I selected my mother as a parental figure because she had the most influence on me while growing up. The parenting style she mostly displayed is Authoritarian based on the high expectations in terms of social values and academic achievement she had for me. For example, when I came home from school, the first thing I had to do is finish homework because I had the tendency to forget it. I also remember she insisted that when I went out to play, I had to inform someone where I was going, carry a sweater, and return home by five o’clock, and failure to do so I would be punished. Sometimes she used threats to keep me in line when I became too stubborn, and even though she never used them, I would always obey to avert it.I believe my mother’s parenting style played a significant role in how I turned out to be. I have grown up to be an independent and responsible person. I am very cautious about what is expected of me and acceptable. Before I engage myself…

  Ocean pollution introduces foreign matter into the water bodies, which will have negative effects on marine life and marine activities.  Our seas are always polluted each day; the major concern on this pollution is to know where does it come from and how it ends up.  We have two major sources of pollutants in the oceans that is nonpoint source (NPS) pollution. This means the pollutant is devised, and it’s from many sources. The next source of the pollution is the point source solution with which the pollutant is from one specified source.    Generally, human activities are the main pollutants in the ocean occurring in the coastal regions and also from the mainland.  Wash away, and runoffs also make a lot of pollution in the oceans. The runoffs occur mainly from septic tanks, vehicle pollution, farm inputs and produce, livestock ranges, etc.  Beside more effort put on waste management and control, waste products, and discharges from our manufacturing companies, water treatment areas are also considered as a major source of pollution in the oceans. For instance, oil spills from…

Proposal: Defunding the Police Introduction Briefly, I propose to enact changes in the approach to law enforcement in the State of California by defunding the police and using these monies on other institutions of community improvement in California. On May 25, 2020, a video emerged on social media platforms depicting Minneapolis’s police officers kneeling on George Floyd, a restrained African American man for approximately eight minutes. George Floyd had allegedly used a counterfeit 20-dollar bill, which triggered a reaction from police officers. In the video, George Floyd could be heard saying, “I can’t breathe” repeatedly until he passed out unconscious (Oppell Jr. & Barker, 2020). George Floyd later died because of cardiopulmonary arrest caused by the subdual and restraint, according to the medical examiner. The police reaction to a man’s passing of a twenty-dollar led to the death of a man. The reaction was overhanded cost a man’s life. However, police overhanded approach, especially to a racial minority, is not a novel phenomenon. American history is choke-full of cases where police exercised brutality against citizens in the name of law…

What Are Critically Philosophical and Not Philosophical in Indian Philosophy? Introduction Philosophy is regarded as studying a general approach and understanding of concepts like reality, our very existence, nature, knowledge, value, reason, mind, and language. The term philosophy in Ancient Greek translates to Philosophia that translates as the ‘love of wisdom’ or also a ‘friend of wisdom.’ Western philosophy can be divided into multiple categories based on chronology, including the ancient and modern philosophy (Raju p.17). The division is also done based on the topic of concern with significant issues such as epistemology, logic, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. The literary style is also a concept used in classification to ring up divisions such as analytic philosophy, among others. East is East while West is West; therefore, never the twain shall meet. This phrase is often used to distinguish the entire concept of philosophy in the western perceptive from everything Indian. Indian Philosophy, on the other hand, represents a system of thought that reflects on the development of civilization of the Indian subcontinent. Indian philosophy includes orthodox systems, also referred to…

Objectives Selecting a state that has opposed the medicare expansion and reasons as to why. Defining what it means by the coverage gap discussion on how the coverage gap has influenced low-income health care populations The role of ACAin closing the coverage gap The importance of closing the gap Solutions to closing the coverage gap How health care equity helps in closing the gap.     The state that opposed Medicaid is Virginia and Maine.   It did not provide coverage to the people below the poverty line They claimed that expanding Medicaid would fail to solve the cost of high medical care and enriches the systems that facilitate inflated health care costs.   Discussion. Expanding Medicare is a temporary act, fix for high-cost charges in the healthcare facilities. AS a state, they urged to reject a program that has, for a while, been accused of fraud, abuse as well as state. The state held that they should seek a way of addressing structural problems that makes health care services expensive (Woodruff, 2018).   What are the drawbacks to medicare…

