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Showing 1 to 20 of 612 for “"dying"”.
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Dying to Learn, Learning to Die, The Craft of Dying in Early Modern English Drama and the Cultivation of Dying-Voice Literacy
<p>DYING TO LEARN, LEARNING TO DIE</p> <p>THE CRAFT OF DYING IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA</p> <p>AND THE CULTIVATION OF DYING-VOICE LITERACY</p> <p>by</p> <p>SIMON G. FORTIN</p> <p>Adviser: Professor Mario DiGangi</p> <p>This dissertation contends that, through their relentless dramatization of …
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A mother's guide to dying
This thesis contains the first ten chapters of a novel and a craft essay on the dialect of African Americans in literature. Craft is made by culture, and is reflected in creative writing. In the craft essay, I discuss the importance of employing dialect for writing believable characters with depth. …
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The doctor and the dying child
Includes bibliographical references.
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Revitalizing a Dying School-Business Partnership
The notion of business involvement in helping to improve public schools is not new. Although business involvement faded somewhat in the 1960s and 1970s, a resurgence in business involvement began in the late seventies and early eighties. School-business partnerships have been steadily on the rise …
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Shared Presence: Caring for a Dying Spouse
… and their end-of-life experience with their dying husbands. The purpose of this study was to explore wives' perceptions of hospital and hospice care at their husbands' end-of-life. The grounded theory method was used for this study. Data were collected over thirteen months and then …
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Interactions with Dying Patients: Nurse Practitioners' Attitudes
… the concept of death and the experience of dying. As health care professionals. Nurse Practitioners may have a role in caring for dying persons. Attitudes toward interactions with dying patients may influence behavior towards the dying patient.<br> The purpose of this study was to examine …
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Celestial Paleontology: The Legacy of Dying Stars
… of galaxies and the universe as a whole. Dying stars are thought to be the source of all of the nuclei heavier than iron in the universe, as well as more complex molecules, such as carbon chains, which form the backbone of life as we know it.</p> <p>High mass Wolf-Rayet stars are likely …
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Student nurses' experiences of caring for dying patients
… in the health care field (Field & Cassel 1997). Dying is a part of life. However it brings about a vast array of intense emotions. Nurses are the ones who spend a prolonged period of time with dying patients, witnessing this as part of their daily nursing care. This is experienced in a different …
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The lived experience of nurses caring for the dying
… analyses the lived experience of caring for the dying amongst nine (9) nurses in a hospice setting. The research was established within the context of published literature on the subject of caring for the dying from nursing. A qualitative, phenomenological approach was chosen as the most …
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'Morbid Exhilarations': Dying Words in Early Modern English Drama
In Renaissance England, dying a good death helped to ensure that the soul was prepared for the afterlife. In the theatre, however, playwrights disrupt and challenge the conventional formulas for last words, creating death scenes that range from the philosophical to the blackly comic. In expanding …
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PHYSICIAN'S EXPERIENCES WITH DEATH AND DYING: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
… meanings and understanding surrounding death and dying. Starting with themes revealed in literature, in-depth interviews were used to ask selected physicians providing care: How does death affect them? Are physicians receiving adequate training in end-of-life care? Does the medical culture still …
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English Godly Art of Dying Manuals, c. 1590-1625
Five examples of English Art of Dying literature from the period 1590-1625 are examined in this thesis. The rhetorical strategies of these texts are explored in detail, to demonstrate the means by which an activity, of death preparation, and a concept, of 'good' or 'godly' dying, are invented and …
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Dying from acute stroke: orchestrating an autoethnographic sonata of care
… of thematic networks: The Family Experience and Dying & Death. Further findings were deductively derived through the lens of the Sonata Framework. Findings suggested shortfalls in the provision of palliative and end of life care following acute stroke, although areas of good practice were …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
‘It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,’ writes Oscar Wilde in his ‘Preface’ to the 1891 book edition of his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. By transferring agency away from the originator to the recipient, Wilde’s aphorism could be considered a late nineteenth-century …
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Dying to live forever Sophia Harris journal 1860 to 1861
1 PDF file (vi, 90 pages)
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Nursing Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying
… nursing students fear death or care of the dying and thus question their abilities to give compassionate and competent care to patients or families at end-of-life (EOL). Research has shown positive results when students have experiences with dying patients in environments where …
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