Contemplation

Introduction Cigarette smoking maximises the risk of numerous types of cancers, stroke, heart disease and various other medical conditions, for both active and passive smokers. It continues to be the most significant health risk behaviour to cause of death all over the world (World Health Organisation, as cited in Smerecnik, van Schooten, van Schayck, de Vries, & Quaak, 2011) Although the risks of cigarette smoking are well-known and there is an abundance of intervention programmes aimed to aid…

Individuals may be trying to quit addictive substances or activities, increase exercise, lose weight, and eat healthier. A case study demonstrated that using the stages of change model can increase mobility and exercise in older adults who were in the contemplation stage. The Senior Elastic Band exercise program (SEB) was implemented into their daily routines. The participants met for 40 minutes three times per week for 6 months. As the older adults were participating in the intervention, they…

stage respectively. In the beginning, Richard mentioned that no matter how much times he drank, he always knew he would quit at one point-he just didn’t know when. From this piece of evidence alone, Richard is displaying characteristic of the pre-contemplation stage. Furthermore, after getting married and an infant on the way, Richard’s drinking increased. He’d often go to bars for hours at a time and revealed that he went out drinking to escape everything. The amount of drinks ranged from six…

Reflecting on the problems I experienced with patient handover, I understand that nurses need to make changes to the traditional method of handover, to better facilitate the recipient’s understanding and thereby, making handover safer and more effective. Change management has been defined as ‘’ the process of continually renewing an organization’s structure, and capabilities to serve the ever-changing needs of external and internal customers ‘’ (Moran and Brightman, 2001. p. 111). The…

In “Meditation Three” Rene’ starts out with an attempt to contemplate the existence of God by closing his eyes and meditate. He his struck by the very thoughts that every individual does at the initiation of this process. He starts out by purging his thoughts but upon realizing the impossibility of his action he starts objectifying them. The injection of god happens when he contemplates that deception might occur of evidentiary matters. Yet he profoundly asserts himself in a moment of…

In The Value of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell, a once influential professor at Cambridge University, aims to answer the question of “why study philosophy?” Russell states there are many misconceptions about the ends philosophy aims to achieve. In this text, Russell aims to address the misconceptions and explain what it truly is philosophy provides for an individual. Typically, the study of philosophy is viewed as trifling and confusing and studies the controversies of subject matter in which…

Prompt #4: To Be or Not To Be Inaction and action contributes to different perspectives of living life. These two concepts foil with each other to create a self-struggling environment that initiates internal conflict. Shakespeare’s Hamlet emphasizes the turbulence of a strong nation, Denmark, through times of death and suspicion among the main characters. Hamlet, the son of the deceased king, contemplates his role in the future of the kingdom while reconciling his defeatist attitude with…

Art is beginning to have a shift from contemplation to unequivocal distraction, which therefore creates an enormous change in the way people perceive and sense things. Historically we can understand that certain works of art had aura. Durham and Kellner (2012) explained that aura is “the unique…

he wrote devoted to those in need, he uses rhetorical strategies to develop his argument about nonviolence resistance. The terms he incorporates involves personification, alliteration, and repetition. These terms renovated this article to bring contemplation to the reader. Through his use of strategies, he starts an uprising of nonviolent resistance. Cesar Chavez uses personification to emphasize and use human qualities to abstract an idea. “In this sense, time is our ally.” In this…

19th of November in the year of 1863. The date of not just one of the famous reflection speeches on a battle of the American Civil War, but one of the most famous speeches in American History. Known as the Gettysburg Address, performed by the 16th president of the United States: Abraham Lincoln. This obviously is not the only speech given on a battle fought on American soil. The Battle of Bunker Hill for example, fought in Boston during the American Revolution was analyzed by Daniel Webster in…