The Weakest Link

Imagine you are going by your day as always. You are married, have children, and you are enjoying your life. Nothing seems wrong, but a checkup with the doctor leads to devastating news. You are diagnosed with cancer. That was the case of Janet Planet, “I was first diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 42. I thought I’d beaten it, but five years later it returned with a vengeance” (Nicholas). She was later told she only had 2 months to live at most, yet she wasn’t going to give up fighting.…

Class and Contemporary British Culture is a gripping and rich account of how individuals shape their self-image and the image of others through class identification. This is presented through the use of various entertainment shows and literary works. The primary focus of this book, is thus to explore and investigate the changing landscape of class, by paying particular attention to the ‘Essex Man, Essex Girl, the squeezed middle, the sharp-elbowed middle class, the feral underclass, the white…

PERSONAL LEARNING PLAN Assessment Type 1 (Folio): TASK 1b Ethical Understanding Capability Critical Analysis – Moral Dilemmas Provide a detailed answer for each question below. You are required to include a reference list as part of your work. 1. How would you define a moral dilemma? A moral dilemma is a conflict in which you have to choose between two or more actions and have moral reasons for choosing each action . Each outcome has a bad a Reference, example I think this is a great…

As I stated in my review for Battle Cry of Freedom, I believe that James McPherson’s loyalties in his writing are staunchly Northern in regards to the Civil War. The word revolution is defined as “a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.” So, if we go by the actual definition from the Northern point of view then yes it was a revolution but from the southern man’s point of view then no it was not a revolution. The word revolution was used in context to…

However, on the island there are no adults who would tell the boys what is acceptable and what is not. The boys are free to do things that would be considered barbaric in a more civilized place, which allows them to begin acting like savages. For instance when Jack paints himself a mask using pigs' blood and becomes more savage because, "…the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness"(80). There is nobody around who would tell Jack not to…

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs is an interesting novel where Johann Hari, the author tells his story of being drawn to addicts and recovering addicts. His feeling of being drawn to these addicts made it possible for him to travel all over the world. I am going to break this novel into three different themes that I saw Hari make. The first theme that I thought was interesting and not surprising is that race plays a huge part in who is to be arrested and or…

people will believe it. When these scandals are brought into the public eye through excessive media coverage the American people lose trust in politicians. A frequently said phrase summarizes this effect perfectly, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. When Americans see politicians in a horrible situation their bad traits become representative of all politicians. This mindset equates correlation to causation when it comes to lying…

was also vividly mentioned in this chapter that if any security measures such as closed-circuit TV (CCTV) surveillance, security guards, intrusion detection systems (IDSs) failed, then of course the fault is from a human being considered as the weakest link in information security. This chapter also noted that people did not embrace physical security the…

Evan Thompson, professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, presented the idea of that the self is process, not a thing nor an entity, which implied that self is an experiential process that is subject to the constant change in Waking, Dreaming, Being (Thompson XXXI). And additionally, Thompson gives the idea of the self, however, he also mentioned the three things men or human need to understand. The three things are the nature of consciousness, the contents of consciousness…

Section 34-30-57, Code of Ala. 1975, (1991) authorizes the Board to promulgate rules and regulations that set forth standards for licensed bachelor Social Workers, licensed master Social Workers, and independent clinical Social Workers. The Board has formally adopted the following standards of professional conduct and ethics including (1d) that states that the Social Worker shall act in accordance with the highest standards of professional integrity and impartiality (CHAPTER 850-X-9 STANDARDS of…