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The role of acute care nursing in supporting bereaved patients

Losing a loved one is one of the most difficult realities of the life cycle. All must experience at some juncture the death and departure of aged family members, sudden tragedies and protracted battles with illness. And all individuals will cope with loss differently.

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The mobilities concept and its implications for understanding walking behavior

"The concept of 'mobilities' encompasses both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as the more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life"

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Marshall Brain's "Relationships are random" chapter analysis

Teenager's Guide to the Real World," written by Marshall Brain. The chapter in case is entitled Relationships Are Random (Brain, 1997).

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America's responsibility to remain in Iraq and establish stable government

The War in Iraq began on March 19th, 2003, when American bombers began a 'Shock and Awe' campaign designed to 'decapitate' Iraqi Republican Army leadership and to pound the civilian population into preemptive submission.

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Eating disorders among gay men: causes and prevalence

Eating disorders of all kinds are prevalent in the homosexual male community for a variety of reasons. Eating disorders are common in young people concerned with their appearances, but they usually occur in young females.

~16 min read

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The atomic bomb and Japan's transformation from empire to democracy

The Atomic Bomb and Its Effects on Japan and the World Modern Japanese culture is fraught with paradox.

~16 min read

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Understanding teen suicide through personal narrative and loss

My relationship with suicide is longer than I would care to imagine. One of our dear family friends, an adult, took his life after several failed suicide attempts, which were explained as accidents to all of the young children who heard about them, even his own children.

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Literary methodologies for interpreting J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan

Peter Pan is ostensibly a legendary children's book but through the years it has been poked, prodded, sniffed at, devoured, stripped naked and examined for those mysterious hidden -- or obvious -- meanings and rumored dark metaphors. The authors, critics, scholars and others who have dissected J.M.

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Economic power and resistance in Caribbean slavery, 1624-1853

Although abolished for what appears to be a long time, slavery is still very much an issue in the collective cultural conscience of today; whatever culture this may be.

~17 min read

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Kantian and utilitarian ethics analysis of capital punishment in America

The death penalty is the most extreme of punitive consequences, with its application representing the greatest of finalities in law enforcement and criminal sentencing.

~24 min read

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