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The Communication Environment and the Human Condition, 2002.
Argues that humanity is being redefined by the mass media in an age of consumerism.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This essay will argue, through the communications media, that corporate power is effectively attempting to redefine individual and collective agendas in our everyday lives. Some people may argue that media critics are fundamentally exaggerating the influence of the media and are using scare tactics to suggest the existence of a corporate conspiracy to dominate the mass media.
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Conditioning in Hot Environments, 2004.
In-depth study of athletic training in hot environments.
16,038 words (approx. 64.2 pages), 104 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This paper explains the effects of hot environments on the body and how the body attempts to regulate its internal temperature. The paper also describes what factors affect a body's ability to regulate its temperature and what measures can be taken to enhance a person's athletic performance in hot environments. Studies are cited to help illustrate these measures, and the dangers of performing in hot environments when ill-prepared are discussed. Finally, the paper applies the information from the studies to the typical training regimen of soccer players and makes suggestions for improving the regimen.
Introduction to Hot Environments
Thermoregulation in Heat Stress: Heat Loss
Effectiveness of Hot Environment on Players
Environment - Weather
Heat Cramps
Assessing Heat Quality of the Environment
Introduction to Soccer
Anthrompometry, Fitness and Physiology Characteristics of Male Soccer
Players
Anthrompometry, Fitness and Physiology Characteristics of Juvenile
Soccer Players
Essentials of Cardiovascular Fitness Among Soccer Players
Cardiovascular Improvement Methods
Interval Training Methods for Cardiovascular Development
Features of Interval Training
Appropriate Intensity to Develop Cardiovascular With Interval Training
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"Every year more than 300 people die of heat-related illnesses and many others require medical attention, according to a CDC report. Often those who experience exertional heat illness are athletes who are taking part in physical activity in a warm or hot environment, who might benefit from early on-site identification of their condition and timely, appropriate treatment. Noting that many cases of heat illness are preventable and others can be treated, the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) recently issued a new consensus statement from the Inter-Association Task Force on Exertional Heat Illnesses that features guidelines for effective prevention and management. (NATA 2003)."
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The Working Environment of Nurses, 2006.
This paper is a literature review that assesses the working conditions and risks of nurses and suggests improvements in their working environment.
4,280 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 34 sources, APA, $ 113.95
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This paper relates that nurses face more than intense political, economic and stress related events in their working environments. Today's healthcare professionals also are at risk for physical injury, institutionally contracted disease and disability associated with their employment and commitment to patient care. The author examines primary and secondary evidence and concludes that stress, physical risks, poor rewards, violence and lack of communications are the leading factors pushing nurses to other professions. The paper suggests that these problems can be rectified with networking, fair wages, safety training, continued education and the continued validation and support of nursing staff in hospitals and nursing facilities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Methodology
Literature Review
The Emotional and Political Environment
Physical Dynamics of Nurse's Working Environments
Disease Risk
Physical Injury
Improving the Working Environment for Nurses
Physical Risks
Political Dynamics
Psychological Factors
Management Techniques
Discussion and Conclusions
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"Frings (2001) believes that networking among employees, management, and the community is the key to reducing stress. By providing extra resources and reducing pressure in employees and clearly recognizing the stress of workers today's healthcare organizations can create a positive working environment that promotes commitment. However, it appears that it is the basic shortage of workers that creates stress and burnout and as Raske (2002) puts it nothing is going to improve until today's healthcare facilities are willing to spend the funds necessary to hire sufficient staff and create a positive working environment."
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The Nursing Work Environment.
This paper discusses problems facing the nursing work environment and makes recommendations for improving these conditions
3,120 words (approx. 12.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper explains that the current nursing work environment faces a shortage of nurses and extended working hours for nurses, leading to fatigue and high turnover rates; while demand for nurses is increasing, the supply of nurses is not able to match the demand, which may lead to a 20% shortage of nurses in U.S. health care system by 2020. The author points out that hospitals with good working conditions provide clinical experiences to students so that changeover from academia to the work setting will be smoother; encourage differential nursing practice, based on level of education, job skills and pay scales and facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to foster team work and conflict resolution to ensure maximum patient care. This paper stresses that, because the primary role of health care organizations is to take care of patients without any errors, cost control measures should be used with extreme caution so that the quality of nursing does not suffer.
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Introduction
Issues
Changes Required
Recommendations
Conclusion
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"Working for long hours on the part of the nurse's makes them fatigue since it decreases their energy and reduces their attention to the patient and thereby poses to be a serious danger to the patients. Most of the nurses work for 8-12 hours per shift and some work for more hours. Those concerned regulatory bodies of the state should disallow nursing staff from working longer than 12 hours per day and more than 60 hours every week. In addition to changes in staff levels and working hours, the plans of restructuring of the hospital which began in the mid-1980s brought about considerable changes in how nurses function. As a major step in humanizing nurses work atmosphere and bringing back trust, the report advises health care organizations to involve nurse leaders at all management levels and to seek input from nursing staff regarding decisions about work design and execution. Nurses are in major positions to help identify unproductive work processes that could lead to mistakes, recognize reasons of nursing staff turnover, and find out suitable staff levels for each unit."
