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Amrican Business and Outsourcing JobsIn a society considered to be one of the richest nations in the world, companies are outsourcing jobs to other countries in order to make a greater profit. Because other countries employees are willing to work at lower wages then Americans, companies within the United States outsource the manufacturing of products to other countries. All the while people in the United States are suffering from the lack of jobs available. Outsourcing jobs in order to make a greater profit actually ends up hurting United States companies because outsourcing leads to a trade deficit. Money from the United States leaves the country and enters foreign economies instead of going into the pockets of citizens. Instead of our nation creating jobs through manufacturing, our nation exports services, which does not incorporate as many jobs. But outsourcing now a days is not limited to just manufacturing jobs. Upper technology specific and engineering jobs are now being outsourced also because of the lack of techni |
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The Benefits of Exercise on the Human BodyThe aim of this assignment is to explore the impact of body exercise on the pulse rate in the human body. Undertaking this practical will enable me to gain better insight into how regular body exercise is vital to the pulse rate in an individual's body function. Risk Assessment: For best results, its recommended that whoever is going to undertake this practical exercise should not be pregnant, a smoker or an obese person. Furthermore, people with back injuries or other serious illness, anyone who has previously undergone an operation or on some prescribed medications, people with muscle injuries or anyone who is recovering from an illness. Equipment: Suitable clothing such as track suites and sporting trainers, a bottle of water, a stop watch, a pen and paper. Method: Using the case study of Lisa, this practical will be undertaken over an hour. Monitoring of the pulse rate starts at the beginning of this exercise and after every 5 minutes interval, until the end of the exercise |
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A Childs Well Being - Foster CareMany children in America are not having their needs met nor are they being treated in a healthy way, which leads to future issues for the child. Children enter foster care at a very young age, which for some could bring positive results improving lives of the children. On the other hand it can bring negative results that lead them to aging out of the foster care system as well as other physical and mental problems. Maltreatment, poverty and foster care all have effects on a child's physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. A child's development can be severely hindered by their experiences in several areas and ways. Children can often be helped by providing predictability, nurturance, support, and cognitive or insight-oriented interventions to make them feel safe, comfortable, and loved. After developing an understanding of these topics, a case study will complete on a boy named David. Child Maltreatment Child maltreatment is often the outcome of a care giver who reache |
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Sigmund Freud: Analysis of the MindSigmund Freud developed the examination of the mind using dream analysis and the analysis of the unconscious through the link of findings with attitudes toward sexuality and sexual development. In his extensive research and theories on sexuality during the infant stage, Freud attempts to trace the course of gender identification and to describe the many processes that the child must navigate in order to arrive at an adult sexual identity. His creation of the Oedipus complex theory is central to this process and is used to explain the structure of the mental processes as well as the cause of mental disorders. It began with the study of a boy known as Little Hans. The analysis of a phobia in a five year old boy, explained the fear of horses for Hans. Freud believed the terror of this boy was due to feelings of |
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Embalming: The Process to a Final Resting PlaceEmbalming is the art and science of preserving remains of a body to postpone decomposition of the body for suitable display for a funeral. There are three main points for embalming: preservation, sanitization, and presentation. There is a common history behind the embalming process. The embalming process that has been practiced by many cultures originated from the Egyptian Culture. This is something that the average person does not think about on the day to day basis unless it's a profession. There are several things that are needed to be successful in this process including formaldehyde, body disinfectant, surgical tubing, plastic wrap, and last but not least...a strong stomach. An embalmer involves the study of anatomy, thanatology, chemistry and specific theory of embalming combined with practical instruction in a mortuary with resultant formal qualifications granted after the passing of a final examination in recognition an embalmed body. Legal documentation is required for th |
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Slaves to Technology"Mankind is now a slave to technology. It creates the problems which are destroying our planet." There was a point in time when mankind could have considered itself free from the reigns of technology and media independent enough to get through a day without triple-checking its collective smartphone. Unfortunately, as time passed, society has employed its collective mental dexterity and ingenuity to create various accommodating mechanisms that perform its work without putting and pressure on its shoulders. The statement, "Mankind is now a slave to technology. It creates the problems which are destroying our planet." presents the idea that mankind is now so extraordinarily reliant on technology that it has become an indisputable point of concern. The following essay will approach and dissect the idea that technology is the source of society's dwindling self-sustainability. Since the Industrial Revolution (circa 1750-1850) and the technological advancements that followed, what were on |
