...We often spend our lives living in the moment instead of preparing for the future. Many people do not consider that they will grow old and may require extensive healthcare needs in their elder age. For many, Medicare assumes the responsibility for the payment of their end of life care. Every employed citizen that pays taxes is contributing to the Medicare fund. Therefore, Medicare should continue to pay for the end of life treatment for patients. Needless to say there should be procedures and regulations in effect to reduce the amount of spending on end of life care. Physicians should not order test and procedures that are not beneficial to extending the patient’s life or improving their quality of life. Physicians are preying on the aging...
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...In Judy Brady’s personal essay “ I want A wife”, She explains why she would want a wife. She is humorously in her essay while teaching the unmarried and also the married women the role of and uncomplicated wife. At times, everyone wishes they had someone to rely on to do things for him/her. (ETHOS) PATHOS: She ends up answering the question, “Why would I want A wife?” and concluding “my god, who wouldn’t want a wife?” at the end. This shows she is comfortably stating what she had to say. ETHOS: The essay is very well put together by the way it’s illustrating how a dream wife should be. Which is Brady wanting a wife so she can be independent, can take care of her physical needs, and take care of her children. She lays out a list of what most...
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...Cunningham. Jed was the cool kid who didn’t care about school and rouls, he was going to be a poet and move to Ireland. Jed didn’t realize that the fact that he didn’t care about anything would be the reason why he later in his life would live a gray and sad life with no wife and just a dog. The mother thinks of her self as a gray and doll person who doesn’t has a good life. That image of her self comes because she cant move on from the feeling of being in love with the cool boy and have the attention from others. After she starts to chat with Jad, she realizes that she actually has a normal and good life, compered to Jed who haven’t maked anything out of him self, and have droved his wife on the edge of insanity and now he is trying to find purpose with his life by going back to something he could care about years ago. Jed is trying to act cool behind the computer, but is really sad and miserable. When the mother sees that, she realizes that if she goes back to him she just ends up with a life there actually is gray and doll. After that she know that she has a good and descent life, compered to him. And that lifts her up from the darkness she is living in. The theme or themes in this essay is romance and self-realization, and coming to terms with who you are. You can see how the mother is realizing that she HAVE a good life and she HAVE found love, because if she hadn’t found love she wouldn’t have a child and a husband. In the essay Appleyard is trying to say that if you...
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...Animal Farm Essay Power can make anything change drastically. That’s the way it happened in the essay Animal Farm, which is by George Orwell. In the essay, the animals of Animal Farm had a system of thought called Animalism, and the pigs betrayed it. The relationship of the pigs and the other animals change throughout the essay. In the beginning of the essay, the pigs helped and supported the other animals. For example, the pigs got all the other animals into the idea of rebellion after Old Major dies. This represents that the pigs care about the other animals because if they succeed, they will have a better life. It also shows how the other animals are someone the pigs can trust. Another example is that the pigs taught the other animals how to read and write. This represents that the pigs are helping them become smarter. It symbolizes that the pigs want them to be the best then can. As you can see, the pigs helped and assisted the other animals in the beginning. In the middle of the essay, the pigs started to take advantage and not support the animals. For instance, the pigs didn’t help the other animals when they were executed by Napoleon, and instead believed him. It demonstrates that they don’t know the animals well enough to see that they wouldn’t betray other animals or Animal Farm. It also displays their betrayal; they ignored the 6th Commandment: No animals shall kill any other animal. Another example is that the barley the other animals grew was reserved for the...
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...choose to read the essay called “The case against Physicians-Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-Of Life Care because this is an essay that I am very interested in. The author gave great examples and statements about why this matter is so serious. He grabbed my attention in the beginning and all the way to the end. The one statement that really stood out was the statement he wrote about one of the Dutch physicians. He wrote that the only reason why one of the physicians decided to give one of the patient’s euthanasia because he just wanted the bed that she was in. The main point of the essay was about physicians feeling sorry for patients that were in so much pain and it was nothing they could do help them. The author persuaded to me that the matter at hand was something to look deeper into. I wanted to learn more about the topic and talk to some of the physicians I work with and ask them how they feel about the subject. He also made me think about other reasons why this is a very bad idea to end a person life because are suffering so badly. I relieved the same feedback as my previous essay that I sent before. They said I need to try to not to write in the first person. I will this feedback to make my essay more effective by not writing in first person and not make the essay passive. I never really understood what that meant if I am writing an essay on how I feel about a certain essay. I am going to have to work on making my essay for like a persuasive essay than a personal...
