Summary In 2016, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) released “AOTA’s Societal Statement on Youth Violence” to address the prevalence of youth violence in society today. David-Ferdon and Simon (2014) state that violence is the second leading cause of death among youth. AOTA defines violence to include bullying, verbal threats, physical assault, domestic abuse, use of weapons to harm another person, and gunfire. The Societal Statement highlights a key point, that violence negatively impacts individual perpetrators, victims of violence, and...
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Meeting someone new for the first time often fills individuals with a range of emotions, questions, excitement and curiosity. As is true for anything new, the thrill of being able to start fresh or experience something unknown is an incredible notion. The short story “A Private Experience” depicts two women who come from completely different backgrounds. Chika, a Christian medical student is caught in the middle of a riot. She finds shelter in an abandoned store with the help of...
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The political philosophy of the Constitution has gone through a roller coaster of development and change. It has introduced a better central government however because the government was so strong the Bill of rights was implemented to secure individual rights the people. Many factors have contributed to the development of the Constitution after its ratification and adoption of the Bill of Rights which were seen through the Constitutional Amendments, interpretation in federal court decisions, legislation at the state or federal...
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Politics in Education The American Education System has always had a close relationship with politics. Over time, this relationship has become increasingly complicated as the education system relies more on a government that does not consistently fulfill its needs. In this essay, three different aspects of the education system in America will be evaluated. The Every Student Succeeds Act, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and the Mississippi Curriculum Test, Second Edition. All three of these have been influenced by...
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During Britain’s victory in the French & Indian War, the nation had collected a national debt that reached £130,000,000. The citizens discontent was revived during this period of time due to unfair treatment from British Parliament. Although The Stamp Act allowed England to fund recovery after the French and Indian war, it had also at the same time taken away from the citizens themselves. Outrage was immediate. Political organizations such as the secret Sons of Liberty, the Virginia legislature and...
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The Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme was the biggest of all time, so much so that he earned himself 150 years in prison. The Madoff Ponzi scheme was so big it captured the attention of the entire world. It rivaled OJ Simpson's case in attention which is no small feat. Bernie Madoff's last words before he was sent off to jail were that he had left a “legacy of shame.” Honestly, I think a better description would be a legacy of...
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Characters and Italics: Adichie’s method of characterization In the many short stories contained in The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Adichie portray various characters of many nationalities and identities. For example, a few characters adapt to the West when they arrive in America. Also, many Caucasians find themselves disconnected from the various African cultures. In particular, the short stories of Jumping Monkey Hill and The Arrangers of Marriage come to mind when reflecting on these ideas. Adichie uses italics...
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An Analysis of Selected World Cultures Before the Advent of Islam and the Major Impact of Islam of These Cultures Introduction This paper presents an overview of the political, religious, and moral state of the Arabian Peninsula, the Roman/Byzantine and Persian empires, and surrounding polities/cultural groups extant at the emergence of Islam. An analysis focusing on the period from the beginning of Prophethood and, thereafter, under the four righteous caliphates of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali with a mention...
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Aim The phantom hand experiment was conducted to determine if a participant could be led to conclude that they possessed a false hand irrespective of what they could physically see. Method The participant sat in front of a table with a rubber hand on one side of a divider and a blank space on the other side. They then placed one of their hands out of sight whilst they focused on the false hand. Whilst the participant paid attention to...
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The financial crisis of 2008 bred a new technology. Blockchain technology was born from a desperate attempt to try and alleviate trust from big banks and government after they failed to protect people’s money when the market crashed. Hundreds of millions of dollars lost, families broken, and lives destroyed. When blockchain was invented in 2009 naturally at first, barely anyone even noticed this technology existed. As time evolved and people saw the value of this technology applied in Bitcoin, people...
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Jacob Lawrence was an African-American artist that was well known for his series of creations that provided a representation of the African-American life. Born September 7, 1917; Jacob Lawrence became one the best African-American painters amongst the 20th century. Constructing breathtaking work based on living life in Harlem, historical events, and important justice such as, social realism, and the African-American experiences. It is clear as to why he achieved so much success in the early parts of his career. Jacob...
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How could a modern-day apocalyptic society function? Is there a true answer to this? Based on many accounts of what the media portrays as a “zombie apocalypse”, the answer would more than likely be no. One bite from a single mutant being could be the start of the end for most people. Society could never claim to be natural or normal after a breakout of an infectious virus. Panic would be seen within the people and their communities, riots and...
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Throughout American history, civil rights movements have played a key role for many ethnicities in the United States, and in many ways have shaped our society to what it’s become today. One particular movement that occurred during the 1960’s was the Chicano farm workers movement also known as the United Farm Workers (UFW) and its fight for restoration of land, rights for farm workers, and educational reforms- originally forming from the union of two workers’ rights organizations, the Agricultural Workers...
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In 1962, the United States was emerging from a recession and the biggest steel organizations raised its costs by 3.5%. Kenndey, alongside numerous different Americans, was irritated encompassing the choice to raise steel costs. While Kenndey addresses the choice he utilizes numerous instances of rhetorical strategies such as cause-and-effect and comparing and contrasting, to represent his disappointment and irritation with the corporations. He provides the individuals of this nation with the expectation that this national issue will be settled. Since...
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When a person who lives in a community, whether it being safe or dangerous they would know at the end of the day if they needed a Police officer, one would show up. In life or death situations since 1838 our police have constantly been there. Police have become a big part of communities and have built trust with community members and created a close bond. Using different styles of policing procedures, mainly community based policing, has proved to be...
