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    A Phenomenological study describing the lived experience of nurses caring for prisoner-patients by Christopher Veal i A Phenomenological study describing the lived experience of nurses caring for prisoner-patients ABSTRACT There are close to five thousand prisoners in custody in Queensland prisons and this number is on the increase. Prisoners have complex health needs and it is the role of the correctional health nurse to care for prisoner-patients and their health needs. Yet there

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    Throughout Walden Thoreau states his opinion on varying subjects. I only agreed with a minority of what he believed. I often found myself disagreeing with what he said. Out of the whole book three points really stood out to me‚ two of which I find agreeable the other I think to be complete rubbish. I agree on the fact that people need to step aside from society every now and then so they can think for themselves and appreciate the simplicities of life. I also agree on the fact that people tend to

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    God‚ and the internal belief of God in the world". For the transcendentalists‚ the soul of each individual is identical with the soul of the world and contains what the world contains. Biography of Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was a man of many talents who worked hard to shape his ability and his life‚ seeing

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    Booth‚ a loyal Southerner. With the South in cheers for his death‚ they fail to realize that he was their only hope for a better Reconstruction. If he had lived‚ he would had been so much lenient towards the South‚ unlike the Radicals‚ and the states would have complied almost immediately. As a wise man as he is‚ he knows what to say and what not to say. Getting the South back into the Union was the biggest and most sensitive issue he had to deal with. Lincoln could had handled it well. Starting

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    Research A study of the lived experiences of registered nurses who have provided end-of-life care within an intensive care unit Natalie Holms‚ Stuart Milligan‚ Angela Kydd T his paper details a qualitative study to explore the lived experiences of registered intensive care unit (ICU) nurses who have provided end-of-life care (EOLC) to dying patients and their families within an ICU. Providing EOLC in the ICU can be stressful for ICU nurses‚ who are rapidly confronted with the fast transition from

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    aimed to explain man’s place in the universe; Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau shared their beliefs on man’s relationship to nature in their writings. I. Transcendentalists believed in a relationship between man‚ God‚ and nature. A. Thoreau explains in Walden that nature is not dead history‚ but living poetry; it is as if he is explaining that the truth of life lies within the relationship of man and nature (Thoreau 921). B. It was developed by the Greek philosopher Plato and refers to

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    The Great Gatsby was set in New York in the summer of 1922. This time period was known as “The Jazz Age” or “The Roaring Twenties.” The characters in the book lived in West Egg or East Egg depending on the way they acquired their wealth. The characters who lived in East Egg were considered “old money” whereas the characters who lived in West Egg were considered “new money.” Although Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby were neighbors in West Egg‚ they had different levels of education‚ wealth‚ and lifestyles

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    The essays by Martin Luther King Jr.‚ “Letters From Birmingham Jail” and Henry David Thoreau‚ “Civil Disobedience” show how one can be a civil person and protest against unfair‚ unjust laws forced upon them. Both authors are very persuasive in their letter writings. Henry David Thoreau and Martin Luther King Jr. write about the injustice of government laws‚ of right and wrong‚ and one’s moral and upstanding conscience of a human being. Martin Luther King Jr. is a religious‚ peaceful man who uses

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    1. The main purpose of this article is to argue that change isn’t made through votes and discussions‚ but rather through actions. 2. The key question that the author is addressing is how we should stand up to the government. 3. The most important information in this article is Thoreau’s opinion that actions speak louder than words. The pleasantness of Thoreau’s prison experience is also important in helping the reader feel more comfortable with disobeying the rules to fight for what’s right. 4

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    Henry David Thoreau In “Civil Disobedience‚” Henry David Thoreau focuses his ideas around the central theme‚ “It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law‚ so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.” He defines man as a person who listens and acts to his conscience and states that if man obeys laws opposing his conscience‚ such as laws created by legislators‚ then he is no better than an animal. Thoreau begins

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