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A Higher Level of Medicine Medical Marijuana in Action My mom is prone to migraines and was taking the same prescription medication, propranolol, for many years. This medication slowly began to cause issues with her heartrate, so she was forced to stop taking it. The fact that she had been taking the same medicine for so many years caused her to have severe withdrawal symptoms and her headaches were nearly unbearable. As a replacement for her medication, she began taking CBD oil (cannabidiol). After a few days she experienced less severe migraines and eventually stopped having them as much. While this is just one story, my mom is not the only person to use marijuana for her migraines, and not the only one to use it for a health problem. Before the legalization of recreational marijuana, medicinal marijuana was already used by numerous people, including migraine suffering patients like my mom. Among migraines, marijuana is actually used for a variety of issues, ranging from nonlife-threatening issues like migraines to very serious conditions like cancer and epilepsy. Is the cannabis plant (from which marijuana comes) truly successful in helping these folks? The answer to that question is yes, it is indeed a form of medicine that is capable of treating multiple maladies. In fact, medical marijuana is recognized as a treatment for migraines and other issues. The Compassionate Use Act deemed appropriate the medical use of marijuana for numerous conditions, including â€Å"anorexia, cancer, . . . migraine, nausea . . .† according to the article, Medical Cannabis: Where Do We Stand Today? (Fares 66). Information and Misconceptions about Cannabis In the everchanging world of medicine, cannabis (better known as marijuana) is growing in popularity but is still perhaps one of the most misrepresented herbal remedies of our time. When one thinks of marijuana use, they might picture the stereotypical scene in which a group of youngsters sit around smoking a joint, coughing and becoming intoxicated. While this is easy to picture, it is certainly not always the case. Marijuana is gaining credibility as a safe form of medication. Despite the fears surrounding this drug, the scientific data that will be discussed suggests that medical marijuana is in fact an effective treatment for some health issues, including migraines, epilepsy, and the side-effects of chemotherapy. These data are meant to help people with these health issues consider that marijuana may just be the medicine they need. Ultimately then, my goal is to demonstrate that marijuana is useful in the field of medicine for ailments like migraines as aforementioned, cancer, an d epilepsy. Cannabis in the Treatment of Cancer One of the most important ailments treated by marijuana is cancer. Cannabis isn’t going to cure cancer any time soon, but there is reason to conclude that it does help with the negative affects of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy. To elaborate, marijuana is used for cancer patients and provides pain and nausea relief which makes chemotherapy less difficult. To back this up, the article, Marijuana and Cannabinoids, states that â€Å"The FDA has . . . approved the synthetic cannabinoids dronabinol and nabilone to treat nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy.† To clarify, synthetic cannabinoids mimic the active ingredient of cannabis which is THC  (tetrahydrocannabinol) (â€Å"Marijuana and Cannabinoids†). Cannabis even has the potential to be very useful in the battle against cancer in the future. According to the Article, Marijuana as Medicine, â€Å"recent animal studies have shown that marijuana extracts may help kill certain cancer cel ls and reduce the size of others† (â€Å"Marijuana as Medicine†). These data emphasize the need for cannabis to be further studied, because if this development is someday found to be true for humans, that would be an enormous breakthrough. Cannabis in the Treatment of Epilepsy Epilepsy, a condition that causes seizures and other neurological issues, is another health problem that can be treated by medical marijuana. According to the article, Pharmacological and therapeutic targets for ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cannabidiol, â€Å"Consideration of the known effects of CBD . . . suggests that it too has therapeutic potential, for example as an anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective agent, for the management of epilepsy . . .† (Pertwee 79). Interestingly, medical marijuana treatment for epileptic children is not unheard of, and it is indeed an effective form of treatment for the disease. While giving children cannabis seems rather odd to many people, there are ways to treat epileptic children with this drug without the â€Å"high† effects that frighten the parents of these patients. For example, the article Pot for Tots: Children and Medical  Marijuana attests that â€Å"a liquid, non psychoactive form of marijuana was found to reduce seizures for children with Dravet’s syndrome, a rare form of childhood epilepsy† (Rollins 59). While this statement is not based on a large study size, the data is compelling on behalf of cannabis’ regulatory effects on epilepsy. Potential Risks of Using Cannabis in Medicine Skeptics of medical marijuana bring up valid arguments, such as how this drug is new and that â€Å"we don’t know enough about it to use it.