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Organizations as social systems- Hispanics

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The Hispanics are among the fastest growing populations of the minorities in the United States and already constitute a significant segment of the population in the areas such as the southwest of America (Crockett et al.). Despite the rising population of the Hispanics in Main Street, the mental problems of the Hispanics have been far from being solved. The main reason for the inference if the lack of the representation as well as no cases from the ethnic community has been so far reported, having an indication that the communities health needs are not being addressed in the right manner. The Hispanics are a minority group who tend to be conservative and have a poor seeking behavior that can be attributed to the lower socio-economic status. The community has below per income considering that it is an immigrant community on the American soil.

As it is well stipulated in the American population, every individual is entitled to proper healthcare regardless of the race. The Hispanic community has been left behind both in the socio-economic, political as well as the social structure and this has contributed to having the heaviest blow on the community (Delgado). Politically, the community has experienced a close to zero representation, and thus we can deduce that the community is inappropriately represented. It is not only the political representation that the community lacks but as in the healthcare sector including in the Main Street there is no representation. Taking into consideration that the community is an ethnic minority, we then have to infer that they don’t speak much of fluent English and thus might get stuck due to the language barrier. Again, the community of reference has its roots in the rural areas where there is almost no exposure to the health facilities and services as well. The inadequate representation of the community to the health committees have widened the gap day by day as the population of the Hispanics has continued to rise in the rural areas.

Socially, the community is more conservative and tend to seclude themselves; this makes it difficult for the outreach communities to reach them in the ground. The reason for being conservative may be attributed to their cultural aspects to which they don’t want to lose. Culturally, the community does not mix with the other communities, and this also tends to explain the health-seeking behaviors of the community of reference. It can, therefore, be deduced that if the health providers are not one of their own, we expect two or more things to happen. For one, the person may fail to get diagnosed due to the language barrier and therefore calling for an interpreter. The issue of the interpreter may also prove to be futile as the Main Street organization has no representative of the Hispanic community and making it worse, none of the board members speak the Hispanic language. The second aspect would be due to the incompatibility of the community to mingle and socialize with the other communities. The aspect of being conservative bar the community from barring the individuals from seeking for treatment as they prefer to be attended by one of their own due to their cultural demands (Larkey et al.)

Narrowing down the line, the Hispanic community is impoverished, taking the lowest class in the social structure. The issue of being the lowest in the social stratification raises some concern about the community’s ability to seek health services at a cost. The community has a lower income and thus may be torn in between seeking health care services and maintaining their families. The case may be much relevant especially if the services are offered at a cost. Distance is another issue that may have contributed to the low turnout of the Hispanic populations to the mental checkup facilities. The services being provided may not be close enough, and this discourages the members of the community from seeking any health services and not necessarily mental health care. It is not yet over to the community in the matter regarding their perspective on mental health conditions. It is possible that the Hispanic community believes that a mental condition may have resulted from a bad omen, a curse or even from witchcraft (Parks et al.). The belief therefore completely deviates from seeking medical services at the set institutions but rather prefer to go to the traditional healers who will try and restore the situation, and this leads to the conclusion as to why the Hispanic community has lowered health-seeking behavior compared to the other communities.

Taking into consideration of the above disparities and needs that retrain the community from accessing medical assistance, the health department in coordination with the social workers, therefore, have a lot of things to put in place to fix the situation. The first consideration to which the organization is expected to make include the recruitment of some of the members of the Hispanic community to work with them so that they can be used to draw the attention of the rest of the community members. We do expect that the recruitment might also not be easy as the community does not want to engage much to the outside world, and this calls for devotion and extra resources in luring them on their side.

In trying to sooth the members of the community to work with them, it means that they have to employ study groups that will be sent to the deep rural areas to where the community resides. The group needs to be specialized, trained as well as possess bilingual aspects such that they are capable of communicating effectively with the locals. The training calls for funds, to which will cater for the training process. After training, the team is to be dispatched to the communities, setting up camps to which they educate the members of the community about the issues related to mental conditions. The group at this point is entrusted to make awareness to the community, sensitizing them on the important issues as well as the need for medical treatment.

After creating awareness, the group is expected to recruit several members from the community to whom will act as representatives to the community communicating the necessary issues to them whenever the need arises. The chosen members are also required to undergo skills and training about handling mental health patients. The whole process requires a lot of money, and thus a good budget is needed. According to our budget, almost half of the money is expected to go to the training of the staff as well as creating awareness.