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The Man Who Was ThursdayIn G.K Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' a young detective believes himself to be in the presence of the six most evil men in Europe. However as the story progresses, confusion about which members of the secret council are anarchists and which are in fact policemen sets in and the line becomes blurred. The evil Syme once thought he faced simply isn't there as he struggles to determine friend from foe, a favorable circumstance compared to the six enemies he originally thought he had to face however. In contrast to pessimistic attitude his fellow officers display it is Syme's optimism that gets the job done. In this paper I will argue that the perceived evil presented by Chesterton in the form of Sunday, can only be thwarted by the noble qualities presented by Syme throughout his journey within the story. The first quality Syme displays is that of honor. As soon as he finds himself in the meeting with Gregory, he reveals his true identity. As shocked as Gregory is, they both sw |
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African American Music and it's Influence on American CultureLeroi Jones book, 'Blues People: Negro Music in White America' offers insight into jazz and blues in American social, musical, economic, and cultural history. From the music of African slaves in the United States through the music scene of the 1960's, Jones traces the influence of what he calls "negro music" on white America - not only in the context of music and pop culture but also in terms of the values and perspectives passed on through the music. In tracing the music, he brilliantly illuminates the influence of African Americans on American culture and history. The White Negro is a 9,000 word essay by Norman Mailer that recorded a number of young white people in the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's who liked jazz and swing music so much that they adopted black culture as their own. T |
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My Ability to SurviveMy talents, I have learned, are at the core of who I am - my nature to endure, survive and surpass the seemingly impossible situation. In my short life I have probably dealt with a wide variety of experiences that most have not. Two experiences that have both tested and strengthened my endurance in life, will to survive, and triumph in surpassing them are ovarian cancer and a sexual assault. In the last few months of my senior year of High School I was diagnosed with stage two ovarian cancer. One day after school I felt a pain that I could have never imagined before. I was taken to a hospital where I was misdiagnosed and treated for an ovarian cyst. The hospital informed me that they had made a mistake in the way they treated me and that I would have to undergo cancer treatment. That was the last time I stepped foot into that hospital; and with the help of my parents I petitioned and fought whenever possible to never return there again. I struggled with my heal |
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Preparing For VacationVacation is something many of us look forward to all year. As families, we work and go to school, putting in hours, days and months of hard work. As a reward, it's common for us to take a much needed and deserved hiatus from the day to day demands of these responsibilities. If you follow the guidelines in the following paragraphs to prepare for and plan your vacation, your experience should be all that it is meant to be; a joyful, relaxing and fun time away from the stress and demands of the rest of the year. The very first step before preparing for a vacation is to consider what dates you and or your family would like to go, as well as determining what dates would fit best into everyone's work and school schedules, peak and off peak tourist times of the year and when it would fit into your budget the best. This should be done at least a month prior to your planned vacation. This is by far the first and most important preparation you can do. It is essential to avoid any scheduling conf |
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Van Gogh and Starry NightWhat is the definition of the word icon? One example of such an icon is the painting is "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh. Few people actually know the name of this famous painting, but when they see the picture they recognize having seen it many times throughout their lives in textbooks, museums, prints in people's homes, businesses, etc. "Starry Night" is widely known simply as "a painting that some guy named Van Gogh did". The painting is a depiction of a town at night. Between the sky and the town in the back of the painting there is a mountain range. In the sky there are swirls of blues and white and yellows, along with eleven brightly shining stars and a glorious half-moon. There is also a dark structure reaching up towards the sky on the left hand side of the painting. Just looking at it one is reminded of the childhood story "Jack and the Beanstalk". Tendril looking things sprout from the ground and shoot up towards the sky while intertwining with one another. Because of t |
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Information SystemsThe culture change driven by social, economic and politics has lead to the increasing amount of information, in succession of rising innovations in the methods of handling it in information systems (IS). This paved the way for our world to move into the information age carrying forward a new wave of hope that implementing information systems would bring cumulative impacts to the way they communicate and operate, or Brown & Duguid said "to transform the dinosaurs of the industrial age into phoenixes for digital age". Shannon (1948) defined information as the reduction of uncertainty in a communication system such as bits of DNA, light from a distant star but information systems is the methods and techniques by which human manage, process and deal with information, rather than the content of the information itself or it is called the technologies of knowledge. Base on Headrick's "Taxonomy of IS", we have five categories. In the first category, there are many systems for gathering infor |
