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  • The McDonaldization in Health Care

    The McDonaldization in Health Care

    According to George Ritzer, bureaucracy completely dehumanized the social institutions in America. He sees the bureaucracy as having four components: efficiency, predictability, control and quantification. He terms this dehumanization of an institution as “McDonaldization”. One of the most prevalent examples in modern society is the health care institution. In the past, health care was more simplistic in nature. House calls were not unheard of, and doctors knew all of their patients and their families

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    Essay Length: 1,852 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Baseball: Does Anyone Care?

    Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Baseball: Does Anyone Care?

    Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Baseball: Does anyone care? Patrick Page Axia College of University of Phoenix COM 120 Effective Persuasive Writing Instructor: Timothy Thompson April 19, 2007 Performance-Enhancing 2 “It’s no secret what’s going on in baseball, at least half the guys are using steroids. They talk about it. They joke about it with each other. The guys who want to protect themselves or their image by lying have that right. Me? I’m at the point

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    Essay Length: 1,477 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle?

    The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle?

    The War On Drugs: A Losing Battle? In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the

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    Essay Length: 4,278 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2009 By: Artur
  • Child Care and Pre School

    Child Care and Pre School

    Who: 3.4 years old Josh, black male, about 15 other children What: Observation of Pre-k When: November 5,2008 7:30 until about 8:35 Where: M.O.L. Child care and Pre school Josh attends a preschool while his parents both work. His parents drop him off at the center at 7:30, and pick him up at 4:00. I started my observation with his arrival, but did not stay for the entire day. Instead, I observed Josh for one

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    Essay Length: 1,005 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2009 By: Anna
  • Drug Addiction as a Psychobiological Process

    Drug Addiction as a Psychobiological Process

    Drug Addiction as a Psychobiological Process The emphasis is on biological mechanisms underlying addiction, although some other factors influencing drug addiction will also be discussed. The presentation is limited primarily to psychomotor stimulants (e.g., amphetamine, cocaine) and opiates (e.g., heroin, morphine) for two reasons. First, considerable knowledge has been gained during the past 15 years regarding the neurobiological mechanisms mediating their addictive properties. Second, these two pharmacological classes represent the best examples of potent addictive

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    Essay Length: 642 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • How the Use of Drugs and Alcohol Affect High School Achievement

    How the Use of Drugs and Alcohol Affect High School Achievement

    How the Use of Drugs and Alcohol Affect High School Achievement A student at Lakeside High School, called Ann for purposes of privacy, had a grade point average of 3.6 through her sophomore year. During her junior year, she dropped out of extra-curricular activities and became withdrawn from other social activities. As she was introduced to the world of hard drugs, Ann's grades dropped to C's and D's. At her graduation party, she was rushed

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    Essay Length: 3,020 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • Health Care

    Health Care

    Health care, what some consider being a basic human right, what our country considers to be a privilege to those who have the funds to support it. Unfortunately, today’s American health care system is no longer only negatively affecting the poor and uninsured, but is now affecting middle class suburbia. This paper will focus on the cause and possible solution to the recent upswing in bankruptcy filings due to medical health care costs. Harvard professors

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    Essay Length: 791 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Rational Decision Making Model

    Rational Decision Making Model

    Q2. Explain the rational decision making model is there any other alternative to rational decision model if so explain them. Ans: The ability to make good decisions is the key to successful managerial performance. Managers of profit-seeking firms are faced with a vide range of important decision is the areas of pricing, product choice, cost control, advertising, capital investments, and dividend policy, to name but few. Managers in the not-for-profit and the public sectors are

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    Essay Length: 459 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jack
  • The Influences of Rational Thought on Western Civilization

    The Influences of Rational Thought on Western Civilization

    The Influences of Rational Thought on Western Civilization The Greek’s notion of rational thought is a very strong reason why Western Civilization has become so influential in the world today. During their time, the Greeks spurred an intellectual revolution. They questioned the meanings of life and began using their minds to expand the world. According to Glenn Blackburn: “In many ways, they “discovered” the human “mind” through their philosophy and rational thought [ . .

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    Essay Length: 1,064 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Management Strategies on McDonald’s Corporation

    Management Strategies on McDonald’s Corporation

    Assignment Report of case study on Management Strategies of McDonald's Corporation Jun 2006 Table of Content INTRODUCTION 1 ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND 1 LOW THREAT OF ENTRY 2 Economies of scale, Learning Curve and Experience Curve 2 Brand differentiation 3 Cost and technology advantage 3 Access to distribution channels 4 HIGH THREATS FROM SUBSTITUTES 4 Price and quality 4 Better performance/service 5 Different industry(Similar product) 5 HIGH THREATS FROM THE BARGAINING POWER OF BUYERS/CUSTOMERS 6 Forcing

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    Essay Length: 3,095 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: David
  • What's the Public's View of the Us Health Care System?

    What's the Public's View of the Us Health Care System?

    What's the public's view of the U.S. health care system? Americans express broad and growing concerns as well as discontent with the U.S. health care system. Most of these concerns are based on cost, structure, and direction of a government run, tax-payer funded universal health system. ABC news/Washington Post conducted a poll showing those surveyed prefer a universal health system over the current employer-based system. The majority of those surveyed was dissatisfied with the cost

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Utopia as Presented by the McDonald’s Corporation

    Utopia as Presented by the McDonald’s Corporation

    Utopia as Presented by McDonald's The McDonald's Corporation spends over two billion dollars a year in advertising. They employ over one million minimum wage earners, who have reported discrimination and lack of rights, understaffing, few breaks and illegal hours, poor safety conditions and kitchens flooded with sewage, and the sale of food that has been dropped on the floor. McDonald's is the largest slaughterer of cows of in the world, and uses the beef to

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Yan
  • Analytical Look at "traffic" and the U.S. War on Drugs

    Analytical Look at "traffic" and the U.S. War on Drugs

    How effective is the United States war on drugs? This a question that Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, cracks wide open. Traffic follows three story lines and depicts the powerful force that is drugs. Robert Wakefield is the recently appointed drug czar who finds out his daughter Caroline is a drug addict. Javier Rodriguez is a cop in Mexico who is attempting his own war on drugs in the corrupt world of Mexican drug enforcement.

