A dialect continuum is a range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area‚ differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close to each other‚ and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater. Dialects separated by great geographical distances may not be mutually comprehensible. According to the Ausbausprache - Abstandsprache - Dachsprache paradigm‚ these dialects can be considered Abstandsprachen (i.e.‚ as stand-alone languages). However
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Continuum The moon rolls over the roof and falls behind my house‚ and the moon does neither of these things‚ I am talking about myself. It’s not possible to get off to sleep or the subject or the planet‚ nor to think thoughts. Better barefoot it out the front. door and lean from the porch across the privets and the palms into the washed-out creation‚ a dark place with two particular bright clouds dusted (query) by the moon‚ one’s mine the other’s an adversary‚ which may depend on the
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Continuum of Strategies Sylvia Brooks‚ Kenya Conyers‚ Jennifer Williams SEI/500 Structured English Immersion October 22‚ 2012 Dr. Gretchen Meyer Continuum of Strategies Introduction: Mrs. Brooks is a first grade teacher in Harvard Elementary School and this year she has twenty five students in her classroom. Of the twenty five students in her classroom‚ five are English Language Learners. These five students are all Spanish speaking but two are from Puerto Rico and three are of Mexican
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MAIN THEMES/ IDEAS: Sleep/ Insomnia: The poem takes place at nighttime (“moon”) and it starts and ends with the author going or try to sleep (“It’s no possible to get off to sleep”‚ “paces me back to bed‚ stealthily in step”). The insomnia of the author leads to a wondering of thoughts in the moonlight. The proximity of sleep in the poem makes this wondering of thoughts more believable. This time of night when thoughts are blurry and it is easy to slip into the unknown and the imaginary (“bright
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and disabled. Medicare was introduced in 1965. It was the largest change in health care coverage. Medicare provides the elderly with better health and risk reduction. It provided 40% reduction in out-of-pocket expenses. The medicare program has removed many of the financial barriers that prevented older people from seeking medical care. Medicare has provided a framework to help achieve improvements in the health care availability to all americans. Medicare returned physicians to an area where they
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Describe the continuum of care and how health care is organized to respond to health issues In the United States (U.S.)‚ health care is organized to respond to health issues as needed. In recent years with the talk of health care reform‚ the continuum of care is a resurfacing issue. Most Americans seek health care only when needed. This could be because the fee for service‚ the payment received is only for that particular illness. In the continuum of care in rural community‚ based settings
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Long Term Care Hospitals and Long-Term Care Facilities Ali Gooseberry Professor Sandra Di Pietro HCS – 235 December 15th‚ 2014 Abstract Hospitals can be set up as nonprofit or for-profit facilities. The differences between the nonprofit and for profit hospitals will be discussed. Hospitals have experienced different trends in the last thirty years. This paper will identify at least three major trends that have occurred within the hospital sector. Three examples that describe and differentiate
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is wellness? What are the dimensions of wellness? How is wellness conceptualized as a continuum? Wellness is the process of adopting patterns of behavior that can lead to improved health and heightened life satisfaction. The dimensions of wellness are physical‚ emotional‚ intellectual‚ spirituals interpersonal or social‚ and environmental. Wellness is conceptualized as a continuum; one end of the continuum represents extreme illness and premature death‚
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Continuum of Health Promotion Significant changes are required in health care‚ and the profession of nursing in particular‚ to meet the mandates required by the 2010 passage of healthcare reform laws. Such new options for illness prevention and wellness through health promotion will provide greater opportunities for nurses to work outside the traditional hospital settings. Nurses are best equipped to provide safe‚ quality‚ patient-centered care in an affordable and accessible manner. Appropriate
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Describe the legal framework that is provided for the employment contract by 1. identifying the tests the courts apply to determine who is an employee. 2. explaining how these tests have been defined or modified in Pointe-Claire (City of) v. Quebec (Labour Court)‚ [1997] 1 S.C.R. 1015. 3. summarizing the most important principles of contract law governing the formation of an employment contract. Employment contracts are encased by many legal frameworks which significantly influence
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