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| The Child Observation Assignment | 1450 |
| This five page paper presents a observation of a child. The writer explored the way the child handled conflict, social contacts and getting her needs met. One of the ways that one can begin to learn about serving a child's needs is by understanding the child's stages of development and how they conduct themselves in the world. For the purpose of this paper I observed a child named Kalia with the following results. | |
| The thrust of the Computer Security Plan | 965 |
| The thrust of the Computer Security Plan part of the Business Plan is to ensure that the information systems to be deployed by the company will be in line with of the strategic mission and vision of the company. In order to insure that the information technology infrastructure and resources will meet the requisite requirements of every strategic, tactical and operational plan, the company decided to start on the right footing by adapting the standards contained in the ISO/IEC 17799:2005 or specifically known as the Information Technology - Security Techniques - Code of Practice for Information Security Management. By purchasing the ISO 17799 Toolkit, the company can follow the roadmap for a more secure information systems environment, implement the policies contained in the toolkit, and eventually obtain ISO 17799 certification to add more value to the consulting business. Specifically, the company will initially address the following areas that require immediate attention: 1.User a | |
| The Flail in 'Medieval Times' | 762 |
| The most common usage of the word "flail" in English-language countries today is as a verb. When most people use the word, they probably don't know its origin. In fact, The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines "flail" (the verb) thusly: a) "...to strike with or as if with a flail (like arms flailing the water)"; b) "...to move, swing, or beat as if wielding a flail (flailing a club to drive away the insects)." And the definition of "flail" as a verb comes from the root word ("flegel"), a description of the actual medieval historical instrument, "flail," which Merriam-Webster defines: "a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely..." One variation of the flail was the "chain mace," composed of a long chain normally wrapped in leather with a steel ball (not the spiked metal ball like a flail) at the end. According to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, the medieval flail was a weapon made of "one (or more) spiked metal balls" that were attached to a strong handle with a "hinge or a chain." It was commonly used in Europe from the 13t | |
| The Literary Comparison and Contrast: The Author's State of Mind | 758 |
| Both of Robert Frost's poems, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening," and "The Road Not Taken," depict the poem's author in a state of solitary introspection, when the poet is wandering in nature. "The Road Not Taken" states that the poet, while wandering in the woods, was once faced with a fork in the road. The poet can either decide to take the better-trodden path, or the less well-trodden path. He chooses the latter path, and that, the poet tells the reader, has made all of the difference in his life. Similarly, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" depicts the author, alone and on horseback, riding through the woods. The poet is aware that a local farmer owns the woods. This means that other people are nearby in the farmhouse, although the poet cannot see the owner's dwelling from his vantage point. However, the poet chooses not to stop by the farmhouse, or even stop in the woods. Instead, the poet heads off into the darkness alone. In both symbolic, physical, descriptions of the decisions made by the poet, the natural world symbolizes the poet's inner state of consciousness. In "The Road Not Take | |
| Emily Dickinson's Achievements in Life | 2128 |
| ABSTRACT This eight page paper presents a detailed examination of the life and work of Emily Dickinson. The writer explores the life of the poet who was fearful of death but at the same time obsessed by its finality and its inevitability. There were three sources used to complete this paper. | |
| The Theory of Nursing | 1925 |
| Introduction Health care in the twenty first century is facing demands that are not only financially restrictive but also greatly influenced by intervening variables such as increased life span, an awareness of advanced treatment programming, and better quality of life. Unfortunately, however, with better health care there exists a void in the availability of trained professionals who are qualified to provide the necessary medical service, especially trained nursing professionals who are trained in, and receptive to, patient interaction in healthcare. In fact, according to Buerhaus (2000) by the year 2020 there will be a 40% shortage of required nursing professionals. Being a nurse in the twenty first century will undoubtedly become more complex and demanding than in preceding decades. With the advent of even greater technology, higher medical costs, and other better paying professional careers available, the nursing community requires an immediate infusion of interest, compassio | |
| The Leadership Education | 675 |
| Education. A. Leadership education. While the debate over whether effective leaders are born that way or can learn these skills, the fact remains that even natural-born leaders need some help in understand the dynamics involved in teams. All of the U.S. military branches of services recognized this need early on and established service academies to help train their future leaders, but people in business, academia and other professions also have relevant leadership education available as well. According to Barker and Rost (2000), the content of leadership education courses required for the 21st century should address three general categories: (i) the evolution of social change and development, (ii) the processes that influence social development, and (iii) the dynamics of human nature in change processes. These authors add that, "Leadership education is aimed at producing citizens for a democratic society" (p. 3). B. Continuing education. Many professions require continuing e | |
