Walmart Inc.’s Code of Conduct

Walmart Inc., one of the world’s biggest retail corporations, pays significant attention to public reputation. In this regard, Walmart’s Code of Conduct reflects the company’s approach to professional ethics. According to Walmart (n.d.), ethical conduct is vital for building trust in three essential aspects: associate relationships, customer relationships, and overall...

MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Severe PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder is a body condition that occurs when a stressful event happens. It is the past period that does not mean that the person stays in a dangerous situation, but it shows the triggers that appear in human cognition (Mitchell et al., 2021). The neuroscience of traumas is...

Measurement in “The Nurse Entrepreneur” by Vannucci & Weinstein

Every study design has its particular data collection measures and analysis of collected information. This essay summarizes the analysis and measures choices applied in the article “The nurse entrepreneur: empowerment needs, challenges and self-care practices,” identifying their validity and appropriateness in the study. Measurement This study’s data collection techniques are...

How Raising Interest Rates Helps Fight Inflation and High Prices

There is a mutual relationship between business and government where the government regulates the environment in which business operates, and the businesses decide which government will be in place to influence their operations. Businesses look to the government to regulate or deregulate how they operate. This paper focuses on a...

Floating and Fixed Rate: Key Principles

Choosing a floating or fixed interest rate is an important decision. Depending on external facts, one can either make money or incur significant losses. There are certain rules and indicators in which it is necessary to choose a floating and a fixed rate. Moreover, there is a theory of market...

Social Psychology: Self-Serving Bias

Introduction Social psychology is one of the valuable tools for a better understanding of the behavior of people in society. In particular, it is essential since it considers such aspects as behavior, judgment, discrimination, and cultural effects. This discussion takes self-serving bias as the focus of the study, which is...

Brain Teaser: Probability and Statistics

I will stick with my choice if I am on the game show and select door #1, and the host opens door #3 to reveal a goat behind it. This is because opening the third door only supports my intuition that I might have selected the correct option. The car...

Dog Therapy for Socially Isolated People

The article “Man’s best friend” by Aydin et al. explores how using companion animals can psychologically help socially isolated people. The research hypothesis is that a companion animal can minimize the adverse mental effects of social isolation. For this, an experiment was designed in which two groups of people worked...

Empathy as a Part of a High School Curriculum

It is important to note that human beings and their behaviors are formed, developed, and influenced by their environment, which is not solely limited to social circles, but politics, culture, nation, and institutions as well. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, written in 2008, is an outstanding memoir that...

Choice Architecture: Improving Adolescents’ Nutrition

Introduction It is no secret that teenagers are a group within society that older categories focus their attention on. The reason is that teenagers actively undergo a bio-psychological transformation, worldview formation, and social adaptation. Wide health initiatives aiming this population are designed to secure these processes in young people and...

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Poetic Career Development

Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the greatest English poets that has disclosed the language in a unique, unrepeatable way. Unfortunately, some facts about the writer’s biography remain unclear and unknown; however, Geoffrey Chaucer remains in history as a poet, diplomat, courtier, and military servant. Chaucer experienced a bright and interesting...

A Comprehensive Guide to APA Style: Key Guidelines for Effective Academic Writing

APA and Its Significance Why Is APA Style Used to Document Ideas in Writing? The importance of the APA referencing and formatting guide is rather self-explanatory. The APA framework provides a set of rules that allow for a homogenous format to be applied to all studies. Therefore, the process of...

Prevention of HIV Among Older Adults: Review and Research

The primary goal of this question is to determine the methodological matters utilized by the authors of the article Prevention of HIV among older adults: A literature review and recommendations for future research by Davis and Zanjani. 18 articles relevant to HIV/AIDS were chosen, and the literature review was conducted...

Karen Ann Quinlan’s Role in the Right-to-Die Dilemma

The management of the needs of patients that are in a vegetative state is, perhaps, one of the most complicated aspects of nursing, not because of the complexity of the life-sustaining processes but because of the ethical dilemma surrounding the subject. Karen Ann Quinlan’s case was one of the most...

Innovative Remediation Algorithms for Addressing Flint Water Crisis

The Active Remediation algorithm (algorithm 1 – Figure 1) aims to inspect the water service in Flint, Michigan, and identify those lead pipes that need to be replaced by copper pipes. The first step is a Statistical Model that refers to the property data input, including historical records, water test...

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Life and Painting Style

Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist whose claim to fame was based on his incredible contribution to Neo-Expressionism. The fact that impresses me the most about the artist is that he was often referred to as “the black Picasso of American Art” (Kukje Gallery, 2013, p. 2). By the age...

Just Coffee Company and Its Competitor

Just Coffee has a profit margin of 26 percent while its main competitor has 52 percent. The companies sell their products at equal prices. However, the difference in the profit margins indicates that Just Coffee is at risk of losing, at least, a section of its market share to the...

Terrorists: Criminals or Crusaders?

In Combs’ “Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century,” Chapter 4 “Criminals or Crusaders?” describes and attempts to unravel the thinking that drives terrorists to act the way they do. The chapter begins by classifying three categories of persons who commit terrorism, according to Fredrick Hacker. According to him, terrorists can be...

Correlation and Causation

Correlation is a connection between two events; e.g., when two events occur together. It should be distinguished from causation, a situation when one of the events makes the other happen. When there is a causal relationship between two events, there is also a correlation, but the opposite is not always...

