...illustration of the app is promoted on a smart phone and tablet. Alongside the illustration, the ad states, “Whatever your healthy is, Aetna can help you get there.”(26) The ad is trying to target people who are health conscious and need guidance in achieving those goals. One would presumably think the ad is trying to target women in their thirties to mid forties. Men in general are too pompous to think they need help achieving these goals, but as women get older, there is more pressure to stay fit and young looking. Societal pressures can make women feel self-conscious about their appearance and this app takes advantage of that by giving you a plan to achieve these ideals. The creator of Carepass is aware that Americans are unhealthy, yet health conscious, and is here to help with this problem. In proposing a solution to a health conscious society, by creating an app to assist in the journey to become a healthier individual, it is revealing a bigger problem. America thinks it can fix anything with one click of a mouse, one app purchased or one pill to swallow; but in fact, “What’s your healthy?” is not just one purchase or something one can accomplish, it is a lifestyle. Aetna is trying to give the idea that all of this can be achieved through the app, and Carepass is a one-stop-shop to all of life’s problems....
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...Stop. Listen. Who do you hear whom do you feel. Is there something calling to you can you not hear its song: but no this cannot be for how can a tree, a rock, or the coldness of the air sing a song to you. When you are struck down by a disease, is that not your soul singing to you, when you bite into a juicy red apple does not that apple sing to your body. All things sing songs of joy and sorrow the songs of joy bring happiness and pleasure and the songs of sorrow bring wisdom and learning, so stop and listen, do not resist, do not run away. Listen to the mosquito buzzing in your ear, the tree swaying gently in the breeze and the songs of hot and cold. As a tear drips from your eye it sings its song of sorrow, as a smile comes to your lips...
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...Assignment on: “Tazreen Fashion and Rana Plaza Tragedy: Failure of Corporate Governance” Supervised By: Dr. Chowdhury Saima Ferdous Associate Professor, Department of International Business University Of Dhaka Course no: IB-409 (Corporate Governance) Prepared By: D.M. Saddam Hossan Roll no: 93 (5th Batch) Department of International Business University of Dhaka Date of Submission: October 4, 2015. A case for Rana Plaza & Tazreen Fashions Ltd. Bangladesh’s ready-made garments sector accounts for 80% of the country’s exports and employs over 4 million people, nearly three-quarters of who are women. It is estimated that the garment industry supports a further 25 million people and has played a pivotal role in the country’s development. On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building, Rana Plaza, collapsed just outside Dhaka. The building contained five clothing factories: most of the people in the building at the time were garment workers. Over 17 days of search and rescue, 2,438 people were evacuated, more than 1,100 people died, and many more were left with life-long debilitating injuries. The land underneath the Rana Plaza was unsuitable for construction. The Plaza was originally designed as a four-story building primarily for retail store use, but was instead occupied by garment factories. The Plaza was owned by Sohel Rana, who used his aggressive tenacity and political connections to acquire illegal permits and bribe government officials to approve...
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...GROWTH, PROTECTION AND THE HUMAN MIND A number of individuals today still think that humans cease to grow at some point in their lifetime especially during the phase where we begin to leave the active youthful age group. As Lipton mentions in the Biology of Belief, humans reach a point in their lifetime when their height literally stops to increase “(Lipton 145) and that’s probably the reason why many of us today tend to think that elderly people do not experience any growth of any kind. However, biological knowledge has proven to us that growth does not stop to take place in a body until it is no longer in existence. To support this, Lipton mentions earlier in chapter six that billions of cells in our bodies wear out everyday and that replacement of these worn out cells is a process that continues to take place in order for the body to survive “(145). As evolution continues to take place, more and more survival mechanisms are being revealed to us. In the past generations and centuries, there was very little knowledge about growth and protective techniques probably because technology was still lying in the shadows and also because there were not as many illnesses and dangers imposed on human life as there are today. But LUCHEMBE 2 now we are able to employ different intellectual methods of growth and protection in order to survive because...
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...with supreme functions. We not only have soul which is the principle of life, but we are also believed to have mind or consciousness which is much more functional, divine and peculiar to the soul. But often times, we are unaware of what we are having and how our body operates in our daily life. Therefore, many philosophers, psychologists, religionists or even mathematicians, and sciences have been actively trying to define the nature, attributes and affections of our brain/soul. There are many different views and perspectives on the soul and the mind-body problem, such as materialism, physicalism, dualism, mysterianism and so on… So, how exactly do we understand humankinds, and all living beings as a whole? How exactly do we understand our own self? Do both material and immaterial parts exist? If so, how do they relate to each other? Although most of these questions have convincing answers, I believe we are still in the mystery of defining the true nature of mental phenomena. (1) Thomas Nagel said that: “Conscious experience is a widespread phenomenon. It occurs at many levels of animal life, though we cannot be sure of its presence in the simpler organisms...” His main thesis is that fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is to be that organism – something it is like for the organism. We can say that consciousness is basically what makes living creatures perceive and think. Without consciousness, we are unable to think...
