...- David and Price state that “students today adopted an increasingly consumerist goal for their education” (61)” in a sense that they “perceive themselves primarily as costumers, purchasing a product: a degree” (61) - This raises the question of why students have a consumerist view on education and whether students value the learning process of obtaining a college degree - The study indicates that most students“seek the path of least resistance to obtaining a academic degree.” - This suggest that students may not value the learning process or the end product of knowledge to be of any importance and instead, they are only interested in obtaining a degree though the easiest method by selecting professors based on their easiness rating. - Personally, i find this surprising - what is the purpose of higher education if it presented no challenges? - more importantly, what is the significance of an academic degree if student's take the easier route? - An academic degree is of special value that indicates a student's innate ability - If all students obtain a degree by choosing the easiest path, this will devaluate the significance of an academic degree - And thus, an academic degree will have no meaning - Perhaps student's may need reassess their value on education and realize the importance of the learning process Although obtaining a degree is the primary goal of many students, the learning process is also of equal importance Brinkworth first year experience ...
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...agree with Ackoff's contention. I'm working in different business office settings I can agree with the author when he says that most managers receive more data than they can possibly absorb in a given day. It is true that managers are swamped piles of information and data whether it be physically or electronically. Because I am not a manager I cannot specifically say that management needs some more information however I feel it is appropriate and more efficient to have the information that you need Than information that is not needed or irrelevant or a waste. At the end of the day it is the responsibility of management to in sure that things are efficient and that resources I used accordingly perhaps if workers and management focused on soley and exactly what was needed for the company the assumption that management needs more information may be looked at from a different angle. Assumptions 2: managers need the information they want This assumption basically says that management information system designers Ask managers what information they need in order to create the MIS! Technically speaking you would think that this is the right way to do it. Also I do not think the author entirely disagrees with the assumption but I feel as then he believes that it is impossible for a manager she knew exactly what information he needs. With this being said the author thinks that the manager is Flooded with all this information...
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...As society grows and changes, the problems it faces become different. However, one problem that has remained the same throughout the years is the inequality of women, more specifically the wage inequality. In her Brooklyn Rail article about Lilly Ledbetter, Alexis Clements writes that, in 1979 Lilly Ledbetter began to work as a manager at a Goodyear Tire and Rubber company in Gadsden, Alabama. Lilly was the only woman at the time working as a manager and her starting pay was equal to that of her male counterparts. After 19 years of working at Goodyear, she received an anonymous note informing her of the salary of three of her male coworkers and realized that she was making much less than them. Lilly was enraged when she began to think about...
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...Technology in Mental Health Counseling Tiauana Robinson MidAmerica Nazarene University The section on the American Mental Health Counselors Association “About Mental Health Counselors” upholds a great deal of information. It answers a variety of questions that the profession has on a daily basis such as “What is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor? Where can you find a Clinical Mental Health Counselor? What makes a good counselor? And What exactly is the American Mental Health Counselors Association?” To summarize and answer these questions a clinical mental health counselor is simply an individual in the helping field that provides flexible consumer oriented therapy that withholds the proper education, practice and training in the national standards. You can find a mental health counselor in various settings such as Psychiatric Hospitals, private practices, substance abuse treatments and etc. I also found the YouTube video titled “Evidence-based Treatment: What does it mean” and it gives advice on how to find a good counselor by reviewing three facts 1. Number of Studies: same outcome by different people in different settings 2. Quality of Studies: the treatment is being compared to another treatment with individuals being assigned to the treatment groups randomly and the groups are the same in the beginning but one group will have a...
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...jobs, and getting home late at night, stopping at a “Chick fil A” or “Friday’s” is typrically more convenient for me. Busy schedules often diminish the amount of time people have to prepare healthy, nutritious meals, so they opt for faster, easier options. Whole foods such as vegetables and meat take time and kitchen equipment to cook properly, while fast food hamburgers are usually served within minutes of ordering. Over time, that convenience becomes a habit and eventually a perceived necessity to keep up with such a fast-paced society. Disrupting that routine requires an investment of time, and most people prefer to stick with the faster option.Because of this, my cholesterol levels has elevated.. Having said that, my preference in food soley consist of pizza, fries,...
