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    11-store hospital building will increase yearly birthing capacity to 16,000, which is far above the estimated 13,600 births expected during 2007, as shown by Table S7.3. Furthermore, the fact that the hospital and Swanson in particular is choosing to follow a multi-stage approach in terms of the hospital’s

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    Margaret Louise Higgins, who later became Margaret Higgins Sange, was born on September 14, 1879 In Corning, New York. She was a birth control activist,nurse, and sex educator. Margaret’s parents were Michael Hennessey Higgins, an Irish stonemason and Anna Purcell a catholic Irish-American. Margaret’s mother Anne and her family immigrated to canada when she was young. Margaret’s father Michael moved to America and enlisted into the US army during the Civil War at the age of15. Margaret’s father was

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    on how to fight off every bulge and run off the weight to keep her man. I know these women, these girls, as I am and was one of them. If only Matell could create a doll after Sandro Botticelli’s painting of the ideal woman in his masterpiece, “Birth of Venus.” If she were the ideal image of the female body, it would be much more realistic. If Venus were a real woman, she would be 5’4” and 140 pounds. Unlike Barbie, she would have plenty of room for

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    notorious for painting the picture of a poverty stricken continent that needs to be saved and few people have enough knowledge about Africa to contest the media they see everyday. A recent articled named, “Mothers and babies at risk in Apostolic church birth camps, where modern healthcare seen as ‘heathen’” is an example of a piece of media that tells a

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    Gregory Goodwin Pincus created the birth control pill stimulating a new tidal wave of women’s rights movements. From one small pill, new channels that were once dammed to a trickle became a mighty flood again. With the ability to prevent pregnancy without risking a dangerous abortion women found the strength to fight against male-dominated areas that were still left untouched from the first series of movements by their predecessors. From how long they were involved in the workforce to stepping up

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    young adults and their perception of teen pregnancy. An editor from “Does 16 and Pregnant Prevent or Promote Teen Pregnancy” (Dockteman, E., 2014) agrees that there is a glamorization of teen pregnancy and that is could be a factor in the rise of teen births. There are multiple other media platforms that provide a promise of fame if one is a teen mother without showing all of the consequences it can cause. There is a disconnect between what actually happens to regular teenage mothers and what media is

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    According to the biography, “Margaret Louise Sanger” (2007), Margaret was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York. She was born to her parents, Anne Purcell and Michael Hennessey Higgins, who were Irish Catholic Immigrants. Shortly after the birth of her eleventh child, Anne Purcell died from tuberculosis; Margaret was nineteen (“The Pill” n.d.). While Margaret was the sixth of eleven children, she and her first husband, William Sanger, had three children together (“Margaret Louise Sanger” 2007)

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    The book, Napoleon’s Buttons, gets its name from an event that happened with the French leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. The authors of the book, Penny le Couteur and Jay Burreson, found it interesting that there could be a possibility of there being a link between the death of the French soldiers during the 1812 winter war and the fact that their coat buttons were made of tin because tin behaves differently when temperatures drop. That propelled Couteur and Burreson to write this book. The book talks

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    Secularization the loss of faith and the decline in church attendance is something that has left historians asking why this occurred and at what point in history did the people of Great Britain lose their faith, add in the sexual revolution of the swinging sixties the development of the oral contraception pill and immigration to Great Britain, which brought together people from other colonies and with them they brought their religion, the connection between any of these factors if there is one has

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    Introduction Painful procedures are common for premature infants and research has found that non-pharmacological methods are effective in reducing pain signs. Pain is subjective and difficult to measure unless vocalized, as infants are unable to verbalize their pain, their management in regards to pain relief is suboptimal (who.int). It has been documented in many studies that premature babies of a gestation of less than 32 weeks are subjected to approximately between 10 and 15 painful procedures

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