...The Crimean crisis is an ongoing international crisis involving Russia and Ukraine. Most developments apply to the Crimean peninsula, formerly a multiethnic region of the Ukraine comprised of the (now defunct) Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the administratively separate municipality of Sevastopol; both are populated by an ethnic Russian majority and a minority of both ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars. The demographics of Crimea have undergone dramatic changes in the past centuries.[a][b][c][41] The crisis unfolded in late February 2014 in the aftermath of the Ukrainian revolution, when—after months of protests by Euromaidan and days of violent clashes between protesters and police in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev—the Ukrainian parliament held a vote to impeach the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.[42][43] However the vote failed to reach the three-fourths majority required to impeach a President according to the Constitution of Ukraine.[44][45] Russian President Vladimir Putin said President Yanukovych was illegally impeached and that he regards him as Ukraine’s legitimate president.[46][d] This was followed by the interim appointment of the Yatsenyuk Government as well as the appointment of a new Acting President of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov—seen by Russia as "self-proclaimed"—in a "coup d'etat".[46][e][f][g] Beginning on 26 February, pro-Russian forces gradually took control of the Crimean peninsula. Russia claimed that the uniformed men were local self-defense...
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...The Relationship between the Crimean Crisis and Globalization Introduction Beginning in late November, the Ukraine crisis has become a worldwide headline that has encompassed a complex number of both intranational and international issues. The catalyzing event that led to the crisis was the decision by former Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, to negate trade talks with the European Union and instead pursue closer ties with Russia. This spurred protests from thousands of people, and as the conflict escalated it forced Yanukovych to escape the Ukraine and secede from his position as the Ukrainian President. In a move that can be seen as blatantly opportunistic, Russia effectively used the civil calamity in the Ukraine to annex the Republic of Crimea, a move regarded as highly illegal by the majority of the international community. On the surface, Russia has claimed that the move itself has been carried out to ensure the continued safety of ethnic Russians living within the Republic. However, after careful analyzation of the economic ties that bind Russia and the Ukraine, one can conclude that the annexation of Crimea is part of a larger plan to ensure that the Ukraine continues to comply with Russia economically. When applying this theory through the context of a realist perspective, it becomes obvious that Russia is acting in their own self-interest as a power maximizer in order to ward off the influence of western globalization. In response to increasing Russian aggression...
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...Comparison Paper ANNA KARENINA/DOCTOR ZHIVAGO Sonya | Russian Literature | February 10, 2016 Summary of Anna Karenina A crisis develops in the Oblonsky household when Dolly finds out about her husband's affair. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, arrives to reconcile the couple and dissuades Dolly from getting a divorce. Konstantin Levin, Stiva's friend, arrives in Moscow to propose to the eighteen year old Kitty Shtcherbatsky. She refuses him, for she loves Count Vronsky, a dashing army officer who has no intentions of marrying. Meeting the lovely Madame Karenina, Vronsky falls in love and begins to pursue her. Kitty falls ill after a humiliating rejection by Vronsky. At the German spa where she takes a rest cure she tries to deny her womanly nature by becoming a religious do-gooder. Realizing the hypocrisy of this new calling, Kitty returns to Russia cured of her depression and ready to accept her ultimate wifehood. Consummating her union with Vronsky, Anna steps into a new life with much foreboding for the future. By the time she confesses her adultery to the suspecting Karenin, she is already pregnant with Vronsky's child Devoting himself to farming, Levin tries to find life meaningful without marriage. He expends his energies in devising a cooperative landholding system with his peasants to make the best use of the land. Seeing his brother Nicolai hopelessly ill with tuberculosis, he realizes he has been working to avoid facing the problem of death....
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...not want to meet his uncle's fate in a war with a major power of Europe; he steered clear of conflict with Britain and Russia. Napoleon's military adventures were unsuccessful in both obtaining glory and winning any sort of victory. Napoleon wanted to create a satellite government in Mexico and set up a system in Mexico for French exports. Defying the Monroe Doctrine, he attacked Mexican Radical Republicans and was soon kicked out by Americans and the Mexican peasants. Not only had Napoleon failed to gain any sort of satellite government but he had lost to a bunch of Mexican peasants. He had managed to stay out of war with a European power, but lost huge glory. Needless to say this Mexican adventure was unsuccessful. The Luxembourg Crisis and Napoleon's cockiness lost glory for France while losing a war that the French should not have even been involved in. Napoleon demanded the city of Luxembourg from Bismarck after the Prussian defeat of Austria. Bismarck became enraged, as did the rest of the Germans. Napoleon attacked Germany, to keep France's glory as the supposed greatest country in the world. Bismarck and the German states then proceeded to overtake France, who soon overthrew their own government. Losing to Russia or Britain would have been bad enough; but losing to a bunch of German states filled with German savages was a huge loss of glory. Despite Napoleon's military loses he managed to give France glory in other areas. Napoleon...