The next issue down the line, regards working through evidence, a sample of the population having the mental conditions are taken with the consent of the community to the institution for treatment. The sample is then returned to the community to assert the need for medical treatment and making the community believe that mental condition is not a curse nor is it a bad omen but a normal condition like the rest and requires medical attention. Another thing that the institution may do considering the Hispanic’s restrictive budget is to provide diagnosis and treatment services close to the population so that the community may not be required to travel for a long distance to seek the mental health treatment. The decision can be achieved through using mobile services such as camps where diagnoses are to take place and also doing referral services for patients who are greatly affected by the conditions to their main facility.

Taking into consideration that the community is not well off, the institution has input measures and policies that would aid in reducing the cost of mental treatment, to enable seeking treatment among the population specifically in this case for the mental health patients. As this is not a one day program, a continuous assessment program should be imitated to monitor the impact of the intervention measures put across. The program may take a lot of time from two to three months down the line in the training and recruitment of the staffs to aid in the health facility. The rest of the money in the budget will be used in the purchase of the required resources so that the program can be sustained. The budget is more limiting, taking into consideration that the intervention is an ongoing activity and that the recruits need to be paid allowances and salaries and this is the major challenge. Also more money and resources need to be directed to this program so that proper and adequate results are obtained. The government is required to form policies advocating for mental health treatment among the minority communities by making it accessible, available as well as affordable to the target community, and this will have the overall effect of improving the health-seeking behaviors of the communities such as the Hispanics. The social workers here also have to be included to the groups as they can help in manning the areas to which the populations are located and may help in the conducting of research aimed at health service improvement from the members of the community so that monitoring can be made easy.

Work Cited

Crockett, Lisa J., Gustavo Carlo, and Chelsie Temmen. “Ethnic and racial minority youth in the rural United States: An overview.” Rural ethnic minority youth and families in the United States. Springer, Cham, 2016. 1-12.

Delgado, Melvin. Social Work with Latinos: Social, Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Larkey, Linda Kathryn, et al. “Hispanic cultural norms for health-seeking behaviors in the face of symptoms.” Health Education & Behavior 28.1 (2001): 65-80.

Parks, Fayth M., MARIA CECILIA Zea, and MICHAEL A. Mason. “Psychotherapy with Members of Latino/Latina Religious and Spiritual Traditions.” (2014).

Oppression by the Government

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V for Vendetta by Allan Moore is a political graphical novel. The main character is V who is a revolutionist and freedom fighter (Moore). The government of the time is ruled and is full of dictatorship such that the citizens get spied on whatever they are doing. The act of spying against the citizens demeans the freedom as well as the rights of the citizens, and this triggers the call for a revolution in the quest of the government to respect the rights of the citizens to which have been infringed. In this, we get to understand that V for Vendetta is a societal based piece that prompts us not to forget our rights as citizens and therefore we have to keep the government on toes for the guarantee of our freedom and rights.

In V for Vendetta, each of the different institutions of the NorseFire government gets to be named after the different parts of the body (Moore). The head represents the leader’s offices at the Downing Street that happens to be the real-life location headquarters for the authoritative body of NoseFire. The eye represents the surveillance which was mainly dispatched to work along with the ear so that the senior departments such as the head and the finger would maintain the grip on power and the people of Britain and was eventually destroyed by V with a bomb. The finger represented the law enforcement, the implication of the different names is basically that the government in itself is a human body. The mouth was the propaganda division of the NorseFire government, the nose was the investigation department and consisted of the rebranded police force. The ear was the audio surveillance division and was dispatched to work alongside the eye in the chancellor’s quest for power and tighten his grip over the public but was later destroyed by V.

V is fighting for the freedom of the people an idea he believes that the government is corrupt and is led by its interests rather than those of the people. The NosrFire government has forgotten the reason why it was elected neglecting the people and this angers V where he initiates the journey to unveil and eliminate the corrupt leaders calling the people to stand against the monstrous government for their freedom to be achieved. In this quest, he blows major buildings in an attempt the Norsefire government. The concentration camps are used for the settlement of the men who are considered impure, where the scientists developed a deadly virus and tested it on the people in the camps, thus it was more like a laboratory for the scientific experiments.

