Gerontology and How to Get a Job as a Gerontologist
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Gerontology is a field that specializes in the study of the social, biological and psychological aspects of elderly people. By researching aging process of the elderly, gerontology can incorporate better rules and regulations to provide the elderly with a better quality of life.
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Book Review – Outliers: The Story of Successby Dr. Farid A. MunaOutliers: The Story of SuccessBy Malcolm GladwellLittle, Brown and Company, November 2008.Malcolm Gladwell is the bestselling author of The Tipping Point and Blink. His latest book, Outliers, has been on the best seller list of The New York Times for eight straight months, since it was published in November 2008. Gladwell’s engaging and journalistic writing style and his talent for simplifying complex issues, I believe, are his secrets of success. And these are the reasons why his books are both controversial and popular. His latest book is no exception.Outliers attempts to explain the secrets of successful people; it proposes that intelligence (IQ) alone is not a guarantee of success in life. However, this view is an already well-known fact that has been established during the early 1990s by a host of academic studies which discovered that success indeed requires additional competencies, known as emotional intelligence (EI). Unfortunately, Gladwell does not expound on, or even refer to, the growing body of literature on EI.Instead, Gladwell focuses on several other significant and equally important ingredients of success. In fact, his book naturally complements the EI studies and explains the “secrets” of success from a different perspective: by taking into account the personal, environmental, and cultural contexts of success.In this book review, I will highlight the main secrets of success covered by Outliers starting with the advantage (or luck) of being born at the right time of the year. One example Gladwell highlights is that of Canadian hockey players and Czech soccer and hockey players who are born during the first six months of a year and have a distinct advantage of age and maturity over their teammates. This is due to the eligibility cutoff age of January 1 in those countries. As Gladwell explains, “A boy who turns ten on January 2, then, could be playing alongside someone who doesn’t turn ten until the end of the year – and at that age, in preadolescence, a twelve-month gap in age represents an enormous difference in physical maturity”.What about the year of birth? That, too, explains the implications of being there at the right time, at the right age. Gladwell cites the Silicon Valley tycoons who were born between 1953 and 1956 and were thus at the perfect age in 1975 to take advantage of the personal computer revolution. Here are the names and years of birth of some of these successful men: Paul Allen (1953), Bill Joy (1954), Scott McNealy (1954), Steve Jobs (1955), Eric Schmidt (1955), Bill Gates (1955), and Steve Ballmer (1956). Gladwell later argues that New York lawyers born in the early 1930s also had a tremendous advantage when the boom in the number and size of corporate mergers, hostile takeovers, and litigation took place during the 1970s, mainly due to the relaxation of Federal regulations.Gladwell proposes that it is the “10,000-hour rule” of hard work and practice which explains why many people achieved success. He provides examples of Bill Joy’s contributions to UNIX, Java, and the Internet; Mozart’s masterwork was composed when he was twenty-one, although he started writing music at the age of six; the Beatles and their Hamburg experience of playing music eight hours a day, seven days a week between 1960 and 1962; and Bill Gates who put in thousands of hours of computer programming starting at the age of thirteen. In addition to being smart, these people achieved success by putting in 10,000 hours of practice before becoming outstanding at what they did.Two other “secrets” are discussed at length in Outliers: culture and education. Gladwell compares the safety record of airliners in the 1990s, and notes that the Colombian captains (Avianca) and Korean captains (Korean Air) in certain cases could have averted plane crashes if their cultures permitted subordinates (copilots and flight engineers) to speak out and warn the captains of impending disasters. These two cultures place a high value on power distance, meaning that subordinates defer to their superiors even when these superiors may in fact be in the wrong. In brief, subordinates were reluctant to speak out because of fear and/or respect; a very dangerous cultural “dimension” when one is flying a passenger plane! In effect, Gladwell argues that it does matter where you were born and what culture you were raised in.Citing culture again, Gladwell attributes the high scores on mathematics tests in countries such as China, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan to the strong work ethics and the demanding nature in those countries of the all important wet-rice agriculture. Here again, Gladwell fails to mention that rice is also grown in other countries, such as Philippines and Indonesia, whose populations are not necessarily known for high scores on math tests. Gladwell also does not mention the Protestant ethics of hard work which may have contributed to the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution, or the fact that growing tobacco used to be as demanding as working in the rice paddies.Finally, Gladwell links the quality of education to success. He cites the longer days and hours of high schools in Japan and South Korea, “the school year in the United States is, on average, 180 days long. The South Korean school year is 220 days long. The Japanese school year is 243 days long”. Finally, Gladwell mentions the vast advantages and opportunities provided by KIPP Academy middle schools which were started in the South Bronx, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. Students at KIPP excel at mathematics and reading, and a large percentage of them go on to university and “in many cases being the first in their family to do so”. KIPP school days start at seven twenty-five and goes on until five p.m. All students take classes in thinking skills, English, science, mathematics, social science, music and orchestra. KIPP gives its students a chance to work very hard and to excel.Although it is written with a journalistic, rather than academic approach, Outliers has undoubtedly contributed to the ongoing thinking about success in the corporate world. It highlights the importance of hard work, determination, opportunity and luck, family upbringing, personal circumstances, and culture.Despite its shortcomings, mainly its lack of academic rigor, Outliers is a highly recommended book for those who want to explore the “secrets” of success, beyond IQ and EI.
