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    Autonomy is one of the ethical principles that is important in nursing practice. According to Weiss and Tappen, “autonomy is the freedom to make decisions for oneself”(2015, p.54). In 1990, the US Congress passed the Patient Self-Determination Act which permitted individuals to make their decisions regarding medical treatment. The individual has to be competent to make the medical decision or have a durable power of attorney to appoint someone to make decisions for them when they're deemed…

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    Patient autonomy is the practice that patients have a right to dictate how and if they are to be treated, without their doctor’s active interference. This means that doctors have to obey the wishes of their patients, regardless of the medical consequences. Patient autonomy should only be followed when patients or their loved ones voice their decision. In cases where there is no apparent proof that the patient did not want to be treated a certain way, a doctor’s primary goal should be to save the…

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    one doesn’t have to look very far to find that there are entire countries and groups of people who do not believe that the Holocaust had ever taken place. Jews, Serbs, Ethnic Poles, the disabled, Romani, Freemasons, Slovene’s, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Spanish Republicans (nearly 10 million people in total) were never tortured or murdered. How such thinking can exist is beyond my simple minds comprehension but nevertheless it…

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    Jehovah Witness is in fact a religion, they love to dance and drink, they believe divorce should be a last resort, but it's understandable, and if offered an organ transplant they would gladly take it. Now here are some real facts about Jehovah Witnesses they in fact do shun people who turn their back on them and leave the church, 30,000 members join a year, they forbid blood transfusions, but they will take a transplant, and they do not celebrate…

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    Thesis Statement IB History of the Americas Period 6 Cesar Medrano Ms. Karyl Haden Thesis:It is unbelievable to think that one person can have an affect on a whole country. Mussolini inspired hitler and person to run their country in very different ways. Both of them had different mindsets making them each run their country in their own way Germany - Hitler Argentina - Peron Origins Rise to power In september 1919 Hitler joined DAP (Deutsche…

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    The first amendment guarantees five basic freedoms to the American citizens. These freedoms are of speech, press, petition, assembly and religion. As all the amendments, the first amendment is intended for use in situations with the government. The reason it was written was because at America’s inception, citizens demanded a guarantee of their basic freedoms. In result the very first and most important amendment was created. Freedom of speech allows Americans say what they would like to say…

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    6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, around 2.7 million Jews were murdered during 1942 alone. In the concentration camp, Natzweiler-Struthof, from May 1941 to March 1945, between 19,000 and 20,000 people died. Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, socialists, and others were tortured and murdered. When the first gas chamber was made operational, about 130 Jews were gassed. Afterwards, they were sent to the Strasbourg University Institute of Anatomy, where Dr. August Hirt studied…

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    Tyrannical Leadership What does tyrannical leadership even mean, you ask? A tyrannical leader is unjustly, harsh, or even cruel. Throughout history there have been quite a few tyrannical leaders. Tyrants have make a very negative impact on our world. Hitler, Stalin, and Maximilian Robespierre were all considered some of the most malicious tyrants who ever lived. Hitler is a tyrant because he tried to eliminate an entire race of people during an event that would be later called the Holocaust.…

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    methodical genocide targeted mainly the Jewish population, but also the Gypsies, the disabled and some Slavic people. Various other groups were targeted because of political, religious and behavioral grounds such as Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals. The German leaders called this mass murder “The Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” because they believed their race was superior while the Jewish population was inferior. Nazi Germany is responsible for the death of…

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    occurred is the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a tragedy that occurred in Germany on January 30, 1933. It resulted in the genocide of eleven million people, six million of whom were Jews and other minorities such as Soviet POWs, Polish, Serbs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma Gypsies, Homosexuals, African Americans, the physically and mentally disabled and anyone who resisted his ideology. In the 1930’s when Hitler came into power Germany had been facing serious economic hardship. He proposed that he…

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