Missed approach

Barriers and Enablers When it comes to health literacy and older adults with cardiovascular disease, there are a few barriers that may prevent the successful outcome. The first barrier is not having the health information presented to them in a format that they can understand. Whether it be simple language or adapting the document to have visual aids which may provide a better understanding for them. Next, is not understanding how to navigate the system and knowing what is available. This…

With a spiral structure, the reader is able to see several missed opportunities to stop Santiago’s murder, which contributes to the idea that one should stop crime. Through a journalistic writing style, the reader becomes frustrated with the lack of emotion in the story that he or she feels the need to take responsibility…

substance use disorder (SUD). The focus of my project is how Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) political efficacy relates to the legislative change to increase access to care through utilizing APRNs to prescribe buprenorphine for SUD. This approach brings a different perspective to culture because political efficacy may be affected through cultural beliefs, practices and understanding of the political process. The research related to political efficacy and culture is scant. This has…

An Unnecessary Calamity of Homelessness Destitution is a well-known calamity that affects every person worldwide, whether people know it affects them or not. Moreover, being homeless is a commonly overlooked or disregarded situation in today’s society. As a result, the severe issues that have arisen from this problem have turned out to be blindsiding. The CNN article, “Los Angeles declares ‘state of emergency’ on homelessness,” informs readers about the increasing threat of people becoming…

“The Speech of Polly Baker” by Benjamin Franklin is a leading example of how American writers challenged notions of social injustice and attempted to bring social change. Franklin writes this fictional story about a woman being convicted for giving birth to an illegitimate child and criticizes the laws that punish them. Polly Baker has been convicted of this same crime four times previously but each time, argues that she is not the only one responsible for this transgression. Women are…

Culture and Concerns South Korea is a country with a very rich culture and is very different from our own culture here in the United States. One of the aspects of South Korean culture that stand out the most is its hierarchical structure. This section will explain how the different cultural frameworks and concepts apply to South Korean culture. The first is the sociology framework. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck described culture as having 6 different dimensions: time, space, activity,…

According to psychologist Michael G. Thomas, the sexes have much more in common than not. After giving the same psychological test to both males and females, of all ages, Thomas found that the results indicated a bell-shaped curve with 90% of the responses overlapping. This suggest that the differences among males and females only make up 10% of human psychology. Although this concept is highly contradicted with the social standards that come from gender roles, which often reject any similarity…

Kaufman and Zigler (1987) estimated that around 30% of families repeat patterns of their childhood and intergenerational transmission is a major risk factor for next generation. To minimise risk of the repeating generational patterns of substance misuse, domestic violence, anti-social behaviour, crime and poor parenting, the Troubled Families programme was launched by the Prime Minister in 2011. The programme intended to reduce the high costs these families place on the public sector each year…

The Dangers Posed by Reader Bias: A Reader Response Criticism of The Science Fiction Novel Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein Few modern authors have had as profound effect on their genre, society, political debate, or literature in general as Robert Heinlein. Science fiction author Ken Macleod suggests that the world was having a dialogue with Heinlein, unfortunately, one of the unintended consequences of dialogue is misunderstanding, some of which is caused by reader bias (Macleod, James, &…

manufacturing, the rest of the world struggled to keep up with old methods. For America, the Industrial Revolution lasted from 1820-1870 and established the basis for manufacturing in today’s world. Countries in Asia like China and India seemed to have missed this onslaught of changes which left these countries behind for them to develop in later years. This said, China and India are considered developing countries meaning they’re still experiencing their industrial revolution and are catching…