Batman: The Story of Comics Superhero of the DC Universe

Batman is a comics superhero of the DC Universe, who is also called dark knight or vigilante. Cinema comics are at the forefront of the spheres of mass culture, and we can say that the superheroes represented in them fulfill a certain cultural task – satisfy the need of a...

“Beware the Pitfalls of Global Marketing” by Kashani

Summary Kashani addresses some of the problems that he believes to be characteristic of the global marketing environment. Five propositions, including the issue of expansion into a wider market, the transfer of promotion activities from local to global levels, the need to adopt a different branding technique, the use of...

Team Nursing Care Delivery Model’s Pros and Cons

The model that perfectly fits the objectives is team nursing. Within the framework of this model, healthcare professionals are divided into groups so as to provide care on a number of different levels at the same time (for example, acute care, nurse practitioners, inpatient setting professionals, and many others). Even...

Security Policies and Dangers of Executive Override

Introduction Information security is one of the highest priorities in many organizations, especially those operating in different countries and regions. Information leakage can make companies vulnerable as they can lose their competitive advantage and even experience reputational losses (Li et al. 358). It has been acknowledged that executives may override...

Kant’s Deontological Ethics in a Real-Life Example

Since different people’s interests often turn out to be mutually exclusive, there are numerous situations, in which moral quandaries take place. For instance, it is possible to imagine a woman who has a seriously ill son. Her child needs an expensive drug to recover and survive, but the woman has...

High-Flow Oxygen Therapy to Speed Weaning From Mechanical Ventilation

Introduction This article sought to evaluate whether high-flow oxygen (HFO) therapy improves efficiency when weaning patients from mechanical ventilation (Liu et al., 2019). This therapy has been used widely in clinical practices, but its application in weaning patients from mechanical ventilation is not reported sufficiently, hence the need for this...

Nursing Career and Reasons to Choose It

Choosing a profession is one of the most crucial decisions every individual makes in their life. Various factors, such as personality traits, knowledge, skills, and opportunities have to be considered when pursuing a specific career path. In addition, specialization should be beneficial for the person and society and stay in...

Arrays in Java Overview and Analysis

An array in Java is a way of storing multiple elements of the same data type without manually maintaining a variable for each. These elements can be accessed using a numbered index, starting from 0 (Farrell, 2016). One can also iterate over elements, modifying them or accessing their methods (Farrell,...

Bullying in the Modern Society: Review

Bullying is one of the major concerns of modern society. Following the statistics, about 40% of all individuals have experienced being bullied at least once during their studying or work (Bowes et al., 2014). Moreover, regardless of multiple attempts to improve the situation, there are no signs of significant improvements....

Subway Chain: Improvement Proposal

Subway is a chain of restaurants famous for selling custom sandwiches all over the world. Subway is the brand name for the Performance Food Group (PFG), which has been showing steady growth during the previous five years (PFG 26). In 2018, the company’s total sales were more than 17.6 billion,...

Skin Infections: Cutaneous Diphtheria

With an increasing number of people traveling abroad, there is a need for doctors and travelers to be attentive to uncommon and frequently confounding skin diseases. A young girl aged five years was taken to the emergency unit at Evelina Children’s infirmary in London since she had itchy, unpleasant sores...

Investigation of the Chicago Police Department

This paper will analyze some of the critical issues found in the investigation of the Chicago police department by the United States Department of Justice. A publicly released video of a police officer shooting a black teenager and its aftermath caused DOJ to look into the work of CPD (USDOJ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Inaugural Speech

Introduction The speech is the inaugural address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the people, and the former president, Herbert Clark Hoover. It was composed by Raymond Moley (“Teaching with documents: FDR’s first inaugural address,” 2016). The historical significance of Roosevelt’s figure is hard to underestimate. He became president at the...

Virtual Tour of Colonial Williamsburg

Historic sites are often in ruins or forgotten after many centuries. Williamsburg, VA, is a significant place in the United States’ history because of the colonial past and independence gaining. A virtual tour of Colonial Williamsburg (CW) showed the visual heritage of the restored area. However, it is not commensurate...

Biology and Social Influence

There has been a hot debate on factors that influence a person’s personality. According to Salles (2017), some experts believe that genetics plays an indispensable role in facilitating inherent-acquired behaviors, while others claim the environment contributes significantly to shaping an individual’s personality. The debate raises the question of the rationality...

A Membership in Association of Operating Room Nursing

AORN I am a member of AORN. AORN stands for Association of Operating Room Nursing. AORN is a non-profit association with members throughout the United States. The organization is based in Denver, Colorado. AORN represents the interest of over 160000 nurses. Notably, AORN provides numerous benefits to its members. These...

“The Man to Send Rain Clouds” by Silko

This narration is told in past tense by a third person by storyteller who knows everything. As a result, the readers can understand the point of view of the Catholics and the Native Americans. The narration’s title explains the belief of Pueblo that the dead people come back as rain...

Experimental and Nonexperimental Research Designs

The choice of study design is a crucial stage, during which the quality of research and the accuracy of its findings are determined. Experimental and nonexperimental methods are two popular designs, which are widely used in the modern academic environment. The primary difference between them lies in the presence of...

