Principle of least effort

These efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnaround. But, in almost every case, the basic goal has been the same: to make fundamental changes in how business is conducted in order to help cope with a new, more challenging market environment. A few of these corporate change efforts have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the…

French Native, Hector St. John Crevecoeur, vividly describes the possible thoughts of immigrants as they come to this new country, America. He proceeds to describe their thoughts, yet he also explains his thoughts about the identity of a true American and America as a country. Crevecoeur describes America as a diverse country where culture thrives and mixes together: “When he says to himself, this is the work of my countrymen, who, when convulsed by factions, afflicted by a variety of miseries…

updating. For instance, even though President Obama took executive action in 2014 to allow people who had been brought to the United States illegally to apply for relief of deportation and get a work permit, one man’s effort will only go so far. Despite President Obama’s recent efforts towards change in immigration policy, “Immigration laws are inflexible and not designed to be responsive to shifts in labor market needs,” (Meissner 8). A presidential candidate in 2016 election Furthermore,…

identification characteristics, subconscious tendencies, can all be traced back somewhere to an encounter or example taken from the parent sometime in a life. It is when nearing adolescence that these influences begin to be questioned and analyzed. This principle is prevalent in both Geoffrey Wolff’s The Duke of Deception and Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life, but only through examination of the two. The main protagonist, for the sake of this essay they will be labeled that way, in each memoir is…

Upon walking into the NA meeting I attended, which was located at Lutheran Memorial Church in their basement on Erial & Blackwood-Clementon Rd, I felt extremely out of place because I am not familiar with this environment making me a “fish out of water”. The meeting was called Miracles on Monday, which is held from 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM every Monday, and I would soon find that the name was very fitting for what takes place within those basement walls on a weekly basis. The normal feelings an addict…

We often hear of how obesity is an epidemic in the United States. After all, the US contains one of the highest populations of obese citizens in the world. This, in tandem with all the other extenuating health problems that occur with obesity, which themselves can incur more trips to the physician, increaseing the uses—and costs—of healthcare, prompt a great deal of outcry against the US healthcare system to treat obesity as a public emergency. However: should it be treated as such? Should…

that schools that have successfully increase student retention employ a combination of school-wide and student-focused strategies or interventions. This is especially crucial for schools with many disadvantaged students (Lamb & Rice, 2008). Such efforts require a coordinated team of staff who are committed and trained to be responsive in adapting and refining their approaches to address both academic and social issues at an earlier stage of students’ academic career (Rumberger, 2004). There are…

were chronicled. Their efforts to force them into Patriotism was an abomination. A feature that I found during my studies was how African-Americans were excluded from the educational system and had to fight to pass laws in order to be integrated. The educational system was established for “whites only” meaning that all other races were not allowed to become educated. The Minority Achievement Gap can be credited to the crisis. European American started their schooling at least three hundred…

You will never know how well off you have it until you walk in someone else’s shoes. This is what Barbara Ehrenreich did for a month. Barbara is a middleclass journalist who gives up life as she knows it to go live in poverty. Her tasks include finding somewhere to live and a job that pays about $7 an hour. She will be live in the town of Key West in a trailer park. Barbara will apply to multiple jobs aiming for a housekeeping job, but she will start her life in poverty with a job at Heartside.…

Implementing good effective shared governance can help to identify any poor practices quickly. Systems that encourage nurses to raise concerns and are willing to address these concerns raise healthcare performance across the board (Snow, 2012). Ott and Ross find that nurses most frequently raise concerns over patient care and safety. Shared governance councils improve nurses’ ownership of patient care which in turn increases the reporting care issues and safety concerns to unit-based groups.…