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...addiction; c) youth work; d) violence; e) foster care/alternative care, discuss the client needs and the role of the social care practitioner in responding to those needs. Introduction The following essay is on Alternative care, Alternative care is known as both residential care and foster care. The discussion will be based on the residential care system in Ireland. Therefore, this essay will firstly begin by outlining the residential care system. It will then go on by discussing the needs of the child within residential care (Share and McElwee, 2005). The analysis continues by identifying and discussing the aspects of working in the residential care system. Finally, it will look at the importance of the social care practitioner within the residential care system and how the practitioner addresses the needs of the children within the care system. The discussion will then be concluded. The needs of young people in Residential Care Throughout society, it is a widely known certainty that young kids pass through the Residential Care system for many troublesome causes. Everyone in society is different to one another, different children have different needs which result from the poor care experience undergone by each child. The setting of Residential Care should, therefore, as much as possible, offer a home atmosphere to these children, that is, a welcoming and warm environment. Article 42.5 distinctly commits the Irish state to allocate care to a child under the age of 18, for whatever...
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...talking about your life. Fuck it! School can wait, let’s party tonight! But it isn’t always that easy not to care. Life isn’t a walkover. It can be pretty tough sometimes because what is right and what is wrong? – This is the question! Sometimes you end up confused and lost, as an outcome of too many bad decisions and too little guidance and support. But what is a bad decision and how do you figure it out? Sometimes all you need is a little something that will show you the answer – Motivation leads you to the right thing to do! This is some of the Topics that we are dealing with in the short story called A Gap of Sky. A Gap of Sky is a short story written by Anna Hope and published in 2008. It is about a 19-year-old girl struggling against the inner voice of her, which is telling her to cut out her studies and have fun instead. By having fun I mean drinking and doing drugs. Because that’s what Ellie is good at. She has been sent to London by her parents to study, but she is not taking it as serious as her parents are expecting of her to do, because she has been partying all night and can’t remember much. She wakes up and starts stressing because of an essay that she has to write, about Virginia Woolf. But she needs printer ink, so she goes out into the world searching for printer ink. On her way searching for printer ink she experiences a lot. The 19-year-old Ellie is the main character. Her parents have sent her to London to study but she doesn’t really care, instead she drinks...
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...talking about your life. Fuck it! School can wait, let’s party tonight! But it isn’t always that easy not to care. Life isn’t a walkover. It can be pretty tough sometimes because what is right and what is wrong? – This is the question! Sometimes you end up confused and lost, as an outcome of too many bad decisions and too little guidance and support. But what is a bad decision and how do you figure it out? Sometimes all you need is a little something that will show you the answer – Motivation leads you to the right thing to do! This is some of the Topics that we are dealing with in the short story called A Gap of Sky. A Gap of Sky is a short story written by Anna Hope and published in 2008. It is about a 19-year-old girl struggling against the inner voice of her, which is telling her to cut out her studies and have fun instead. By having fun I mean drinking and doing drugs. Because that’s what Ellie is good at. She has been sent to London by her parents to study, but she is not taking it as serious as her parents are expecting of her to do, because she has been partying all night and can’t remember much. She wakes up and starts stressing because of an essay that she has to write, about Virginia Woolf. But she needs printer ink, so she goes out into the world searching for printer ink. On her way searching for printer ink she experiences a lot. The 19-year-old Ellie is the main character. Her parents have sent her to London to study but she doesn’t really care, instead she drinks...
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...students who have to write essays. Don't you hate essays with extreme passion? All through school, teachers make their students write essays, essays, and more essays. They expect their students to have an opinion on whether a story fits the ironic vision or not, or something like that, but the student probably doesn't even care. People should just stop writing essays. First of all, essays are so formal. We have an exact formula on how an essay should be written. If you were writing an essay right now, first, you would do your intro, with their thesis at the end of it, then they have their three paragraphs of proof, and finally, after two hours of writing, they have their conclusion. Come on people, live a little! We are in college! Be wild! Do what you want to do! Put your thesis at the very end of the essay, or better yet, leave your thesis out of the essay. Then, we have extra little rules, within the formula, that we have to follow. For example, while writing some types of essays, we have a rule about not saying "I." What am "I," chopped liver? Do I have to become this nameless, faceless, mystery person, only to get people to listen to me? Also, what about using "you?" I mean, it's "you" that's reading my essay, isn't it? Who else would it be? Am I talking to myself? We all have a tendency to use "you" and/or "I" in our essays because it is in our daily communications with each other. So, if we are not practicing our daily communications, while writing essays, then what are we practicing...
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...Twenty- first Century, in 1996. His claim is that communities of America have become very “dismal” because they are no longer functioning properly as the connective tissue (521). He believes that “when you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life” (523). In his essay, Kunstler also provides a second part of his two- part definition of the public realm: “the public realm is the physical manifestation of the common good” to show the necessary relationship between the surroundings and the behavior of society (521, 523). In an attempt to explain these definitions of the public realm in Kunstler’s essay, this essay will examine the relationship between “chronological connectivity,” the “common good” and “citizenship” to show the deterioration of “civic life” because “consumers” are not playing their roles as responsible “citizens” and no longer care for their communities (523, 524). The link between "connective tissue" and "chronological connectivity" are meant to support the idea that our lives were affected by others decision, and we will affect our own futures. the futures that we create will affect the future for generations to come. Kunstler's essay takes place in Saratoga Springs, New York from about 1911 to the 1990's, at and around, the Grand Union Hotel (524). This hotel was once the largest hotel which allowed people to experience the best part of the city and was thought of as the centerpiece of the town where all members of...
