Abstract The paper explains how the Baker Act was enacted into law after Maxine Baker shifted her concerns in the Florida legislature toward the mentally ill. The paper describes how Baker was aware that there were thousands of cases in Florida in which law enforcement officers came in contact with mentally ill individuals. These confrontations were often violent and resulted in the death of either officers of the patient. Baker believed that people who were repeatedly involved in situations involving law enforcement it was generally because they had not taken prescribed medications that would have prevented them from being a crisis situation to begin with. Therefore, the Baker Act was used by the Florida legal system to allow judges to order mentally ill patients into mandatory treatment programs that would require them to take their medications.
Abstract The paper discusses Brent Scowcroft and James A. Baker, who were two of the top foreign policy advisors for the current President's father when he sat in the oval office. However, the paper discusses how these two men have strongly disagreed over the question of whether or not the United States is on the right course vis-a-vis Iraq. The paper briefly outlines the central point of disagreement between the two men, the strengths and certainly in the case of the less-convincing argument, the weaknesses of each argument put forward and notes why one of the cases is more compelling than the other. The paper concludes that Scowcroft presents a more thoughtful argument than does James A. Baker.
Abstract This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of the Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet. Specifically, it contains an artist profile, which focuses on the artist's primary contribution to their style of expression. It shows how the Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet added the "smooth" to West Coast jazz, and created a new form of jazz entertainment that appealed to a wider audience.
From the Paper "In fact, versatile musician Mulligan, who played baritone sax and clarinet, wrote and arranged songs, and created one of the first pianoless quartets, "would play an important role in developing cool jazz on the West Coast" (Gioia 283). In fact, Mulligan helped originate "cool jazz," along with such jazz institutions as Miles Davis. The sound originated in the east in the 1940s, and Mulligan was a driving force in the arrangements and orchestrations. Critics have called him an emotional and sensitive player who also had a great ear for arranging. "Gerry Mulligan, an artist of exquisite sensitivity, has to his credit above all the emotional impact of his solos, which are sometimes particularly successful melodically" (Hodeir 125). Mulligan took the cool jazz sound and redid it later in his career, literally bringing jazz to a much wider audience, bringing it into the realm of popular music."
Abstract This paper explains that Russell Baker's memoir "Growing Up" begins with his mother's deteriorating health in old age and then flashes back to the times when he was growing up with a widowed, strong-willed mother and a little sister, all struggling to survive during the Great Depression. The author points out that Baker details the strong familial love he grew up with as everyone in the country scrambled to make ends meet and how his family first lived in a rural area in Virginia, then Bellville, New Jersey and later in Baltimore, Maryland. The paper reveals that not until his mother remarried was he able to return to the happiness that large rooms and green vistas seemed to grant him.
From the Paper "Luckily, Baker's uncle moved all of them out to Belleville, New Jersey, and out of the urban grit that so characterized Newark. Belleville was a town of "big grassy lawns and streets canopied with trees" (90). Here, his mother focused her considerable energies on giving her son the best education possibly, making him ahead in school and giving him straight A's. It was also here that he met a group of friends, learned roller-skating and took banjo lessons. But, sadly, his time in Belleville came to an end when his mother moved them all to Baltimore to fund his uncle's lumber company, the lumber company that quickly went out of business."
Abstract This paper looks at Alison Baker's "Happy Hour" as an evocation of the absurdity of the human condition. It discusses Baker's use of irony and the story's focus on end- of -life family dynamics in an institutional setting.
From the Paper "Reinforced by a context of narrative irony, Happy Hour presents numerous closely observed details about end-of-life family dynamics in an institutional setting. The irony is not laden with humor or smugness rather taking on attributes of an absurdity ..."
Abstract The paper compares Bruce Catton's work, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" and Russel Baker's essay, "A Nice Place to Visit" and asserts that both follow the comparison and contrast format of writing exceptionally well. The paper explains that where Catton seeks to impart his clearly defined passion and excitement for his subject, Baker wants us to share in his sarcastic assessment of Toronto as being clean and polite and thus boring. The paper posits that both works succeed in engaging the reader, although Baker's assessment has a problem that it requires the reader to take his side.
From the Paper "Comparison and contrast essays serve a very distinct point - to show the differences and similiarities between individuals, groups, places, songs, etc. Within the structure of these essays, we find that there are two major methods of comparison: the subject-by-subject and the point-by-point. Within these two methods are also several different styles that authors employ. Bruce Catton's work, "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" takes a very serious and well balanced look at the two primary military generals of the U.S. Civil war."
Abstract This paper shows how Houston A. Baker Jr. in his essay
"Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave" addresses issues of the veracity and reliability of autobiographical narratives in the specific context of the slave era of the South. It explains how Baker writes about the southern slave narratives which emerged from that time in history. He asks how reliable are the autobiographical acts of southern slaves and examines the structure and origin of such narratives to find an answer.
From the Paper "Baker finds that the autobiographical impulse is part of the American tradition and began with the Puritans, and because of this connection, the impulse has about it some of the same sense of righteous purpose. Baker says that the white writer had a sense of being part of a new cultural experience. The white writer always thought of himself as capable of heading a new and great tradition, and they saw their works as having an importance and a permanence that added both credibility and weight to them. Baker finds, though, that there was a distinction between black and white culture that was seen in the narrative produced as well: Moved to introspection by the apparent "blankness" that surrounded him, the black, southern field slave had scarcely any a priori assumptions to act as stays in his quest for self-definition. He was a man of the diaspora, a displaced person imprisoned by an inhumane system (96)."
