Throughout my studies on the various specialized literature on caring‚ I have developed a widened perspective and a new appreciation for caring. This knowledge has improved and reshaped my approach to caring. As a nurse‚ I am considered a leader in my community and through leadership I am able to create change. As a transformed leader I have a deeper understanding of myself as caring and as a result am able to initiate change to the current system from an approach of healing and caring
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Summary Chapter 8 of Creating the Opportunity to Learn by A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera discusses why some schools are making more progress than others in closing the achievement gap. The chapter describes how two schools that are similar in the demographics and challenges hindering achievement‚ can have two different results in their efforts to close the achievement gap. One school saw improvements because they recognized the problems and implemented research based strategies to help all students
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THE HISTORY OF GEE’S BEND‚ ALABAMA" Draft Article by Kyes Stephens Alabama Online Encyclopedia The community of Gee’s Bend (whose official name is Boykin) is situated in Wilcox County in West Alabama in the bend of the Alabama River. Directly across the river from Camden‚ and southeast of Selma‚ Gee’s Bend has one road into the community. Gee’s Bend is in the Black Belt region of Alabama (an area that draws its name from the soil and the race of the predominant inhabitants). The majority of Native
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with caring as a value or principle for nursing action. (Swanson‚ 1991) The underlying structure of the nursing philosophical system or grand theory of nursing as caring is created by the assumptions of the theory and their interrelationships. (Boykin & Schoenhofer‚ 2001) These assumptions develop the most fundamental belief that all persons are caring by virtue of their humanness‚ that to be human is to be caring. A deep understanding of the practical meaning of that foundational assumptions
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The Key to Greatness by DeLishia Boykin David Jesus got them together to settle things down. “You’ve observed how godless rulers throw their weight around‚” he said‚ “and when people get a little power how quickly it goes to their heads. It’s not going to be that way with you. Whoever wants to be great must become a servant. Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave. That is what the Son of Man has done: He came to serve‚ not to be served – and then to give away his life in exchange
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the castle. The story has an unexpected ending as Mr. Simon’s ghost eventually befriends Virginia‚ the daughter of the owners of Canterville Chase. An American minister and his family live at the castle. These people especially the father‚ Mr. Otis‚ do not believe in ghosts. The twins play all kinds of funny pranks on the ghost‚ Mr. Simon‚ humiliating him to the extent that he almost had a nervous breakdown. One of the main settings is a room where Mr. Simon‚ as a human‚ killed his wife because
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people who possess what it is that we cannot have. In the short story “The Gilded Six Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston‚ Joe quickly became fascinated with a big talker from Chicago named Otis D. Slemmons. Otis claimed that women gave him money and adored him. This interest that Joe had with the gold accessories that Otis owned lead to problems in Joe’s marriage with Missy May. Joe and Missy May will realize that everything that glitters isn’t gold‚ and that they should be content with what they already
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Motivation for launching the project: In the elevators industry‚ the Otis brand stood for technological leadership‚ reliability and quality. The industry was very competitive and had many manufacturers but Otis was the leader in the sales and service markets. The sales market was cyclical and the service market was stable. In 1981‚ North American Operations‚ Otis’ second largest division‚ investigated the feasibility of using IT to establish a centralized customer service department to accept customer
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offering bribes and kickbacks to Otis of Thermocare to increase purchase contracts. This could potentially be a large problem if Thermocare becomes aware of such practices. The purchase of product should be warranted w/ quality of products and price structures‚ not because it gets you tickets to baseball games and Cancun. If ACME is competitive‚ there is nothing wrong with these kick-backs. If there is a better option for Thermocare‚ however‚ and Otis is choosing ACME for kickbacks alone
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Book Review of THE CANTERVILLE GHOST * About the Author Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s‚ he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams and plays‚ and the circumstances of his imprisonment which was followed by his early death. Wilde’s parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university
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