A Phenomenological study describing the lived experience of nurses caring for prisoner-patients by Christopher Veal i A Phenomenological study describing the lived experience of nurses caring for prisoner-patients ABSTRACT There are close to five thousand prisoners in custody in Queensland prisons and this number is on the increase. Prisoners have complex health needs and it is the role of the correctional health nurse to care for prisoner-patients and their health needs. Yet there
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Hester Prynne and Henry David Thoreau: Rebels in Society Hester Prynne is an anarchic force that destabilizes the status quo‚ allowing change to occur. She is a strong character‚ a rebel ostracized from society. The isolation she lives in brings her sorrow‚ yet grants her freedom of thought. Hester rejects the imprisoning commands of an accusatory society and has the will to fight against their influence over her nature. Henry David Thoreau also rebelled against the established orders of
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Henry David Thoreau‚ an American Transcendentalist and philosopher‚ is the ideal person who I consider significant to hold a conversation with. I consider him significant because he was an incredible author that was moved by the joyous‚ wild‚ and dazzling beauty in the world. He was known for creating powerful pieces of literature from unnoticed topics such as‚ Walden‚ an essay he wrote about his experiences at Walden Pond. With Walden in mind‚ I would ask Thoreau: Should man take a road to experience
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Henry David Thoreau asks‚ in his essay‚ “Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them‚ or shall we endeavor to amend them and obey them until we have succeeded‚ or shall we transgress them at once?” (184) The answer will depend on which side of the law or the laws you are on‚ minority or majority. When the laws are made by the majority the laws can’t all be just‚ expect for the majority that wanted it. Should the wise minority be able to disobey laws that were created by the majority? Obeying
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Kerbs’ lived a very simple life. After he returned home from the war there was not much he could attribute to. As we read‚ “ … he practiced on his clarinet‚ strolled down town‚ read and went to bed” (Hemmingway‚ 1). Kerbs‚ however was not forced into this simple life‚ he chose it. I do not believe Kerbs was destined to a simple life‚ I believe he choose it. Kerbs returned home from war without the intent to write memoirs about his experience‚ tell his story‚ or teach people. When Kerbs returned home
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The Great Gatsby was set in New York in the summer of 1922. This time period was known as “The Jazz Age” or “The Roaring Twenties.” The characters in the book lived in West Egg or East Egg depending on the way they acquired their wealth. The characters who lived in East Egg were considered “old money” whereas the characters who lived in West Egg were considered “new money.” Although Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby were neighbors in West Egg‚ they had different levels of education‚ wealth‚ and lifestyles
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Booth‚ a loyal Southerner. With the South in cheers for his death‚ they fail to realize that he was their only hope for a better Reconstruction. If he had lived‚ he would had been so much lenient towards the South‚ unlike the Radicals‚ and the states would have complied almost immediately. As a wise man as he is‚ he knows what to say and what not to say. Getting the South back into the Union was the biggest and most sensitive issue he had to deal with. Lincoln could had handled it well. Starting
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Research A study of the lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit Natalie Holms‚ Stuart Milligan‚ Angela Kydd T his paper details a qualitative study to explore the lived experiences of registered intensive care unit (ICU) nurses who have provided end-of-life care (EOLC) to dying patients and their families within an ICU. Providing EOLC in the ICU can be stressful for ICU nurses‚ who are rapidly confronted with the fast transition from
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background and Rationale The Islamic head-covering known as hijab is one of the most prominent religious symbol in the world. A woman wearing a hijab connotes that the wearer is a Muslim. It has been defined as a sign of liberation or a constraint‚ obligation to God or submissiveness to men‚ equality or oppression‚ and freedom or objectification. The term hijab in Arabic literally means “a screen or curtain” is used in the Qur ’an to refer to a “partition” or “separation”
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Henry David Thoreau In “Civil Disobedience‚” Henry David Thoreau focuses his ideas around the central theme‚ “It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law‚ so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.” He defines man as a person who listens and acts to his conscience and states that if man obeys laws opposing his conscience‚ such as laws created by legislators‚ then he is no better than an animal. Thoreau begins
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