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...End of Life Care Student’s Name Institution End of Life Care The cause for the trend of majority of elderly people not dying in their own homes as their preference is NHS failings, incorporating a scarcity of health visitors, which ensues in the desires of the elderly persons being ignored or not adhered to. Owing to poor co-ordination of social and health care services for the dying, the preferences of the individuals nearing death frequently go unidentified, and in instances where the preference to die at home is clearly stated, it frequently cannot be met (Rensbergen, Nawrot, Hecke, & Nemery, 2006). The social and healthcare providers conventionally offer low priority to end-of-life care as is evident in the lack of adequate training among significant staff. Another reason encompasses social-contextual elements. Gender, living status, and age are predictors of the location of death; however, the implant of a nursing home in a domestic community is the fundamental factor (Rensbergen, Nawrot, Hecke, & Nemery, 2006). As a nurse, to support clients in end-of-life care, and in reinforcing their preferences, one can come up with creative partnerships with healthcare professionals, patients, policy developers, and others to ascertain that care of the dying is prioritized. Moreover, one can record the comprehensive requirements of dying patients and families and taking note of individual, organizational, professional, and societal hindrances to quality end-of-life care...
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...The aim of this essay is to explore an aspect of care that a client group receives whilst in the community setting. The chosen aspect of care will be palliative care delivered to those patients who have been told they have a non-curative illness but are not yet at the end of life. The stage of the illness of the client group chosen is one where the patient is managed at home because there as there is nothing anyone can do to make things better (Calman-Hine Report 1998). The essay will also briefly describe three different professional groups involved in providing palliative care. It will then go on to discuss how good communication and collaborative working between these professional can provide the best quality of care of the patient and how poor communication can compromise the patients quality of care. Palliative care can be defined as the overall care of patients whose disease does not respond to curative treatment. The aim of Palliative care is to improve as much as possible the quality of life of patients and their families facing a life-threatening illness. This can be achieved by providing pain and symptom relief, spiritual and psychosocial support from diagnosis to bereavement (WHO 2002). Patients with life threatening illness may require care from a variety of different specialists and services at a number of points in their illness; this will include both statutory and non-statutory organisations (National Health Service Executive 1998). To ensure that all...
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...Brad had his father as the protector, however now it’s his turn to profit on that role for his father. Manning point of view in his essay writes “Now my father is not really so strong as he used to be and I am getting stronger” (Manning 139). He explains his feelings of understanding, and strength, he is becoming futher of himself as he continues to grow and sees who he is as a person, and “becoming less” of his “father” (139). Manning knew this was coming, however, he may not have known when, and when it did, as most youngsters today say “life hit him in the face.” This also was the case on account of Manning father wasn’t strong on demonstrating his love for one another instead conveyed their feelings through physical terms. This is where the arm wrestling comes to...
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...lives in London and studies on a university. She lives in a college, because in the beginning of the story she has to walk down the corridor to the hall toilet. Ellie does not care about her education at all, and it is clear that she blames her parents for going at the university. She is tired of things she has to do. She knows that she has an essay to write that is due to the next day, and she has already extended it quite a few times. We are told that she received a letter from the course she is taking, at the UCL, explaining that she will be expelled from the course, if she does not hand over this essay. With this letter in our minds and other facts, like doing drugs, drinking, going out rather often gives us the impression that she doesn’t care about her education, and that she wants to be more free than she is. Ellie knows that there is more to life than studies and duties, and she prefers drugs, cigarettes and booze, when it comes to living her life to its fullest and to get the feeling of freedom. When she walks down the streets in London in order to get some ink for her printer, she touches a leather glove on the street which has the middle finger pointed upwards, and she is filled with this feeling of naughtiness. When she touches the leather glove she regains faith in life; she feels that life and all its possibilities are ahead of...
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...maternal care. The bills have become the center of a contentious national debate. There are presently two bills with the same goals: House Bill No. 4244 or An Act Providing for a Comprehensive Policy on Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health, and Population and Development, and For Other Purposes introduced by Albay 1st district Representative Edcel Lagman, and Senate Bill No. 2378 or An Act Providing For a National Policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. THESIS OR CONVICTION: Yes, COUNTER ARGUMENT: No, because SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1. No, because Philip Nitschke, MD, Director and Founder of Exit International, commented in his June 5, 2009 interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez titled "Euthanasia Sets Sail" that appeared in the National Review Online: "Over time the Hippocratic Oath has been modified on a number of occasions as some of its tenets became less and less acceptable. References to women not studying medicine and doctors not breaking the skin have been deleted. The much-quoted reference to 'do no harm' is also in need of explanation. Does not doing harm mean that we should prolong a life that the patient sees as a painful burden? Surely, the 'harm' in this instance is done when we prolong the life, and 'doing no harm' means that we should help the patient die. Killing the patient--technically, yes. Is it a good thing--sometimes, yes. Is it consistent with good medical end-of-life care: absolutely...
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