...argue that we have not seen a paradigm shift in social attitudes from generation to generation, and one could easily point to this the being the reason that we as a society have progressed so quickly over the last 50 years. Until conducting these interviews I was not aware of the immense amount of progress, and in some cases amount of deterioration, that we as a society have caused. It is obvious in the way that human beings have treated things like environmental sustainability, civic engagement and social justice over this time and this paper will be examining how these ideas have are different to generation. While interviewing my grandfather I was able to gather lots of information about not just the time he lived in, but also some information about himself that I had not previously known. He started off the interview by telling me about his childhood. My grandfather was born in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1940 and as many know this was the year that Germany began its occupation of the Netherlands. He grew up in a rural area and spoke about how little food him and his family had due to the conflict happening in his home country. When I asked my Grandfather about his childhood he told me there was little to be...
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...that effects the prefrontal cortex with the periaqueductal gray matter that modulates the transmission of pain information to the brain. The placebo effect allows a person to believe that something fake could become real, because of someone’s perspective of it. The placebo effect works on the neurochemistry in the brain sending pain relievers to parts of the body where the pain was, by acting as the actual pain reliever. In light of the placebo effect, it’s not what you go through that matters, it’s how you feel about it. This paper will explain the history of the placebo effect from a biblical Christian worldview, the positives and the negatives of the placebo effect, while explaining why the placebo effect is so effective. While researching for this paper, I recalled a conversation that I had with my mother a few years back; it was disclosed to me that in 1962, my grandfather was in the hospital with cancer. My mother, sister, and I were discussion the effectiveness of doctors and the generic medication that gets prescribed to certain patients who can’t afford the expensive ones. My father died three years ago from prostate cancer, two weeks after having surgery. Before the surgery, my father seemed as if he was always in pain, but could get up and move around, spend time with the family, struggle; but try to complete different activities and task around the house. After the surgery, my father was a totally different person, he could hardly walk, he had extreme breathing...
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...entrepreneurial motivation. With this article, Carsrud and Brännback, "attempts to renew interest in a line of research that largely has been ignored for two decades but which is critical to the study of entrepreneurial cognitions, intentions, and their conversion into entrepreneurial behaviors," and "that area is entrepreneurial motivation"(Carsrud et al. 2011). They do this by showing how "entrepreneurial motivations are important explanatory mechanisms for a variety of entrepreneurial behaviors," and "how such motivations may impact both intentions and subsequent behaviors"(Carsrud et al. 2011). This was written in hopes of getting researchers to remember entrepreneurial motivations and their greater role in an entrepreneur's behaviors. Discussion about Selected Article According to Ward (2011), a business owner's motivation will change during the owner's life cycle with the business. For a person to want to become a business owner or to become an entrepreneur, they have to have some sort of motivation behind it. Carsrud and Brännback are challenging researchers to dig a bit deeper, to do more studies on how these motivations of entrepreneurs impact their businesses and the success of them; in this article they said that they "have attempted to show that entrepreneurial motivations are important explanatory mechanisms for a variety of entrepreneurial behaviors" and they "paid special attention on how such motivations may impact both intentions and subsequent...
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...fact, a threat to America’s way of life. My initial gut reaction was that I would not oppose immigration and do not find it threatening to America’s way of life. This initial decision was conducted before completing the readings and I found my decision was based on the fact that I did not want to be considered a “racist” or discriminatory in any way. Also, as I have mentioned in one of my previous discussions, both my parents immigrated to the United States from Cuba during the “freedom flights” in the mid-sixties. My grandparents brought came to this country along with my parents for opportunity and to escape the tyrannous and communist leader, Fidel Castro who had just taken over. I immediately thought that without immigration, my parents would have never come to this country and who knows, maybe I wouldn’t even exist to write this paper! Then, the words of Peter Brimelow caught my attention in the section of “What About My Grandfather?”, Brimelow writes: “Many Americans have difficulty thinking about immigration restriction because of the lurking fear: This would have kept my grandfather out...but it must also be stressed that that was then; this is now. There are important differences between the last Great Wave of Immigration and today’s” (Brimelow 1995). I can really stand behind Brimelow’s reasonings in the article--immigration today, is much different that what it was in the...
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...speaks with such longing and love that every syllable seems covered in honey. Perhaps that is why he has started hallucinating. His desire to re-visit Sirhind is so strong, the place where his father had slapped a Sikh who tried to stop a Shia procession and where he had shared loaves covered in ghee with his father’s Hindu business partners. Every night, nana claims that ‘his friends’ in his dreams take him across the border to his home, where he was born in the year 1935. My nana is Chaudhry Muhammad Bashir, one of the most capable and eminent lawyers in Faisalabad. His grandfather was the late Allah Baksh, who owned two acres of land in Sirhind. He was illiterate and supported his family through a very unconventional business advantage. His wife Naseem, also illiterate, was host to a Jinn at night. By virtue of this supernatural guest, she used to recite the Holy Quran with fervor. My great-great grandfather used to ask the Jinn what merchandise he should sell in the...
