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    During the Civil War, over 200,000 of all soldiers deserted their post (Desertion Confederate). If soldiers deserted their post and were caught, they would be known as cowards for the rest of their life. Even though the Civil War was gruesome, many soldiers decided to desert their post, and because of this it affected their side and they were punished. When soldiers desert, they leave their post before their service expires. Many Union soldiers left their post because they thought that the…

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    There are numerous health care service providers necessary that the CMS recognizes to coordinate the patient’s transition of care from hospital stay through bundled care episode include long-term care providers, support from administrative team members, clinical laboratory services, case management, home health agencies, rehabilitation facilities, and transition of care nurses (Liu, Gage, Harvell, Stevenson, & Brennan, 1999). As health care’s landscape changes it will be essential for hospitals…

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    religious studies that because Mizushima decides to stay in Burma he is deciding that it is the best way for him to serve his home country (Riggs 346). So instead of blatantly picking a side, Takeyama chose to support Japan in a different way than going back to…

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    to its aesthetically pleasing qualities: many types of trees, distinct smells, and various species of wildlife. The presence of iridescent trees serves as a seductive mechanism that makes a wanderer who is struck with grief, like Odysseus, want to stay at the island. The cave on the island is the space where Calypso has sexual power over Odysseus, as he has no choice but to do what she says. Calypso holds him hostage in a physical way, as there is no place for him to go, and in a moral way, as…

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    Project Strategy and Planning When planning for the Alliance Prototype Project, we took a very structured approach. Group members were assigned formal roles, which were then used to delegate portions of the planning document. Each section of the planning document was completed individually, but was revised at a follow up meeting where the group discussed their rationale behind each of their decisions. When formulating the scope statement, our Quality Manager focused on key deliverables and…

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    The Capital Punishment is a very questionable controversy among numerous people. In this world there is a difference when comparing malicious and benevolent people. Jonathon Kay proclaims, “rational thinkers don’t murder 2 year-old children. They do it because they are evil. And that is why we long to see these criminals die… repaying blood with blood” (Kay). The Death Penalty dictates whether or not criminals who have committed terrible crimes deserve the right to live. This issue is serious…

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    Reverend Samuel Parris changes dramatically throughout the action in The Crucible. In Act One, he rejects any involvement of witchcraft to protect his reputation in Salem. He wishes that the townspeople should “leap not to witchcraft… [because the townspeople] will howl [him] out of Salem for such corruption in [his] house” (13). However, after Reverend Hale remarks that the reason that the Devil chose Parris’s house to strike is because “it is the best that the Devil wants, and who is better…

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    invokes in us sympathy. Without making use of this faculty, the novel lacks one of the key components that makes it art. Besant then goes on to place a further restriction on what the novelist ought to write about. That is, a fiction writer should stay away from topics of which she has no experience. Besant draws the example of a peasant writing about high society and a southern man writing about the north – to attempt this would be unbelievable and ultimately ineffective writing. Believable art…

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    Being loyal to anything - be it an idea or a person - can often come with many repercussions. However, following someone or something impetuously can result in even more. A lot of the time, people stay devoted to their friends or family, or a belief of some kind. That kind of loyalty can be extremely powerful, but the same loyalty can become harmful when it is uncontrolled. Blind loyalty can lead to unwanted conflicts, force ones’ friends to become distant enemies, and make good ideas end…

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    Both the pigs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm and Vladimir Putin use fear and propaganda to stay in power. Animal Farm is an allegory meant to represent the events of the Russian Revolution in 1917. The book is about animals who overtake their farm to run it themselves. They eventually fall under the leadership of a pig named Napoleon who often deceives the animals in order to maintain power. The book highlights the ignorance of the animals who end up just as they were in the beginning of the…

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