Essays on Life

The US currently does not strike the right balance between engaging in intelligence surveillance and civil liberty considerations. On Oversight and Accountability, Lowenthal framed his discussion by quoting the Roman poet Juvenal – “Sed quis custodiet ipso custodes”, meaning “But who will guard the guards?”….

 In 1995, the UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team won the national championship. The team was led by Toby Bailey, who had graduated from Loyola a mere ten months prior, and by Ed O’Bannon, who was named Most Outstanding Player in the Final Four. Today, O’Bannon…

Offender profiling is the process of inferring the characteristics of an offender from the way that offender acted when committing a crime Canter (Salfati & Canter, 1999). This helps give us a better understanding into the driving factors that lead to the unusual and gruesome…

Years ago before most people had smartphones, families would gather around the table during dinner and talk about the days events. Nowadays children and teenagers are busy on their smartphones while their parents are preoccupied online for work or other entertainment purposes. American adults spend…

In the 2014 National Freshman Attitudes Report, 21% of freshmen reported being “very confused about which career to choose and 47% of freshmen affirmed that they wanted career counseling (“National Freshman Attitudes Report”, 2014). Despite this, studies have shown that although first-year students may indicate…

American billionaire, businessman, computer programmer, and philanthropist, Bill Gates, once said, ‘I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.’ Therefore, it is my duty to introduce to you the pressing matter of…

What is nursing? At the beginning I always thought it was just about helping people, which is one of the main reasons why I wanted to become a nurse. However, as I went through the nursing program and attended clinical rotations, I saw it was…

Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the research methods adopted by Cognitive Neuroscientists in order to understand the biological bases of behaviour and mental processing. This essay will be analysing the strengths and weaknesses of four different research methods that have been adopted by Cognitive…

According to Clough & Nutbrown, (2002) ‘All research is about asking questions, finding problems and evaluating on what unfolds in order to form meaning from the information and convey the research story.’ (Chevron Notes 2020).According to MacNaughton et al.(2010) research is best described as a…

According to a Financial Express article published in 2018, there is an ideal yearly amount of money that makes people happy . In the opinion of Rahul Agarwal, director of EZ Wealth, the well-known proposition that money increases happiness is only true to a certain…

There are many types of leadership styles/approaches such as situational leadership approach, path-goal theory approach, transformational leadership approach and adaptive leadership approach. This week’s assignment will discuss the four types of leadership approaches: situational leadership approach, path-goal theory approach, transformational leadership approach, and adaptive leadership…

 This step is very much a simpler way to become better at critical thinking than the others, I think. This step is a multi-step one that includes five steps within the one. These steps include to become a self-critic, active listening, analyzing information, nonviolent communication,…

Car accidents occur due to several reasons such as drunk driving. As depicted in an article written by Katherine Hanna, “[d]espite attempts to educate drivers on the dangers of drunk driving and deter such behaviour through criminal punishment, there are still thousands of deaths attributable…

The definition of knowledge is when someone grasps information, facts and skills through experience. On the other hand, freedom is having the right to do something, basically doing whatever you want but in a positive way. The book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.”…

Plastic bags have been branded among the top environmental pollutants globally. Plastic bags are non-biodegradable and can only photodegraded. This process involves breaking down the plastics into smaller toxic pieces. Yet, as they break down, these particles have adverse impacts on the soil through contamination…