21st Century Skills—You will employ online tools for research and analysis, use critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, and assess and validate information.…
In 1941, Congress authorized that the United States Bureau of Mine to conduct inspections periodically through the mines. During the same year, Governor Green appointed Driscoll Scanlan to become the Illinois state mine inspector. Scanlan went right to work and began inspections in his district, where he concluded that Centralia No. 5 was the worse mine condition within the district. On February 7, 1942, Scanlan wrote his first report on Centralia and found numerous violations and made recommendations. Every three months through 1942 to 1944, Scanlan inspected the mine while adding new recommendations. Those recommendations reported that the mine…
The obvious problem with Centralia No. 5 is that an explosion killed 111 people. However, prior to the actual explosion, the problem is less obvious, especially since Centralia No. 5 was similar to so many mines that did not explode. In this analysis, I will examine the possible roles and responsibilities of Driscoll O. Scanlan, the mine inspector, given the "corruption of modern administrative enterprises" prior to the accident. From this perspective, the perspective of a public official in the field, the problem is that a potential danger exists and the regulatory machinery in place to address the danger is ineffective. As an expert, Scanlan recommended that the mine be "dusted" with non-explosive, pulverized stone to diminish the possibility of the coal dust's exploding. However, his expert advice alone was not enough to motivate a response.…
B. Produce a comprehensive description that shows in-depth understanding of how TWO different factors affect health and well-being, giving a wide range of appropriate examples…
Uri Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model does a great job of helping to display that child abuse is not an issue that is isolated to the home, but rather a problem that can be confronted on multiple levels. Through his use of a “target-like” diagram, he is able to show that each systems builds on each other and are interrelated. Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model consists of five, linked systems, the Chronosystem, the Macrosystem, the Exosystem, the Mesosystem, and the Microsystem. To better understand Bronfenbrenner’s model, a walk through each layer of the model using explanations and examples from Dave Pelzer’s memoir, A Child Called “It”(Pelzer, 1995) is necessary.…
CHAPTER 13 Trait Theories (p. 447) 1. b. 2. (a)ii, (b)iii, (c)iv, (d)v, (e)i. 3. e. Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Theories (p. 455)…
Explain the strengths and weaknesses of one or more criminological theories for explaining crime in contemporary Britain…
When working as a professional adult with children and young people you need to remember that you should be a positive role model for the students. This means you have to show them how to relate to and communicate with others at all times through your interactions and relationships with other adults and students, it is also important that they see you behaving professionally and appropriately while in school. You build relationships with other people in school on a daily basis in numerous ways. Children and young…
Resomation is an alternative to cremation that helps the funeral industry and cuts down mercury emissions. The new technique of disposing a corpse is still not welcomed into potential clients mind frame do to the lack of information on the left over liquid once resomation is completed. I propose more research to be done on the liquid left behind and that the data collected to be shared with the general public. The research will be conducted within two years and six months with the result being a press release of our findings. I am asking for 1,388,800 dollars to fund this research and two years and six months to complete the project. With our findings clientele will be more aware of resomation and the components of the liquid that remains after completion.…
Commercial fiction attracts many people because it’s more fantasized than literary fiction, which tends to not have much audience and is more about what can really happen with humans and society. “The Destructors” by Graham Greene is a short story about a group of boys in a gang called Wormsley Common Gang and how their latest recruit had a rebellious plan on destroying a house from inside out of an elderly man. This short story fits in the genre of crime and drama because of what the gang does to this old man’s home just to be rebellious because of the two types of classes they live in. Trevor, known as T., is the one who gives the gang an idea of how he wants to destroy Old Misery’s home. As they were in the process of destroying the house, Mike, the youngest of them all, let the gang know that the old man was on his way back earlier than they expected. T. came up with a plan to lock him up in his loo until they finished what they started. At the end their plan of destroying Old Misery’s home was carried out and none of them could have been discovered for doing such thing. This story is much more of a literary fiction than commercial because it contains more realistic things that could actually happen.…
“Symbolic-Interaction Perspectives"—“Perspective based on the sociological approach that views society as the sum of the interactions of individuals and groups (Kendall,…
The Destructors, authored by Graham Greene, conveys the idea that people have the instinctive ability to destroy, and make a guilt choice, between what they believe in what is right from wrong. The Destructors is to show how clear the characters and their actions are projected and guided by the subtle message of irony. The central theme of this short story is of a group of teenagers who call themselves the ‘Wormsley Common Gang’. The gang of misfits live by their own rules, despite the expectations of average citizens.…
In literature a very common literary device is symbolism. Authors often use symbolism to communicate a deeper idea than they actually write. Symbolism is an object used by an author to open doors of meaning. They use objects, actions, and characters to give more meaning to the thing itself. In Greene 's short story "The Destructors", symbols are used. Some of these symbols include Old Misery 's house, which is a symbol for art, beauty, and upper classes. Moreover, it symbolizes the need to destroy something aesthetic when in the atmosphere of war. The Destructors of the house, namely the Wormsley Common Gang, symbolize the effect of war on younger generations. Lastly, the main character Trevor symbolizes demotion, and with his demotion from the upper class to the lower class he wants to take charge and get back.…
In "The Destructors" Graham Greene uses Trevor and other characters as an example to assert that the war and the bombing that injured British cities during the war was causing people surrounded by the destruction to become desensitized. Blackie and the other members of the gang all distrust Old Misery's exhibitions of generosity and so go along with Trevor's plan to destroy his house. The local lorry driver finds the ruination of the old house hilarious. Trevor is held up as the story's most prominent example of war-caused sociopathy while on the other end of the spectrum is Mr. Thomas (that is Old Misery's proper name, the poor man lost his house, a show of respect is needed here) who shows that he still has some softer emotions left. Their reactions all fall on different points of that spectrum, but they all have one thing in common. That the war has affected the way they react to each other.…
Past approaches to the study of social problems and social behaviour have been limited by a lack of adequate conceptual tools. This limitation has been manifest both in psychology and sociology, although in different ways. Psychologists have been characteristically unable or willing to deal with the fact of social organization and social structure. Societies and organizations consist of patterned behaviours, and the behaviour of each individual is determined to a considerable extent by the requirements of the larger pattern. This context is not often incorporated into psychological theories. Some such theories –the…