...victims that could have been saved. “By words alone perpetrators of bullycide kill their victims without laying a hand on them.” (Wallace 2011) These girls should have been held responsible for their actions, yet they were not. Everyday many adolescents are being bullied to extreme measures, pushed to the verge of death, in most cases, by suicide. And just like the young Phoebe, nothing was done to help them. Is this the life we want our children to suffer through? Clearly no, but what’s the answer. Surely there has to be a way to stop this abominable act. It is clear that those who partake in bullying should be prosecuted for their incredulous actions. Bullying is a major contributing factor in actions of suicide and self-harm. Many studies show “Bullying victimization was significantly and positively associated with self-harm and suicidal ideation.”( Hay, Meldrum 2010) Victims of bullying are harming themselves to the point where they are hospitalized and are forced to miss school. This all because some people feel the need...
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...paper is to show how online bullying goes a long way, and hurts others in the long run. Bullies get online and let out their hatred/frustration on victims, without the confrontation, and without the immediate consequences. There are many ways that social media is more widely used as a weapon and some of the reasons are, bullying online can lead to depression/anxiety, even to suicide, and the bullies are able to hide behind a keyboard and threaten others with no consequences. We expect the internet to be safe and a reliable source to express ourselves, yet others use it as a scapegoat to bully others and create an environment where others don’t feel safe. From personal experiences, facts, statistics, and the words of experts, social media has been deemed an unfit outlet for teens because they use it to freely express their hatred towards others, with little to no consequence. There are many facts that prove how social media is used for seemingly inappropriate behavior towards others, and making the internet as a whole a place to ruin other people’s lives. Doing research on this topic was really hard because of all the stories that kids have been through, made me realize how hard kids have it these days. According to an article called “Student Facts on Bullying and Cyberbullying,” the use of bullying someone online can lead to a sense of “helplessness, decreased self-esteem, and feeling of anxiety or depression.” The ongoing amount of bullying after school that takes place...
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...6–11 years in the United States who were obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 20% in 2008("Childhood Obesity Facts," 2008, page 1). When you look at that specific age group they are not only a physical risk to themselves but also a target for bullying. That can cause mental damage to the person as well. Researchers found that obese children had higher odds of being bullied no matter their gender, race, family socioeconomic status, school demographic profile, social skills or academic achievement. (Bauza, 2010, p. 1). In this paper I want to show ways that kids can become a normal size, how to prevent bullying. What are really at the core of this problem are the other problems that develop. You start with a normal child, who has parents with bad habits. The child puts on weight, and not the normal healthy amount. Then goes into a school environment, where they start to get teased, the child usually turns to food for comfort. It has always been there, and it is what the child knows. The problem continues to worsen as the child grows. At these young ages, you can break the habit early on and improve the quality of life. The effects this problem has on children because roles that parents have positive/negative and that through bullying and bad habits the problem will not go away, but get much worse Let’s...
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...will ultimately cripple the organization and cause it to die (Carpentier 64). Therefore, according to Alper, Dean, and Kenneth, it is important that no effort be spared in resolving organizational conflicts and communication problems as soon as possible (636). Through proper communication skills, solutions can be found. This literature review provides a discourse on the solutions to communication problems within organizations. Causes of Communication Problems A review of literature on solutions to communication problems would not be complete without giving a brief overview of the causes and examples of these problems. Poor communication in organizations can occasion poor relations between members, thereby creating an inhospitable work environment that renders workers ineffective and inefficient (Katz and Linda 396). Some frequently cited causes of poor communication include unclear goals, language barriers, cultural diversity, poor leadership, personal issues, lack of feedback, and demoralization of employees within the organization. Solutions to Communication Problems According to McIntosh, Richard, and Jeffery, communication issues in the workplace can lead to reduced productivity among employees, thereby negatively affecting organizational bottom line (135). In the absence of effective communication, organizations and teams are unable to exchange critical information required in routine operations. Therefore, understanding the causes of communication...
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...twitterBookmark & SharePrinter-friendly version Conduct disorder is a disorder of childhood and adolescence that involves long-term (chronic) behavior problems, such as: * Defiant or impulsive behavior * Drug use * Criminal activity Causes Conduct disorder has been associated with: * Child abuse * Drug addiction or alcoholism in the parents * Family conflicts * Genetic defects * Poverty The diagnosis is more common among boys. It is hard to know how common the disorder is, because many of the qualities needed to make the diagnosis (such as "defiance" and "rule breaking") can be hard to define. For an accurate diagnosis, the behavior must be far more extreme than simple adolescent rebellion or boyish enthusiasm. Conduct disorder is often associated with attention-deficit disorder. Both conditions carry a risk for alcohol or other drug addiction. Conduct disorder also can be an early sign of depression or bipolar disorder. Symptoms Children with conduct disorder tend to be impulsive, hard to control, and not concerned about the feelings of other people. Symptoms may include: * Breaking rules without obvious reason * Cruel or aggressive behavior toward people or animals (for example: bullying, fighting, using dangerous weapons, forcing sexual activity, and stealing) * Failure to attend school (truancy -- beginning before age 13) * Heavy drinking and/or heavy illicit drug use * Intentionally setting fires * Lying to get...
