Surname 1   Name: Course: Professor: Date: Remembering and Recalling My current challenge is mastering some previously learned material in the physics class. Some concepts learned in the previous courses were technical and therefore needed more attention. At the end of the lesson, some issues should be precise and elaborate to ensure the smooth learning of other forthcoming lessons. The first thing will be to identify the critical areas of weakness in the subject to ensure I lay out proper strategies to improve my learning experience. Some of the essential areas of interests is to be able to recite Newton’s laws of motion, recall formula to calculate and explain the kinetic energy of a projectile, define both potential and kinetic energy to differentiate between the two, identify the difference between conservation of energy and conservation of momentum and match them to see which would be more suitable for answering a dynamics questions. Another challenge is to define different terminologies in physics adhesion, beta particles, amorphous solid and elasticity. Understanding By the end of the exercise, I should be able to…

Surname 2   Surname 1 Student’s name Professor Course Date Villars-sur-Ollon Villars-sur-Ollon, a perfect combination of beauty and pleasure, is a resort in Switzerland situated in the Swiss Vaud Alps at an altitude of 4,265 ft. The ski resort has a magnificent view with an exceptional sporting environment including snow sports, skiing and various games for different age groups. However, the location does not provide a serene environment considering the negative impacts it has. As a tourist director of the resort, I have an action plan that will move the place into a blue economy model with reduced environmental effects, increased revenue and job opportunities. Vision Despite the variety of sporting activities and the magnificent environment present in Villars, some factors have to be considered; environmental impact, job opportunities and revenue. Having a world-class resort without consideration of the factors will not be a good idea. Transferring the resort to a location where there is little or no impact on the environment, a fair profit margin and eventually creates job opportunities will be a convenient way of doing business. As…

Interviewer: So, one of our attendees was wondering, should physicians use BNP over NT- proBNP in routine clinical practice?   Interviewee: Well, not necessarily. Both BNP and NT-proBNP are, as I’ve mentioned, are useful to help physicians in the diagnosis and management of patients with heart failure, especially if they’re unsure with regard to the clinical presentation of those patients. And as I just mentioned, they are particularly useful as a rule out test because they have a very high negative predictive value. So, the answer is not necessarily. They’re both valuable markers.   Interviewer: Brilliant. Thank you for that. So, question number two is, do any vendors offer both BNP and NT-proBNP assays?   Interviewee: Well, at this time actually, only Siemens has both BNP and NT-proBNP. There are a number of other assays on the market for BNP, and others for NT-proBNP. But vendors, except for Siemens, they either have BNP or NT- proBNP.   Interviewer: Brilliant. So, another question that we had in is, is it better to use BNP or NT-proBNP in patients with renal failure?…

BOOK COMPARISON 4   Running head: BOOK COMPARISON 1             Book Comparison: Ideas and Related Concepts Articulated between Why Don′t We Listen Better by Petersen, Bridges Not Walls by Stewart, as well as in France and Weikel’s Helping Skills for Human Service Workers Name Instructor Course Date             James C. Petersen’s book, Why Don’t We Listen Better? Communication & Connecting in Relationships closely relates to how disjoint communication becomes when an effective and practical approach to talking and listening is not followed. The book identifies numerous listening techniques and communication traps that can be harnessed in a talk and listen to the scenario which harnesses empathy and other insightful foundational concepts of communication. Petersen’s work and ideas closely relate to the concepts articulated in John Stewart’s Bridges Not Walls as well as in France and Weikel’s Helping Skills for Human Service Workers. The three books closely relate with the major theme among them seen in what constitutes to effective communication. The paper will compare and contrast the different ideas portrayed…

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and The Great Age of American innovation by Jon Gartner. Penguin Press, New York, NY, U.S.A. 2012. 432 pp. Trade. ISBN-13: 978-1-5942-0328-2 The book,” The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and The Great Age of American innovation,” by Jon Gartner seeks to address a definitive history of Americas greatest innovation incubator the Bell Labs. It is the birthplace of some of the most influential technology that includes the communication satellite, the integrated circuit and cell phones. The fascinating history talks about the history of Bell Laboratories where the author demonstrates innovation coming from a complex of technological, organizational and social interaction. The author uses historical narrative seeking out and celebrating individual characters while embedding complex sociological patterns. The book is a valuable guide of both innovations and illustrations of challenges in bringing to life entwined history of social changes and technological changes. The author starts with a quote by T.S. Elliot, the Rock who said where is the knowledge we have lost in information? With the quote, it is quite confusing, but after reading the book,…