† It is true that it has been brought into modern day medical practice rather recently, but do patients not use new, experimental medications all the time for serious conditions such as cancer? The article, Pot for Tots: Children and Medical  Marijuana, adds to the latter point. In response to experts saying that there is not enough information about the side-effects of cannabis use, the author Judy Rollins, states â€Å"that the same is true for other medications used to fight pain and nausea that are currently given to children with cancer† (59). These medications include opioids, which carry the danger of overdose (Rollins, Judy). In the article, The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana, author Jill Vargo Cavalet states that â€Å"no deaths have been reported from marijuana overdose† (41). Comparing these data with those of the more commonly used opioids, consider the article, Increasing Prescription  Opioid  and Heroin Overdose Mortality in the  United  States, 1999-2014: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis, which states that â€Å"Since 1999, the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids . . .) has nearly quadrupled† (Huang et al. 131). This means that as far as the data goes, marijuana is actually safer than opioids in that people have a much lower chance of dying from a marijuana overdose than an opioid overdose.  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Another concern brought up about medical marijuana is the hallucinations that can result as side effects. It is true that certain cannabis strains have  hallucinogenic side effects, but they are not always used in medicine. According to the book, CBD: A Patient’s Guide to Medicinal Cannabis, the recommended strains contain higher amounts of CBD than THC, as CBD does not carry the hallucinogenic side effects that THC does (Leinow, Leonard and Juliana Birnbaum 67-68). So basically, it’s really very easy to avoid hallucinating from marijuana, as one only needs to find a strain with low amounts of THC and a generous amount of CBD. Summary From the data discussed here, it can be concluded that medical marijuana provides benefits for people with migraines, cancer, and epilepsy. For migraine sufferers, marijuana acts as a reliever of stress, which decreases migraine intensity and frequency. For cancer patients, medical cannabis (marijuana) is used to lessen nausea and loss of hunger which are both associated with chemotherapy. Cannabis also provides control over the symptoms of epilepsy by reducing the number of seizures experienced by patients.   While it is under-studied, cannabis has shown its potential as a safe medicine. As more studies are done on this medicine, more good things will likely be learned about its properties. As mentioned before, medical marijuana is an important issue because it has the potential to increase the quality of life for many people. People like my mom have already benefitted from this medicine, and there is hope that in the future, folks with various conditions will consider and recogni ze medical marijuana as an opportunity to help them with their ailments. Overall, my hope is that more people will take marijuana into account when choosing a medication for pain, stress, nausea, and more serious issues like epilepsy. : 1. Fares, Marielle. â€Å"Medical Cannabis: Where Do We Stand Today?†Ã‚  AMWA Journal: American Medical Writers Association Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, Summer 2018, pp. 63–67.  EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=truedb=a9hAN=131616634site=ehost-live. Accessed: 30 October 2018. 2. Leinow, Leonard and Juliana Birnbaum.   CBD: A Patient’s Guide to Medicinal Cannabis. Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, 2017. Date Accessed: 1 November 2018. 3. â€Å"Marijuana and Cannabinoids.†   National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. Revised 25 October 2018. nccih.nih.gov/health/marijuana. Date Accessed: 30 October 2018. 4. â€Å"Marijuana as Medicine.† National Institute on Drug Abuse. Revised June 2018. drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine. Date Accessed: 30 October 2018. 5. Pertwee, Roger. â€Å"Pharmacological and Therapeutic Targets for†¯?9 Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol.†Ã‚  Euphytica, vol. 140, no. 1/2, June 2004, pp. 73–82.  EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s10681-004-4756-9. Accessed: 30 October 2018. 6. Rollins, Judy A. â€Å"Pot for Tots: Children and Medical Marijuana.†Ã‚  Pediatric Nursing, vol. 40, no. 2, Mar. 2014, pp. 59–60.  EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=truedb=a9hAN=95718116site=ehost-live. Accessed: 30 October 2018. 7. Vargo Cavalet, Jill. â€Å"The Highs and Lows of Medical Marijuana.†Ã‚  Clinician Reviews, vol. 26, no. 10, Oct. 2016, pp. 40–53.  EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=truedb=a9hAN=119006956site=ehost-live. Accessed: 30 October 2018. 8. Xiwen Huang, et al. â€Å"Increasing Prescription Opioid and Heroin Overdose Mortality in the United States, 1999-2014: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.†Ã‚  American Journal of Public Health, vol. 108, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 131–136.  EBSCOhost, doi:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304142. Accessed: 30 October 2018. Photo Credits: Link to 100% Natural Picture: https://i0.wp.com/lasvegasreleaf.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/medical-cannabis.png Link to CBD Oil Picture: https://kushfly.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Papa-and-barkley-releaf-tincture-1-3_concentrates_Delivery_LosAngeles_California_n.jpg Link to Dronabinol Picture: http://drugline.org/img/drug/7941_8015_2.jpg Link to Cannabis and Epilepsy Picture: https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2015/September/epilepsy-medical-cannabis-fb.jpg Link to CBD vs. THC Picture: https://s3.amazonaws.com/zweb-s3.uploads/ez2/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Cannimed_Chart_Sept2016.jpg

Free Essays on Lawrence Vs. Texas

