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    Much led Londoners to inhabit the asylum. The mad‚ drunk‚ homeless‚ and reluctant were outcasts o the rest of Englands inhabits. People that were thought threats to society had punishments ranging from being restrained‚ to being murdered and “left to rot in a gibbet at the crossroads” (Arnold 43) . Th ough most veiwers of the events of Bedlam see the punishments as brutal at the time it was actually seen as treatment. This was‚ afterall‚ the 1400’s – 1500’s‚ they lacked a lot of medical advancement

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    In 1936 Florence Thompson allowed Dorothea Lange to photograph her family because she thought it might help the plight of the working poor. "She always wanted a better life‚" her daughter later said. The "Mother Migrants" picture can be said to be the most celebrated narrative picture of the twentieth century and has turned into an image of perseverance even with misfortune. One of Lange’s most perceived works is titled Migrant Mother. The lady in the photograph is Florence Owens Thompson. In 1960

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    My Country – Dorothea Mackellar My Country is an iconic nationalistic poem about Australia written by Dorothea Mackellar in 1908. Dorothea Mackellar was born in Sydney in 1885. Her education was comprised of private home tutoring until she attended University of Sydney. She travelled broadly with her parents and also become fluent in Spanish‚ French‚ German and Italian. She highly educated and lived an adventurous life. Though raised in a professional urban family‚ Mackellar’s poetry is usually

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    Running head: DOROTHEA OREM’S SELF CARE THEORY Dorothea Orem’s Self Care Theory Carmen Sigley West Virginia University Abstract When a patient needs to decrease the potential problem that prevents him from reaching his optimal health‚ nurses can use Orem’s Self-care Model as a tool to identify when and how much they can influence the patient care. This theory is the key of nursing care if it is used optimal and in a period of time when patient’s development can be discover and manipulated

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    A destitute mother glances to the side as her two children cling to her shoulders. The photograph taken by Dorothea Lange of the Migrant Mother exists as one of the most iconic images from the years of the Great Depression. But it raises the question of what makes the photo remarkably famous. Without planning for it at the time‚ Lange successfully presented to the world the hardships of the Great Depression and the immense impact it created on people and their lives’. Perhaps it holds noticeable

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    Frontline: New Asylums addresses the lack of effective policies to facilitate treatment and rehabilitation for the mentally ill within the prison system. The social injustice theoretical perspective addresses the need for social benefits‚ resources and protection of the mentally ill within the criminal justice system. The perspective provides equal access of resources to all people and is based on human need rather than political or social power. The elimination of state mental hospitals was not

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    and 1850‚ the United States was undergoing a series of reform movements. At the same time‚ America was rapidly growing and diversifying. Movements were designed to adapt to the new‚ bigger nation. They inspired the creation of new institutions as well. Americans had different feelings about their expanding nation. Some welcomed the changes‚ excited about the growth. Others became worried about the future of America. The reform movements came as a result of these different feelings. On the surface

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    Otto Dix was a German artist who painted the German perspective in his pieces. A famous piece of his is “Stormtroopers Advancing Under Gas” which displays German soldiers wearing gas masks and participating in trench warfare. It’s a menacing view of the soldier’s as they advanced on enemy lines. One of the soldier’s in the painting is wrapped in barbed wire representing one way in which a soldier’s body came under attack. The men have an inhuman look‚ as if they are already dead. The absence of color

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    Reform Movements Penitentiaries 1. John Howard was the leader of the penitentiary movement. 2. John Howard started the “Penitentiary Movement” because he had concerns for the jailers since they were beginning to see more and more deaths from the prisoners. Howard’s actions were caused due to the diseases that were intensified by the conditions of the prisoners’ incarcerations. The conditions were particularly that the jailers did not receive a salary; however‚ they made a living from prisoners

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    The temperance movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries was an organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence. The movement’s ranks were mostly filled by women who‚ with their children‚ had endured the effects of uncontrolled drinking by many of their husbands. These organizations used many arguments to convince their countrymen of the evils of alcohol. They argued that alcohol was a cause of poverty. They said that drunk

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