Video Transcript What Happened and what was learned From the authors’ view, the increasing popularity of online learning in the recent past has been associated with numerous challenges. The researchers sought to provide a solution to the problem of students sustaining attention to lectures delivered through online platforms over extended periods. Although the authors did not formulate definite research questions in the study, they developed a clear hypothesis, which was tested through two experiments. The hypothesis stated that incorporating memory tests into online lectures can not only encourage task-relevant activities, including note-taking, but also discourage mind wandering during online lessons. According to the authors, the tests can play a critical part in facilitating the learning of online content during lectures. In the two experiments, the researchers involved a total of 80 undergraduate students from Harvard University. In experiment 1, 32 subjects participated in the study, and in experiment 2, 48 students were involved (Szpunar’s et al., 2013). The understanding of important concepts among the subjects was tested in four lecture segments. Each segment was interpolated with questions and arithmetic problems.…

Viral Marketing Two hearts in three-quarter time: How to waltz the social media/viral marketing dance Viral marketing is a common word, especially in the current world where technology has dominated the market. There are several things addressed in this article. One of the topics discussed is viral marketing going to social media. The author is trying to show the impact of social media platform when it comes to the spread of information. One example given in the article is about the video that was uploaded by Procter and gambler in 2010 to promote their old spice brand. Surprisingly, within 30 seconds, the video had 23 million views (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2011). According to the authors, viral marketing is essential when it comes to creating awareness to the public because it has low budgets. The second thing addressed is the concept of word of mouth. This is the sharing of information about a product from the consumer to other colleagues and friends. This is a situation where an individual goes around talking to other people about a certain product that he/she…

Deliberative democracy in the health sector  The increasing demand for citizens to engage in daily policymaking processes have been on the rise in the recent past. The deliberative democracy allows citizens to engage in the legislative processes through a well-thought process and discussion that involves weighing reasonable decisions from citizens. As a result, policies and decisions are made through arguments and agreement on ideas that are supported with adequate reasoning.  In addition to the increasing use of deliberative democracy in politics, the approach has been widely utilized in the health sector to bring about quality and safe health services.  Deliberative democracy has been the previous utilized in the health sector in Canada in various ways such as the shared decision-making process,  provision of patient-centred health services, enhancing on the patients’ autonomy and also in promoting patients accountability health care.  Deliberative democracy, as practised in the health sector, has numerous advantages. However,  it is faced with numerous challenges that adversely impact on its effectiveness in promoting quality and safe health services.   History of deliberative democracy Since the early 1990s, the…

Reply to Candance Sweaney             Hey Candance, Thanks for sharing. I was interested in the way you have arranged your post in an organized manner. I agree that nursing theories are used as a framework to guide nurses through practice. Nursing theories are also vital since they help distinguish it from other disciplines (like medicine). Prescriptive theories prescribe the activities needed to be done in healthcare and are developed through experimental research. In nursing, prescriptive theories are useful in anticipating outcomes of nursing interventions (Pisano, 2017). References Pisano, G. P. (2017). Toward a prescriptive theory of dynamic capabilities: connecting strategic choice, learning, and competition. Industrial and Corporate Change, 26(5), 747-762. Reply to Daniel Perez             Hey Daniel,             I like the way you have used credible sources to back up your arguments. Descriptive theories are indeed vital in identifying, describing, and naming certain dimensions and properties. According to Alligood (2013), descriptive theories describe the phenomena by identifying the components and properties in which it occurs. Descriptive theories do not attempt to change or produce a situation since it is not…

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OZ Psychic PBN Content – 25 -Psychic Clairvoyant Reading   Clairvoyance is an old French word where “Clair” stands for “Clear”, and “Voyance” means “vision”, hence clear vision. Psychic Clairvoyant reading is all about the use of the extrasensory perception, also referred to as the sixth sense, which consists of claiming receiving of information NOT through the normal five senses, but the mind.   A psychic clairvoyant reader is recognized as being able to see things through extrasensory perception, in other words, with a sixth sense. Clairvoyance also is known as anomalous cognition in metaphysical research is the approach of the past or future. Retrocognition is seeing something in the past Precognition is seeing something in the future   Everyone is clairvoyant by nature, although the word clairvoyant is usually used to refer to someone who is earnestly psychic and can access to information that no one can see. Psychic clairvoyant reader tunes into subtle energy dedicatedly as he/she decodes and engages with the distinct forces sustaining and guiding our universe. These forces appear in infinite forms like angels, spirit…