Lawrence v. Texas Our basic freedoms afforded to us by the Constitution have been stripped away from some individuals because of their sexual preferences. The â€Å"fundamental rights† argument tracks a line of contraception and abortion cases, holding that certain intimate, private, family-related choices may be protected from state interference. The state has no legitimate right to interfere with the right of privacy; landmark cases have shown that our Constitution has become a â€Å"living Constitution,† whether or not people like Justice Scalia like it or not. In Lawrence v. Texas, which proves that the Constitution is continually being re-interpreted by our Supreme Court System, shows this by overruling Bowers v. Hardwick and granting every individual the same rights to privacy as one another? Scalia insists that a liberty interest (under the fundamental-rights theory) needs to be â€Å"deeply rooted in tradition,† and the mere fact that some of those state anti-gay laws have since been repealed doesn’t guarantee a fundamental right. At the end of this paper, I will have shown that our Constitution affords us certain rights and freedoms that we take for granted, but others have to fight for just because they have a different sexual preference. My main concern here will be showing how Justice Scalia attempts to say â€Å"that it is alright to be gay, just as long as you don’t have sexual intimacy with person of the same sex,† which infringes on your right to privacy. The rights are based upon the work of our Founders of the Constitution, who set out to create a set of rules to protect us against our government from having too much power over each individual. The rights that we are proved with are our most basic fundamental law. Citing back to Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965, when the courts ruled that birth control was an implied right to privacy of marital association from: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 9th amendments. Along... Free Essays on Lawrence Vs. Texas Free Essays on Lawrence Vs. Texas Lawrence v. Texas Our basic freedoms afforded to us by the Constitution have been stripped away from some individuals because of their sexual preferences. The â€Å"fundamental rights† argument tracks a line of contraception and abortion cases, holding that certain intimate, private, family-related choices may be protected from state interference. The state has no legitimate right to interfere with the right of privacy; landmark cases have shown that our Constitution has become a â€Å"living Constitution,† whether or not people like Justice Scalia like it or not. In Lawrence v. Texas, which proves that the Constitution is continually being re-interpreted by our Supreme Court System, shows this by overruling Bowers v. Hardwick and granting every individual the same rights to privacy as one another? Scalia insists that a liberty interest (under the fundamental-rights theory) needs to be â€Å"deeply rooted in tradition,† and the mere fact that some of those state anti-gay laws have since been repealed doesn’t guarantee a fundamental right. At the end of this paper, I will have shown that our Constitution affords us certain rights and freedoms that we take for granted, but others have to fight for just because they have a different sexual preference. My main concern here will be showing how Justice Scalia attempts to say â€Å"that it is alright to be gay, just as long as you don’t have sexual intimacy with person of the same sex,† which infringes on your right to privacy. The rights are based upon the work of our Founders of the Constitution, who set out to create a set of rules to protect us against our government from having too much power over each individual. The rights that we are proved with are our most basic fundamental law. Citing back to Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965, when the courts ruled that birth control was an implied right to privacy of marital association from: 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 9th amendments. Along...

To what extent employee satisfaction is an antecedent for customer Dissertation

To what extent employee satisfaction is an antecedent for customer satisfaction and loyalty among Small and medium Enterprises - Dissertation Example logy 30 3.1 Research Philosophy 32 3.1.1 Phenomenological Style or Interpretivism 33 3.1.2 Positivist Style 33 3.2 Justification for Positivism Philosophy 34 3.3 Research Approach 35 3.3.1 Deductive Research 35 3.3.2 Inductive Research 36 3.3 Characteristics of this Research 37 3.4 Research Strategy 39 3.4.1 Qualitative Methodology 41 3.4.2 Quantitative Method 42 44 3.4.3 Semi-Structured Interviews 44 3.5 Time Horizon 45 3.5.2 Cross Sectional Perspective 46 3. 6 Data Collection Method 47 3.6.1 Secondary Data Collection 47 3.6.2 Observation 48 3.6.3 Interview 48 3.6.4 Sampling 49 3.6.5 Questionnaire Survey 50 3.7 Validity Testing 50 3.7.1 Construct Validity 50 3.7.2 Internal Validity 51 3.7.3 External Validity 51 3.7.4 Reliability 52 3.8 Analysis Tools 52 3.8.1Chi Square Test 52 3.8.2Â  Weighted Average Method 53 3.8.3 Karl Pearson’s Coefficient of Correlation 53 3.8.4 Percentage Analysis 54 3.8.5 Graphs 54 3.9 Ethical Considerations 54 4.2.1 Analysis 1 63 4.2.2 Analysis 2 66 4.2.3 Analysis 3 68 4.2.4 Analysis 4 70 70 4.2.5 Analysis 5 71 4.2.6 Analysis 6 74 4.2.8 Analysis 8 81 4.2.9 Analysis 9 & 10 84 4.2.10 Summary 86 Chapter 5 Conclusion 87 5.1 SME Retail Sector-Ireland 89 5.1.1 Competitive Advantage for Retail Stores 90 5.1.2 Human Resource Challenges 90 5.1.3 Marketing Challenge 91 5.1.4 Competitive Advantage through People 92 Chapter 6 Recommendation 93 Chapter 7 Self Reflection 94 7.1 Genesis of the Research Problem 94 7.2 My Concern 95 7.3 Collecting and Analyzing Data 95 7.6 Cost Management 98 7.7 Significance of the Research 99 7.8 Understanding Knowledge of Journal and Books 100 101 Reference 102 Journals 102 Books 107 Appendices 110 Appendix 1- Interview Transcript 110 Appendix 2- Questionnaire 113 List of Figures Fig 1: Competitive Advantage 13 Fig 2: Competitive Advantage through People 16 Fig 3- Employee Satisfaction 20 Fig 4: Customer Satisfaction & Employee Satisfaction 28 Fig 5: Customer Satisfaction 29 Fig 6: Research Method 32 Fig 7: D eductive Research 36 Fig 8: Inductive Research 37 Fig 9: Research Strategy 39 Fig 10: Qualitative versus Quantitative Analysis 44Fig 11: Service Profit Matrix 63 Fig 12: Distribution for Satisfied Population in Retail Stores 64 Fig 13: Distribution of Motivated Population 69 Fig 14: Key Motivators for Satisfaction 70 Fig 15: Correlation between Employee Satisfaction and Employee Motivation 74 Fig 16: Distribution of Engaged Employees 75 Fig 17: Variation in Employee Engagement and Employee Satisfaction 78 Fig 18: Correlation between Employee Commitment and Employee Engagement 81 List of Tables Table 1: Distribution for Satisfied Population in Retail Stores 63 Table 2: Satisfaction booster most favoured by employees 66 Table 3: Weighted Average of Satisfaction Booster most favoured by Employees 67 Table 4: Distribution of Job Satisfaction Booster 68 Table 5: Key Motivators 70 Table 6: Relational Matrix for Employee Commitment and Satisfaction 73 Table 7: Distribution of Employee Enga gement 75 Table 8: Dispersion between Employee Satisfaction and Engagement 77 Table 9: Relational Matrix between Employee Engagement and Commitment 80 Table 10: Observed Value 82 Table 11: Expected Value 83 Table 12: Chi Square Analysis 84 Table 13: Impact of Customer Care Service on Customer Satisfaction (X) 85 Table 14: Impact of Employee Satisfac

