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Paolo Freire and Our Model for EducationIn the selected reading from Paolo Freire, he is making the argument that our current model for education is ineffective because of its fundamental failure to teach in relation to the world around us. Friere states that "the unfinished character of men and the transformational character of reality necessitate that education be an ongoing activity- and that our current system - what he refers to as the banking method - completely goes against that necessity (Friere, 2003). The banking system requires only that the teacher dictate information to students without requiring any discourse of the topics. Because of that core principle, education becomes a finite set of information with no room for growth on the part of student or teacher. 1. What role does dialogue play in each of the education theories? By nature of the banking system, there is no dialogue. Because it is a narration based model of education, conversation is one-sided and information is coming solely from the instructor. B |
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Working as a Healthcare AdministratorThis paper illustrates my ideal career choice as a hospital administrator. While conducting my research, I was able to gain a better understanding of the day-to-day tasks associated with the job duties as well as the educational requirements needed to acquire this type of position. I am particularly interested in working in a children's hospital and was able to gain a better understanding of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Even though I have always had the utmost respect for this organization, I gained a whole new sense of appreciation for the services they provide during the course of this of this assignment. It is my hope to one day become a part of the team at St. Jude or a similar type of organization. This assignment also allowed me to gain a better understanding of the hospital administrator's salary range as well as the expected growth in this area of expertise. A degree in Healthcare Administration provides a multitude of career paths one can take. While on my quest |
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Examining the US Economy and Prescribing PolicyThe US economy is definitely struggling, currently. The economic recovery plan was brought to a halt late 2012 by the federal government when cuts in military spending and other factors overwhelmed the Federal Reserve's expanded campaign to stimulate growth (Appelbaum and Schwartz, 2013). Beginning March 1, 2013, significant federal spending cuts were put in place, increasing the amount of payroll taxes paid by most Americans, with the expiration of a temporary cut in early January 2013 (Appelbaum and Schwartz, 2013). In the last three months of 2012, the economy contracted at an annual rate of 0.1 percent. This was the worst quarter since the economy crawled out of the last recession, hampered by the lower military spending, fewer exports and smaller business stockpiles (Appelbaum and Schwartz, 2013). Research by economist's shows that there is not another recession looming in the near future of the US economy. Data provided showed relatively strong spending by consumers and busin |
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The Yellow Wallpaper - Feminist TheoryThroughout centuries women have been weighed down by a patriarchy society. Women were considered inferior to men and were not allowed to have the same rights and equalities that men had, which is what we call feminism today. Feminism was beginning to emerge in the late 1700's and continued to escalate through the 1900's. Feminism had an impact on female writers in the 1800's for example Charlotte Gilman, and Kate Chopin whose literary works depicted what they were experiencing in their lives. The word feminism has many diverse uses and for "some writers the term feminism refers to a historically specific political movement in the US and Europe; other writers use it to refer to the belief that there are injustices against women- (Hanslanger and Tuana). The history of feminism is broken down into three waves. The first wave begins in the last years of the 1700's and last through the early 1900s. Feminists in this time pursue to gain the same rights that men have. In 1920 the women w |
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Kazuo Ishiguro - A Family SupperThe story begins with a means to an end. The fugu fish if not cut properly, is a deadly meal. The story is ripe with references to death, suicide, and accidental death. The author succeeds in creating a dreary, morbid tone. I believe it is the authors' goal to create the perception that the father in the story may have prepared fugu for his son and daughter. It is my opinion that while he came close, he does not succeed in persuading the reader that the father would not take this gamble at the risk of his family. Kazuo Ishiguro, the author, highlights the terseness between father and son. We learn from the story that this terseness was brought about by the father when the narrator was younger. The narrator was chastised for talking too much and this event changed him. The author then goes into describing the tense relationship between the narrator and his mother and father. The reader can discern that the narrator soured the relationship between himself and his parents by movi |
