Lifestyle Factors of Death According to the CDC, the risk of dying among young adults is not distributed evenly, and the annual death rate for this group is estimated at 49.5 deaths for every 100,000 people. The implication is that young adults are less likely to die from other conditions except for accidents or unintentional injuries, as well as intentional harm. Based on the data from the CDC, accidents are among the leading causes of death in the country, with over 160,000 deaths due to unintentional damage in 2017. Further, intentional self-harm incidents like suicide is a leading cause of death and affect many young adults. In most instances, both accidents and deliberate self-harm occur due to lifestyle factors. As such, this essay offers a summary of the lifestyle factors associated with the two causes of death that affects young adults. Accidents make up close to 41 percent of deaths among young adults with motor accidents accounting for at least a quarter of all death in this group. In most cases, motor vehicles accidents happening due to human errors as…
Oppression and Resistance in Douglass’s Narrative In Frederick Douglass’s narrative, he gives the story of his life and how he lived as slave. The narrative begins by talking about Douglass’s birth in Tuckahoe, Maryland. Douglass confirms that he does not know his accurate age, nor does he know his father. However, he says he saw his mother rarely who they were separated while he was an infant. At the beginning of the story, Douglass gives an insight into the life of a slave and confirms that separation from mothers and not knowing about age and paternity as common among slaves. He says that most masters wished for that to keep the slaves ignorant. In the narrative, Douglas presents several tactics that slaveholders used to oppress their slaves. Firstly, slaveholders decreased the slaves’ confidence in acting freely. Douglass gives an example of how slaves were encouraged to get drunk during the holidays. According to Douglass, the act of drinking during holidays were made to lead slaves to think in a certain way (Douglass, 2019). Slaveholders wanted slaves to think that they…
Influences of Environment of Human Resource Management Human Resource Management, interchangeably referred to as Human Resource Planning, is a subset of managerial duties that undertakes to ensure qualified individuals are fit to respective jobs. The dynamic business environment often witnesses fluctuations in the level of supply and demand for labor (Benjamin, n.d). The mismatch between supply and demand of workers in the market will shortly result in an employee crisis (Modestino, 2010). Human resource management works to ensure that there is an amicable balance between the level of skills required to perform tasks and availability of the functions to be completed by the skilled employees. Environmental Factors Economic Factors: these factors determine the financial wellbeing of individuals. Human resource managers should strike a balance between minimizing the organization’s cost of labor and providing substantial living standards to employees. Human resource managers should develop avenues to give assets to assist workers with overseeing their finances. Shields et al. (2015) state that sufficient economic support from the HR department ensures that individuals are more monetarily proficient at helping the organization to diminish…
Shakespeare,A Doll’s House (1879) A Doll’s House (1879) is a three-act play that involves the collapse of the marriage of the main characters, Nora and Torvald Helmer, as a result of a significant eye-opener that occurs to Nora. Nora seems to be a delighted woman at the beginning of the play, and it is hard to tell at first sight that she is trying to keep a secret from her husband on the loan that she took to send him to Italy for treatment when he was critically ill. Nora is secretly working to clear the loan that she took illegally to save her husband’s life; she forged her father’s signature to obtain the loan. The play begins in a merry mood, and from a distance, the audience perceives this couple to be affectionate and in love. There is a promise of better days as Torvald has been promoted at his job in the bank, and this brings with it a significant misfortune because Nora is blackmailed by Krogstad, who knows about her little secret. When Torvald discovers Nora’s little…
Leadership DF Question 1 From the case, Tim is exposed as a caring and meek person. Besides, he is also aware of his two sets of skills as a leader. On different occasions, Tim has used his talents to better the lives of others. While he accepts his limitations, he also knows his strengths and knows what to do to achieve more. Indeed, he has developed into a successful leader. From his flaws, Tim has also curved his outstanding character as an effective leader. Though he was not born an effective leader, his childhood experiences have, over the years, shaped his abilities. While working at the Douglass Community Association, he realized that for him to achieve effective leadership, he needed to work on and improve his communication skills. His adoptive family also helped him to grow spiritually and instilled in him the set of values. His position at the bank helped to reveal his robust charisma personality. It is this personality, combined with willpower, that Tim was able to convince people to clear their debts. The central aspects of Tim’s…
