Retrospective

By the year, 2024 United States Government and local governments will have spent at least half of its national budget on healthcare according to a recent study issued by the federal government (Luhby, 2015, para. 9), which is in part due to the Affordable Care Act. In addition, the government has estimated by 2024 that the cost of healthcare for each person will rise at least 5.8% per year (Luhby, 2015, para. 4), which in some way is due to the rising age of the American population. Therefore,…

THREE MARIJUANA PREVENTION EFFORTS IN CALIFORNIA: UNIQUE ASPECTS TO CONSIDER Throughout California, local prevention projects are working to impact social norms and perceived risk of youth marijuana use. In February 2015, three specific marijuana prevention efforts in California were highlighted in a Community Prevention Initiative webinar titled Marijuana Prevention in Action: Lessons from the Field. This webinar featured program managers from these three efforts, each of whom provided details…

Global art cinema has been a widely contested term among film critics and scholars alike. The term was created to help categorize and define a genre of film that directly opposes First Cinema, or commercial cinema produced and distributed by Hollywood in the United States. In the book, Global Art Cinema, Second Cinema, or art cinema, has been summarized by authors Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, as being feature films typically including “...foreign production, overt engagement of aesthetic..…

teaching stages; namely before teaching begins, during the teaching action and after teaching has ended. Van Manen (1991) attributed the reflection that occur during these sequential events as anticipatory reflection, contemporaneous reflection and retrospective reflection respectively. Conway (2001) described anticipatory reflection as “future-oriented reflection before action” (p. 90). Etscheidt et al. (2012) simplified anticipatory reflection as “examining one’s teaching actions through an…

Malcolm X is shown in the development of Malcolm throughout the course of the book, the bringing of the reader into Malcolm’s world, and the creation and expression of the person that is Malcolm X. The development of Malcolm X is shown through retrospective comments and life changing events. The reader is brought into Malcolm’s world through the creation of vivid scenery, full of emotion and atmosphere as well as insight into his thought process due to the narrating style. The style of the book…

and also had smaller waist circumference (Luca et al, 2014). Through the positivism approach, it can be determined that Obesity prevention programs may not have an instantaneous impact but over time will occur. In terms of the Prospective vs. Retrospective Approaches resulted in a similar outcome due to the studies being positivism and displaying quantitative methods. Results are as follows, Ten-year trends in overweight/obesity indicate stability among males and significant linear increases in…

images allow a better understanding of the processes leading to the development of identity in Renaissance Florence. We know better the causes of immagini miracolose through the specific discussion of materiality. With the historical layering of retrospective legends and of enshrinement, we can analyze the growth of image cults archeologically. The future investigation of a singular image cult’s history may reveal more connections to the formation of…

of reimbursement, cost based, charge based, and prospective payment. When cost-based reimbursement is used, the payer agrees to reimburse the provider for the costs acquired in providing services to the insured. This type of reimbursement is retrospective, since it is based on what has happened in the past, and it guarantees that the provider’s costs will be covered by revenues that are generated from the delivery of said services (Gapenski, 2013). The charge-based reimbursement system is when…

This was at the Yoko Ono Riverbed exhibition. This is a photographed worked but with fragments of broken cups and strings. As to relate to my theme of grip and hold, this can acquire attention since it was during an exhibition from Yoko Ono. While Yoko Ono is well known in the art world, this piece is very helpful in trying to tell my past. As abstract and dramatic this piece can be, I personally feel that this piece can be meaningful to a lot of individuals who are going through a heartbreak or…

The Childhood Cancer Survivor Survey constructed by the National Cancer Institute in 1993, they composed a retrospective piece of research into 14,000 ex-patients with 3,700 siblings. The conclusions drawn from the study inferred that the adults who survived childhood cancer, had the same positive psychological well-being as their siblings. Contradicting this, another report stated that adolescent survivors were 1.5 times more likely to have depression and anxiety in comparison to their…