Reality Television and Social Order: The Internalization of Appearance and Behavioral Ideals     Works Cited Gerbner, G. “Cultivation analysis: An Overview. Mass Communication Research, 1 (3-4) 175194.” (1998). Print. Prieler, Michael, and Jounghwa Choi. “Broadening the scope of social media effect research on body image concerns.” Sex Roles 71.11-12 (2014): 378-388. Print. Real World: New Orleans. https://www.nola.com/real-world-new-orleans/. Web. Thompson, Richard. “Real World New Orleans: Toothbrush-as-toilet scrubber sickens housemate, triggers police action.” Nola. com (2010). Print. Vandenbosch, Laura, Dorien Vervloessem, and Steven Eggermont. ““I might get your heart racing in my skin-tight jeans”: Sexualization on music entertainment television.” Communication Studies 64.2 (2013): 178-194. Print.

HOW DO PEOPLE BUILD AN IDENTITY THAT DEFINES THEM?  INTRODUCTION. Identity is what a thing is or who a person is. One’s identity is how they define who they are and also how others define them. People’s definitions are never the same. People usually have an image of themselves and things they believe in the kind of person they are. A firm sense of identity brings security, comfort, and it is as well desirable. Identity helps people in making decisions and gives an idea of how to carry themselves. When people know themselves, they become better people and inspire others who will influence the world. The choices we make define us and portray our character. Most people define other people based on their appearance, what they like to do, their culture, or even their relationship and connection with others. In most cases, the way people define is not how we want to be recognized. Defining yourself to yourself before representing yourself to others is essential. People in a western culture mostly identify themselves by how they differ from others, knowing…

Nursing Questions     DM (Diabetes Mellitus) is a disorder that affects the body’s’ ability to use glucose and the utilization of insulin. Symptoms include increased thirst, increased hunger and frequent urination. Acute complications include diabetic Ketoacidosis, death while chronic complications include, vision problems, loss of sensation in the extremities, cognitive impairment, nerve damage, cerebral vascular accidents and cardiovascular complications. For family and friends that live with DM, the greatest challenge is the change in lifestyle and the costs related to medication and equipment needed to monitor blood sugar. Hypoparathyroidism is a condition in which the body produces low levels of PTH while hyperparathyroidism is when the body continues to produce PTH even when the blood levels are above normal range.  In the treatment of hypoparathyroidism, efforts are toward control of calcium and phosphorous. Administering high doses of Vitamin D in the activated form of calcitriol helps absorb calcium while removing phosphorous. Since Vitamin D is crucial in the absorption and metabolism of calcium, it is advised that patients that have hyperthyroidism consume the recommended level of vitamin D. The…

Pro-Life Vs Pro-Choice The topic of abortion is among the leading healthcare topics that are surrounded by both social and political controversies. The controversies have elicited an abortion debate better known as ‘pro-life vs pro-choice.’ Pro-life is associated with a stand taken by individuals who are against the practice of abortion. On the other hand, pro-choice is stand taken by individuals who believe that it is right for one to choose whether and when to have children. The paper provides an analytical discussion of pro-life vs pro-choice as an ethical dilemma topic with a pro-choice as a position as it is a basic human right to decide whether and when one should have a child. The analytical paper is based on a case scenario involving a 22-year-old student with an unintended pregnancy at 9 weeks of gestation who requests an abortion from a primary care physician and is aware of the safety of both medical and surgical abortions. Ethical Theories involved in the Ethical Dilemma The provided case study elicits an ethical dilemma since the nurse has to advise the…

Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is the efficient IoT cellular network technology introduced to fulfil the low power wide area network   (LPWAN) a requirement of IoT devices which regarded as one of the enablers of recent fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication standard to support massive Machine type communication (MTC) use case. NB-IoT is build based on the existing LTE technology to extend its coverage suited for LPWAN. Besides, some of the LTE Physical (PHY) payer pillars remain the same including SC-FDMA (single-carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access) and Turbo coding for uplink channel. Although decoding of Turbo codes require iterative decoding algorithm at the expense of high computation complexity Forward Error Correction (FEC) coding and power consumption. Therefore, the legacy LTE turbo code will not be suited for NB-IoT LPWAN requirement in 5G. In this paper, an efficient polar coding scheme   is proposed for the uplink data transmission in NB-IoT systems to improve the error rate performances and reduce computation complexity implementation We proposed polar based belief propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. We further . incorporate our proposed BP scheme with…