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In today’s competitive business environments, organizations are facing multifaceted challenges not only in enhancing the productivity but also coping with the pressure of setting efficient and effective human resources (HR) practices in the form of hiring, training and retaining skillful employees. To support this, effective HR policies are becoming mandatory for the success of an organization and to overcome these challenges, management of these organizations are finding new avenues of…

The nature of Ed Gein’s crimes and abnormal behaviors throughout his life can be connected to his tumultuous relationship with his mother and the isolation and abuse he experienced at her hands. Ed was the second of two sons born to Augusta and George Gein in Wisconsin on August 27, 1906. George and Augusta owned a small grocery store in La Crosse County but Augusta decided to pack up and move to a large farm property in Plainfield, Wisconsin to deliberately isolate the boys from city life.…

Ed Gein: The Real Buffalo Bill (Rhetorical Modes) The mind of a serial killer is a truly fascinating thing. As human beings, we overlook the reasons as to why serial killers commit such horrific crimes. Often times the question regarding “why” relates to asking if there’s any childhood trauma or are they just mentally ill? Without proper research, the question can be a problematic one to answer. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacey, and Ed Gein: these are all feared names across America.…

Clarence Darrow once stated that “there is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.” As it is, crime is inevitable for a living person in the long run. Suppose, one drove into the red light at the traffic intersection or a student lit cigarette inside the school zone, both are accountable for crimes with the consequences. Crime is a crime for the action a person has committed, and the only difference is consequences depending on how big the crimes are. During the…

Introduction The percentage of Canadian youth who report using cannabis has been cited as the highest in the developed world (Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2016b). According to United Nations Children’s Fund Office of Research, in 2013 twenty-eight percent of Canadian Children aged 11 to 15 admitted to using cannabis at least once in the past year. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) (2016b) reported as much as 7% of adolescents smoke marijuana every single day; making Canadian…

This essay will discuss how relationships are central to professional practice and how this has been displayed through a varied amount of literature. It also represents the inherit challenges in developing relationships relating to the case of Robert and Martina. A representation of values and anti-oppressive practice will be mentioned throughout. “Establishing a relationship is crucial for engaging with carers and service users about the outcomes that are important to them and consequently…

Like many other people, I can remember watching violent movies and television shows at a very early age. I watched everything from wrestling and the classics like “Scarface” and old episodes of “Gunsmoke” and “Bonanza” with my grandfather to the cut them up, bullets, blood and gore movies like “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” with my cousins. I’ve been a big fan of them ever since. No one ever said anything about the violence we were exposed to mainly because at a very young age…

With war there comes trauma, and not all the casualties of war experience only physical symptoms. It was during World War I that soldiers’ mental trauma became more popularly examined. We now know that traumatic events can leave someone experiencing PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Back in 1914, soldiers fighting in the war had their own version called “shell shock”. In the beginning of World War I, British soldiers began to report medical symptoms after combat such as amnesia,…

Do you value your freedom? As an American citizen, do you completely understand the cost of the lifestyle you live? The freedom of speech, religion, gun ownership, and the fact that these freedoms are protected by the most powerful document in America, the Constitution, came at a grave cost. This cost was, and is paid, by the countless men and women who put themselves in harms way everyday, American military members. In this brief essay I would like to discuss three of these cost, emotional,…

Apparent Strategy GameStop main focus as a company is video games. This has been their focus since the company has started. The video game industry has been big since the 21st century. GameStop has the leading companies in video game retailing. Many consumers go to GameStop to purchase their games today. One of their strategies that the company uses is allowing consumers to download some of the games. In downloading these games the consumers get to have the games without having the disc. This is…