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Comparison between Prime Ministers Borden and Kings Performances both as Statesmen and as Politicians.
Comparison between Prime Ministers Borden and King’s Performances both as Statesmen and as Politicians.
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Introduction
A statesman would be defined as a person who occupies themselves with the dealings of government, and endeavors to influence in shaping the government’s policy. On the other hand, a politician is a person who primarily devotes his efforts towards his individual progression in public office, or the accomplishment of their political party. Statesmen and politicians differ in many ways. While a statesman would find it a decidedly fundamental task to offer service to the populace, a politician is primarily focused on winning elections to a political party. A position of authority in governmental entails, responsibility of service to the population. Those designated to serve, bear a critical responsibility that is embedded on their conscience. The decisions that they make in the process of governing the citizenry ought to be constructive and wise. The majority of politicians bear little ethical fiber. It is evident that, politicians will actually take advantage of the people, in order to retain a position that they may be currently holding, or anticipate holding. On the other hand, a statesman would be concerned on the subject of the vision of the nation and how to realize the vision securely. This paper posits to provide a comparison between Prime Ministers Borden and King’s performances both as statesmen and as politicians.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Prime Minister Mackenzie King was the leading political figure in Canada from the 1920s to the 1940s. It is alleged that he led Canada through depression, war as well as prosperity. Mackenzie King came short of the characteristic personal qualities of prominent leaders, principally in comparison with Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joey Smallwood from Newfoundland. It is alleged that the electorate did not esteem him. He fell short in regard to charisma, oratorical skills, or an authoritative presence. In view of the fact that he reigned from 1921 to 1930, and continued to govern once again from 1935 to 1948 Mackenzie King had such a long stretch in power because he possessed extraordinary skills that were precisely appropriate to the needs of the country. However, by 1945, his government had endorsed a range of reforms, which included means-tested old-age pensions, family allowances, and national unemployment insurance. He demonstrated a thorough understanding and insightful intelligence of the linkages between the economy and society. He understood the relationship between capital and labor.
King understood the Canadian mentality and temperament and had mastery of timing. As a technocrat he regarded managerial arbitration as vital to an industrialized society. He endeavored to have his Liberal party that he represented to stand for liberal corporatism, in order to generate social harmony. It is evident that King worked towards bringing harmony and compromise to numerous feuding and competing elements. He achieved this through the use of politics as well as government action as his major instrument. King is on record as having established the country’s international repute as a nation that is powerfully devoted to world order.
Robert Borden
Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden was a political leader who guided his nation through the 1st World War. By means of astute bargaining, Robert Borden accomplished equal status for his country with England in the Commonwealth. Borden was voted to the House of Commons in 1896 as a Halifax conservative member. Borden was able to acquire a respectable repute in Parliament. His tenure was neither trouble-free nor instantly successful. Borden’s government may not be regarded as having been particularly powerful. His Quebec representation was feeble while the financial affairs of numerous of the English-Canadian ministers were dubious. Borden, as an individual was above reproach, but he essentially lacked the requisite ruthlessness to any first rate prime minister.
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It is apparent that King had attributes of a politician that Borden did not embrace. For instance, King as a politician was able to steer his party to Liberal party to victory in the federal election of 1921. Following the defeat of his party by Liberal party by the Conservative party led coalition in 1925, King was still able to form a government. On the other hand, Borden did not command adequate authority in party politics. However, Borden governed Canada at a time when the 1st War broke. He was compelled to make some hard decision that, though he had the vision of a statesman, the politicians differed with him. This was evident in his intention to enforce conscription, or mandatory military service, on a nation that was weary with war. This generated discord among the political circles, although numerous members the country’s minorities were of the opinion that by participating in the war, they would improve their status in society. Borden was overwhelmed by opposition including from suffragists, who were disillusioned by the disappointments brought about by the war to herald any key transformation in the society.
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Herd, Thompson. The Harvests of War: The Prairie. West, 1914-1918. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2000.
John, Cooper. Plato’s Statesman & Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Margaret Macmillan. Canada & Peace Settlements. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.
