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Unitary versus reductionist approaches to nursing art

Most scholars are in agreement that art is a component of nursing. However, there is a vast difference between Appleton's (1993) account of art as a unitary experience and Carper's (1978) reductionist approach to conceptualizing nursing art.

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The Make Poverty History movement and Millennium Development Goals

For more than fifty years now, it has been recognized that the nations of the world are divided between the "haves" and the "have nots."

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African-American cultural expression and the politics of oppression

Many cultural forms of expression have been utilized within the social science construct, to demonstrate ways in which such expressions reflect the culture as a whole, and in many cases the broader culture, or the one that is usually subjugating the first. Within W.E.B.

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The 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial election and Deval Patrick's victory

This year, the U.S. gubernatorial elections coincided with the mid-term elections of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. After the 2006 gubernatorial elections, the Democrats won 28 governorships, while the Republicans won 22.

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The importance of Level I trauma centers in American emergency medical care

The health care system in the United States is often a point of pride within and outside the U.S. Here we have some of the best facilities, doctors and researchers as anywhere in the world.

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The Human Genome Project and genetic engineering ethics

Human Genome Project and its impact implications on the ethics of genetic engineering. The writer examines the project, the genetic engineering question and provides personal beliefs to the overall picture.

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Employee monitoring technology and workplace privacy concerns

In recent years different work place dynamics have gained importance. Among these issues work place privacy has also gained a lot of attention.

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Voltaire, Rousseau, and Kant: philosophers of the Age of Reason

The Age of Reason is generally considered a separate movement in 17th and early 18th Century Europe, which preceded - and led into - the Age of Enlightenment; it is also commonplace to approach both eras as having overlapping boundaries - and hence, they are more often than not joined as one…

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Teacher role in improving elementary student reading comprehension

Education is a very important aspect of one's life. To this lies the future growth and success of everybody. However, there are various challenges to successful education.

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The automotive industry's transformation through supply chain management and globalization

The current financial troubles of Ford and General Motors, the two most dominant American automobile brands, have many experts in the field confused by the general direction that the global market will move towards.

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