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...Slide 1: The Early Years * Known for her contributions to the nursing and mathematical fields as well as an important link in English feminism in the early 1850s while struggling with her self-definition and the expectations of an upper-class marital and family life. * Born May 12th 1820 into a wealthy upper middle-class family in Florence Italy, she was named after the city in which she was born. * As a child, Florence was very close to her anti-slavery lobbyist father. Being the youngest of two girls, and having no son, her father treated her as his friend and companion. Her father, William Nightingale, a wealthy English landowner, took responsibility for her education and personally taught her Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, history, philosophy and mathematics. * It was uncommon for women to receive this type of education during the Victorian era, unless they paid for a private tutor. Otherwise women were generally self taught. Mathematics was rarely taught to women at all. This was the start of Florence's passion for statistics that would later prove to be helpful in the delivery of her finding and efforts for sanitation in hospitals. * In 1837, while living at Embley Park, Florence claimed to hear the voice of God telling her that she had a mission in life. It took her several years of searching to identify that mission. This was the first of four occasions where said claimed to hear the voice of God. * Despite her family's disapproval...
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...Nursing Research Study Contributions Debbie Rhoads Grand Canyon University Introduction to Nursing Research NRS 433 August 6, 2011 Nursing Research Study Contributions Fee, E., & Garofalo, M. E. (2010). Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War. American Journal of Public Health, 100(9), 1591. Study Background Problem Florence Nightingale is most remembered as the pioneer of nursing as well as the first nursing researcher. During the Crimean War in 1854, Nightingale and 38 nurses traveled to the military hospital Scutari, in Turkey, to care for the wounded soldiers. The conditions they found were horrible. Soldiers were lying in filth, there was little medications and fewer supplies. There was no ventilation and an open sewer ran beneath the hospital. Morbidity and mortality rates were a staggering 43%.(Fee & Garofalo, 2010). Significance to nursing. Nightingale's research had a great impact on the nursing profession. Her research changed the views of society as well as the military regarding the care of the soldiers. Florence focused on cleanliness, ventilation, water purity and improving sanitation, which changed the mortality rates from 43 percent to 2 percent. (Burns & Grove, 2011, p. 10-12). Purpose of Study ...
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...The Crimean War, unnecessary as it was, was chiefly remarkable for the general mismanagement of the campaign and for the complete breakdown of the supply of necessaries such as food, shelter and clothing. At Balaclava the aim of the Russian forces was to cut the British lines of communications from the port of Balaclava. The 93rd Foot withstood the Russian attack: the Heavy Brigade of cavalry also beat off a Russian attack, but the Light Brigade, through mistaken orders carried out a disastrous charge immortalised in Tennyson’s poem. All regiments that had landed in the Crimea before 8th September were awarded the battle honour Sevastopol. In May1855 the KDG was warned for service in the Crimea, and in July embarked at Liverpool on the transports Arabia, Himalaya, and Resolute, arriving at Balaclava in August with strength of two field officers, four captains, 8 subalterns, 6 staff officers, thirty-five NCOs, and 318 rank and files, with 268 troop horses. The Himalaya was one of the first screw-propelled steamships, and when launched was the largest in the world. The KDG were encamped on arrival in the Crimea at Kadikoi, but within ten days were moved further inland due to an outbreak of cholera. The KDG together with the Carabiniers reinforced the original regiments of the Heavy Brigade (the 4th and 5th Dragoon Guards, the Royals, Greys and Iniskillings). The Cavalry Division, which included the Light Brigade (4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 8th and 11th Hussars, 17th Lancers...
