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Historical High-Points in Nursing History

also see that she considered the business of nursing to be about reform. In order to achieve the principles that she espoused fo...

Comparison of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Spike Lee's 1992 Malcolm X Film

into the life of his protagonist. That beginning, the slow burning of an American flag until nothing is left but a red, white, an...

FRB's History

economy has grown at a rate of approximately 3% anyway, after inflation (48). So the author assumes that the Fed will do a good j...

Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

Medical Facility Abuse and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

butchering and can only be likened to that which was utilized to produce Frankenstein. Therefore, the benefit of analyzing this...

Analyzing the Braveheart Film

his village. One cannot help but get wrapped up in the innocence and excitement of their devotion for each other. They want to b...

2001 A Space Odyssey Film by Director Stanley Kubrick

opening sequence has been found buried beneath the surface of the moon. While Floyd and his colleagues are standing in front of th...

A Short History of Cigarette Advertising

focusing on the positive aspects of cigarettes, tobacco companies would encourage smoking and they would often target certain grou...

Macon in The Accidental Tourist and OCD

safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...

How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

Dangerous Minds Movie and Gender

well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...

'Sicko' Michael Moore's Film Commentary on Healthcare

in part: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason he can do it, I had Edgar Kaiser come in and tal...

The Village/Directed by M. Night Shymalan

funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...

OVERVIEW OF MATHEMATICS HISTORY

however, early mathematics came right along with that. Richardson notes that Hieroglyphic numbers were introduced around 3,000 BCE...

American History

for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...

History and Theology in the Black Church

(Raboteau, 2008). The slaves developed a "distinctive Christianity in which blacks figured as Gods chosen people awaiting their ex...

Standardized Testing and its History

tests were originally developed because they allowed administrators to measure students results against a national profile (Maki,...

Africa's Colonial Rule and its History

In seven pages this paper examines how Africa developed colonial rule in this historical chronicle that includes the tribal classe...

History of the FBI

was initiated by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte, who issued an executive order to create this investigative force within the J...

The Importance of History to Professional Military Personnel

Once they had gotten to the enemy lines they would use their bayonets and that, plus their superior numbers, would often turn the ...

“The Private History of a Campaign That Failed”

History of a Campaign That Failed" with a recounting of his interactions with another young man that was about the same age that h...

Muslim History: Damascus and Cairo

and the Christian Jerusalem comprised the major powers within Syria at the time.3 In relationship to Cairo, several years ...

“Modern Times” and “Rear Window”

(Dirks, 2008). There is almost nothing positive about the surveillance that Chaplin describes here; it consists solely of a powerf...

“Rear Window” and “Blow-Up”

same lust. At times, his meddling seems to be a good thing, as when he and his nurse/masseuse Stella (Thelma Ritter) see a neighbo...

Films and the Issue of Privacy

somewhat difficult; she appears to be one of those writers who will not use one word where she can cram in three. In addition, she...

Power, Surveillance and the Totalitarian State

can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...

Where’s That Bug?! Surveillance as Narration

the bug, and that Harry cannot find it unless he steps out of context to consider the way in which the film itself is made (Levin)...

Liu on Privacy Issues in Film

three. In addition, she seems to have been vaccinated with a thesaurus: why use "mimetic" when "copying" will do? Her pretentious ...