Aging
Reactions & Meditations Upon Death

To start, the paper must commence with acknowledgement that there are many beliefs and traditions surrounding the cessation of the physical body. This is a topic of great discussion and emotion in all of human history. This is a topic upon which humans reflect constantly, across culture, country, language, time and distance. In the West, there is a diversity of beliefs, but the predominant beliefs by most citizens are Judeo-Christian in foundation. People in the West react to death in the same ways they react to grief (as in the seven stages of grief[footnoteRef:0]) and the ways people react to substance addiction/abuse rehabilitation. That is to say the tradition in the West is to react to death the ways they react to grief in general and the ways they react to participation in a twelve-step program[footnoteRef:1]. The paper will discuss some patterns in thinking and behaving…...

Beautiful Boy
eaction to Part I and Part II: Beautiful Boy

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According to David Sheff's memoir of his son's addiction entitled Beautiful Boy, "I tried everything I could to prevent my son's fall into meth addiction. It would have been no easier to have seen him strung out on heroin or cocaine, but as every parent of a meth addict comes to learn, this drug has a unique, horrific quality…He was a trailblazer with meth, too, addicted years before politicians denounced the drug as the worst yet to hit the nation. In the United States, at least twelve million people have tried meth, and it is estimated that more than one and a half million are addicted to it" (Sheff 2008:9-10). From his father's perspective, his son was an angelic child who was given every advantage. Nic's addiction was inexplicable to Shaffer, yet also an extension of his son's generous…...

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Reference

Sheff, D. (2010). Beautiful boy. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

Personal Reaction to BUCK Documentary
BUCK is a documentary that focuses on telling the real-life story of Dan Brannaman, who is commonly known as Buck throughout the film. Buck is a cowboy with seemingly magical capability to calm uncontrollable horses and travels the country 40 weeks out annually to host different four-day horse clinics. Through this film, Cindy Meehl provides a clumsy but seemingly uncannily story that focuses on the life, philosophy, and career of Buck, the real-life "horse whisperer." As reflected in the documentary, Buck Brannaman has a unique means of communicating with horses, which is an unconventional training style that makes him a legend in the horse world. Consequently, this documentary is a richly textured and visually captivating film that depicts Buck's growth from abusive childhood to a relatively successful approach and career in transforming the lives of many horses.

Buck's empathy for horses is rooted in his past as…...

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Works Cited

Edelstein, David. "Buck': A Horse Whisperer Wrangles His Dark Past." NPR - Movie Review.

NPR, 17 June 2011. Web. 16 Oct. 2015. .

Harris, Paul. "The Moving True Story of Buck Brannaman, Robert Redford's Horse Whisperer,

Is a Surprise Hit at the American Box Office." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited, 26 June 2011. Web. 16 Oct. 2015. .

Schindler's List is an Oscar-winning movie about World War Two. The movie won Best Picture and several other major awards. The basic premise is the true story of a factory owner, Oskar Schindler, who saves Jews from the Nazis. He employed them in his factories, which makes them important in the war effort for Nazi Germany. This is what saves them from being deported from Krakow to one of the death camps. Schindler must also continually bribe the Nazis in order to save the factory workers from death.
Reactions

Schindler's List is a powerful film. The first reactions to it are immediate and visceral. First, we today are fairly insulated from such atrocities, and they seem scarcely imaginable, yet the reality is that this what our grandparents and great-grandparents lived through. There is a real human side to the story, especially to see how Schindler changes over the course of the movie.…...

Tweak
There are a lot of books and movies about drug addiction and the toll it takes on a person and on their family. Many of these are fiction or biographies about another person. Nic Sheff's book Tweak is his autobiographical account of how he grew up in a household which allowed him to become dependent on drugs and alcohol, although the parents were not directly involved, and how it impacted his adult choices. Further it shows the lie that a lot of addicts tell themselves; namely, that they are in control of their actions and that they can quit their drug of choice whenever they want to. In reality, an addict always has the chance and indeed the likelihood of relapsing unless they go about overcoming their addiction in the proper way. This book is very powerful because it shows how a child's development and what their parents do impact…...

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Works Cited

Sheff, N. (2009). Tweak, growing up on methamphetamines. Atheneum.

