...I’m not one of those people who grew up always knowing that they wanted to become a nurse. I went through the usual childhood fantasies: pilot, lawyer, scientist, architect, etc. But, never a nurse. My complete fascination and admiration for the profession is something that came to me rather recently in my life. In fact, what inspired me to pursue nursing was my experience with my pregnancies and the birth of my second child. Second child? Yes, I have two babies. So maybe I am going about things in a somewhat unorthodox manner, but it sure makes for an interesting and challenging learning environment. Given my life situation, maintaining a 3.3 GPA in my undergraduate studies and a 3.5 GPA in my prerequisite coursework has proven difficult, though I hope my persistence and hard work will ultimately pay off. The delivery of my first-born child was by way of cesarean section. While it was perfect and beautiful and completely orchestrated, I knew almost immediately after the birth that if I were ever blessed with another baby, I wanted to do things differently. When that time came around, the plan was to attempt a vaginal birth after cesarean section (VBAC). Jumping feet first into this “plan”, I made sure to complete hours upon hours of research as to be armed with applicable information to provide to my obstetrician. While I knew VBAC deliveries were not necessarily favored in the medical community, I never anticipated the difficulty I would face when proposing my wishes. After...
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...03-18-13 MCAA Kelly, mm, 722 words, need pic Perseverance Key for Capt. Mark Kelly By Mike Murphy NEWS staff Featured speakers during the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) annual convention conveyed a message about the importance of perseverance to success in professional and personal endeavors. During the Annual Awards of Excellence Breakfast, former astronaut and naval aviator Captain Mark Kelly, U.S. Navy retired, inspired attendees with his presentation entitled Endeavor to Succeed, which highlighted events and experiences that influenced his remarkable life and career. He spoke about his determination to become a naval aviator and a NASA astronaut despite several set-backs and his wife Gabrielle's undaunted will to recover from her injuries following an assassination attempt in January 2011. Kelly flew 39 combat missions from the USS Midway during Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf. In 1996 he and his twin brother Scott were selected by NASA to be shuttle pilots, the realization of a life-long dream for both of them. Capt. Kelly spent more than 50 days in space, finally culminating in his retirement in June 2011. Kelly’s wife, Rep. Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords had been shot in an attempted assassination in Tucson, Ariz. During the days, weeks, and months following that event Kelly carefully and methodically managed the aftermath, first caring for his wife and then arranging for her long-term rehabilitation. Rep. Giffords recovered so well that...
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...Severance as income? IRC § 61 defined Gross Income as “all income from whatever source derived,” to include “compensation for services, including fees, commissions, fringe benefits, and similar items.” The court in Glenshaw defined income as “an undeniable accession to wealth.” Moreover, Treas. Reg. § 1.61-2 included “termination or severance pay” as compensation for services. IRC § 102 states that gross income does not include the value of property acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or inheritance. However, a gift cannot be from an employer to an employee. Here, Ariel Asher (“AA”) was paid $1,000 a year for the 10 years that she was with the firm. The firm characterized the $10,000 payment as a “severance.” AA will argue that the amount was a gift, thus not taxable. The IRS will argue that § 61 includes severance pay in the language itself. Additionally, § 1.61 states that a gift cannot be from AA’s employer. Therefore, the severance pay will be included in gross income. Purchasing bargained work equipment income? In Pellar, the court established that bargain purchases generally do not constitute gross income. If property is transferred as compensation for services in the amount less than its fair market value, the difference between the fair market value and the amount paid is gross income. Here, the firm was downsizing and had excess furniture and invited only departing members to make an offer. The firm accepted AA’s offer of $1,700 for the furniture (FMV $4,800). AA received...
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...Are women being faced with discrimination in the job and consumer market? “It is illegal to discriminate against someone (applicant or employee) because of that person’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information” (United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2002). However, according to the standards set by our society today, women still find themselves stereotyped as being the “less privileged” gender and are mistreated and also misunderstood because of this. During the development of this essay, it will be argued that our society is indeed unjustified in the way they go about treating women in the job and consumer markets. (this argument is inductive) Even though it is prohibited by law to discriminate against women by the US EEOC, primary investigators conducting studies with PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science), found that although female applicants are more likeable, young men were preferred for entry level management positions, and were offered higher salaries than young women in the same field. In this study young men were seen as the gender that is more deserving of mentoring and were perceived to be more competent than females. (this argument is inductive) The finding of this study clearly indicates that society is introducing a high level of biasness to the job market as it relates to women and the way they are perceived to perform job oriented tasks. From...
