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I. Summary In Emile Durkheim’s Suicide and Modernity, he expresses his belief that human needs are infinite. The only moderating power of our infinite needs, Durkheim believes, is society. If something happens to go wrong and these needs grow too great, a person would live in a world of unhappiness until the person simply would not want to live anymore. The best way to test this hypothesis would be through the interviewing of lottery players and lottery winners focusing particularly on those who…

Since the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, the United States had been unable to escape war, despite its best efforts. One of the most significant wars in United States history is the First World War (WWI). WWI was a pivotal event for the United States as well as for all of the countries involved. Like most wars, the origins of this war are unclear and complex. However,Germany and the United States each had an exact reason for joining WWI. For Germany, the assassination of Archduke Franz…

Nurses are expected to practice with compassion; it’s an integral aspect of providing quality care. “Compassion in nursing is still seen as a moral virtue, something that nurses are just expected to do and has been described as the essence of caring, therefore the essence of nursing” (Bramley & Matiti, 2014). Compassion care ties in with one of the most basic nursing theory, the Theory of Human Caring by Jean Watson. One of the key characteristic of this theory is to develop a trusting caring…

Mary Jones was one of Americas first labor activist, during the eight-tenth century. She was born in 1837 in Cork, Ireland but migrated with her family to Memphis, Tennessee. She then met her husband George Jones and had four children. Just as she adjusted to her comfortable situation, she lost her entire family to the yellow fever epidemic. After trying to regain control of her life, yet another disaster hit as she lost everything in the Great Chicago fire of 1871. After losing everything, she…

Francis Galton, who was the cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton characterized the expression "eugenics” as the theory of hereditary improvement of the human race by selective breeding. The first state to present the sterilization bill was Michigan, in 1897, however the proposed law failed to pass. After eight years Pennsylvania's state legislators passed a sterilization bill that was vetoed by the governor. During the year of 1907 Indiana…

Throughout history, advertising has used racist ideas to sell products to their consumers. Companies rarely put different minority groups in their ads, but when represented, the ads portrayed them as slaves, servants, or problems in society. Although advertisements in the past have contained many different forms of racism, companies today have begun to focus more on creating diverse ads with ideals that appeal to all ethnic groups. Before the civil war, when slavery was a common practice, white…

through the ocean it was threatened by massive waves. Hoping that they will be rescued by rescuers. As the article starts out it tells the reader about Stephen Crane the writer of “The Open Boat,”; how he wrote the story as a real life experience. In 1897, Crane was shipwrecked…

From the original thirteen colonies in 1776 to the forty-five states at the turn of the twentieth century, the land that makes up the United States drastically changed through fairly rapid and steady expansion to the west and south. Between 1889 and 1893, six new states entered the Union, which represented the most in any four year period of the country’s history. The history of growth and expansion helped shape American culture and the average American’s viewpoint, which was ready to move…

“The Story of an Hour” was written by Katherine O’Flaherty Chopin 1850-1904 who was a keen observer of new orleans culture and made many stories like Bayou Folk (1894) and A Night in Acadie (1897) and it says that her best known work was The Awakening (1899) which describes the emotional growth of a new orleans wife and mother. In “The Story of an Hour” there is a women known as Mrs. Mallard who seems to be a widow to her husband's death and shortly after the news of the death of her husband…

and scientific and technological developments. This affected him greatly in his career as being an actor was deemed 'socially embarrassing' so Stanislavski had to act and preach his ideas under this stage name. He was acting as only an amateur until 1897 when it became his profession. He had a privileged upbringing as his family was wealthy so he had many opportunities to visit ballets, operas, plays and circuses. This would have helped to influence his interest in performing and acting and,…