Gestational age

As one ages, they gain more respect. The elderly traditionally possess a high position in society. Moreover, the belief of taking care of one's parents since they took care of you, is widespread across Asia. Subsequently, Western society should use Asian countries…

The Christian Crusades Almost 200 years ago during the middle ages, the crusades wrested control over the Palestine Region from Selcuk turks due to a series of military incursions that were made up of christian armies from western europe. The control that the christian crusades had over the Holy land were tenuous at its best. Today, the crusades that Hollywood has put in our minds: glorious and righteous warriors in form of knights leading the crusades, anointed by god to save the Holy land…

Renaissance Europe spanned between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries and spread out of Italy. Renaissance means the “rebirth”, so the “rebirth” of Europe. This time in Europe was a time of social and cultural change, and was singularized by innovation and creativity. Examples of this include art, literature and philosophy. The art was centralized around being more life-like and showing perspective. Artists like Michelangelo were able to show better human anatomy in paintings and statues…

Critical care is a component of acute care, and it aims to treat patients who require high or constant levels of monitoring and support. These patients are often in life threatening positions, and are cared for in Critical Care Units (CCUs). Patients who enter critical care can be split into two groups, planned and unplanned admissions. A planned admission may be a patient undergoing an intricate elective surgery who requires one to one monitoring peri-operatively. Unplanned admissions can be…

His rule included new ideologies and virtues regarding the Rule for monks and the Role of the Abbot. In 1209 a new religious order was approved by the Pope Innocent III. This order was founded and ruled by Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226, which was one of the three orders of Saint Francis. The First Order, regarded as Order of Friars Minor or simply “Franciscans” are mendicant men, people who practice and live in poverty. The Second Order, the Poor Clares, are the religious sisters of order or nuns…

John Flanagan is from Australia where he grew up not realizing any talent in writing skills. Despite this, he wrote an insulting poem about an executive and was then apprenticed to become a copy writer and then soon after a writer. His first works were the Ranger’s Apprentice, which were also the same books that he became known for, which took the form of short stories. They later were turned into novels and then wrote a new series The Brotherband Chronicles while also continuing his Ranger’s…

Jan van Eyck’s, Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, was created during the midst of the early Renaissance, specifically the year 1434. But, it was not created in Italy along with the Renaissance. Instead, the ideas and rules of the place had spread, through various artists and trade, to places like Flanders. This oil on panel artwork, however is not like most portraits; in fact, this is a full-length double portrait. Many scholars and historians believe that this is one of the most complex early…

Although Louis XIV’s reign branched towards despotism and collaboration via several of his methods, holistically, Louis XIV was an absolutistic leader. His ideology centered around “the divine ordination of monarchy; the king’s absolute grant of power from God; complete denial of the right of resistance; the indefeasibility of hereditary right; and the corroboration of coronation” (Fox 140). Paul Foxes writing on the theories that Louis XIV adhered to is notably valuable because Fox extracted…

According to Untermann. Richard K (1984) in ‘Accommodating the Pedestrian’, we are all pedestrians, all of us involve in the continuity community and quality pedestrian system. Whilst, we all benefit from the efforts to provide or improve facilities to accommodate walking. However, every community has a slightly different group of people who would most benefit through increased pedestrian, and these people need to be identified and considered when priorities established. Part of the current…

The Age of Enlightenment does not have a formal date in pen as to when it began, but over the course of time, people began to change their way of understanding and thinking which started the enlightenment. What began the enlightenment was when people started to ask questions about the basic principles of the world, questions about parliament and math and science. Europeans didn’t want to continue their understanding unless they could accept all the basic principles of science and government as…