Scales

The Shoe Drive January 12, 2010. The day the devastating large-scale earthquake demolished Haiti. Growing up in Los Angeles and being born at the turn of the century, I never saw the amount of destruction the Earth could cause. Of course, as we get older it becomes more difficult to escape reality, but when you’re younger it’s easier to tune it all out. The earthquake in Haiti ignited a fire in me that would never burn out. For a few weeks post-earthquake, an immense feeling of guilt…

they told you what they wanted. 3. Unique grading scales It can be hard enough t get a 90 percent for an A, ever harder is having to get a 93 to get an A because the professor has created their own rouge grading scale. Grading scales can be complicated enough, but there is always a few professor who feel the need to overcomplicate things through the use of weighted grade scales, and other strange and unique scales. The use of these grading scales end hurting the students then helping them,…

The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) developed in accordance with the Diagnostic and statistical Manual of Mental illness sets criteria for diagnosing substance abuse. In order to be able to diagnose food addiction with this YFAS, at least there must be three addiction symptoms…

bans and conservation strategies, but some have still been caught finding loopholes. Although whaling has been handled irresponsibly in the past, small-scale whaling should be considered acceptable, when new regulations are set in place so the action is much more sustainable and will not follow the mistakes of overfishing in the past. Small scale whaling has been an issue for a while, open to the public’s eye around the 20th century. Once impactful technology was created in the 1800s,…

Water, etc. And each energy source has its own energy transfer (above). Some have longer processes while others have shorter ones. Positives and negatives of small scale solar power: Solar power on a small scale, i.e. a house or farm, can be beneficial to some people as they may be exposed to a lot of sunlight. Some positives of small scale solar power: solar energy is free –once installed, panels pay for themselves and solar energy is totally free. Furthermore, as years go by, technology will…

The Scale of Effective School Discipline and Safety (SESDS) Questionnaire indicates that Lacy Elementary is ready for implantation of a Positive Behavioral Support System (PBSS) in the area of Teachers’ Effective Classroom Management Skills. The analysis includes a scale ascending from 1-5 with “1” being excellent in regards to implementing a PBSS and a score of “5” being poor or not ready. Our analysis shows that Lacy Elementary scored an average of 2.2 in this particular section. This is an…

In regards to a large-scale change initiative that I have been a part of would be when I was hired. Before my employment there was no formal marketing department within Garmin International. There was simply a marketing communication team that did all of the creative work for the company and the engineers. Up until this point the company had operated under this type o direction of a agency working within the building that would do the work. The change in the landscape of the GPS market place…

The Whitely index is a 14 question survey that is used to measure the intensity of an individual’s hypochondriacal symptoms organizing them into 3 different subcategories: disease fear, disease conviction, and bodily preoccupation. The Illness Worry Scale is similar to the Whitley however in contrast it removes all questions that are related to physical ailments. It consists of a 10 question Y/N survey in which all of the items were taken directly from the Illness Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ).…

The Glasgow Coma Scale is an instrument that has become widely accepted to evaluate the seriousness of the brain injury. This scale measures the level of consciousness that ranges from alertness to coma. Scores are given according to response levels in three areas: eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. The scores…

experience, however, emphasises women’s fear of separation as deriving from an ethic of care and nurturance for the ‘other’ . Professor Anne Scales is largely critical of Gilligan’s ‘incorporationism’, which she claims to have ‘usurped women’s language in order to further define the world in the male image’ . She argues that inequalities on the basis of are considered to be simple legal mistake and male hegemony to be irrational in an otherwise rational existence . MacKinnon considers the…