Why is it important to vote? You can ’t win if you don ’t play. Election outcomes are determined by those who participate. Elected officials make important (often life and death) decisions about how our society will expend its collective resources and the restraints it will place on individual behavior. The drinking age‚ the age at which you can get a driver ’s license‚ and the amount of money your teachers receive are some of the decisions made by elected officials. In making those decisions‚ elected
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Why are ethics important? Recent events in corporate America have demonstrated the destructive effects that occur when the leadership of a company does not behave ethically. One might wonder why highly educated‚ successful‚ and business savvy corporate professionals at Enron‚ Tyco‚ WorldCom‚ and Adelphia got themselves into such a big mess. The answer lies in a profound lack of ethics. Running a business ethically is good for business. However‚ "business ethics" if properly interpreted means
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One might ask why try to do anything if extinction is natural and there have already been five other mass extinctions in the history of the planet. It is important to remember that humans also live on the Earth and we will be highly affected by a mass extinction. Biodiversity is extremely important to the functionality of an ecosystem. It allows for food security for animals‚ including humans. It also is important for resilience. If an ecological disturbance were to happen such as a drought‚ flood
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Why is Literature so Important Anyway? Literature is the foundation of life. While it is physically written in words‚ these words come alive in the imagination. Literature enables people to see everything in a whole different prospective; it is a journey that is inscribed in pages. Literature provides a gateway to teach the reader about life experiences through reading‚ from the saddest stories‚ to the most joyful ones that will touch their hearts. From a very young age‚ many are exposed to literature
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his time he asked a question‚ “ why is it important to make these
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coding impacts almost all areas of quality reporting and‚ ultimately‚ provider reimbursement”. (DeVault‚ Easterling‚ & Huey‚ 2017‚ p. 52-55) Coding can also have a negative effect on the reimbursement that a facility receives. There are several reasons why a claim can be rejected for coding errors. A coder must look at all of the necessary documentation in order to get the correct codes. If a coder becomes lazy and only skims the record‚ then this could lead to coding the record wrong. A coder could also
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From this section of Hammurabi’s Code‚ Historians can learn that farms were important‚ that debt existed‚ and that there were consequences for farm related law-breaking. First‚ Historians can learn that farms were very important. Many of the laws from The Code of Hammurabi were about farms and that there were consequences for mistreating farms. One law that Hammurabi wrote was‚ “If anyone take over a field to till it‚ and obtain no harvest therefrom‚ it must be proved that he did no work on the field
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trained to save lives right? That’s true however‚ learning basic CPR can mean the difference between life and death in someone you love or care about. CPR can be just as vital as learning how to swim‚ drive a car‚ or use self defense. Why is this skill so important you may ask? Easy‚ when a person can not breathe or a person’s body can’t circulate blood properly cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can restore the circulation of oxygen and blood flow to the brain and other vital organs. Without proper
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Why Psychology is Important Psychology is the study of the human mind and any of its functions. It also includes the behavior resulting from any changes in our environment. Psychology is very important to mankind in that it is important in understanding the world we live in. Psychology helps us and allows us to better understand the emotional and behavioral effects of our surroundings. According to Taylor (1988)‚ many prominent researchers believe a healthy mental outlook on the world and what
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Why is the definition of death an important question for the issue of donation and transplantation? The definition of death is an important question for the issue of donation and transplantation for several reasons‚ but most importantly‚ because doctors may only harvest organs after a person has died because otherwise they are going against the medical principle of Primum non nocere meaning “first‚ do no harm”. This means that doctors must wait until a person is fully dead before removing organs
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