other's disappeared; there she was alone with Sally" (Wolff, 1925).

Clarissa's love for Sally stemmed ...

Technology- Big Data and Analytics

Business Challenge
The advancements made in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has opened up a wide spectrum of challenges and opportunities for the companies globally, irrespective of the industry they are operating in. With the deep penetration of internet and its widespread application in the form of interconnected systems and social media platforms, the amount of data generated is huge. The development and evolution of modern data analytics is a recent phenomenon, even though decision making based on data collection and statistical analyses have existed since past many centuries. Many global corporations are still lurking in ...