Comparison between Odysseus Gods and St Augustine One God
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Comparison between Odysseus Gods and St Augustine One God
The worship of many gods is referred to as polytheism while the worship of one God is referred to as monotheism. This to practices are adopted by different people and cultures in the world. The Homer’s Odyssey gods and the one God of St Augustine writing have some similarities as much as they are different. The similarities are brought about by how they handle the gods and God and the respect atoned to them while the differences are vivid from the number of gods they have to the selfish motives they have unlike God.
In both cases the people are working towards appeasing their god and being on the right side of god in order to achieve ones goal. Odyssey is not able to make a decision on whether to live or return when god Athena and god Poseidon when they have a quarrel on whom should be with him and he waits for them to settle their difference and decide. He does this in order to remain on their good side. This is similar to St Augustine God whom he says he is against anything which is not as per his laws called sin. Those who believe in God called Christians try as much as possible to go against His laws in order to remain in His good side.
Whether gods or God are handled and accorder so much respect and care. In both cases the people under them are obliged to listen to whatever the gods or God want and do accordingly. The sculptures of the two superpowers are kept in places of high power and worshiped. Odyssey’s wife worships one god with a lot of humility in order for her husband to be allowed to come back home, this is similar to the expectation of St Augustine on how Christians should plead and talk to God for their grievances.
The gods of Odyssey have a free will on whom you want to worship depending on what you want and when. Odyssey wife prays to god Zeus in order to help her husband return home. In St Augustine it’s only one God who holds all the power and might and one prays to him for everything from the two similarities it’s clear that the two cultures are both focused on being on the good side of their superpowers in order to gain what they need. The similarities also shows that the two cultures are aimed at being led in a good direction by their god without question as they have total trust in them irrespective of the gods motives. The similarities show that religion is highly valued in both eras and they both have someone they look up to. It also shows that the gods in Odyssey and God St Augustine writing are concerned about their subjects.
This two cultures as much as they seem to have some similarities, the differences are mega as their worship are view dim different perspectives. In Odyssey writing they have different gods for different purposes. They have gods like Athena, Poseidon, Calypso, Circe and minor gods like Hermes, Zeus, and Heracles who have different roles to keep the earth running. Looking at St Augustine writing, he only talks about one God who is all round. He neither competes nor enquires from others as He holds all the power.
The Odyssey gods also have personal motives towards their subjects. It seen in Odyssey journey how he suffers as God Athena does not want him to go back home and fights with god Poseidon about the same who wants to also maintain him. This brings quarrel between the gods and brings instability which is not there in St Augustine God who has no other gods to compete his attention from his people. He is the creator and controls everything He crested solely.
The gods of Odyssey also gives rules and laws as to what suits them and not the right thing. Athena wants to take Odyssey to be her husband knowing well that he is married. A war is broken between three gods fighting for the sane man who is married and deprives the family the love of the husband and father. Looking at God , He considers love as the strongest key and also gives His people free will to choose the good things and enjoy them in the wright way. God is also against violence as peace is love and it’s what advocated by God in St Augustine writing.
From the differences it shows that as much as the subjects as much as they have total trust on their superpower, the Gods and God have different motives towards them. St Augustine God is more concerned about the happiness and fulfilment of the subject while Odyssey gods are selfish as all they do target their own self-interest. The two religions are far much apart in terms of interest and objectives towards the subjects and eternity life.
Works Cited
Butler, Samuel. The odyssey. Longmans, Green, and Company, 1900.
Wetzel, James. “Saint Augustine Lecture 2012: A Tangle of Two Cities.” Augustinian Studies 43.1/ (2012): 5-23.