The citizens are in fear of persecution as they are powerless, almost all the people in power possess the most fear as indicated in the film. The NorseFire government use the technique of fear intimidating the people to gain power. On multiple occasions, the news explains that the government is there for the people ensuring their protection and for their good. The reality later dawns that the government causes all the events to which possess the motive of making the people believe that they need the government for protection. Stories were also made to cover up the weaknesses of the government and anything that made it seem like its authority was weakening, for example, the cover-up of the first explosion. The government does so because they are afraid of not being under control of every event that happens. The chancellor, Sutler, and Greedy were among the people in power and to whom were subjects of being in fear of criticizing the government (Moore). The idea of the fox masks was to act as a shield against the power of fear over the people as with the conditioning power of fear, the people were unable to express their true standings, morals, and values and they had to put the masks every day to conform into the society’s ways. The idea of wearing the mask was to hide their true identity as if a person could be unmasked, he or she could be in the risk of persecution and this made the people live in fear and felt safe with the protection of the mask.

Due to the increased terrorist activities that V had triggered, the government to further control and instilling fear to its people puts into effect a curfew to which all the regular citizens are subject to, and the onset of the curfew is announced via the vintage looking loudspeakers.

“Yellow coded curfew is now in place. Any unauthorized personnel will be subject to arrest; this is for your protection” (Moore).

That was a similar message that was used to instill fear in the people in the claim that the NorseFire government was in protection of its citizens.

In the V for Vendetta, young girls like Evey are forced to consider prostitution due to poverty that has been associated with them. In the case of Evey, she is an orphan as her mother died in a nuclear war attack and her father was arrested and prosecuted by the NorseFire government (Moore). Due to this situation, she is forced to work in different environments to which does not keep her financially stable and eventually she decides to become a prostitute. On 5th of November is the day of the failed gunpowder plot where the protagonist V decides to bring down the dystopian government that was led by NorseFire.

It is important for Evey to remain V as is anonymous and his identity is unknown. The scrutiny by the government in the citizen’s affairs may not work well considering that Evey resisted the rape against the police officer to whom she was secured by V. Therefore to fight for her rights she has to remain unnoticed to avoid persecution just like her father. The continuation of V is an endless cycle in the fact that the government of the time was used in spying its citizens and infringing on their rights. The same characteristics are evident in the current governments to which they enact laws to spy on its people, the rights of the people are infringed, and the aspects of corruption and dictatorship are also prominent in the leadership of today.

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Moore, Alan. V for Vendetta. Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2006.

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The period just after World War II was characterized by suffering as a majority of the people had lost their loved ones, and their property had been destroyed during the war. German History in Documents and Images 1945, depicts that women after the war had double suffering as bombs were all over destroying homes and rendering the families homeless. At this point, a majority of them found themselves in refugee camps where they were subjected to more suffering due to a lack of adequate services to fulfill their needs. Due to the labor shortages in Europe, the United Kingdom government encouraged immigration of people to work in their country. According to Myrdal and Viola 2003, despite the limited number of workers, women were not offered similar job opportunities like men and were subjected to poorly paid jobs regardless of their qualifications as the women’s place was considered to be home. The World War II had made the European region, and therefore sanity in the socio-economic activities had been destroyed only for the inhabitants to come out later and change the situation. Geiger, 2017 states that women after World War II were employed as teachers and clinicians to take care of the victims injured during the war. Similarly to the end of World War I, the women at the end of the Second World War found that the advance they had made towards employment was significantly reduced. The reason being that the soldier who had abroad to fight had come back and that they needed to be secured with jobs as an honor to which led to the women being deprived their positions. Fogarty et al. 2017 stipulates that married women were denied of some positions after Second World War and therefore were required to quit their vacancies upon marriage. When the women found employment in teaching, medicine, and the civil service, they were required to leave after they got married. After the war, the women were offered an opportunity to vote like men. Life for women after world war II was full of suffering from limited chances of employment and their primary role considered as nursing at both at home and the places of work.

Responsibility and honesty is a virtue that every individual is entitled to acquire throughout their upbringing

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Responsibility and honesty is a virtue that every individual is entitled to acquire throughout their upbringing. Children should, therefore, be made responsible for the things they did and made to admit in honesty if they are wrong so that they can be forgiven. During my time as a small child, I was brought up by both of my parents who used to be very strict in the matters of discipline. Despite their restrictive nature, I was one of the worst girls in my town having some of the worst behaviors and as wellbeing cunny. It is not until I finished my high school that I came to realize that self-discipline and respect are necessary for the peaceful coexistence with the people surrounding you, and this happened when I had to join college, and I had to live away from my parents.

