...a short-term affliction caused by the traumatic effects of war. The historical perspective of combat stress were considered. The effects of combat stress on physical, emotional, mental and psychological parameters were analyzed. The ways of medical and psychological treatment were also mentioned. The cost of war weighs tremendously high, especially if one considers the individual human suffering and not just the loss of government property. When soldiers find themselves in the extraordinary and life threatening conditions, there is a high percent of combat and operational stress from which they may suffer. Combat stress compromises the service-member's emotional, mental and behavioral well-being beyond the lines of the battlefield. Combat stress is a neurological disorder caused by the traumatic effects and accompanied by “melancholy, insomnia, weakness, loss of appetite, and anxiety” (Weaver & Steward, 1988, p3). It is relevant to mention that combat stress is not a continuous disorder but a short-term affliction; and in this case, should be differed from the post-traumatic stress disorder which is long-term and brings more serious consequences. Among the general symptoms of the combat stress are exhaustion, fatigue, fear, uncertainty, and the inability to concentrate as if the person is switched off from the world. Combat stress is the common disorder that has been affecting people since the dawn of war. Nevertheless, it was first conceptualized in 1986 by Silverman...
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...Abstract Disasters have devastating and severe acute and long-term consequences for individuals and communities. The paper expounds on the social ramifications of disasters, while highlighting a disaster’s effects in vulnerable populations. The collaborative actions of communities, governments, public health, media, and health professionals are also depicted in the paper. Lastly, implications for Advanced Practice Nurses concerning leadership, involvement in public policy and education, and development of advanced disaster planning are illustrated. Keywords: disaster, disaster response and planning, social ramifications, advanced practice nursing. Disaster--the term itself invokes feelings of dread, despair, and devastation. Furthermore, the effects of disasters on human condition are far-reaching and unpredictable. For health care professionals, disaster preparedness and response entails an understanding of the socio-economic issues and the collective responsibilities of multiple agencies when a disaster strikes. Disasters affect individuals, families, societies, and communities, with little time for any warning or preparation.1 The collective obligations of government, communities, hospitals, and medical professionals are underscored during this trying time. Introduction What is a disaster? Calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, are just some of the words uttered when a disaster occurs. Perry and Quarantelli2 explained that disaster has several meanings depending...
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...What is Marxism? Marxism is an economic and social system based upon the political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. While it would take veritably volumes to explain the full implications and ramifications of the Marxist social and economic ideology, Marxism is summed up in the Encarta Reference Library as “a theory in which class struggle is a central element in the analysis of social change in Western societies.” Marxism is the antithesis of capitalism which is defined by Encarta as “an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit.” Marxism is the system of socialism of which the dominant feature is public ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange. Under capitalism, the proletariat, the working class or “the people,” own only their capacity to work; they have the ability only to sell their own labor. According to Marx a class is defined by the relations of its members to the means of production. He proclaimed that history is the chronology of class struggles, wars, and uprisings. Under capitalism, Marx continues, the workers, in order to support their families are paid a bare minimum wage or salary. The worker is alienated because he has no control over the labor or product which he produces. The capitalists sell the products produced by the workers at a proportional value as related to the labor involved...
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...Chapter 3 Incident 2 So, What‘s Affirmative Action? 3-23. Explain why Supreme must submit an affirmative action program. The supreme had to submit an affirmative action program because they had a low bid. 3-24. Generally, What should the program be designed to accomplish? Supreme began doing small shopping centers and multistory office buildings in addition to work in its traditional area of specialization. 3-25. in conducting a utilization analysis, Michael discovers that although 30 percent of the general population of construction workers is black, only 10 percent of Supremes’ employees are black. According to affirmative action, what is Supreme Construction required to do? Michael was given increasing responsibility, and the company continued to success, although with a few more projects and a few more employees than before. In 2012, Michael approached his father with a proposition: ‘Let’s get into some of the bigger projects now. Baby Boomers were born just after World War II through the mid-1960s. Corporate downsizing in the 1980s and 1990s cast aside millions of baby boomers. Companies today place considerable value on their skills, experience, and a strong work ethic, characteristics that many boomers possess. Generation X is the label affixed to the approximately 41 million U.S workers born between the mid-1960s and late 1970s. Generation Xers differ from previous generations in some significant ways, including their natural affinity for technology and their...
