...Commentary essay on increasing trend of ADHD diagnosis Ryan Jarman Grand Canyon University Commentary essay on increasing trend of ADHD diagnosis Beginning in 2011 a sizable increase in the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) spiked to an all-time high. The diagnosis of ADHD jumped 24% in a four-year period. (CDC, 2013). This trend was observed through by the New York Times by interviewing 76,000 parents by cellphone or direct calls. This raw data was then given to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The controversy with this fact may be observed as over diagnosis, changes in mental health procedure, or perhaps wrong diagnosis for patients. By treating these numbers as a reality this increased trend may indicate some hope for these patients by better community awareness, better treatment and better outcomes. All of this can lead to better quality of life for those suffering from this mental health issue. With the diagnosis of ADHD on the rise more and more people are aware of it, this does not necessarily mean educated about ADHD. An organization called Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) is a non-profit that focuses on provide information and education and education on their website for the public. They are advocates for appropriate public policies and public recognition in response to the patients and families with these special needs. The program called National Resource Center on ADHD (NRC) sanctioned...
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...night Garden and Swallows and Amazons How do ‘the lure of the real’ (Bogan,A.2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300,Block 4) work together in any two of the set texts in Block 4? ‘The lure of the real’ (Bogan,A.2006) and the ‘power of the fantastic’ (EA300,Block 4) are used to create dramatic effect and depth to narratives, in interesting and diverse ways. The two concepts are not mutually exclusive. When the real and the fantastic combine, truly delightful and often informative, stories are created. Novels differ in their proportional use of realism and fantasy. Realism is commonly used to convey a sense of believability, to give gravitas to characters and to enable a child reader to understand through the presentation of the familiar and recognisable. Fantasy can be viewed as a “departure from consensus reality.” (Hume cited in EA300. Block4.p169). This could exist in the form of imaginary play, dreams, unworldly creations or literal impossibility. This essay will concentrate on Swallows and Amazons and Tom’s Midnight Garden. Each text has different approaches to the use of reality and fantasy. However, they convey similar themes and messages through various presentations of ‘the real’ and ‘the fantastic.’ Ransome and Pearce anchor their stories in reality by creating a “powerful sense of place and” a “celebration of freedom underpinned by family security.” (EA300, Block4) Ransome achieves this by distinct geographical representation of the Lake District...
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...The golden era of radio was one that made a long lasting impression on the entire world. It created a wireless connection throughout countries. Radio made its big splash into communications in the 1920’s. “In the early day radio had three patterns to the day, news and commentary, daytime serial drama, and quiz and audience participation programs (Sterling, p. 201).” The golden era of radio created a social revolution along with a shared American culture. “American boys and men connected themselves umbilically by headphones to a small black box powered by batteries (Douglas, p.195).” The golden era of radio was actually a cultural and social revolution coming from the power of wireless communication. In many ways the radio was to culture and society what mass production had been to commerce and industry. When public radio was introduced the world began to shrink and geographical and social boundaries began to disappear, in short the seeds of globalization were sown. Cultural integration occurred and the information age began. However, such revolutionary takeover did not occur overnight, public radio had to stray from military influence, fight a war with print media, fight FCC (Federal Communications Commission) regulations, find sources of finance, then remove itself from the control of advertisers and finally triumph with instant news reporting during World War II. “The Broadcasting House, considered by Germany a military target, was bombed several times, and destroyed the...
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...Generally-speaking, Ehrenreich’s incorporation of the elements of fiction, some of which include figurative language, dialogue, narrative commentary, and description of people and settings, conspicuously serves as a major asset to the established arguments, concerning the lifestyles led by the so-called “wage slaves”. In further elaboration upon this reality, it is integral to note that they essentially portray unfortunate realities in a vivid, animate manner: an exemplification of the vast dividends that are yielded, thanks to such stylistic tactics. Evidence from the text that further bolsters this claim is shown when the author states, “My first morning at Jerry's, when the hypoglycemic shakes set in, I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. ‘Well, I don't understand how you can go so long...