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...from meat eaters’. Bill is confused, how can meat eaters be contributing to Global warming? Jane continues, every time you eat meat you have killed some part of the rainforest. Bill asks how can killing part of the rain Forrest, and eating meat, what are you talking about Jane. Jane is very emotional about how farmers, house and care for cows. Jane has done studies and has visited many slaughter houses on the housing of live stock farming. Jane is convinced that cows and the attitude of meat eaters and farmers are destroying our earth. People are eating too much meat, and farmers are mast producing cattle. One issue that irritates Jane is no one is talking about cattle dump and cow burps. Farmers are not concern about the health of people or the earth. They are fattening up and squeezing cows in tight places. Farmers are feeding at a high rate not concern about the impact of methane gases. Reason one; every time a cow passes gases, it is more toxic than several cars. 2# Cow manure is loaded with methane which is a greenhouse gas. #3 our rainforest which helps to clean the air, is being cut down to grow soy for cows feed. #4 our forests also are being cut to grow corn to mix with the soy to feed the cows. This is why I believe people is eating their selves to death, and destroying the land along with it. Solution according to Jane, eat less meat, and farmers will not have to produce so many cattle’s and feed. If everyone learns about how much their meat eating is contributing...
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...Persuasive Rough Draft Anthony Whitten Grantham University Problem’s with my job! The problem we are currently having is that we work in the receiving department, and we have a conveyor system. The way it works is that the product is received in on one end, and then it is shipped across to us by the conveyor system. This is problematic because the person(s) loading the belt on the other end refuse to wrap the product. The system twists and turns and comes up a shaky elevator and across another conveyor, and by the time the product gets to us it is leaning and sometimes product is falling or has fallen off the pallet. This makes the job harder and we like to consider ourselves quality employees, so this disturbs the employees that are responsible for taking product off the belt without damaging it. The belief is that if the product is received right it can be stored and thus shipped right, this includes damage as well. So if you receive it damaged of course you are going to have damaged product to ship. If the product is pulled from the pallet before it is received it doesn’t get charged to the company it is charged back to the shipper, so if the process starts right then you have less damages. Order selectors don’t pick damaged product, so it gets picked over and the employee’s that stock the pick location have to take it out and put it in a damaged product location. We have said something just recently in a meeting and it seems to have fallen on deaf...
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... Religion and Human Development Paper Evolutionary psychologists have struggled throughout the years to reveal the secret behind the human belief in the existence of a God and strong faith in divine revelations of a religion. Some psychologists claim that the human brain is developmentally predisposed to believe in a God or some sort of celestial being and that having a strong faith in religion stops one's awareness from growing maturely because it maintains a closed minded perception of reality. Others claim that such religious experiences create a sense of purpose and meaning in life. In order to react to this argument, we will first review two of the main theoretical approaches to the understanding of maturity and then take a position on this argument....
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...believe or what to actually do. In simpler terms, it can be said to be a way of deciding whether a claim at hand is true, somewhat true or false (Fisher, 2001). Critical thinking is an important asset when it comes to solving community problem and developing initiatives in human services. It involves being thrown in a questioning mode by an idea that variances with your understanding of the environment and makes you somehow uncomfortable. If in any case you respond to the discomfort, you will figure out where it came from and how to come in terms with the situation. You will also have a new perspective of the situation and will have a more critical understanding of your current situation. What are the three most significant things about critical thinking? The three most significant things about critical thinking are; it identifies bias, it brings out the whole picture and it’s oriented towards the issue being addressed. Identifying bias means looking at bias situation in the way it looks like and biases the person involved brings to it. Bringing the whole picture means getting more than just the delineate of what is being examined. Lastly, being oriented towards the issues being addressed means focusing on analyzing and understanding its object. It does away with emotional reactions apart from where these emotions become part of a solution (Fisher, 2001). Reevaluate the stage of the advanced thinking category in development in critical thinking and explain why people...