| Dysfunction in American Society | 1610 |
| What makes Americans fearful? Is it the War in Iraq? The possibility of another terrorist attack? The rising costs of healthcare? Cellular phones? Gay and lesbian couples? Are these fears at all warranted? Authors Barry Glassner and Arlene Stein both agree that Americans are an increasingly fearful people. They concentrate on different fears and have vastly different research and writing styles. However, they also agree that majority of these fears are blown far out of proportion. They also both argue that these fears continue to be propagated, to serve the vested interests of social elites. This book compares and contrasts Glassner's The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things and Stein's The Stranger Next Door. The first part of this paper examines Glassner's use of case studies to address American fears such as "Killer Kids," "Monster Moms" and "Black Men." This paper then evaluates Glassner's assertion that these unfounded fears are integral to | |
| Voice over Internet Protocol Security Issues | 1345 |
| Executive Summary The intent of this paper is to define the security issues regarding the use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), how these security issues can be resolved, and what a VOIP provider can do in terms of strategies to protect users from external intrusion. Vonage and Comast Digital Voice, two leaders in this field are also profiles in this report from the standpoint of evaluating their security and reliability. To be clear, VOIP is defined as the transmission of voice over packet-switched IP networks, and is the fastest growing area of telecommunications globally. VOIP Security Issues Threats to VOIP systems include but are not limited to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, eavesdropping, man in the middle (MITM) attacks, call hijacking, spoofing, and call fraud in addition to many others. These threats are becoming more prevalent against VOIP providers, forcing the need for continual improvement to counter the increasing sophistication of hijacking, hacking, and l | |
| Mark Twain's Novel Huckleberry Finn and Ernest Hemingway's Novella | 2310 |
| Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 -1910) and Ernest Hemingway (1899-1962) are considered to be among a handful of the greatest American authors of their respective centuries: Mark Twain of the 19th century, and Hemingway of the 20th century. Two of these authors' greatest works, Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Ernest Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952), although different in style, theme, and subject matter, are worth comparing in terms of their authors' respective uses of imagery; metaphor, and their symbolic uses of water; friendship, and the motif of a journey or quest. Several general comparisons between the two authors and their works can be made. Mark Twain's and Ernest Hemingway's writing styles and choices of subject matter are distinct, but their approaches to writing are similar. Each, for example, writes honestly and often from personal experience. Mark Twain, however, is more of a humorist, while Ernes | |
| The Unlawful Killing of A Human Being With Malice Aforethought | 2333 |
| Murder, according to the U.S. Code Section 1122, published by FindLaw.com, involves "the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought." "First degree" murder is perpetrated any number of specific situations, to wit: "Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, escape, murder, kidnapping, treason, espionage, sabotage, aggravated sexual abuse or sexual design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree." And those found guilty (by a jury of their peers) of "murder in the first degree" shall be punished "by death or by imprisonment for life." Those found guilty of murder in the second degree, the U.S. Code continues, "shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life." Homicide, according to the Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia (http | |
| What Separates Masculine from Feminine | 927 |
| Whereas sex is a biological term that denotes male or female in terms of their reproductive organs, gender is learned through socialization. Genderization begins in infancy when adults say baby boys are handsome and tough while they call baby girls angelic and beautiful. Unlike their reproductive organs, gender is not something we have. We learn to construct it, enact or perform it by choosing to wear clothing associated with masculinity or femininity, for example, moving about in certain ways, and pursuing interests and goals that society has deemed appropriate to our specific gender. By the time boys and girls start school the socialization process is well underway and children are actively constructing gender. Boys learn to fear and reject anything that might mark them as girlish rather than "masculine." Girls' toys, such as dolls and dollhouses, are taboo. In the article titled "Boyhood," the author observed and analyzed an incident at the opening ceremony of soccer season. | |
| Pesher Habakkuk of the Dead Sea Scrolls | 3292 |
| OBJECTIVE The objective of this work is to compare the prophetic book of Habakkuk in the Hebrew Biblical with the Pesher Habakkuk of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The differences, if any will be described and a research of the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be inclusive in this examination and will be analyzed in conjunction with analysis of the Pesher and Biblical Habakkuk. Reference material will consist of five primary and five secondary sources. INTRODUCTION According to Gromacki (nd), there are approximately 900 Dead Sea Scrolls divided into two primary groups, which are (1) The nonbiblical scrolls numbering 670; and (2) The biblical scrolls numbering 200. The books of the Hebrew Bible fall into three primary sections, which are: (1) The Torah; (2) The Prophets; and (3) The Writings. (Gromacki, nd; paraphrased) The Qumran community held that the books of the Old Testament were "inspired by God and authoritative." (Gromacki, nd) PESHER DEFINED The | |
