On fall break of 2004, October 19, I went to the White Oaks Nursing Home. I went there to volunteer and visit an old friend of the family. While there I did a lot of observing. I began to think of the Utilitarianism Theory and how it applies to some of the ethical issues dealt with in the nursing ho...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Character Analysis: Nurse Ratched The infamous Nurse Ratched; the patient's evil overlord and McMurphy's archrival. Big Nurse, as described by Chief, is compared to enamel, branded a "ball-cutter", "buzzard", and "bitch&qu...

When comparing The American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics and The University of Phoenix Code of Student Responsibilities, one has to realize that these standards pertain to the nurse as a student and the student who is also a nurse. These roles are interchangeable. These principles ...

Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is a very interesting yet disturbing account of the human psyche. It is the story of several men living in an insane asylum and the journey of one unique man ironically trapped in this society. Randle McMurphy is an extremely dimensiona...

I strongly believe that science, and all of it components are good. Science by definition is the search of new knowledge, how can this be bad? Everything has the potential of being good or bad. It all depends on the people who are behind it. Nurses deliver anti-biotics, which can cure a ...

"Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, she's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inna pens...wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock...one flew east, one flew west, on flew over the cuckoo's nest...O-U-T spells out...goose swoops down and plucks you out." The book "One ...

The primate pan paniscus, also known as bonobo or pygmy chimpanzee, is one of the last of the Great Apes, and was completely unknown to scientists until just seventy-five years ago. Before the day in 1929 when the true identity of its skull was found out, it sat in a Belgium museum, thought to have ...

Aristotle There has been a great debate over the highest human good and whether happiness is the highest good. Philosophers have said that the highest good is happiness. Others have said that it is piety. Aristotle insists that all human beings desire to be happy and the highest good is ha...

The argument of principality is a deep issue discussed in The Crito. Socrates was a solid and true believer in morality and the role that it plays in discovering principle. The argument put forth is that principle creates an honorable, or in more plain terms, an incorruptible life. We as human be...

What will live be?In the essay "Professions for Women," Virginia Woolf writes that gender profiling can destroy a woman's success in their career. In the essay, she discusses the role of discrimination that was played in her role. She discusses how things are so men oriented. She has a sense of conf...

Euthanasia Imagine a woman who is ninety-five years old. She can't walk, she can't see, and she can barely breathe let alone speak. Her life was well lived those past ninety-five years. This woman is in such unbearable pain that she can't even cry. Her arthritis is taking over her...

Societal issues, specifically ethical issues, can be very difficult to resolve and may mean an awful lot to certain groups of people. Although there are several of these societal, ethical debates transpiring around us, abortion tends to be one of the nastier controversial subjects. Taking a stance ...

One of the numerous questions in Romeo and Juliet is whether or not the friar is a good person. In the presence of an adult or when he is by himself, the friar is an honorable human being. However, once he is mixed with the senselessness of youth such as Romeo or Juliet, or both, their inexperienc...

Science fiction stories frequently have some kind of disaster andthen the reaction of human kind to that disaster. Robert O'Brienhas created two extreme characters: Ann Burden, a nurturing,kind and loving girl; and Mr Loomis a cold, distant and bitter man. The author has very cleverly made the names...

Obsidian Butterfly The book Obsidian Butterfly, written by Laurell K. Hamilton, was based on a world where all creatures existed. Werewolves,vampires, shapeshifters, witches, warlocks, and anything else your imagination could come up with was there. All these ...

Assess the claim made by Interactionists that the social world has to be explained in terms of the meanings that actors give to their actions.Interactionists believe that the social world is constructed by 'meanings' which individuals attach to events and actions. These are transmitted across genera...