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Introduction L.S. is a 67 year-old female born on March 24, 1947. The student nurse assessed L.S.’s vital signs prior her interview the results were as follows: Blood Pressure: 124/72, temperature: 97.8 degrees Fahrenheit, pulse: 75 beats per minute, and respirations: 22 breaths per minute. L.S. is a young- old retired home health aide whose previous employment has negatively affected the way that she is able to enjoy her retired older years. Comorbidities, economic circumstances, and…

State of Science The idea that environmental factors influence on ageing is not new and it has been considered by environmental gerontologists since 1970s (Lawton & Nahemow, 1973). However, the idea is drawn attention a decade ago under the name of age-friendly environment. A key driver of this movements toward age-friendly environment is the Global Age-Friendly Cities project by WHO. This initiative has been focused on urban areas (WHO, 2007) and there is another trend of age-friendly…

the ticket anytime (The Economist, 2012). It gives the benefit for the customer get the cheaper rate for booking through internet. The low fares air transport may let the customer to experience with comfortable and early to reach the destination. (Lawton&Doh,…

Compulsory Competitive Tendering (CCT) as part of the 1986 Local Government Act, obliging local authorities to open up the school meals service by allowing other organisations, in addition to the local authority, to tender for the contract (Gordon & Lawton, 2004). Consequently, private companies were now in charge of many school’s provision of meals, and concerned with cutting costs, eliminating waste and maximising profits, resulting in the ‘easy option of providing popular fast-food items…

University (1981). Wayman Tisdale, born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, became the first freshman to achieve all-American status in Oklahoma in 1983. He was an all-American in 1984 and 1985. Another Oklahoma Sooner, Stacey King of Lawton, Oklahoma, was an all-American in 1989. Mark Price of Enid, Oklahoma, became an all-American for Georgia Tech in the late 1980s. Bryant Reeves, also known as “Big Country”, of Gans, Oklahoma, was an all-American power forward and center at…

It has been at least 46 years since mankind first stepped onto the moon. This event is considered one of the most important accomplishments that humanity has ever done. However, at this point some people still believe that such an event did not happen, and it was all just massive propaganda used by the United States in order to bankrupt the Soviet Union at the time. This idea about the Apollo mission being fake seems illogical. My perspective about this is that the U.S actually did land on the…

“Shakespeare must be a black girl,” voiced Maya Angelou as she spoke to a crowd of students and professors during a 2013 visit to Randolph College in Lynchburg, Virginia (Curtis). As a child growing up in rural Arkansas, Angelou became a victim of racism, rape, and abuse at a young age. One of the few places she found solace from these traumas was at her local public library, a safe haven where she read every piece of literature that she could get her hands on. This is how she first discovered…

Every business has their own strategies to increase the sustainability of their business over the long run with the purpose of maximizing the shareholders’ wealth. There are many ideologies and strategies being implemented with the purpose of generating long term profitability of the organization. Michael E. Porter has designed and developed the Five Forces framework to help the companies to assess the nature of an industry’s effectiveness and also the organization strategies. With the framework…

The Working Poor: Invisible in America, outlines the social, economic, and cultural barriers that impact families hovering above and below the federal poverty guidelines (Shipler, 2004). Shipler claims that impoverished families do not fit into the myth that people are poor because they are lazy or the corresponding anti-myth, that families are poor because of the harsh social policies and communities that help perpetuate the cycle of poverty (2004, p. 6). According to Shipler low income…

An issue that we are currently experiencing is juveniles and their body image. Stephanie Armstrong (2011) stated that about 90% of fifteen to seventeen year old girls wanted to change one or more features of their physical appearance. Armstrong also mentioned that weight was ranked as the highest feature adolescent girls wanted to be changed. When it came to adolescent boys, she commented on how up to twelve percent of teenage boys use unverified supplements, steroids, or both. According to the…