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Ethical Dimensions of Contemporary Social Problems Analysis

PDF Button Introduction Andrew Morgan’s documentary The True Cost uses the global clothing supply chain to show that economic, social, political, and environmental problems have ethical dimensions. The original reflection correctly connects low retail prices with garment labor, pesticides, waste, corporate power, and the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster. It treats all problems as products of one unequal distribution and ends too quickly with voluntary corporate social responsibility as the solution.

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

Interpretations of Success in the Eyes of Today’s Generation

PDF Button The desire to achieve quick success and money is a challenge that affects many people in this generation. To most people, success and money can never be separated. They believe that money can help them buy everything they need in life. As a result, these people who do not have, or rather do not get, this money as they expect remain depressed and hence look for ways of

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

Various Factors Behind Introducing New Changes in Organizational Operations

PDF Button Organizational Goals, Motivation, and the Need for Change An organization always has specific goals and objectives that need to be achieved within a particular period of time. However, without proper motivation, an organization will face many challenges trying to attain its set goals and objectives. Therefore, to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of its operations, an organization might be forced to introduce various changes that will contribute to

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

Nanofabricated Neural Probes for Dense 3D Recordings of Brain Activity

PDF Button Summary “Nanofabricated Neural Probes for Dense 3-D Recordings of Brain Activity” is a research article by Gustavo Rios, Evgueniy V. Lubenov, Derrick Chi, Michael L. Roukes, and Athanassios G. Siapas, published in Nano Letters in 2016. The purpose of the article was to develop a configurable three-dimensional electrode-array architecture for extracellular electrophysiology. The researchers sought to record neural activity across a substantial volume of brain tissue at a

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

The Co-Occurrence of domestic violence and child abuse

PDF Button Peru: Evidence from Three Region To understand the co-occurrence of child abuse and domestic violence, this study uses an independent dataset collected from three regions (Huancavelica, Lima, and Loreto) in Peru and examines the case in which the sufferer (mother) of domestic abuse became an abuser toward the other individuals (children) in the family. The second part of the study seeks to analyze the relationship between the level

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

Coaching Log for analyzing the situation of the patient and applying therapy

PDF Button A coaching log is the same as other log books, but it is created, and everyone has their own design with regard to its field. A person who is a gym trainer will have a different kind of log, and a person conducting an athlete or sports training will have different types of log with different subject titles. Logs help develop your time routine, making it easy to

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

Slavery Was an Institution that “Victimized” Everyone by Frederick Douglass

PDF Button Introduction Frederick Douglass’s autobiographical writing demonstrates that slavery damaged far more than the person legally classified as property. It brutalized enslaved people through violence, sale, forced labor, family separation, sexual exploitation, and denial of education. It also deformed slaveholders by giving them legal power to dominate other human beings, encouraged white communities to normalize cruelty, distorted religion, and corrupted political institutions. The claim that slavery “victimized everyone” should

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

Applying the Seriation Dating Method

PDF Button Seriation is a relative-dating method used to arrange archaeological assemblages in a sequence according to changes in artifact style or frequency. It does not ordinarily provide calendar years by itself. Instead, it helps archaeologists determine that one assemblage is earlier, later, or partly contemporary with another. The method is particularly useful when several sites belong to the same broad cultural and geographic context and contain artifact types whose

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

The Gated Community Mentality and Crime in America

PDF Button In the article “The Gated Community Mentality,” published in The New York Times, Rich Benjamin highlights the social and racial tensions that continue to shape American society. His article focuses on the mentality of fear, suspicion, and racial stereotyping that can develop in communities where people try to protect themselves from those they see as outsiders. Benjamin uses the idea of gated communities not only as a physical

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018

The Purposes of E-Portfolio

PDF Button Purpose and Value of an E-Portfolio The purposes of an e-portfolio are many and varied. They work nicely with compelling digital resumes. They are useful marketing materials that can attract prospective employers for comments and feedback. An e-portfolio is not just a list but a detailed description of learning that reflects nature as well as itself. It is a sample that defines both the weaknesses and strengths of

Editorial Staff July 10, 2018