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ICU Patients and Communication

"ICU syndrome" (Elliot and Wright, 1999). In its milder form, ICU syndrome was characterized by the presence of confusion and memo...

Death and the Importance of Family Support

of bereavement services such as telephone hotlines, formal programs and stronger community education resources to deal with this t...

Nursing and Chronicity

particular, resilience is also crucial because each instance is completely unique and may require a different response. In other ...

Family Reality TV The Cosby Show and The Brady Bunch?

get together, there was the typical conflict one would expect from step-siblings who are still wary of one another, but who know t...

Family and Incarceration

on more than one occasion. As of the year 2000, there were approximately 2 million people incarcerated in the United States, and ...

Children in Family Situations and Literature

is a workaholic. He complains that he works hard but only has a small pile of gold for his labors. The reader learns that he has a...

Coontz and the American Family

increasing number of marriages that survive for forty years, and as such longer lives are changing the patterns and not less commi...

Pros and Cons of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act

remove the disincentive toward working, it did little to impact the increase in illegitimate births or the increase in births to m...

Birth and Death Experiences and Individual Impact

to be with his father in the last months of his life, as he would have wished. This would make him think deeply about his own life...

Betulaceae Plant Family

The Birch tree has long been involved in the life of mankind. Early man utilized the bark for writing upon and...

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and the American Dream

They knew they could find workers who would work for almost nothing, and if they failed there would be perhaps 50 more waiting in ...

Susan Forward and Craig Buck's Betrayal of Innocence Incest and its Devastation

1988 reprint of Betrayal of Innocence, Dr. Forward wrote, "I, too, had been victimized in a similar way by my father. I had kept...

Oedipus the King by Sophocles and Family Dysfunction

content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. ...

Hispanic Culture and the Family

several Southern and Midwest states Hispanics populations have more than doubled during the decade of the 1990s. Their numbers ha...

Why Assertiveness is Important

care of ones needs is an important reason to become assertive. For example, if someone goes to a doctor or hospital and they are l...

Essay: Ulysses S. Grant

and since the American Civil War is endlessly fascinating, well take a look at one of its most important - and overlooked - figure...

Family Presence at Resuscitation

(2005), in which samples of patients or patients families were enrolled. In a study in which the sample participants had lost a lo...

Behaviorism

- can condition (train) him to be whatever professional he chooses. This, he argues, is the basis upon which behavior is founded:...

Case Scenario/Alcohol Abuse

"chronic, heavy drinking" (Enoch and Goldman, 2002, p. 192). According to government standards, a woman is at-risk for heavy drink...

The Evolution of Punishment in Criminal Justice

The evolution of punishment strategy has gone hand in hand with the evolution of society as a whole. Harris (1996), for example, ...

Transient - and Disappearing - Benefits

true, but it seems as though these same organizations are being rather myopic in planning for the future. The single constant fac...

African-Americans and Reconstruction

organizations as the Freedmens Bureau and "Northern benevolent societies," and "after 1868, state governments" (Building the black...

Reich's "The Future Of Success: Working And Living In The New Economy" - Brief Chapter Overview

value amidst an ever-changing social landscape may present opportunity on the one hand but as Reich (2002) points out, it also ref...

Domestic Violence: Is Income a Factor?

domestic abuse one of the most troubling problems of our society. According to U.S. Department of Justice (2005) statistics...

Film Terms of Endearment and the Sociology of Family Relationships

In eight pages this paper analyzes scenes from Terms of Endearment in order to greater understand how social group functioning of ...

Two Tolstoy Works Compared

Jealousy and marriage and how they drive the plot line and story in this paper, which compares Leo Tolstoys' Family Happiness and ...

Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho Nthunya

In five pages this South African autobiography is examined with poverty and apartheid impacts upon families among the topics discu...

U.S., Social Corruption, and Morality on the Decline

In six pages this paper examines America's declining morality and also considers social corruption and the breakdown of the family...

The Short Reign of Queen Mary I of England

A 6 page discussion of Bloody Mary, the heartless queen that became known for her relentless tactics. Mary did not hesitate to bu...

Roles of Family, School, and Church in Juvenile Delinquency

In ten pages this paper discusses juvenile delinquency in a consideration of the roles played by family, school, and the church wi...