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- 12521: Heart Of Darkness
- Heart of Darkness In Joseph Conrad's novelette Heart of Darkness, Marlow's view of women embodies the typical 19th century view of women as the inferior sex. There are only three relatively minor female characters in Heart of Darkness: Marlow's aunt, Kurtz's mistress, and Kurtz's "Intended." Marlow mentions these female characters in order to give the literal aspect of his tale more substance. While they definitely play specific roles in the story, ...
- 12522: Home Health Care Nursing
- ... Dating way back in history, almost all health care was done at home. In the early, 19th century, the doctor made house calls with everything he needed in his black bag. Other than the doctor’s occasional visits, usually female family members cared for the patient. In the early 20th century, not only did the nation grow in technology, but the medical field also grew with new inventions, developments, technology, and ... very rapid rate. In the following pages, I hope to familiarize individuals with home health care nursing. First, I will explain the increasing need for home health care nursing. Next, I will talk about DRG’s and how this type of insurance guideline determines what type of care a patient will receive. Then I will proceed to explain about what type of experience and qualifications needed for home health care nursing ... to age, the hospital stays continue to shorten, and individuals prefer home over institutional health care, the need for home health specialist will continue to be in great demand (Stulginsky,1993). According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1991, predictions for the year 2000 indicated that home health will need 8,000 more registered nurses than employed in 1990 to keep pace with the need (cited ...
- 12523: The Spanish-American War
- ... States as a global military power. The Spanish-American War affected the United States in a number of other ways. It helped speed the construction of the Panama Canal and also resulted in the U.S.'s acquisition of foreign territories. There were also many other minor positive outcomes to the war as opposed to the few negative consequences that resulted. The Spanish-American War was the brief conflict that the United States waged against Spain in 1898. The war had grown out of the Cuban struggle for independence, and whose other causes included American imperialism and the sinking of the U.S warship Maine. The actual hostilities in the war lasted four months, from April 25 to August 12, 1898. Most of the fighting occurred in or near the Spanish colonial possessions of Cuba and the ...
- 12524: Freedom In The Story Of An Hou
- Freedom in The Story of an Hour Mrs. Mallard s overwhelming response of free, free, free! upon hearing of her husband s death reflects the attitude of many nineteenth century women. During this time, highly restrictive gender roles forbade women to live as they saw fit. In The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin allows her audience to envision the moment that Mrs. Mallard is able to shed the bondage of marriage that was forced upon her. This was Mrs. Mallard s chance to actually live life on her own terms. Not on the terms prescribed to her by her husband. After this revelation on her behalf, the outcome of the story is both ironic and ...
- 12525: Death In Hamlet
- Death In Hamlet The deaths in Shakespeare's Hamlet were, with some exceptions, morally acceptable & justifiable according to Elizabethan standards. An Elizabethan death was considered morally acceptable as long as it was out of honor and loyalty; as a result of sickness or ... considered to be immoral if it was the result of mendacious intentions. In the play, Hamlet, there were cases where the son died out of honor and loyalty during his quest to avenge his father's death. Hamlet died a morally acceptable death that was a result of his loyalty as a son for the honor of his father. King Hamlet returned from his grave as a ghost to tell Hamlet ... walk the night…Till the foul crimes done in (his) day of nature were burnt and purged away". In order for King Hamlet to leave purgatory, Hamlet was required to seek "revenge (for) his (father's) foul and most unnatural murder" through killing Claudius, the murderer "with traitorous gifts" who killed King Hamlet. Claudius became aware that Hamlet knew the truth and that he was conspiring against him. As a ...
- 12526: Cropping Boxers
- ... of boxers, and an entirely different style of ear cropping. The boxer, of course is the boxer dog. A breed that by custom and by standards typically undergoes a surgical procedure designed to turn it’s naturally floppy-style ear into ears that stand tall, stiff, and erect.(Abraham 8) Meanwhile at the other end of the Boxer’s well muscled physique, we find it’s tail, or what’s left of it. The tail you see also undergoes a surgical procedure. The tail is docked, meaning, in layman’s terms, that it is cut short.(Abraham10) It leaves the ...
- 12527: Justifying the Ways of God to Man: Paradise Lost, Book III
- ... in a poem, especially someone who had a good idea about the God he believed in. Milton, however, may have come very close to hitting the nail on the head in his portrayal of God's nature in the first 200 lines of Book III of Paradise Lost. Milton sets out to "justify the ways of God to men" (Chambers, 26), which ultimately he proves he does not need to do ... inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Hughes, 51-55). Milton's lack of sight is an asset here. We are forced as readers to look upon this scene with the same physical blindness that Milton had. He makes it clear that we could not see it ... could say that God is reason, and it shows up in his language. Before God even speaks we are told that from Heaven "past, present, and future he beholds" (Hughes, 78). We could view God's omniscience as a mystical power, but it could be the constancy of reason that gives him this power. If God is reason, then perhaps its eternal and unchanging nature brings into view the events ...
- 12528: A Scarlet Letter: Honesty Heals a Guilty Heart
- ... than Roger Chillingworth in that she revealed her sin rather than concealing it, she faced her problems rather than running away from them, and Hester was an honest companion to Reverend Dimmesdale. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, Hester Prynne was honest enough to herself to reveal the adulterous acts she had committed; whereas, Roger Chillingworth refrained from revealing the wrongs that he secretly performed. The first picture of Hester showed her ... by concealed sin. He did not reveal to anyone the revenge he felt in his heart, and he tried to keep anyone from realizing that his revenge was slowly taking over his life. Mr. Chillingworth’s self-assigned mission was to inflict torturous revenge on Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the man who has assisted in ruining his wife’s reputation. Roger’s sin was worthy of being revealed because, as Dimmesdale stated dramatically to Hester, “That old man’s revenge has been blacker that my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the ...
- 12529: Comparitive Essay Between Gene
- A Boomer's Expense Through out history the world has seen some generations that have made an impact more than all of its predecessors. The decade of the 60's and the 80's were definitely one of those eras. During the era two distinctive groups were coined under the terms Generation X'ers and Hippies/Drifters. Born of Baby Boomers, in Michener's The Drifters and Coupland' ...
- 12530: Heart Of Darkness - Racism
- Chinua Achebe, a well-known writer, once gave a lecture at the University of Massachusetts about Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, entitled "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Throughout his essay, Achebe notes how Conrad used Africa as a background only, and how he "set Africa up as a foil to Europe,"(Achebe, p.251) while he also "projects the ... the native woman. Explaining that the savage "fulfills a structural requirement of the story: a savage counterpart to the refined European woman," and also that the biggest "difference is the one implied in the author's bestowal of human expression to the one and the withholding of it from the other."(Achebe, p.255) This lack of human expression and human characteristics is what Achebe says contributes to the overflowing ...
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