(Kleinman, pg. 70) In understanding the moral realm of health systems and their implications, we as ethnographers witness a compelling struggle between immediate, local, and personal continuities and a global force that which tries to shape and tween them. ... (Kaufert, pg. 288) It is on this front that patients find themselves fighting to gain back their health rights "what was lost through imposition or self-internalization of representations through medicalization processes. For these reasons, we are compelled to continuously embark on introspective discourses of current syst...

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Furthermore, my engagement with instructive texts such as Mieke Bal's "Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative" cultured an understanding of the many aspects affecting the quality of storytelling. ... Articles such as Lubomir Dolezel's "Poststructuralism: A View from Charles Bridge" and Simon Wortham's "Teaching Deconstruction" developed my understanding of Derrida's theory to be an argument in claim of the absence of intrinsic meaning in texts due to the gaps in their composition. ... Though the fictional novels mentioned thus far have molded the creation of...

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The English Literary Canon is perceived as the paradigm of exquisite literature bound with key concepts fundamental to our understanding and exploration of societal and political values, rendering it to be widely admired by all. ... The Literary Canon allows us to dissemble and delve into a multitude of perspectives enabling us to gain an insightful and critical view upon these widely studied texts. ... It allows us to gain insight into the factors that affected the authors at the time and submerges us into a void of unanswered questions. ... Ultimately the English Canon supports treasured l...

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And equally important is that my past and current work requires a good understanding of Health policy, planning and financing, I must confess though that my understanding of Health policy and financing is average yet I believe that a manager must have a solid understanding, supported by a strong academic foundation of how to manage and lead a team through challenging times hence the need for this training. ... My current employment is a good channel through which I can transfer the knowledge and skills gained in an optimized manner to current colleagues and future generations thus contributin...

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In modern USA, Islamophobia is cultivated by the self-identifying process of "othering" and is often capitalized on for personal gain. ... Americans should apply the attention needed to address anti-Muslim sentiment so as to develop a legitimate understanding of Islam that isn't skewed by media such as FOX News and CNN. ... American scholar J'Lien Liese examines the complicated essence of American schools' post-9/11 struggle to gain equity in self-confidence induced multiculturalism with patriotism and the War on Terror in "The Subtleties of Prejudice,". ... Beth Finke...

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The tremendous effort put into sequencing and assembling these genome sequences is a prerequisite to furthering our understanding of genetic information and its role in development, disease, and evolution. ... Because of the combination of our understanding of the genetic code and comparative genomic sequencing, we know that protein-coding sequences are under strong purifying selection and are, therefore, highly conserved between species (3). ... By comparing multiple species, we were further able to investigate the genetic mechanisms underlying the rapid gain and loss of binding events that w...

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For instance, some of the main problems that can develop from an improperly trained or unethical rater can include things such as personal bias influencing the rating (harshness or leniency depending upon their personal relationship with the employee), not understanding or misinterpreting the evaluation standards or rating structure, comparing the employee to a favored employee rather than judging to the standard, being indecisive and "averaging " a rating, laziness (cutting and pasting " the employee's previous year evaluation or pasting from another employee's evaluation to save ti...

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It'll learn to conceptualize and deal with the most common technical problems associated with a PC, gain the more skills to build, configure and troubleshoot PC hardware, and have a firm understanding of the system software. ...

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A means to gain status for mobility within society means shedding of ones "kinship" and disassociating with the negative stereotypes involved in the subjugation. ... American society then perpetuates a standard of learning that is disguised as "proper" or "correct" but in reality, students are learning the "white way" submerging them into the dominant dialect in hopes of gaining social or economic prestige or acceptance (Villanueva 40). ... While language is an important part in the discourse of equality, Villanueva stresses the concept of "rhetoric...

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The ability of this compass to tell direction led to more people taking long-distance sea voyages because it enabled them to determine the exact direction they were sailing, not only enabling explorers to document their routes but gain an understanding of their surroundings, creating new notions about world geography, constituting a broadening of outlook. ... carefully studied and drew inspiration from the ruins of Rome surrounding Italy, gaining a variety of new perspectives and ideas such as the use of symmetry in architecture or town planning. ...

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What we can surmise from this was that sympathy for the Vietnamese people was secondary – if not a means to an end -- to global strategic considerations at the time, to which Mecklin added that "to communicate a sensitive understanding of the Asian masses to Americans, as well as other Westerners, [was] one of the greatest challenges of 20th century journalism," (4). ... Therefore, the more the Americans escalated the conflict to intimidate them, the more the Vietnamese could muster solidarity, lose "less and less to lose by fighting on", and gain a "capacity for endurance in suffering ...