“Economics as Universal Science” by Heilbroner

The article talks about economics as a division of social science (Heilbroner, 1991). According to Jack Hirshleifer, economics appreciates its grand status because it provided part of the social theory’s master pattern. However, while social biology also contributed or supplied the other portion. Economics and social biology are both combined...

Prevalence of Combat Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Among Veterans

Personal and professional experiences of the Gourleys are common among military officials in practice or retired. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) occurs when an individual is exposed to life-threatening incidents attributed to extreme trauma (Friedman, 2015). Military personnel are deployed in conflict zones such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen to...

Ichabod Crane and Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt: Comparison

The primary theme of the story is rivalry and enmity between Ichabod Crane and Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt. Both characters wished to marry Katrina in order to become wealthy and take a chunk of inheritance. However, this competition for the hand of Katrina put a great strain between Crane...

Ethical Considerations in Business

Ethical considerations play an important part in business relations, especially in companies that work in markets capable of affecting the environment. Social and environmental impact of a particular company’s actions are crucial to take into account both in creating policy and directing action. The inability to take the proper steps...

Blues as an Authentic Performance

Speaking about authenticity, one means something genuine, supported by historical factors or traditions. Blues is a shining example of authenticity: their origin is associated with a certain historical period and territory. It is African American folk music inspired by workers’ living conditions and natural phenomena such as flooding. A specific...

Ways to Avoid Catastrophic Drought

Water supply has generally reduced in major cities over the years and measures to conserve water need to be implemented to avoid the possibility of a catastrophic drought. The main ways to improve the available water supply are to enhance stormwater harvesting, water reuse, water conservation and seawater desalination. In...

The Use of Statistics in Evaluating Social Problems

Statistics are an important tool for researchers and policymakers when analyzing particular social-related issues. The types of statistics that can be accumulated in relation to the area can be either objective or subjective (Rahman, 2020). Objective statistics are grounded in physical realities and numbers. Subjective statistics are typically related to...

Stereotypes in “The Myth of the Latin Woman” by Cofer

From my perspective, Cofer’s essay is thought-provoking when it comes to stereotypes about Latin American and Hispanic women. Specifically, the essayist mentions a widespread stereotype that immigrants from Puerto Rico are easy to spot because these girls have no sense of moderation when it comes to jewelry (Cofer 149). The...

Human Aging: Age-Related Changes in the Brain

The brain is one of the most vulnerable parts of the human body under the influence of time. Age-related changes in the brain are a gradual decrease in mental performance due to violations of the structure of nerve cells, intercellular connections, and a decrease in the volume of gray matter....

Sikhism: History and Practices

There are various religions globally, each with a unique history of origin. However, there are controversies on how some religions came into existence. Sikhism has had so many theories said about how it came to exist. The most common thought about the religion is that it has long been thought...

The Limitations of Ratio Analysis

The Ratio Analysis framework is extensively utilized by businesses and provides companies with numerous insights into their financial operations. At the same time, Ratio Analysis has several significant limitations, which include the utilization of past data, the absence of inflation adjustments, and possible changes. First of all, every Ratio Analysis...

Social Audio and Fitting Platform for It

The introduction of Clubhouse marked a significant step in the development of content on social media platforms with the new audio-based model. Nowadays, innovational features are quickly recycled and implemented in the popular social media apps, as happened with Snapchat being replaced by Instagram stories and TikTok being brought to...

Discussion of Children and Crimes

In the US, most children accused of serious crimes are treated according to the adult criminal justice system. The question of this is a right way to deal with juvenile offenders is a complicated one and has been addressed by many experts in the fields of psychology and criminal justice....

Canadian Carbon Molecular Sieves Technology

Canadian carbon molecular sieve technology is a process of producing carbon molecular sieves (CMS). CMSs are a class of activated carbons characterized by small pore sizes and a sharp distribution within micropores. These sieves are used for numerous purposes in the petroleum industry. CMSs are utilized primarily to separate and...

Gender Identity Evolution and Its Results

Introduction The evolving notions of gender and sexuality lead to their new interpretations correlating with societal conditions. In other words, the specified terms are directly involved in various conflicts of the present-day world while continuously changing their nature. Monitoring these shifts to timely address the emerging obstacles to everyone’s wellbeing...

Climate Change in “The Parable of the Sower” by Butler

Octavia E. Butler wrote a novel in 1993 that has gained popularity in the academic spectrum. It is a post-apocalyptic knowledge literature novel that addresses climate modification and socioeconomic inequalities (Iossifidis, 2020). Several people have ventured into the novel and strived to learn about the Earthseed area she created by...

Aspects of the Health Awareness

The healthcare setting of the 21st century can be characterized by the intensifying dialogue between clinical experts and the population. More specifically, the professional community increasingly recognizes the bilateral nature of medical relations. In this regard, people must be taught the key principles of personal and public health through effective...

Introduction of Information Technologies in Court

The development of digital technologies has proved the prospect of introducing artificial intelligence in court. The introduction of AI into court office work is one of the modern trends in the development of criminal justice, which has proved to be efficient. China’s first success in this area was the Hangzhou...

The IOM Recommendations: Transforming Nursing Practice

The first recommendation presented by IOM is transforming nursing practice (Institute of Medicine, 2011). The reform of nursing in the state of Georgia has unfolded in several directions. First of all, it is conducting scientific research in nursing. It also includes the reform of practical activities and self-management and consolidation...

