Preventing Medication Errors "Mistakes are a sign that a safety problem exists, not that a nurse is doing a bad job" (Cohen, 2003, p.38). In hospitals across America nurses are making mistakes by administering wrong medications or the wrong dose to the wrong patient. While in nursing s...

Crisis In Our Nursing Homes Elderly people are being raped, abused, robbed from, and in some cases murdered in our nursing homes in America. I think that this is a crying shame for this to happen to someone at the end of life's journey. There needs to be many changes to the way we treat ...

Intellectual Cognizant -The levels of education between the Chinese Americans are divided between the highly educated and the poorly educated. -The second generation Chinese Americans who went through four years of college were pretty intelligent and were taking up more professional and technic...

In everybody's lives they try to find what their purpose in life is. They try to seek on their own what their life may bring. For every person there is a specific task to be fulfilled. However, that task is not easy to find. Finding the meaning of life in every person is such a difficult task,...

The Blacks Insatiable Demands I grew up in Africa, Ghana and Liberia to be exact. My image of the Blacks, was formed by what I would later come to understand that a form of indentured servants still exist in parts of the world. My grandfather as an architect lucked out on a contracted job to bui...

In the past, many groups of people have been seen down on and are even hurt by another group that believes that they are supreme. In the United States of America, the African American group has been seen down on by the "white" group. There was segregation between these two groups for man...

Eastern and western societies have been in constant conflict with one another in moral and social issues. One recurring issue is the role that women should play in society. In America, the idea that "All men are created equal," applies to both men and women. Women are given the choice t...

" How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?" This popular song is the essence of the Roaring 20's. Times were beginning to change, and many different situations and events contributed to the change. Some of these contributors were The Prohibition, Th...

There was much talk about immigration prior to the 2012 presidential election. Both the Democratic and Republican elects spoke of these issues, acknowledging that citizen diversity is a very good thing for our country. However, millions of people resent the influx of immigrants, believing that Ameri...

Marijuana is a substance that has become very much a part of American culture. Nearly 65 million Americans have either used it occasionally or regularly. The use of marijuana hit America about thirty years ago and has been accepted by a large section of society ever since. The debate on whether this...

The idyllic 1950's to the turbulent 1960's represented a dynamic shift in American culture. The end of World War II prompted a boom economy and the American dream of a your own house with the white picket fence was born. Although the 50's were picturesque in some respect the end of WWII entrenched ...

It was a time of discrimination when World War II started in 1939 with Europe fighting against Hitler. About a year later, we started in to help Europe but we got in our own feud against Japan. Our men started leaving the country in 1941 to defend their country in the war with Japan. At this time...

"In the beginning, God created man. Then God said, "It is not good for man to be alone; I shall make him a helper fit for him. So the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept, he took one of the ribs and closed up it's place with flesh; and the rib which the L...

Is Abortion Right? Abortion is one of the greatest subjects of controversy in America. Some people, who are generally called pro-choice, think that a woman should have the "right" to choose whether or not she really wants her baby. There are others that think that abortion is okay if t...

OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMENAfrican American women have excelled in virtually every arena of the world'sspectrum. Born of a desire to succeed, Maggie L. Walker, Shirley Chisolm, Corretta ScottKing and Mya Angelou, to name only a few, are sisters that have paved the way towardsexcellence and served as...

Marijuana is a substance that has become very much a part of American culture. Nearly 65 million Americans have either used it occasionally or regularly. The use of marijuana hit America about thirty years ago and has been accepted by a large section of society ever since. The debate on whether this...

Within the last few weeks, the alleged Washington D.C.-area snipers were caught. All evidence points toward seventeen year old John Lee Malvo and forty one year old John Allen Muhammad. Considering Malvo is only seventeen, he can't be executed in any surrounding area except for Virginia where the ...

The Roots of Our SocietyAccording to Webster's Dictionary, the word "age" is described as a decline of life and oldness. When many people hear the word "old" being refereed to senior citizens, they automatically think of a wrinkled, hunched over, grumpy man hobbling on his cane across the street at ...

women on television Women On Television The quality of American television has become a national disgrace. Young women in America who are displeased with their appearance more likely then not can trace those feelings directly back to images from the media on television. The unrealistic representatio...

Women On TelevisionThe quality of American television has become a national disgrace. Young women in America who are displeased with their appearance more likely then not can trace those feelings directly back to images from the media on television. The unrealistic representations of women that the...

A New Life For Women Before the civil war, a woman had a specific place in society, one that was extremely inferior to that of men. People had developed notions of what it meant to be a woman. The Civil War changed those notions. The War was the beginning of woman's strive for suffrage in Amer...

. For many years female slaves were underrepresented in history. During the 19th century slave women were depicted as mothers and caregivers, but they were often the abuse victims of their white slave owners. In the following, I will answer the question of what does the existence of slavery reveal ...

Out of this furnace Thomas Bell, author of Out of This Furnace, wrote a novel about immigrant labor in turn of the century America. Bell grew up in Braddock, Pennsylvania a steel town. While this book is fiction, Bell bases most of the hardships on those of his family. In the late eighteenth century...