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King
Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur’s story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians. King Arthur is one of the children’s most favorite characters of the folklore, because he and the Knights of the Round Table symbolize friendship, power and all positive and noble traits of character.

There have been a lot of movies, cartoons, comics dedicated to the personality of King Arthur and he probably has become a part of the mass culture. Read the rest of this entry »

Tobacco
is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as a pesticide and, in the form of nicotine tartrate, used in some medicines. It is most commonly used as a drug, and is a valuable cash crop for countries such as Cuba, India, China, and the United States. In consumption it most commonly appears in the forms of smoking, chewing, snuffing, or dipping tobacco. By the end of the XVth century tobacco was not known in Europe, but after the discovery of America the first settlers brought this plant to Europe and it became popularized as a trade item and a widely-abused drug. It is obvious, that a great number of people decided to make business growing and selling tobacco, because this product became extremely popular among people. Like every drug, tobacco causes addiction and more and more people started to smoke and spend money on cigarettes. Read the rest of this entry »

Nowadays
a tendency exists to see the adolescents as an age group with the same cognitive, mental and physical features. This approach is totally inaccurate, as through the adolescence several stages exist which are eliminated on the basis of age. The measure of both mental and physical development differs a lot on every stage. It’s of vital importance for the school nurse to learn the differences between these age groups to make her labor more productive, as the members of these groups also have specific features in their health behavior.

Erica Monasterio, the author of the chapter about the adolescent behavior in the Fundamental Skills for Case Managers Study Guide (2003), states that there are three stages of development in the adolescence. Those are early adolescence (11-14 Years), middle adolescence (14-17 Years) and late adolescence (17-20 Years). The physical development reaches its peak velocity in the early adolescence while the development of the cognitive abilities continues through all the adolescence period. Read the rest of this entry »

International
business is a term used to collectively describe all commercial transactions (private and governmental, sales, investments, logistics,and transportation) that take place between two or more regions, countries and nations beyond their political boundary. International business is one of the most important factors of the normal existence of the human civilization. Countries have always bought the goods and resources they need from the countries of all over the world and it is considered to be a normal thing. When a country is rich in certain resources, it can take advantage of this privilege and sell or exchange them on the goods they require. It is obvious that a single person will not be able to keep great and serious international business, but a range of companies work hard to make the process of trade easier. There is a great number of international enterprises – companies that have a worldwide approach to markets and production or one with operations in more than a country. It is obvious that multinational corporations with their production control fashion, tastes and preferences of people and the whole world fair. Read the rest of this entry »

The
book Nickel and Dimed describes about the lives of poor people in the USA of the end of the XXth century. Barbara Ehrenreich concentrates her attention to the conditions of work for low-skilled employees, the type of job they fulfill. Poor people who mostly suffer from lack of educated have to work hard doing boring and degrading job. There are many variants of jobs where unskilled workers are required, for example cleaning of all kinds. This job does not make people move their brains and it is a big tragedy that they are deprived of the possibility to develop their personality.  Read the rest of this entry »

Nutrition
is a proper constant supply of the vitamins, micro-elements to the human organism in the required qualities. Nutrition is very important for human life, because only due to good food and water we can live a long healthy life. Nutrition is often associated with a diet. It is known that a good diet can prevent numerous problems with health, so this question has bothered the humanity since the time immemorial. In ancient Greece and Rome philosophers and doctors spent much time to create a model of healthy food. They investigated the influence of different products on the human body, the qualities of different kinds of food and wrote much about it. Today the secret of good nutrition is revealed. Every person has to eat vegetables and fruit, avoid fat and overdose of spices in order to feel healthy. On the other hand, every organism is different and everybody has his own preferences in food. Nevertheless, there are standards of nutrition for children, teenagers, pregnant women, sportsmen, etc. which whey have to follow, if they wish to feel healthy.
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Rosa
Louise McCauley Parks was an activist for civil rights and being of Afro-American origin worked hard to win the equal rights for her relatives and friends and the whole Afro-American community of the country. She wanted the government and the society to treat all people equally and later she was honored as outstanding activist for peace and human rights. She lived in the dramatic period, when Afro-Americans were neglected and abused and hardly had any civil rights. Naturally, Rosa Parks did not enjoy such a situation and dreamed to change everything for the better. It is obvious that most of people simply got used to such treatment and only hoped that somebody will help them, but Parks was different. She protested actively and acted openly; demonstrated that she was against of such kind of society and struck for the rights for all Afro-Americans. She is known for cooperation with the world famous Martin Luther King, another striker for civil rights. They worked in the dangerous period when such thoughts could cost a life.
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Obamacare
is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

Obamacare is aimed primarily at decreasing the number of uninsured Americans and reducing the overall costs of health care. The law is a great advantage for the people of the country, because now health-care has become more affordable. The success is achieved due to numerous reforms and mechanisms, like subsidies, and tax credits. The law is very important, because the sphere of medical care is extremely expensive in the whole world, and exists like a privilege of rich people. Obamacare gives a possibility to achieve proper medical care for everyone. The law is a good example for other countries of the world, which should strive to support their citizens and care of their health. Read the rest of this entry »

Speaking
about a Likert scale I would like to note that it is a special type of questionnaire format used in various surveys around the globe. Likert scale strives to obtain proper responses form the respondents assessing their level of agreement to each of a list of statements. Likert scale had been developed in the mid 1930s. One should remember that Likert scale is somewhat similar to Thurstone and Guttman scaling by being unidimentional. I will add that just like all scaling methods, Likert scale works this way. The first step should be to define what one needs to measure in the survey. As one already noted Likert scale is one-dimensional in nature, thus one needs to apply this scale only to the one-dimensional concepts used in questionnaires.

In order to better understand the way Likert scale works, lets take a look at a sample five-point Likert scale that would measure an attitude (Donnelly, 104): Read the rest of this entry »

The
United Nations is an international organization which was created after the World War II by the countries who managed to defeat Nazi Germany and the countries, which helped it. The general aim of the UN is to maintain peace and security in the world and prevent further possible world wars. Some years later the organization developed further and started to care about all the problems of the world, including human rights, drugs, human trafficking, nuclear weapon, etc. The organization has a great strict structure, and six principal organs, like the General Assembly and the Security Council (these organs are the most influential, because they touch upon the most serious aspects of human life – peace and security). UN controls, protects and facilitates the development of all spheres of human life but its power in not unlimited. The history has concrete evidence , which prove that UN failed to prevent a range of conflicts and is not capable to defeat the problems of drugs in the world.
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