Being a small kid, I was always under the protection of my parents, and I was assured that no harm could come on my way. I used to be arrogant, and no one mattered in my life expect myself. The virtue of selfishness and dishonesty dominated my young age for a long time until it came to a point I had no one to look after me or even protect me from my awful behavior. Just after the completion of my high school, I was admitted to college, a place where my life turned to a different course. During my previous years, I made almost no friends due to my arrogant attitude and thus none of the kids would have liked to be associated with me. I always had my parents as I lived with them and thus I think it propelled my attitude further as I knew that by the end of the day, I would make up with my parents and therefore making friends at school never crossed my mind.

Things turned out to be worse in college. For one, I was admitted to a faraway college that is far from my parents, and this, therefore, had a negative implication for me. The reason is that that I had to start depending on myself. At this age, I was considered mature and able to make the right decisions, and that’s why my parents opted to take me to a far college so that I could change my behavior and be a good girl. At the time I cared less as I didn’t know what life without my parents would be and I had thought that I had finally regained my freedom to do I wish. It never turned out to be as I expected, the freedom that I thought I was provided by staying away from my parents was slowly killing me from my inside. For one reason, I was a quiet but arrogant person who previously was used to things being done for me. At this time, no one was there, and I had to plan everything by myself with no guidance. Having no friends in college, I had no one to share the experiences I was passing through in my life.

I didn’t know how to make friends by myself, and the only friends that I had were my parents and the group members to whom we used to share class assignments with and thus were limited. Staying in this kind of lonely life in school affected my self-esteem and socialization and became depressed engaging in irresponsible behaviors, taking excessive alcohol and abusing some other drugs. At this point, I was taken to a peer counselor in college where I explained everything that I was going through in my life. The counselor had a lot to tell me asking me to pull out my pride. I was told that no man is capable of living alone as well need every person in our lives. Being arrogant does not pay and will only add more harm to my life, and therefore I was advised to change my antisocial behavior to be a cool woman.

The peer counselor did a lot to me as I opened up my mind and realized that I had previously taken the wrong way and that it is true that I could not manage life by myself. In college, I needed friends to keep me happy something that in the earlier days mattered nothing to me. Am delighted that now am a reformed woman cherishing every moment and making new friends daily. Am now able to take a life course of a changed person thanks to my best friend who took me to the counselor. I have become honest with my friends, and I no longer disrespect them as they are part of my life. I learned to be responsible for all my decisions that I make as I know that if I make the wrong decisions, it evident that my life will get into a mess again.

Love and the Society

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Love is one of the widest concepts that exist in society. Both stories focus on love but on different levels and the different ways it is viewed. The stories also focus on the change in the human behaviour. According to Flannery O’Connor, the society has both good and bad people. There is love and hate at the same time. This is the reason as to why the story is based on a family that is close knit in three generations; at the same time there is the fear of a mad man on the loose who can hurt other people (O’Connor, 1953). In the story of Love in LA, it shows the two sides of the world. There are nice and good people like Mariana and there are conniving and deceitful people who will lie to get themselves out of anything like Jake (Gilb, 2003). The good in the society will always find a way of meeting the bad, but that does not mean that there is no love. There is love for money and love for people, both exist in LA.

The differences between the stories are very many but the one that stands out is the time. Love in LA is based on the contemporary society. This is evident from the fact that Jake and Mariana exchange insurance details and are able to exchange mobile phone numbers. It is evident from the description of the vehicles as well. In the story of a good man is hard to find, the setting is of a past society. It is evident from the description of the way the people were dressed and the vehicles driven.

The writing styles for the stories are also different. In Love in LA, it is more of a narrative style where the writer is portrayed to be the lead character Jake but for the story of a good man is hard to find, has a more warm and elaborative style to it. It gives a step to step description of the things that the family does and the reasons behind their actions.

Love in LA, is a story that starts on a freeway with Jake driving his car. He is not very impressed with his car and as he drives his thoughts wonder off into the car of his dream. It is of a much better quality, is expensive and has beautiful features. As he does so he crushes into a woman car. Jake is bad boy living the LA life. He comes out as ambitious as he wants to have all the finer things in life. He is irresponsible as he drives and does not concentrate and causes an accident. He is a protagonist and is very deceitful as he gives Marianna a fake phone number and fake insurance information. He is also charming and very confident as he flatters with Mariana and gets himself out of the trouble he had just created.

