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    On the 29th of August 1903 William Duguid was born in Glasgow that is in Scotland. When he was 25 on October 1927 he traveled on a boat and ended up in Wellington that is in New Zealand. In Levin he fell in love with Francis and they got married. When he came to NZ he became a linesman and when he got depressed and then he became a cow milker for his neighbors. He died in October 1967. This report is going to tell you the push and pull factors of William Duguid leaving Scotland and coming to New Zealand. It will also tell you what was going on in the 1920-1930 in Scotland that was a problem. One of the many reasons why William Duguid and others probably were leaving Scotland is because of the overpopulation and there weren’t much land for everyone to settle down. There were about 4.8 million people in Scotland and there were about 9 hundred thousand people in Glasgow. That means that about one quarter of Scotland was is Glasgow. There were 61 people per each Kilometer squared over all of Scotland. You might think that was only a tiny amount, but most of the terrain in Scotland is mountains and not much flat ground for people to live. In Glasgow the area is 175.5 kilometers squared and in the whole of Scotland the area is 78,387 kilometers squared. That means that there was about 5128 people per kilometer squared.…

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    Catherine Cook Essay

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    the steamship Rothesay Castle, which ran the Arran-Ardrossan route. Three years later, William entered the employ-ment of the Clyde Shipping Company for a short while, before returning to a more open lifestyle. Thereafter, he was purser aboard passenger steamers Vesta and Guinevere for a number of years. Subsequently, he found employment as clerk at the Brodick and Lamlash piers for a short time, and was then appointed by the Glasgow and South-Western Railway Company as their agent in Arran…

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    Catholic whore!”The following day the two same very young children and their mother came after us. The mother proclaiming “You accosted my son yesterday!” Philip said “well he called my girlfriend a Catholic whore” she said “That's impossible because I'm a Catholic” to that we started to walk away when the boy shouted back at us “You Catholic bastards.” Proof enough for us and their mother, utterly embarrassed she said her apologies. This is so typical of Scotland, especially Glasgow for…

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    Roy Porter has discussed the Scottish Enlightenment in these terms and in his own words, spliced ‘Scottish thinkers into the British story as a whole’. The historiography suggests many scholars and historians consider the Scottish Enlightenment to be a consequence of closer association with England and more specifically as a direct result of the Union of Crowns in 1707. Many key figures of the Enlightenment were born or were educated in Scotland, and Scotland’s contribution to the world is…

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    Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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    Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a talented and successful architect and designer in the 19th and 20th century who worked in Glasgow and is best known for several remaining creations within the city. Recognized as the father of “Glasgow Style” which created and inspired a new approach to architecture. Born in 1868 on June 7th, Charles Mackintosh studied art and design where he was interested in drawing programmes at the Glasgow School of Art as well as trained as an architecture under John…

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    James Watt Research Paper

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    by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world. James Watt was born the 19th of January 1736 Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. James Watt died the 25th of August 1819 at (aged 83) Handsworth, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. His Residence was Glasgow, Scotland, then Handsworth, England. His Nationality was Scottish and his Citizenship was British and he was also known for the Watt steam engine,Separate condenser, Parallel motion, Sun…

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    James Watt Research Paper

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    learned carpentry from his dad. His father was a carpenter but primarily worked in shipbuilding. Watt learned about the navigational aids on ships such as quadrants, compasses, telescopes. By his mid teens he knew he wanted to become an instrument maker. In 1754 Watt went to Glasgow. Robert Dick, a University scientist, was impressed with Watt's basic skills at instrument making, but recognized the need for special training. Dick encouraged Watt to go to London for training. Watt spent two…

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    DISABILITY: Kelly’s GSC score is 15/15, no brain injury reported. Her cognitive function is normal. Her anxiety and restlessness is due to lack of enough blood supply to the brain. Monitoring patient cognitive function regularly by using a simple nursing assessment scale such Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) used to describe the level of consciousness and to assess any brain problem or cognitive impairment. Patient with heart attack can suddenly changes their cognitive function due to insufficiency of…

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    Essay On Trauma Nursing

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    attached image) Step 4: Patient arrival and initial primary assessment (ABCDE): A (Airway)- Is something is occluding or blocking the throat? Examples of things might occlude the airway include tongue, vomit, or other objects. We check this first because without an airway you can die in minutes. Cervical spine immobilization is also now a part of A because if you move someone’s neck the wrong way it could paralyze them or worse kill them. B (Breathing)- Is the patient breathing, at what rate…

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    Brain Injury Case Studies

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    The Glasgow Coma Scale is an instrument that has become widely accepted to evaluate the seriousness of the brain injury. This scale measures the level of consciousness that ranges from alertness to coma. Scores are given according to response levels in three areas: eye opening, verbal response, and motor response. The scores range from the numbers three to fifteen. Three being the most severe and fifteen a mild injury. These scores also fall into three categories: Mild GCS: 13-15, Moderate GCS:…

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