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...Women’s Roles Then & Now Samuel N Kimani Strayer University Professor Flanagan HUM 112 World Cultures II November 26th, 2011 The idea of the good Mother is gift in many creation stories. In India, Mata Devi squeezed milk from her "ample breasts" to produce for all of personalities. In Assyria and Polynesia, the good Mother birthed only 1 egg from that all mankind originated. In Babylon, Ishtar gave birth from her "cosmic uterus" that is drawn out within the stars, where as Gaea, in Rome, emerged from the "primal vagina." And in Greece, "Mother Earth" formerly became Eleusis, who gave birth to a sheath of corn each year, associating ladies and fertility with crop and harvesting. Apart from the facility of fertility, the goddess conjointly had the facility of death. If the good Mother may bring man into the planet, it appeared possible enough that she may take him out. In mythologies, goddesses rounded up the dead "like a sheepdog" (Miles) Rosalind Miles, The Women's History of the planet.1989. Florence Nightingale, the daughter of the rich landowner, William Nightingale of Embly Park, Hampshire, was born in Florence, Italy, on twelfth might, 1820. Her father was a Unitarian and an affiliate of a reforming British political party that supported the nobility and later the business community, finally turning into the core of the Liberal Party who was in opposition to enslaved labor, particularly for low wage and underneath unfit...
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...human service is a non-profit organization or effort that renders the services for human needs. We should believe that human services is the greatest gift for anyone else and even too your own self satisfaction. This profession offers the assistance needed to manage with primary and social human needs. It is the person’s own will that raise him to pay services for human welfare and help needy people for their survival. Under the human service profession, Florence Nightingale is the most famous in its history. She is a great statistician and social reformer, and the initiator of contemporary nursing. Florence Nightingale came into prominence, when she served with her team in the history event of Crimean War. In this combat, she tended to injured soldiers. Discussion During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale and her staff of thirty eight volunteer trained nurses, with the inclusion of Mai Smith, her aunt were sent off to the Empire of Ottoman. All service providers were spread about 295 nautical miles, where the major camp of British was grounded. Florence arrived early and her team members discovered that wounded soldiers were being delivered poor care by exploited medical staff. On that occasion, it has been observed that hygiene was being neglected; medicines were in short supply, and number of infections was commonly rising, in which many of them were incurable. The patients had no equipment to process food for badly injured. After watching the whole situation...
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...The idea of the Great Mother is present in several creation stories. In India, Mata Devi squeezed milk from her "ample breasts" to feed all of mankind. In Assyria and Polynesia, the Great Mother birthed only one egg from which all mankind originated. In Babylon, Ishtar gave birth from her "cosmic uterus" which is drawn out in the stars, where as Gaea, in Rome, emerged from the "primal vagina." And in Greece, "Mother Earth" formerly became Eleusis, who gave birth to a sheath of corn every year, associating women and fertility with crop and harvesting. Aside from the power of fertility, the goddess also had the power of death. If the Great Mother could bring man into the world, it seemed feasible enough that she could take him out. In mythologies, goddesses rounded up the dead "like a sheepdog" (Miles) Rosalind Miles, The Women's History of the World.1989. Florence Nightingale, the daughter of the wealthy landowner, William Nightingale of Embly Park, Hampshire, was born in Florence, Italy, on 12th May, 1820. Her father was a Unitarian and a a member of a reforming British political party that supported the aristocracy and later the business community, finally becoming the core of the Liberal Party who was against enslaved labor hard work, especially for low pay and under bad conditions . As a child, Florence was very close to her father, who, without a son, treated her as his friend and companion. He took responsibility for her education and taught her Greek, Latin, French, German...
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...As a nurse, I have the responsibility to show up at work and care for the patients that are dependent on my help. In order to do that successfully, I have to be fully committed to not only my patient but profession as well. Arriving to work on time, advocating for my patients, and making the correct choices when faced with ethical dilemmas are a few ways I can display commitment. The second is initiative. Florence is a prime example of why this is so important. When she knew conditions weren’t safe for soldiers during the Crimean War, Florence took the initiative to change the situation. Despite the much negativity against her, she continued her work until conditions were changed. As a nurse, I will voice my opinion when things need change, I will participate in nursing associations to further the profession, and I will always speak up when ethical situations are at hand. It may mean taking actions that may go against the status quo, but they are necessary to do what is right. My ethics professor always quoted Martin Luther King, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” I think this “rule” he lived by goes hand-in-hand with my responsibility to take initiative as a nurse. To have this sense of ownership, you have to feel connected and actively participating. It may be hard at times, but knowing that the patient is depending on me to care for them will give me the incentive to always be engaged in my work. I will be supportive and communicate...