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...INNATE MORAL AWARENESS - Kant’s starting point was that we all have a sense of innate moral awareness: ‘Two things fill the mind with ever new increasing admiration and awe… the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me’ His argument for the existence of God follows: 1. We all have a sense of innate moral awareness – from this we are under obligation to be virtuous 2. An ‘average’ level of virtue is not enough, we are obliged to aim for the highest standard possible 3. True virtue should be rewarded with happiness 4. There is an ideal state where human virtue and happiness are united – this Kant called the ‘Summum Bonum’ 5. Moral statements are prescriptive – ‘ought’ implies ‘can’ 6. Humans can achieve virtue in a lifetime but it is beyond us to ensure we are rewarded with happiness 7. Therefore there must be a God who has power to ensure that virtue and happiness coincide Kant’s moral argument does not postulate that God is necessary for morality but that God is required for morality to achieve its end ‘Therefore it is morally necessary to assume the existence of God.’ CARDINAL NEWMAN “We feel responsibility, are ashamed, are frightened at transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies that there is one to whom we are responsible.” For Newman, the existence of conscience implies a moral law-giver whom we are answerable to – God. CRITICISMS • Moral laws may not be objective or about obeying moral duty. For Joseph Fletcher ignoring individual circumstances...
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...The effect of a broken home on the child Posted on August 24, 2010 by soulsista704@yahoo.com There is no disputing the fact that the home or the conditions in which a child grows up in determine the eventual outcome of that child. The home is the first school of life the child is enrolled in and where that home fails to provide lessons that would mould and keep the child grounded, such individual ends up exhibiting some questionable personality traits or character flaws. The role of both parents can, therefore not be overemphasized. The presence of the father as breadwinner, authority figure and role model should instil in the child the discipline and focus required to succeed in life. Consequently, the presence of the mother as care giver, support system (both morally and spiritually) and disciplinarian is needed to guide the child through the right paths in life. One should also note that other members of the family at large have their distinct roles to play in ensuring that the child is brought up properly where he does not end up becoming a menace to the society. The parents are the primary authority figures in the child’s life and their attitude or actions in the home towards the child, with each other and with others, could make or mar the child depending on the level of influence or quality of value instilled in the child. Where at an early age, the child is exposed to circumstance that contradicts the normal status quo in the family, that child is bound to pick up...
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...Race and Your Community: Knoxville, Tennessee John Smith Date Aixa College ETH 125 The community of Knoxville is extremely small. A larger amount of the Tennessee population consists of several minority groups. Within my location the residency is composed of mostly Blacks and Whites; I have recently found out that the two groups do not have much differences between the two. As there have been identified, there are several differences between these two groups and the Hispanics, Asians, and Filipinos. Traveling through the City of Knoxville, it is easily noticeable and obvious that the Whites and Blacks are obligated to a higher standard of living; the nicer vehicles and larger houses is the proof of this statement. Throughout the city of Knoxville, I have experienced that although there are numerous differences that are easily noticeable between the different races and ethnicities, the unifying of all groups occur when required because of our common ethics and principles. Each group within the community to which I were raised, correlate and empathize in contradictory ways; however, a general respect for another is displayed by all and the thoughtfulness for each person throughout the community’s miscellaneous ways of living are revealed. Within my community, there is a resemblance bearded of me in observations to color as an outcome of me being white and residing within a community in which many of the residents are of the black...
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...THE CHRISTIAN LEADER ________________________ March 2012 Introduction In writing this second leadership analysis I will examine the Relational Skills Audit, the Task Skills Audit, the Leadership Style Audit, Church Structure, the Leader’s/ Church’s Core Values Audit, the Ministry Circumstances Audit, and the Pastor-Organization Fit. Leadership is a challenge that must be approached with much preparation, skill, and care. If the leader takes a half hearted attitude of the deep responsibilities that come with all facets of Christian leadership, people can be wounded and Christ’s church diminished in it’s ability to reach the world. It has been said that every assignment in Christian leadership is a divine calling. If indeed this is true then we must ask ourselves the following questions: 1. What difference will I make? 2. Why am I here? 3. Who sent me? 4. Is this assignment sacred because God placed me here? 5. What does God want me to accomplish here? [1] As we work through the different audits found in Aubrey Malphurs,” Being Leaders,” we will look at the outcomes of each audit and how each one relates to myself personally. My objective will be to expound on each characteristic and how...
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...Kant’s moral argument focuses on the notion that God must exist to provide structure to the moral universe. Technically he did not believe that is was possible to prove the existence of God through rational or empirical means. It is important to outline two key ideas before explaining the details of the moral argument. These ideas centre around his assumptions of the universe: that the universe was fair; and that the world around us is fundamentally rational. He begins with the unspoken assumption that the world is fair, owing to the dominance of the enlightenment belief that the universe was fundamentally knowable through reason. It is important to note that Kant began a new way of looking at knowledge. He believed that we could know the world through reason in a prior synthetic way. This was a complete change from how the world had been view previously and was known as Kant’s Copernican revolution. In essence Kant believed in two separate worlds of knowledge: noumenal and the phenomenal worlds. The noumenal world is the world as it truly is without being observed. It is fundamentally unknowable because the act of observation changes the very thing that we observe. It is as though human beings have a specific set of spectacles that cannot be taken off and like the proverbial rose tinted ones they change our perception of the world around us. This personalised view of the universe is the phenomenal world. However, what is key to explaining Kant’s moral argument is the fact that...
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...Case Barbara Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit باربارا نوريس التغير القيادي في الجراحه Harvard Business Review Boris Groysberg Nitin Nohria Deborah Bell March-13-2009 Permissions@hbsp.harvard.edu or 617.783.7860 It was 10 PM and Barbara Norris, nurse manager for the large General Surgery Unit (GSU) at Eastern Massachusetts University Hospital (EMU) sat down at her desk to catch her breath. She had been on the unit since 6:30 AM but planned to stay for another two hours to help with the transition from the second to third shift and the orientation of two registered nurses (RN) from the float pool. It had been one month since she had assumed the nurse manager role for the troubled unit. During this time she felt, as she did this evening, tired and overwhelmed. As nurse manager she was responsible for managing the staff, scheduling and budget for the unit. Her 33-person staff included 25 RNs and eight patient care assistants (PCAs). In her first month as nurse manager she had already lost two RNs and in the six months prior to her joining the unit three RNs had left. But because of the recently instituted hiring freeze at EMU, Barbara was not able to replace some of these positions. The unit was short-staffed; stress levels were high and employee morale low. In fact, GSU had the lowest employee satisfaction scores and highest employee turnover rate among all of the departments at EMU. And although its patient satisfaction scores were...
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...Facts and Statistics LOCATION: Saudi Arabia is a monarchy in southwestern Asia, and occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia is bordered on the north by Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait; on the east by the Persian Gulf and Qatar; on the southeast by the United Arab Emirates and Oman on the south by the Republic of Yemen; and on the west by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba. The southeast and southern boundaries are not precisely defined. The Middle East, bordering Iraq 814 km, Jordan 744 km, Kuwait 222 km, Oman 676 km, Qatar 60 km, UAE 457 km, Yemen 1,458 km Capital: Riyadh Climate: harsh, dry desert with great temperature extremes Population: 25,795,938 including 5,576,076 non-nationals (July 2004 est.) Ethnic Make-up: Arab 90%, Afro-Asian 10% Religions: Muslim 100% Government: monarchy Language in Saudi Arabia Arabic is the official language of Saudi Arabia, but English is widely spoken. It is used in business and is a compulsory second language in schools. Among the non-Saudi population, many people speak Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, and other Asian languages such as Farsi and Turkish. Arabic is spoken by almost 200 million people in more than 22 countries. It is the language of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam, and of Arab poetry and literature. While spoken Arabic varies from country to country, classical Arabic has remained unchanged for centuries. In Saudi, there are differences between the dialects spoken in urban areas and those spoken...
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...Japan in Asia: A Hard Case for Soft Power by Thomas U. Berger Thomas Berger is an associate professor of International Relations at Boston University. he concept of ‘‘soft power’’—defined by Joe Nye as ‘‘the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than through coercion’’1— has proven a seductive one for Japan. Since the concept was popularized in the 1990s, Japanese scholars and policymakers have enthusiastically taken it up, eagerly exploring how Japan’s soft power resources could be exploited to burnish Japan’s image in the world and help reshape its environment in subtle but important ways. Some—perhaps encouraged by the new attention given to the popularity of Japanese anime and manga, and by the general buzz about ‘‘Cool Japan’’—have even described Japan as a ‘‘Soft Power Superpower.’’2 It sometimes seemed, in more overheated moments, that Pokemon and Sailor Moon would conquer the world, succeeding where the Imperial Army and Navy had failed.3 That soft power would prove attractive is unsurprising. Although Japan has considerable hard power resources, it has shown great reluctance to actually use them in the way that students of international relations would T 1 The idea was originally advanced by in Joseph Nye, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power (New York: Basic Books, 1990). He has since expanded on the concept in Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). 2 See the very useful volume by...
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...CORN AND CULTURE: THE INFLUENCE OF ZEA MAYS ACROSS CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL BOUNDARIES BY GINNY MARIE MUELLER Undergraduate Thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the University Scholar distinction The University of Montana Missoula, MT May 2011 Approved by: James C. McKusick, Dean The Davidson Honors College Kathleen Kane, Faculty Mentor English David Moore, Faculty Reader English 1 Mueller, Ginny, B.A., May 2011 English Literature Corn and Culture: The Influence of Zea mays across Cultural and Historical Boundaries Faculty Mentor: Kathleen Kane Second Faculty Reader: David Moore Corn's status as a critical food crop, and its location within indigenous new world cosmographies, illustrate the important sociocultural role the plant has played for millennia. However, modern society has elevated Zea mays far above the status of mere plant, fashioning it into a commodity intimately connected to systems of control and capitalism. Consequently, corn has played an essential role in colonization, industrialization, and the advent of overproduction. The beliefs and literature of numerous new world cultures, along with the literatures of modern Western cultures, offer a striking analysis of corn's current position in western society. The far-reaching impacts that corn has on our socioeconomic and subsistence systems reveal a great deal about globalization, commodification, and dominance. This paper examines corn through a cultural studies lens, documenting...
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...Suleiman the Magnificent From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Suleiman I" redirects here. For the shah of Persia, see Suleiman I of Persia. "Kanuni" redirects here. For the historical set of Albanian laws, see Kanun. Suleiman I Suleiman the Magnificent Suleiman the Lawgiver سلطان سليمان اول Caliph of Islam Amir al-Mu'minin Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Suleiman in a portrait attributed to Titian c.1530 Period Growth of the Ottoman Empire Coronation 30 September 1520 Full Name Suleiman bin Selim Khan Born 6 November 1494 Birthplace Trabzon Died c. 5 September 1566 (aged 71) Place of death Szigetvár, Hungary Buried Süleymaniye Mosque, Constantinople[1][2] (present day Istanbul) Predecessor Selim I Successor Selim II Consort Hürrem Sultan (wife) Mahidevran Sultan Gulia Sultan Fulane Sultan Offspring Şehzade Mahmud (1512–1521) Şehzade Mustafa (1515–1553) Şehzade Murad (1519–1521) Şehzade Mehmed (1521–1543) Mihrimah Sultan (1522–1578) Şehzade Abdullah (1522–1524) Selim II (1524–1574) Raziye Sultan (1525-?) Şehzade Beyazıt (1525–1561) Şehzade Cihangir (1531–1553) Şehzade Orhan (1543-1562) Şehzade Ahmed Royal House House of Osman Dynasty Ottoman Dynasty Father Selim I Valide Sultan Ayşe Hafsa Sultan This article contains Ottoman Turkish text, written from right to left with some letters joined. Without proper rendering support, you may see unjoined letters written left-to-right, instead of right-to-left...
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...The Art of Rulership: a Comparative Study of Han Fei Tzu and Niccolo Machiavelli’s Political Philosophy A Research Paper Presented to the Undergraduate Faculty of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies College of Arts and Sciences University of San Carlos In Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirement in Legal Philosophy James Clyde Castillote Ranario October 2014 1. Introduction The history of mankind, passed through generations to generations in written and oral accounts, never failed to mention the rise and fall of great civilizations. In every epoch that mankind has gone through, a certain society or culture will always take an honor or disgrace in the center stage of history. This might be an honor credited for an achievement over a magnitude of victory, or a disgrace in a painful experience of defeat. From the earliest known Indian and Chinese civilizations in the East, to the powerful triumvirate of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations in the West, we can only say of two things — they all gloriously rose and proved to be kingdoms of undaunted power and might, but fall on their knees in bitter shame and demise. Although chronicles of our thousand-year-old history might not be that clear as to foretell the rise and fall of these great civilizations, however we all know that behind the stronghold of these empires, there commands a ruler, a great ruler — A leader that is responsible for meticulously planning the moves and conducts towards the rise...
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