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A Second Harvest for a Modern DroughtAs of August 1, 2012, over fifty percent of the United States have been officially declared disaster areas by the United States Department of Agriculture. The cause can be directly attributed to the drought that impacted US farms, and food processing facilities over the past summer. With the situation reaching its peak in July, the overall cost of corn and livestock feed has risen over 61% in certain areas. Unfortunately for consumers, these costs trickle down and the worst seems yet to come. The impact will be long lasting, and the effects on our food industry will last well into next year. According to the USDA, "food price inflation is expect |
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An Analysis of Obedience and ConformityWhen asked to briefly define obedience and conformity, the similarities between the two were strikingly very close, but slightly differed in how each are exemplify. Obedience can be described as a behavior demonstrated to satisfy or submit to someone that is in authority. Conformity involves people changing their behaviors or attitudes to comply with those of others in order to gain acceptance. Obedience differs from conformity in the sense that the authoritarian is making a request, demand, or command. The person making the request is not asking for one to agree or disagree, but simply to perform a specific task requested. Conformity, however, is a conscious behavior shift to avoid conflict and the fear of being excluded or rejected. Obedience and conformity can be a positive aspect within an organization or group because people have a need to form some type of social identity. Conformity is neither good nor bad, but most people tend to conform without being aware of it. Conforming |
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The Hustler: More than a Sports MovieThe movie, The Hustler, is a study of human character and the flaws we all fight with every day. The movie revolves around two huge pool matches, but the story of human struggle is where the director takes the characters through the view of seedy pool halls, empty bus stations and depressing hotel rooms. Roger Ebert wrote of the movie, "There are only a handful of movie characters so real that the audience refers to them as touchstones. Fast Eddie Felson is one of them."(Ebert, 2003) In this paper we will look at how the characters and drama are developed through the dialog and the effect use of their surroundings. The director of The Hustler, Robert Rossen, went through a lot of personnel hardship to get to the chance to get this movie made. In nineteen forty-seven Robert Rossen was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee and forced to admit that he was sympathetic to the communist cause and name those who he knew were also part of the communist foundation. At his |
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Aristotle - A Great PhilosopherWhen I think about all the great philosophers of past and present the person that first comes to mind is Aristotle. I know that he was a famous philosopher and a brilliant man but when I really think about it I have no idea what he was so famous for or what his thoughts were on the basic philosophical issues like ethics, logic, and the big one, the meaning of life. I knew he was brilliant in the subject of philosophy but I had no idea how much he studied, and how knowledgeable he was about, animals, meteorology, governments, and society. Aristotle represents everything that philosophy is about, he loved learning about as much as he could and he wanted to share is knowledge with the world. And for that I am very thankful for Aristotle and all that he believed in. Aristotle created the foundation for many subjects that our society relies on today. Aristotle was born is Stagira, in northern Greece in 384 BC. His father, Nichomachees, was the court physician to the royal Macedonian famil |
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Reflections upon Gabriel Mejia's Mysterious "Untitled: (You're my Fantasy)"Over spring break, I visited the Octagon Center for the Arts in Ames. Once inside, I walked up a couple of flights of stairs until I finally came to a large wooden door with a sign saying, "Gallery, 45th Juried Exhibition." When I first opened the door, it looked very dark and dreary without much to it. As I stepped farther in, the lights turned on automatically, and to my surprise I was surrounded by amazing local art. The works were mostly made by smaller Iowa artists and were extraordinary. Displayed in a large auditorium, I was drawn to a large canvas painting on the far wall. The work was titled, "Untitled (You"re My Fantasy)," by a Chicago artist, Gabriel Mejia, and it featured a mysteriously masked figure. When you first think of a mask you think of something along the lines of an object concealing the face, serving for protection, disguise, or you may even envision a miraculous performance or a religious ceremony. Throughout the years of ever changing culture and tech |