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...Q1) If some of the students in the class are found to be using intoxicants, the teacher should? Answer: C. Advice them properly Q1) If some of the students in the class are found to be using intoxicants, the teacher should? Answer: C. Advice them properly ================================== Q2) To help a student to select the course of study for higher education is: Answer: C. Educational guidance ================================== Q3) A free democratic classroom will be best suited for: Answer: C. Children being trained to become free citizen ================================== Q4) The first important step in teaching is: Answer: B. Knowing the background of students ================================== Q5) What will you do as a teacher if the students do not attend your class? Answer: C. Know the reasons, and try to remove them ================================== Q6) A researcher divides the populations into PG, graduates and 10 + 2 students and using the random digit table he selects some of them from each. This is technically called Answer: B. Stratified random sampling ================================== Q7) Field study is related to Answer: A. Real life situations ================================== Q8) Attributes of objects, events or things which can be measured are called Answer: C. Variables ================================== Q9) Below are listed some qualities (i) Keenness...
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...Communication Style Case Study Sherryanne Paul-John HCS/350 August 24, 2015 Brenda Harton Communication Style Case Study Everything that's said and done conveys a message that is labeled communication. From the verbal style using pitch and tone to nonverbal cues of body language and touch. The nurse-client communicative relationship should reflect the caring nature embedded in our profession, to achieve positive outcomes of our work. Boggs (2011) states, effective communication has been shown to produce better health outcomes, greater client satisfaction, and increased client understanding. This paper will show communication styles from a personal perspective and three other scenarios within the healthcare setting. The discussion will focus on why communicating effectively is important in health care and how the outcome of these interactions could improve staff relations and impact patient care. A Personal Perspective: The clinic has six RNs and one aide, two teams came together due to a department merger. Moral was low, control was lost and as a result, an "us versus them" mentality became evident from the onset. Everyone was in passive aggressive mode on a daily basis. Everyone had strong personalities. The tension was palpable. The team was split in half and with no team spirit and no team efforts the problem has never been solved. Now conflict is a natural part of a human relationship; however, unresolved conflict interferes with success in meeting goals (Boggs...
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...Pediatric Incision Care Abstract This paper explores several articles that show results about wound care education research and its effects throughout the world. It also provides information about a case study based on this type of research. The case study included an interview process and a presentation to the client. An important component of this research includes providing education specifically to parents or guardians of the pediatric population which include patients aged from zero to eighteen years of age. Since clients are often unaware of the appropriate interventions following incision care treatments, it is important to discuss and instruct them about the correct methods of providing care after a procedure. Keywords: wound care education, knowledge and skill of wound care, patient education, wound infection Wound Care Education Patients or caretakers of pediatrics patients are often unaware of how to care for incisions after medical procedures. Nurses are responsible for educating patients on the effects and complications of these treatments. Since wound infection has been attributed to many incision procedures, it is crucial that clients improve their knowledge and skills to reduce this type of infection when sent home. According to the Journal of Clinical Nursing, after providing a wound care program to 89 participants, there was greater understanding, skills, and satisfaction from the group who was provided the program than from those without the education...
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...Sitora Pulatova Galina Gorborukova Sociology of Deviance Final paper 18/12/2015 Suicide as a form of deviant behavior Introduction Deviant behavior is defined as any behavior or an act that goes against the established certain social norms in one specific society. As norms change in time, so does the description of deviant behavior. Deviant behavior as an element of social life is the subject of sociology and social psychology. The history of sociology of deviance is presented in a variety of monographs, textbooks and articles ( Ivanova E., 2014 ). However it is poor reflected in the history of Kyrgyz sociological studies of deviance as well as in the formation of Kyrgyz sociology of deviance. Sociology of deviant behavior and suicide behavior holds a strong position as a special theory of suicide within the structure of sociological knowledge (Problem of sociological research, pg. 1). Suicide can be seen as the ultimate deviant act. So it is important to know how it is measured in official statistics. According to the latest World Health Ranking data published in May 2014 Suicide Deaths in Kyrgyzstan reached 1.43% of total deaths. The age adjusted Death Rate ranks of Kyrgyzstan is 79th in the world (World Health Organization, 2015). This paper focuses on suicidal behaviour within the traditional society of Kyrgyzstan. According to established norms and values of traditional society the suicide attempt is extremely...
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...This semester’s research topic revolved around the Menominee Native American Chief Oshkosh the Brave, who was appointed leader of the Menominees in 1827. It expanded to include his son Chief Neopit Oshkosh, appointed in 1871, and to his grandson Reginald who was unofficially named as chief in 1913 because I needed to understand the differences in how white Americans remember and revere these individuals compared to how Menominee historians remember them but ended up finding more differences in how different white scholars remember them. Consequently, my historiographical paper is on Reginald Oshkosh (which I believe I will focus on for my Fellowship research), but I foresee my Capstone project needing to be narrowed to only include Chief...
