...Arc of Justice- Residential Segregation The Arc of Justice depicts the struggles, injustices, and hatred experienced by ethnic minorities in the United States during early part of the 20th century. Throughout the book, author Kevin Boyle shows to us the violence and oppression endured by blacks as they strived towards success and racial equality. A key struggle for many African American families trying to improve their lifestyle and social status in northern American cities, was finding a place to live and raise their families. Those who dared to move from the cities’ black quarters into white neighborhoods faced fierce opposition from white supremacist groups and residents alike. An analysis of the Arc of Justice shows us that social, cultural, and economic forces challenged the African Americans’ fight against residential segregation. In his introduction to the book, Boyle paints the situation that black Americans faced in the 1910’s and early 1920’s. Looking to escape the prejudices, oppression, and low working wages of the south, many individuals looked to the North as a gateway to financial stability and independence. With the emergence of the steel and automobile industries, thousands upon thousands of black men and women were drawn into the northern cities of Chicago, Detroit, and New York by the opportunities to earn higher wages and provide for themselves. There they faced the reality of what their life would be like. Blacks were often restricted to living in overcrowded...
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...Arc of Justice- Residential Segregation The Arc of Justice depicts the struggles, injustices, and hatred experienced by ethnic minorities in the United States during early part of the 20th century. Throughout the book, author Kevin Boyle shows to us the violence and oppression endured by blacks as they strived towards success and racial equality. A key struggle for many African American families trying to improve their lifestyle and social status in northern American cities, was finding a place to live and raise their families. Those who dared to move from the cities’ black quarters into white neighborhoods faced fierce opposition from white supremacist groups and residents alike. An analysis of the Arc of Justice shows us that social, cultural, and economic forces challenged the African Americans’ fight against residential segregation. In his introduction to the book, Boyle paints the situation that black Americans faced in the 1910’s and early 1920’s. Looking to escape the prejudices, oppression, and low working wages of the south, many individuals looked to the North as a gateway to financial stability and independence. With the emergence of the steel and automobile industries, thousands upon thousands of black men and women were drawn into the northern cities of Chicago, Detroit, and New York by the opportunities to earn higher wages and provide for themselves. There they faced the reality of what their life would be like. Blacks were often restricted to living in overcrowded...
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...112 21 November 2013 History Recycled in the Works of T.C. Boyle History's repeating itself is a dominant theme throughout T.C. Boyle's short stories and novels. If people do not learn from past mistakes, they are likely to fail again. By revisiting history, the author teaches the importance of awareness and caution in an ever-changing society. In “The Tortilla Curtain” published in 1995 a specific migrant problem in the 1930s is modified to fit contemporary immigration. Candido and America's battle for survival after immigrating to the United States repeats a similar event depicted in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Boyle's twisted short stories in the “If the River Was Whiskey” mirror events in history in the light of modern times. The similarities between the Van Brunts and the Van Warts in “The World's End “contribute to identical generations, separated by three hundred years. In his writing Boyle attacks modern society's conceited, self-absorbed attitude, and he discourages reiteration of the past. In “The Tortilla Curtain” Boyle recycles a past dilemma as he writes of a problem similar to the "Dust Bowl" migration of the 1930s. Candido Rincon and his wife America travel from Mexico to live here in America through the "Tortilla Curtain" searching for work while constantly trying to achieve the American Dream. In this journey, the Rincons encounter several racist obstacles including a pack of white men who beat and rape America during her pregnancy leaving her to...
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...obtained is titled Work for Nurses in Play-Schools written by Mary Boyle O’Reilly for the first edition of American Journal of Nursing (O'Reilly, 1900). The article discusses how district nurses were trying to impress upon patients in the area that prevention and sanitation were the keys to battling disease. The district nurses were finding that some people were not interested at all in changing the way in which they did things and that those that did show interest often fell back into old ways soon after the nurses giving instruction were gone. Around this same time, the newly formed Guild of Saint Elizabeth was formed and as part of their work of a social settlement, they created play-school which was where children could go during the months of July and August in an attempt to keep these children from the influences of the streets. The nursing corps associated with The Boston City Hospital decided to go to the play-school and instruct the children on basic nursing, sanitation, and disease prevention in hopes of instilling these principles in the children who had yet to have instilled in them the ways of their parents. This proved to be a very popular course at the play-school and when doing follow-up in the homes, the nurses reported that improved sanitation and an attempt to counteract conditions of illness were evident in the homes of children who attended the course at the play school. (O'Reilly, 1900). Mary Boyle O’Reilly was one of the founding members of the Guild of Saint...
