The benefits of humor‚ though‚ aren’t all mental. Humor triggers laughter. According to physiological studies‚ the laughter‚ in turn‚ stimulates our cardiovascular systems by increasing the rate at which the heart beats and contracting the muscles. In fact‚ one study suggested that laughing one hundred times per day is the equivalent of spending ten minutes on a rowing machine. One study went so far as to suggest that the benefits of laughter reach far beyond our body system. "Laughter reduces levels
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This discrepancy can also be seen in other social institutions in which conformity is strongly advocated. This is not surprising because school is really nothing more than a normalized prison in society. In Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment‚ he discusses the plague in the seventeenth century that led to a variety of measures taken to adequately deal with the problem running rampage at the time. Some measures taken concerned “a strict spatial partitioning: the closing
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Throughout the centuries‚ both the system and the concept of prison have undergone many radical changes that eventually led to the formation of the prison as we know it now. In the 16th and 17th centuries‚ prison tended to be a place where criminals were kept in it while awaiting their punishment. It was a place‚ where criminals were held‚ rather than a means of punishment. In fact‚ criminals‚ at that time‚ were publically punished‚ rather than imprisoned‚ in the most torturous ways such as whipping
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Adrian Medina Module 2 FIN400 – Analyzing Financial Statements CSU – Global Dr. Osman Masahudu The five generalizations that I believe are from the findings in the case study “The Dangerous Morality of Managing Earnings” go back to the code of ethics that the SEC has set in place. The first is “Honest and ethical conduct‚” (Gibson‚ C.H. 2011) which a lot of the managers showed that they were not honest by doing what they felt necessary to show a positive bottom line. The second generalization
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School discipline is the system of rules‚ punishments and behavioral strategies appropriate to the regulation of children and the maintenance of order in schools. Its aim is to create a safe and conducive learning environment in the classroom. A disciplined student is in compliance with the school rules and codes of conduct. These rules may‚ for example‚ define the expected standards of clothing‚ timekeeping‚ social behavior and work ethic. The term discipline is also applied to the punishment
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enforcement officers can’t be everywhere at the same time‚ so what is it that keeps our society in check the majority of the time? In Michele Foucault’s chapter “Panoptiticism” from his book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison‚ he elaborates on Jeremy Bentham’s idea of a panopticon‚ focusing on the role of discipline as an instrument of power. What makes the panopticon successful is the idea of an ever-constant surveillance‚ which the prisoners of the panopticon are always aware of. Panopticism
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The Five Guys mission statement‚ as simple as its menu‚ is aligned with the philosophy that if you ’re going to sell hamburgers and fries in a restaurant industry that has a lot of hamburger-french-fries business‚ you ’d better do hamburgers and fries well than the competitors. Five Guy’s focus is not to add more items to the menu‚ but to serve top quality burgers and fries to keep their business booming. According to Boonze and Kutrz (2012) Murrell states “We figure our best salesman is our customer”
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Structure in 5 ’s: A Synthesis of the Research on Organization Design Author(s): Henry Mintzberg Source: Management Science‚ Vol. 26‚ No. 3 (Mar.‚ 1980)‚ pp. 322-341 Published by: INFORMS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2630506 Accessed: 22/01/2010 02:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless you
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The Birth of Linguistics as an Autonomous Discipline – Q1 The term linguistics was first used in the middle of the 19th century. The earliest Greek linguistic notions are from 5th – 4th century b.c. And grammatical description became a profession in the 17th c. Plato’s dialogue “Cratilus” is the first Western document of linguistic analysis‚ hiss notion of language is that each word has an underlying form which express the meaning of that word in a transparent way. Additionally‚ words are
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decided to write about the problem or challenges history is facing as an academic discipline. When viewed from one side one can conclude that history cannot be regarded as an academic discipline‚ this can be said when one start considering the likes of myth‚ legends‚ moonlight stories (alo) among others. Then on the other side one can also conclude that history cannot be separated or studied without being an academic discipline‚ this has to do with a student purposely in school to study the past and also
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