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NatureThoreau wrote that he went to live in the woods in order to fully understand life and live freely from social constraints. My thesis is that today's society must stop its current pattern of industrialization and maintain some standards of population control before all our resources are consumed. This is vital to human survival, as nature lays the foundations for society by providing the resources needed to cure diseases, build cities, and support human life. Throughout the essay it will be illustrated how today's current society is reaching a point of no return and we need to put a stop to these trends of overconsumption before it's too late. Firstly Thoreau explains his motivation for going into the woods; he wanted to get away from society and truly be free. This is important because in the present individuals are too concerned with meeting ends meet that they forget to enjoy the simpler things in life. Thoreau details his experience; "I went to the woods because I wished to live |
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Issues of Native Americans in AmericaNative Americans are the indigenous people of the America's and they had to endure some major changes to their lifestyles due to the arrival of the Europeans. Before their way of life was interrupted, Native Americans had their own structured ways of preserving the land and living together in tribes. When the Europeans arrived, Native Americans were forced to change or abandon most of the ideals they had developed over many years of occupying the land. In the new America Native Americans faced a lot of changes, from a sociological perspective pluralism, social stratification, assimilation, prejudice and discrimination while finding themselves in the minority all began to affect their culture. In this discussion we will examine how the aforementioned sociological terms impact the Native American culture today. For the most part, Native Americans have been able to keep most of their traditional clothing and customs intact despite having to vacant their lands for reservations. It is evident even |
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The Mineral OlivineOlivine is one of the earth's most abundant minerals. It shines like glass, however it is hard enough to cut glass. I was able to trace the earliest date I could find on the mineral to be 1500 BC. During this time, it was mined by the Egyptians in the Red Sea. This mineral is used in some jewelry and is sometimes called the "evening emerald." One place you can visibly see olivine is on the green beaches of Hawaii. It is also found on the moon and mars from meteorites. Olivine is found in igneous and metamorphic rocks. It is not a very strong mineral, meaning that it goes through weathering fairly easily. When it does this it turns into a compound of iddingsite which is a mixture of clay, iron oxides and ferrihydrites. This is found in water. Since iddingsite was found on Mars, one would say that water once existed on Mars, however, that has not yet been proven and probably wont be. Factories using aluminum use olivine sa |
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Education for Lower Income FamiliesThe majority of families I worked with come from low to poor economic and social upbringing and functioned on a lower level of education than what is considered acceptable in the working class. These families lived paycheck to paycheck and depended on the welfare system to make ends meet. When interviewing the children, it became immediately clear their expectation of education was built on the same foundation as their parents. They believe schooling is only because one is forced to attend; it's not about one's education that gets one ahead, but rather from what economic status they are born under; and believe the life they are living has amounted to all it will, therefore it must |
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Terrorism and the War on TerrorThe War on Terror is characterized as a fundamentally different type of war than previous and more traditional conflicts. The War on Terror is a military effort to eliminate terrorism as well as the funding of terrorist cells throughout the world. The primary goals of this war are to find and eliminate terrorists and ultimately end terrorism, with the initial targets being the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. A precise definition of terrorism has proven to be rather controversial as various government agencies and legal systems tend to have different definitions. After numerous readings and film viewings on the topic of terrorism throughout this course, I believe I can define terrorism as murder that is premeditated, deliberate and systematic as well as threats aimed at people or property to intimidate and create fear for political ends. I believe that terrorism in most cases will be argued against. Innocent people are usually targeted in terrorist acts. Furthermore, acts of terror can bring r |
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Preparing for an Earthquake in CaliforniaEvery once in a while there are earthquakes that greatly affect the people in the surrounding areas. To be more specific, Haiti, Chile, Japan, and Northridge, California come to mind. These places have experienced some of the largest earthquakes in most recent years and millions of people were affected by these quakes alone. Many lost their homes, valued possessions, and even close friends and family members. However, one of the most anticipated quakes in California is drawing close. The people of California are awaiting the massive rupture that is supposed to occur along the San Andreas Fault within the next few decades. In order to understand and be ready for the inevitable "Big One," it is important that one learns where this fault line is, how geologists predict earthquakes, how to prepare for it and how to stay safe during the quake and it's aftershocks. Californians must be alert, informed and prepared as much as possible for the inevitable day of the "Big One". The San Andre |
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Milton, Paradise Lost and ForgivenessIn Paradise Lost by John Milton, the author brings about the idea of sin and repentance. Although God is the parental figure for both Adam and Eve, through temptation and desire they both rebelled and fell into sin. Unlike Adam and Eve, Satan is also a child of God, but he fell when pride and desire for personal power corrupted him. All three of these characters seem to shun God, but like other sinners, they are punished and given the option to repent and seek forgiveness. While Adam and Eve chose to repent, Satan chose to remain prideful and refused to repent. Milton shows that even though people may disobey, if true repentance is present we will always have the chance to be redeemed. Milton not only shows that forgiveness is an option, but if people truly love and respect God they would want the opportunity to be forgiven. Milton sets up Adam's story by highlighting his faults and having him fall, face judgement, and find forgiveness. In doing so, Milton shows that no matter what, |