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Tom's Shoes Link to Society - Essay Example He was hurt by this condition and felt the need to do good and help those children he saw in the streets. He promised himself that he was to do anything possible to help these children hence Blake and his team decided to take a financial risk and started shoes manufacturing company. He decided that, for every pair of shoes purchased, a pair is donated to the needy child in the society (Schermerhorn 148). Furthermore, children not only in Argentina, but also across the world that many live under poverty life and cannot even afford even the basic needs. These children walk barefoot hence get infected by soil diseases, which go through their bare foot. Most children are likely to get sores, cuts and other injuries that later become serious wounds increasing the infections of diseases to their bodies. In order to avoid these shoes play an essential role in preventing children and even adults in poor rural areas from getting infected from these diseases. On the other hand, children from poor families do not go to school due to lack of shoes, which is part of school dress code. Meaning these children will not go to school to get the education that will help them better their future. Therefore, TOMS has promoted education since many children who never went to school because they lacked shoes now can go to school and there is a reduction in the high spread of soil diseases that infect the p oor in society. The company dispersed ten thousand pairs of shoes to needy children in Argentina in the year 2006. It has also distributed shoes to needy children in over 40 countries across the world among them Rwanda, USA, Argentina, South Africa, Rwanda, Haiti among many other developing countries. As a result, the organization has attracted many donors and has received grants and funds from them. This made the company expand its business and

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USA Today Online Essay FoxNews Online CNN headline News (TV) USA Today Online American news sources, compared to those based in other countries, have some unique characteristics. One of the most obvious is the lack of headlines regarding places outside America. When stories are related that center on foreign events, they are often framed in the context of how they might or have affected Americans. In non-American sources, such as the BBC, there is not a parallel nationalistic spin placed on the coverage of events, especially those in Western Europe. Al Jazeera’s news is focused on the Muslim world. Its front page features no story that does not directly deal with some aspect of Islam and Islamic nations. While both the BBC and Al Jazeera had either the Blackwater Guards or the Guilty Plea of 9-11 hijackers as the top story, Fox news ran a feature about drug charge sentencing in America. USA Today, which is a news agency which caters to a less sophisticated audience, has as a lead headline a story about a study liking children’s health to industrial pollution. It also seems that news that is relevant outside of America breaks more quickly on the foreign press sites than it does in the U. S. Sites. For example, the piece about the surrender of the Blackwater guards, which is a story about a US firm acting in Iraq, was posted on both BBC and Al Jazeera before being listed as a â€Å"breaking story† on Fox. While the news sources all seem to treat news stories without significant bias, the framing of headlines in certain cases tends to show the leanings of the editors in certain cases. For example, Fox News’ headline regarding the guilty plea of 9-11 suspects reads: â€Å"Accused 9-11 Plotters Seek ‘Martyrdom’ in Guilty Pleas†. In contrast to the foreign news agencies, whose headline reports only the fact of the pleas, Fox’s headline contains the alleged motivation expressed with quotation marks in a manner that suggests contempt. Fox also presents news about the Democratic Political party in a negative light. They headline one story â€Å"Iran rejects Obama’s Carrot and Stick Policy†. The story is a single paragraph recounting a minor Iranian official decrying a policy that hurts his own country. Rather than merely reporting the fact, Fox frames this a a foreign policy failure of a President who has yet to be sworn into office. Interestingly, both the American News agencies and the BBC embed opinion pieces without identifying them as such. Of the news agencies reviewed, only Al Jazeera makes clear in every instance whether a piece is to be considered factual, or editorial. The editorial slant presented in the foreign news agencies tends to be more subtle. Both Al Jazeera and BBC reported the Pakistani raid on the organization thought to have engineered the recent attacks on Mumbai, India. Al Jazeera claims that the camp that was raided was home to a charity group. The BBC claims that the group had been outlawed in 2002, and that it was â€Å"thought to be† a front for the terrorist organization being sought. One must be careful in reading any news source to determine how much of what is reported is fact, versus how much is opinion, speculation or un-sourced material. It is in these ways that opinions are subtly infused throughout all news coverage. A wise reader should be able to discern fact from opinion.