“Anthropology and the Abnormal” by Ruth Benedict

The study of the many and common aspects of the cultural environment, as well as their repercussions on human behavior, has become more important in modern social anthropology. “Anthropology and the Abnormal,” by Ruth Benedict, examines questions of normalcy, ethics, and the use of these notions in historical contexts in...

How Corporate Leaders Can Spearhead the Sustainability Agenda in Their Firms

Presently, a majority of corporate governance is faced with insufficient Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Oversight and Disclosures. Consequently, there is an urgent need to promote the right culture that will promote the above agenda in the institutions’ core business. Ideally, there are several ways of achieving the vision in...

Risk Management and Project Success

Risk management is a system that includes management strategies and tactics to achieve key business goals. The purpose of risk management in the field of economics is to increase the competitiveness of economic entities by protecting against the implementation of net risks (Segal, 2022). Risk management in an ideal organization...

History of Irish Emigration to America

There has been an Irish immigration wave with the Irish migrating to America for many reasons. The first wave of immigration occurred in the year 1970. The arrival of the Scots-Irish noted it. Majorly occurred in North America, describing the people who migrated from Ulster and were the Presbyterians who...

“Gladiator” Ridley Scott: Plot, Themes, and Key Features

Introduction Ridley Scott’s, Gladiator is one of the most influential films of the 21st century. Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe, the movie was released in the year 2000. The film incorporated other supportive actors, including; Connie Nielsen, Djimon Hounsou, and Richard Harriss. It won critical accolades, large...

Asking Questions and Bringing Up Difficult Issues

Asking questions is part of social work practice while discussing with the client about a problem. Open-ended questions will enable me to prompt the client to intricate more on the problem as a social worker. The open question should allow the client to open up more about the issue. For...

FIFA, Zidane and Materazzi 2006 Debacle

The three parties involved each handled the case differently. FIFA punishing both players was fair and helped them preserve their image and pass on a solid message against emotional and physical abuse. They reminded players that violence and unbecoming behavior on the field would not be tolerated. However, the punishment...

Job: The Example of Religious Fortitude

As it is known, both Testaments, the fundamental Jewish and Christian ancient sacred texts that constitute the Bible, are a collection of recorded folk myths and historical processes of the West Bank, Eastern Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia. Moreover, these are also principal religious treatises of Hebrew and Christian philosophy where theories,...

Alexander the Great and the Greek Expansion

Alexander the Great was one of the most known and prominent ancient Greek kings. During the nine years of his rule, Alexander the Great managed to unite Greek state cities and extend his empire as far as the Indus River in the East. However, Alexander’s achievements also had a considerable...

The Future of the West and the Church

The world and society have changed significantly over the past few years. As Western countries were discovering their own identities, they developed various values, such as democracy, individualism, human rights, and religious faith. These ideas are likely to have an effect not only on the West but on the Church...

The Biological Effects of Sleep Stages

The research summarizes and provides basic information on sleep stages. It shows the biological effects and human behavior at each stage, using Saladin’s (2017) research. However, sleep science is a developing field with discoveries and answers to the existing questions appearing consistently. One such study is the review research by...

Electric Vehicles vs. Traditional Cars

The growing popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) makes people switch to them at a rapid pace. As the price of gasoline continues to grow, understanding the benefits of EVs becomes more crucial, even if a person does not seek to reduce their environmental impact. There are hindrances in people’s understanding...

How Does Lewin’s Model of Change Deal With Resistance to Change?

The model offered by Kurt Lewin to implement change consists of three major steps. Unfreezing is the first stage to determine the general requirement for change, study the environment, promote the need, and check resources. The second stage is change itself, during which participants communicate, empower their actions, and involve...

Harriet Tubman: Female Union Spies in Civil War

Harriet Tubman is a significant mention in the American history. She is among the few women who participated in the American Civil War. She began her life as the daughter of a slave and later on she started working in the fields as her family (Agard, 2020). However, she began...

Elon Musk’s and Jeff Bezos’ Leadership Styles

One should initially note the fundamental difference in the dynamics of development of the two space companies chosen by its leaders, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. Despite the fact that this information is in the public domain, few people know that Bezos began investing in the development of space programs...

Random Drug Testing at the Workplace

The practice of testing employees for drugs in the workplace is not widespread. Instead, it is governed by various federal, state, and municipal government authorities, in addition to some industries. Those in safety-sensitive vocations are subjected to drug testing, and various sectors and government organizations have developed specialized testing techniques....

Hair and Nails: Structure and Functions

Introduction Hair and nails belong to the integumentary system of the human body. This system provides the body with a waterproof protective shell, elastic and resilient, which defines external individuality. It also affects the harmonious work of the entire body. What is also interesting is that keratin, a tough protein,...

Longitudinal Study and Social Change

The categorical variable selected is X2SEX which is the T2 Student’s sex. The continuous variable selected is S1HRVIDEO which is the hours spent playing video games on a typical school day. Table 1.0: descriptive for variable X1SES Descriptive Statistics T1 Socio-economic status composite Valid N (listwise) N 4295 4295 Minimum...

Personality Disorders: Common Issues

Personality disorders are common as everyone has specific traits that can develop to the level of them being an actual condition. Unfortunately, it may be challenging for people who do not deal with the same problems to socialize with those who suffer from the aforementioned state. Personally, I have experience...