| To Write a Proper and Well-Constructed Resume | 1778 |
| Generally, a resume is a list of credentials that serves as an introduction to those who will hopefully employ a person for a particular job or position. To write a proper and well-constructed resume is often a rather daunting task, due to the need to thoroughly assess one's personality, accomplishments and acquired skills. The act of composing and submitting a resume also requires a careful consideration of the company that might be one's future employer. A person must know exactly what the company is looking for and if his/her qualifications meet the company's overall needs. But writing the resume is but one crucial step in the process, yet it is the most important element which will eventually lead to a new job or position. A poorly written resume often results in a negative response from employers, yet a well-written and conceived resume can influence the employer or interviewer to ask about one's strengths and the skills that a person can bring to a prospective employer. Even a | |
| The Techniques in Counseling | 523 |
| It is a must for counselors to develop a variety of counseling techniques. Two basic reasons for believing this are that no two clients are alike and therefore what will work with one may not work with the other, and it is understood that no one counseling technique can adequately address all the aspects of an issue that a client may present. A counselor will not be able to predict all the types of clients and presenting issues that he will face. He needs therefore to be prepared to deal with a wide variety. Unless he confines himself to only one type of client or condition, he must be ready to effectively help all his clients. A counselor will hardly survive in the mental health field today if he chooses to confine himself to treating only one type of condition. Due to the | |
| Psychotherapy Techniques | 671 |
| Psychotherapy involves a number of techniques used to improve mental health or emotional and behavioral issues. Three common techniques are psychoanalysis, cognitive therapy and behavior therapy. Although these may have some fundamental similarities, especially in their objectives, there are some ways in which these approaches are different. Psychoanalysis began with Freud. Trained as a neurologist, Freud began seeing neurological problems that had no biological basis in his clients. He therefore looked towards the mind for answers. Psychoanalysis is based on the belief that change will take place when an individual becomes more self- aware by bringing unconscious thoughts and feelings into the conscious. Behavior must be based more on reality than instinct. The basic method of psychoanalysis is the free association method, where the client is directed to say whatever comes to mind on hearing a particular word. The analyst listens well and interprets the patterns and inhibitions in the p | |
| The Role of Marketing in Product Promotion | 519 |
| If I were hired by Conglom to market a new drink line and improve sales in their carbonated and non-carbonated mixers, I would first research their existing drink line to determine why their mixers were not selling well and how the new drink line would fit in with the existing line. I would also research highly successful carbonated and non-carbonated mixers from other companies in the beverage industry to see what my line's niche would be and to analyze why theirs were successful. One such product would be Britvic Soft Drinks' product, Carbon, which is "the first energy brand specially formulated to mix with dark as well as white spirits and can also be drunk on its own" (Diston). Carbon is a dark, carbonated drink with a complex flavor and three active ingredie | |
| Overview of Globalization | 1111 |
| A. What is Globalization? a. What is globalization, and what are some of the traditional international trade theories that support the concept of globalization? Globalization is best described as the global integration of national economies, including trade, production, finance, and labor allocation (Hill, 2003). The main drivers of globalization over the past few decade years have been the technological revolutions in communications and information processing, and a liberalizing, pro-market introduction to national and international economic policy making. There are quite a few international trade theories that support the concept of globalization. The modern neoliberal/free-market capitalism theory is one such theory (Marouka, 2005). "[T]he inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before-in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than | |
| The Cane Toad | 3452 |
| Australia's most bothersome invader species may be the Cane toads (Bufo marinus), warty amphibians that tend to devour everything they can fit in their mouths, including lizards, mice, dog food, even other cane toads, and because they are poisonous, they have no natural predators (Stroh 2002). This amphibian, which can grow to roughly one-foot in length and weigh as much as ten pounds, is one of the many human-introduced species that is currently ravaging the ecosystem in Australia (Young 2000). The cane toad, originally from South America, was introduced by the sugar industry in 1935 in an attempt to control two sugarcane pests, the Grey Backed cane beetle and the Frenchie beetle, however the toad does not generally eat these particular insects, but has instead successfully devoured other native insects and micro-fauna to the point of extinction (Young 2000). It was also discovered sometime later, that the cane toads cannot jump very high, thus they could not eat the cane beetles w | |
