Kurt Vonnegut passed away in 2007. If I had the chance to go back in time and smoke a Pall Mall with him‚ I wonder what I’d say. If I somehow managed to maintain my cool‚ perhaps I’d stare straight into his soul and mouth the words “So it goes” or as is the more probable outcome‚ crumble into a pathetic stuttering fanboy. I have probably read “Cat’s Cradle (1963)”‚ “The Monkey House (1968)” and “Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)” at least five times each and they are amongst my favorite books of all time
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Particularly‚ in his work The Package we can see a representation of the type of literature written during the Contemporary Period. The package was a short story by Kurt Vonnegut‚ which was published on July 26‚ 1952. The story deals with a very successful retired businessman Earl Fenton and his wife‚ who used to work their whole lives just to get where they are. There was a day when both returned from a trip around the world and they had moved into their brand-new house with all modern conveniences
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The nursing shortage impacts the world in a prodigious way. The nursing shortage has an adverse impact on patient care‚ as well as on nurses. The causes of the nursing shortage are multi-faceted and there is no single measure that influences the declining issues. The most concerning issue of the nursing shortage is the decline in patient care‚ and positive outcome (Buchan‚ 2010). The research question in this study is the following: How does the nursing shortage affect quality of patient care
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The story 2BORNot2B by Kurt Vonnegut is about a man named Edward K. Wheeling Jr. who waits for his wife to give birth to triplets. But then he soon realizes that he doesn’t have people to sacrifice. That’s when the theme comes. The theme of the story is that a parent would do anything to save a child. One reason that supports the theme is that Edward Wheeling had killed him and 2 others for his babies. A quote to show that is “Wheeling shot Dr.Hitz dead. There’s room for one- a gread big one
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In the short story “2BR02B” by Kurt Vonnegut there is this really perfect life where nothing is really bad‚ except if a new child is born you have to have the same number of volunteers to die. There are triplets born that do not have enough volunteers. I can claim that most people don’t want to volunteer to die. My first piece of evidence was found in lines 8 and 9‚ “ X-rays had revealed that his wife was going to have triplets. The children would be his first. Young wehling was hunched in his
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Abstract Nursing is one of the oldest careers in history. It has grown tremendously since the beginning of the profession and strives forward in hopes to attain more advancement in the medical field. Along the years‚ there have been several controversies regarding nursing as a profession. In this paper we will discuss what nursing professionalism is and why we as nurses need to remain a professional icon in the occupation. This paper will also summarize two nursing articles regarding nursing professionalism
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Journal of Nursing Science (2008) 5‚ 71 doi:10.1111/j.1742-7924.2008.00111.x EDITORIAL Nursing theory – remembering our future Modern nursing theory began with Virginia Henderson in the 1960s. In her grand theory of nursing‚ she defined nursing as “assisting individuals to gain independence in the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery (Henderson‚ 1966‚ p. 15). Since the 1970s‚ the literature on nursing theory has focused upon two levels of nursing theories: the “grand
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Organizational Change Plan-Part I Janet Yapor HCS 587 October 6‚ 2010 Perlita Cerilo Organizational Change Plan-Part I The proposed organizational change is designed for the Miami VA Medical Center (MVAMC). The vision of the MVAMC is that of a hospital that provides veterans world-class benefits and services adhering to the highest standards‚ (Department of Veterans Affairs‚ 2010). Therefore‚ to provide and maintain excellence in care‚ it is necessary to improve constantly. Health
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governments‚ the Rockefeller‚ Edna McConnell Clark and James S McDonnell Foundations and the Wellcome Trust. The Scientific Coordinating Centre for the Partnership is based at: The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease‚ University of Oxford‚ South Parks Road‚ Oxford‚ OX1 3FY ‚ UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1865 271 290 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 281 245 Email: child.development@ceid.ox.ac.uk Web: http://www.ceid.ox.ac.uk/child/ P A R T N E R S H I P FO R C H I LD D E V E LO P M E N T Contents
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Healthcare and nursing in the 1900-1919 period would change history forever. Nursing during this time would change from the traditional bedside nursing at home to a more institutional based nursing within the hospitals (Porter-O’Grady‚ T. 2004). In the Early 20th century most nursing education was hospital based and students learned by doing. Care was now being delivered at the hospitals. Organized medicine begins to emerge with the American Medical Association (AMA) reorganizing as the national
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