Abstract
Daphne Marlatt's novel, "Ana Historic", is unique in that it refuses to follow the typical novel form, a structured style of writing familiar to us all; it is after all the style we have learnt as children. However our inherited writing structure has been decided by our forefathers, men who established the English language and its writing style and in this way shaped how our thoughts and ideas must be arranged. This paper looks at how Marlatt rejects this idea of the conventional, masculine English language and along with it the boundaries that arrange and reign in our thoughts.

Tags:ana, historic, review

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The paper describes several aspects of the American Association of Nurses (ANA) Code of Ethics including its content, its principles and degree of clarity, its usefulness and its strengths and weaknesses. The development of the Code of Ethics over the decades is also discussed.

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"Butts and Rich point out that effective nursing requires both broad knowledge and a set of well developed abilities and skills. The required tasks are many and varied and in order to do them properly care must be taken to.."

Tags:ANA, Code, of, Ethics

Abstract
This paper describes some key geographic elements of the city of Santa Ana.

Tags:GEOGRAPHY / URBAN STUDIES, city santa ana

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This paper examines Santa Ana's effectiveness in reducing the crime rate of parolees that have been released. The paper first describes the guidelines established that regulated the number and location of new liquor licenses issued after a study was released that indicated that crime rates were linked to establishments selling alcohol. The paper then relates that the Santa Ana department has also sought to work more closely with other governmental agencies outside the city and has enacted programs and used resources to treat 'at-risk' youth and rising vehicle theft. The paper shows how the parole system's interconnection with the community offers security to the parolee and provides more resources to help them stay away from crime and become a part of the community.

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"There are many factors that go into being a good parole officer. Not the least of which is patience. Officers must be highly educated, well connected to links in the community, very well organized, compassionate and yet authoritarian (1). The job we as a society has asked of the men and women of the Santa Ana Parole Office is nothing short of a miracle. Most of the time parole officers are over worked and under funded and yet we as a society demand that they watch over thousands of parolees to insure our safety. Japan takes a very different societal view of this process than we do. They have a huge volunteer force that helps those released from prison stay connected with their community.(3) They have a ratio of almost 2:1 parolee to officer but their officers are normal members of the community that volunteer their time to help."

Tags:crime, alcohol, licenses, programs, community

Abstract
The paper discusses whether Pro Ana and Pro Mia websites should be regulated or, banned, or left alone. The paper concludes that, while appearing to perpetuate addictive behavior, the websites actually have a primary function that might be used in treating these disorders, as the very existence of these websites is bringing adolescent girls and their parents to the realization of an existing problem in order that they might seek help. Therefore, it may be that these websites serve a very important purpose which is a coming out of the darkness of hiding the addictive behavior into the light of admitting that a problem exists.

Outline:
Objective
Introduction
Understanding Pro-Ana & Pro-Mia Websites
Dangerous Disorders - Addictive Disorders
Summary

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"Thus these sites provide a glimpse into the meaning making practices of non-clinical populations." Indeed what these sites actually provide is a type of framework that might be utilized in the development of treatment options across the population. Pascoe states that already participants in this "online subculture...often rework characterizations of anorexia as a disease by engaging in complex discussions of anorexia as a lifestyle choice in addition to or instead of a medical and psychological disorder. In crafting a complex community with unique symbols, rituals and identities these women provide a fuller picture of eating disorders and people who live with them, voluntarily or not" .

Tags:embrasure, addiction, symptoms, social, networks, fasting

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The paper explores how Ana Castillo overcomes the obstacles of the Latino patriarchal cultural restrictions and Latino Catholicism in presenting her Latino characters. The paper highlights the notion of home in Castillo's story and how Castillo deals with the men in the story. The paper shows us how, using the tool of magical realism, Castillo succeeds in creating a bond between women characters and readers.

Outline:
Introduction
Freeing the Women in So Far From God
The Home
Magical Realism
The Men in So Far From God
Conclusion

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"Right away Castillo helps the reader to understand how she will move past the restrictions of the patriarchal society placed on her female Latino characters. The key is the use of humor, and by taking those situations which are, in the life of Latino women, consistent as identifiers of their role in their society. The reality of the Latino culture suggests that the women, Sofi and her four daughters, around whom this story unfolds, should be in the background, while their male counterparts are in the foreground of the story. Castillo quickly dispels this cultural norm with humor, and also with the magical realism of one daughter, the second daughter, Caridad, whose dream in life it is to have a storybook wedding to her fiance, Tom. With this character, the second daughter, Castillo is conforming to the traditional Latino values, which she must do in exchange for the leeway she will take later in the story. The sacrifice of the second daughter to the traditions of her Latino culture come later, after Castillo has first taken what she needs as a fiction writer to move her story beyond the traditions."

Tags:patriarchy, culture, men, Latino, Catholicism, stereotypes

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The paper examines Graciela Limon's novel "The Memories of Ana Calderon" from the point of view of its representation of historical reality. The paper concludes that the author's intimate knowledge of Mexican culture outweighs her historical awareness.

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"Graciela Limon's "The Memories of Ana Calderon" starts as a deeply moving account of the miserable lives of poor Mexican peasants who like millions of others, become illegal immigrants to the United States. Her narrative and descriptive gifts are readily apparent and the reader strongly identifies with the character of Ana. But somewhere in the last third of the book, her gifts desert her and encumbered by creaky plots, twists such as her incestuous love affair with a young man she hires who turns out..."

Tags:Mexico, novel, migrant labor

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This paper presents a biographical history of Ana Mendieta, who was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. The paper describes how Mendieta came to the United States as part of Operation Peter Pan. The paper contends that Mendieta has been considered a performance artist, a land/earth artist, and even a body artist. The paper describes her Silueta series. In creating the Silueta series, she is performing using the land and her body. Unlike the other land artists of her time, she did not aggressively shape or change the land; she just simply united with what was there.

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"Freud has said that there are two sensations of home, one that signifies home but more over belonging, familiarity, intimacy and an overall sense of comfort. The other is of privacy or of something that is kept from sight. Mendeita's removal from her country had a colossal impact on her work as an artist. She had a deep sense of loss for her home and her culture and this is shown clearly in the Silueta (silhouette) series. In order to maintain a sense of home in the cornfields of the Midwest, Ana immersed herself in her native culture to make an identity for herself, to keep a sense of home and to regain what she lost."

Tags:art, contemporary, performance, sculpture

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"Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters is a novel about the difficulty of friendship in which the shared past of two women, Alicia and Teresa, is recounted and reflected on in letters from Teresa. But this simple description belies the wealth of complications in the novel; not the least of which is the breakdown of the friendship or, at least, of the communication between the pair. For, despite the intensity of the connection over the decade they have known each other, the letters from Teresa make it clear that the two women have, in the long run, missed each other--in the sense of never having managed to fully comprehend each other. The immediately apparent cause of this failed connection is the random noise generated by patriarchal power plays that seems to clutter up their channels of communication. The problem, however, also casts a wider net."

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"Sofi had devoted her life to being a good daughter, a good wife, and a good mother, or at least had given it all a hell of a good try . . . Now there was no mother to honor, no father to respect, no 'jitas to sacrifice for, no rancho to maintain, and no land left to work (Castillo 218).
The purpose of this research is to examine the transforming character of Sofi in So Far from God by Ana Castillo. The plan of the research will be to set forth the cultural and social context in which Sofi can be seen as shaping her identity from her environment and family history. Also discussed will be psychological implications Castillo's portrayal of mother-daughter relationships--especially how human relationships are shaped by the response to unique cultural forces.

In a way, Sofi is defined by a social environment of women and.."