Southern Gothic literature has many of the same aspects as Gothic literature; Southern Gothic literature‚ which is a sub-genre of the Gothic writing style‚ is unique to the American South. It focuses on topics such as death‚ madness‚ and the super natural as well has having many mystical‚ bizarre‚ violent‚ and grotesque aspects. Gothic literature has left a deep impression to the people. Influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O’Connor wrote stories filled with grotesque characters‚ violence‚
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Comfort Care Theory Nightingale described comfort as first duty of nurses. Since then comfort theory is flourishing in nursing and medical field. The first article on comfort theory was published in 1994 (Oliveira‚ 2013). Katharine Kolcaba first published her book on comfort care in 2003. This theory has been published and accepted at many health care authorities (Kolcaba & Dimarco‚ 2005). Kolcaba defined comfort as “the immediate state of being strengthen through having the human needs for relief
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Southern Colonies Religion | Southern Colonies claimed to have religious freedom but that tended to be a superficial idea. In these colonies Anglican faith was the most predominate. Anglican included Presbyterian and Baptist. While Protestants were somewhat tolerated most were Anglican. They didn’t really consider Native Americans and slaves religion to be an actual religion. Several people tried to convert slaves and Native Americans to their religion. When slaves began to give in they
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Southern Folk Music and Race Relations Abstract Introduction The growth of the American folk music reservoir is a process that counterparts the historical and cultural development of American society. In the formation of this reservoir‚ two major streams‚ British‚ African‚ and several smaller branches‚ e.g.‚ German‚ French‚ Cajun Mexican‚ etc.‚ flowed together over a two-century period (Malone‚ 1979:4). Alan Lomax‚ one of folk music ’s leading historians‚ has detected that the merging
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Katharine Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Kelly Ferreira Summer‚ 2004. In the early part of the 20th century‚ comfort was the central goal of nursing and medicine. Comfort was the nurse’s first consideration. A "good nurse" made patients comfortable. In the early 1900’s‚ textbooks emphasized the role of a health care provider in assuring emotional and physical comfort and in adjusting the patient’s environment. For example‚ in 1926‚ Harmer advocated that nursing care be
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Katherine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory Annette Hall St Joseph’s College of Maine Abstract Katherine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory fits best with my philosophy of nursing and my current work environment. As a hospice nurse comfort is the top priority. The goal of hospice care is to provide comfort and dignity at the end of life. The technical term for comfort for health care is the immediate state of being strengthened by having the needs for relief‚ ease‚ and transcendence addressed in the four context of
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What were the most important political and social legacies of reconstruction in the southern states? The biggest issue of reconstruction was the question of how the government was going to deal with the north and south‚ and how it would rebuild its relationship after the north beat the south during the war. Dealing with the former slaves was also going to be a big part of reconstruction for the south. How would they treat them now? The South was beaten and its economy was in horrible
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Southerners. Within her pamphlets‚ Wells portrays the views of African-Americans in the 1890s. Southerners allowed widespread lynchings while hiding behind the excuse of "defending the honor of its women." (61) The charge of rape was used in many cases to lynch innocent African-American men. The victim ’s innocence was often proved after his death. Wells states that the raping of white women by negro men is an outright lie. Wells supports her statements with several stories about mutual relationships
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2012 Southern Lifestyle What is a southern lifestyle? Some may say that southern is a stereotype‚ but I like to think of it as more of a way of life. It is important that people from the south know exactly what it means to really be southern so that it ends being a stereotype. The southern lifestyle ranges from everyday manners‚ men being gentlemen‚ women acting like ladies‚ southern families‚ and most of all being southern about it all. Some people may associate the word southern with redneck
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3.6.5. Southern hybridization Southern blot hybridization analysis was carried out using standard procedures (Sambrook et al. 2001). Approximately 20 µg of total genomic DNA from transgenic plants and untransformed control plant was digested with EcoRI‚ and then separated by electrophoresis on 0.8% agarose gel. Digestion profile was checked with 1µg DNA‚ with single cutter enzymes EcoRI (10U) in T-DNA region. For southern experiment‚ 20µg DNA was digested overnight. Restricted fragments were separated
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