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Human Resources and the Business Environment, 2002.
A discussion of the changing business environment and the role of human resources in that environment.
5,122 words (approx. 20.5 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 128.95
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This paper examines how as the business environment in which most companies operate has changed, the role of the human resource function has changed, as well. It looks at how human resource professionals used to serve as personnel specialists who worked largely outside the realm of strategic management and how they are now an integral part of the strategic focus of a company. It evaluates how human resource professionals now take a proactive role in helping companies attract and retain the highest quality workers who are able to meet the needs of the organization not only in the immediate future, but over the long term. Human resource managers are in a unique position to bring change to organizations since they are increasingly being included in senior management and since they work closely with other managers as well as lower-level employees.
Outline
Introduction
Globalization
Managing the Expatriate
Reducing Costs
Competition
Increase in Service Sector Activity
Downsizing/Re-Engineering
Changing Demographics
Strategic Planning and Human Resources
Goal-Setting
Planning
Organizing
Profit Sharing
Executive Information Systems
Delegating
Organizational Culture and Ritual
Rituals as Barriers in Organizations
Culture and Standards of Behavior
Conclusion
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"Increasingly, organizations are including human resource professionals in the strategic planning sessions which take place at the executive level. Where once personnel specialists would react to the strategic plan by trying to find employees who could help the company achieve its goals, human resource professionals are now active participants in determining those plans. Based on their familiarity of the workforce in the local region (or in remote areas, in some cases), human resource professionals can offer guidelines as to how much a particular strategy will cost in terms of human resources, and whether the company has the right people on staff currently or whether new employees will have to be hired and trained. In some cases, retraining of current employees will take place concurrently with hiring new employees."
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Human Relations and Cultural Differences, 2006.
This paper examines how cultural differences impact on human relations both negatively and positively.
1,526 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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The writer of this paper details the manner in which various values and cultural traditions can impact an individual's or group's beliefs, attitudes and actions with respect to their day-to-day existence. The writer contends and explains how cultural differences affect communication, interaction and actions amongst different people. In an environment where little cultural diversity exists, it is likely that cultural differences will have little or no impact on human relations. This paper also discusses the issue of cultural differences in the workplace. Cultural diversity can lead to conflict as well as collaboration within the workplace, depending on whether or not people are willing to embrace people that are culturally different. This paper examines the impact of cultural diversity in the classroom, where teachers are being asked to become more culturally literate so that they can better address the needs of all their students, rather than the few who fall into one or two categories. This paper also explores the issue of students with varying cultural backgrounds that have different perceptions of learning and communicating and the manner in which their needs are met.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Analysis of Cultural Traditions and Human Relations
Conclusions
References
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"Cultural differences even impact students in the classroom. More and more teachers are being asked to become more culturally literate so that they can better address the needs of all their students, rather than the few who fall into one or two categories. Students with varying cultural backgrounds have different perceptions of learning and communicating, thus may have a difficult time achieving in a classroom that does not recognize their cultural differences and methods of learning. For students to be successful in a culturally diverse environment, teachers must work to improve communications and the methods they use to teach, to ensure that they are addressing the needs of a diverse population. To understand how cultural differences impact human relations one must also understand what culture is."
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Strategic Planning in the Built Environment Sector, 2008.
A discussion on effective strategic management in the built environment sector.
2,344 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 72.95
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This paper evaluates the use of strategic planning concepts, frameworks and processes in the built environment sector. The paper does this by balancing the need for accurately interpreting and responding to market conditions on the one hand with the internal prioritization of strategic investments to ensure competitiveness in the coming years on the other hand. The paper then explains that this balancing act is not well suited to many built environment sector organizations whose cultures are dominated by a short-term and project-centric approach to accomplishing objectives. Next, the paper uses the Ansoff Matrix, The Boston Consulting Group Growth/Share Matrix and accompanying 'experience effect' as the foundations for making recommendations as how built environment sector organizations can increase the effectiveness of their strategic planning processes.
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Executive Summary
Using the Ansoff Matrix as a Strategic Planning Tool
The BCG Matrix in the Built Environment Sector
Summary
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"The BCG Matrix is primarily focused on the resource allocation decisions companies need to make between competing products and strategies. For the built environment sector, this strategic planning framework is well-suited for the coordinating and synchronizing of strategic plans throughout an organization as one of its core concepts is the allocation of resources between varying business units or in the case of this specific industry, projects. The Boston Consulting Group specifically calls the ability of organizations to learn and embed processes into their organizations the experience effect (Henderson, 1970, 1972). While the BCG Matrix has achieved notoriety for its graphical definition of business unit positions relative to market growth and market share, the more valuable insights are actually in the quantifying of the experience effect dropping costs as a result of greater market share being attained."
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Gold Mining and the Environment, 2006.
An analysis of the destructive effects that gold mining has on the environment, and an exhortation to care for the environment.
948 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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The paper explains the mechanisms whereby gold mining causes environmental damage. It gives examples of damage to the Amazon and in North America caused by gold mining. Finally, the writer urges us to conclude that that life is unquestionably more precious than gold.
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"Acidic deposition causes the emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide into our air supply, causing many problems to the atmosphere. When these chemicals get into the air supply they combine with the Earth's sunlight, moisture, and oxidants to generate sulfuric and nitric acids, which are then carried along with atmospheric circulation. The interaction of all these components in the atmosphere then come back to earth via rainfall and snowfall, also known as acid rain. Dry deposits from acid rain come in the form of dry particles and atmospheric gases. Until acid deposition is diminished, loss of aquatic life in lakes and streams will continue and the growth of wildlife and forests may also be affected. If mines continue to excrete chemical waste into our atmosphere without thought to the serious effects to the Earth, we may very well see our wildlife and vegetation vanish before us."
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Crime Environment, 2007.
This paper discusses the role of environment in crime research.
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that crime and the physical environment, as criminologists and researchers state, are two closely related concepts. The writer then notes that the exact nature of the relationship between crime and the environment has, however, come under much debate. The writer discusses that, though studies reveal a multitude of conflicting findings, it appears that the correlation between crime and the environment is determined by interactive and complex factors, involving much variation at the level of spatial and temporal determination. The writer maintains that crime and environment are interwoven in a complex tapestry of factors interpreted by the criminal, such as nodes, paths, edges, and the environmental backcloth of the situation - of which the criminal himself is an integral part.
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Introduction
Crime & The Environment
Conclusion
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"The researchers believe that crime should be investigated as a broad range of behaviour which comes from individual incentives. The environment works primarily in that it makes the offender feel comfortable about committing the crime. An individual may feel that an environment is suitable for crime based on physical factors such as the type of neighbourhood, the crime site's exact location, the crime's surrounding street layout and other factors that are social, psychological and physical. These latter factors include the location's sense of territoriality, the socioeconomic status of the criminal and crime area inhabitants, the readiness of the criminal, triggers, the criminal's routine behaviour and familiarity with a crime area, awareness and activity space, opportunity, layout of the city and streets, potential suitable targets, surveillability of the crime area, the building construction within crime areas and edges and nodes defining the crime area."
"People have been long aware of the effect the environment has upon criminal behaviour. In fact, historically crime was viewed as very environment-based and solutions to crime were based on environmental changes."
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Health Psychology: What is an Unhealthy Environment?, 2002.
An analysis of an article by SE Taylor and R.L Repetti which examines environments for healthier living conditions.
755 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper explains how unhealthy environments can effect you and what to do when these things happen. This paper is based on an article by authors Taylor and Repetti called:" What is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin?" This paper is a summary of the article and talks of different circumstances dealing with unhealthy environments which could severely effect one's health.
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"According to Taylor and Repetti, unhealthy environments can have several effects on you and the atmospheres that surround you on a daily basis. Furthermore, these unhealthy environments can cause diseases of lifestyle such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease as well as chronic illness such as health behaviors."
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Free Trade, U.S. Overseas Operations and the Environment, 2005.
An examination of U.S. operations being moved overseas; whether it is because of less stringent environmental regulations and how this will ultimately impact the environment.
3,868 words (approx. 15.5 pages), 22 sources, MLA, $ 105.95
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This paper presents an exploration of free trade and whether it is good or bad for the environment. The writer examines the exodus of American companies that are finding it financially advantageous to move their operations overseas. The writer looks at why they are doing it, what the advantages and disadvantages are and how it will ultimately impact the environment. The writer also looks at possible legislation issues that will protect the environment from such actions.
Paper Outline:
Abstract
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Examination of Why Companies are Moving Overseas
Putting it all Together
Some Legislative Possibilities to Protect the Environment
Conclusion
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"At the San Ramon center, Chevron engineers are using the latest computer modeling techniques to pinpoint underground oil deposits halfway around the world. Procurement experts are negotiating contracts to deliver the latest oil drilling equipment from the central mountains of Papua New Guinea to the wind-swept deserts of Kazakhstan. Economic analysts keep a close eye on the world price of oil to determine when to pump more oil from overseas wells and when to cut back. Accountants analyze budgets from COPI operations on five continents and 23 countries. All this activity is critical to the future of San Francisco-based Chevron, which is steadily cutting back on its investment in U.S. oil drilling because of tight environmental regulations and because easy-to-reach domestic oil is disappearing."