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...Freelance on the fly by mastering the opinion piece. Opinionated editorial essays are often the most fun, fast and furious pieces to get into print—especially for nonfamous writers with strong opinions and day jobs in other fields. That’s because editors of newspapers and online magazines like Slate, Salon, The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast want quick commentary on the ever-changing news cycle from experts who can illuminate different angles of stories as they unfold. So if you have an engaging, unusual point of view on a current public conundrum, along with a relevant platform (e.g., being a teacher, businessman, lawyer, doctor, parent or stamp collector) you don’t need clips or editorial experience on your résumé—just quick thinking and an understanding of the form of these articles. I once sent a hastily written kvetch about a Kmart opening in my Greenwich Village neighborhood to The New York Times at noon, had an acceptance by 2 p.m., was sent a copy by midnight and received a check within a week. Here are the essential elements of a successful and sellable op-ed. 1. BE TIMELY OR EARLY. I submitted my Kmart commentary the week the local branch opened, which, luckily, coincided with a front-page debate about superstores infiltrating Manhattan. Timeliness is essential with this genre, especially now that online news sites can update as often as they choose. The presidential election was hot for op-ed writers until Nov. 4; then, regular columnists took over the topic. ...
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...Bank Negara holds off raising rates By IZWAN IDRIS PETALING JAYA: Bank Negara kept the overnight policy rate unchanged yesterday despite the pressure to rein in rising prices, as policymakers placed priority on sustaining economic growth. “While both the risks to higher inflation and the risks to slower growth have increased, the immediate concern is to avoid a fundamental economic slowdown that would involve higher unemployment,'' the central bank said in a statement issued after a scheduled monetary policy meeting. Bank Negara was originally expected to announce the meeting's outcome at 6pm yesterday, but the announcement was delayed by nearly two hours. Earlier, the market was split almost evenly on how they expected the central bank would deal with rising inflation in the country. The interest rate in Malaysia has remained at 3.5% since April 2006, and is among the lowest in Asia together with those in Hong Kong and Thailand. The consumer price index (CPI) jumped to a 26-year high of 7.7% in June – or twice as high as 3.8% in May – as transport costs soared after the Government raised petrol and diesel prices at local pumps by 41% and 63% respectively. Bank Negara said it expected inflation to remain “elevated in the second half of the year and into early next year before moderating towards the middle of 2009.” “The average inflation for 2008 is projected to be in the range of 5.5% to 6%,'' it said. That is higher than the bank's earlier forecast of around 4%...
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...D.Min. Project Prospectus Sharon L. Smith I. Title: Bridging the Gap: A Pilot Project Aimed at Mutually Equipping Church and Business Leaders for Kingdom Impact II. The Context: Followers of Jesus Christ who possess a divine calling, talents, and gifts to work and serve God through specific voluntary or paid vocations in the workplace face daily opportunities to impact the Kingdom of God. When believers walk by faith and obedience in the revelation that God’s divine presence and purpose is with them daily in their work lives, God empowers them to lead change that can transform lives, businesses, and even nations. Believers clearly see this truth in the lives of Abraham, Joseph, Daniel, and Nehemiah. The Great Commission (Matt. 28) commands believers to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every person. This directive includes Holy Spirit-empowered witness in the marketplace with signs, wonders, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit in operation. As His priests (1 Pet. 2:5; Rom. 12:1-2), God calls believers ordained for the twenty-first century workplace to worship and serve Him through their actions, words, and works. God’s Word calls for excellence in whatever a person does (Col. 3:17). Fruitfulness follows when believers root biblical ethics in excellence, and practice it in relationships and business decisions. Anthropologists and missiologists are observing major global shifts causing leaders to revise their understanding of the notion of culture...