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Thomas Jefferson and His Most Meaningful WorkThomas Jefferson's declaration in The Declaration of Independence, defines that all men are equal and deserve to live a life of freedom and happiness without suppression; and in case of suppression, then the government needs to be replaced. Thomas Jefferson uses certain appeals to achieve his purpose, which is to inform his intended audiences about the importance of the situations that he is expressing. The author appeals to his audience by using his own personal experience, facts, and rhetorical devices. The author's purpose of The Declaration of Independence was to declare that the American colonies were separated from England, and he appeals to his rhetorical devices by using parallelism, periodic sentences, and anaphora to make both his written and spoken expressions more powerful. Using parallelism creates a natural connection to the useful device of listing. Parallelism is using similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance. Parallelism is exemplified in paragraphs 3 through 29. In the declaration, Thomas Jefferson notes: He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary |
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Cutting Arizona TaxesOne would think that lower income taxes would promote economic growth, but history tells a different story. Historically, economies have done worse when income taxes are lower. When President Bill Clinton raised taxes in the early 1990's, conservatives predicted disaster. Instead, the United States" economy boomed and we saw the fastest growth in incomes since the 1950's. The following president George Bush came into office and cut taxes, which led to the worst downturn since the great depression. Although we are only voting on income tax cuts in the State of Arizona, I believe we have learned what can happen when taxes are cut. Arizona relies heavily on personal income tax. Next to sales tax, income tax is the second highest revenue source in the State of Arizona. Personal Income Tax makes up 35% of the state's general revenue fund. Personal income tax is a progressive tax, so the more income means the higher the taxes paid and vice-versa. The belief behind this system is that |
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The Proliferation of Nuclear WeaponsOur society has fixed its concern for national security on the threat of nuclear weapons. Developing nations all over the world have gradually acquired these weapons much to the dismay of the U.S. government, yet there is a larger threat at hand. Each country that acquires its own nuclear arsenal is merely insuring itself against the threat of a nuclear attack. The detonation of one nuclear weapon (in a country which possesses nukes) is to assure nuclear retaliation from the country which was fired upon. This mutual deterrence is an important safeguard. Any entity possessing both nukes and territory will most likely be dissuaded from firing first because of the inherent risk. The exception to this rule is a stateless group. Langewiesche explains that these groups "offer none of the retaliatory targets that have so far underlain the nuclear peace--no permanent infrastructure to protect, no capital city, and indeed no country called home" (17). Since they do not possess a specific te |
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Google and Project GlassProject Glass Project Glass is a new product which will be produced by Google Incorporation in the future. Google Incorporation has a history of seventeen years and it started in 1995. In 1995, Larry Page, current CEO, and Sergey Brin, Co-founder of the company, met at Stanford. They were both grad students majoring in computer science. In 1996, they collaborated and came up with a search engine, BackRub. BackRub operated in Stanford for a little bit more than a year and but forced to leave the university due to its large requirement of bandwidth. They decided to change the name "BackRub" to "Google." The word comes from the word "googol", meaning a number that has a hundred zeroes after 1, which also reflects their goal of having infinite information on the search engine. In 1998, the company was funded by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Google with a hundred thousand dollars. The company made Susan Wojcicki's garage, located at 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park their workplace |
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Child Play Study and DocumentationEveryday the class follows a certain routine. For the first 20 minutes the children take their own attendance and sit at tables with table toys or work on small motor activities such as lacing until all students arrive. Then, circle time is next. Students go to rug and say the "Pledge of Allegiance", sit down and review the month, calendar date and count up to that number.The children discuss the weather by charting and graphing. Last, the children sing the months of the year song. Next, comes story time. After the children are dismissed into play centers: house, blocks, reading/writing and math. During center time a child will come up one at a time to complete a project. The children rotate play centers every 12 minutes. While the children are playing one of the three teachers go around and try to help the children interact with each other and scaffold fun building, writing and cooking ideas. After about 50 minutes the children will be directed to clean up and get ready for snack. A |