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A number of different formats and structures are introduced in the world of research papers so that the writers adopt every style according to the demand of the field that they are choosing to write about.
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If you’re coming to the end of your second year as an undergraduate, you have probably started to think about the kind of topics you might want to look at for your thesis.
How to Trade – Book Review – John Murphy, Intermarket Analysis
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Article by Clinton Lee
The majority of literature that discusses asset allocation linking multiple markets has a heavy dose of macro and microeconomics. Typically, macro-micro relationships require applying econometric models to comprehend the structural linkages between the two intertwined fields of economics. John Murphy removes the hard statistical methods while retaining the economic logic with chart-based reasoning.John Murphy was the technical analyst for CNBC-TV for seven years and a professional analyst for over 25 years. His career includes time at Merrill Lynch as a Director of Commodity Technical Analysis. John has his own consulting firm, JJM Technical Advisors. He is also president of MurphyMorris, Inc., which was created to produce educational software products and online services for investors.There are adequate reader reviews on Amazon and Google Book Search, to help you decide if you will get the book. For those who have just started or are about to read the book, I’ve summarized the core concepts in the larger and essential chapters to help you get through them quicker.The number on the right of the title of the chapter is the number of pages contained within that chapter. It is not the page number. The percentages represent how much each chapter makes up of the 246 pages in total, excluding appendices.1 A Review of the 1980s. 16, 6.50%.2 1990 and the First Persian Gulf War. 16, 6.50%.3 The Stealth Bear Market of 1994. 18, 7.32%.4 The 1997 Asian Currency Crisis and Deflation. 14, 5.69%.5 1999 Intermarket Trends Leading to Market Top. 16, 6.50%.6 Review of Intermarket Principles. 16, 6.50%.7 The NASDAQ Bubble Bursts in 2000. 18, 7.32%.8 Intermarket Picture in Spring 2003. 16, 6.50%.9 Falling Dollar During 2002 Boosts Commodities. 14, 5.69%.10 Shifting from Paper to Hard Assets. 14, 5.69%.11 Futures Markets and Asset Allocation. 20, 8.13%.12 Intermarket Analysis and the Business Cycle. 20, 8.13%.13 The Impact of the Business Cycle on Market Sectors. 18, 7.32%.14 Diversifying with Real Estate 18, 7.32%.15 Thinking Globally. 12, 4.88%.Focus on chapters 3, 7 and 11-14, which makes up about 46% of the book. Especially chapters 11-14 are relevant for practical trading purposes. Unlike my prior book reviews, where I’ve summarized the key points for each focus chapter, I will summarize the key points across chapters 3, 7 and 11-14. This is to recognize the connectivity of intermarket relationships across the 4 main asset classes of Stocks (Equities), Bonds, Currencies and Commodities. The context of the summary is to be viewed from a retail option trader’s perspective.Here are the Key Directional Intermarket Relationships in brief.The U.S. Dollar (USD)
Ecology In Contemporary Art
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Article by Aliceshown
The Oxford English Dictionary gives the following definition of art – “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” In terms of contemporary art, the concept of “emotional power” is probably the most important part of this definition. Art is all over something that surrounds us, not only in the form of paintings and sculptures but also through music, literature, film, photography and others. So it’s no wonder that environmental problems can be found being discussed in art in one or another form.
Writing a Book Review
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Article by Scott Dinsmore
A book review is a literary criticism in which a book is analyzed based on its content, approach, and worth. It is often seen in newspapers, periodicals and on internet. A book review is a vital summary of a book. It is an open forum where the work of a writer is analysed and views are formed. Such a critical assessment is a useful foundation of information for the reader who intends to read the book.
Art: Expresses Creativity in Every Form
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Article by Eugene Novikoff
Imagination is what makes our life beautiful. The term imagination is usually used to mean something very beautiful and creative. The people with vivid imagination can portray their beautiful thoughts in for of art. Art is the practice or product of purposely arranging elements in such a way that they influence the mind or emotions of others. It incorporates various ranges of human behavior, creations, and styles of expression, such as music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings etc. The meaning of the term art is articulated in a branch of philosophy which is known as aesthetics.In an art academy, it is taught that a simple object may be featured by the creator’s intention regardless of its evident purpose. For example, a cup that apparently can be used as a container can be considered as an art if intended exclusively as an ornament and if mass-produced, a painting may be consider as craft. Conventionally, the word Art was used to signify any skill or mastery of particular field. During the Romantic period, this conception had changed a lot, when art was considered as a special talent of the human mind to be classified with religion and science. Usually, with the purpose of inspiring thoughts and emotions, art is created.
Writing a Literary Book Review
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Article by Scott Dinsmore
There is no need to panic even if this is the first time you are reviewing a literary book . Reviewing a work of literature is a lot like writing a school book report. The only difference between the two is that here along with summarizing a work you are also expected to present an opinion on that work’s merit. You can make a career in being a book reviewer; renowned literary critics are fundamentally expert readers. They stress on assessing the aesthetic value of literary works through which they can guide others in deciding whether or not to read a book.
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