Philosophic Principles of Creativity :: Philosophy Philosophical Papers

Philosophic Principles of Creativity ABSTRACT: The principle of universal significance of the creative process is promoted in this thesis. The principles of the ecology of creation and of the subject's humanistic orientation of the cognitive and practical activity, will also be investigated. 1. Nowadays the promotion of a new world outlook paradigm of global creativity has a place. The understanding of the nature of creation in the history of philosophy has always been connected with the explanation of the substance and of the mechanisms of creative activity. If asked - how creation in general is possible, what are its necessary premises and impulses - the answer was given aut of the trinity: God /Plato, G.W.F.Hegel, N.Berdyaev/, Nature /Epicurus, B.Spinoza, H.Bergson/, Human Being /C.A.Helvetius, K.Marx, J.P.Sartre/. Such abilities of the human beeng as intuition, imagination and fantasy have been united in the mechanisms of creation. Some thinkers have been explaining them through perceiving using "the eyes of mind" of evidently clear true ideas /R.Descartes, I.Kant, E.Husserl/, some others - just vice versa - opposed those concepts of mind and logic, finding in them the way to some instant perceiving of the essence of things - a sign of divine revelation and beneficy /St. Augustine, A.Shopenhauer, E.H.Gilson/. The principal difference in the idea of global creativity consists in the admission of the ontological status of creative processes, of their quality of being primary as some maximum totality. The attention is drawn to the subject's purpose - considering activity considered as a certain stage /link/ in the global teleological processes of the universal. Considering the metaphysical point of view, creation is a fundamental process of spontaneous transcendence of potentials and virtualities, of permanent development in the field of universal posibilities. All of the existing material, semiotic and ideal structures expose themselves as certain products /events/ of creative processes. Their former, actual and future existance finally depends on the different direction and on the forms of realisation of the potentials of creativity. 2. The new world outlook paradigm of global creativity correlates harmoniously with the fundamental principles of modern natural science. It is worth mentioning that the understanding of physical reality as a set of different assemblies of events and relations, having as a result, the appearance of separated substantial material objects /N.Bohr, K.Hubner/. An important methodological role in modern cosmology is played by the so called antropic principle. According to that principle the significance of the universal physical constants - and that means all the outlook of the Universe known to us - is the only one possible for the appearance and existence of the human being in it /S.

