Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, grade: B, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: There is perhaps no more confusing mental process in life than attempting to define attitudes toward death. This process is even more complicated and impacting when it must be formulated by health practitioners who work in a hospice setting. It has been found that there exists a significant percentage (33%) of hospice nurses which found difficulty in knowing who controlled the overall responsibility of hospice patient care. Such confusion has led to an overwhelming desire by both community nurses and general practitioners for additional educational input from domiciliary services (Seamark, Thorne, Jones, Gray, & Searle, 1993, p. 57). There is little doubt that the health care professional finds themselves in a complex organizational system and must find a way to form their own outlook within that system. Nurses want to simultaneously maintain fidelity to patients and their family members, follow physician colleague orders, work in interdisciplinary family-centered teams, and yet follow their consciences when order care or treatments appear harmful to patients (Catlin et al., 2008, p. 106). The complexities of the situation in which hospice professionals find themselves in makes the defining of personal attitudes toward hospice care even more difficult. There were an estimated 1.5 million patients who received hospice services in 2012 (NHPCO, 2013, p. 4). Therefore, a large patient population is directly effected by the outlooks which hospice clinicians take towards end of life care. Since the main focus of palliative care should be maximizing the quality of care of the hospice patient, health practitioners must adopt an attitude towards patients which maximizes the probability of the highest quality of life.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Economic and Social History, grade: B, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: Coca-Cola Company has a long history dating back to 1886, when John Pemberton made Coca Cola syrup at his back yard and carried them to Jacob’s pharmacy for sale. In the year 1887, the founder of the Coca-Cola, John Pemberton sold the enterprise to another chemist, Asa Chandelier. Asa Chandelier, through his efforts, turned the Coca-Cola Company in an international path through aggressive advertisements and marketing. At the time, the company manufactured only one brand: the Coca-Cola. However, over the years, it now manufactures about 400 brands in over 200 countries. During the early years of production, the company sold the beverages in glasses, from a fountain in the Jacobs pharmacy. However, in late 19th century, two lawyers obtained permission from Chandelier to sell the beverage in bottles. This was the beginning of the Coca-Cola bottled beverage, which is now carried anywhere all over the world. Around this time, the company put up a competition for the design of the Coca-Cola bottle. An Indiana company won the tender to manufacture the Coca-Cola bottle. Their decision was convinced by the fact that the company manufactured a unique, decent looking bottle, which could be recognized in the dark. The shape is still retained by Coca-Cola Company to date. This step was geared towards isolating the Coca-Cola Company from other beverage companies because of its unique attributes. The bottle was to help the consumers identify the product. The company changed hands again in 1919 when the company was sold to Ernest Woodruff for $25. Woodruff later entrusted the company to his son Robert Woodruff in 1923. Robert was a particularly smart man in business and he is entrusted with the honor of introducing the Coca-Cola to the world Olympic Games in 1928. He also pioneered the packaging of the Coca-Cola drink in six packs and other easy to carry packages. The company received worldwide publicity due to the Olympic Games, and it expanded distribution to many countries outside the US and made two distribution lines in the US. Another boost to the worldwide publicity of Coca-Cola was the fact that when the American government entered the World War II, Coca-Cola Company still under the leadership of Woodruff, offered it for sale at a lower rate to uniformed soldiers and the company bore the costs. [...]
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: B, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: Most of the economies in the world ended up in the bottom of a global recession that led to a massive business contraction. This led to a rise in unemployment and shrinking in government revenues. In recent statistics, large industrialized economies have begun to recover from the global recessions (Copelovitch, 2010.p.304). Many industrialized countries and emerging and developing nations have adopted economic stimulus schemes to rescue their economies from the economic scourge. Many countries have resulted to borrowing from the International Monetary Fund to add to their investments packages. This crisis exposed the fundamental weaknesses in the global markets demonstrating how current economies are greatly interdependent resulting to complex policy dilemmas (Khang, 2010). Countries have adopted a four phase plan that will enable them cope up with the crisis and are able to stabilize their economies. This include making interventions to restore confidence in their systems, putting measures to contain the aftermaths of the crisis, developing new policies in their financial systems that will reduce the risk and prevent future crisis. This has been implemented through international leaders converging to put policies, and give political backing in enforcing the proposed policies. The most important phase is the fourth phase that deals with political, social and security effects of the global financial crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of the International Monetary Fund to recover economic crisis giving a comparison of Malaysia and Korea. The IMF is an enormous IGO with over 185 countries that was established in 1944. In the emerging global economy system, the IMF plays an important role despite its policies which are westernized being questionable. This is as a result of offering to help non western nation states that do not subscribe to liberal economic policies (Yoon, 2005, p.182). IMF offers a three package which include financial assistance, structural reforms and macroeconomic policies for economic sustainability. There has been a controversy on whether the IMF is an independent global controller which was best displayed by countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia rejecting the offers during the Asian financial crisis (Copelovitch, 2010.p.304). The issue of whether the IMF is capable of creating a positive relationship among nations can be put under question but not the reality that the global economy needs a stronger financial IGO. [...]
Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Health - Miscellaneous, grade: B, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: The impact of soy foods on potential breast cancer risk has been a topic of considerable investigation in the medical field. The primary importance of research on soy foods is derived from the fact that these foods are rich in isoflavones, which are supposedly associated with inhibition of breast cancer development (Messina & Wood, 2008, p.1). Isoflavones are mainly contained in soybeans. High soy food intake in Asian countries like Japan is said to have sparked research on the role of isoflavones on reduction of breast cancer in 1990s (Messina & Wu, 2009, p.1673). Some isoflavones such as genistein possess non-hormonal properties that are associated with breast cancer inhibition in women. Thus, it is highly prudent to say that there are several mechanisms by which soy may reduce the risk of breast cancer in women. However, recent epidemiological studies have provided evidence suggesting that isoflavones indeed promote breast cancer (Kang et al, 2010, p.1859). This is because isoflavones such as geinstein have been found to stimulate growth of breast cancer cells which are estrogen-sensitive in overectomized mice. Several in vitro studies have shown that isoflavones can both inhibit or enhance ability of drugs to fight breast cancer (Nagata, 2010, p.83). Thus, understanding of the effects of isoflavones on breast cancer is still vague. This paper explores whether consumption of soy foods and isoflavones cause or inhibit breast cancer in women. In section 1, definitions of Isoflavones, biological functions and endocrine therapies will be given. In section 2, supporting literature on the positive and negative effects of isoflavones will be discussed. In section 3, several studies will be used as examples to support the information provided in section 2.
In 2004, thirty-five years after she died while a patient in a mental hospital in Las Vegas, New Mexico, Nana came to her granddaughter, Carol Wawrychuk, in a vision. "Take me home, Carol. Take me home." Little did Wawrychuk know those few words would take her on an odyssey that lasted two years and literally uncovered thousands of lost souls in a forgotten and eroding cemetery. Expecting to find a manicured cemetery with flowers and century old headstones, she instead found cement slabs with dates and names crudely etched by hand, mangled metal markers stamped with patient numbers and human remains that found their way to the surface. A Letter to Nana is not only about a cemetery cleanup, slicing through rolls of bureaucratic red tape, but it is a journey of Wawrychuk's reliance on God. In her quest to find Nana, she unintentionally uncovered skeletons in the closet and realized she had to free herself from her own barbed-wire fences. Through acceptance, redemption, courage and faith, Wawrychuk discovers the destination is the journey.
Recounts the experiences of a Liberian activist as she discusses how she united Christian and Muslim women to campaign for an end to war in her nation.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: A, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: The economic crisis in Europe and earlier credit crisis during 2008 have opened up the debate on the role of auditors and the corporate houses are carrying out their activities. The 2008 mortgage crisis resulted in many financial companies going bankrupt while some closing down permanently. The effect of crisis was felt world-over and one Indian company, Satyam Computers went bankrupt and this is a particular case where the role of auditors from PriceWaterCoopers House, India was questioned (The Indian Express, 2012). Larsson (2005) stated that major corporate frauds and scandals are regularly followed by the debate concerning the aim and scope of auditing. While there were such scandals earlier, this paper analyses one such corporate scandal and how it has affected and changed the profession of auditors in coming years.
Life at La Bonne Vie Plantation is finally peaceful. Desirée and her rock star husband are on a world tour with his band, Nicolas has settled down on a farm in Kenya, and though his heart still aches for Desirée, he finds solace in raising his four year old daughter Jolie. Life is good ... isn’t it? Desirée, apathetic and longing for home and family, leaves the tour and flies home only a few months before it ends, causing questions she isn’t prepared to answer because she’s looking for answers herself. Her childhood sweetheart, Rory Duval, doesn’t make things any easier. Her old feelings for him flare up anew, and finally true happiness is within Desirée reach. When Nicky discovers Desirée is divorcing Antoine, he and Jolie go back home for the holidays, planning to get Desirée back and take her to Kenya, fulfilling the dream they once had. He arrives and is blindsided by Desirée and Rory’s engagement. Antoine wants his wife back, and he, Nicky and Rory collide in a determination to have the woman they all love. Meanwhile, Uncle Virgil is busy researching the dark mysteries of the family’s past. With Desirée’s help, answers are discovered in bits and pieces, finally coming together in a startling revelation. At last, things come around right and there is truly peace for the Duval/Leveque family.
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, grade: B, The University of Liverpool, language: English, abstract: Most of the economies in the world ended up in the bottom of a global recession that led to a massive business contraction. This led to a rise in unemployment and shrinking in government revenues. In recent statistics, large industrialized economies have begun to recover from the global recessions (Copelovitch, 2010.p.304). Many industrialized countries and emerging and developing nations have adopted economic stimulus schemes to rescue their economies from the economic scourge. Many countries have resulted to borrowing from the International Monetary Fund to add to their investments packages. This crisis exposed the fundamental weaknesses in the global markets demonstrating how current economies are greatly interdependent resulting to complex policy dilemmas (Khang, 2010). Countries have adopted a four phase plan that will enable them cope up with the crisis and are able to stabilize their economies. This include making interventions to restore confidence in their systems, putting measures to contain the aftermaths of the crisis, developing new policies in their financial systems that will reduce the risk and prevent future crisis. This has been implemented through international leaders converging to put policies, and give political backing in enforcing the proposed policies. The most important phase is the fourth phase that deals with political, social and security effects of the global financial crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of the International Monetary Fund to recover economic crisis giving a comparison of Malaysia and Korea. The IMF is an enormous IGO with over 185 countries that was established in 1944. In the emerging global economy system, the IMF plays an important role despite its policies which are westernized being questionable. This is as a result of offering to help non western nation states that do not subscribe to liberal economic policies (Yoon, 2005, p.182). IMF offers a three package which include financial assistance, structural reforms and macroeconomic policies for economic sustainability. There has been a controversy on whether the IMF is an independent global controller which was best displayed by countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia rejecting the offers during the Asian financial crisis (Copelovitch, 2010.p.304). The issue of whether the IMF is capable of creating a positive relationship among nations can be put under question but not the reality that the global economy needs a stronger financial IGO. [...]
This book deals with codeswitching, the use of two or more different languages in the same conversation. The author advances a theoretical argument which aims at a general explanation of the motivations underlying the phenomenon.
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