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...about and why “The Community Emergency Response Team concept was developed and implemented by the Los Angeles City Fire Department (LAFD) in 1985. The Whittier Narrows earthquake in 1987 underscored the area-wide threat of a major disaster in California. Further, it confirmed the need for training civilians to meet their immediate needs. As a result, the LAFD created the Disaster Preparedness Division with the purpose of training citizens and private and government employees.” (citizenscorps.gov/cert/about.shtm, no d) CERT’s social initiative is to provide a service to the community during emergencies when all public safety resources are being utilized by true emergencies. When 9/11 happened, our public governments realized that relying soley upon our public safety organizations such as our fire departments and police departments weren’t enough. The CERT program offered the relief needed during major events or disasters. “First responders need to be educated about the CERT and their value to the community. Using CERT as a component of the response system when there are exercises for potential disasters can reinforce this idea.” (citizenscorps.gov/cert/about.shtm, no d) The potential ethical effects that CERT has upon the community social initiative is the...
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...This stereotype that the blacks are criminals gives perople a reason to hate or dislike blacks solely based on this stereotype. I think todayt racism is not based on hate, but on prejugdments created by society. There are many form of generalization that is not soley based on race, this includes gender, class, sexual orientation, belief, and many other small things. Racial prejudice and racism can harm not only the victims, but also the large society, and inderictly the very people who are engaging in the acts. To alleviate prejudice is not simple and does not happen over night, but by educating people stereotyping in society will reduce. We should start informing people with the media; this includes the newspaper, tv, and radio station, mainly because the media plays an important role in carrying messages to the public. For instance, the reporters always reveal the cultiral background of a group of lortering youth when they are of color, but not otherwise. Therefore by informing the schools and the neighborhoods...
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...relationship between environment, events, and behaviors. It tends to explain the learning in terms of behavior that can be observed, avoiding reference to mental events and entities. Drills are examples of behaviorism. They involve steady repetition of a desired action. Behaviorist theory encourages repeating a behavior to act as reinforcement of that behavior. Drills are often used in teaching with things that require memorization such as multiplication tables. Behaviorism influences psychology today by applying the principles in mental health setting, where the therapists and counselors these to explain and treat a variety of illnesses. Functionalism is the philosophy that every feeling, emotion, or thought in the mind is associated soley with the idea each has a function. It is cause and effect idea of how each outside stimuli corresponds to a mental state which causes a reaction. (MacMillion, 1996) An example of functionalism is pain, which is a state that tends to be caused by bodily injury. It produces the belief that something is wrong with the body. The effect could produce anxiety, and in the absence of any stronger, conflicting desire could cause wincing or moaning. Functionalism does not exist today as a separate school of thought. Because of its success, there is no longer any need for it to retain the characteristics of a school. It has left its...
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...While these initiatives, program ideas, and teacher investments are important, but the problem with America’s educational system is that there is one common denominator not being considered; students themselves. Building new schools, rezoning, creating smaller class sizes, and offering incentives for teachers to further their education are great ways to boost invest in education, but how will any of these initiatives motivate a student who does not want to learn? If a student did not want to learn in the class of a teacher who has a bachelor’s degree, will putting that child in the class of a teacher with a master’s degree make them want to learn? . Far too long have teachers, administrators, and other school board officials been blamed soley for students’ failure and lack of success in the classroom when in they should not only share the blame, but be blamed less. Parents and students themselves should be held more accountable for students’ success in the classroom. There are factors that make up students that no teacher or administrator can control such as the students’ home environment, genetic makeup, and life experiences. All of these things can affect student achievement. Teachers and administrators have been blamed so much that there are programs in place...
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...Violence in the media has been a growing problem ever since the emergence of mass media. You have to wonder how violence has become so prominent in our culture. More minors are being involved in heinous crimes such as murders and armed robberies. Even play on the school ground is getting rougher. There are many factors that play into the increasing violence, such as over population, religious struggles, and race. One factor that plays into the increase of violence would be mass media. Mass media has the power to reach and influence almost every American. Radio, newspaper, and television are all means by which media reaches people. Television however, can be considered the most influential. Ninety-eight percent of Americans have a television in their household. When it first came out it was considered a novelty, there were only a few channels and the signal was not very clear. Now it is available through air broadcast, cable, or satellite. Television has become part of everyday life. With the growing fixation and attraction to violence in the media, children in today’s society are becoming more violent and aggressive. After reading the article "Violent Culture: The Media, the Internet, and Placing Blame," the author brings up the point that the media was turning the focus of blame in Kip Kinkel case on the internet. He cited examples of how easily information about building bombs and guns was to get on the internet. Yes these types of things are easily found on the internet...
