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Nursing in Great Britain, Clinical Supervision

patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...

Great Flood in the Book of Genesis and the Epic of Gilgamesh

Epic of Gilgamesh. Who was Gilgamesh? According to Biblical scholars who have researched ancient scrolls, Gilgamesh was a ...

East and West Divide of Europe

in a communist state where all business is controlled by the state to see extent there is not role of risk taking entrepreneurs. ...

ISAF and British Involvement

demonstrate support for the USA, it was also an acknowledgement that the al-Qaeda network was operating in Europe and that the fig...

European Migration to Great Britain and Reasons

migrate e.g. work, family, escape persecution. In addition we find that these economic reasons are further supported by economic...

Jay Gatsby's Personal Philosophy in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

expensive roadster, and momentarily loses control of the car, striking and killing a woman, Myrtle Wilson, whom readers later lear...

Great Britain and the Social Policy of the European Union

into account the interrelationship between the environment, culture and economic growth, and this is an aim which must be seen to ...

Great Britain and Patriarchal Societies

reflected in the laws of inheritance. Consequently, in order that the children could inherit the family wealth which was the prope...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Reality

not exist as it does in The Great Gatsby, leaves the reader without reason to involve himself in the realistic aspects of the stor...

Petroleum Duties to be Paid

technology" (pp. 39). The Exchequer and Petrol According to the popular news and business magazine, The Economist (3/3/01) Bro...

Analysis of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...

Society's Influence on Fitzgerald and Williams

and a truly brazen attitude - were in vogue, as was drinking. Although Prohibition was in force to try to prevent people from imbi...

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Jungle Fever

takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...

Carthaginian General Hannibal Barca, 247 to 183 B.C.

it seemed only fitting that his efforts to take over Sarguntum from the Romans, once a Carthaginian stronghold, began the Second P...

2 Questions on Great Literature and Its Practical Applications

guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...

'Great' Leaders Are No Longer Produced in the Contemporary Political System

something is broken. Yet, the author makes the following admission: "But greatness, of course, is an exceptional phenomenon; even ...

Royal Prerogative and the Unwritten Constitution

Hallam (1992) however, points out that citizens of the U.K.: "cannot fairly consider as part of our ancient constitution w...

'Embeddedness' in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

society as an adjunct to the market. Instead of economy being embedded in social relations, social relations are embedded in the e...

The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi and Market Pattern Evolution

trade, external, internal and local. The nature of external and local trade is basically non competitive, as it generally encompas...

Four Types of Social Provisioning in Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation

1944). During communal activity, such as feasts, dances and other occasions, the chief distributes gifts to all and the "overwhelm...

Oedipus Rex, The Iliad and The Odyssey and how these works relate to Gender

Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway on the American Dream

done in their lives as they see no hope in the future. Their American Dream is one that came smashing down with the pessimistic re...

Life of Tillie Olsen in Her Stories

may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Water Imagery

pursues a materialistic dream that is draped in romantic expectation. Nick comes to feel that Gatsbys misplaced idealism and roman...

Nick Carraway, the American Dream, and The Great Gatsby

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

Francis Parkman's La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West

which Parkman immediately begins to idealize La Salles character. For example, Parkman states that La Salle, as a youth, was attra...

International Business Practices and Cultural Factors

and that other factors precipitate the differences. In this paper, well provide a literature review that discusses this in...

Citigroup and Return on Equity

Citigroup has been creative - legally - in finding benefit in potentially draining situations. An example lies with its IPO of Tr...

Dentistry and Digital X Rays

Like any new technology, there are certain considerations which must be made in regard to digital imaging in radiology. Not the l...

Life After Retirement

was in her teens throughout the final years of the Great Depression, 1929 - 1939. Her father was a barber whose business was not ...