However, even in such capitalist contexts as the United States, the single largest population of employees is actually commissioned to public agencies and works. The chapter by Pynes & Lafferty in discussion here delineates how regulatory oversight is employed to protect the balance between the right of workers to defend their interests and the need to ensure that public functions such as firefighting, community nursing, sanitation and policing remain constantly in place even as labor disputes are resolved.
For the reader, this provides an illuminating discussion on the exceptions to labor rights that are specific to those working in the public service. Often, Pynes & Lafferty indicate, there are limitations in place that are designed to restrict certain groups of public employees from striking. Moreover, we learn from this chapter that at the state level, public unions attempting to strike against these limitations risk being fined or reprimanded. Consequences for…...

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Works Cited:

Hannaway, J. (2006). Collective Bargaining in Education. Harvard Educational Publishing Group.

Pynes, J.E. & Lafferty, J.M. (1993). Local Government Labor Relations. Quorom Books.

The film handles the subject of diversity very well, staying with the most important component of diversity i.e. race. The film doesn't use stereotypes in the typical fashion. It gives us a new picture of a young black man who is highly educated. "By making the black man an eminently qualified and desirable suitor at the top of a professional class to which only the smallest minority of blacks could possibly belong, and by locating the narrative in the exclusive domain of the wealthiest stratum of white society, the film reduces the social dimensions of racial conflict to that of mere contrasts of skin color…" (Ed Guerrero) it also gives a refreshing new look to the face of young Americans who are not so biased. But it doesn't effectively use stereotypes in the form of Matt Drayton and John's father to show how older generation viewed race. Media plays…...

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References

Ed Guerrero. Framing Blackness: The African-American Image in Film. Temple University Press. 1993

Quotes from "Guess who's coming to Dinner." Retrieved online from  http://www.allsubs.org/search-movie-quotes/Guess/

The brevity of the coronation description and its essential blandness -- there is little sense of the lavishness of the ceremony -- further reinforces the importance of Arthur's more humbled background. Merlin is also conspicuously absent from the coronation scene, removing the supernatural element of Arthur's rise to the throne and crown that is otherwise instrumental in much of the story. Arthur is shown not as singled out in this scene so much as he is surrounded by other nobles of a similar position, and though they are paying him obeisance and apologizing for the delay in bringing Arthur to the throne, there is a sense of collective endeavor and almost equality in this scene that makes it quite odd for the scene of Arthur's true ascension to power. The list of officers that Arthur creates immediately following his coronation really emphasizes this last point, making it clear that Arthur…...

Given the choice between abiding by unjust laws and freedom, any person would have chosen freedom; given the choice between being killed for learning how to read or being killed for escaping to freedom, anyone would have been morally justified in killing another to prevent that. It would have been nothing less than self-defense in a period of time when even the most advanced government and legal system available could not recognize obviously immoral laws.
Prior to watching this documentary, I knew only that the northern states were free and that the southern states relied on slave labor for the cotton trade. I had no idea that the amount of cotton produced by slave labor in America was actually the main source of cotton used by textile mills in Europe. I was also unaware that even in the northern states relied less directly (but just as surely) on the profits…...

Similarly, human beings are all members of the same species and differ only in superficial physiological adaptations and inherited characteristics based on where their ancestors lived. In principle, it makes no more sense to treat people differently based on their skin color than it would to treat them differently based strictly on their eye color.
The material about the history and development of urban housing in the U.S. explains how discriminatory housing practices throughout the 20th century made it difficult for minorities (especially people of color) to achieve similar social and economic status even long after legal changes prohibited housing discrimination. First, discriminatory housing practices lasted much longer than they should have because many communities simply found ways of ignoring the law more subtly. More importantly, the documentary explained that, to a great extent, much of the current (continuing) economic disparity between whites and blacks in the U.S. is a…...

BP's eaction And Strategy Of Change:
The safety history of British oil giant, BP, has been the subject of increased examination by various sectors such as the U.S. Congress in relation to the recent blow up that contributed to the death of 11 people. The United States Congress carried out various hearings regarding BP's recent safety history because of the explosion that left more than 10 workers dead. One of the major issues in the hearings has been the evidence of BP's violation of its safety standards that continue to pose numerous safety risks to its workers and various people across various regions. The recent fatal explosion was brought by oil spill, which was due to the infringement of the occupational safety standards and regulations.

While the incident elicited significant concerns across the globe, the British oil giant continued to state its unprecedented reaction to the unprecedented environmental disaster. However, the company…...