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...Dossier #6 TRADITION AND MODERNITY “The sun never sets on the British Empire. "This famous quote is often used to show the large number of territories that Britain had all over the world during the seventeenth to the middle of the twentieth century. By extension, this also shows the scope of its influencel. The first of this set of three documents is the opening speech to the 2012 Olympic Games given by Academy Award winner film director Danny Boyles under whose direction the whole programme fell. At first sight Boyle’s text seem somewhat unrelated to the Olympics as it seems rather like a tribute to Britain and we get the impression that he was on a mission of patriotism lauding Britain as a great country. However, to put this speech into perspective it may be worthwhile to bear in mind the fact that, as mandated by the Olympic Charter, the formal ceremonial opening of this international sporting event is combined with an artistic spectacle to showcase the host nation’s culture. We can therefore understand the relevance of the contents of this opening speech. In fact, the different sections of the ceremony were designed to reflect aspects of British history and culture. Document 2 is the 2006 logo of the British Conservatist party. The previous logo of a torch which was used from 1983 until then was abandoned because of its negative association with the party under Margaret Thatcher. The torch emblem logo having been introduced in the Iron Lady’s eighties heyday, David...
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...In the Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle, the Mossbachers and the Rincons are two families in which they both face different social, financial and cultural differences. This comes to show how immigrants and nonimmigrants’ mindset have different thinks and issues that they worry about. Not only did people face issues in this novel but also in real life. Cesar Chavez and Aniza Yezierska are two other people who have wanted the American Dream. Immigration is a consistent problem in the book. Those who come to America are here to make their “American Dream” come true. The Mossbachers and the Rincons have different views on what this dream is. They have different ideas of what social problems are. The Mossbachers care more about what others around them think. They want...
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...Background/Intervention Someone who identifies as homeless LGBT youth is someone who fits into three categories combine. Firstly, they are young usually between the ages of 13-17 years of age. They are also homeless which loosely describes a person without a regular dwelling. There are several reasons why someone may become homeless; some examples include financial difficulties or family problems that force someone out of their home. The last category is an individual who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). It is estimated that people who identify as LGBT make up 20% of the homeless population (Van Leeuwen, Boyle, Salomonsen-Sautel, Baker, Garcia, Hoffman, & Hopfer, 2006). When these categories are combined the individual is considered homeless LGBT youth, which is the focus of this literature review. The interventions for homeless LGBT youth are limited, but they can access local homeless shelters they however run the threat of being harassed by other people using the facilities for their sexual orientation. There a few organizations designed to help the homeless LGBT youth these interventions provide emergency housing for LGBT youth who have either been thrown out or have run away from their homes (Rosario, Schrimshaw, & Hunter, 2012). Purpose The purpose of this literature review is to examine factors that explain why there is a higher risk of becoming a homeless youth if individuals identify themselves as LGBT compared to someone who identifies as heterosexual...
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...noticed a group of nurses in the Emergency Department who seemed to have lost their ability to nurture. (Coetzee, Klopper 2010) Compassion fatigue, although identified a decade ago, was never really clarified, defined or explored, leaving nurses predominantly disposition to compassion fatigue unaware of how to identify or how to prevent it from happening. Nurses can experience compassion fatigue when they too begin to feel similar fear, pain and suffering their patients are experiencing, indirectly taking on the patients feelings as their own. Symptoms are gradual in the beginning, with the symptoms like weariness and malaises to altering the nurse’s ability to cope with stress ultimately having negative psychological and physical consequences. (Boyle 2011) Boyle (2011) describes those at highest risk for developing compassion fatigue are those who are on the front lines of medicine, those who absorb traumatic stress of those they help. While many first responders like firefighters, police and paramedics readily have complex training and debriefing modules to help them cope with the traumatic situations (Boyle 2011) they encounter every day, nurses do not. Nurses often have an ongoing relationship with their patient care and are responsible for the patient 24 hours a day, daily having to respond to acute care situations and ongoing life threatening emergencies, consistently absorbing the needs of the patient and patient family members. Warning signs of five concepts of compassion...
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...Abstract Millions of nurses everyday are struck by initiating and rendering empathetic care to patients and families. Daily, nurses are also subject to a multitude of crises, high acuity sets and increased workloads. The psychological demands of a nurse, under incomprehensible amounts of stress, has yet to be addressed in depth. Compassion fatigue is a label stuck to the caregiver who becomes victim to continued strain in meeting the needs of patients and families suffering from critical, traumatic, or end-of-life needs. Because of compassion fatigue, the emotional, mental, and physical health of the nurse is at stake. Little has been done to prevent compassion fatigue in the workplace. However, voices are beginning to advocate for nurses who are in the trenches day in and day out by initiating compassion fatigue interventions. These include mentorship programs, educating healthcare staff on compassion fatigue symptoms, and speaking to state legislators who are able to enact change in the healthcare setting. The implications of personal health, patient satisfaction, job satisfaction, and joyfulness are in jeopardy. Keywords: compassion fatigue, empathetic care, psychological demands, compassion fatigue interventions, compassion fatigue prevention, compassion fatigue symptoms, patient satisfaction, job satisfaction, mentorship programs A new nurse and her preceptor have a seven patient assignment. The preceptor is called away to attend to another matter, leaving...