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...Principles for Defining Report Quality Guidance for Report Boundary Setting 16 17 22 26 Part 2 Standard Disclosures Strategy and Profile 1. Strategy and Analysis 2. Organizational Profile 3. Report Parameters 4. Governance, Commitments, and Engagement 5. Management Approach and Performance Indicators Economic Environmental Social: Labor Practices and Decent Work 40 29 29 30 30 31 33 34 36 Version 3.1/OGSS Final version 1 RG Sustainability Reporting Guidelines & OGSS Oil and Gas Sector Supplement Overview of the Guidance included in this Document for the Oil and Gas Sector Supplement Throughout this document, oil and gas sector-specific materials are highlighted using the following symbols: Denotes sector-specific text or commentary on existing G3.1 Guidelines...
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...Commentary Template for Southwest Airlines Case (Week 3) Your Name: Ari Kaplan Your Section Letter: MGSC6204 51494 SEC 17 Name of Student Whose Work You are Reviewing: Meghan Russell Instructions: Your course facilitator will assign you to review another student’s Case Study Questions. The purpose of this exercise is two-fold. First, you have the opportunity to build on your own understanding of the Southwest Airlines Case and its relevance to MGSC6204 by studying the analysis of a fellow student. Second, this assignment allows you to contribute to the growth of colleague by constructively building upon his/her work to further explore issues of relevance to the class. Remember to employ as applicable the writing approach prescribed in the syllabus (i.e. brief, focused answers employing bulleted lists and tables as appropriate) to present your point of view. Also bear in mind that thoughtful questions to the author (your fellow student) and examples drawn from your own work experiences can be as useful as additional narrative commentary on the author’s own words. Questions to be Completed: |Comment Question #1: Is your colleague’s assessment of Southwest’s IT adoption strategy complete/correct? What would you add? | |Commentator Response: | |Meghan touched upon all 3 of the key innovations noted in the article that occurred 1980’s...
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...Distinguished contributors. We feature writing by chief executives and other well-known corporate leaders, best-selling business thinkers and philosophers, prominent academics and researchers, seasoned practitioners from Booz & Company, and journalists with a track record in revealing the patterns below the surface. Distinctive content. Our purpose is to find and share the ideas and stories that raise the game for management, written and expounded clearly enough to provide the basis for thoughtful action. Through in-depth feature stories, thought leader interviews, and strategic commentaries, each issue of strategy+business provides an informed, global perspective on ideas and practices relevant to large-scale corporations. Ongoing features and studies include: The “Global Innovation 1000” study, examining corporate spending on research and development each year “CEO Succession”: an overview of the trends affecting the length of chief executive tenure and the nature of turnover in the role Our compendium of “Recent Research,” summarizing academic studies and their implications for real-world corporate...
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...Build Your Report | Symantec http://www.symantec.com/threatreport/print.jsp?id=highlights... BOOKMARK THIS PAGE | PRINT THIS PAGE | CLOSE Internet Security Threat Report Volume 17 Custom Report SHARE THIS PAGE Symantec blocked a total of over 5.5 billion malware attacks in 2011, an 81% increase over 2010. Web based attacks increased by 36% with over 4,500 new attacks each day. 403 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, a 41% increase of 2010. SPAM volumes dropped by 34% in 2011 over rates in 2010. 39% of malware attacks via email used a link to a web page. Mobile vulnerabilities continued to rise, with 315 discovered in 2011. Only 8 zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered in 2011 compared with 14 in 2010. 50% of targeted attacks were aimed at companies with less than 2500 employees. Overall the number of vulnerabilities discovered in 2011 dropped 20%. Only 42% of targeted attacks are aimed at CEOs, Senior Managers and Knowledge Workers. In 2011 232 million identities were exposed. An average of 82 targeted attacks take place each day. Mobile threats are collecting data, tracking users and sending premium text messages. You are more likely to be infected by malware placed on a legitimate web site than one created by a hacker. Introduction Symantec has established some of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world through the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which is made up of more than 64.6 million attack sensors and...