Leadership skills Introduction In business, the tactics used by those given authority and mandate to manage other employees will determine how the business will progress. They should create a healthy business environment for their employees to work in to meet targets. Part A Katerina is influential is using this as one of her tactics on her subordinates. She exerts pressure on them to produce quality sales even in the low season. She is making it difficult for them to reach the market goal. To begin with, the market for luxury goods is very competitive. The subordinates will require more than threats for them to work harder. She is displaying too much anger towards the employees trying to make them meet the demands without wanting to care how the market is fairing. She makes constant demands which she expects everyone to follow, including the timelines she sets for everyone to attain goals. Due to this, the employees find it hard to grow nor hardly make any sales. The tactics being used by Katerina are not showing any results. They will…
Assignment: Create a small expert system on a topic of your choice. For the purposes of this assignment, an ‘expert system’ is an information system, or application, that dynamically simulates the advice that would be given by a human expert when asked about a ‘problem’ related to their field of expertise. For example, an expert HR consultant might be asked by a business executive how much severance needs to be paid to an employee being dismissed. The HR consultant would ask the ‘client’ a series of questions such as … is there a union contract? Is the company governed by provincial or federal employment standards? How long has the employee worked for the company? How much money does the employee make? What is their job title or level? Why are they being let go? … and so on. At the end of the series of questions, the human expert would answer the executive’s original question. He or she, for example, might say … “Well, given the circumstances you’ve indicated, I would recommend a severance payment of six months salary.” A…
Prioritizing Leadership Functions Introduction Effective leadership is considered to be a fundamental component in determining the extent to which an organization may experience success or stagnate in performance. Researchers in leadership has succeeded in establishing a relationship between organizational performance and the leadership qualities showcased by the respective leaders. This realization calls for an analysis of all the departmental leaders situated in the different sectors of an organization. Immediately after coming up with this conclusion, some counter-arguments ensued, which postulates that the functionality of an organization cannot be associated with the leadership qualities and structure within an organization. Following the critics that came up, researchers have asserted that effective leadership correlates to the outcome experienced within an organization. Pointing out leadership traits is the framework upon which organizational outcome and the effectiveness of a leader can be constructed (Madanchian et al. 2017). Nevertheless, the process of singling out these leadership attributes requires a lot of time and comes as a complicated responsibility. Therefore, effective leadership and recommended employee performance can assist in driving an organization towards gaining competitive advantage in…
political orientation is much more prone to change in regards to religion Data on the participants was constrained to those who identified as either Democratic, Republican, or another party listed as “Other”. This was done in order to aid interpretation of results, as Democrats are largely seen as politically Liberal, Republicans as politically Conservative, and those who identify with the less dominant political parties can range in extent of their being Liberal or Conservative. While this study found the percentage of the population to be almost perfectly split between religious and non-religious, there was a much larger composition of Liberals (65%) than Conservatives (35%). This is evidence of religious orientation being a strong independent variable, as political orientation is much more prone to change in regards to religion. In accordance with Social Identity Theory, religion provides a means to “correspond to a definition of the ‘self’ according to group characteristics, and to exaggeration of difference between own group and other groups in order to achieve a positive self-concept” (Patrikios, 2008). While both those who were registered Democrat and those registered…
Should the South Australian Government change the age to obtain a driver’s license to 18 years? Many community members in the state of South Australia are enraged by the number of fatalities on the road every year caused by drivers between the ages of 16 to 17. Due to this outburst of anger, there is a serious debate as to whether or not the Government of South Australia should raise the age of a driver’s license to 18. The current act, in the Motor Vehicles Act 1959, states under 75A Learner’s Permit (2) The subject to this Act, the Registrar must issue a learners permit to an applicant if – (a) the applicant – (i) is at least 16 years of age(Australia, 1959). The proposal does not sound thrilling to potential teen drivers, but there are convincing arguments as to why the changes should be implemented. One of the main causes of the accident is a lack of experience. Drivers aged below 18 years have recorded more cases of accident per mile when compared to teenaged between 18 or 19…