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References:

BP and Sustainability n.d., How BP is Changing, BP and Sustainability, viewed 12 February

2013,

Macalister, T 2010, BP Chief Tony Hayward to Outline Strategy that Restores Firm's Fortunes,

The Guardian, viewed 12 February 2013,

00 on January 28th, 2008. From there it has rebounded partially, to a close of $91.27 on March 28, 2008. The perform of the FedEx Kinko's unit is partially to blame for the deterioration of the company's share price.
The expected synergies have not materialized. FedEx has incorporated full shipping services into the Kinko's stores, but the impact of that has been hampered by a number of factors. It was seen by some analysts at the time of the merger that Kinko's did not complement FedEx's core businesses well, and it appears that in the years following the merger this was borne out. For example, employee turnover at Kinko's is higher than at other FedEx units, and this has hampered service levels. There is also the lingering issue of culture clash between the Kinko's unit at the mother company. The old Kinko's culture has never been integrated into FedEx, exacerbating the…...

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Chris M. Sullivan and Deborah I. Bybee's article "Reducing Violence Using Community-Based Advocacy for Women With Abusive Partners" is focused on providing readers with a complex understanding of what causes domestic violence and of how women can be instructed with regard to strategies that they can use with the purpose of preventing their husbands from abusing them. The community-based advocacy intervention discussed in the article dealt with 278 women who were abused by their concubines. Advocates focused on providing women with the information needed for them to understand that their condition is critical and that they have to get actively involved in preventing their husbands from beating them. The experiment resulted in women who were provided with education reporting less abuse cases and generally appearing to feel better about themselves.

The experiment is essential in demonstrating that battered women can actually turn to advocates in an attempt…...

Psychological Reactions: Parents of Children With Life Threatening Illness
This article review will look at a research study that was conducted to determine more precisely what were the effects on parents who were recently given a diagnosis relative to their child that was potentially life threatening. As one might imagine, this can be a stressful situation for any parent. While a reaction that was based on acute stress might seem to be common sense, the research set out to study the phenomena in a systematic way.

Main Findings

At four weeks following a child's diagnosis of a serious illness, 49 -- 54% of parents met DSM-IV criteria for acute stress disorder, across a number of illness groups, whereas 15 -- 27% of parents were in the moderate/severe range for depression and anxiety, and 25 -- 31% for stress. Results from this study demonstrate that rates and severity of these psychological reactions in parents…...

Beautiful Boy eaction: Part III
Whatever" of David Sheff's book Beautiful Boy addresses the author's attempt to get his son, Nic, into a treatment program. Nic's hostility towards his father is palpable, as is David's helplessness in the situation. Nic, though a boy by many societal standards, is an adult and David's power to compel him into a treatment program is incomplete. Furthermore, Nic's medical condition, as assessed by the addiction rehabilitation counselor at the Oakland ehab, is severe. Not only is he using a greater amount of drugs than many drug abusers much older than he is, but he is engaging in a dangerous practice of combining drugs. Furthermore, she says that the program is not right for Nic because he is proud of his hardcore status, resistant to treatment, and in denial about the severity of his problem. She offers David other resources, but does not seem to think…...

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References

Sheff, D. (2008). Beautiful boy: A father's journey through his son's addiction. New York:

Houghton Mifflin Company.

First, we want to reassure you that being confused about nursing worldviews puts you in some good company.  Many nurse practitioners find that the approach that place worldviews at the beginning of nursing inquiry may actually be hampering the development of nursing scholarship and keeping the profession from evolving as quickly and as efficiently as it should.  In addition, the material can become very confusing because different authors use the words paradigm and worldview interchangeably, though they distinguish them from metaparadigms. 

Broadly stated, an individual’s worldview consists of the beliefs and assumptions that the person uses to interpret....

One of the reasons that Frederick Douglass was an effective anti-slavery advocate was because he was a powerful speaker and writer who mastered rhetorical tools and was able to use them to convey the realities of slavery to people who had either never experienced or had experienced slavery from the perspective of the slaveholder, rather than the perspective of the slave. 

Douglass uses simile, comparing most slaves’ knowledge of their birthdays to what a horse would know of its birthday.  Given that slaves were often compared to beasts of burden; this may not seem like a rhetorical device....

The term global perspective actually has a few different meanings, depending on the discipline.  It can refer to an individual’s personal lens and how they view the globe; to various perspectives about an issue from around the globe; and to views linked to globalization and the impact of individual or nation-wide actions on the world and its inhabitants.   We are going to provide a range of topic suggestions that incorporate all of these different definitions of global perspectives, with the most suggestions coming from the last topic, as it is the most commonly used across academic disciplines.

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