| The Real Samurai | 1027 |
| In early feudal Japan, war played critical role in shaping the nation's social landscape. "Warring clans controlled much of the country...the struggle for control of that land eventually gave rise to the samurai." ("The Samurai, 2006) The samurai were a class of Japanese warriors who lived by a code known as bushido, or the way of the warrior. "The essence of the samurai code of bushido was total loyalty to the feudal lord; a willingness to give their lives in the defense of their lord, his honor, and their own; a strict regimen of martial training; and a sternly refined etiquette that governed their actions and behavior in all things...Part of the code of the samurai was to commit suicide rather than be captured in war or dishonored by failure." ("The Samurai, 2006) However, like so many ideals, this code of ethics was seldom realized perfectly at any time in Japanese history. ("The Samurai, 2006) This is particularly true of the Tokugawa Period, when Musui's Story was written. Musu | |
| The Structure of Rainforests | 452 |
| Rainforests are a place where you can find different kinds of species that includes animals and plants. It is a place where the temperature is warm and wet for all season for the reason that the plants equalize the flow of temperature. It absorbs carbon dioxide but responsible for producing and releasing natural oxygen that human usually breathes. The structure of rainforests is quite different from a regular forest because this is the place where you can find tall trees, plants are in layers and the light of the sun cannot reach the ground of the forest. The world's rainforest natural activity such as producing mineral oils and dried plants is one of the activity t | |
| Some Girls are Bullies and Some are Victims | 1673 |
| In the book Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls, author Rachel Simmons describes how girls create a hidden culture of indirect aggression. Rather than express anger openly, girls express aggression in a hidden way using tactics such as gossiping, spreading rumors, passing notes and criticizing. Simmons describes the reasons for this behavior, explains the type of behaviors that occur, shows the effects the behavior has on other girls, and offers many methods of addressing the problems. Her description, analysis, and insight, makes the book one offering valuable lessons that educators and school counselors can use to address the problem. Simmons' account of the problems offers valuable insight for several reasons. Firstly, she does not simply describe what girls do but also goes beyond this to explain the reasons why this behavior occurs. This makes it clear that the behavior is not a result of girls being inherently cruel or spiteful, but is caused by a cult | |
| Dentist Comes to Camp by the Staff | 699 |
| General Notices: Dentist Comes to Camp by the Staff Given the cessation of active hostilities, members of the unit can have all dental needs looked after from 09:00-15:00 hours at the medical tent. All soldiers, particularly soldiers with persistent dental health problems are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity, as it is unsure when it will occur again in the near future. Profile: The Visiting Dentist Offers his Views on Soldiering and Dental Hygiene You'd be surprised how many men who have faced combat are afraid of the dentist. You'd think after shooting men in the jungle and risking death every moment of your life, that walking into a dentist's office would seem like nothing. But sometimes when a solider walks into a dentist's office, he's not a soldier any more. He's like a little kid walking into the office without his mother to give him a lollypop if everything goes well. Sometimes the biggest and most powerful soldiers are the ones who are the most afraid. I think it's because they can't admit they ar | |
| "Human Trafficking: The New Era of Slavery" | 4275 |
| Introduction: "Human Trafficking: The New Era of Slavery" When the word slavery comes to mind in the present day most people think of it as something that has passed, a long and tragic historical event that involved the capture and exportation and exploitation of human beings as forced labor with no freedom of movement or choice. Slavery brings to mind the forcible deportation of Africans into the new world, associated with colonization and empirical money making ventures, like sugar, coffee and cotton. Yet, the reality of the situation is that slavery exists today, and on an even greater scale than it did during the empirical era. Human trafficking is one of today's most egregious human rights violations. Traffickers prey on the most vulnerable members of society: people burdened with poverty, disabilities and discrimination. Trafficking in persons refers to the illegal trade or "sale" of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor through abduction, the use or threat | |
| Status Offenders in the Juvenile Justice System | 1390 |
| Introduction The Juvenile Justice System is among the most fascinating and researched aspects of the American Justice System. The purpose of this discussion is to examine status offenders in the juvenile justice system. Let us begin our discussion by defining the term "status offender". Status Offenders in the Juvenile Justice System According to Tracy (2002) a status offender is "a child who was accused and adjudicated for conduct that would not, under state law, be a crime if committed by an adult, including truancy, running away from home...and violating a juvenile curfew ordinance or order (p. 43)." Prior to 1974 and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, many states punished status offenders through the Juvenile Justice system. Feld (1999) writes that at the time of the Supreme Court decision of Gault, most states classified status offenses as a type of delinquency. In addition the juvenile courts asserted a youth was a generic "delinquent" whether or not the | |
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