...Anatomy of Violence Paper December 2013 The Anatomy of Violence is a non-fiction book, written by Adrian Raine, which investigates and presents facts to prove a neurocriminology hypothesis. Adrian Raine conducted experiments, researched and studied the biological roots of violence. He inaugurated neurocriminology, a newer field that incorporates neuroscience methods with the intention of examining the causes of violent criminal acts. Raine analyzes criminal minds. He pieces together research, data, and experiments of psychology, neurology, and criminology in order to inform the public of this new notion which sheds a new light on why people are or become violent criminals. This book was very interesting, well-explained, an easy read and the author incorporated many scientific examples to back up his theories. Adrian Raine takes us on a scientific expedition and exposes brain malfunction to be the cause of violent criminal acts. Raine’s theories are interesting and definitely bring forth many important questions however, while reading, I found some of his concepts are difficult to fully envision for logical reasons. A number of his concepts give an overreaching impression and are a bit too broad. While Raine brings up many valid points, I found myself asking important questions while reading Anatomy of Violence. Does this new research and belief give criminals a “Get out of jail free” card? While reading this book, I asked myself, Will this new theory allow...
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...Dontavia Zeno English 1157-002 Past the Scalpel Nora Steiger 05/01/2014 Dr. Joshua Landes is a board certified general surgeon, who received his premedical and medical education at Brown University. He completed his residency at Tulane University School of Medicine, and is a member of the American College of Surgeons. He now works as one of two general surgeons for the Hamilton Medical Group in Lafayette, Louisiana; which is where our first interview took place. I remember sitting in his office waiting for him to come in, and staring at a coat rack located in the corner. It held only two white lap coats, which looked as if they hadn’t been worn for some time; there were no rumples or creases out of place, and as crisp and wrinkle–free as they were, you could assume they came straight from the dry cleaners. It also held a green scrub cap that was obviously worn quite often, which actually looked slightly yellow due to it being washed so many times. Directly across from the coat rack stood a bookshelf filled with books that all contained the word “surgery” in its titles. The books were triple the size of a holy bible, and weighed so much that the shelves bent downward, like a meniscus in a graduated cylinder. When he walked in I noticed he wasn’t wearing a white lab coat, so I asked him about it. “I don’t need a lab coat to remind me that I’m a physician,” he said as he smiled and took a seat behind his desk. That’s when I realized my hypothesis of who I thought...
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...Matthews and Donta state, “changes are reshaping health care and the future of how health care is paid for and received” (2005, p. 1). As American’s have been introduced to the Affordable Care Act this year, there have been many changes to overcome. As healthcare employees, change affects us internally throughout the healthcare industry. It also affects us externally as the cost of healthcare rises, and the patient count lowers because Americans cannot afford the cost of care. No matter the changes experienced in healthcare, employees must adapt as soon as possible to maintain the highest quality of care for the patient. Stakeholder Questions & Concerns During the organizational change there will be many questions and concerns from employees, society, and many others. Employees may ask questions such as “will there always be a promised job position for myself”, “will I still receive the same benefit package, short term leave, long term disability, and will by salary be stable”. Employees sort of “freeze” when there is change in a healthcare facility in fright that they are going to lost their current position. Society may ask questions such as “will I receive the same care as I did in the past after the change”, and “will the cost of service or copays increase during or after the change either”? Questions such as this are very important to patients because it is mandatory to know if they can afford the care without going into debt before stepping foot in the building. ...
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...In 2012, Annie Dookhan, was a lab technician at the crime lab. Dookhan was arrested in Boston with charges of obstruction of justice and Perjury. It is said that Dookhan was responsible for testing substances brought in by police that appeared to be an illegal substance. It was noted that her work performance was above the norm by over 50% of her other coworkers. Dookhan was called Superwoman due to her testing over 500 samples in a month while the norm is 150 a month. This raised concern which started an internal investigation. During their investigation, it was determined that Dookhan had tested approximately 60,000 drug evidence samples during her employment in the lab. So far, over 1,400 samples were found to be tainted. After her arrest,...
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...called love is very tricky. I started out as a teen with the man everyone on both sides of the family thought I would marry. We fooled everyone with our break up, even us. We were better off friends. Micah has a good heart, a good head on his shoulders & an excellent job, but that’s not what I was looking for or what I wanted. I truly couldn’t say what I wanted back then but I do know that good church boy was not it. So that ended & we both moved on with our lives. A few years later I met who I thought was the man for me. Donta was younger than me & he lived in another city. We went back & forth for a few years but that didn’t last. One very misleading night we decided to break away from the group & well one thing lead to another & I ended up with a very special gift. We ended up with a baby, we are both teenagers & we both didn’t know what to do with a baby. I found out fast just how hard it was to be a single mother. Donta wasn’t ready for this relationship or this baby, so he was not the man for me. Now I have a baby & I am just 19 & I still don’t know what love really is. I found myself being attracted to all the wrong men. Thugs, abusers, cheaters & liars. Was it me or was it them? I just don’t know but I kept going until life hit me. I met the man of all men & in...
