This qualitative research study explores the experiences of elderly female Filipino immigrants. The research aims to provide a broader understanding of how immigrants adapt to life in America. The study intends to help ensure that the individual experiences of this under-researched group is heard and examined in-depth using the phenomenological methodology‚ which is exploratory in nature. | Eleven elderly female Filipino immigrants are the participants of the research‚ which uses face-to-face
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Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ started the New Deal. The New Deal is defined as a government-regulated economy‚ with experimental projects all designed to help lessen the effects of the depression and to take American economy into a healthier position. The three main aspects that the Great Depression affected drastically were the banking and financial system‚ the unemployment
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Qualitative research is "the investigation of phenomena‚ typically in an in-depth and holistic fashion‚ through the collection of rich narrative materials using a flexible research design" (Polit‚ Beck‚ and Hungler‚ 2001‚ p 469). Qualitative researchers focus on the descriptions and deeper meaning associated with the data collected. Another way to define qualitative research is to describe it as a type of research that involves interpreting non-numerical data. The next few pages will discuss the
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implementing and also evaluating evidence-based practice" Paper 1 Wang L & Chien W (2011) Randomised Controlled Trial of a family led mutual support programme for people with dementia. Journal of Clinical Nursing‚ (20) 2362-2366 1 Did the trial address a clearly focused issue? No‚ there is no research question and there is no hypothesis stated. The PICOT format is a helpful approach for summarizing research questions that explore the effect of therapy (Guyatt et al 2008). This study could be constructed
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Escape From the Cave In his article “Consider the Lobster”‚ David Foster Wallace pointed out that the lobsters would suffer pain if cooked alive on the basis of many scientific materials about the lobster that announced by different organizations‚ trying to figure out if it is moral to cook the lobsters alive. Although he fell in an ethical dilemma at last‚ just as most people‚ struggling between the moral problem and the selfish interest in eating certain kinds of animal‚ he did not evade querying
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Elimination of Merit Systems For many reasons‚ merit based civil service systems have come under assault and yet at the same time have been hailed. Merit systems do however attempt and achieve many important objectives including ensuring that an effective workforce is attracted and maintained by providing protections against arbitrary termination and by attempting to avert politically influenced hiring and promotions. Notwithstanding‚ the way merit systems go about attracting a workforce
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1. Explain how this course is an example of the scientific study religion in society. This course can be seen as an example of a scientific study of religion due to the fact that throughout this course we have examined the study of religion as social scientists examining different aspects of culture value and beliefs. The critical analysis of different religions within society is an objective scientific study that provides insight onto other cultures globally. 2. Apply Chidester’s theory that pop
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Michael Anderson‚ # 0369824 Professor‚ Darrell Thompson Introduction to Business‚ BUSI 1301-61002 November 8‚ 2013 CASE STUDY THREE 1. Outline three ways that you think Terra Lycos could help other businesses create opportunities for themselves using the Internet. a. Taking a lesson from Lycos Network. Forming alliances with other Internet companies seems to be a lucrative endeavor. Not only has it saved them in the struggle to stay afloat in the competitive online business
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Research Design This is an empirical study using a qualitative research design because a qualitative design is usually used to understand processes‚ or events‚ in the setting of social and cultural situation instead of coming up with numerical results (“Qualitative Field Research‚” n.d.). Also‚ the data collected under this design are not dependent on numbers (Saunders‚ Lewis & Thornhill‚ 2009). A qualitative design is chosen because the aim of the study is to have a deep understanding of the
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Fama-French Three-Factor Model Capital Marketing Shijie Wu Fama-French Three-Factor Asset Pricing Model I. Definition of Fama-French Three-Factor Model A. Definition In asset pricing and portfolio management‚ the Fama-French three-factor model is a theory that improvement of the capital asset pricing model. The model is proposed based on the empirical study of historical returns as a result of U.S. stock market. The purpose is to explain the average returns of the stock
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