Improving Children’s Health: Glendale Healthy Kids Give Kids a Smile Program Evaluation

 Glendale Healthy Kids Give Kids a Smile Program Evaluation Kate Karpenko Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California Description of the Agency In 1993, the community of Glendale had recognized an ongoing problem and came together in order to address it. The 3 local hospitals in the Glendale area performed a needs assessment … Read more

Transforming Care for Patients with Long Term Conditions

 Long term conditions (LTCs) also known as chronic diseases or non-communicable diseases have been defined by the World of Health Organisation (WHO) as conditions that have origins at young ages take decades to be fully established, with their long duration, requiring a long term and systematic approach to treatment (Pruitt et al, 2002). Currently … Read more

Understanding the Breadwinner-Homemaker Model and Gender Roles in the Traditional Family

 Appointing a universal standard definition that can apply to the family has become convoluted and even controversial. The terminology of the family manifest into three valuable categories: political, economic and legal implications. However, it is important to acknowledge that the meaning of the family varies due to culture and values. The concept of the … Read more

Collaboration Unit: A Case Study on Working with Students from Various Courses and Backgrounds

 Collaboration unit is an innovative idea and structure to socialise and work with students of various courses and backgrounds. According to Dillenbourg, a collaboration between participants plays an important role in solving problems by engaging in a coordinated effort (1999). While the theory is true for various cases, collaboration also leads to various problems … Read more

Exploring Inclusive Fitness and Its Effects on Evolution: David Buss and W.D. Hamilton

 The evolutionary psychologist David Buss describes W.D. Hamilton’s concept of inclusive fitness as the ‘single most important theoretical revision of Darwin’s theory of natural selection in the past century’ (Buss, 2015, p. 227). Before the early 1960s, biologists had found it difficult to explain behaviours that cause organisms to reduce their individual fitness. We … Read more

Unleash the Riches of the “Age of Discovery”: Exploring the 15th and 16th Century Portuguese Voyages

 During the 15th and 16th centuries, leaders of several European nations sponsored expeditions abroad in the hope that explorers would find great wealth to return with and vast areas of undiscovered land. The earliest participants in this “Age of Discovery” are the Portuguese. Starting in about the 1420s, small Portuguese ships known as caravels … Read more

Research Study: Analyzing US and Japan Marketing Pitches: Cultural Values and Conventions

 Yuanchu Xie Professor Naoko Taguchi 82-273 Introduction to Japanese Language and Culture – Section A October 11, 2018 Final Paper Proposal: A Comparative Study of Marketing Pitches in U.S. and Japan Introduction In this project, we seek to explore the connection between product descriptions and marketing pitches in Japan and the United States, focusing … Read more

Exploring Controversy of Capital Punishment in US: Morality, Religion and Retribution

 The greatest controversy in the global criminal justice system is capital punishment. While people might perceive the death penalty as the rightful castigation to heinous crimes such as a murder, genocide and treason, the perception differs from one individual to the other. Several aspects of the society such as religion, humanitarians, bureaucrats, activists exhibit … Read more

SafeguardSmall Business from Fraud with Unmodified Opinion

 Small businesses are particularly vulnerable to fraud as they lack some of the same resources, like large companies have, to implement complete systems. Whether that be with internal controls, to making sure that they have enough annual financial audits. Small companies also have a lack of reporting as trust can be high in their … Read more