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    remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught” Oscar Wilde I just admire this guy! I really like all of his sayings‚ because all of them are deep‚ full of wisdom and simple. So‚ a couple of words about him‚ just in memory of his talent. Oscar Wilde lived not long‚ only forty-six years. He died in Paris in December 1900. With him ended the nineteenth century - at the calendar‚ and‚ in fact. Wilde experienced the glory that rarely comes to the writer. For his contemporaries

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    Florence Nightingale: Nineteenth Century Nursing Leader and Founder of Modern Nursing Natalie Mastalerz Senior Division Individual Paper Natalie Mastalerz Mrs. Balducci Global History 10H - NHD 9 March 2015 Florence Nightingale: Leadership and Legacy Florence Nightingale was an extraordinary mid-nineteenth century nursing leader during the Crimean War‚ and she left a legacy of improved hospital healthcare‚ a new type of modern nursing‚ nursing schools and programs

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    response to a pauper ’s  death in a workhouse infirmary in London that became a public scandal‚  she became the leading advocate for improved medical care in the infirmaries and immediately engaged the support  of Charles Villiers‚  then president of the Poor Law Board.  This led to her active role in  the reform of the Poor Laws‚ extending far  beyond the provision of medical care. She was  later instrumental in mentoring and then sending Agnes Elizabeth Jones and other  Nightingale  Probationers to Liverpool

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    to say? In the book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junto Díaz‚ the main character Oscar De León’s family really believes the family is under a major Fukú. First off to explaining what Fukú is‚ according to Díaz‚ it is a curse or a doom of some kind. Now to focusing on how the Fukú effects Oscar himself looking at different aspects of the character. Firstly it is best to describe Oscar’s appearance to get a better idea of the character. Oscar never was a small man‚ and over the years of his

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte have significant settings – “the height of the Decadent artistic movement of the late nineteenth century” (Shmoop Editorial Team‚ 2008) and “in the late 1700s and early 1800s” (The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc.‚ 11). This essay will analyze how the setting of Wuthering Heights influences lives of female characters and the setting of The Picture of Dorian Gray and its effects on characters’ thought. In Wuthering

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    Florence Nightingale is considered to be one of the most influential theorist in nursing history whose actions have changed the view of nursing and the hospital environment. Florence Nightingale was born to a wealthy‚ well educated‚ and privileged family during the Victorian era. Nightingale’s father regarded education to be very important and she was afforded an exceptional education with an emphasis in Mathematics. It is said that she was tutored by “James Sylvester‚ an important English Mathematician”

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    English 101 B02 MWA 2 20 February 2014 Can a Killer be Innocent? In Mark Seal “The Shooting Star and the Model‚” talks about Oscar Pistorius killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The article begins with the date and time of the phone call made to detective Hilton Botha. Detective Botha is a twenty-four year veteran of the South African Police Service and he knows Oscar Pistorius very well because of his intense criminal background. Seal then begins talking about Pistorius background and how

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    Abstract As a young woman‚ Nightingale often accompanied her mother when she visited the sick. This inspired her to want to be a nurse‚ and against her parents’ wishes she entered a nurses’ training program. During the Crimean war she was asked by a family friend to come and care for the British soldiers at the army hospital. While there she witnessed filth‚ vermin‚ and death. Upon seeing the unsanitary conditions and the health risk to the soldiers she began her crusade to establish an environment

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    Across the Nightingale Floor. Written by Lian Hearn. Lian Hearn was born in England and immigrated to Australia in 1973. Lian Hearn is a pseudonym which means that she used a different name to publish her book. She chose the name Lian Hearn because Lian has been a family nickname for her and Hearn because it is Japanese for Heron which is a key symbol in her books. She is a rather famous author and the books that made her famous where the “Tales of Otori series. Lians Hearns novel “Across

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