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...nurse working with her co-workers feels downtrodden as all of her co-workers that she works closely with are christains.As they do not share the same religious beliefs they do not let her practices her religious beliefs around them, as they only respect their own beliefs and no others. This can lead to the nurse to suffer low self-esteem and isolated from her co-works who are not treating her equally. Example2> Jane has moved to a new care home where she is starting her new job, While on her shift she hears her co- worker discussing openly another services users confidently file and is now gossiping about her findings. The same lady also prevents the services user she is gossiping about from watching TV programmes she enjoys .This could cause the service user to become withdrawn from engaging with others and joining in on activates in the care home. Covert discrimination>This can be a health professional who is treating an individual differently from another indivdual.This meaning an individual services user may not receive the same level of care which could lead to further health problems and can affect their wellbeing. Covert discrimination hidden and can be harder to demonstrate. Example 1> A doctor decided to stall treatment for a services users because of the services users skin colour, religious beliefs, age, gender or post...
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...The School Culture Attitudes and Beliefs Attitudes Toward Change Cultural Norms Cultural Norms that Facilitate School Improvement Relationships The term culture has been defined in various ways by many authors as discussed earlier in this paper. Here the culture of the school will be viewed as the existence of an interplay between three factors: the attitudes and beliefs of persons both inside the school and in the external environment, the cultural norms of the school, and the relationships between persons in the school. Each of these factors may present barriers to change or a bridge to long-lasting implementation of school improvement. It bears repeating, however, that the interrelatedness of these facets of the school most strongly affects the efforts of those seeking to improve schools. As Fullan (1991) notes, factors affecting implementation "form a system of variables that interact to determine success or failure" (p. 67). The Impact of Culture An examination of school culture is important because, as Goodlad's study (1984) points out, "alike as schools may be in many ways, each school has an ambience (or culture) of its own and, further, its ambience may suggest to the careful observer useful approaches to making it a better school" (p. 81). Krueger and Parish (1982), in their study of five districts implementing and then discontinuing programs, postulate that the key to program implementation and continuation is "the interactive relationships that teachers...
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...visit our website: Research and Resources Equal Opportunities Commission Arndale House Arndale Centre Manchester M4 3EQ Email: research@eoc.org.uk Telephone: 0161 838 8340 Website: www.eoc.org.uk/research You can download a copy of this report as a PDF from our website, or call our Helpline to order a copy: Website: Email: Helpline: www.eoc.org.uk/research info@eoc.org.uk 0845 601 5901 (calls charged at local rates) Interpreting service available for callers to the Helpline Typetalk service available: 18001 0845 601 5901 CONTENTS TABLES AND FIGURES Page iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv EXECUTIVE SUMMARY v 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND BULLYING 5 2.1 Relationship between sexual harassment and workplace bullying 5 2.2 Power and 'organisational violation' 6...
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...information about other EOC research reports, or visit our website: Research and Resources Equal Opportunities Commission Arndale House Arndale Centre Manchester M4 3EQ Email: research@eoc.org.uk Telephone: 0161 838 8340 Website: www.eoc.org.uk/research You can download a copy of this report as a PDF from our website, or call our Helpline to order a copy: Website: Email: Helpline: www.eoc.org.uk/research info@eoc.org.uk 0845 601 5901 (calls charged at local rates) Interpreting service available for callers to the Helpline Typetalk service available: 18001 0845 601 5901 CONTENTS TABLES AND FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 2 INTRODUCTION Page iii iv v 1 SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND BULLYING 5 2.1 Relationship between sexual harassment and workplace bullying 5 2.2 Power and 'organisational violation' 6 2.3 Forms of sexual harassment 8 2.4 How big a problem is sexual harassment in...
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...What is Monsanto International? Monsanto International Corporation is a multinational agricultural biotechnology company. Established in 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri by John Francis Queeny, Monsanto was originally founded in order to develop products for the food and pharmaceutical industries. The first product introduced by the company was none other than Saccharin, developed for and distributed to the Coca-Cola Company. Shortly after, Monsanto developed caffeine and vanillin, and introduced them to the then growing beverage company. The Monsanto Company became international in 1919 when it established a presence in Europe by partnering with a company based there to produce salicylic acid, aspirin, and eventually rubber with them. Starting in the 1920’s, Monsanto International began to produce and distribute basic industrial chemicals such as sulfuric acid, and by the time the 1940’s arrived, the company was the leading manufacturer of some chemical plastics and synthetic fibers. Since, Monsanto has maintained a position as one of the top 10 chemical companies in the United States. Other noteworthy products that have yielded from the Monsanto Corporation are the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet), the insecticide DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) which was later banned, the toxic chemical “Agent Orange” used in the Vietnam War, the controversial Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), many Nuclear Weapons, and the pesticide “Roundup” also found to have toxic effects...
