... intensive. This led to an increased hospital stay and thereby increasing expenditure. A shift in responsibility for the outcome of a treatment from patient to surgeon also caused surgeons to reject Lister's methods. Lister's lack of exposition was also a main cause because his reluctance to compile statistics and reveal surgical mortality, he never published a book and had very few disciples because he was ... develop in, therefore the fluid given off from the surface of the granulations flow away undecomposed, hence no suppuration. Opposition was great in England and the United States m...

• Word Count: 1474
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... they attached to wireless reception in the colonies of the Empire Service. Another development was that recognition was soon given to the importance of local colonial broadcasting. Sir Phillip Cunliffe-Lister who was Secretary of State for colonies (1931035) addressed governors on the subject of reception in the colonies in a number of circular dispatches, the most comprehensive being that ... Cunliffe-Listers' idea of projecting Britain was through the broadcast of royal and ceremonial occasions which gave people: 'a more vivid realization of their connection with the empire' (Cunl...

• Word Count: 8649
• Approx Pages: 35
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... bring into discussion issues arising from the pursuit of this dream by examining the lives of the protagonists of two important American literatures: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The protagonists of both novels are linked by their parallel ambitions, their motivations ... stand on the stoop every evening after dinner. To this and many other effects, Minnie and Hanson came to disapprove of Carrie's whimsical ways. Carrie's ever growing sense of frustrations is made even worst by her desire for consumer goods. In one of her job searches at ...

• Word Count: 7760
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... provisions must be abided to protect the inmate from potential abuse. John Bell, the superintendent of the State Colony, expressed his opinion for Carrie Buck to undergo this surgical procedure due to her feeble minded heredity. John Bell petitioned the board of directors of the State Colony ... the county considered the record of the board and the evidence before it and affirmed the decision of the hospital's board of directors. Carrie Buck's counsel decided to appeal further stating that the plaintiff was being denied her right to due process of law and equal protection ... of salpin...

• Word Count: 884
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... The most popular and interesting case of eugenics in the United States is the U.S. Supreme Court case Buck vs. Bell, the sterilization of Carrie Buck. Carrie Buck was an institutionalized, supposedly feebleminded girl that was to be a test case for the sterilization law in Virginia. Author Paul Lombardo pointed ... This must have been in the thoughts of many Americans who saw institutionalized people as a burden on society and their own pocketbooks. The Carrie Buck case seems to be the turning point in eugenics, from a more social Darwinist point of view to an extreme negative eugenics p...

• Word Count: 3313
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... whom a physician determined likely to become the parent of children with similar defects (Buck v. Bell 1927). The court case was an appeal by Carrie Buck asking for a reversal of her sterilization sentence handed down by a Virginia court. Carrie Buck was accused of being "feebleminded" because she had given birth to a child out of wedlock. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Homes declared that ... "three generations of imbeciles are enough" during the Buck v. Bell case, which upheld the Virginia court ruling (The Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement). Carrie's sterilization...

• Word Count: 1897
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , members of the Woman's Party participated in hunger strikes, picketing the White House, and engaging in other forms of civil disobedience to publicize the suffrage cause. In 1916, NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Catt unveils her "winning plan" for suffrage victory at a convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her plan required the coordination of activities by a vast force of suffrage workers taking ... , however, their decision proved to be a prudent one. It added another reason why women deserve the vote, and defined "true womanhood" in the minds of many Americans. With Carrie Chapman'...

• Word Count: 2702
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , members of the Woman's Party participated in hunger strikes, picketing the White House, and engaging in other forms of civil disobedience to publicize the suffrage cause. In 1916, NAWSA president Carrie Chapman Catt unveils her "winning plan" for suffrage victory at a convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her plan required the coordination of activities by a vast force of suffrage workers taking ... , however, their decision proved to be a prudent one. It added another reason why women deserve the vote, and defined "true womanhood" in the minds of many Americans. With Carrie Chapman'...

• Word Count: 2704
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the Matrix may also be due to the way in which it combines elements of science fiction, martial arts and action movie genres as well as featuring a strong female lead, Carrie Ann Moss as Trinity and the way in which it draws upon cyberpunk and style. One of the most important films of modern science fiction genre is 2001: A Space Odyssey ... . Masculine attire is also noticeable in Terminator 2, where Linda Hamilton plays Sarah Connor in an action heroine role. More recently, there is the example of a post modern action heroine, Trinity, (Carrie Ann Moss), in the Matrix (1999). The chara...

