For most people, watching the news on television, reading the newspaper, or checking out the news on your phone is one of the first things you do in the morning. You’ll read about the upcoming elections, the scores of the previous night’s sporting events, and whatever or whoever else is getting their 15 minutes of fame at the time. Then, you’ll read about who has overdosed. It’s to the point where you’re expecting it. “Teen overdosed on Heroin two months before graduation,” or “Mother leaves…
As presented in the HFMA article (Grube, Cohen & Clarin, 2014), healthcare is increasingly being altered by a retail presence. According to the authors, retail care is an approach that delivers healthcare to proactive consumers within the market-driven framework of other purchases. In a sense, consumers are now "shopping" for healthcare rather than "going to get" treatment or medical attention when needed. The paradigm shift this represents is that healthcare is increasingly weighed on a…
The demand for beauty is an endless venture. Billions of dollars is spent on skin care products every year for men and women from all type of ages. In such a wide range industry most companies try to maximize their profit. Therefore, consumer behavior is defined as the study of how individuals, groups and organizations select, buy, use and dispose of goods, ideas or experiences to satisfy their needs and wants. In other words, the study focuses on how individuals spending their available…
A cell phone bill can be one of the most expensive bills you have to pay each month. According to Troianovski, more than half of all U.S. cell phone owners carry a device like the iPhone, a shift that has troubled household finances across the country. Families across America cut back on food, clothes, and entertainment to be able to pay for cell phone plans. Heidi Steffen and her husband used to treat themselves most weeks to steak at Sodak Shores, a restaurant overlooking a lake near their…
School and work should require uniforms as their dress policy. Uniforms make a person look more professional. It can change the way a person stand and upholds themselves. Especially when being taught and used at a young age. Uniforms may be costly, but they can last for years if maintained correctly. It can also be used as hand-me-downs to save a couple more bucks. And most importantly, it’s a classic. Uniforms are expensive. Children doesn’t know how to maintain their dress clothes. Children…
becoming more and more prominent. Why has no one done anything about this drug ruining millions of lives? That is because I am not talking about the shady guy in the hoodie on the street corner selling illegal drugs, I am talking about your local Walgreens. This drug is legal, and chances are you have taken it. Seventy percent of Americans are on prescription pills; most of these pills are opioid analgesics (Drake). Many people recognize opioid analgesics as Hydrocodone, Oxycontin, or other…
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disorder caused by a defect in the gene that helps create the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase. This enzyme helps to breakdown the amino acid phenylalanine; without this enzyme the levels of phenylketonuria (PKU) increases, this causes serious cognitive disabilities, hyperactivity, seizure, and abnormal small head (microcephaly) in infants, and small risk of brain damage.1 Phenylketonuria can affect pregnant women, babies, children and adults. Therefore, people…
The white now-deformed cylinder clung to the carved stick as it melted. Before it could fall to its hot, fire-induced death, I whisked the stick away and carefully scraped the marshmallow onto the graham cracker square laden with delicious chocolate. As I delicately placed the camping creation onto my lips, the background noise of the wind and not-so-spooky stories calmed me as I watched the flames lick at the logs, slowly transforming them into ashes and embers. Everything was too perfect. I…
As we all know a virus cant be treated with an antibiotic. Usually a virus goes away by itself. However,its one virus that your body cant fight off with out assistance. HIV is a virus that cant be cured. The virus is deadly and highly contagious. Moreover, its can be treated but not cured. If not treated right away it can lead to AIDS. AIDS is also, a terminal disease. What is HIV? HIV stands for human immunodefiency virus. Immune stands for (immune). In addition, deficiency stands for…
Amazon FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) is a program designed by Amazon to help buyers find sellers easily on the internet. In order to be successful with this program, you need to understand what exactly the Amazon FBA is, How money is made on the program, How much you can make, how to get started, where to source for items to sell, how to choose the best-selling items, expanding your inventory, and sustaining your marketplace as well as income generating sources-if you can handle all these, then…