*The documentary film Guns, Germs and Steel based on the book of the same name expounds on a original thesis by author Jared Diamond. The main highlights of the film are as follows. *In the 13,000 year history since the end of the last Ice Age, European civilization has advanced the most compared to other…
What are the two worst weaknesses in communication skills among health care professionals?
Communication skills are very important in any profession and they can be of critical importance in the field of healthcare. Hence it is imperative that healthcare professionals possess requisite range of communication skills that satisfies the information needs of patients and their colleagues. Healthcare industry is such that interacting with people (especially patients) is at…
The role agents of socialization play in shaping an individual’s political culture
Agents of political socialization play a key role in constructing our perceptions of government and what we could expect of it. Some prominent agents of socialization are the family, the education system, media outlets, religious institutions, etc. All these agents play a role in shaping our conception of government during our formative years. For many…
The reasons why Old Major’s teachings are wrong in the book Animal Farm
Thesis: “The character of Old Major in the story Animal Farm by George Orwell denies truths about the nature of evil when he says all men are the enemy and claims that mans’ removal will abolish the root cause of suffering.” Old Major’s assessment that human beings are the root enemy is not true. His…
Ken Orr’s White Paper on Data Warehousing Technology
The White Paper by Ken Orr titled Data Warehousing Technology is an interesting piece of scholarship that touches upon all stages of Data Warehouse implementation. Identifying that Data Warehousing is crucial in the age of information explosion, the authors assert that only a fraction of all past data is available to decision makers in an…
Why have principles of free trade failed to become the norm across polities
Free trade is a buzzing concept in modern times, with most governments across the world proclaiming to promote it. Indeed, the last thirty years or so of global economic integration is based on free trade principles – also referred to as laissez-faire capitalism. Definitely, there are many advantages to be availed as a result of…
George Orwell’s ‘Shooting an Elephant’ vis-a-vis ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ and ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’
George Orwell was a champion of the underprivileged and the oppressed. Through his essays, novels and journalism he amply illustrated his solidarity with the downtrodden, be it the natives of colonial Burma or the working classes of Britain or the peasantry of Soviet Russia. The protagonists in most of his works of fiction are drawn…
Six Sigma: An Overview
It was the engineers of Motorola, who in the 1980s began to conceive of a project to drastically improve the organization’s quality monitoring processes. They believed that traditional methods employed so far, which measured manufacturing errors per thousand product units, were not sufficient. As a result they improvised the method to measure manufacturing defects per…
Cause and Effect: Closing down a bar
Closing down a bar can have several effects on the neighborhood and its inhabitants. Since youth are the major patrons of bars, their lifestyles and pastimes would also alter significantly when bars are closed en masse. Those who are pressing for closing down of bars believe that such a move would discourage teenage and underage…
Character analysis from the movies Iris and The Notebook
The two characters chosen for this essay are those played by Judie Dench (Kate Winslet plays the younger Iris Murdoch) from the movie Iris and Rachel McAdams from The Notebook. The movie Iris, starring Judie Dench and Jim Broadbent is a masterpiece of the drama genre. The movie is a biographical account of British novelist…