Nongkrem Dance Festival Wangala – The Harvesting Festival: It is an important festival of Garo tribes in the state of Meghalaya and is celebrated after the harvest season. During the festival, locals organize a publicity ceremony in almost every village of the state in honor of the deity Patigappa Rarangipa. The people of the state continuously perform religious rites and rituals with unrestrained babble in four days and nights. The conclusion of the festival is marked by the warrior’s dance, which is truly a spectacular and mesmerizing spectacle.   The Wangala Festival is a two-day festival celebrated in Meghalaya. This festival is dedicated to Lord Suryanarayana. It is the largest traditional festival for the Wangala Garo tribes. This festival is celebrated at the end of autumn at every harvesting time. The harvest festival is organized in the second week of November every year. On the occasion of this festival, people like to dance day and night. The main center of attraction of the Wangala Festival is 100 drums or drums.   Behdienkhlam Festival: The Bedinakhalam festival celebrated by the Jaintia…

Good Riddance: Some Brutally Honest, If Not Scathing, Obituaries             After going through both articles, I realized evil people who can go to the extent of hurting their families indeed exist. Leslie Ray had not lived a good life and had been constantly engaging in abusive behaviors as he had pleaded guilty to two assaults, one involving him pouring hot liquid on his wife. Leslie’s daughter was also a victim of his abusive behavior, and she also wrote a brutal obituary about him in the family’s local funeral website. On the obituary, Leslie’s daughter wrote, “No services will be held, there will be no prayers for eternal peace and no apologizes to the family he tortured” (Hanson, par.6). Johnson-Reddick, on the other hand, was also abusive to her children during her lifetime, and they appeared to celebrate her departure from this world. Reddick’s daughter, Katherine, and her brother, Patrick, were victims of their mother’s brutality and they decided to shame her by stating how she tortured children and exposed them criminal activity, violence and vulgarity. Both of the deceased adults…

BALLET DANCE History of Ballet The word or term ballet is a French term that has its origin in the Italian word ballare, which essentially means ‘to dance’ (Franks, 1954). A female ballet dancer is known as a ballerina, while a male dancer is called a ballerino. A choreographer is a person who invents the steps used in dancing ballet. A ballet Master or Mistress gives instructions and teaches classes on ballet. Some of the terms used in ballet are, plie’ [bend], releve’ [rise], tendu [stretch], glissade [glide], saute’ [jump], elance’ [dart], and tourne’ [turn]. Examples of ballet moves include, Assemblé, Grande Jeté, Plié, Pirouette, Battlement, Brise, balancé and Tour en l’air. Ballet Positions include arabesque, attitude, croisé, and Turn-out. With practice and an understanding of the various roles, anyone can dance ballet (Castro, 2018). Ballet is a graceful and formal dance that was birthed in western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries in the Italian courts during the  Renaissance period. It then spread to France into French courts when French and Italian nobles wed (Anderson, 1992). An aristocrat by the…

Professional guidance and counseling in school system Professional guidance and counseling is an essential part of any school system. The role of a school counselor is to come up with an efficient counseling program that can guide all the students in realizing their academic goals and potentials (Erford, 2007). The counseling program can be rolled out through a grouping of students based on their educational possibilities, how they make their decisions and future career considerations. These guidelines will help in the identification of capabilities and weaknesses more efficiently and effectively of guiding the students. Based on the American School Counselor Association, School counseling programs should come up with combined efforts helpful to learners, parents, tutors, administrators, and the entire school fraternity (Bowers, 2005). The model comes up with criteria that school counselors and the counseling team will use in designing, coordinating, control, and evaluate student’s success. A student-centered approach is more efficient compared to a service-centered approach in this model. The procedure will help asses critically how students will acquire different results from the laid out program A counselor will…