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Disciplinary rules and procedures are necessary for promoting fairness and order in the treatment of individuals and in the conduct of industrial relations. They also assist an organization to operate effectively. Rules set standards of conduct at work; procedure helps to ensure that the standards are adhered to and also provides a fair method of…

Each of us had to work on our own and create a monologue that described the character’s situation and their feelings towards it. In the monologue, I portrayed the character Ben and described how his friends and family tried to make him happy without success. Sadly, they perceived him as ungrateful and left. Ben shared…

Throughout this classic tale, Shakespeare has used Othello’s language and phrases to portray his emotional state during his triumphs and turmoils. The opening scene of Othello and Desdemona’s secret marriage is soon invaded by the news that their matrimony is no longer a secret. Backstabbing and jealousy has lead to the priceless arrest of Othello…

As much as I enjoyed Dallas Willard’s The Spirit of the Disciplines, or Elton Trueblood’s The Company of the Committed and The Incendiary Fellowship or Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline and Freedom of Simplicity (which, by the way, in my 1981 edition is dedicated to Dallas Willard), Streams of Living Water, also by Foster, has…

Some might say that the mother of Robert E. Howard’s angry outlaw Crusader, Cormac Fitzgeoffrey, had been slighted in the two complete stories told about him. She is merely described as “a woman of the O’Briens.” True, little is told of his father, Geoffrey the Bastard, but at least we’re given his name and told…

Collective consciousness – a. k. a. collective conscience (French conscience collective) is the set of shared beliefs and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society – introduced by the French sociologist Emile Durkheim in his Division of Labour in Society in 1893 – The Division of Labour in Society (French: De La…

Patients with dementia have difficulty communicating their needs and wishes to family members and medical staff. One important medical question is whether or not these patients should be fed using artificial nutrition or hydration (ANH) (Bryon, De Casterle, & Gastmans, 2012). Some people say that with-holding food and nutrients is inhuman and that is why…

Schizophrenia is a disastrous mental illness present in 1% of the world’s population. Doctors are still unsure of the causes of schizophrenia, and no medical cure has been discovered for this illness. Physicians have developed medical treatments, although the problem is getting the patient to stay on the medication, which contains many side affects. Many…

The Status of Woman in IslamThe status of woman in Islam constitutes no problem. The attitude of the Qur’an and the early Muslims bear witness to the fact that woman is, at least, as vital to life as man himself, and that she is not inferior to him nor is she one of the lower…

Oedipus is a man of swift action and great insight. At the opening ofOedipus the King, we see that these qualities make him an excellent rulerwho anticipates his subjects’ needs. When the citizens of Thebes beg him todo something about the plague, for example, Oedipus is one step ahead ofthem-he has already sent Creon to…