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The History Of Dorothea Dix

Pages: 7 (2009 words) Sources: 6 Document Type:Essay Document #:92748970

… and her impact on the profession of nursing.
Dorothea L. Dix was born in 1802 in Maine to a father who was a bookseller and preacher in the Methodist church and a mother who was a housewife (Tiffany, 1890). Dorothea was not content in her home life … show care to others thanks to her deeply empathetic and sympathetic nature (Modak, Sarkar & Sagar, 2016). She also wrote a number of books, including one of the first books to be published in the U.S. that served as a dictionary of flowers. She wrote children’s books, books on devotion, and books on reform. She was an active thinker and dedicated to making a difference.
However, her health suffered and she had to give up ……

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Brown, T. J. (1998). Dorothea Dix: New England Reformer (Vol. 127). Harvard University Press.

Darraj, S. M. (2009). Mary Eliza Mahoney. Infobase Publishing.

Fantel, H. (1974). William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co.

Gollaher, D. L. (1993). Dorothea Dix and the English origins of the American asylum movement. Canadian Review of American Studies, 23(3), 149-176.

Hardy, S., & Corones, A. (2017). The nurse’s uniform as ethopoietic fashion. Fashion Theory, 21(5), 523-552.

Hathway, M. (1934). Dorothea Dix and Social Reform in Western Pennsylvania, 1845-1875. Western Pennsylvania History: 1918-2018, 17(4), 247-258.

Howard, A. & Kavenick, F. (1990). Handbook of American women’s history. New York, NY: Garland.

Modak, T., Sarkar, S., & Sagar, R. (2016). Dorothea dix: A proponent of humane treatment of mentally ill. Journal of Mental Health and Human Behaviour, 21(1), 69.

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The Practice Of American Public Policymaking

Pages: 5 (1629 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:86627986

The Principles of Machiavelli in American Policy
The first chapter in The Practice of American Public Policymaking lays out what the book examines in the succeeding chapters. First, Briggs and Helms (2015) define policymaking as “the activities, actors, institutions, practices, and technologies that combine to … goods’ to the American people” (p. 3). Public policy is defined as “the art and science of producing results” (p. 3). Thus, the book is primarily about American public policymaking and the focus is on conception and practice, which means that both the development and the implementation … policy without implementation” and there is no awareness of the success of a policy without evaluation (Briggs & Helms, 2015, p. 3). The book does not focus on analysis but rather on practice primarily—on the what rather than the why.
Technology—from TV to budgets—is discussed in order … the government is that it is supposed to……

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Briggs, S., & Helms, L. B. (2015). The practice of American public policymaking. New York: Routlege Taylor & Francis Group.

DeLeon, P., & DeLeon, L. (2002). What ever happened to policy implementation? An alternative approach. Journal of public administration research and theory, 12(4), 467-492.

Mizaur, D. G. (1993). Quality government is government of the people, by the people, for the people. Public Productivity & Management Review, 371-377.

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The Bell Jar Shows How Shock Therapy Makes Women Strong

Pages: 7 (2016 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Essay Document #:74900001

...Book How Esther is a Model of a Self-Sufficient Woman in The Bell Jar
Introduction
Sylvia Plath’s first person narrator in The Bell Jar comes across as a Holden Caulfield type—a disaffected, somewhat lost, but highly intelligent individual capable of critical thought and therefore exceedingly lonely in a world of conformists, who seem to show no desire to question anything or to know themselves. The narrator of Plath’s novel is Esther Greenwood—a young woman living in New York, a city she loathes. As a result of an acute sense of not being able to fit in anywhere, Esther suffers from depression and tries to kill herself. She ends up receiving a number of shock therapies—such as insulin shock therapy and electroshock therapy—before finally beginning to feel free to be her own person without fear. From a Feminist Criticism perspective, it can be argued that Esther is the model of a strong,……

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Alberga-Parisi, A., & Pope, B. (2018). Loss and the Perfection Crucible in The Bell Jar and The Catcher in the Rye. When Loss Gets Personal: Discussing Death through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom, 141.

Bell, E. (2016). Adolescence and Liminality in Carson McCullers’ Short Fiction. In Childhood through the Looking Glass (pp. 89-98). Brill.

Codina, N., & Pestana, J. V. (2019). Time Matters Differently in Leisure Experience for Men and Women: Leisure Dedication and Time Perspective. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16(14), 2513.

Effthimiou, O., & Franco, Z. (2017). Heroic intelligence: The hero\\\\\\'s journey as an evolutionary and existential blueprint. Journal of Genius and Eminence, 2(2).

Plath, S. (1996). The bell jar. New York, NY: HarperCollins.

Short, E. C., ed. (1991). Forms of curriculum inquiry. New York, NY: SUNY Press.