Case Study of Architect Laurence Loh

THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM Behind every good designer lies beds upon beds of abstract idea, critical thought and determination devising in which determines his architectural sentiments and determinations ; that said is axiomatic, but one can chew over and be intrigued by the impressions of what lies beyond those beds of ideas, the concluding behind ground. In other words, do we non all experience both internal and external influences in our lives that cast and determine our worldview which in bend influences the manner we wish to ‘deal’ with the universe? That I think could be said for anyone, including designers and how life’s experiences determine their making of architecture. The Hagiographas in this essay intent to neither self-praise nor knock about an designer and their edifices, but instead to speculate or propose certain thoughts about an architect’s making of architecture. More specifically, what is analyzed and discussed in the essay are what are termed ‘internal†™ and ‘external’ influences on an designers design, that is the ego of the designer which includes the architect’s childhood, instruction and working experiences, and other external lending factors such as clime, theoretical discourses of architecture, clients, political relations, etc. Through the survey and review of these factors could we undercover or detect an implicit in subject, form or impression in the architect’s creative activity of architecture. The designer to be analysed in this essay is the well-respected Ar Laurence Loh. Born in Penang in the 1950’s, Ar Laurence is known worldwide of one of the taking innovators in architectural preservation and saving of heritage. Graduate of the besides world-famous Architectural Association in London, Ar Laurence is most celebrated for the Restoration of the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion in Penang. A member of assorted societies and public capacities for architectural heritage and preservation, Ar Laurence besides presently runs a pattern in Penang registered as LLA Arkitek Sdn Bhd which engages in both preservation and modern-day plants. The undertaking to be discussed here is the modern extension to the historical Penang Hill Lower Station at Air Itam. Ar Laurence was engaged to plan an extension to the historical colonial edifice of the lower train station which serves as the chief entry point to the popular and historically of import countries of Penang Hill, which was established as a colonial hill station by the British decennaries ago. What resulted was a modern construction of steel and cloth which replaced the old frontage of doric columns and arches. The two images below show the drastic alteration in character and sense of topographic point before and after the modern extension was finished. Before the construct of this essay, a thorough and full probe into the internal factors of the ego, as described in the paragraphs before, was already carried out in the classs of Ar Laurence’s childhood, instruction and working experience. Therefore, the chief purpose of the subdivision here is to research, describe and analyse the 2nd half of influences that is the external factors on an architect’s making of architecture. Three separate factors were selected, viz. the reinforced signifier of the undertaking, the influence of clime on the design and eventually guess on architectural theory that could hold informed the development of the extension. Built signifier, in the definition of this analysis, includes all bing edifices, new and old, that can be found on site at the minute. Therefore, as we can see in the analysis diagrams, it is cardinal to indicate out that the historical constructions of colonial architecture were really much preserved in their original province ; stuffs, placement of structural elements like columns, programme of infinites, etc. all seemed to hold been maintained absolutely in topographic point and no via media was given in aftermath of the building of the extension. Rather, it could be asserted that the extension was designed to concentrate on continuity of infinites, adding on extra room to infinites that originally existed in the station, and to besides add on new programmatic and experiential infinites to rejuvenate the energy of the lower station, perchance to pull a greater figure of tourer and visitants to come to Penang Hill. This could be seen in the infinites that were extended and the infinites that were introduced to the site. For illustration, the old ticketing counter and waiting room was given a much larger infinite under the shadiness of the new steel construction, likely to suit a greater sum of people that were anticipated to see the site. Besides, being the cardinal experiential infinite that drives the new energy of the station is the recreational country with the big volume of infinite as created by the attention-getting retractable canopy roof. The ample shadiness provided by the canopy and monumental sense of graduated table generated when standing under the roof construction helps to bring forth that new attraction that draws people to the site, a new character that didn’t exist before on site, in blunt contrast to the unfastened infinite typology of the old frontage of the lower station. Materiality in the modern extension besides plays a important portion in the coevals of renewed involvement in the site. The combination of steel and cloth in its construction and materiality greatly contrasts with the brick and concrete frame construction of the original lower station, making an inherit attention-grabbing factor. Traveling on, we now turn our attending towards the clime factor, and how it has affected the design of the extension. As mentioned before, the original construction consisted of a big unfastened infinite or garnering country in the Centre that was unfastened to and exposed to the elements. It is normally known to all that Malaysia is a tropical clime with many yearss of sun exposure and sometimes it could acquire highly hot and the heat could go intolerable. The big canopy roof construction added provides that much needed shadiness from the scorching beams of the Sun and besides from bad conditions. However, other than that, the design doesn’t seems to hold much more consideration towards clime, due to the glowering fact as exposed in the analysis diagrams of a deficiency of good cross airing in the side. Though there is proviso for hot air to get away through the stack airing consequence, there isn’t good cross airing through the edifice, due to a deficiency of gaps o n both windward and leeward faces. The modern extension does nil to work out this issue ; it doesn’t let for new gaps, nor does it build architectural elements like air current walls to catch predominating zephyrs into the infinite. Predominating air currents from the nor'-east hold a much more di ­fficult clip acquiring into the infinite, obstructed by solid concrete walls with really small gaps for natural airing. Third, in the concluding factor of the three external influences, the architectural theory will be discussed. It mentions about three different architectural discourses, viz. retinal architecture, the acquisitions from Las Vegas, and capitalist economy in architecture. As implied in the context of the reinforced signifier influence, the architecture of the modern extension has a certain capitalist spirit to it, in that it generates a new energy of topographic point to pull the attending of people to the old site of Penang Hill, conveying in concern and an economic encouragement to the topographic point. At first glimpse, it could be said that the clients have the say in the determination devising of the design phase, and as Michael Sorkin mentioned so truthfully, designers are typically bound to the caprices of their clients. Is this so in Ar Laurence’s instance? If one looked at the instance from the surface, it would be a sensible decision to come to. So far, we have explored some external factors that could hold affected the design of the extension to