Dorothea Lange: Style, Purpose, and Contributions

One of the most influential photographers of the century, Dorothea Lange has left a significant legacy. She is considered to be a documentary photographer due to the interest and passion she has for capturing the real emotions of people. She is mostly known for her photographs of the Depression Era,...

Protecting Public Anonymity as Issue in Technology

When information about a person’s or a group of people’s lives is private and unavailable to others, it is a state of privacy. Privacy in the digital age is becoming increasingly vital in the world’s evolving technology. An individual’s privacy ensures that all the information regarding that particular person is...

Customer’s Brand Engagement: The Use of Artificial Intelligence

Over the recent years, marketing and brand engagement has seen a significant shift. What once served as a discipline for accelerating corporate growth has transformed into a field of study where business dynamics and technology coexist. The focus is progressively moving toward the use of technology, even if market positioning...

The Healthcare Labour Shortage: Practice, Theory, Evidence

Labour shortages remain one of the main problems many organizations face that directly influences their performance and output. With a shortage of specialists in a particular field, HR workers can independently carry out recruitment, attracting candidates with various advantages, such as a high salary rate, bonus payments, a favorable social...

PICOT and Nursing Practice Problem

Introduction Evidence-based practice presents an approach in which research evidence can be used for guidance in the decision-making process. PICOT is a tool used in clinical research that provides a clear formulation of elements within the research’s question. The use of the PICOT tool significantly contributes to the overall efficiency...

The “When Ure Hero Falls” Poem by Tupac Shakur

People often create heroes in their minds and desperately try to follow their example. However, nobody is perfect, and a heroic image usually collides with the harsh reality of our world. As a result, a person who believed in their hero may become traumatized by the experience. In the first...

Immanuel Kant’s Enlightenment Analysis

In the essay What Is Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant provides readers with the definition of enlightenment as well as the path towards it. In his own words, enlightenment may be defined as “man’s release from his self-imposed tutelage.” The tutelage, which can also be perceived as immaturity, is the concept by...

Refugees’ Access to the Labor Market

The constantly high number of refugees and migrants leaving their homes and arriving in new countries is one of the significant sustainability issues nowadays. It is vital to ensure their basic needs are satisfied, they enjoy an appropriate quality of life, and they are protected. Thus, access to labor money...

The Explicit and Implicit Costs

Utilizing an item that the business owns rather than renting or purchasing a new one has an implicit cost representing resource use. When entrepreneurs use the implicit phrase, they are implying something without expressing it, which is true for implicit costs (Indeed Editorial Team, 2022). Implicit costs might be incurred...

Discussion of “A Sense of Urgency” by John Kotter

Change is uncomfortable and hard to achieve, revealing why most organizational transformations are unsuccessful. In his famous book “A Sense of Urgency,” John Kotter, a renowned scholar, provides eight actionable steps to lead and implement long-lasting organizational change effectively. According to Kotter, the first stage is creating urgency to trigger...

Levels of Measurement: Criminal Justice and Criminology

As a rule, in the research context, variables can be represented on four levels. These are the nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio-based ones (Maxfield, 2015). The specified approaches to measurement allow obtaining accurate data and assessing it accordingly. For example, the nominal-level variables may include data concerning the characteristics such...

The Handmaid’s Tale: TV Show Discussion

Films and TV shows in the genre of political drama are not only fascinating to watch but also to improve or change our views on many concepts. It can be gender, realism, violence, social expectations, gender norms, social issues, and political ideas such as political power (Globan & Ezgeta, 2017)....

Aspects of Designing Merit Pay Systems

Introduction Merit pay is an approach to compensating employees that links performance, achievement, or merit with salary rates. The major cutting factor under a merit pay system is job performance evaluated using objective criteria such as production targets. Therefore, employees who perform well are compensated more, while those who underperform...

Symbolism and Morality in Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’

Symbolism in the story The introduction of symbols throughout the story is a literary technique frequently used by various authors. By incorporating particular signs and objects into the surrounding environment, it becomes possible to allude to specific details that specify the characters’ traits or their behavior, leading to a better...

Analysis of “The Tale of Genji” by Murasaki Shikibu

The novel spans several decades; the protagonist, the brilliant Genji, one of the imperial sons, has all sorts of virtues, rare external beauty, and outstanding abilities, which causes everyone’s admiration. His career at the Court is developing successfully: he lives in luxury and has a prominent future. The second chapter...

Analysis of Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”

The central idea of Faulkner’s “Barn Burning”, which is vividly formulated, is a dilemma between loyalty to a blood relative and commitment to justice. Sarti, a little boy, realizes that his father’s actions and behavior are inappropriate, but Sarti’s love for him heavily influences the assessment. However, in this paragraph,...

Racial Oppression in Historical Context: The Case of Jim Crow Laws

The issue of racial discrimination is still relevant to this day, and the debates on whether the topic should be closed or not persist (Vaidyanatan, 2016). This reflection paper will focus on the scenario of Jim, a young man that unwillingly offended two African American men who were sitting in...

Lehman’s Peak and Decline Model vs. Lifespan Development

Famous Persons Becca Levy and Ellen Langer became the very first persons to identify the peculiarities of the peak and decline model and compare the latter to the lifespan developmental model elaborated by Sigmund Freud. The peak and decline model was initially outlined by Herbert Lehman who stated that this...

