PURITAN LITERATURE three main points "Of Plymouth Plantation" by William Bradford Summary: Bradford describes life in the new Puritan (1)’city upon a hill’. The Puritans thanked God for bringing them to the new land and built their lives around him. Although‚ in the beginning‚ (2) they had to push through disease and harsh weather. Bradford also describes how lonely the Pilgrims felt‚ because no one could ’greet them’ and they were in a place in which they knew nothing about. He knew that
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The Dark Side of Poe During a life marked by pain and loss‚ Edgar Allen Poe wrote haunting tales in which he explored the dark side of the human mind. For Pow‚ it was only extreme conditions in which people revealed their true nature. His short stories leave readers with a sense of uneasiness. The settings of his stories‚ characters in the stories‚ and the plot all relate to his insane use of gothic elements. The Gothic dimensions of Poe’s fictional world offered him a way to explore the human
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ARAB It has been implied that cultural background can affect the pain experience‚ including how the pain is assessed‚ how it is treated‚ and whether there is satisfaction with the outcome. The patient presented in the scenario is a 25year old Arab American man who underwent a thoracotomy and is expressing intense pain to his family‚ but he rates his pain of less than 3 in a scale of 1to 10. He requests medication every three hours and will not get out of bed or ambulate. America is made
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Edgar Allan Poe and Henry David Thoreau were two very different authors‚ one was a mastermind of Gothic literature‚ while the other was a transcendentalist. One can understand Poe’s knack for stories like The Fall of the House of Usher because of his unprivileged childhood. His father deserted his family‚ and his mother died while Poe was very young (Wiggins 288). He also lived through constant poverty and suffered from depression‚ his only refuge being his wife‚ Virginia‚ who died when she was
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Port Arthur massacre Outlines the nature of the contemporary issues. On Sunday‚ 28 April 1996‚ Martin Bryant set off for Port Arthur‚ about an hour drive from his home in Hobart. On his way he stopped off at a guesthouse called the Seascape cottage where he killed the owners‚ David and Noelene Martin. Once Bryant had made it to Port Arthur he had a meal at the Broad arrow cafe. After finishing his meal‚ Bryant walked back into the Broad Arrow cafe‚ took out an AR-15 semi automatic rifle and opened
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Early horror literature came out of a mix of the upcoming of romanticism‚ the decline of the enlightenment‚ and most of all from early gothic traditions themselves. Neo-gothic interests greatly sparked the minds of many 18th century writers‚ Edgar Allen Poe being one of them. Poe is classified as an American Horror author of the romanticism era who wrote many short stories and poems of weird‚ gloomy‚ and haunting concepts. The ideas behind many of his stories relate to the minds of many people who
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of winter. ‘The owl... was a-cold’ and ‘trembling in her soft and chilly nest’ are examples of cold imagery found in St. Agnes‚ where the cold is contrasted by ‘the poppied warmth of sleep oppressed’ whereby heat symbolizes the sensuous nature of Madeline and Porphyro’s love‚ compared to the cold loneliness felt by the knight. These varying concepts of characters and cold partially help to develop the setting of both poems‚ meanwhile showing
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the challenge of caring for the Australian indigenous person? Journal of transcultural nursing‚ 12(2)‚ pp.94-99. JUNTUNEN‚ A‚ DEPARTMENT OF NURSING HEALTH AND ADMINISTRATION (2001). Professional and lay care in the Tanzanian village of Ilembula-Leiningers culture care theory. University of Oulu(accessed 06/2005). LIPPINCOTT‚ WILLIAMS and WILKINS (2005) Understanding transcultural nursing‚ career directory supplement. Nursing‚ 35(25)‚ pp.14-23. NARAYANASAMY‚ A. (1999) ASSET: a model for actioning
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Life is Like Literature Claudette Washington ENG 125 Introduction to Literature Instructor: Kristina Stutler October 11‚ 2010 Life is Like Literature Literature is a lot like life‚ it has meaning to it that expresses the mindset or involvement of the author. Literature is a term used to describe written material. Literature is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works‚ although it mostly refer to works of the creative imagination‚ including works
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University of Phoenix Material Syllogisms & Logic PART I: SYLLOGISMS To be a valid syllogism‚ the conclusion must be proven by the reasons. Carefully study the following syllogisms and decide if they are valid or invalid: 1. All zebras are striped animals. No zebras are polar bears. Therefore‚ no polar bears are striped animals. 2. All clowns are funny individuals. Some sad people are clowns. Therefore‚ some sad people are funny individuals. 3. Some sticky
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