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Human experience is knowledge or practical wisdom gained from observation or encounters, questioning what it is to be human. ... " Technology's dehumanisation is evident, as financial gain and glory is prioritised over rationalism. ... Shelley's social commentary "How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge" perceived in both texts in time gains insight into human experience dwindling in the face of science and technology's ambiguous nature. In "Frankenstein," Victor's morally ambiguous "Monster" seeks justice and understanding to his s...

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In typically developing individuals, mirror neurons underlie imitation and facilitate translating another's behavior into an understanding of his/her intentions. ... I noticed the students tended to struggle with their perceptions of how they present during job interviews and, more broadly, with their understanding of how communicative body language is. ... Within this population, would an emotionally expressive partner enhance their empathic understanding? ... While a highly structured intervention may yield gains, a potential challenge may be generalizing and applying the skills to t...

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Nowadays, societies of developed countries are organized around the unprecedented consumer appetite and display of commodities through which individuals gain their identity and prestige. ... It is generally believed that advertising manipulates the society through the products of consumer culture and promotes a false understanding of needs, which leads to a growing consumption of unnecessary products. ...

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Through these language techniques the audience gains an understanding as to how he came to want to remain youthful and attractive but time and events (Dorian destroying the portrait) lead to the death of Dorian Gray. ...

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There is nothing gained from relating it to a prior historical thesis because the evidence that supports the theory is independent from any other findings. ... This to me is very important because I agree with Hempel in stating, that the diversity of variables, tests, and constants are very important in understanding the significance of a theory or strengthening its findings all together. ...

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The notions of acceptance and love, demonstrated in Othellos speech at the beginning of the play; personal gains, shown primarily through the antagonist Iago; and illusion and reality are outlined through the text, and these notions effectively display the fragile nature of human connectivity as shown by the central characters of Othello. ... The central antagonist of the play Iago, who through his understanding of the human condition, manipulates other characters for his own purposes and exploits the trust other characters hold in each other. ... Therefore, the play outlines the fragility of...

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High level managers should consider feedback from middle managers, for several reasons: the middle managers are in almost of all operations within the company, selling the bikes ,dealing with suppliers, selling the product and are they who can make a good synthesis for a better understanding of what people want, and also are the middle manager who are responsible for the development and design motorcycles. ... Without saying that with this faster process, automatically speeds up the company above, it means a gain of production and consequently the market becomes easier and bigger for companies...

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An understanding of strengths and limitations of Indian democracy requires a contextualization of its origins, which gave it distinctive characteristics. ... Democracy has a protective value in the context of persistent traditional social order where gains from growth may be cornered by elite. ...

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To create a foundation for organizational success, it is highly essential to have an increased understanding of how to adapt and develop valid training and development practices as inappropriate decisions made by such un-experienced senior employees, may have severe consequences and may be associated with considerable strategic and financial costs (Nilsson & Ellstrom, 2012). ... This shows the importance of talent management in enabling an organization to gain a proper fit between its strategy and the environment it is operating in. ...

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This will allow the reader to gain an understanding of what the policy is and why it was enacted, what the positive and negative pieces of the policy are, how the policy affects children and families, if the policy working the way it was intended, and if the policy effects different groups of people differently or is perceived differently. ... In order to understand how to provide accurate assistance to individuals' initial assessments of a recipients' skills, prior work experience, and employability is completed by the agency in order to gain a perception of the level of support ne...

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However, even though the corporation governed by the moral leader has to spend extra time and money on taking social responsibilities, the corporation is able to gain more competitive edges from the stable relationships with customers, employees and suppliers, and the positive public image in society. ... Even though the corporation governed by the moral leader has to spend extra time and money on taking social responsibilities, the corporation is able to gain more competitive edges from the stable relationships with customers, employees and suppliers, and the positive public image in society....

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Demonstrate an Understanding that the Irrationality of Savagery is the Central Theme in of Joseph Conrad's Novella "Heart of Darkness- In Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness- the reader is presented with the character of Marlow the protagonist, who begins by telling the passengers onboard a ship about his experiences in the Belgian Congo. ... Moreover, it seem that as Marlow's journey progresses the severity and frequency of the savage acts which he is witness to increases as he continues to plunge ever closer to the centre of the jungle and the homicidal megalomania o...

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In addition to evaluating the role of the American Psychological Association (APA)'s Ethics Code for experiments, this paper seeks to qualify whether research gains initially made under the likes of Darley and Latane (1968) were in any way aided by the topical research experiment. ... Keywords: bystander apathy, deception, experiment, ethics code Considerations of Ethics in Research on Bystander Apathy Psychological research has long provided society with a way to ask questions in the hopes of understanding human behavior. ...

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Several researchers have attempted to evaluate the local economic impacts of farmers' markets in terms of generation of employment and revenues with the objective of determining the multiplier effect of the resultant circulation of gains in local communities. ... Buy Local leads to environmental benefits and enhanced cooperation and understanding amongst community members. ...

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