Leadership History and Evolution

Every century has an example of a capable leader that influenced many people. However, various leaders differ significantly from each other from one period of time to another. For example, history knows Alexander the Great as a conqueror and a warrior. His personal qualities highlight him as a determined and...

Wellness Coach Health Practitioner Business Plan

Introduction The Wellness Coach Health Practitioner (WCHP) project is a business plan that implies providing the combined services of a wellness coach and a health practitioner to customers, thus increasing quality and leading to higher customer satisfaction rates. The project is fraught with several challenges, yet it is likely to...

American Nurse Managers’ Future Duties Caused by Social Changes

Considering that the population in the United States is aging, nursing managers need to ensure that hospitals and medical facilities are provided with enough equipment, effective staff, and specialized health care workforce who will be able to address the needs of elderly and frail patients. As Dall et al. (2013)...

Florida Power & Light Nuclear Plants and Benefits

Florida may have new nuclear power plants in the nearest future. These facilities are regarded as the optimal strategy to address the power needs of the area while reducing CO2 emissions (Hemlock). However, one of the major issues to be addressed is the retirement procedures of these plants that will...

Ideal Citizen in North Korea’s Totalitarian Government

North Korea is a prime example of a modern-day authoritarian rule and totalitarian government. Ruled by a dynasty of Supreme leaders, with the current ruler Kim Jung-un creating a highly oppressive regime that has isolated the country almost completely. Kim Jung-un maintains an iron-clad grip on power through a cult...

VHS: Product Life Cycle

For each product that is available on the market, there is a specific life cycle. The four stages of the cycle include the introduction of the product to the market, growth, market maturity, and decline (White, 2019). The discussion of the product life cycle will be illustrated with the help...

F. Mayer Imports Pty. Ltd. Hedging Foreign Currency Rates

F. Mayer Imports Pty. Ltd. is an Australian firm that specialized in importing European food products to distribute them in Australia. As the company dealt with high-quality products, it was not a surprise that annual product procurement amounted to approximately €70 million (Wallace 1). By 2014, the company distributed over...

Nurses’ Role in Population Health

The future public health concerns are closely correlated with tendencies that become apparent in the present. According to Frieden (2015), in the future, the cost of healthcare will rise without changes in its quality. The problem is associated with the aging population and increased burden of chronic conditions, such as...

Child Marriage in the Middle East Countries

Child marriage is a significant concern in some parts of today’s world, especially in the Middle East and North Africa. It can be defined as the marriage of a child under the age of eighteen (UNICEF South Asia, n.d.). Although the problem affects both girls and boys, it has a...

Influencing and Leadership in the Army

Influencing is a fundamental part of leadership and it relates to the way individuals affect the purposes, opinions, and behaviors of people around them. Explained, an army leader is an individual who, by their given position or designated duty, motivates and guides others by providing direction and confidence to others...

History of Healthcare: Timeline Discussion

The primitive era is associated with a lack of writing, speech, and basic social skills. Scientists are still studying the remains of artifacts or biological material from that time, although it does not provide notable facts. Although the significant diseases were physical injuries to the back and limbs, prehistoric people...

West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria Chalumnae)

West Indian Ocean coelacanth is a fish species found on the southeastern coast of Africa. They generally live at a depth of 100 to 800 meters, although a living specimen has been observed at a depth of a mere 54 meters (Fraser et al., 2020). This fact makes them relatively...

Big Brothers of Fairfax County

The Big Brothers of American is an organization that seeks to help boys without fathers to have a meaningful and positive relationship with adult males. The organization needs volunteers who are willing to help these boys, but the management issue is that there are very few male applicants who are...

Crucial Management Skills: Assessment and Development

Any person engaged in the sphere of management needs to have a variety of skills that contribute to the successful outcomes of business operations. To achieve the most favorable results, professionals have to implement all the necessary skills, such as technical, interpersonal, conceptual, diagnostic, communication, decision-making, and time management. Therefore,...

CPT Codes and Its Role in Medicine

The system of CPT codes is used for its quick and convenient use; therefore, the codes in the various sections are systematized in anatomical or procedural order, which more accurately describes the service provided to the patient. The codes are divided into three categories, the first of which describes the...

Parents’ Experiences of Caring for a Child with ASD Literature Review

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a serious developmental disorder that affects one throughout the lifespan in terms of social interaction, social communication, and social imagination. Considering the nature of autism, parents encounter some uncommon difficulties in their caregiving responsibilities. The qualitative research was conducted on parental experience in caring for...

The Power of Conformity: Asch’s Experiments

The inherent need to be a part of the community is often seen in modern society as a negative phenomenon, yet, in essence, it is a neutral force that may incite one to take a specific action. The latter, in turn, may be positive or negative, yet the very concept...

”Money Supply” Article by Enam Ahmed Analysis

In this article, Enam Ahmed explains why central banks should use the Divisia approach to measure the effectiveness of the monetary policies. He argues that while the concept was developed almost a century ago, it remains a viable alternative to the tools used in modern economics. The idea to employ...

Grand Narrative of Scripture: Cross-Cultural Competencies

The discussion of the concepts and texts of the gospel may seem complex to those who pay little attention to cultural differences. One of the ways to gain cross-cultural competencies is being acquainted with the Grand Narrative of Scripture. It is critical to be aware of the stories concerned with...