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...RUNNING HEAD: Apple, Inc. SWOT Analysis Apple, Inc. SWOT Analysis AIU – MGT680 Abstract As a senior manager of a computer company, this paper will discuss the company’s competitor, Apple, Inc. This paper will include five factors of strengthens, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for Apple, Inc. It will explain why those factors are important for this company to know. The paper will also propose a strategy and product that will take advantage of Apple, Inc. vulnerabilities which will increase this company’s market share. Apple, Inc. SWOT Analysis Introduction Apple, Inc. is a major competitor for our company and by doing a SWOT analysis of Apple, Inc. means we can help our own strategies. A SWOT analysis looks at strengthens, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats factors of Apple, Inc. By knowing these factors about Apple, Inc. will be important to our company because it takes a look at our competitor. A strategy and product will also be proposed that will take advantage of Apple, Inc. vulnerabilities which will increase this company’s market share. SWOT Analysis Strengths Apple, Inc. has five great strengths that include innovation, brand, customer loyalty, retail stores and marketing, and cash flow abundance. Apple, Inc. innovation includes being the leader in technological innovation with the release of products such as the iPods, iPhone and more. The 2012 Global Innovation 1000 ranked Apple, Inc. number 1 for the 3rd year in a row. Apple, Inc...
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...More Globalization To Solve Japan's Prolonged Economic Stagnation: 2020 Tokyo Olympic, Establishment of Foreign Companies and Cultural Reform/Cultural Ramification Before Japan was globalized it was secluded from the rest of the world for nearly two centuries from1603 to 1868. This time period was called the Tokugawa Period. Even though Japan closed its ports to foreign trade, it was self sustainable and independent. This self sustainable society was maintained through its unique producer-consumer relationship and the "reuse recycle" practice in commerce due to the island's limited resources. Repair merchants such as tinker, ceramics repairers and truss hoop repairers supported a society where nothing was thrown away but instead carefully repaired and reused until the products were truly un-amendable. For example, tinkers used special techniques and charcoal heat to weld holes in pots and kettles with other metals; ceramic repairers glue broken ceramic pieces together with sticky rice and applied heat; paper makers buy used papers and blend them to make a variety of paper from writing paper to toilet paper (Staff). The Tokugawa Period served as a model of a flourishing sustainable society to the Japanese. After Japan was introduced to globalization during the Second World War, the nation benefited from becoming a export driven economy, business policies such as the lifetime employment policy promoted the efficiency of the company, and the cultural influences on business management...
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...that examines the full range of destruction committed by the Stalin Regime and Hitler Reich between the periods of 1930-1950. Snyder does not look to examine the immoral ramifications between Hitler’s extermination of the Jews and the Stalinist extermination of the kulaks but instead looks to compare the industrial exploitation of the atrocities and their unique occurrences. Through a powerful narrative that thoroughly researches the Nazi and Soviet atrocities side by side, Synder shows how the two regimes committed the same kinds of crimes, during the same periods, in the same region which resulted in the mass killings of the bloodlands. The economic transformation put forth by Hitler and Stalin examined in the book, produced immoral consequences of their...
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...Sources…………………………………………………………………………….8 D. Analysis……………………………………………………………………………9 E. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………10 F. Bibliography………………………………………………………………………11 G. Appendix A. Plan of Investigation This investigation assesses to what extent was the significance of the Doctor’s Trial in establishing a precedent for human experimentation and the advancement of the human rights movement. The body of evidence would contain all the events that lead to a change of the view of human experimentation and rights. The researcher evaluated the process in which the Doctor’s Trial at Nuremberg marked an example to human rights today and how the Nuremberg Code helped exercise the decisions made at the Nuremberg trials. Primary sources as the partial transcript of the Doctor’s trial were used to evaluate the contribution of the verdicts made at the trials to human rights. Documents will be analyzed in regards to their origin, purpose, value, and limitations in order to properly evaluate the evidence. B. Summary of Evidence On December 9, 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against twenty-three leading German physicians and administrators for their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity. Officially called United States of America v. Karl Brandt et al, the trail was the first of twelve similar proceeding against Nazi doctors held by the United States following World War II. During the reign of the Third Reich...
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...Context During the 1980s, many Americans found themselves in the heart of a fast-paced and ever-evolving country. After outlasting several radical movements, the Watergate Scandal, Vietnam War, and homeland economic crisis, America emerged from the 1970s as a cutting-edge and undaunted nation. An economic revolution (dubbed “Reaganomics”), pop culture transformation, and a newfound sense of self-improvement forever changed the thinking of people across America. Reduced government spending and inclusive tax cuts, though initially not as successful as hoped, did eventually create 20 million new jobs, dramatically decreased inflation and unemployment, and cultivated a free marketplace-based economy. Artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna...
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...last forty years. This movement gives a voice to the grievances of the people. According to newpol.org “Occupy is a kind of a party, not a party with a formal structure, but potential peoples party in formation, the party of working people, the party of the poor, the party of the dispossessed, the oppressed, and the exploited. The Occupy movement excoriates the banks, the corporations, the economic elite, the 1 percent with their greed, and it criticizes the government for its complicity and its corruption. Occupy is the moralizing party of the people, asking the people to recognize themselves in it, to join it, and to make real its claim to represent the 99 percent.” This movement has not gone unnoticed. It has had serious ramifications. Thousands...