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...Alexander II faced several major problems during his reign, largely stemming from the negative implications of Russia’s system of serfdom that stifled economic and industrial growth, as well as Russia’s outdated and ineffective military that limited Russia’s presence in Europe and demonstrated her lacking industrial sector. Alexander was shown to be a keen reformer and managed to effectively tackle these problems, with his emancipation of the serfs, followed by his overseeing of successful economic and military reforms. Arguably the greatest problem that faced Russia in 1855 was the outdated and feudal – like system of serfdom which lagged far behind the social infrastructures of other major European nations. This system, in which over 23 million serfs were forced to work for their food and keep under private landowners, Nobles, and the state, was both economically inefficient (as Russia required a free labour force for industry and internal markets to grow) and attracted rising opposition to the Tsarist autocratic rule. For these reasons, Alexander decided to emancipate the serfs in an attempt to quell unrest and bring Russia “up to date”, famously stating: “It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to await the time when it will begin to abolish itself from below”. This shows that Alexander II saw the threat of grievances among the serfs with the ruling administration and wished to protect his own position from threatening opposition. This desire for self-preservation...
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...of work. Kaiserswerth may have been dirty and exhausting, but Nightingale enjoyed every minute of it because she finally felt like she was contributing to a cause that was near and dear to her heart. During 1853, Florence was offered a promotion to superintendent of a nursing home in London, which she enthusiastically accepted. Florence’s family, however, still did not find dirty hospitals to be suitable for a wealthy aristocrat like Florence, and she struggled to earn their support throughout the entirety of her career. Without the support of her family, Florence resorted to her closest relative, Aunt Mai, as well as Britain’s Secretary of War, Sidney Herbert (Shor 34). The sinking of a Turkish fleet led to the declaration of the Crimean War that pitted Russia against Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire on March 27, 1854 (Shor 35). As the war progressed, the conditions of the hospitals and the soldiers inside of them rapidly diminished. Beetles and mice ran between the soldiers lying on the floor. Only one meal was provided for the entirety of the day, and there were no accessible...
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...Nicholas I • Was the third son of Czar Paul I, he had few chances of ever gaining the throne. o Not seen as a possible heir, thus was educated accordingly. o His upbringing was strict, flogging was common and few efforts were made to motivate the young student. • Was attracted to engineering and military affairs, especially enjoying the drills and luster of parades. • His eldest brother, Czar Alexander I, was childless. o Paul’s second son and next in line for succession, Constantine, renounced the throne. o Left Nicholas an apparent heir. • Didn’t feel ready to rule, realizing he lacked necessary skills & knowledge. o His lifestyle didn’t change. o Wasn’t taking part in state affairs & was unpopular among soldiers; was disliked for his ruthlessness and fault-finding. • The sudden death of Alexander I, in November 1825 plunged Russia’s monarchy into turmoil. o Army swore allegiance to Constantine. o Having no support, Nicholas was prepared to give up power. • After Constantine confirmed his refusal, Nicholas declared himself emperor o A plot was hatched by the military to overthrow Nicholas and to usurp power. Led to the Decembrist Revolt on 26 December 1825 Nicholas was successful in suppressing the uprising. • Fighting revolutionary ideas & dissent became Nicholas’ obsession o In the early 1830s, he brutally crushed a Polish rebellion, reducing Poland to the status of a Russian province. o In 1848 he sent troops to suppress a Hungarian uprising...
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...Throughout her time helping soldiers in the Crimean War, May Seacole was admired for her skills as a nurse. On her return to England, her reputation was forgotten whilst Florence Nightingale was exalted. Source M implies that the differing treatment of these two women was as a result of racial prejudice: Mary Seacole was forgotten because of the colour of her skin. Source L attributes Mary’s different treatment to her behaviour and abilities as a nurse rather than the colour of her skin. Therefore, whilst the issue of race can not be ignored, I believe that Mary Seacole was simply seen as a less able nurse and thus was treated differently to Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale (Source L) outlines a number of reasons why she would not provide Mary Seacole with a reference or employment during the Crimean War. She quotes ‘drunkenness’ and the rumour that Seacole ran a ‘bad house’ (i.e. brothel). Nightingale also implies that Seacole duped the Officers of the Army into believing that she cared for the soldiers and that Nightingale herself knew the truth. This is not explicitly about the colour of Mary’s skin. There seem to be questions over Seacole’s ability as a nurse. In a time when nursing was becoming increasingly professional, concerns might well have been raised over the less formal training Seacole received in Jamaica as a child and could result in the belief of Nightingale that Seacole would demonstrate ‘improper conduct’. These attitudes may have been influenced...
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