Mariana comes out as very gullible as she allows the charms of a stranger to get in the way of him living up to his responsibilities. She is an innocent girl who is very trusting of people as she easily takes the words of Jake to be true yet he is deceiving her in order to get away. She is the typical daddy’s girl because almost everything she owns was bought for her by her daddy. She perceives Jake as a nice man who is interested in her but he is just looking for a quick exit that ensures that he will not pay for the damage he caused.

The story is set on a freeway which is meant to symbolize the freedom that is in LA. On a freeway is not a place people can meet and fall in love, however it happens. It symbolizes how life in LA is very fast and there will be different types of people who will meet for different reasons (Gilb, 2003)

In the story of a good man is hard to find, according to the grandmother she is a righteous woman and anyone who has the same opinion as her is good and the reverse is true. She believes that Red Sammy is good because they share the same nostalgia about the good old times. The grandmother pretends to be a righteous woman and that she has the right to judge people but in real sense she is a sinner too (O’Connor, 1953). She lies to her grandchildren and manipulates her son and his wife. The grandmother’s hat is a symbol of hypocrisy. She wears it because she is looking forward to having an accident and dying and people will use it to recognize that she was a lady. When she is confronted by the misfits, she drops her hat and so does her pretext.

The misfits are a symbol of the grace of God and the fact that people may be judged to be evil by others but we are not allowed to judge them. The grandmother preaches of God and love in the society but does not want to be associated with the misfits. They represent the victims in the society. Irony is used in the story because; if the cat had been left at home then the family would have lived. This is because the cat made the accident to occur and the misfits came and found the family. Irony also appears because before grandmother dies she reveals her true self and her hat falls off and it was the only thing that would have been used to identify her as a lady.

The writer, Flannery O’Connor, also uses a lot of foreshadowing when he refers to Toomsboro, right before the family is involved in an accident and misfits come into play. The name Toomsboro resembles the word tomb which was to ensure the reader gets the idea that the family is headed for doom (O’Connor, 1953).

The grandmother is brought up in a Christian background where she believes in heaven and hell. However she wants to pretend she is righteous and that her and the misfits are not the same but they are all sinners (O’Connor, 1953). The misfits are rough people who have seen all bad things and have no moral code except to always get what they want regardless of who they injure, the sad part is that they will end up in the same heaven with grandmother as God is gracious enough to forgive them of their sins.

In the story of Love in LA, Mariana may fall in love with Jake because he is good at making the impressions he desires. But Jake is in love with himself. He is more concerned about his looks, his car and the other material things that it comes out clearly, that in LA some people will fall in love with people and others will fall in love with the material things that can be ruined by accidents as demonstrated.

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Gilb, D. (2003). Love in LA, Real-Columns Publishers

Love in LA: When Analyzed the Short Stories Entitled, Retrieved from

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O’Connor, F. (1953). A Good Man is Hard to Find, Collections Publishers

Sparknotes: A Good Man is hard to Find: Summary and Explanations, Retrieved from

www.sparknotes.com/shortstories/a_good_man_is_hard_to_find

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The aim of this literature review is to examine dimensions of destination food image. Based on previous research, food tourists are attracted to a number of dimensions of destination food image that include, but not limited to, (list the dimensions you found in your search, and that you will be referring to in the following paragraphs – in any order is fine).

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The aim of this literature review is to examine dimensions of destination food image. Based on previous research, dimensions of destination food image, for example (list the dimensions you found in your search, and that you will be referring to in the following paragraphs – in any order is fine) are used by food destinations to (attract tourists to their city/provide local food producers/restaurants/? with business/income/?).

In these paragraphs, discuss at least six peer-reviewed journal articles (only published from 2015 onwards). Try to group one, two or three together (group them because there is some similarity or difference between them). You can discuss the same article more than once if it helps the discussion flow. The research studies can be from any country or area/region of the world.

The participants of each study may differentiate or be similar, so that you can compare and contrast your findings.

You may find that once you have listed/discussed the dimensions in a study, you can discuss the impact/relationship/affect they have with food consumption in a particular destination/city/town/country. It just depends on what you find in your search – all journal articles have an aim, so you can discuss that ‘angle’.

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You could discuss the effects of cultural background on food tourists’ perceptions of food image of a destination, BUT you must incorporate dimensions of food image into the discussion (because the main focus is still on dimensions of destination of food image).

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You could discuss how/why food destinations use particular dimensions to attract food tourists to their country/city/area, BUT you must incorporate dimensions of food image into the discussion (because the main focus is still on dimensions of destination of food image).

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Serial killing or serial murder involves the murder of more than one person, usually with a “cooling off” period between the murders. These crimes usually have no apparent motive and involve strangers who are murdered over extended periods of time. The U.S. has a higher percentage of serial killers than any other country in the world, with nearly 25% of all serial killings worldwide taking place in America (Pace, 2019).

Based on FBI investigations, many serial killers suffer from a combination of personality disorders which are often inconspicuous. The three major categories of personality disorders include Paranoid, Schizoid, and Psychopathic. Many psychologists believe that serial killers fall into the last category. Psychopathy is a mental disorder in which a person has an antisocial, sadistic or psychopathic disposition with poor impulse control. A person who suffers from a form of psychopathy may display superficial charm and intelligence while hiding deep-rooted problems with their behavior and emotions. According to the FBI Behavioural Science Unit, serial killers have an innate ability to manipulate others, give them someone to talk to, and trust them with sensitive information.

Serial killing is one of the most complex and challenging forms of crime to investigate as there is rarely any forensic evidence left behind in cases that do not involve sexual assault or armed robbery; police rely heavily on knowledge about typical patterns to link cases together and identify likely suspects for questioning.

The standard theory is that serial killers share a long term obsession with violence, however few cases of serial homicide have been directly named as such, some of which include: John Reginald Halliday Christie (killed at least 12 people); Charlie Lyke (39 victims); Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole (17 victims); Aileen Wuornos (7 victims) (Deepak & Ramdoss, 2021). Theories about the “Mackenzie painting” are based on the observation that all five of the known cases of serial homicide involve small town American males that were around 20-30 years old.

In the United States, there has been a slight increase in the number of serial killers since the mid-1990s. The increased publicity and media coverage of these cases may be responsible for this increase. Additionally, in areas that have experienced serial killings, such as the so-called ‘killing fields’ along Route 40 near Green River, Utah and Nevada, it has also become more likely that there will be a killer or killers available to police before any bodies are found.

The first notable US serial killer is usually considered to be H.H. Holmes, who killed 11 people over 18 months between 1896 and 1897 in Chicago. Holmes is also believed to have had a hand in the highly publicized murder of his own wife, who disappeared from the home the couple shared. Holmes was never tried for his crimes due to a hung jury, and later escaped from jail. He was eventually captured, confessed to his crimes and was hanged in Philadelphia on May 7, 1896.

The United States has produced many notable serial killers, including Richard Trenton Chase (“The Vampire of Sacramento”), David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”), Patrick Kearney Mitchell (“The Milwaukee Monster”), Ted Bundy and Aileen Wuornos. Some killers have become infamous because of the gruesome circumstances of their crimes, the total number of victims, or the length of time during which they eluded capture. Others, such as those who have committed mass killings or those whose crimes have earned them a place in popular culture, are noted for their fame. Some serial killers have even been researched and written about to such an extent that they have become synonymous with murder itself. Theodore Robert Bundy is one example. He was a serial killer who was active in several states throughout the 1970s, and confessed to killing thirty women. He once said that he could “go out and kill anybody between one day and six months from now.

One of the best known cases involving a string of serial murders was that of Ed Gein. Gein was convicted and executed in 1957 for the murder of a total of two women and a teenage girl. He was known to have been obsessed with the concept of body parts, particularly skulls and femurs, which he would retain from his victims. Another local man, Driver Ed Kearney (a pharmacist) confessed to Gein that he had killed two women and an illegitimate son for insurance money, but later recanted the confession. Another man also confessed to killing several people in a similar way but later recanted as well.

Also of note is Ottis Toole who murdered five females in Florida between 1974-1976. Toole was a drifter who worked for victims and stole their money, jewelry, and personal effects. He kept the skull, skins, bones and hands of all five women. He was arrested in 1977 after police traced a stolen money order from one of his victims to his mother’s home in Fort Myers (Toates & Coschug-Toates, 2022).