• Word Count: 2213
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a man to survive, for the increased efficiency created by the improved technology created new career opportunities for females. A very important and insightful book from this time period, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, accurately depicts the roots of these changes. With the increased travel and job opportunities created by the revolution, the United States began to experience an unprecedented wave of urbanization. In ... the big city (Chicago), an unprecedented concept, via the newly built rails. It suggested that women, like men, could now be identified by their careers, and pursue ...

• Word Count: 2026
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the centuries of superstition clinging to theories of divine retribution and toxic "efflura" gave way to the scientific understandings at Louis Pasteur and his published discovery of bacteria and Joseph Lister describing his experiments with carbolic acid and antiseptics. Now jump forward about one hundred and forty years in modern day surgeries, infection control starts days before surgery with the proper ... ...

• Word Count: 825
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , mice, monkeys, rabbits, birds, monkeys and guinea pigs. French chemist Louis Pasteur pioneered new treatments for cholera and anthrax by experimenting on chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs. British surgeon Joseph Lister tested carbolic acid on animals and discovered the substance could effectively sterilize surgical instruments, sutures and wound dressings, thereby preventing infection of wounds. Since then, scientists have used animal experiments ... ...

• Word Count: 666
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and that reflection can alter focus from "doing" thereby in consciousness rising into self-awareness. However, whilst most literature gives positive opinions of refection there are some which would disagree, Lister (1988) impresses that reflection needs self-awareness and openness which for a student may be difficult to give either because they don't want to or because they are unaware of the ... ...

• Word Count: 3914
• Approx Pages: 16
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Question What were the most serious problems facing the newly unified Italy in 1870? Response In 1861, nine states became one country: Italy. Italian unification did not come around easily, and even after Italy was unified, it was still plagued with problems: economic, political, and even religious. One obvious problem was that separately, there were states such as Piedmont-Sardinia, which were more prosperous than others, such as The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. When Italy was created, the separate problems became the problems of the whole of Italy, and in turn of the new Italian government. ...

• Word Count: 1186
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... rights reporting to document battered women and children's experiences with the law in the Massachusetts Family Court System (Cuthbert et. al. 2002). The co-directors of the project, Carrie Cuthbert and Kim Slote, were international human rights lawyers who had already organized several international meetings of domestic violence advocates. They used international human rights reporting techniques, including the staging ... ...

• Word Count: 9630
• Approx Pages: 39
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... all time: Michael Jackson's "Thriller." The television show, "The Walking Dead," which has been nominated for Golden Globe and Emmy awards. Film stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Carrie Anne Moss, Laurie Holden, Bruce Willis, Will Smith, Brad Pitt and Billy Connolly appear in zombie movies, while other zombie productions are so popular they propel the actors in them ... ...

• Word Count: 3106
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... grief of victim's families or communities - Capital Punishment does not act as a deterrent to crime - Capital Punishment is not an acceptable alternative to long-term imprisonment because the death penalty carrie the possibility of wrongful execution of an innocent person NB: No opinion has been argued. Your task is to INFORM the reader about the opposing viewpoints, NOT to argue one ... ...

• Word Count: 1668
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... leadership positions, did not have a mentor or role model. Catherine Walker (1999) asserts that the "absence may significantly contribute to women's near absence at the top in health care" (p. 25). Carrie Owen Plietz, CEO of Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, was lucky enough to have mentors who provided her with "freedom and support " to succeed and she was able to discover ... ...

• Word Count: 1954
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... consumption of alcohol on Army posts. By 1833, there were nearly 6,000 organizations opposed to the consumption of alcohol, such as the Anti-Saloon League. (Hintz 1996) Women, such as Carrie Nation, concerned particularly about drunkenness and the effects of this state on the family and workplace, flocked to temperance societies with hopes that abstaining from the consumption of alcohol would ... ...

• Word Count: 751
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... women since they are more likely to have participated in dance throughout their life. This makes them and more focused target. In a study conducted to determine if Opera (Currie, Graeme, Carrie Hobart, 1994), could be brought to a wider crowd, the audience profile is established as a very narrow class of audience members. Attendees tended to be older. This may be explained by ... ...

• Word Count: 1904
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... earth a sense of biodiversity because if the only animals left on the earth are domestic, then there would no longer be a "wild earth" and thus "wildness" would no longer exist. Carrie Barlow argues that "rewilding must be undertaken because, next to outright species extinctions, the most abhorrent outcome - the greatest crime against creation - humankind might effect would be for surviving lineages ... ...

• Word Count: 1275
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate