...Forever 21: Dealing with America’s fear of aging and death Abstract This paper is about confronting America’s fear of the issues of aging and death. Over the years, American culture has grown uncomfortable with matters of growing old and death. The basis of this thinking is rooted in the mind and influenced by society. There is an ever increasing desire that’s rampant across our nation to remain young. This can be seen in the media, marketing for different products from makeup to apparel. Americans want to remain young for as long as they possibly can. In 1984, the band Alphaville came out with the song “Forever Young” to express America’s heart cry. However, aging and death is a part of life and a direct result of the fall of man. Aging and death were not the original condition of humanity, rather punishment that resulted from rebellion against God’s commandment. This paper examines why there is aging and death, America’s response to it, and a solution to rightly mature in the process. Since long ago America’s heart cry has been to stay young forever. In 1984, the band Alphaville came out with the song “Forever Young” to communicate the nation’s desire. In cities across the country and around every turn, materialism is vocalizing the longing for youth everlasting. This constant struggle with “wants” versus “reality” has left individuals searching for ways to cope. In addition, the lifespan of human beings was not always an average of eighty years. One thing to take into...
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...thought or image about a group of people based on little evidence (Moore &Parker, pg 122). Stereotypes are created based on some idea of abstract familiarity. A stereotype can be deemed 'positive', or 'negative'. Concepts of stereotype are rarely invoked in instances of positive stereotypes. This paper will explore the stereotypes and rhetoric that are associated with four groups of people: politicians, tattooed persons, feminists, and senior citizens. When looking at the one stereotype politicians is the ad hominem fallacy. The ad hominem fallacy is “the confusion between the qualities of the person making a claim and the qualities in the claim itself” (Moore & Parker, pg 173). Politicians are thought of as self-serving, hypocritical and dishonest con-artist. During a political campaign we see on the news how one attacks their opponents. The personal attack ad hominem fallacy is attacking another with negative comment. During campaigning it is bad because of the personal attacks on each other in order to discredit the other person. This is how they want to get voters on their side to vote for them. Politicians are a very unique group of people to explore stereotyping because they are probably the only group who uses stereotyping against each other, lease of which is positive (Green, 2009 ). In many ways, politicians create their own stereotype by announcing on national TV that their opponent possess every negative stereotype given to...
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...(2010). Storytelling reveals the active, positive lives of centenarians. Nursing Older People, 22(8), 31-36. doi: 10.7748/nop2010.10.22.8.31.c7995 Martin, P., Baenziger, J., MacDonald, M., Siegler, I. C., & Poon, L. W. (2009). Engaged Lifestyle, Personality, and Mental Status Among Centenarians. Journal of Adult Development. doi: 10.1007/s10804-009-9066-y The Okinawa Centenarian Study: Evidence based gerontology. (n.d.). Retrieved February 06, 2014, from http://www.okicent.org/study.html Richmond, R. L., Law, J., & Kay-Lambkin, F. (2011). Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Function in a Convenience Sample of Centenarians in Australia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 59(6), 1080-1086. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03404.x Ruiz, J. R., Fiuza-Luces, C., Buxens, A., Cano-Nieto, A...
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...Social Security: Then and Know Deanna Havens SOC 320/ Public Policy & Social Services December 10, 2011 Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, during the great depression. The social security system was supposed to be a creation that would cover nearly all Americans. Over the years social security has expanded in both dollar amounts and the way you are eligible to receive benefits. Social security smoothes the risks of economic cycles, and it remains the most secure retirement income in America. Intentionally or unintentionally, those who think that the surplus in social security is disappearing are misleading the American public. Social security is financed mainly through payroll taxes on wages, and self-employment income. Employees and employers contribute 6.2 of wages, up to a wage gap of 106.800 in 2009 that ordinarily increases with the growth in the nation’s average wage. The self-employed contribute the equivalent of the combined employer and employee tax rates. According to the annual social security report (2010) income from social security payroll taxes will account for about eighty-three percent of trust fund income. At the end of 2008, nearly fifty-one million people were receiving benefits: thirty-five million were retired workers, six million survivors of deceased workers, and nine million disabled workers. During the last year an estimated one hundred sixty-two million workers had earnings covered by social security...
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...Overcoming Generational Poverty Diana Rojas BSHS 345 August 12, 2014 Therese, DaSilva, LSSW Overcoming Generational Poverty Generational poverty is poverty passed down from generation to generation. Parents pass it down to their kids, and they received it from their parents. A vicious cycle can only be broken by raising above the current situation. In order to rise one must work and gain a greater income, if any, than what is currently being dealt with. It is a common truth that you can work yourself out of poverty. As easy as that sounds, many times this is almost impossible to achieve. Personal barriers that may harm success are stress, low self-esteem, isolation, and inadequate parenting competence. One can go into urban cities, rural areas, and ghettos and see the impoverished or underprivileged situations that many people live in today. The question often asked is; why do people live and think the way they do? Can they not move or get a better job? The sad truth is that for many people moving on does not come with ease. The factors for which many stay in the situation they are in is endless and often quite complex. Many times people face poverty because they lack the means to move up in life. This barrier often times comes from lack of education. In many areas instances, children never even make it out of high school because their presence is needed to work and help the family survive. Seniors are often faced with many challenges which lead them to fall into poverty...
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...Week 7 Homework Steven James Borkowski Prepared and written for Professor Jennifer Johnson Sociology 315 – Marriage and Families DeVry University Week 7 Homework We are now into week 7, the final week before class finals. Our assignment for this week is to answer five questions from the eBook for this class. I will write the chapter the question is found in as well as the number pertaining to that question within the chapter in the event that there are multiple questions. Chapter 12: 1 Question – Page 416 Question 1 Page 416: Historian Eric Sager, commenting on the growing ranks of singles, points out, “It is often said that divorce today performs the function that death did in the past. The promise to live together for better or worse, so long as you both shall live, means something very different if you anticipate a married life of 60 years, as opposed to a married life of 25 years.” Do you agree or disagree with Sager? Is the goal of lifetime marriage realistic in today’s society? What role, if any, does an increase in life expectancy play in marital stability? Explain. Answer: I believe that the goal of a lifetime marriage is still very realistic in todays modern society. When you look at what a divorce could ultimately do, splitting up families, finances and the emotional and physical toll it can have, I highly doubt anyone would Week 7 Homework want that. Sadly, as times have changed, so has the way marriages have been torn apart. People tend...
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...Free Trade Agreement (FTA) FTA & Trade Blocs are the same thing but Trade Bloc is the wider picture. FTA * An agreement between two or more countries to create a free trade area; that us an area in which all barriers to trade among them are removed or modified, although sometimes only for certain specified goods and services. * All barriers -> often not all the barriers are removed * Trading blocs may create FTA with other countries Trade Bloc * It is formed by an agreement among countries to establish links through the movement of goods, services, capital and labor across borders. * A large free trade area or free trade area formed by one or more tax, tariff and trade agreements. * It is the outcome of an agreement between countries to facilitate the movement of goods, services, labor and capital across borders. * Trade blocs can lead to: * Lower financial transaction costs * Lead to economies of scale…via larger markets * Result in cheap cross border transaction costs * Provide greater transparency…via new accountabilities and uniformity of regulations and procedures * Benefits of trade bloc * Trade facilitation via assisting Foreign Direct Investment * An increase in foreign direct investment results from trade blocs and benefits the economies of participating nations. * Lager markets are created, resulting in lower costs to manufacture products locally. * Enabling...
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...by any other means. Throughout this 2000+ year period growers were able to figure out which grapes grew best and which areas of land consistently produced the finest quality. When the Roman Empire collapsed many of the vineyards were abandoned and so by natural selection the grapes which managed to survive became the grapes that are still grown today. Naturally the growers from these regions-France, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain have some pride in this history. Many growers are descended from families that have been tilling the soil for generations. This type of history has it's dangers in that it creates a kind of complacency-if it's not broke than why fix it kind of thinking. In this regard the advent of New World wines has been a positive influence on the established order as they are compelled to compete with a broader market. New World wines come from Latin America, Australia, America, South Africa and New Zealand. Faced with an unbridgeable time gap these growers have had to develop new technologies to insure the quality of what they grow. As they lack the knowledge of what grapes will perform best in a given piece of ground they must employ methods to make sure...
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...Tourism Context and Culture ----- Essay Name: Yu Huang ID code: 111356 Class: 2ITMC-02 Date: 05/16/2013 Lecturer: Jeroen Hol Table of contents Introduction 3 What is One-Child policy? 3 Positive impact of One-Child policy 4 Negative impacts of One-Child policy 4 Ageing problem 4 Sex ration imbalance 5 Human rights violation 6 Little Emperor behavior and Heavy Burden 6 Conclusion 7 Reference: 8 Appendix: 9 Introduction Today, China is comforted the largest country in the world. The population of China is 1,354,040,000, which is confirmed by Chinese government in January 2013. China as the most populous country in the world has formulated a great national policy for population for population controlling, which is called One-Child policy, in 1970s last century. This great population policy has made big efforts on controlling Chinese population. Undoubtedly, One-Child policy has made historical contribution on the development of China in 34 years. Although Chinese One-Child policy controls the population growth effectively and contributes to Chinese economic development at the initial periods of implementing this policy, the One-Child policy still generates more and more negative impacts on current development in China. What is One-Child policy? During the administration of Chairman Mao Zedong...
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...As is customary someplace within my ‘420 Reviews’, I advise to please be careful. Personally, I acknowledge a cannabis tolerance. It happens. Instead of popping opiates, and drinking a bottle of whiskey a day, I look to cannabis for help regarding at least some of which I suffer. There is a high I can get to where I forget that my ass is literally killing me (tailbone injury/arthritis/disc injury). Opiates and booze will get me there also. At what price? Sad to even say but it’s getting common for guys my age, to commit suicide, or OD shooting H … dealing with their bodies wearing out. A nasty part to aging. All happening right here in America. Big Alcohol/Big Pharmaceuticals will try to connect pot and heroin together; gateway. You can look away, nothing wrong here. But there is. The connection is pure bullshit, but they will insist on connecting the two anyway. Sales are going down. Check it out. Millions of stories. People are out there not longer popping pills at night to help get some sleep. For myself, a couple tokes of some find Indica, and it’s off to sleep I go. The secret is out. The cat is out of the bag. Government can’t stop the adult interest in cannabis, and smart politicians want things as far as cannabis legislation to go forward....
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...NQF LEVEL 4: BTEC Higher National Certificate (HNC – HSC) Physiological Principles for Health and Social Care PHYSIOLOGY Introduction This assignment will investigate the human body organ system and how they work together . Appropriate or case study provided in this assignment will be used in order to investigate the functionality of body system. Main anatomic feature of the human body will be outline, how body system interact to ensure the body functions and grows will be discussed. The part two of the assignment will look at how the body responds to physical activity and it will also identify how the body coordinated internal activities. This assignment will also look at other human body conditions such as obesity, diabetes and discus as to deal with such conditions in order to ensure the wellbeing of individuals with such conditions. THE human body is composed of ten different systems which are made of organs working in coordination with one another. These organs have to work together as they need each another to fulfil its functions. Human organs support each other’s in order to perform their function. Below is brief descriptions and functions of human body system: 1. Central Nervous System (CNS): CNS is composed of brain, nerves, nerve endings, and spinal cord. It role is to control and coordinate the body functions (coordination of nervous). Will be responsible for sensory input, integration of data and motor output. 2. Cardio vascular system...
