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Spot Diagnosis
Number of Words: 639 / Number of Pages: 3
... definitely needed help,
I was forced to try to convince her to volunteer. She admitted
to the counselor that she wanted to die, and I felt this was
reason enough to detain her. I left the hospital that night only
to have my mother call me in the morning at 8:00 am to be picked
up. She had not seen, been treated by, nor diagnosed by a
professional Psychiatrist. I was left with the responsibility of
supervising her and ensuring she did not harm herself.
Three weeks later my girlfriend who lost a baby a year ago,
decided that she would eat every pill I had in the house in the
hopes of " ...
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Sports In Rome
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... Romans flooded into the Colosseum to watch bloody combat between gladiators and between men and wild animals. The gladiators were mostly men, who were slaves, condemned criminals, prisoners of war, and sometimes Christians. They were forced to learn how to fight and attended schools called ludi. Special measures were taken to make sure they would not commit suicide. A successful gladiator was praised by poets, his portrait was put on gems and vases, and patrician ladies pampered him.
According to their arms and methods of fighting, the men were divided into various light and hea ...
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Memory, Expanding Your Mind
Number of Words: 941 / Number of Pages: 4
... bad memory, only good and bad learners.
Depending on the amount of attention a person gives to something depends on how well a person will remember that fact or event. Beginning at the age of 50, people of similar ages begin to differentiate more and more from one another in their mental performance. Some memories drop noticeably, but many stay the same or even rise. Most investigators agree that no mental decline occurs before the age of 65 or 70 that affects a person's ability to function in the real world (Schrof 89). In many societies today, such as in China, elders are considered the wisest amon ...
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Gifted People
Number of Words: 1176 / Number of Pages: 5
... them to be "freaks" because they were different. They didn't understand the implications of the terms "gifted" and "talented". Most people simply expected gifted students to act more mature or to be geniuses, even though gifted students are the same as other children in their needs as human beings. Some gifted students were forced to grow up too fast and some simply ignored the fact that they were smarter than others, thus, they were lost in the shuffle.
The irony of it all is that gifted-ness seems to run in families and the children of these repressed gifted students are, themselves, gifted. ...
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Intergrating Technology And Le
Number of Words: 3081 / Number of Pages: 12
... facilitating. Although there are many attributes and characteristics of a leader, these three are the most important in today’s business and organizations. Most other skills of a leader would fall under these three categories. For example, being trustworthy and loyal would fit under the mentoring aspect. Risk-taking would include courage. Being team-motivated and having the ability to make decisions would fall under facilitating. Technology can be applied to each of these categories to enhance the business or organization’s success. No business is complete without leadership and today, leadersh ...
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Flexible Benefits Plan
Number of Words: 1188 / Number of Pages: 5
... known as “cafeteria plans,” the organization offering a choice of applicable benefits to their employees ensures that the benefits for which they pay are the most useful for each of their employees. Costs are rising in almost every area of benefit provision and administration. The organization is able to secure more favorable rates for those benefits used, if the organization is not required to provide the same service to each employee (Webster, 1996).
Employee benefit plans have had a long history, and can be traced back to 1794, when the first profit-sharing plan was created by Albert Gallatin in ...
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The Privatisation Of The Uk El
Number of Words: 4603 / Number of Pages: 17
... run industry which was effectively a public monopoly ran from the 1960’s until the first step to privatisation in 1990. This stage on the road to privatisation was to introduce competition in direct supply for customers with over 1MW in demand (around 5000 sites), thus introducing the idea of competition into the industry, allowing a small proportion of the market to be run to a certain extent by the market mechanism.
In 1994 the threshold level above which competition was allowed was reduced to 100kW which added another 50000 customers to the competitive industry, meaning that approxim ...
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Acient Mathematics
Number of Words: 214 / Number of Pages: 1
... and calculation in geometry and with no trace of
later mathematical concepts such as axioms or proofs.
The earliest Egyptian texts, composed about 1800 BC, reveal a
decimal numeration system with separate symbols for the successive powers
of 10 (1, 10, 100, and so forth), just as in the system used by the Romans.
Numbers were represented by writing down the symbol for 1, 10, 100, and so
on as many times as the unit was in a given number. For example, the symbol
for 1 was written five times to represent the number 5, the symbol for 10
was written six times to represent the number 60, and the sy ...
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Can Sociology Be Value Free
Number of Words: 2563 / Number of Pages: 10
... raising the notion of there being merit in a value plus sociology? This concept of value free sociology has its roots in the rise of positivism and the scientific method in the mid nineteenth century. Positivists believed that discovering laws of social development would create a better society. A key figure in the establishing of sociology as a respectable science was Comte (1798-1857). Comte looked at human progress and decided that there are three stages to the evolutionary growth of knowledge. "Each of our leading conceptions, each branch of our knowledge. passes successively through three differen ...
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The Nine Behaviors Of Leadersh
Number of Words: 1024 / Number of Pages: 4
... specific action plans to take back to their groups and from there on they work coherently together as a team. This develops a bond, and creates a model of team leadership, sharing, and reflection. Once this has happened then the teams are introduced to ip where they discuss each one and try to use the information that they have gathered to take back to their own jobs were they can become even more successful then they have ever been before.
The Nine Behaviors that develop exception leaders are:
1. Motivating others through adaptive leadership, who knows when to direct, coach, facilitate, or deleg ...
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