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...been I feel that the population in the United States will be mostly African Americans and Hispanics. I say this because they are the Majority of the minorities we have here. Eventually they will be equal to the amount of whites we have and from their rise to greater numbers. * * The United States face many challenges due to the diversity of people we have here. Those challenges include difference such as religion, racism, and prejudice. People from different parts of the world practice different beliefs, which is not a bad thing. However, there are people who were raised to believe that some people are inadequate or “below” them. Prejudice is a serious matter as it is never okay to discrimate against any person or group of people soley because they do not think the same way as you. * * Having diversity in a society does have benefits also. People who are open minded are given the chance to learn about new cultures and religion that they would normally not have the chance to see first hand. This can also lead to the possibility of minimizing rascim and discrimination. When a person or group of people are exposed to different types of people they tend to view it as the norm and do not believe that one group of people are any better then anyone else. * * The media plays a greater role in stereotyping and prejudice than I originally thought they did. Whenever I watch the news and...
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...minors rights, the main people who sipports statutory rape are the ones who would agree that any relationship where a once legal age partner is significantly older that the other. The one that is also younger than the youngest and would take advantage of the younger one, even if the person underage agrees to the sexual activity is still considered unlawful because the person is not mature enough to make smart decisions . now most adults fear that younger people in the relationship may have been forced due to their emotions and began to engage sexual activities with their partner One the other hand those who disagrees with statutory rape laws claim that problems rises when young legal aged men are sentenced to jail for the crimes based on soley...
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...Objectification of women Vs. "Sex Sells": Where is the Line drawn Why is it that we have become impervious to the objectification of women today? Why do a large group of men and women allow and condone this type of behavior? A perfect example of this is my friend Chad. He is your stereotypical play-boy. In his mind he is God's gift to women. One day we were at the bar. He was doing his usually "surveillance" as he called it. Looking around trying to find out which girl would be most likely to go home with him just by their physical appearance. I thought of it more as his predatorily stalking like a hyena looking for a wounded calf in a herd of buffalo. (No objectification meant) His eyes fixated on a women in her mid twenties with red hair and a super model body. It wasn't an hour later that he left the bar with her, leaving me in the company of a sweating Heineken and a $53 tab. Two days later we met up and lounged on his porch in the late afternoon enjoying the cool weather. He began to brag about the red haired woman he took home. He nicknamed her "Lips" for reasons I prefer not to get into but spoke of her actions during their little sexual escapade. He spoke in graphic detail about things I just didn't care to hear. After a few minutes of this assault Chad asked me what I had done after he left. I don't know if it was anger that compelled me but something motivated me to do something I have avoided doing in a long time. I began to speak of an explicit encounter...
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...concise policy analysis is defining the problem. In this case, the funds allocated to these trauma centers are nearly exhausted and can potentially cause catastrophic effects on the areas patients. Soon the trauma centers will be refusing the patients who rely on Medicaid and Medicare resources. What can be done to prevent the refusal of healthcare to these patients and ensure that bailouts are not the solution to this healthcare crisis? To provide more in depth about this problem involves the background for a policy analysis. It has been stated that with numerous amount of undocumented workers and the state’s unemployment rate to continually remain high, it is making it difficult for these trauma centers to accept these patients. They rely soley on Medicaid which has caused a depletion of the state’s budget. This has caused two of the three trauma center to rely on private payer instead of federal aid programs. In the long run how can these HCO’s say they are providing quality effective healthcare to their people by denying it to certain groups? This will now lead us to the next step of a policy analysis and its key stakeholders. In regards to the landscape of the policy analysis, the main stakeholders who are affected will be the taxpayers/community. The community may start to feel the financial burden of what will happen when these two trauma centers do not accept Medicare/Medicaid patients. There can be a strong possibility of taxes being increased and a...
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...The influences and pressures put by the supernatural and other characters push Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to become more eager in gaining possession of the crown. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both display a controlling figure, but in aspects that contribute to their desires for power. Lady Macbeth influences and pressures Macbeth, " Must be provided for: and you shall put / This night's great business into my dispatch, / Give soley sovereign sway and masterdom" (1.6.67-70). Lady Macbeth is very convincing when it comes to the drive for power. She provides Macbeth with a great plan and time that the task—killing Ducan can easily be completed without any worries. She also provides him a desire to look up to, in which she describes the benefits that Macbeth will be gaining by completing the...
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