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...main points and suggestions of better alternatives, recommendations, policy and/or managerial implications. Theoretical background This section should contain an introduction, and a focused literature review relating to relevant themes and topics. It should also establish the theoretical framework in which the paper is situated. Empirical evidence and data analysis This section should start to develop the arguments that you wish to make. It will present and draw upon relevant case study materials and other appropriate forms of evidence and commentary. Data should support your arguments and highlight examples of theory in real-world practice. You should aim to explain the relevance (to the subject area and your line of argument) of any examples deployed. Interpretation and discussion This section provides an opportunity for you to expand upon your argument by analyzing and interpreting relevant data, evidence and commentary. Here you should compare various competing strands of argumentation (where relevant), and provide a structured, evidence-based discussion of your thoughts and findings with respect to the topic at hand. This section should also include short concluding remarks – refer back to the question and focus on (a) how you have addressed this, and (b) the main points and messages that emerge from your work References All references should be complete and should...
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...Commentary www.cdhowe.org No. 250 June 2007 ISSN 0824-8001 C.D. Howe Institute The Pension Papers Ill-Defined Benefits: The Uncertain Present and Brighter Future of Employee Pensions in Canada David Laidler and William B. P. Robson In this issue... Attempts to shore up the classic single-employer, defined-benefit pension plan are the wrong response to Canada’s occupational pension problems. While tax and regulatory changes can help, Canadians need a new approach to retirement income that will pool risks, control costs, and avoid the agency problems that have put many pension promises at risk. The Study in Brief The problems of employer-sponsored defined-benefit (DB) pension plans in Canada raise two issues: the need for short-run measures to limit the damage; and the need for new pension models to prevent their recurring. The DB sector’s immediate preoccupations are the result of changes in the economic environment — in particular, a decline in long-term interest rates — that caused their balance sheets to deteriorate, and of changes in accounting standards to more market-based methods that revealed the underfunded state of these plans in stark form. The immediate policy challenge is to ensure the recovery and/or restructuring of sick plans, and the continued health of sound ones. Extra time and financial scope to work off deficits are good, but current limits on contributions to plans should rise or disappear, while legislation to establish clear title...
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...Running Head: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH ARTICLE CRITIQUE Qualitative Research Article Critique Corey J. Ivany (MUN ID#: 009435660) Education 6100 Memorial University of Newfoundland Abstract This paper is an academic critique of a qualitative research article written by Karen Dorgan (2004) entitled: A Year in the Life of an Elementary School: One School’s Experiences in Meeting New Mathematics Standards. Throughout the course of the 1999-2000 school year, Dorgan observed and interviewed teachers who were members of the faculty of an economically and racially diverse elementary school in Virginia. The purpose behind the case study was to examine how the changes in the state Standards of Learning would effect pedagogical decision making, teaching and learning, and methods of instruction and evaluation. My evaluation/critique of this article is an holistic interpretation of the study as an example of a qualitative research project and is based on my understandings of this type of study from my involvement in Education 6100: Research and Design Methods from Memorial University of Newfoundland. My concern is to develop a systematic and analytical discussion based around the degree to which this case study exemplifies the characteristics of qualitative research. Qualitative Research Article Critique In her article A Year in the Life of an Elementary School: One School’s Experiences in Meeting New Mathematics Standards, Karen Dorgan (2004)...
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...(VRS) research team continues to expect slow GDP growth in 2011. As we said in the previous issue of the Lookout Report, if third-quarter earnings exceed analyst expectations--as they have for the past two years--we think the case for growth over recession will solidify. Heading into the third quarter, the Capital IQ mean estimate for S&P 500 companies declined sharply, with growth forecasts dropping from 17% at the beginning of the calendar quarter to 12.8% on Oct. 10, the day before Alcoa Inc.'s earnings unofficially launched the reporting The Lookout Report provides cross-market and cross-asset views based upon the unique combined capabilities of S&P Valuation and Risk Strategies, S&P Index Services, Capital IQ, and S&P Leveraged Commentary and Data. Published by S&P's Valuation and Risk Strategies research group, the Lookout Report is a compendium of current data and forward looking insights from leading...
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