Comparison between Manual Device and Automated Blood Pressure Cuff
Comparison between Manual Device and Automated Blood Pressure Cuff
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TOC o “1-3” h z u Comparison between Manual Device and Automated Blood Pressure Cuff PAGEREF _Toc317675784 h 3Introduction PAGEREF _Toc317675785 h 3Review of the Articles PAGEREF _Toc317675786 h 3Discussion PAGEREF _Toc317675787 h 4Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc317675788 h 5References PAGEREF _Toc317675789 h 6
Comparison between Manual Device and Automated Blood Pressure CuffIntroductionThis paper posits to provide a comparison between manual device and automated blood pressure cuff. It will base the comparison on two topical journal articles in this regard. Debates concerning patient populations, clinical trials, as well as statistical analyses may appear to be distant and hollow when observing an anxious patient inside an examination room. At such a moment, what matters are the patient’s best interests. Yet clinically pertinent data, and more significantly, careful discussion of that information provides the solution. Professional clinicians often require the former so as to successfully deliver the latter (Landgraf et al., 2010). In this regard, two comparable journal articles were in recent times published arriving at arrived two different conclusions. The first journal is “Comparison of Automated Oscillometric Versus Auscultatory Blood Pressure Measurement”, authored Johanna Landgraf, Stanley Wishner, and Robert Kloner. The American Journal of Cardiology published this journal. The other article is “Why Automated Office Blood Pressure Should Now Replace the Mercury Sphygmomanometer”, authored by Martin G. Myers. This article is available in the Journal of Clinical Hypertension.
Review of the ArticlesIn the first journal, the authors introduce concerns regarding the utilization of automated oscillometric BP devices. The article reports significant dissimilarity observed in blood pressure readings taken concurrently by use of the auscultatory/mercury procedure as well as the automated oscillometric procedure. The authors report that manual auscultatory outcomes were characteristically higher than the ones utilizing automated oscillometric devices, predominantly in aged patients. The mean inconsistency between techniques was reported as approximately 2 mm Hg. The major concern in the article is the likelihood for a number of hypertensive patients to undergo under treatment as a result (Landgraf et al., 2010).
In the second article, Myers asserts that, the mercury sphygmomanometer has become a hindrance to the provision of optimum care towards the patient with hypertension in regular clinical practice. The author’s argument is based on the multitude of extraneous factors connected with manual blood pressure measurement in the real-life world, which lead to blood pressure readings of erratic accuracy and quality. Myers alleges that automated oscillometric devices that have been autonomously validated for precision would help eliminate such variability (Myers, 2010).
DiscussionTechnical observations concerning the first article assert that the discrepancies between automated and manual techniques are significant. It may be inaccurate to allege that an observer mean SYS of 133 +/- 20 mmHg is considerably larger than the device mean SYS of 131 +/- 18 mmHg. On the contrary, these values are reasonably comparable in the majority of clinical settings. This is the case especially when considering that the majority of auscultatory BPs performed by medical staff depicts faster deflation rates than alleged by the study. Additionally, since the study utilized the same cardiologist for each of the manual readings, it would be probable that an observer-to-observer assessment would depict similar differences.
The majority of clinical offices depend on automated oscillometric devices in measuring blood pressure, but the precision of this technique as opposed to, auscultatory determination utilizing a mercury manometer is contentious. According to Landgraf et al. (2010) to determine the precision of readings from automated oscillometric, blood pressure was computed from the same cuff and site, in 337 successive patients seen in a regular cardiology office, utilizing a simultaneous link to an automated oscillometric as well as, a mercury manometer procedure. The mean systolic BP (133 ± 20 mm Hg) as well as diastolic BP (72 ± 11 mm Hg) were considerably greater in using the mercury manometer than with the automated oscillometric procedure (systolic 131 ± 18 and diastolic 70 ± 12 mm Hg, p <0.0001). Divergence, roughly at all times lower oscillometric as well as greater mercury manometer in systolic blood pressure were observed in 22% of all patients. Divergence in diastolic blood pressure was observed in 20% of all patients. The mean of the divergence between the two procedures was 1.95 ± 5 mm Hg (range 1 to 26) for systolic blood pressure and 1.3 ± 4 mm Hg (range 1 to 25) for diastolic blood pressure. The divergence was larger in patients above 65 years of age.
ConclusionThe mercury manometer procedure led to consistently larger blood pressure values than in oscillometric devices. These outcomes bear imperative clinical implications, together with the theory that patients whose blood pressure seems to be under control in utilizing the oscillometric technique may not be in their goal BP and may have under gone under treatment.
ReferencesLandgraf, J., Stanley, W., & Robert, K. (2010). Comparison of Automated Oscillometric versus Auscultatory Blood Pressure Measurement. American Journal of Cardiology, 106, (3). 386-388.
Myers, M. (2010). Why Automated Office Blood Pressure Should Now Replace the Mercury Sphygmomanometer. The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 12, (7), 1.