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Notes on Volcanoes as Geological Landmarks1) Mauna Loa, shield volcano a) Latitude: 1928'19.41" Longitude: 15536'15.54"W; Big Island of Hawaii b) Mauna Loa is one of the 5 overlapping shield volcanoes that comprise the Big Island of Hawaii. Mauna Loa formed from the accumulation of this basaltic lava flows averaging a few meters thick intermixed with small amounts of pyroclastic ejecta. It is over 9 km high, making it higher than Mt. Everest. It is composed of basaltic rock and has an 80,000 cubic km volume which began to develop approximately one million years ago. Mauna Loa consists of gentle slopes at small degrees, this is because very hot, fluid lava flows at a rapid rate far distances from the vent. 2) ParÃcutin, cinder cone a) Latitude: 1929'28.72"N, Longitude: 10215'1.94"W b) ParÃcutin is a cinder cone volcano that has been studied since its very beginning. In 1943, a series of Earth tremors o |
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Interlocutory Employment Injunction in IrelandThe judgment laid down by Mr. Justice Hogan in May of 2012 in Wallace v Irish Aviation Authority has the potential to cause a dramatic shift in the granting of the so-called 'employment' injunctions going forward. This essay will discuss the decision in Wallace and its potential effects to future case law, with the assumption that the reader already has a sense for the general principles# used to determine whether an injunction will be granted in cases of this kind. Since the first injunction of this kind was granted in this jurisdiction in the case of Fennelly v Assicurazioni Generali Spa, the criteria to be considered, particularly in relation to interlocutory injunctions, has been ever evolving. Wallace presents further change. A brief description of the facts of the case is now necessary. Regina Wallace, the plaintiff, was employed by the Irish Aviation Authority, the defendant, in their training center in Shannon, Co. Clare. As a result of an unexplained absence from work th |
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Homelessness - The Problem of AmericaHomelessness, which is one of our nation's most serious social problems, has greatly increased over the past ten years. Homelessness happened long time ago and the existence of homeless people in our society is still evident today. The United States government needs to become more active in taking care of this problem. One of the solutions for this problem is to provide more affordable housing programs. For most of the past two decades, public and private solutions to homelessness have focused on providing homeless families with emergency shelter or transitional housing. While such programs may provide vital access to services for families in crisis, they often fail to address the long-term needs of homeless families. Families need help in finding affordable housing, negotiating leases and developing the skills to stay housed. Living without a home, being on the streets or in shelters is what defines homelessness. There are many things that could have happened to the homeless people |
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Contending Sides of Hydraulic FracturingThe argument over hydraulic fracturing has become increasingly polarized. Some environmental groups have demanded a nationwide moratorium because of complaints about polluted drinking water in wells. Meanwhile, industry officials and many politicians extol fracturing and insist there is already more than enough regulation. The three main arguments for hydraulic fracturing are: the economic viability and benefits, the fact that fracking is a cleaner and safer alternative to coal and oil, and the freedom from foreign oil. Only two of these arguments are true and are only true to a certain extent. Yes, there would be a growth in the job market but who gets these jobs? Not the people of Williamsport, Pennsylvania who have suffered from not only the environmental damages of fracking but also the socio-economic impacts that comes silently along with it. According to an interview in the winter edition of The No Frack Almanac, Navarro Adams and Jim Laverty have not seen any of the benefits t |
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The Pirates of Colonial AmericaDuring the eighteenth century, piracy began ruling the waters surrounding the American colonies. For many people piracy adds an exciting thrill to maritime history with its adventure, romanticism, mysteriousness, and its alluring nature. However, piracy is just the practice of a pirate: these pirates conducted robbery or illegal violence at sea; violence and crimes that killed, hurt, and affected the lives of others.1 Legally, crime is broken into three different parts: mens rea, the mental state of mind the criminal had during the crime; actus reus, the acts that are criminally committed; and locus, when and where the crime happened.2 These three things made the task of classifying a pirate as a criminal an extremely difficult one because the acts committed were inconsistent and the location of the crime was even less consistent; but colonists knew they were criminals. Piracy implied challenges to the law because kept themselves away from states" jurisdiction, but that was going to c |
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Cisco's Implementation TeamCisco is an IT company which sells hardware components that enables the internet to be fully functional, reliable, and independent. Cisco's main product is routers, which control how information flows across the internet. Back in 1993, Cisco was a $500 million company that utilized a "Unix based software package to support its core transactions processing" (Austin, Nolan & Cotteleer). Peter Slovick, the new CIO of Cisco, realized that that package Cisco was currently using would not be nearly sufficient for the tremendous growth that Cisco was anticipating. However, Mr. Slovick preferred not to invest in an ERP solution, instead he let "each functional area make its own decision regarding the application and timing of its move" (Austin, Nolan & Cotteleer). Mr. Solvick was wary about the expenditures that an ERP solution would incur. Mr. Slovick wanted all functional areas to make their own financial considerations while still realizing that the overall budget was the concern of the I |
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