Plata 10/29/07 An Inevitable War: Iraq [pic] “We may have had enough troops to win the war-but not nearly enough to win the peace.” (Philip Carter‚ 2003‚ p. 82) There is much debate going on in the U.S. about the war in Iraq. Some people argue that the U.S is fighting a war that it should never have started; others argue U.S. intervention on Iraq has created a war with no end and we should come home immediately. However‚ I strongly believe that the war in Iraq was an inevitable‚ justified war and
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tremendous conflict between the British and American colonist. The indignant colonist were provoked by King George by treating them as a lesser citizen. The King had no right to tax them without representation. They knew the protesting was inevitable to happen in many-ways. The colonists sent several letters to King George pleading to him to treat them more humanely. King George didn’t even listen to them‚ he sent army troops to threaten the colonists to obey him. The tension in the air
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Due to a patient near fatal accident‚ the children’s hospital and clinics were looking for any effort to provide a safety patient culture. Julie Morath was hired in 1999 to improve hospital operations; she wanted to make Safety the top priority of the hospital. Julie Morath directed and begun setting up the Patient Safety Initiative at Children’s Hospital and Clinics by making employees obtain the mindset of safety and building a culture. The key steps to her patient safety initiative were the
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however‚ sometimes we actually remember a misrepresentation of what’s really occurred. This is known as the misinformation effect‚ where misleading information distorts our memory of the true event. Important in a variety of aspects‚ these memory errors become especially crucial in terms of courtrooms and eyewitness testimony. Interestingly‚ 75% of false convictions are due to an eyewitness identifying the wrong person or misreporting how an event actually occurred. Witnesses aren’t intentionally
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1. Describe how the fundamental attribution error affects how we think of ourselves and of others. The Fundamental Attribution Error refers to the tendency to over estimate the internal and underestimates the external factors when explaining the behaviors of others. This may be a result of our tendency to pay more attention to the situation rather than to the individual‚ and is especially true when we know little about the other person. 2. List and briefly describe four variables affecting
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“Capture Errors” In regards to “Capture Errors from Slips associated with the automatic processes by Reason‚ 1990”‚ I have experienced this from time to time in my life. I am a new mother to a 3-month old son name Greyson and one of my daily routines is to drop Greyson off at daycare‚ attend classes and then pick up Greyson from daycare to head back home. When driving‚ I have gotten to know the route quite well that it is quite possibly I could go on automatic when in reality I shouldn’t. One day
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Medical Errors Medical errors are responsible for injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients; an estimated 48‚000-98‚000 patients die from medical errors each year. This means that more people die from medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents‚ breast cancer‚ or AIDS. Errors in health care have been estimated to cost more than $5 million per year in a large teaching hospital‚ and preventable health care-related cost the economy from $17 to $29 billion each year. What are
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Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) (Jones and Harris study 1967) The Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) principle states that man tends to ignore outside pressure and factors when judging the behavior of others. This means that people believe that a certain action or behavior was a cause of an internal motive rather than some influence from external pressure. In simple words‚ the FAE describes the inability to step inside other people’s shoes. The name FAE was first coined by Ross in 1977
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Case Study #2- Medication Error 1. Define “overdose.” What are some symptoms of overdose and statistics? Contrast accidental and intentional overdoses. An overdose is when a dangerous dosage of a drug is ingested. Fluctuation vital signs‚ exhaustion‚ dizziness‚ and chest‚ hear‚ and lung pain are all symptoms of overdose. Prescription drugs are the largest cause of deaths from overdose. In 2005‚ out of the 22‚400 overdoses‚ 38.2% were the result of pain killers. Intentional overdose is the misuse
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The Civil War was an inevitable conflict that was due to the differences between the North and South societies‚ slavery‚ and politics. After the Declaration of Independence‚ the American society changed. It shifted from small agrarian societies to the industrial boom in the north; the migration of thousands of black slaves‚ and slavery being a viable economic system. Together‚ these caused a growing conflict between economic interests‚ social classes and regions that were involved with politics.
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