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    essay question * Support the thesis statement * Use descriptive ethics and * Are ordered in a logical sequence. | There are at least 3 arguments which: * Are mostly related to the essay question * Support the thesis statement * Use descriptive ethics and * Are ordered in a logical sequence. | There are at least 3 arguments which: * Are directly related to the essay question * Support the thesis statement * Use descriptive ethics and * Are ordered in a logical sequence. |

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    There are different types of knowledge and different ways of knowing. Four fundamental concepts of knowing in nursing highlighted by Caper (1978) are empirical, personal, ethical and aesthetic. He divided knowledge into two forms which are tacit and explicit. Tacit is insights and based on experience and not easily visible and expressible, difficult to share and communicate with others which is highly personal. Empirical sources of knowledge depend upon an individual’s manner of observing and responding

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    The town of Holcomb, Kansas is very stale and damaged throughout the book Capote characterizes his view of Holcomb by using rhetorical devices such as imagery, diction, repetition, foreshadowing, and selection of detail to give us a glimpse of his perspective of Holcomb from the beginning of the book until the end. On page four when Holcomb is introduced Capote uses imagery to give us a image in our mind of what Holcomb looks like. Throughout part one he gives us an image that sticks on his view

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    The Death of The Moth The essay “The Death of The Moth” was published posthumously in 1942, a year after Virginia Woolf lost a battle with depression and mental illness, and at age 59 committed suicide. Virginia Woolf's "The Death of the Moth" shows the audience the power of death through a short narration about everyday, yet very symbolic moth. Woolf uses her own experience of watching a moth die to apply it to a larger theme. Woolf connects a simple moths lifespan to paint a gorgeous picture

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    helpful in relieving our mind, but it does not ultimately provide us with the course of action that we need in order to get there. If moral philosophy cannot provide an algorithm for life's problems, then we might think that it should be purely descriptive. However, a complete description of every possible moral problem, or its solution, is not possible. So any moral theory can only offer a somewhat schematic view of moral life, albeit a very sophisticated one in Hursthouse's case. It seems inevitable

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    The Necessity of Travel 1. The thesis of this essay in the author's words is "Travel is how we put a voice to the Other and step a little beyond our second hand images of the alien." In other words, the author is trying to tell us that travelling is necessary in order for us to not hold prejudices and experience the lifestyle of other cultures. 2. The argument in his essay that was the most effective would be when he said “The minute I got off the plane in Yemen last year, I could see how everything

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    “Homelessness, once viewed as transient and situational, has become a growing public health problem that has escaped ready solutions” (Bassuk et al., 2014). Homeless population has been increasing in the United States drastically, and with the increase in the homeless population it is also important to provide a comforting environment for the homeless population. Many of the homeless population come from various backgrounds and they don’t choose to be homeless but the circumstances lead them to be

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    Homeless Shelter

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    adult participants who were 18 years of age or older. These participants filled out questionnaires to measures their demographics, socioeconomic status, homelessness variables, subjective social status ladders, and other life factors such as incarceration, military status, mental illness, smoking status, and parental status. After the descriptive statistics was reviewed to look at the participants’ characteristics the results showed that the African American/other race with higher incomes, having

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    Discrimination for being a felon causes homelessness A problem I have noticed in my community is homelessness. A portion of the homeless is due to being unable to rent a house because of having a criminal history. According to the Pierce County Homeless Point-in-Time Report there were 1526 cases of homelessness reported in the county this does not count the induvial people it is measured by head of households. 73% of those cases reported that the head of house hold had a criminal history. That

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    Epidemiology of Homeless

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    events affecting reasoning such as traumatic brain injuries or post traumatic stress disorder. These individuals are usually at a disadvantage of finding care of have troubling accessing care. Males are not the only individuals who are affect with homelessness. Woman also account for about 5% of the homeless rate of 20-25% in the area. Woman also have served in

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