Tyson, L. (2006). Critical theory today: A user-friendly guide. New York, NY: Routledge.

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Lifelong Learning Plan For A Healthcare Administrator

Pages: 8 (2330 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Essay Document #:75701089

… and organization, which is how I see the Army.
Vision
Maxwell’s (1998) 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership will be the guiding the management book that provides the basis for my understanding/approaches as a manager. It looks at how to win over followers and identifies 21 specific factors … as well as other leaders is essential to growth. True leadership is not something that can be contained in a simple statement or book. Leadership is complex and there is no one-size-fits-all approach to it (Northouse, 2016). As Stogdill (1948) notes there are many different personal factors … many different personal factors that can be associated with leadership, from personality traits to background to experience and so on.
The guiding healthcare book that provides the basis for my understanding/approaches/actions in the health care arena will be Freeman’s (2001) book Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Systems Change: Helping Individuals, Families, and……

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Freeman, E. (2001). Substance Abuse Intervention, Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Systems Change: Helping Individuals, Families, and Groups to Empower Themselves. Columbia University Press.

Maxwell, J. (1998). The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers.

Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and practice (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage Publications.

Stogdill, R. M. (1948). Personal factors associated with leadership: A survey of the literature. Journal of Psychology, 25, 35–71.

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How Does Philosophy Relate To Biblical Studies

Pages: 9 (2773 words) Sources: 13 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:60991740

… theology, and the latter used in the former. Biblical theology is the study of the Bible as a whole unit from the first book to the last. It attempts to tell the biblical story as a whole based on what is written in the Christian scripture, the ……

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Addinall, P. (1991). Philosophy and biblical interpretation: A study in nineteenth-century conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Amanze, N. (2012). Biblical Studies, Theology, Religion and Philosophy: An Introduction for African Universities.

Carson, D. A. (2012). Christ and culture revisited. Grand Rapids, MI ; Cambridge: Eerdmans.

DeWeese, G. J. (2011). Doing Philosophy as a Christian. Westmont: InterVarsity Press.

Hamilton, J. M. (2010). God\\'s glory in salvation through judgment: A biblical theology. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway.

Hamilton, J. M. (2014). What is biblical theology?: A guide to the Bible\\'s story, symbolism, and patterns.

In Bartholomew, C. G. (2011). \\"Behind\\" the text: History and Biblical Interpretation.

Johnson, D. (2014). Biblical knowing: A scriptural epistemology of error. Havertown: James Clarke & Co.

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Fight Club And Resiliency

Pages: 9 (2826 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Essay Document #:28924089

… has been called a “snowflake” culture, a term popularized by the 1996 Chuck Palahniuk novel Fight Club. As Palahniuk said later when the book was made into a cult hit film, “Every generation gets offended by different things but my friends who teach in high school tell ……

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Domhardt, M., Münzer, A., Fegert, J. M., & Goldbeck, L. (2015). Resilience in survivors of child sexual abuse: A systematic review of the literature. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 16(4), 476-493.

Fincher, D. (1999). Fight club. Los Angeles, CA: 20th Century Fox.

Koerner, R. (2017). Authoritarians to the Right of Me, Authoritarians to the Left. Retrieved from  https://fee.org/articles/authoritarians-to-the-right-of-me-authoritarians-to-the-left/ 

Londoner. (2017). Londoner's Diary: Fight Club's Chuck Palahniuk: "I coined 'snowflake' and I stand by it". Retrieved from  https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/londoners-diary-chuck-palahniuk-i-coined-snowflake-and-i-stand-by-it-a3448226.html#comments 

Perkins-Gough, D. (2013). The significance of grit: A conversation with Angela Lee Duckworth. Educational Leadership, 71(1), 14-20.

Reivich, K. J., Seligman, M. E., & McBride, S. (2011). Master resilience training in the US Army. American Psychologist, 66(1), 25.

Tough, P. (2013). How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character. NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Webster, D., & Rivers, N. (2018). Resisting resilience: disrupting discourses of self- efficacy. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 1-13.

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Stephen Kings The Outsider Persuasive Argument

Pages: 4 (1238 words) Sources: 1 Document Type:Essay Document #:51886635

Stephen King’s The Outsider: A Persuasive Argument
Introduction
The Outsider is a well-written book with exiting and unexpected turns and twists. The book has several well-developed themes. In my opinion, however, the central theme of the story is the rational man’s inability to believe that which … kids we believe in the tooth-fairy and regard Father Christmas as a real benevolent person. These are beliefs we outgrow with time. This book questions the rational perspective of life that we embrace as adults. In the end, the key lesson is that we must be objective ……

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Works Cited

Kind, Stephen. The Outsider. Simon and Schuster, 2019.

