Public interest

I always say that the public relations program at Mount Saint Vincent University found me, rather than the other way around. I have always had a passion for writing, public speaking and media, but as of my senior year of high school my exposure to public relations was limited to Samantha Jones from Sex and the City. As a 17-year-old that was torn between journalism and advertising, I followed a neighbour’s advice to research the field of PR. I quickly found that the profession is about so much…

Public policy is set in motion when something happens that puts pressure on the government to prioritize and formulate public policy. The media, political parties, interest groups, and government officials and agencies play a part in influencing action. According to Ushistory.org (2015), it is a complex and continuous process requiring various government officials to work with select groups to determine the best course of action in implementing and evaluating the policies put in place. While…

am interested in studying the connection between values and beliefs held due to identity, and health care policy. My experiences in diversity have helped me develop research interests in aging policy, access to care interventions, addressing disparities, and patient and stakeholder engagement in the policy process. My interest in diversity and policy first merged during my experience as a Peer Dialogue Leader for the Common Ground Multicultural Dialogue Program.…

youth gangs and alcohol related street based violence. It is agreed among criminologists that the best response to youth deviance is to divert them away from the criminal justice system. Most of the debate surrounding social disorder involves public space. A limitation is that most solutions put forward by, including environmental crime prevention experts increase rather than decrease social exclusion. The best prevention in the crime prevention involves rather than exclude youth and…

comprehending the policy actors in each process and in general the steps in policymaking. They are six steps in the policy process model, the first step is identifying a policy problem, the second step is policy formulation, the third step is legitimizing public policy, the fourth is policy implementation, the fifth is policy and program evaluation and the sixth is policy change. Identifying the problem is the first step; this step is not as easy as it seems. In identifying the problem,…

The Making of Great Public Speaker On my thirteenth birthday my parents had given me a ticket to see my all time favorite female athlete. She was going to talk about her life and the journey she took to become successful. At thirteen years old, I felt like I had just received a Nobel Prize. On the day of the talk, I sat front row, and I was ready to become inspired and motivated to becoming a successful athlete. Instead, the speaker walked out with a piece of crinkled paper. I was drowned into…

foreign policy was a collective settlement that are pushed by two groups of bureaucratic actors that are clearly motived by contrastive economic interests. For example, he identified that despite the impressive enthusiasm that the U.S banks and corporation held, there are indeed other voices within the American political institutions that “had little interest in foreign affairs” and therefore afraid of foreign competitions and consequently opposed the export of American capitals:…

organization with 1001-5000 employees. LinkedIn is currently their most followed avenue of social media and information for the communities of Arizona. This paper will briefly explore the benefits, risks and various attributes of having social media for a public health…

Today, the structures of power left by colonialism continue to dictate the strengths of public health systems around the world. Specifically colonial health shaped the system of health disparities that we see today. Through the use of sanitation practices such as the cordon sanitaire colonialism left a lasting impression of the racialization…

Today’s society is comprised of multiple platforms of media, both mainstream and alternative, which is responsible for distributing and informing members of the public about events. Through the use of platforms such as television, radio, newspapers, magazines and social media, the media is able to present perceptions on multiple issues. It is often found, however, that the media sensationalizes events to sell stories, this is demonstrated in the frequent distortion of crime. This essay will…