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As fascism grew in Italy, it became increasingly contentious among Italians in foreign countries, including the United States. Like the Japanese, even though thousands of Italian-Americans were fighting in the war, the government designated "all unn Continue Reading...
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A mineral is a compound of different elements. There are a number of elements that are common in the earth's crust, and a mineral is a compound of these. Crystals are a type of mineral that has specific physical features, in particular flat face Continue Reading...
Clinical Question Using Nursing Informatics
The main objective of nursing informatics is to manage and communicate data information, knowledge, and wisdom. This various aspects are part of a continuum in the nursing field that reflects the overarch Continue Reading...
Nursing research is one of the most important components in answering a clinical question through an investigation process. The research or investigation process involves a series of steps that are geared towards identifying suitable evidence that ca Continue Reading...
Ode to Wine-Neruda
"Ode to Wine"
Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet whose influential works helped to garner him a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Pablo Neruda's "Ode to Wine," from Full Woman, Fleshy Apple, Hot Moon, uses allusions, imagery, and Continue Reading...
Yet, these were small amenities that did not mask the horrible conditions of the camps very well.
Most of those within the camps were American citizens, and should not have had their liberties taken away with such blatant disregard for upholding Am Continue Reading...
Nurse Practitioner Employment ContractPart 1The Ideal Work EnvironmentAs a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) in California, I believe the foundation of an ideal work environment lies in patient-centered care. My goal is to have a setting that supports Continue Reading...
Sonnet XVII
Neruda's Sonnet XVII uses very interesting imagery that is vague enough to allow for multiple interpretations. There is however a strong theme that runs through it that illustrates a contrast between light and dark. The contrast between Continue Reading...
Executive Order
Less than two months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, bringing the United States into World War II, the federal government made a decision to remove many Japanese (the majority of whom were Japanese-Ameri Continue Reading...
I'm drawn to poems that are discursive and difficult to comprehend (I'm a big fan of John Ashbery). I must have read it thirty times and I still have yet to agree on how each line, each word is connected. It's a challenging poem in this regard, and Continue Reading...
Citizen
On December 7, 1941, the nation of Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This began the official participation of the United States in World War II. While armed forces were overseas fighting the nation's enemies, the Unit Continue Reading...
This image has lasted for nearly three thousand years but may now be in need of renewal. "God" may be longing for release from His immolation in the structure of our beliefs. To use a gardening metaphor, God has become pot-bound, fixed and constrict Continue Reading...
Passion: overwhelming erotic love. Passion: zeal, intense interest in a thought, ideal, belief, person, or activity. Passion: anger, rage, fury. Passion: suffering. Perhaps most commonly used in reference to romantic, erotic love in modern culture, t Continue Reading...
play of Shakespeare, Twelfth Night particularly the comedy and the conventions used in it.
What makes the play twelfth night a comedy?
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare presents the best example of a true Elizabethan romantic comedy. Though the Continue Reading...
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy and "Lost Illusions," by Honore de Balzac. Specifically, it will compare the theme of illusions in these two texts, citing textual evidence. The two protagonists, Jude and Lucien, are spurned into action because of Continue Reading...
Pablo Neruda
The poet Pablo Neruda was a favorite poet for many and his works continue to be popular today. Neruda is best known for two things: his original use of imagery and his use of nature in his poems. It is these two qualities, combined with Continue Reading...
We know now that more than one knight who went to the Holy Lands ostensibly to "rout out the infidel" actually had a more pragmatic agenda: they brought home loot, everything they could physically handle plus anything more they could load on pack an Continue Reading...
Knighthood and Chivalry: Heroism, Love, and Honor in "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Fourteenth century literature was characteristically based on medieval period, wherein the dominance of Christianity is Continue Reading...