Sociological Studies of the Impact of Society on Individual Experiences

Sociological studies of the impact of society on individual experiences require a consistent theory with particular explanatory potential. These theories are generally based on many empirical observations and are intended to explain them. Sanford (2017) distinguishes between personality theories, which examine how social variables affect different parts of the individual,...

Labor Laws: Occupational Health and Safety Act & Fair Labor Standards Act

The Occupational Health and Safety Act (OSHA) on one hand, specifies the duties, and responsibilities of workers and supervisors at workplaces. The Act aims at ensuring that all employers are safe at all times. All the working spaces are supposed to have internal responsibility systems where everyone works together to...

Claudius as the Main Antagonist in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Despite the fact that Claudius is introduced as the main antagonist in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, he actually posses a number of strong qualities. In the beginning, the character shares his emotions about the death of the king and demonstrates his intention to support the family and “to bear our...

Wireless Network Implementation Analysis

Business Problem Business Unit: Elegant Solutions installs window treatments for home and office use. Issues: They have a large mobile workforce that spends most of the time out in the field with customers. The salespeople follow up on customer leads, visit the homes or offices, take the orders and measurements,...

Inti Illimani’s “El Aparecido” and Mapfumo’s “Nyarai” Songs

Songs “El Aparecido” and “Nyarai (Be Ashamed)” are examples of how the citizens of South America and Zimbabwe demonstrate their response to political and social changes. In “Nyarai,” traditional musical features are an 8-beat melodic cycle, the polyphonic interplay of bass and guitars, improvisation, and insistent articulation by percussionists (Schechter...

Current Fashion Trends’ Analysis 2020-2021

The design of the Fall/Winter 2020-2021 collection can fit any individual character since there is a blend of different patterns. Followers of fashion can find any style from sentimentalism and haziness to bohemian and bourgeoisie. The leitmotif of the period, solid shoulders, is making their enormous rebound (Fashion Snoops, 2020)....

Importance of Collaboration in Healthcare

Healthcare is a complex and multifaceted system of vital importance within today’s society. In recent years, the idea of interprofessional collaboration in this sphere has become a matter of intense interest for professionals and scholars. According to Schot et al. (2020), proper cooperation within a clinical team is essential, as...

Pros and Cons of EPA Policy

Environmental pollution is among the most pressing issues the world is facing. Almost all nations have introduced legislation that encourage the generation of clean and ecofriendly energy. The U.S. is at the forefront after introducing the EPA policy that restricts the construction of power plants. The policy seemed to have...

Ethical Values in Artifacts: Hacksaw Ridge

The identification of ethical issues plays an important role in the creation of artifacts at any period. In ancient times, people were obsessed with the impact of religion on human life. During the Enlightenment, artifacts were developed on the basis of innovation. Today, individuals follow their standards and thoughts to...

Cultivating a High-Performance Culture

There are several ways to cultivate and sustain a high-performance culture amongst employees in an organization. The paper will focus on five – shaping a thriving culture, developing leaders in the employees, leaving the employees to find solutions on their own, encouraging them to embrace failures, and demanding accountability (TED,...

Emerging Technologies in Public Relations

Article Summary The selected article for this analysis and summary is “Public Relations and Technology: Practitioner Perspectives”. The author begins by explaining how different public relations (PR) practitioners are finding modern technologies more useful in their respective positions. The inclusion of advanced communication systems can help such professions adjust their...

A Case Study about Work Place Discrimination

The performed research aimed to offer suggestions on how to decrease discrimination in the workplaces in Austria and Taiwan. The theoretical and empirical qualitative studies were combined to recommend the most effective strategy. The researchers gathered data through qualitative interviews with business leaders and employees of all levels face-to-face, via...

Major Goals of a State: Political Progress

One of the most challenging tasks for a state is to achieve the major goals implied by its existence. They differ depending on the direction of their work, the inclusion of specific participants in the matter, and the methods of their pursuing. In general, the provision of security on the...

Ways of Influencing Employees’ Behaviors

The delicate and important role that the senior-ranking leader must balance within the organization to achieve success is to be the one who influences the behavior of employees. The senior-ranking leader influences the employees in various ways. The first way through which the senior-ranking leader can affect employee’s behavior is...

Starbucks Corporation Using Data Analytics

It is important to note that data analytics is a highly powerful instrument, which can be useful in order to improve the key strategic decision-making process. Starbucks is a global business, which serves coffee products in a wide range of coffee shops. According to an article, it is stated that...

A Controversial Topic of Abortion

Abortion has been a controversial topic globally for many decades. The side of the argument an individual chooses to support depends on many factors, one of them being whether he or she considers the unborn fetus a human being or merely a collection of cells. Many of the people that...

Analysis of How Brain Makes Decisions

The brain makes decisions based on the experiences and the memories they form. However, emotions play a critical role because they determine what memory is created and where it is stored. Multiple emotions work together to determine the mood and the decision based on which of them prevails over the...

Ambulocetus as Example of Fossil Whales

General Information Ambulocetus survived as a transitional form of cetaceans between terrestrial and aquatic species, so this creature was characterized by going out into shallow water searching for food. Ambulocetus’ appearance was similar to either dolphins or crocodiles, with anatomical structure indicating that the fossil form belonged to cetaceans. Ambulocetus...