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...genome which the core requirement for phenotypic expression (Mitchell et al., 2013). After the process, the genomes formed will be different from the usual ones hence a different protein will be expressed by the affected cell; and this may be an adverse effect. The epigenetics video shows how various chemical modifications occur to the genome, interacting specifically with DNA, and the effect on expression of genes. Since cells are the basic unit of life, the effect on the whole person begins when these changes occur at the cellular level. Various research works on epigenetics have been done, and the effect on gene expression has been published in articles (Powledge, 2015). This paper will give a discussion on epigenetics, its flow within a family setting and the strategies of improving longevity in cases of epigenesis. Article Analysis Powledge introduces the article by explaining the mystery behind different behaviors expressed by identical twins, despite the fact that they possess similar genes. Such twins are different in phenotypic aspects such as general conduct, health, and their growth rate. It is due to such observable differences that some researchers ventured into the field of human epigenetics, to find out the cause of how similar genes can lead to different outcomes. The answer has been discovered in the study of epigenetics which is defined in the articles as chemical changes that occur in the gene and alter its molecular physiology (Powledge, 2015). Such changes are...
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...Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, is a book about the science and politics behind some of the most important scientific discussions in the 20th century. It covers the issues of smoking and second-hand smoke, acid rain, ozone depletion, global warming, and history revisionism. In each topic Oreskes and Conway delve into how these discussions and arguments took place, and the goals that were being accomplished. The section of the book which had the best resonance was the section on history revisionism concerning Rachel Carson and her work relating to DDT. The reasoning is partly a personal matter on both the concept of history revisionism and the effects of DDT. Aside from personal, the issue with historical revisionism...
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...Why do People Code-switch 1 Why do People Code-switch: A Sociolinguistic Approach Why do People Code-switch: A Sociolinguistic Approach Walid M Rihane Arab Open University Why do People Code-switch 2 Abstract This paper sets out at the beginning different definitions and approaches to the linguistic phenomenon - Code-Switching. Through my work, I will highlight five different factors that motivate code-switching in a bilingual speaker although the reasons for code-switching are many . I will talk about the role of ethnic solidarity, social class, topic, affection, and persuasion in motivating switching codes. I will use different approaches and case-studies conducted by researchers from inside and outside Lebanon to back up my discussion. Why do People Code-switch 3 Why do People Code-switch: A Sociolinguistic Approach 1. Introduction: A person is said to be multilingual if he or she is competent in more than one language. Multilingualism is usually the result of many factors, such as colonisation, intercultural marriage, cultural interaction, education, and many other reasons. The applied linguist Del Hymes defines communicative linguistic competence as, '[a person] acquires competence as to when to speak, when not, and as to what to talk about with whom, when, where, in what manner' (Hymes, 1979). In this way, a person who is capable of using appropriately two languages or more is said to be multilingual. Usually, bilinguals and multilinguals...
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...Furthermore, no one wants to think about dying early in life and deciding what they should do once they are diagnosed with a death sentence. When the right procedures are followed and the appropriate steps are taken. A patient should have the right to choose their own path in the most humane way possible. When my grandfather, a World War II veteran, got the news that he had six months to live he went home and stuck a gun in his mouth and ended his life in a way that changed my whole family. There was no discussion with him, heck no one even knew the reason why. I could only hope if a physician talked about the options and planning this could have ended in a different manner. With his family, there with him by his side for the last seconds of life. This is an issue of the utmost importance for the lives of everyone involved in a family. In this situation, I will never know if this would have helped, but Brittney Maynard is proof as are so many other people that they wanted to die with dignity. I would not want my twelve-year-old son to watch me turn into a shell of a man, instead of the hero he sees me as daily. I would not want my family to suffer the...
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...“Salad bowl” theories This paper will examine the theories of the “melting pot” and “salad bowl” and also look at “racial democracy” in Brazil. Secondly, this paper will look at cultural assimilation using these theories. Finally it will look at the myths of these theories and how they have affected the American and world societies. Have Americans really reached either the “melting pot” or “salad bowl” theories of cultural assimilation? Is Brazil really a “racial democracy” or is this also a myth and how does this differ with America? The United States of America is one of the most culturally diverse nations on earth. In 2009, Michael C. Lemay states, “the United States of America is arguably the most ethnically and racially diverse nation on earth”. Who is an American, I am using the term Americans to be defined as individuals who were native born, naturalized citizens, and individuals who consider themselves Americans from the United States of America. Generally speaking most Americans grow up, in ethnically homogeneous communities (Putnam, 2007) vice the differing theories of “melting pot” or “salad bowl.” While Americans live and work in communities that are ethnically and culturally diverse the issues of intolerance and prejudice against various ethnic and racial backgrounds has been a plague throughout much of the United States history. Such as the Grandfather clause or Block busting. The Grandfather Clause is a device used to disenfranchise...
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