Many serial killers move from area to area to find new victims. Some are quite organized in their efforts to find new victims or avoid being caught by the law. Some killers perform violent acts to attract their victims, while other chose a method of killing that is less personal. Most serial killers are male but women are also known to be serial killers and some have been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. We know what causes a person to become a serial killer but how many of these individuals will commit serious violence and murder? It’s estimated that there are around 400-500 active serial killers in the United States alone and they kill approximately 3000 people every year (Call, 2019). This number is based on the FBI definition which is any person who has killed three or more people within a year or killed one victim up to four times during the same time frame.

References

Call, C. (2019). Serial entertainment: A content analysis of 35 years of serial murder in film. Homicide studies, 23(4), 362-380.

Toates, F., & Coschug-Toates, O. (2022). Understanding Sexual Serial Killing. Cambridge University Press.

Deepak, S. A., & Ramdoss, S. (2021). The life-course theory of serial killing: A motivation model. International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 65(13-14), 1446-1472.

Pace, A. N. (2019). Serial killers in popular media: A content analysis of sensationalism and support for capital punishment.

Transaction Cost Analysis Past, Present, and Future Applications

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Transaction Cost Analysis: Past, Present, and Future Applications

This journal is quite informative because it gives a lot of insightful information on Transaction Coast Analysis (TCA). Through it, the authors reports on the research work done to reveal more about it. A part from explaining this concept, it traces its historical development, roles and the relationships it has had with other relevant disciplines. It goes ahead to focus on its applications, dimensions and validity. All these are very important data which when exploited can create sense to the readers and enable them comprehend this issue much comfortably.

However, the article is criticized for lacking a sound evidence for the arguments presented. The arguments are so shallow and do not contain a lot of explanations. For instance, the writers state that it is related to fields such as political science, corporate finance, sociology, business strategy, contract law and marketing. However, it does not go deeper to explain how it has influenced these disciplines. This leaves a lot of unfilled gaps with a number of questions unanswered. Instead of focusing on the practicality of the subject matter, the paper concentrates on its future applications.

These problems can be solved by creating more time to conduct an extensive research to discover more about TCA. A rigorous study should be carried out to come up with sound evidence enough to give the research its meaning. This is the only way through which the pending questions will be ultimately answered. The paper should not be too futuristic. Otherwise, it should give concrete evidence on the stated facts. He should be realistic and shift from the use of assumptions which may be so misleading. The research should not be based on rumors, but on well researched facts. Thus, it will become valid to give an authoritative report. By doing this, the research will give full information regarding this issue.

Live Concert Report

Live Concert Report

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Jazz All-Year Round – JESSE COOK

Live Concert Report

I attended the Jazz All-Year Round – JESSE COOK concert at the Place des arts in Montreal. It was held on the 18th, September, 2012. This is one of the most memorable moments I can not forget in my life. It is very important to mention that the concert was well-organized and presented in an appealing manner to all the present fans, including me. Jazz All-Year Round – JESSE COOK concert was presented in this big hall by eight artists. There were vocalists, instrumentalists and dancers. They professionally performed their roles with the prowess that left me yearning for more.

The Jazz All-Year Round – JESSE COOK crew used a variety of instruments, including piano, trumpet, guitar, saxophone and banjo. Each of these was well-coordinated and made the songs played be quiet rhythmic and interesting throughout the whole concert. The sounds came out so clearly and it was very easy for anyone to be acquainted with the message being delivered in each of the songs. There was a free flow of tones in the songs played. These would interchangeably and rhythmically transit from high to low tones. Each of the instrumentalists was competent in doing their bit. For instance, the vocals were tactical in the use of microphone. This helped to produce a clear and audible sound projections in line with the instruments played.

Besides, the musicians were so presentable and rhythmically moved on the stage that they nearly thrilled the audience. They were dressed in a unique uniform that identified their band. This was a very well-designed fashion that conspicuously produced flamboyant colors in the beautiful laser beams in the theatre hall. This appealed to the audience which was thrilled by the presentation. Both the artists and the audience were familiar because I could notice the audience being engaged in singing part of the songs played. Surely, Jazz All-Year Round – JESSE COOK is a must watch concert for any youth willing to entertain.