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...Chapter 8 Producer and Consumer Surplus consumer surplus — the value the consumer gets from buying a product less its price. producer surplus — the price the producer sells a product for less the cost of producing it. Burden of Taxation A tax paid by the supplier shifts the supply curve up by the amount of the tax. The loss of consumer and producer surplus from a tax is known as deadweight loss . Deadweight loss is shown graphically by the welfare loss triangle — a geometric representation of the welfare cost in terms of misallocated resources caused by a deviation from a supply/demand equilibrium. The cost of taxation includes the direct cost of revenue paid, lost surplus, and administrative cost. Interestingly, in terms of aesthetics, people have come to like the style of Paris roofs; it is one of the many things that makes Paris distinct. Including aesthetics complicates the analysis enormously. Economic reasoning is based on the architectural view that form follows function. Who Bears the Burden of a Tax? Taxes are like hot potatoes: Everyone wants to pass them on to someone else. Nobody wants to pay taxes, and there are usually large political fights about whom government should tax. For example, should the Social Security tax (mandated by the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, or FICA) be placed on workers or on the company that hires them? The supply/demand framework gives an unexpected answer to this question. Burden Depends on Relative Elasticity ...
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...Comprehensive assessment Parent teacher Situational variability, and Important tio have different views of the situation for diagnosis Equally important is the need for gathering information about the child's parents and siblings, which provides a context for understanding how problem behaviors manifest. This information also often serves as a basis for determining how well parents and other caretakers will be able to implement treatment strategies. The clinical evaluations of ADHD must be comprehensive and multidimensional in nature, so as to capture its situational variability, its associated features, and its impact on home, school, and social functioning. This multi-method assessment approach should include: parent and child interviews parent- and teacher-completed child behavior rating scales parent self-report measures clinic-based psychological tests review of prior school and medical records individually administered intelligence testing, educational achievement testing, or screening for learning disabilities (only necessary if not completed within the past year a standard pediatric examination or neurodevelopmental screening to rule out any unusual medical conditions that might produce ADHD-like symptoms additional assessment procedures may be recommended, including vision and hearing screening, as well as formal speech and language assessment. The Key Components of a Comprehensive Assessment of AD/HD," by Arthur Anastopoulos, Ph.D., E. Paige Temple, M...
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...Clean India Clean India - Swachch Bharath The father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi had said that, “Sanitation is more important than Independence” during his time before the independence of India. He was well aware of the bad and unclean situation of the India. He had emphasised the people of India a lot about the cleanliness and sanitation as well as its implementation in the daily lives. However, it was not so effective and failed because of the incomplete participation of people. After many years of independence of India, a most effective campaign of cleanliness is launched to call people for their active participation and complete the mission of cleanliness. The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee has said in June 2014 while addressing the Parliament that, “For ensuring hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation a Swachh Bharat Mission will be launched. This will be our tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary to be celebrated in the year 2019”. In order to fulfil the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and make India an ideal country all over the world, the Prime Minister of India has initiated a campaign called Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi (2nd of October 2014). This campaign has the target of completion of mission till 2019 means 150th birthday anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi. Through this campaign the government of India would solve the sanitation problems by enhancing the waste management techniques. Clean India...
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...Sociology revision Education School factors [Cultural:] • Labelling theory / self-fulfilling prophecy • Streaming / Banding / Setting • Class, gender, ethnic background • Formal Curriculum (middle class knowledge) • Hidden curriculum • Anti-school subcultures (Male: Willis / Female: Lees) • Language and textbooks (anti-female / black bias) • Gender relationships (teacher -pupil / pupil-pupil) • Gendered curriculum (patriarchal) • Teacher expectations, attitudes and behaviour (Nash) • Single / Dual sex schooling • Examination and skill changes (GCSE, A-level, Coursework) • Changing attitudes to / expectations of work (males and females) Functionalist approach to education Meritocracy- System where people are rewarded on the basis of ability and talent 1. Socialisation- education helps to maintain society by socializing young people into the norms and values. Durkheim argued that education was promoting individualism and that it could lead to social solidarity ( a state with of lack of shared norms) 2. Parsons suggested that educations form a bridge between the family and the wider society by socializing children to adapt a meritocratic view. 3. Davis and Moore – role allocation, Education allocates people to the most appropriate job for their talents 4. Skills provision- education teaches the skills requires by the modern industrial society. 5. Durkheim says that education passes on norms...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION What is Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM)? According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (2015), strategic human resource management (strategic HRM, or SHRM) is an approach to managing human resources that supports long-term business goals and outcomes with a strategic framework. The approach emphases on longer-term people issues, matching resources to future needs as well as macro-concerns about structure, quality, culture, values and commitment. It is necessarily dependent on the evolving nature of work itself. As mentioned by Stone (2013), because human resource management (HRM) seeks to strategically integrate the interests of an organisation and its employees, it is much more than a set of activities relating to the coordination of an organisation’s human resources. HRM is a major contributor to the success of an enterprise because it is in a key position ‘to affect customers, business results and ultimately shareholder value’. Stated by Gratton (2000), ‘The new sources of sustainable competitive advantage available to organisations have people at the centre – their creativity and talent, their inspirations and hopes, their dreams and excitement. The companies that flourish in this decade will do so because they are able to provide meaning and purpose, a context and frame that encourages individual potential to flourish and grow’. Stone (2013) mentioned that HRM is either part of the problem or part of the solution in...
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