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    Essay Length: 633 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Stenly
  • U.S. Anti-Drug Campaign Flops

    U.S. Anti-Drug Campaign Flops

    The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a wing of the U.S Executive Office of the President, started a media campaign to attack drug use in September of 1999. A main component of the campaign called phase three was specifically aimed at reducing marijuana use, which started in Oct 2002 ending June 2003. The target group was youth ages twelve to eighteen. Studies have shown that the ads have had no effect on reducing

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Edward
  • McDonald’s Coffee Too Hot

    McDonald’s Coffee Too Hot

    Roughly 10 years ago a court case was introduced to sue McDonald's Corporation for knowingly selling defective products. The particulars of the case involved a woman spilling hot coffee on her-self and being injured very badly because of it. Public opinion was (and largely still is) strongly against the woman and her settlement. Her stepson wrote an article to argue that she was justified in receiving a settlement due to the defective nature of the

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Adderall, the Wonder Drug or the Destroyer?

    Adderall, the Wonder Drug or the Destroyer?

    Why did the ADHD boy not introduce his girlfriend to any of his friends? He could not remember her name; or better yet, why would a chicken be considered ADD? It never gets all the way across the road because of all the distractions. Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental and behavioral disorder that affects 3 to 5 percent of all school-age children. The American Psychiatric Association explains that, “Individuals with ADHD may know

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    Essay Length: 848 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Monika
  • Random Drug Testing in Schools

    Random Drug Testing in Schools

    Random Drug Testing in Schools Considering the increasing use of drugs among today’s youth, drug testing in schools has become necessary. The ramifications of using these drugs are detrimental to both the individual and society as a whole. Drug testing is meant to protect students from the harmful effects and has been shown to deter drug use in a large percentage of those on whom it has been practiced. The procedures themselves are non-invasive and

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    Essay Length: 689 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Tommy
  • It Application in Health Care

    It Application in Health Care

    Introduction: After surfing for hours online, I have come across several interesting literatures that deal with the four core IT applications. I was overwhelmed by so much information that I couldn’t even decide which literature to choose. But alas, I have come across a litereature entitled Patient Safety: The Role of Information Technology . I was quite exstatic after I read this article because this is one of the project my organization is trying to

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    Essay Length: 284 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Drugs and Legalization

    Drugs and Legalization

    May 25, 1989 Thinking About Drug Legalization by James Ostrowski James Ostrowski, an associate policy analyst of the Cato Institute, was vice chairman of the New York County Lawyers Association Committee on Law Reform. . Executive Summary Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime, It don't prohibit worth a dime, It's filled our land with

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    Essay Length: 10,065 Words / 41 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Importing Drugs

    Importing Drugs

    “Opening up the American market to drug imports will force drug companies to reconsider their pricing structure,” is a statement made by Rep. Gil Gutknecht of Minnesota (2004). According to Gutknecht, Americans will save billions of dollars if drugs are imported from Canada and other countries into the United States. I agree with Gutknecht because once the United States opens its doors to importation of drugs for a substantially lower price, it will force these

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Artur
  • Community Policing and Drugs

    Community Policing and Drugs

    Running Head: Community Policing and Drugs; History, Issues and Programs Introduction: According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, the definition of community policing is defined as; It’s a policing philosophy that was created to promote and support organizational strategies in order to address the causes and reduce the fear of crime and social disorder through the problem-solving tactics and community-police partnerships. In other words, it is a problem

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    Essay Length: 2,473 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jon
  • McDonald’s Empire

    McDonald’s Empire

    McDonald’s 1 McDonald’s Empire Kay Kolalowski, Tyler Laudette and Annette Compo University of Phoenix Management 330 Professor Dr. John Seinrukos February 24, 2008 McDonald’s 2 Abstract Ray Kroc once said he did not know what his company would be selling in 2000 but he knew it would be selling more of it than anyone else. (Kroc, 1978). McDonald’s is the predominant leader in the fast food industry and the corporation continues to grow each day

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Cause and Effect - Random Drug Testing

    Cause and Effect - Random Drug Testing

    Random Drug Testing In the late 1980s President Ronald Reagan called for a drug-free workplace for federal employees with “sensitive” jobs. When this happened the workplace took center stage in the national drug abuse prevention effort with the focus being the drug test. No other aspect of the War on Drugs involved such a broad segment of the nation as the drug test at work. Urine tests for abused drugs had previously been limited

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Artur
  • Doggy Day Care

    Doggy Day Care

    To: David Hemlock, Building Facilities Manager From: Frank Shumier Date: March 29th 2008 Subject: Dog care service needed The Need We are in desperate need of a new service; the service of an dog care facility in our building. The reasons for needing this facility are as follows; 1) Many coworkers, including myself, are in need of dog care. 2) Due to long hours that we work we do not have the required time needed

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • Drugs and Society

    Drugs and Society

    It seems as if the cry of "legalize drugs!" is being heard everywhere from liberals as well as conservatives. Some people argue that legalizing drugs is the only way to "win" the drug war. I agree that drug enforcement does place a burden on us. Economic resources are used up that could be used elsewhere. But the consequences of legalizing drugs would make an already large problem completely out of control. If one examines the

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike

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