Alertness

times in the story as possessing no action. She always remains stationed down until the mention of Bevel’s Baptism. Even though her response may be negative toward his baptism, her standing straight up signifies this positive forward motion and alertness about her…

Racism was a major issue for most African American individuals. The government restricted African-Americans and non-Caucasians from a variety of civil rights. From using a different restroom, to not being able to enter a bar for “White’s only”, and not being able to vote (women), we have come a long way. Over the years, civil rights activists such as Rosa Parks, who refused to give her seat away, or Mary Church Terrel, who travelled around the world to spread the awareness in which the…

Caffeine: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly There has been praise and condemnation concerning caffeine for decades. We hear about the benefits and the negative effects it has on us. What do you think? How much caffeine should you be consuming? How do you consume caffeine? Have you ever experienced withdrawal symptoms? There are three sides to caffeine consumption that every avid consumer should be aware of; the good, the bad, and the ugly. Caffeine is a stimulant found in coffees, teas, sodas,…

Langendoen and Bartels also express the need for goal-driven decision making asserting that, if the goal is strictly patient comfort, then pressers should be discontinued, however, if the patient’s goal is to maintain alertness and the ability to communicate, then many measures may benefit the patient and should be continued (Langendoen and Bartels, 576). It is also important to revisit and reevaluate a patient’s needs on a regular basis as their care progresses. Some people may argue that…

Which shift to prefer-Day shift or night shift Companies that specifically operate in the service sector have designed schedules that ensure uninterrupted supply of its services to the customers. In doing so, the working day is divided into shifts such that the work is carried out in set of periods during which different group of individuals perform their duties. Usually the day is divided into three shifts, First shift, second shift, and the third shift. The first shift is also…

Some people believe that workaholism involves a personal reluctance to disengage from work and a tendency to work or think about work anytime, anywhere. Hamilton and Denniss define that workaholics are those “who are driven by inner compulsion” (2005, p.12). While others define workaholism as a form of self-imposed expectation of their performance in work. According to Quick, Henley and Quick, this expectation “can be directly related to the level of psychological involvement one feels toward…

What is motivation and what motivates you in your life? This is what this paper is going to be going over. There are several different things that motivate people. One person may be motivated to do something based off of something different than another person. People can be motivated by different things and the things that motivate some may not motivate others. There are several different types of motivators and factors that go into motivation. You can also use different techniques and…

In Erika Friedl’s ‘Women of Deh Koh: Lives in an Iranian Village,’ a beautiful, multi-faceted mosaic is painted, illustrating the every day lives of women in a modern Iranian mountain village dealing with the adversities of domestic power politics, childbirth, infertility, marriage, and old age. According to Western standards, the situations of these women are primitive and oppressive. However, to the women of Deh Koh, their situations are all they know of life. The village is sustained on…

My preadolescent self and engineer father often talked during the quiet midnight hours as our family travelled from Gauteng to Cape Town. Such powwows eschewed expected paternal patterns. Instead, we were waxing over Quantum Physics, Thermodynamics, and Artificial Intelligence. The eternal thought-experiment of alternative histories always haunts. For example, what if these talks turned to other relevant topics, such as social matters? O, if one could obviate in retrograde! Truly our wounds…

LIT Summaries Article 1.The article “A comparison of post-exercise mood enhancement across common exercise distraction activities” By William Russell, Brian Pritschet, Beth Frost, and John Emmett is about the mood enhancement from exercise that may occur due to distraction known as the "time-out" hypothesis. This study examined whether exercise under conditions of distraction differed significantly from exercise controls. They used fifty-three college age students that were randomly assigned…