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Discourse Comprehension & MemoryEvery day we listen to many different discourses and we do not stop to analyze how it is that we can comprehend and sometimes memorize these dialogues, speeches, debates, or conversations. Discourse comprehension is the act of interpreting a written or spoken message by integrating the received information into the memory or knowledge structures of the interpreter. Cohesion is the property of unity in speech within a text or sentence that holds it together and gives it a meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence. Studies have identified several categories of cohesion: reference, substitution, ellipsis, lexical cohesion and conjunction. Reference is one form of cohesion in which the information necessary to interpret a term or phrase is found in another part of the discourse. This includes pronouns, demonstrative and comparative references. There are two referential devices that can create cohesion; Anaphoric and Cataphoric reference. Anaphoric reference occur |
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Science, Testing and Animal ResearchThe world as we know it has advanced through a series of changes throughout the last couple of centuries. Almost all of these advances can be traced back to technology. Technology has allowed humans to do anything they set their mind to, such as flying a plane and creating satellites. Along with the economic and educational benefits of technology have come medical advances. The advances of medicine throughout the last century can be attributed mainly to technology and the bright minds that applied it to medicine. However, the advancement of medicine and human health has not come without costs. One of these costs is that in order to discover new and more effective ways of medication, scientists have to sacrifice many animals in their testing and research. This has raised the ethical question of whether animals should or should not be used in medical research. Although there are some legitimate concerns in addressing this topic, we as humans must answer this question with an affirmative |
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Types and Sources of BurnsBurns typically take place on the skin, which protects the body from the external environment. There are different severity of burns such as minor which can be cared for by the individual and severe that may require intensive treatment and surgeries. Burns can cause infection, pain and scarring, which may have long term effects on a patient. When assessing a patient burns, it is essential to remember the A, B, C, D, E, F approach. This helps to identify if there are any other injuries or complications that could pose an immediate threat to the patient. Initial Assessment of the burn is vital to ensure the appropriate care is implemented. The assessment should include a medical history, examination of the burn, details of incident, mechanism of injury, duration of exposure to the causative agent and the delivery of first aid. Older and younger individuals pose the highest risk for injury because of physical impairments, reduced mobility, inability to avoid danger and their decision making processes. Since these individuals are at a great risk of injury without being aware, it |
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Gender Roles in Fragrance AdvertisementsAdvertisements are all around us in society and can portray simple objects as fascinating merchandise that we feel the need to buy. In Susan Bordo's essay "Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body," she discusses how men are characterized in advertisements as well as in society. Bordo expresses the need for advertisements to appeal to a large demographic of people so that the item will sell and companies with make a large profit. Advertisers can accomplish this by how the models present themselves in advertisements with body language, positioning, and where the attention of their eyes are. Looking at a few cologne and perfume adds for Gucci, Ralph Lauren, and Armani, I came to the realization that men and women are represented in the ads as sex symbols. When people view these ads, they immediately imagine themselves in place of the man or woman being portrayed. They begin to think that by wearing the perfume or cologne it will make them a more attractive, confident human being. This idea may |
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Concealed Weapons on College CampusesThere is no sensation quite like that of shooting a firearm. The rush in your blood, the feeling of strength and power is insurmountable to that of any other. Ever since the creations of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the second amendment has guaranteed the right to "bear arms". However times have changed in through time, great debate over firearms and where they can be carried and used has transpired. Firearms are usually legally used in a controlled environment such as a firing range or on hunting land; not on college campuses. Legalizing concealed weapons to be on college campuses would have many negative effects on a college campus and impose severe implications on students, faculty, and the community in general. The academics of these institutions will be affected and will affect the learning atmosphere surrounding professors and students, individuals carrying a concealed weapon pose and threat others individuals and security directly, and by legalizing concealed weapo |