Alcoholism and Edgar Allan Poe’s Death

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer known for his mysterious and grim short stories. As well, most of his works are characterized by uncertainty, unpredictability, and ambiguity; his death continues to provoke many concerns, questions, and debates. Poe died on October 7, 1849, and no medical records or death...

What Can the Playstation 5 Teach Us about Economics?

The article under focus is “What Can the Playstation 5 Teach Us About Economics?”. It was written by William Chon on November 12, 2020. The author explores the case of a sudden rise in price due to the high demand for the product. The product itself is a home video...

Smoking: An Idea for a Statistical Experiment

There are so many hidden patterns in our world that may not be obvious at first glance but have the potential to have a noticeable impact on society. Among these, of great research interest is the idea of a link between an individual’s smoking and his or her income level....

The Onion: Analysis of the News Website

The source chosen for this assessment is the news website called The Onion. To establish the online source’s credibility, one should look at the website’s creator, the authors’ credibility, the possibility of verifying the information, the individuals accountable for the information, and the presentation of the information (Lunsford et al.,...

Virtuoso Performances in Baroque Style

The “Four Seasons” by Vivaldi and the “Winter” concerto movement are one of the most outstanding classical Baroque Style compositions ever written. This is a concerto for a violin soloist and an orchestra of stringed instruments, augmented with basso continuo. The “Winter” and the “Four Seasons” utilize the ritornello principle,...

Analysis of Gustav Dore’s View of Satan

Gustav Dore is one of the world’s most famous illustrators who are known for his artworks for such books as Bible, Don Quixote, Divine Comedy, and Paradise Lost, to name a few. In this regard, I would like to mention one of his drawings that had a significant impact on...

The “Arranged Marriage” by Divakaruni

Your Last Name Sumita mentions the incident in a lake when she nearly drowns and how desperately she moves her arms and legs in the water to breathe the searing air again. This memory is a defining moment when she decides to stay in the U.S. She feels that she...

The First Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving Now and Then

The first Thanksgiving is considered the celebration of the harvest in which the pilgrims and Native Americans had a ceremony that has been considered a symbol of friendship. The initial intent of the holiday was to celebrate cooperation and unity. However, several years later, the primary aspect of the celebratory...

Management and Improvement of IT Application Maturity

Maturity in Information Technology (IT) entails the successful integration of application systems with intended users or production processes. It is common to find the systems attributed to high effectiveness during the developmental phase of a project. Ideally, it is inaccurate as the developers involved in transforming the requirements into practical...

“Do the Right Thing”: Movie Evaluation

Movies are an integral part of the life of a modern person. At the same time, many films, for example, Do the right thing, demonstrate events that could happen in real life. In this movie, characters turn to aggression in times of extreme situations, influencing life from the external side....

Medieval and Modern Music Comparison

To describe in one article the features of the performance of music of six centuries – from the 9th century to the 14th – a task that requires such a level of generalization, behind which, perhaps, the music itself will not be visible. If you look at the Earth from...

Religious Practices of African Diaspora

People believe in different doctrines, values, and beliefs that certain religious and traditional practices contain. These beliefs and practices significantly influence how an individual responds to some aspects of life, challenges, and an individual’s general lifestyle (Upenieks and Schieman, 189). In African societies, it is believed that traditions have been...

Non-Profit Organizations: The Ways of Financial Profit

This post is aimed at analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of ways of financial profit for non-profit organizations. The author rightly notes the lack of a philanthropic donation for the giver of money, due to the fact that one cannot find out exactly what needs the money is spent on....

The Rise in Divorces and Remarriages

In the recent past, issues that families have encountered have been changing throughout time as the nature of their families evolves. Divorce and remarriage bring with them new challenges for individuals. For instance, certain lengthy domestic concerns, including abuse, continue to put a burden on today’s homes’ success and wellbeing....

The Unmanned Aircraft Systems Industry’s Growth

With the development of technical capacities of various aviation equipment, new areas for the aircraft industry’s growth have been introduced. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have become of particular interest in recent decades due to their versatility and usefulness (Liu al., 2021). Nevertheless, despite the accumulated knowledge, several topics must be...

How to Maintain a Long-Term Relationship

The answer to how to maintain a long-term relationship can be simplified into one word – balance. Although it might seem there are too many factors that can contribute to the relationship ending, a closer inspection of those can uncover the hidden connection. A lack of a partner’s attention or,...

The “Bullshit Jobs” and “Political Happiness” Concepts

Nowadays, it may seem quite challenging to enjoy various aspects of life and be thankful to the government for solving a vast number of issues in the correct ways. What is more, it is difficult for people to take active roles in policymaking and be activists because they have their...

Colgate: The Brand Success History

The No. 1 toothpaste company on the Russian market, Colgate, has existed for more than two centuries. Now its net income for the quarter exceeds billions of dollars (Colgate-Palmolive, n.d.). The appearance of toothpaste on the market in history contributed to the first step toward the company’s global success. The...

Listening to Music: Several Levels

Listening to music in the background often accompanies many people in everyday life: the radio can sound at home or in the car, and music in supermarkets and other places. However, I try to make listening to music a separate matter or a process that requires some attention. The transition...