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...awareness for reasons of efficiency, and not because of repression” (8). He argues that this is similar to other processes, such as perceptual processes or even digestion, which we know are happening but are not observable through introspection. In contrast to Freud, modern psychological research suggests that the unconscious cannot be explored no matter how deep you dig. This is not a bad thing, Wilson points out, but it is a reflection of the mind’s power: a lot of information can be processed very quickly and efficiently (although not always accurately) (16). Our minds are parallel processors because we process quite a bit of information unconsciously. Instead of looking inward, Wilson suggests a much more powerful way to self-understanding: observing our behavior (16). In addition to not being able to understand ourselves well through “navel gazing,” we might even be driven by goals from our adaptive unconscious that we are not completely aware of (34). Wilson summarizes: “We know less than we think we do about our own minds, and exert less control over our own minds than we think. And yet we retain some ability to influence how our minds work. Even if the adaptive unconscious is operating intelligently outside our purview, we can influence the information it uses to make inferences and form goals” (48). The key to acting most beneficial to ourselves is to actively use the adaptive unconscious...
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...are going to receive food making their automatic reaction to salivate activate. The second learning theory was approached by Skinner. The theory he approached was Operant conditioning. This theory is the reactions of others such as ‘shape’ behaviour. This theory has 3 different approaches these are; positive reinforcement, punishment and negative reinforcement. The first one is Positive reinforcement this encourages behaviour this could be using praise, attention, pleasure or recognition. This encourages the person to do well as they feel they are achieving something. The second one is punishment this is reducing behaviour for example discomfort, isolation or physical or mental pain. Although this may work as it will cause them to stop with the fear of pain or isolation, smacking a child may cause them to resent you or cause physical...
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...are going to receive food making their automatic reaction to salivate activate. The second learning theory was approached by Skinner. The theory he approached was Operant conditioning. This theory is the reactions of others such as ‘shape’ behaviour. This theory has 3 different approaches these are; positive reinforcement, punishment and negative reinforcement. The first one is Positive reinforcement this encourages behaviour this could be using praise, attention, pleasure or recognition. This encourages the person to do well as they feel they are achieving something. The second one is punishment this is reducing behaviour for example discomfort, isolation or physical or mental pain. Although this may work as it will cause them to stop with the fear of pain or isolation, smacking a child may cause them to resent you or cause physical...
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...are going to receive food making their automatic reaction to salivate activate. The second learning theory was approached by Skinner. The theory he approached was Operant conditioning. This theory is the reactions of others such as ‘shape’ behaviour. This theory has 3 different approaches these are; positive reinforcement, punishment and negative reinforcement. The first one is Positive reinforcement this encourages behaviour this could be using praise, attention, pleasure or recognition. This encourages the person to do well as they feel they are achieving something. The second one is punishment this is reducing behaviour for example discomfort, isolation or physical or mental pain. Although this may work as it will cause them to stop with the fear of pain or isolation, smacking a child may cause them to resent you or cause physical...
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...reactions of the mind. To begin, advertising companies by knowing the process of human attention, achieve great result in persuading people to purchase their products. Attention, by definition, is often referred as the focus of consciousness. Attention makes the process attended to more clear and distinct in consciousness. Therefore, when people are focused properly, the advertised objects appear to be more clear, distinct, and sharp-cut. In the same way, things of which we are merely conscious tend to be less indistinct, whereas objects we are attending to, are well-defined. For example, the information we receive through commercial, is based on enhanced look of the product, and that product is given to us in unique and distinctive way, so it catches our attention. Commercial industry is very well aware of the mechanic, which rules the process of human attention, and uses its laws to gain maximum profit from advertising, resulting in increased sale. Accordingly, there are few psychic rules, which describe how to achieve desired focus on the product. For instance, attention aids memory. If advertised product has not been attended to, it is very soon forgotten. For example commercial of new sport BMW, could not be remembered at all by somebody who does not...
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...Ella Edwards Ms. McMullin English 10 Honors 29 February 2024 Asleep vs. Awake, Alive, and Living What if someone was to say stop thinking for yourself, stop saying what you want to say, stop looking around and truly live? What would be people's responses? Would they actually stop doing those things, or would they realize that they haven't been living for themselves, thinking for themselves, or using their own voice? These are the questions that no one seems to think of and about. In Fahrenheit 451, no one thinks for themselves, says things they really mean, or truly live. These questions are what people like Francis Bacon, Clint Smith, Michelle Kuo, Karen Swallow Prior, and Ray Bradbury want to help people answer and start doing. To be spiritually and mentally awake and alive we must think and do things ourselves, take time to enjoy the small things, and experience and learn life lessons....
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