the lower station of Penang Hill. Some of these logical thinkings may hold implied the impression that Ar Laurence may hold sold out to capital greed and instead than continue his ain rules of keeping a scruples in architecture, he was to yield to the demands of the client over keeping a quality of architecture that matches his criterions. Others point in the opposite way, demoing the quality of Ar Laurence and what he is known for, that is the saving of heritage, seen in how the extension does non overpower and steep the historical colonial edifice, but to a good grade built in harmoniousness with the site and its milieus. Such contradictions exist in the same design, but could it be that these contradictions were made consciously? As he has mentioned before, Ar Laurence does non sell out for the interest of money in his architecture, for he does non see architecture as a agency of going rich. However, if such is true, so why would he hold to planing a modern extension at a historical topographic point that is non merely so out of context for the site, but which is designed with a commercial oculus to it, that is to plan something brassy in order to pull more concern? Why non make what he does best and continue the original historical construction or reconstruct it to its former glorification alternatively of simply keeping its physical signifier for the interest of sentimentalism? What does it intend to purposefully belie oneself, and what how does it play out in the populace oculus? What could be the effects of that, particularly since Ar Laurence is an established and respected public figure? Covering with the populace is something Laurence has ever had a aberrant manner of covering with. As with some of his other preservation undertakings, he has mentioned that he conserves non to simply protect the memory of the topographic point and of its history, but in saving comes moving ridges of alteration. Now, he defines ‘waves of change’ as alteration in idea, alteration in sentiment, alteration in the heads of people in how they perceive and value their heritage and traditional values. Here once more we see the contradiction that so glaringly purports to inform the design of the extension to the lower station. How can preservation lead to alter? It could be interpreted that Laurence utilizes the modern extension as an attractive force of the ocular sense to capture attending and draw people to the infinite, due to the suppressing oculus playing the hegemonic function in architectural pattern above all other senses. The extension contrasts and stands out in the or iginally historical and natural context, emulating the symbolism and decorated caducous consequence as talked about in Venturi’s Learning from Las Vegas. This could reply for the logical thinking behind the commerciality of the infinite. It’s non that Laurence got muscled out by the client or fell to his ain greed for money, it is that he utilized looking contradictory patterns to acquire people to see the infinite. This leads us to our following point, in that the topographic point that Ar Laurence is seeking to take people to is one that is strongly related to the spirit of topographic point, the history of Penang. Possibly, in my sentiment, continuing the original construction in the aftermath of a modern extension leaves a wonder in people, it creates an internal duologue from which inquiries of chew overing are born, invariably inquiring what made the historical construction such an of import consideration to hold been preserved? This relates back to Ar Laurence’s statement of saving for alteration, in that the creative activity of duologue in the public kingdom brings more attending towards architectural heritage. But in our modern twenty-four hours and age, that is a difficult thing to accomplish. Ar Laurence’s solution? Insurgent methods of utilizing brassy architecture to convey focal point to the history and values of topographic point. In the terminal, it is theorized that Ar Laurence, through apparently contradictory and insurgent methods, purposes to bring forth a public sentiment on his attractive and out of context modern extension of the colonial edifices found at the lower station of Penang Hill, in order to convey attending towards the historical values of topographic point. In the terminal nevertheless, what matters is that the extension acts as a super ­cial method of pulling people to the topographic point ; the original edifice is still to the full experienced one time the users go past the forepart frontage and initial infinites, pulling more people to see history and their heritage. Reference list Arkitek LLA. ( 2008 ) .LLA. 1sterectile dysfunction. Malaya: Arkitek LLA Sdn Bhd. ARKITEK LLA. ( 2010 ) . Penang Hill Lower Station Modern Extension. Retrieved 15 June 2014, from hypertext transfer protocol: //www.lla.com.my/ Davies, C. ( 2011 ) . Thinking About Architecture: An debut to architectural theory. City Road, London: Laurence King Printing Hong Kong University. ( 2011 ) .Curriculum Vitae: Laurence Loh Kwong Yu.Retrieved 23 May 2014, from hypertext transfer protocol: //acp.arch.hku.hk/people/Laurence % 20CV.htm Pallasma, J. ( 2005 ) .Eyess of the Skin.Ontario, Canada: John Wiley & A ; Sons.

Police explorer programs Essay

In Fair Haven, New Jersey the explorer program is meant for young adults that are interested in pursuing a future in law enforcement. The program will introduce the young adults to traits that police officers should have such as: hard work ethic, integrity, honesty, courage, respect, and most of all discipline. The police explorers assist with crowd control events and traffic direction. They are also able to ride along with police officers and see what a usual day is for a police officer. The Washington police explorers help youth to gain insight into a variety of programs that include classroom instruction as well as hands-on law enforcement activities. The explorers are also eligible for many college scholarships to assist in continuing education. The explorers also compete in the national explorer competition every two years. The national explorer is when thousands of law enforcement explorers and adult leaders come together for a week of team and individual competitions, seminars, demonstrations, exhibits, recreation and fun. The Knoxville police department explorer post is a volunteer organization that was formed to provide a law enforcement background and training to senior members of the boy scouts of America. The main goal of the police explorer post is to prepare young adults to become police officers through education, training, and work experience. Some of the basic training includes: traffic control, officer survival, patrol procedures, radio procedures, firearms, basic criminal law, defensive driving, and an overview of the police department. Some activities they assist in are DUI sobriety checkpoints, crime prevention events, downtown events and patrols, and search and recovery operations. In Cary, Illinois the police officer advisors train and give guidance to the explorers program in all non-hazardous functions of the Cary Police Department. The advisors generously donate their time, attending meetings at the police station every other Thursday from 7:30 to 9 pm. experienced police officers provide training in a variety of police related skills, such as traffic crash investigation, criminal investigations, domestic disputes, processing crime scenes, building searches and arrest techniques. The relationship between the Cary police department and the explorers program directly benefits both the community and the individual explorer. Thecommunity benefits through the hard work and volunteer activities of the Explorers Program, as they provide a variety of public services. Explorers assist Police Officers during the Village’s annual â€Å"Merry Cary Holiday Festival†, â€Å"National Night Out† and other community events. The explorer’s participation and training benefits them by proving an excellent foundation for careers in law enforcement and enables them to become more responsible citizens.

