792 words

Benefits and challenges of electronic health records implementation

The development and growing adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) presents a variety of issues, with parties on all sides of the debate (patients/consumers, physicians, regulators, health insurers/payors) having sometimes opposing viewpoints.

~4 min read

View paper →

2,552 words

C.S. Lewis' moral law argument in Mere Christianity

The first chapter of C.S. Lewis' book, Mere Christianity, entitled "Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe," begins by examining the nature of man the reality of the law. Things are not always perfect and for some reason, we do not always get along with others.

~13 min read

View paper →

1,848 words

Florida manatees and the threats to their survival

Gliding through the water on paddle-shaped fins, the manatee, otherwise known as the "sea cow," looks like a larger, more passive version of a seal.

~10 min read

View paper →

1,009 words

Reflective practice in nursing professional development and learning

Identify what reflective practice is. Reflective practice features the individual and his or her experiences that lead to a new conceptual perspective or understanding. These included the component of learning, as well as involvement of the self.

~6 min read

View paper →

2,283 words

Sexual rights and marriage law in Japan, Zimbabwe, and the United States

This is a questions that might seems simple to answer at first but really opens a quagmire of debate and confusions. What might be key to the sexual rights of one Country, might be a moot point in another.

~12 min read

View paper →

2,021 words

American racial ideology from colonialism through slavery

Thus, contained within this question is an implicit view of race and of what it means to be American that perhaps began when Columbus first set foot in Hispaniola but continues through the present day.

~11 min read

View paper →

3,712 words

Canada's need for an independent foreign intelligence agency

At the present time, Canada, an independent sovereign nation, has no foreign intelligence agency.

~19 min read

View paper →

762 words

Free will and fate in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market

The question of free will vs. fate has puzzled the human race for ages and yet, there appears to be no single definite answer to it. What is more dominant, why does man have free will when he is tied down to the invincible force of fate?

~4 min read

View paper →

3,085 words

Computer-based testing and competency-based learning in higher education

There is push of the higher education towards novel instruction delivery models by the advent of the internet. This leads to the student being the focus of the learning process and the new models results into the creation of instructions which are tailor made for the student delivery.

~16 min read

View paper →

4,517 words

Rhetorical analysis of President Bush's January 1991 Gulf War speech

To paraphrase John Donne, no speech is an island. And this is especially true of the best speeches, for while each speech is addressed to a specific audience and is a response to a particular moment in history, it is also an echo of other speeches made in similar and sometimes dissimilar times.

~23 min read

View paper →