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Coronavirus COVID 19 In The United States

Pages: 8 (2400 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Essay Document #:648841

...Book Keywords:  corona virus, coronavirus, covid, covid-19

Abstract

The novel Coronavirus COVID-19 appeared in China in 2019, quickly having a much more serious impact than prior evolutions of the coronavirus.  As it began to spread from Wuhan, the district in China where it originated, to other parts of China and to other countries, the world began to realize that the local epidemic could become a pandemic.  Efforts to contain the spread were varied and had mixed results, but Coronavirus eventually hit the United States and began to spread locally.  In this article, we describe what Coronavirus is, what COVID-19 is, where it originated, where it has spread, transmission rates, mortality, and efforts to contain the spread of the disease.  Because this is a constantly evolving situation, this article should be used in conjunction with developing news to fully understand the issue.    

Introduction

Almost everyone in the United States is aware that……

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  “Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Key Facts.”  CDC.  12 March 2020.   https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/share-facts.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fabout%2Fshare-facts.html .  Accessed 16 March 2020.

Newey, S. and Gulland, A.  “What Is Coronavirus, How Did It Start and Could the Outbreak Grow Bigger?”  The Telegraph.  16 March 2020.   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/16/what-coronavirus-how-start-outbreak-pandemic-covid-19/ .  Accessed 16 March 2020.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  “Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Frequently Asked Questions.”  FDA.  2020.   https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-issues/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-frequently-asked-questions .  Accessed 16 March 2020.

World Health Organization.  “Coronavirus.”  WHO.  2020.   https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus .  Accessed 16 March 2020. 

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Arabic Language And Culture Course Middle East Culture

Pages: 9 (2626 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Project Proposal Document #:35105739

… Levels, highlighting the cultural settings for the application of Arabic frameworks and vocabulary. Teaching materials utilized in the program include 4 Arabic multi-media book units (book title - “Hadduuta MaSriyya” “An Egyptian Story”), which is, at present, in the development phase, by three senior CASA educators. The textbook is in its final stage of editing and revision and is expected to be published in the spring.
· Eight hours weekly dedicated ……

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Center for Arabic Study Abroad (Casa). (2012). USED Grant Proposal, 2008-2012. Cairo, Egypt, The University Of Texas, Austin. Retrieved from  http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/texas.doc 

Center for Cross-Cultural Learning. (2008). Arabic Course Description and Syllabus. Boston University Morocco Program. Department of Moroccan Languages and Culture CCCL. Retrieved from  http://www.bu.edu/abroad/files/2009/12/syllabus-rabat-language-and-liberal-arts-rabat-arabic.pdf 

General English Activities Worksheets Games.  https://www.teach-this.com/general-activities-worksheet s

Learn Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Online with Arab Academy.  https://www.arabacademy.com/msa/ 

Syllabus for Spanish Culture - Instructure. https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/902107/assignments/syllabus

Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1820&context=gradreports

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Criminology Sociology And Three Theories Of Crime

Pages: 2 (570 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:12132142

...Book The key assumptions underlying strain, control, and learning theories of criminal behavior are similar, which is why they are sometimes integrated or at least interrelated in criminological discourse. Strain theories evolved from Durkheim’s theory of anomie: the individual’s disregard for social norms arising from the breakdown of social cohesion (Crossman, 2019). A breakdown of social cohesion can result from the ineffectiveness or the perceived illegitimacy of social institutions. Thomas Merton proposed that anomie can be exacerbated when individuals experience strain—or psychological distress—resulting from unmet needs, especially when those needs are unmet due to sociological problems such as inequality, injustice, or disparity.
Control theories posit a set of internal and external controls on individual or even collective behavior. Social institutions are assumed to serve as mechanisms of social control, also influencing individual behaviors via a series of real or perceived constraints. Like strain theories, control theories assume that social cohesion is……

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Crossman, A. (2019). Deviance and strain theory in sociology. Thoughtco. Retrieved from:  https://www.thoughtco.com/structural-strain-theory-3026632 

“Differential Association, Strain and Control Theories,” (n.d.). Retrieved from: julianhermida.com/contbondstrain.htm

Rukus, J., Stogner, J. & Miller, B. (2016). LBGT novel drug use as contextualized through control, strain, and learning theories. Social Science Quarterly. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bryan_Miller4/publication/308669239_LGBT_Novel_Drug_Use_as_Contextualized_Through_Control_Strain_and_Learning_Theories_LGBT_Novel_Drug_Use/links/5a579e46aca2726376b66832/LGBT-Novel-Drug-Use-as-Contextualized-Through-Control-Strain-and-Learning-Theories-LGBT-Novel-Drug-Use.pdf

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