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Inoculation approaches may fail since the attitudes of people change over time. For examples, if one is psychologically inoculated against smoking, the effects of inoculation are short-lived and hence after the reinforcement stops, the person slips back to the initial attitudes. Peer pressure occurs under different circumstances, the reasons to refuse peer pressure go beyond weak negative explanations. Some hard facts are necessary to help in making the right decision against the peer pressure. Therefore, the little attack on the cons of smoking does not help the teenagers have permanent attitude changes towards smoking and hence would end up Continue reading...

With the vast array of Critical infrastructures located in the United States, it is important to look at the potential risks and threats they face. The paper will focus on the critical infrastructures dependencies and interdependencies. It will then address how to measure the dependencies factors. Lastly, it will look at how we factor interdependencies into the planning process. Infrastructures consist of many different usages for many various organizations. Understanding the how dependencies and interdependencies directly influence the success of the infrastructure. In many cases, the infrastructure, such as homeland security, is in place for the protection of the Continue reading...

In the novel “The Algerine Captive,’ Updike Underhill has been sold into slavery among a Muslim population after capture the ship where he serves as a surgeon. The slaves are beaten, whipped and treated cruelly. The captors will only free him only if he agrees to convert to Islam. Underhill does not quickly accept these terms and stayers stoic engaging in intensive debate with his captors. Underhill faces the spiritual danger of converting to Islam, but he is not ready to pick up Islam and drop Christianity. He is focused on enduring the cruel captivity as a mere trial Continue reading...

Business Law

One of the central issues that must be resolved by the court or arbitration tribunal is whether eight percent discount offered by the Seller to the Buyer in the initial agreement applies to all future contracts. It is clear that the parties have different views on this matter. The Seller intended that it was a one-time discount; it was not supposed to apply to the future orders, and it was intended to encourage the Buyer to enter into a long term contractual relations with the Seller. The Buyer, on the other hand, thought that the Seller was willing to Continue reading...

Introduction

The article evaluates the impacts of community service and service-learning as a significant strategy to improve the academic level of the students and the effects in the future. However, the author outlines that there is inequality in schools offering the services precisely for the disadvantaged students.
I agree with the author of the article that it is vital to engage the students in community service programs. Community service learning utilize the skills and knowledge learned in school through service learning placements in diverse organizations in the community (Whitton, 2011). Therefore, there is a need for the community organizations to Continue reading...

Shakespeare once said, ‘To be or not to be.’ In Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, the line between free will and determinism are blurred. The philosophical debate at the heart of this Sci-Fi Neo Noir piece is whether a person who ‘may’ commit a crime should be arrested and incarcerated. The core of every proper science fiction film is the debate. While the film has several action tropes in it, its commitment and use of the detective genre is indicative of making it the highlight of the genre. While the overall theme is free will versus determinism, what really Continue reading...

Civilization of a society is characterized by urban development, communication ways (languages, writing systems), social stratification, living styles, eating and living habits and interaction with the natural environment. In simple words the civilization is an advanced living form—the city gentleman as opposed to the cave-dwelling savage. Civilization is about social values, economic structure, architecture, politics and governance in a society. The development of a society into an urbanized centralized and stratified culture in short is referred to as the civilization. It involves evolution and transformation from the basics to advanced cultural reforms that involve a primary role of Continue reading...

On a cold Monday morning, the secretary enters my office with several papers. She has an expression of happiness on her face, an indication that something good had happened. Despite being a Monday morning, I was feeling rather tired and therefore needed enough rest after a very eventful weekend. The expression of happiness on the secretary’s face implied that there was a lot of work to be done; a request for an order that would bring in some good profit. Having spent the entire weekend in Miami celebrating the company’s quarter results improvement, I needed a slow Continue reading...

Introduction

After the proposed definition of economics which has been stated by Adam Smith and Alfred Marshal in the very early stages of economic sciences, there were many authors who explicitly come over the screen to retaliate about the economic definitions. Earning the money and consuming it in an organized manner is the most powerful and widely used definitions of economics.
The entire concept of economics and its management is divided into two important topics which are Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. Macroeconomics is the branch of economics which have been proposed and related with the economics of the country, while microeconomics Continue reading...

using CASP cohort checklist
using CASP cohort checklist
The following paper consists of a critical appraisal of a journal article by Duncan et al. (2012). The Critical Appraisal Skills programme (CASP) checklist for cohort studies was used (CASP, 2013).

A. Are the results of the study valid?

1. Did the study address a clearly focused issue?
The analysed study was a retrospective cohort study because data were collected in the past and obtained from a database, it was observational (there was no intervention), and several groups exposed to several levels of the risk factors were observed (Altman, 1990). The aims of the study were: 1. To determine Continue reading...