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...ideologies itself in this case are Christianity, Islam, and accounting as a calculative science because each constitute a social ideology where they are systems of belief that inform conduct in everyday life. And what is Enlightenment itself? From the explanation of Kant, “Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority. Minority is incapacity of using one understands without the direction of another. This state of minority is self-caused when its source lies not in a lack of understanding but in a lack of determination and courage to use it without the assistance of another. Dare to use your own understanding.” From the Christian dialectic, human Enlightenment decline. It is characterized by the existence of a war against the accumulation of wealth, which is considered as an obstacle to the development of capitalism. In catholic paternalism, it is seen the pressure internally and externally. Internally, there was hypocrisy of economic in the body of the Church, where they prohibit lending practices and interest rates, but the Church itself there is excess wealth. Externally, the secularization of Church function in the form of God monarchy or God monopoly, faced with land acquisition monarchy that led to growing speculation, rents, and rising land prices. In Addition, the English revolution in the form of agricultural technology push declining Catholic morality. The exploitation of export trade wool from England and cost inflation at home led to the...
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...BONUS ASSIGMENT BUSI 3040U: INFORMATION SYSTEMS PRIVACY VIOLATIONS AND THEIR RAMIFICATIONS ADEDAMOLA MAKINDE S/N 100367804 EI fraud investigator axed for leaking “quota” details This is the story of a private information leak by an employee of Service Canada. In February, Ms. Therrien went directly to the press and provided documents that were not authorized for public disclosure. Ms. Therrien leaked documents exposing a conservative crackdown on those receiving EI. The documents showed that EI investigators had been told to crackdown on about $485,000 in EI fraud each year. She further disclosed to the press that “fraud quotas” were just one of a culture in her office that encouraged benefits from as many recipients as possible to save money. As initial investigation was going on, she was suspended from her Job without pay from February 2013 until October 2013 when she was finally fired from the job. The letter sent on behalf of Employment and Social development Canada stated that she no longer met the conditions of her job. Certain control measures could have been taken to prevent this leak. The lady told the press that she felt bad that the government was not doing a good job by cutting down on EI payments. Her intention was good from what she told the press. In other words, these were private documents that involve government files and private files. There is no right for her to disclose any document that she is not authorized. Her Job does not permit her to...
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... The opening paragraph of this essay summarized Morwenna Griffiths’ statement as a realization that, as humans we have the capacity do our best research but we must also accept that it cannot be perfect (Asymphonical termpaperwarehouse.com). Do I agree? Yes absolutely. I recollect the term paper that I did for a Sociology course in college some years ago. The subject matter was on Heavy Metal and the misunderstood fans. My research for the term paper was primarily based on questionnaires, interviews, introspection and observations. As there was a dateline to adhere to with a relatively short lead time to complete the assignment, I had to very quickly compartmentalize the approach to, i. Research and Data Collection phase ii. Analysis and Theorizing period iii. Finalization and Publication Arguably the core work was in the Research and Data collection phase. I knew that, the more detailed and thorough this session was conducted,...
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...List page 6 Executive Summary This report explores the question of what role the United States (U.S.) television media played in forming public opinion on the Vietnam War. The research, based on reviewing other primary and secondary sources, shows various opposing theories regarding this subject. Firstly, that television media was blamed for the U.S. loss in Vietnam. As Vietnam was the first televised war, it was argued that television swayed public support for the war by projecting the footage of conflict into the lounge rooms of Americans. One counter-theme showed that other factors such as opposition to the prolonged war and military policy were more likely to have changed public opinion. This report discusses how television media during the Vietnam war was just one aspect of how the public would have formed an opinion on such a complex issue, however concludes that further research is required to arrive at a definitive argument on such a controversial topic. Research Question This report explores what role the media played in forming public opinion within the U.S., regarding America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The research is particularly focused on the level of influence the introduction of television journalism had on forming public opinion during the war efforts. Escalation of U.S. involvement from aid to major deployment within Vietnam began after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 (Gifford 2007, p. 18). This period also saw television...
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...and presented in essay(s) form. Type: This assignment consists of a research-analysis paper approximately four to six pages in length, double-spaced.. The source material should result primarily from self-led external research of scholarly articles. In addition, the course required reading materials may be used. Topic: Select your topic from the following general themes (note that these are not topics, but you should use them to guide your selection of a topic): - Compare and contrast US CI to that of a foreign country. - What are the lasting ramifications of past CI operations (such as COINTELPRO, etc.)? - Is the current state of CI in the Intelligence Community adequate? Why or why not? - Explain the responsibility of CI in Intelligence failures. - Any other relevant topic (not previously used in academic papers) pre-agreed with Professor. Format: Your paper requires a Title page and bibliography. Your name, course number, and page number should be included in the header of the document so that it is visible on the top of each page. Your paper also requires citations and a reference listing/bibliography as the last page. The current Counterintelligence field in the United States, is improving since the 9/11 attacks where we had a massif failure in the counterintelligence and intelligence fields. This failure would be right up there with the Pearl Harbor attack that started World War 2 for the United States. I intend on showing that the current state in the counterintelligence...
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