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Learner-Centered Classroom Environment, 2005.
This paper discusses the use of technology in a learner-centered classroom environment which focuses on the unique abilities, experiences and interests of individual students.
1,495 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 49.95
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This paper explains that technology used in a learner-centered classroom environment can help educators create a team-oriented learning community where students are encouraged to explore the world by capitalizing on their own unique abilities and interests. The author points out that technology can help teachers assess student's learning capability, learning style and knowledge frame of reference, all critical elements of a learner-centered classroom environment. The paper states that technology also can provide the opportunity to create a virtual learning environment where students can place themselves in various settings and learn from their experience.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Success Factors in the Classroom
Learner-Centered Environment and Technology
Conclusions/Analysis
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"It is also critical in a learner-centered environment that students are provided with choices regarding assignments and the manner in which they perform and deliver assignments; this again reflects on the notion that students have many different learning styles, thus what works for one student may not be optimal for all students. In this case, students may be provided the option of delivering assignments via the web or written using computer based software programs. This is a simple and effective way to introduce technology into the classroom in a non-opposing or forceful manner. The computer can be used as one method of adapting to different learning and delivery styles."
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Learning in the High School Environment, 2004.
Explores the great need for a revolution in the high school learning environment, one with less focus on results and more focus on the student.
3,921 words (approx. 15.7 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 106.95
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Albert Einstein, a famously mediocre student, once commented that ?It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.? Many educational theorists and gifted teachers have taken this to heart and endeavored to create learning environments that reflect innovations that are both intuitive and ingenious. This paper shows, that, unfortunately, we often see these same innovations stifled at the high school level. Whereas the elementary grades have always been seen as a test market for innovation and have led to such new methodologies as multimedia education, the use of role play, and a team approach to the comprehension of new subject matter, the high school environment is seen as a sacred cow where entrenched methodologies are not to be tampered with. The paper argues that, from a sociological perspective, high schools serve to propel a community?s best students to the university level where they will ultimately develop professional characteristics that will allow them to return value to their home town or city. Yet, the paper shows, that from a pragmatic perspective, administrators are quick to replicate methodologies that are proven to effect a positive result in measurable terms. In a good school, these measures could consist of SAT scores and the caliber of university placement; in a struggling school, administrators must insure that students are able to pass basic state tests and that drop-out rates remain low. The paper argues that, while these goals are admirable and in some respects immutable, they only serve to underscore the need for innovations designed to enhance the learning environment.
Paper Outline
Introduction
Learning Styles-based Education at the Secondary School Level
Learning Concepts and Education
The High School Environment: Putting it all Together
Conclusion
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"DeCorte and others speak of a system that would allow students to explore the way in which they think in order to become more effective problem solvers. Often this is tackled at the college level in logic or general reasoning courses. Curiously, training in symbolic logic, considered essential as a critical thinking skill, is absent from most high schools. If we accept DeCorte?s premise that an early understanding of mathematical concepts (one can argue that symbolic logic is a mathematical representation of problems and situations where one can employ reason to determine a solution) is essential: in many respects the high school environment is an ideal environment for teachers to convey such reasoning methodologies to young students."
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Human Civilization, 2005.
A discussion of three important developments for human civilization.
778 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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Many developments throughout history have had a great impact on human civilization. Some developments have had a positive effect and some have had negative effects. This essay discusses three developments or revolutions that have positively affected the history of humans: The agriculture revolution, scientific evolution and the evolution of writing. It explains how all have significantly affected human civilization and changed the way humans ate, thought, communicated and lived.
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"The Agriculture Revolution, which took place during the Neolithic Age, is a positive development throughout history because it allowed humans to settle down and live a sedentary life. Before agriculture, humans relied on hunting and gathering, or raising animals for their food. Both created a nomadic lifestyle because hunters migrated with the animals and herders would have to move with their animals when grazing was exhausted (Adler 9). The shift to sedentary life was slow but ultimately led to a larger population and human civilization. This change created villages and towns where people lived and worked. The villages and towns, in turn, created culture. These villages allowed specialization of other occupations because it was not necessary for every individual to farm. The textbook says, "Efforts were more productive for the entire community if people specialized" (Adler 9). This revolution also created the idea of privately owned property and systematized regulation. Farmers wanted "permanent possession" of their land and systematized regulation enforced these rights (Adler 9). Another positive effect from the Agriculture Revolution was the growth of public role for women. These dramatic changes in human life were very gradual. Even though it took 200 to 400 years to complete this development, the Agriculture Revolution forever changed human life."
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