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Whereas debt was spelled det, dett, or dette in the Middle Ages, the tamperers, as one writer calls them, added the b as a nod to the words Latin origin, debitum. The same goes for changes like the b in doubt (dubium), the o in people (populous), the c in victuals (victus), and the ch in school (scholar).(David Wolman, Righting the Moth er Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling. Harper, 2010) The origin of words that reproduce natural sounds is self-explanatory. French or English, cockoo and miaow are unquestionably onomatopoeias. If we assume that growl belongs with gaggle, cackle, croak, and creak and reproduces the sound it designates, we will be able to go a bit further. Quite a few words in the languages in the world begin with gr- and refer to things threatening or discordant. From Scandanavian, English has grue, the root of gruesome (an adjective popularized by Walter Scott), but Old Engl. gryre (horror) existed long before the emergence of grue-. The epic hero Beowulf fought Grendel, an almost invincible monster. Whatever the origin of the name, it must have been frightening even to pronounce it.(Anatoly Liberman, Word Origins And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. Oxford University Press, 2005)Etymology of the Word GodThe root-meaning of the name (from Gothic root gheu; Sanskrit hub or emu, to invoke or to sacrifice to) is either the one invoked or the one sacrificed to. From different Indo-Germanic roots (div, to shine or give light; thes in thessasthai to implore) come the Indo-Iranian deva, Sanskrit dyaus (gen. divas), Latin deus, Greek theos, Irish and Gaelic dia, all of which are generic names; also Greek Zeus (gen. Dios, Latin Jupiter (jovpater), Old Teutonic Tiu or Tiw (surviving in Tuesday), Latin Janus, Diana, and other proper names of pagan deities. The common name most widely used in Semitic occurs as el in Hebrew, ilu in Babylonian, ilah in Arabic, etc.; and though scholars are not agreed on the point, the root-meaning most probably is the strong or mighty one.(The New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia) The Etymological Fallacy[T]he term etymology . . . is derived from from the Greek etumos, true, and referred to a words primary, or true, meaning. But, if we were to apply such a concept to the majority of common English words today, this would result in considerable confusion; the word silly is first recorded in the sense pious, nice meant foolish, and buxom meant obedient.Dr. Johnson was attracted by the logic of such an approach when he embarked on his dictionary, referring to etymology as the natural and primitive signification  of a word. But experience led him to recognize the fallacy of this approach, as is apparent from the illustration he included in the entry for etymology: When words are restrained, by common usage, to a particular sense, to run up to etymology, and construe them by Dictionaries, is wretchedly ridiculous.(Simon Horobin,  How English Became English. Oxford University Press, 2016)Etymology and Spelling- Rote learning is better swallowed when mixed with l essons in etymology and the history of the language.Learning about etymology can help with learning other languages, too. Take a simple word like justice. You’ve probably known how to spell it for so long that you’ve forgotten that the ending (spelling the sound iss as ice) is counterintuitive to a lot of children. Explaining that the word is borrowed from French, however, might make it clearer. Sounded out in French, the sound at the end makes a bit more sense (by analogy to a place like Nice). A very brief explanation of this kind is a chance for a short history lesson (French was spoken at the medieval court in England) and a reminder that children already know a lot more French than they realise.Teaching spelling in this way may make learning it more interesting but also encourage creativity.(Josephine Livingstone, Spelling It Out: Is It Time English Speakers Loosened Up? The Guardian [UK], October 28, 2014)- There are hundreds of difficult words where an awareness of the etymology can help us predict whether they will contain a double consonant or not. Why irresistible, with two rs? Becomes it comes from ir resister  [in Latin]. Why occurrence with two cs? Because it is from oc (earlier ob) currere. And why is there no double c in recommend and necessary? Because there was no duplication in the Latin: re commendare, ne cedere. I find it hard to resist the conclusion that if children were introduced to some basic etymology, many of the famous spelling errors would be avoided.(David Crystal, Spell It Out. Picador, 2014) Pronunciation: ET-i-MOL-ah-gee

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