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desires with same sex partners, increased interest in sexual arousal in opposite sex partners, increased marriage and relationships with opposite sex, and improving quality of life and mental health (APA). A journal article written by the American Psychological Association (APA), analyzed several therapy measures used within aversion therapy treatments. Results from analyzing several of these treatments, allowed the APA to determine experimental studies as a lower…

What is the benefit of understanding the Baldridge Criteria when conducting a Homeland Security Assessment for an organization? First we must have an understanding of just what the Baldridge Criteria is and where did it originate. Both public as well as private business organizations have been using a criterion that was developed for performance excellence by Malcolm Baldridge. It was founded in 1987 as an internal self-assessment to measure their organizations performance excellence against…

Beginning as a modest 648 acre farm in 1858, the Iowa State University campus was hardly more than a large prairie with a few buildings scattered around. As enrollment rates skyrocketed, it was clear that the landscape needed a change. In the early 1900s, the Olmstead Brothers were hired to survey the land and construct a detailed recommendations report to assist in the campus’s future landscape design. Their design of Iowa States campus was designated to not only serve the travel needs of its…

Reorientation therapy is therapy that people with homosexual or bisexual tendencies come to for gender-role reorientation, or to become heterosexual as some might argue. Until recently, Gagnon (2015), reports that the underlying assumptions that a therapist is trying to convert an individual to heterosexuality is actually false, and adds that a client can explore his heterosexual potential without having to convert. This has been a hot topic across the last several years with major bills being…

Motors on July 2003, San carlos, CA and there an American automaker, energy storage company and a solar panel manufacturer based in Palo Alto, CA. ELon Musk also founded SpaceX (Space Exploration technologies Corp) . It's an American Aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company Headquartered in Hawthorne, CA in 2002. One of his big accomplishments were “Paypal” witch was founded on December 1998, Palo Alto, CA. Paypal is an American company operating on worldwide online…

According to Holmes (2009), one of the public health challenges of the millennium is aging, which has been compounded with the increased incidence of chronic diseases and disabilities. Diabetes has been identified as a chronic disease and the American Diabetes Association [ADA] (2015) reported that there is an increased risk of type 2 diabetes as people get older. According to ADA (2015), one in every four people over the age of sixty is diabetic. RELEVANCE…

voice. Although I have not received any feedback stating I have used passive voice, I am aware this could become an issue in the future. In order to fix this concern, I plan on reviewing chapters 3 and 4 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Manual). These chapters extensively review mechanical style and basic grammar. Additionally, I intend on making a checklist that is comprised of my most common errors. Before submitting each paper, I intend on reviewing…

I think that the test was a good overview on my current business leadership skills. I feel good about the test. It helped me to see that I have some very good skills to build on. It also helped me to gain some perspective and framework for my confidence levels, which need work. I learned that I still have work to do on a personal level in order to become a more effective leader. (Bethel University, 2014) My weaknesses were math and self-esteem, which have been an on-going battle all of my life.…

Career exploration can be an overwhelming process and I’m very thankful for the opportunity to explore the many facets of the workforce through interviewing, accompanied with a lot of self-reflection. I interviewed Bailee Pelzer, the Adverting and Brand Manager of her department. She works for Altorfer, Inc. located in Cedar Rapids, IA at 2600 6th Street SW. The location of their main equipment location that took place on October 19th. I had multiple reasons as to why I chose Bailee for advice…

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