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A Case Study and Analysis on an Obese Child

address childhood obesity in a responsible manner (Templeton). An examination of this case scenario from a utilitarian perspect...

Globalization : Outsourcing And Jobs

in a foreign country. The term outsource or outsourcing has become a synonym for offshore or offshoring. When jobs are sent to cou...

Multicultural Education

are from a white European history can learn to appreciate others from other nations and cultures. For example, one author notes, "...

Cultural Meanings of Silence

things for the good of all the community, and that winning is good for all, not just the individual. There are apparently...

Decisions on the Educational Needs of Children With Down Syndrome

these parents had to mentally brace themselves for the harsh reminder that for every accomplishment the other twin made Avery woul...

Trifles

death, thus solving the conflict for themselves. The men, however, do not know the truth and the women will not tell them so for t...

HOFSTEDE'S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS: U.S., VIETNAM AND CHINA

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

OUTLINE FOR MALCOLM BALDRIDGE AWARD

the slower periods. Cyclical variations are also built into forecasts. Even within time forecasting, there are cycles....

Ethnographic Research

Observations help the researcher to formulate initial descriptions and explanations of the phenomenon being explored; they may als...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Emotional Expressiveness In Different Cultures

Experiencing life requires much more than merely going through the paces of ones existence; rather, the various components of emot...

Management of Hypertension Among African Americans

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Social Work

studying social work. One author, in quoting a psychologist, notes the importance of this aspect of social work in the following: ...

Global Society Values

Swift (2004b) says the evolution of organizational relationships that have been building for many years have "failed to provide us...

Mill and Utilitarianism

films, good meals-it doesnt really matter in the context of the doctrine. His point is that things can only be considered "better"...

The Problem of Data-Mining and Data-Warehousing

finding patterns or correlations from databases ("What is data mining," 2008). Advances in data are able to see the processing of ...

ASL and Deafness

be a symbol for "love" or for "car" that does not incorporate spelling something out as with a written language. As such ASL is no...

Faith

in this case the history of religions, any particular "religion" does not seem to mean a great deal. Faith is a very personal issu...

COMMUNICATION PROCESS, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGIES

allow electronic storage, all of that paper can now go into a particular box on the hard drive, which saves space and time (as its...

Chicago Pizza in the Czech Republic

for there to be many cultural differences. Being fluent in the language may serve to create understanding, but alone it will not ...

Waterways in Early America

can see that clearly the rivers were used to transport goods and products across or through a great portion of early America. As t...

American Landscaping

the Old World origins of their culture - but they were attracted to the nature of the New World" (Introduction to the History of G...

Paranormal Investigations

the dead return to haunt the place of their death. Some hauntings are merely the witnesses imaginations or daydreams" (Nickell). ...

Funk Music

was despair. It was a time of high energy and it has become part of the nations mythology. It was unsettled and crazy, and funk mu...

Silko: “Ceremony”

it, because he cannot really define who and what he is. Like many Native Americans, his world has clashed headlong into the world ...

About Voter Fraud

paid signature-gatherers to sign up people to vote. At times, since their pay depends on how many signatures they get, these worke...

Drug Related Crimes

Another source indicates that, "Although the number of drug-related homicides has been decreasing in recent years, drugs still rem...

Market and Firm Influences

consider which The Childrens Place firs into the childrens retail industry. There are four major market structures which may be o...

Culture and Religion in Conflict in Early America

2008). "Wherever the Dutch settled, as in the Hudson River Valley, the Dutch Reformed Church predominated ... German Reformed and ...