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Good Country People (A good man is hard to find, 1955); review ‘Good Country People’ is comes out as an ironic title that Flannery O’Connor uses a part of the collection of short stories dubbed ‘A good man is hard to find.’ Thus from the overall theme in the short stories depicting the difficulty of finding a good man in the region, the title of ‘Good Country People’ and the story within successfully captures the ironical representation of the perceived...
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In McCarthy’s, All the Pretty Horses, John Grady’s character is constantly used to romanticize and challenge the myth of a cowboy. In The Searchers, John Ford shows a different way to romanticize and challenge the myth of a cowboy. Even though the two authors represent the myth differently, the strong message of the myth still gets across to the reader. The myth is much more complex than one would imagine. McCarthy writes about the myth of the cowboy to show...
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Option 1: Cleopatra. The image that we look at is an oil painting by French painter Alexandre Cabanel, called Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners. This painting was created in 1887, when Cabanel was 64 years of age and this was just before his death in 1889. In the imagine we see Cleopatra sitting with what can be presumed as a slave fanning her down while she calmly looks upon two men carrying a dead prisoner and another prisoner in...
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1.0 Introduction Unlike other sectors, Tourism & hospitality is dependent on the direct exchange among workers and clients. Therefore, there has to be a dynamic avenue for building the worker-customer experience (Kusluvan, et al., 2010). Available facts show that T&H is plagued with issues of recruitment, worker turnover being high, and constraints in alluring and holding onto very good employees, which all end up in unfortunate product/service and very little business growth. Bratton and Gold (2012) consider that human resource...
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Introduction P.E is currently compulsory from the age of 7 up to 16 within the Welsh Curriculum (Welsh Assembly Government (WAG), 2008), but it can often be seen as a waste of time and money in a school’s timetable when the effects aren’t as vocalised compared to other aspects of a school, and especially when you see many student’s sitting at the side-lines for the hour instead of participating in the lessons. It’s easy for it to be pushed aside...
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Pakistan has faced major challenges in its socioeconomics situation over past seventy years. However not all the problems have been overcome. Some of the key problems of Pakistan includes water scarcity, hunger, poverty, illiteracy, poor health conditions, unemployment, land management, corruption, drug abuse and overpopulation etc. Land Management A nexus of officers and politicians, pursuing their own interests, have made poor citizens lives miserable. The combined effect of incompetence and corruption has created a strong perception that the government no...
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Walmart's (ESG) Environmental, Social, and Governance is a segue to supporting CSR(Corporate Social Responsibilities) initiatives. The ESG sets guidelines for the mogul's commerce operations so that socially conscious investors can utilize in screening for potential ventures. The environmental side is how they function as nature stewards. The social agenda is the relationships developed between their employees, suppliers, customers, and the local areas that they do business. Governance addresses the executive pay, investigations, internal controls, and investor and stakeholders' interests of...
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Imagine a situation where you were subjected to unpleasant terms or conditions that you never agreed to in the first place. Nonetheless, you must go through the said situations since an individual claiming to be a representative of yours accented to it, thereby making it a binding agreement. Now, imagine not giving up the power to be represented to the imposter who put you in that position. Such is the situation the Native American tribe, The Cherokee, found themselves in...
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The Industrial Revolution was a very crucial turning point for Europe, the world was steadily changing to the point where clothing that would take weeks to make could be made in minutes, people were moving from the countryside to cities and they were being put to work more than ever before. Although the Industrial Revolution brought revolutionary advantages and changes to Europe, it also brought a vast range of challenges and tensions to these countries because of the exploitation and...
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Yeats saw the end of the Romantic Era of Literature and the dawn of Modernism in his time of living. Different fields of art were also undergoing transformation due to the worldwide phenomena that included the two world wars. The romantic period saw a change in the thought process of that era. Yeats focused more on the individual than the society. It was a time when personal consciousness became the center of art and imagination became a large part of...
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In the book, 'Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color' by author Andrea Ritchie takes a look at the issues of police violence against women of color. As police brutality against black men and women of color has come into the national spotlight, we only sometimes hear how ladies of color are influenced by police viciousness and sexual maltreatment. In the main section of Invisible No More Ritchie investigates history and the controlling dynamic of...
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Exploring the text questions- According to Richard Rodriguez language can define a community positively by allowing intimacy with people with that same language. For example, it allowed Rodriguez to feel in a way that he was safe and that he was comfortable hearing the same language in his household. It can define a community negatively by the community becoming isolated due to the fact that others usually don’ t speak the same language. Rodriguez means in the statement that one...
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When Shevonda Minor walked into the first Tiger Leadership Institute meeting, she felt hesitant and shy. She sat in the front, somewhat away from everybody, and talked in a soft voice, “Hi everyone! My name is Shevonda and I’m in the Tiger Leadership Institute because I am shy but I need to break away from that. I’m going to need to start networking if I am going to get a job” (Minor). Background John Swales, the author of “The Concept...
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Cleft palate and cleft lip is a prevalent birth defect all over the world. Being a dental professional, it is important for us to understand and implement the best care possible to those who are affected with this defect. This paper will cover the topic on what a certified dental assistant needs to know concerning this oral surgery. The definition of cleft palate and lip, x-rays, proper infection control, and what is expected of the dental assistant will all be...
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If you are looking for a book to help you understand the life of the colonies before, during, and after the American Revolution, The Minutemen and Their World by Robert Gross is a great place to start. Countless books and essays have been written on the American Revolution, however Dr.Gross’s book is written in a different perspective that focuses on the social and political history of Concord itself. Throughout this book, Gross gives great details on the many conflicts, tensions,...
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