Little Toot By Hardie Gramatky

Little Toot By Hardie GramatkyIntroduction

The story “Little Toot” that was written in 1993, by Hardie Gramatky, is a story that was meant for children in the age group of 2-7 years. This is the age where in they are in their preoperational stage as they are not independent in case of understanding the story but will be assisted by others and would need to be attracted by imagination provocations. This story is meant to capture the imagination as well as impact children in a positive manner by giving a moral to the story or a message through the story. The aim is to deliver a simple concept of being hard working as well as not to underestimate anybody, and this has been done in a creative and capturing manner through a story of a tugboat (imbd.com, 2010). The objective is to help the readers or children be entertained and absorbed as well as learn a positive thought. This relates to Piaget’s theory of subjective logic. It is based on basic concepts and helps children go ahead and imagine simple things like a boy having become a boat. It helps enhance their focus on shapes and lets them think about associations, friends and morals (Npr.org, 2010).

Summary

The story “Little Toot” is a well written and creatively formed a story where in a boy who is in the form of a tugboat, presumes work to be a joke. He is involved in games and having fun. He does not focus on his tasks at all. In this situation, his friends, who happened to be other boats got irritated of his games that went on all day long. They did not appreciate him as he never did his work (Npr.org, 2010). They also called him a “sissy” (imbd.com, 2010). In this way, he was always looked down upon. He was dejected by other tugboats and so has had to drift away to the sea. He realizes his faults. In the sea he comes across a ship wreck. This is when he decides to prove his worth. He helps in this situation. In this way, he does regain a position in the tugboat community and also does not have to live in the sea anymore. He also makes his parents proud and is happy about it as he had made them feel embarrassed by being playful and silly all the time (imbd.com, 2010).

Discussion

This story aims at capturing a child’s imagination and involving him as the story is being narrated. It also helps to let children start visualizing and understanding through basics like shapes and concepts. Bringing objects to life helps children get more involved and understand incidents or concepts in an easier manner. It makes it possible for them to learn by example of non-living things which are presumed to be animated. They can associate several movements and actions and that also being carried out by non-living things easily. Animation is one of the best methods for children of this age group to learn as it not only depicts and explains actions, but also is extremely amusing and entertaining. It helps add to knowledge, ideas and thoughts.

This story helps analyze three different theories of child development. As per the intellectual development theory, children learn very rapidly and they are quick at grasping. The story caters to his theory by providing several instances where in a child is required to make logical connections in order to understand this story. This story caters to the need of children o learn and so provides them with concepts of requirement to work and not play all day long. It explains several things that children can grasp and learn in this age group of preoperational stage.

Moral development is also an important aspect of children learning and growing. Here, in this story, the author has used the concept of hard work as a moral and has also shown it to be the right way or the acceptable behavior. It has tried to explain to little children as to how important it is to balance work and play in order to be acceptable to everybody.

Social development is the most important aspect of child learning, cognition and development at this age, socializing itself is new to them. They are not in a position to clearly identify as to what is acceptable and what is not. Yet, they do understand that it is extremely important to be acceptable in order to be liked and appreciated. So, this story explains these concepts through facts like the playful tugboat embarrassed its parents and was looked down upon by other tugboats. Moreover the fact that the little playful tugboat was forced to drift away to the sea leaves a long-lasting impression on young minds about behaving in the right manner and completing their work in order to be accepted by friends and family (imbd.com, 2010).

In this way, this story closely relates to several theories of cognition and learning in children. It focuses on their areas of interest and is successful at being able to capture their imagination to the best possible extent. Children enjoy this story as they get to learn and imagine as well as make several associations while listening or watching it in the form of an animated story. Actions, expressions, voice tone and color when added to this story leads to intense learning among children as they grasp the concept of hard work very quickly through the medium of this story.

Conclusion

To conclude, “Little Trot” is a well-written and engrossing a story that focuses on teaching children moral values, social behavior and intellectual learning along with entertainment. Though the story is a lot of fun for children, it does not fall short in delivering knowledge and concepts as well as creativity and ideas to children of age – groups of 2 to 7. At this stage, of preoperational learning, this story is a great benefit, especially to school going children who have been having to face a transition form playing all day long to having to put in some efforts in learning. So, this story helps children understand the need and importance of hard work and tells them that as they grow and need to become responsible, they also have to strike a balance between work and play. They cannot ply all day long, without completing their work, mainly consisting of homework, if they have to be appreciated and accepted by their friends and family. This brings in a lot of learning, which is in tune with several of the theories on child development.

References

Npr.org, 2010, as retrieved on August 24, 2010 from

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15606787imbd.com, 2010, as retrieved on August 24, 2010 from

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047183/