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...Countering Compassion Fatigue: A Requisite Nursing Agenda Deborah A. Boyle, MSN, RN, AOCNS®, FAAN Abstract Nurses have a longstanding history of witnessing the tragedy experienced by patients and families; however, their own reactions to profound loss and premature death have not been systematically addressed. There is a paucity of research describing interventions to prevent or minimize the ramifications of repeated exposure to traumatic events in the clinical workplace. Compassion fatigue is a contemporary label affixed to the concept of personal vicarious exposure to trauma on a regular basis. Yet this phenomenon of compassion fatigue lacks clarity. In this article, the author begins by describing compassion fatigue and distinguishing compassion fatigue from burnout. Next she discusses risk factors for, and the assessment of compassion fatigue. The need to support nurses who witness tragedy and workplace interventions to confront compassion fatigue are described. Citation: Boyle, D., (Jan 31, 2011) "Countering Compassion Fatigue: A Requisite Nursing Agenda" OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol. 16, No. 1, Manuscript 2. DOI: 10.3912/OJIN.Vol16No01Man02 Key words: Compassion fatigue, nurse stress, work setting improvements, communication skills Nurses care for ill, wounded, traumatized, and vulnerable patients in their charge. This exposes them to considerable pain, trauma, and suffering on a routine basis (Coetzee & Klopper, 2010; Hooper, Craig, Janvrin, Wetzel...
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...The author discusses the symbolism as portrayed by the coyote as similar to that of the American attitude toward illegal immigrants in the United States. In this novel, Boyle tells an effective story of the illegal immigration in Southern California. While he tells the story of several characters throughout the novel, he best depicts the feelings of the characters symbolically by paralleling the story of the immigrants as comparable to the coyotes which continuously intrude into the yards of the residents in the community. Candido is one of the protagonists in the novel that is an illegal Mexican and is paralleled to the coyote. In addition, Boyle shows the meaning of the literal coyote to the real animal itself. This shows that coyote plays an important role in this novel as a symbol. In the beginning of the novel, Boyle uses the literal coyote to portray the real animal. Mossbachers' owns two dogs, Osbert and Sacheverell. One night a coyote jumps over and eats Sacheverell. Therefore Delaney's family build an even higher fence to keep out any unwanted animals like coyotes. However, a coyote jumps over again and eats the other one, Osbert. The homeowners association is trying to put up a gate to keep out "The Salvadorans, the Mexicans, the blacks, the gangbangers, and taggers and carjackers." (p.39) Boyle uses the coyote as a symbol of breaking in and taking whatever they wants. It can also be read to describe the situation with Mexican immigrants; like the coyotes, with...
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...Father Greg Boyle wrote, “Close both eyes; see with the other one. Then, we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgements… and we find ourselves… in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love” (Boyle 145). Father Greg “G” Boyle couldn’t have put it better. He explains the process not only by which we learn to accept others, but how we learn to accept new ideas; thus leading us to a place of “endless acceptance and infinite love”. In my opinion, the most powerful of ideas that I was exposed to was the idea that a person becomes truly marginalized when they succumb to shame–that when one gives up on himself, he in turn demonizes himself. I will hold this idea close to my heart for all of my life because if I can stop someone...
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...society there are many universal moral beliefs that are based strictly on human emotions. Morality is what helps individuals make sense of their gut feelings. “After the plague” a short story written by T. Coraghessan Boyle has placed Jed the main character, in an apocalyptic situation that challenges his morals in more ways than one. The author Boyle, sets up a scenario that causes Jed to question his morality, that being said I will look at how Jed overcomes and adapts to the coming challenges after an apocalypse and how morality plays a part in his transformation from the old world to the new. To many the word morality means the definition of right and wrong, to others it is explained as the social norm set by a society. Jed is put into a situation dealing with the end of the world, as he isolates himself he realizes that things will have to change. There will no longer be phone calls to friends or families and he will be alone to figure out how to deal with the issue at hand. The first test of morality for Jed was when he went out to the fish fry and saw the man beneath the deck. Should he help him, or should he just go along and act as if he didn’t realize there was someone there. “What did I do?...Nothing. I don’t care, I was terrified--who wouldn’t be..”(Boyle) This shows that Jed considered helping out the man which in the old world would be the “right” thing to do. Now that the...
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...important reason for students choose to study abroad is to improve their language skills. It is generally known that English is the official language in a large number of countries, in other words, English is a world language. If people want to enter a global workforce, speaking English fluently is very important for themselves. Studying abroad gives them a chance to practice their language skills. According to Lafford (2006), Study abroad has traditionally been assumed to be the best environments in which to acquire a second language. He argued that study abroad could help students to improve their target languages’ pronunciation, grammar and vocabularies through their usual life. Coincidentally, Freed (1995) pointed out that the students who study abroad could improve their speaking skills and make their second language become more fluent. However, as Anastasia (2014) has indicated, the second language is hard to learn when you live in a new environment because there are many words having same meanings or even a word has several meanings which depend on disciplines, and you got the help more difficult about it compared with in your home countries. For example, in classes, international students sometimes do not know what the teachers talk about, so they will be looking around or...
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...chastising and belittling them? Immigrants have always wanted to live the American dream; however, not only do they always encounter the reality of their struggles in life, but they are also psychologically and verbally abused. The novel, The Tortilla Curtain by T.C Boyle, demonstrates the abuse, racism, and cultural stereotypes that immigrants are subjected to, as well as, the idea that, no matter how hard an immigrant may try to retain the fantasy of the American Dream, in the end, the reality of North American racism and cultural stereotypes is always present. Tortilla...
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