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    In the dictionary, quality is defined as the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind (Oxford Dictionaries | English, 2017). On the other hand palliative care is a team which provides for the seriously ill patients with care till their end of life. In my point of view, quality palliative care is whereby the palliative team should provide the best of care for patients during their final moments in this world. In addition palliative care improves the quality of…

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    Experience Of Bereavement

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    Individual experiences of bereavement cannot be fully understood without knowledge of the context within which they occur. Discuss with reference to either the cause of death or the age of the deceased person. Death can be perceived as the most natural pehrnonomen known to man, it touches all of our lives at some point or another and we grieve when someone close to us dies there are various counselling services such as Mind and Cruise. These in tern can enhance the feelings of anger, fear and…

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    World War II or otherwise known as the good war. While this war did do a lot of good by liberating the Jewish people from concentration camps it was also the reason for Japanese internment camps. By having these internment camps, America was on its way to becoming the next Germany. The war ended the holocaust and the depression but the countless lives that it took, especially in Japan, was devastating. The good doesn’t outweigh the bad. Women were encouraged to get jobs for the first…

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    Sending people to the hospital for more than 100 years, leukemia affects a high percent of earth’s population. Researchers and scientists work insistently every day to help patients diagnosed with leukemia. Before the knowledge of this illness and its causing factors, many other known “ailments” aided to the treatment of the infamous disease. Medicine, as many people know, had not contributed to society until around the 16th and 17th century, therefore viciously increasing the health of many,…

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    Women played a vital role in evolution of the Enlightenment Era. The women of the Enlightenment were the creators of feminism, they gave birth to the Women Liberation Movement. Female activists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges broke ground for modern feminists like Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. To this day women are still fighting to break the glass ceilings holding them back, such as the current wage gap. Women of the enlightenment began the over three-hundred-year…

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    Nowadays, women still strenuously fight for themselves after decades of demanding their rights. The chief operating officer of Facebook Sheryl Sandberg tells her own story in “Lean in: What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?” (“They say I say”) to demonstrate her view on women’s position in the workplace today. Although women are equal to men in society nationwide, women are limited in achieving all of their goals because they cannot overcome their numerous fears, do not have high ambition in…

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    I n 1898, the radioactive elements Radium and Polonium were found by Marie and Pierre Curie. Thus the concept of treating cancers was born. The Curie’s work on radiation led to the possibility of cancer treatment, but also provided a better understanding of the atom. That is that an atom has a nucleus at its centre with surrounding energy shells which consist of negatively charged electrons. The electron was discovered in 1897 by J.J. Tomson, and was the first proved element of the atom. The…

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    our planet long before the appearance of life on it, every living organism contains traces of radioactive substances. But less than a century that mankind discovered this phenomenon by scientists like Henri Becquerel, Wilhelm Roentgen and Marie and Pierre Curie and others. In 1945 we can say that tragically began the "Nuclear Age" with the fall of the first atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From there the certainty that nuclear bombs could destroy our civilization affects…

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    Within the first few decades of the 20th century, the science of physics was completely reformed with new understandings of the nature of atoms. In 1898 France, Paris, Pierre and his wife Marie Curie discovered a new substance within an ore of Uranium that they named radium that emitted large amounts of (as we now call) radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy Identified that atoms can break down and turn into different elements. For example if a block of uranium were left alone for…

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    remains very important to humanity for many reasons. Discovered about the same time as uranium in the 19th century, thorium has been well known to the scientific community for many years (World Nuclear Association). In fact, famous scientists like Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford worked with the element in several experiments when nuclear decay was first being discovered. Since that time, however, thorium has largely been thrown by the wayside for use in practical applications such…

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