How to get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Book Review 2   Running Head: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Book Review 1               Title Name of the student Institution Affiliation Course             A girl or the riches? Is a girl a distraction when trying to get filthy rich? That is the dilemma in the book “how to get filthy rich in rising Asia.” The book talks about an impoverished boy who migrates from his rural home to a city when he struggles to become wealthy. When the boy moves to the city, his father enrolls him in a school where he gains education which gives his life a foundation. Here he meets a beautiful girl, but he cannot be with her if he wants to be wealthy since love is the luxury of the rich. He then starts working for a master from whom he gains business knowledge. He then leaves to venture into business on his own. The boy in the book is so intent…

Book review Introduction Rousseau Jean-Jacques, an active writer between 1712 and 1778, wrote the book of Emile which comprises a baby named Emile. The book majorly talks about the baby’s education from the period of the birth, how they grow up and become a man. The book is divided into five chapters with the first discussing the baby’s precise nature and their physical development. Rousseau says that education natures a person from the time of birth until they become of suitable age. He adds that it is the education that the child gets that determines how they grow up to be good people in life. In chapter one, the writer describes a baby to be helpless and cannot give any speech. The writer also put into discussion the theories of education and how these theories can be implied in a person’s life from the time of infant until they become of age enough. Emile progresses and is guided by the writer’s methods of learning. There also has to be the recognition of the writer’s excellent work as the master of…

Father Luis Olivares is an insight into the life and the works of a Catholic priest, Luis Olivares written by Mario Garcia and published by the University of North Carolina Press. It is about the life of a priest who at the same time championed for the rights of refugees through the famous Los Angeles sanctuary movement. He is a faith-driven leader who advocated for social justice through fellow civil rights leaders such as Cesar Chavez who led the United neighborhoods organization as well participating actively in the championing of the rights and freedom of refugees through Olivares’s sanctuary movement. Father Luis Olivares did what many men of the cloth could not dare do. He turned the oldest church in Los Angeles into a sanctuary and a political asylum for Central American refugees. That was an act of defying the law by a man of the cloth. La Placita being the oldest church in Los Angeles had a significance in the religion of the States. Olivares defied all odds and made it an asylum. This made him turn the country…

BOOK REVIEW5                       University affiliation Student’s Name Women of the beat generation Knight Brenda Published by Berkeley, 2010, 366 pages     Book Review Women of the beat generation Is a book that was written by Brenda Knight. The book was published in the year 2010 by Berkeley. In her book, Knight argues that Beat generation is applied to what has happened in poetry, Jazz, fiction and painting in the latest fifties through the early sixties. Brenda also argues that some women too drugs, walk aimlessly on the roads and also listened to jazz music just as men. The accomplishments of those women were not known. Brenda decided to research to correct the oversight by profiling about 40 women of the beat generation and later publishing the samples of their work. She continued to argue that the media has placed a lot of people and a lot of work under the Beat based on peripheral and loose connections to Kerouac together with his friends. In her book, Knight stated that…

Surname 1   Name Instructor Course Date   Churches, Cultures and Leadership: A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities Churches, Cultures and Leadership: A Practical Theology of Congregations and Ethnicities is a book by Mark Lau Branson and Juan Martinez written in 2011. This book is an artful incorporation of cultural anthropology and culture and introduces the church as the center of other intercultural realities of the contemporary world. The book authors denote that it is however not an easy journey for most people. The book is written well and has goals that back up its findings, and the main emphasis of the church is that it has been shaped and guided by cultural scripts as well as the ethnic heritages. As per the book, it is because of self-awareness, belief, habits and mental practices that human beings have found a way to worship and believe in an existing God. The book talks about how human beings’ social life is influenced by organizational, relational and caregiving forms of the individual’s background and their ethnic background. Additionally, the book talks about…