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...The Waters Bottling Company (WBC) WBC Crystal clear water * Version 1.0 * August 14, 2015 Presented by: Donta Bright Promotion Mix is defined as a specific combination of promotional methods used for product or a family of products, according to the business dictionary (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/promotion-mix.html). Advertising is a way to communicate with customers on a non-personal level through commercials on TV, fliers in the mail, to billboards around town. We will be using all of the above to get our name and product noticed in the market. Personal Selling is one-to-one communication between seller and prospective customers. Here at WBC we will implement this strategy, because this will generate a personal relationship with our prospective customers. Direct marketing is a strategy we can also use to target the market that we want to go after. This can take place on both the non-personal and personal adverting. Sales Promotion we will use this tactic to increase sales and inform customers of new products we want to push in the market. This also will create and sale the image of WBC. Public Relations is an area where we have the chance display our image on qualities of life to our targeted market. How we do this is get involved with the community and help positive organizations in what there are trying to accomplish. While we penetrate the market in this strategy, gives us a chance to announce new products and...
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...showing on the clock. Clapper connected with Mitchell Wycinski 5-9 / 140 for a twenty two yard pick up all the way down to the Little Muskies five yard line, with 6:39 left in the half. Clapper scampered in from two yards out, then after the point after kick, the Panthers held a,21-2 lead. John Glenn would start a comeback bid with a eleven play seventy six yard drive, capped off with a two yard Bonner run. The point after kick was blocked leaving the score,21-8 Panthers, with 2:01 left in the long half. With :52 left the Panthers turned the ball over again when, Clapper was picked off by Kaden Miller on a poorly thrown pass. The Panthers suffered one final first half turnover when, Clapper threw another bad pass and it was picked by,Donta Radcliffe 5-7 / 140 to end the...
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...Ethical Dilemma Week 8 The Death of Freddie Gray By Hope Schwegler May 4, 2015 Phil 2003 Principles of Ethics Professor Margaret De Alminana ‘On April 12, 2015, Freddie Gray, a 25 year old African American male, was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department. He had a known unethical character and had been involved in twenty criminal court cases, five of which were still active at the time of his death. He was due in court on a possession charge on April 24, 2015. Freddie Gray died on April 19, 2015, due to injuries to his spinal cord. On April 21, 2015, pending an investigation of incident, six Baltimore police officers were temporarily suspended with pay. On May 1, 2015, state prosecutors in Baltimore received a medical examiner’s report ruling Gray’s death as a homicide. Was it foul play that was intentional, gross negligence, or inflicted self harm by the prisoner? We identified “Rae’s first step in making a moral decision is to gather the facts.” Much of the other information had conflicting reports and statements. So what are the “ethical issues that Rae has for level two” in the model for making moral decisions? The formal charge filed by Office Garrett Miller accused Gray of violating statute 19 59 22, “unlawfully carry, possess, and sell a knife commonly called a switch blade knife, with an automatic spring or other device for opening and/or closing the blade within the limits of Baltimore City.” The prosecutor alleged that Gray’s arrest was unlawful...
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...ALSO BY MALCOLM GLADWELL The Tipping Point To my parents, Joyce and Graham Gladwell Introduction The Statue That Didn’t Look Right In September of 1983, an art dealer by the name of Gianfranco Becchina approached the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. He had in his possession, he said, a marble statue dating from the sixth century BC. It was what is known as a kouros—a sculpture of a nude male youth standing with his left leg forward and his arms at his sides. There are only about two hundred kouroi in existence, and most have been recovered badly damaged or in fragments from grave sites or archeological digs. But this one was almost perfectly preserved. It stood close to seven feet tall. It had a kind of light-colored glow that set it apart from other ancient works. It was an extraordinary find. Becchina’s asking price was just under $10 million. The Getty moved cautiously. It took the kouros on loan and began a thorough investigation. Was the statue consistent with other known kouroi? The answer appeared to be yes. The style of the sculpture seemed reminiscent of the Anavyssos kouros in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, meaning that it seemed to fit with a particular time and place. Where and when had the statue been found? No one knew precisely, but Becchina gave the Getty’s legal department a sheaf of documents relating to its more recent history. The kouros, the records stated, had been in the private collection of a Swiss physician named Lauffenberger...
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