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A Review of Feature-Integration TheoryIn a sense, we have to imagine that a blindfold has been removed from the eyes and a 'pre-attentive' stage exists when light flood onto the eyes. After that, the human makes sense of the view. Treisman et al presented a theory (with experiments to test their speculation) that said that only objects within 'focused attention' - which I take to be equivalent to the small cone of achievable detailed vision[1] - would be analysed first for 'correct perception' and that this analysis would then serve to 'fill-in' the understanding of the rest of the view in a top-down process. The first action might then be to detect a focus (select), understand it in the sense of placing it into a context (identify) and then 'painting in the details around it both in terms of the view and the context to get a 'picture'. Within that process the rest of the view might be blurry to the perception and clearly would be influenced by the results from the 'focused attention' and by the individual's experience |
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Why Business Ethics are Crucial in the WorkplaceWhat is meant when we talk about "Ethics"? Ethics can be defined as a society's accepted standards of moral behavior, which, simply put, means a code of behaviors that are accepted by a society. Ethics, applied to the business world, is a form of what is called "applied ethics." General principles of basic moral behavior are integrated into to the day-to-day work of business. An ethical work and business environment is predictable, stable, and easy to navigate. On the other hand, non-ethical behavior creates a hostile business environment. Take Enron, for example, which shocked the U.S. public back in 2000's. This big name company is an energy trading company that had created off-the-books partnerships to illegally hide its debts and losses. This was unethical behavior as a business, and the result has been hostilities of all kinds. Corporate ethics is important because it is the main distinguishing mark between good business sense and what is known as, "buccaneer capitalism." |
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Lab Notes: Extraction of Caffeine From Tea by Soxhlet TechniqueExperiment two: Extraction of caffeine from tea by Soxhlet technique and purity analysis using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Introduction: The aim of this experiment is to extract caffeine from a sample of tea leaves by the Soxhlet extraction method. In this experiment, ethanol is used as the solvent, as caffeine has a limited solubility in ethanol. The ethanol is boiled, and the vapours are condensed, which fall down into a thimble containing the tea leaves. The required caffeine in the tea leaves is partially dissolved in the solvent and then extracted from the tea leaves into the solvent. This process is repeated, and the tea leaves which can't dissolve in the solvent are left in the thimble. The advantage of this process is the same solvent is recycled during the whole process. The purity of the sample is then analysed through HPLC. The mobile phase in this experiment consists of a mixture of methanol and water, the ratio of which is determined by the separating a |
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Moral Dilemmas and Human PsychologyAs human beings, we often have to face many difficult situations that require us to make hard decisions. The question is, on what standard do we base our decisions? Nearly every society will have two different internal law codes, that of what is "just" and what is "unjust." We often solve a moral dilemma by considering the consequences, pondering either the demands of those in authority or our own personal beliefs, eventually choosing to prize one over the other. Once the decision has been made, and we see the outcome of that decision, this helps us with the next moral dilemma, sometimes prompting us to make better decisions next time. In the end, we will either gain or lose as a result of our decision. And,of course, every moral choice we make requires courage. Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist, carried out an experiment in the United States in 1961, asking the question: "How far will a human being go if an anonymous authority orders him to torture or even to kill a fellow |
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A Study on Phantom Limb PainPain, as part of human existence, has been depicted from the time of the earliest cave paintings, through oral history and throughout written history. Pain is communicated through use of terms such as "aching," "burning," "throbbing," "pressure," and through other adjectives, gestures and facial expressions. This study will focus specifically on the phenonema known as "phantom limb pain," or PLP. History First described more than 500 years ago, phantom limb pain (PLP) is a common disorder today; as many as 50% to 80% of patients who undergo amputation report experiencing pain in the missing appendage (Nikolajsen L, Jensen). Although it is easy to recognize and diagnose, its cause remains unclear, and it can be difficult to manage successfully. Perhaps that's why health care professionals often do not address it. A survey by Hanley and colleagues, for example, found that 53% of patients with PLP and 38% with severe PLP had never been treated for the disorder. The term "phant |
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