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...The Healthcare Market Analyze the current health care delivery structure in your state. Compare and contrast the major determinants of healthcare market power. There are many issues that are causing changings in the healthcare system. Population aging, rapidly increasing costs of healthcare and the growing burden of chronic disease are challenges to health systems worldwide. To meet these challenges will require new approaches to healthcare delivery and comprehensive population health management. Many states are not prepared to tackle this issue yet. The US has the most expensive healthcare system in the world with health status indicators that are only average in comparison with the less costly health systems of other countries. The pressure to provide more cost-effective care is particularly intense in the US, as it attempts to expand health insurance coverage and address serious cost and quality issues. (Shortell, 2010) In the state of North Carolina, there is a group called NCHQA (North Carolina Healthcare Quality Alliance). Their mission is to dramatically improve the delivery of health care in North Carolina and the health of all North Carolinians. NCHQA is a collaboration of virtually all the leaders in the delivery of medical care in North Carolina. The Board of Directors consists of members appointed by the Governor and other public officials, various medical societies, insurers, the state hospital association...
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...dog from Lying Doggo was this wondrous memory for the character Nancy. Grover was a remembrance of times past. He was the milestone of a 15 year marriage. Nancy reminisced about meeting Grover, when he was pup. Calm, and endearing yet very striking, Grover was. She knew him before she had meet her husband and Grover’s owner, Jack. Grover was a well know chap around her college campus when she was younger. Grover, like a decorated war general, led Nancy to Jack. Now that Grover is passing to God’s hands, these memories are awe inspiring. The decision to let him go until the almighty calls or give him an early pass to the heavens is not an easy choice. Jack in his heart, knows he does not want to give Grover an untimely death by putting his aging, ailing friend to sleep. He just can’t stand seeing him in agony. Nancy, and their son Robert, rather see him pass in the sanctity of his loving home. In the end faiths hand allowed Grover a chance to make his Grand entrance to God without unnatural interference and his family by his side. Many of us can relate to this story. Having an elderly pet in anguish due to an ailment, and making that hard decision to end s/he’s life prematurely. Why not let it end naturally like a human? Hold his hand to the end, and declaim your care for him. Grover, like many of our pets, was a...
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...Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Analysis CPT Christopher F. Drum, CPT Scott Stokoe, LTJG Ann-Marie Noad U.S. Army-Baylor University Graduate Program In Health Care Administration A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for HCA 5325 Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations 12 December 2003 Executive Summary Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a well-established, international health care industry leader that provides patient services on two continents. Ranked number one in both sales and profit rankings, HCA continues to provide quality health care as it expands into new markets. HCA provides its primary services through a variety of venues. In addition to its patient care mission, HCA has joined with the Federal government to provide education and scholarship programs. A strategic assessment of HCA was conducted to examine its current business strategies. A strengths, weakness, threats, and opportunities (SWOT) analysis indicated that HCA’s internal strengths outweighed its weaknesses and the external threats outweighed the opportunities. HCA’s current mission and values statements are sufficient to support its success, but improvements can be made in each. Primary strategic emphasis is through an application of expansion and maintenance of scope adaptive strategies. Secondary efforts include a limited application of market entry and competitive strategies. Applying a threat, opportunity, weakness, and strength (TOWS)...
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...“Some say our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we are of it. Others say fate is woven like a cloth, so that one’s destiny intertwines with many others. It’s the one thing we search for, or fight to change. Some never find it, but there are those who are led” (Chapman). Those are the words of Merida, the heroine of one of Pixar’s latest films, Brave. The Disney production may be quite recent, but the overall moral of its tale is certainly nothing new. Instead, it merely reinforces two simple but powerful themes: it implies that pride and a reckless wish to change one’s fate may result in a recipe for potential disaster. This paper will explore through a semiotic study how its three most important symbols, the torn bond, the bear, and the standing stones render the tale of the courageous tomboy a cheerful but cautionary one. As the princess of the Scottish Kingdom of DunBroch, custom holds that she is to be married to a prince from one of the neighboring clans. Throughout approximately the first half of the film, her mother Queen Elinor tries to prepare her for her marriage and for the day that she herself is to become queen. Unfortunately for both mother and daughter, Merida has no desire to be married to any of the suitors in the film or to accept the responsibilities of the crown just yet, and thus creates a tension with her parents that is all too common among those her age, which is amplified by her position as a princess. After succession of brief scenes...
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