Abstract This paper refers to three articles that explore the age-old cultural constructions of gender divisions from a new perspective of a postmodern feminist philosophy. It seeks to assert the feminine principle in nature. The three papers discussed are C. Gilligan's "Visions of Maturity"; L. Irigaray's "Questions - Postmodern Feminism"; and Robert Baker's article ,"Pricks & Chicks: A Plea for Persons". Using Baker's main points, the writer here suggests that recognizing the sexuality of the different genders is the first key to achieving equality. This must then be followed by a change in the way we use words to describe men and women and their varying roles in society.
From the Paper "The above realization is not new and has already led to the feminist movement proposing conceptual revisions in language. However, according to Baker, some of the revisions proposed are confused especially since the root of the problem really lies in society's very conception of sex and the structuring of sexual identification. To start with, as Baker observes, it is extremely significant that society identifies women and men sexually. Consider, for instance, the way proper nouns and personal pronouns reflect the sex of the person. Consider also a most striking aspect of the conceptual discrimination of the two sexes as manifested in the fact that while the word "man" can be substituted for humanity or mankind in any sentence without changing its meaning; significantly the word "woman" cannot."
Tags: equal, sex, gender, women, men, boy, girl, society
Abstract This paper provides an analysis of the provisions of the Florida mental health act, known as the Baker Act, that provides for involuntary examination and limited commitment of mentally disabled persons to state mental institutions as well as for judicial involvement. It looks at the background of the Baker Act and the issue of involuntary commitment.
From the Paper "This research paper summarizes the principal provisions of the Florida Mental Health Act or Baker Act FLA STAT ANN secs in so far as it deals with the involuntary commitment of mentally disabled or ill persons and analyzes its pros and ..."
Abstract This paper proposes the best pain assessment method for infants in the neonatal ward of a hospital. The paper assumes that the Wong-Baker standard is the comparator, and evaluates several techniques as addressed in a number of clinical studies performed over the past few years. The paper points out that the lack of ability of nurses to consistently judge infant pain can lead to inconsistent application of anti-pain medications, and variability in the amount of pain caused to an infant during necessary procedures. The paper also explains that diagnosis generally precedes therapy in medicine. Good, consistent diagnosis of situations that cause pain can lead to novel methods to reduce that pain. The writer believes that nurses do not intend to be either inaccurate or to judge differently than their fellow nurses.
Outline:
Introduction
The Wong-Baker Pain Scale
Measuring Neonatal Pain is More Difficult
The Need for More Objective Infant Pain Measurement
PIPP: The Most Comprehensive and Complicated Method
Analysis of the PIPP for the Neonatal Ward
CRIES Method to Assess Pain
High Variability Questions Accuracy of PIPP
Conclusion
From the Paper "There was an interesting mid-level 'pain' measurement included in the Kritjansen study: movement which should not have caused pain. It was interesting to note that the PIPP score was significantly higher than the resting state, and lower than during the time that the infants should have felt pain. This suggests that the PIPP is measuring more than pain, or conversely that activities like changing diapers cause pain to the baby (probably less likely). Two other limitations of the study should be covered when evaluating PIPP as an indicator of pain: the difficulty of measuring all seven elements in a busy neonatal ward, and the variability between nurses."
Paper about an experiment examining the ability of baker's yeast to ferment a variety of naturally occurring and synthetic carbohydrates in different forms.
1,880 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 2 sources, 2000, $ 60.95
From the Paper "The substances tested in this experiment are glucose, fructose, galactose, sucrose, maltose, lactose, starch, saccharine, and aspartame. Saccharine is tested in the form of Sweet ?n? Low solution, aspartame is tested in Diet Pepsi, and a natural fruit juice and Pepsi are tested as a measure of natural sugars in common solution. The capacity of the yeast to metabolize each of the different natural or synthetic carbohydrates in this experiment is measured by the quantity of CO2 released during the reaction. It was determined by comparing CO2 production that in a controlled reaction with baker's yeast, galactose, lactose, starch, aspartame, and saccharine all displayed no significant change in gas volume, indicating that the yeast is not able to ferment these substances and thereby create CO2. Glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, Pepsi, and fruit juice all produced noticeable amounts of CO2, indicating successful metabolic action by the yeast with these substances."
Tags: biology, controlled, experiment, kansas, ku, lab, university, yeast
Abstract The paper begins with an introduction on the relationship between Hughes and blues poetry. It then turns to an examination of some of his poetry. It discusses his poetry as being about "the African American community who had been made invisible in terms of society as the white majority forced them to live on the fringes of civilization". It discusses a definition given by Houston Baker on African-American creativity and relates this definition to Hughes? work. It studies the theme of his work as the search for African-American identity and closely analyzes one of his poems to illustrate its points. The paper concludes by exploring the appearance of simplicity in Hughes poetry.
From the Paper "Through the simple words he wrote Hughes poems presented thoughts and themes that captured the attention of the black reader and took them on a journey to find their "lost" souls in a land where their presence was unacknowledged. His words formed the basis of the "blues", which was "soul" music."
Abstract In this paper, I analyze the three main female characters of "The Great Gatsby": Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. I attempt to show how each represented the materialism and shallow nature of the upper classes during 1920s America. I point out how the characters are similar in that they are self-centered, careless and have little self-respect.
Abstract This essay examines E. Fitzpatrick's edited volume "Muckraking: Three Landmark Articles." The paper analyzes the essays written by Lincoln Steffens and Ray Stannard Baker. The two journalists were clearly worried about the growth of "bigness" at the time.
Abstract This paper will discuss three immigrations that came to America within the scope of the book: "Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States of America", 6th edition by S. Dale Mclemore, Harriett D. Romo, Susan Gonzalez Baker. By understanding how this text approaches the ways in which these settlers came over to America, we can see what they went through in the cycles of this book of thought.
