Abstract
This paper takes a look at an immunization and vaccination program for the elderly in Canton, Massachusetts, a city with various public health issues. The program is under the auspices of "Healthy People 2010," a national program the deals with public health. The paper describes why Canton was selected and several of the public health issues of concern to city health administrators. Next, the importance of influenza vaccine for the elderly is discussed. The implementation of the program is described and the results assessed, particularly from the perspective of nursing. Various recommendations are made at the end of the paper

Outline:
Objective
Introduction
Immunization and Vaccination
Assessment of Interventions: Community & Nursing
Assessment of Interventions
Findings, Conclusions & Recommendations

From the Paper
"The city chosen for examination in this study is the city of Canton, Massachusetts. The Healthy People 2010 objective addressed in this work in writing is that of immunization and infectious diseases. Immunization is a critical health care provision. The Canton, Massachusetts Department of Public Health states in its annual report that some of the vital statistics in Canton are "troubling" and states that immunization and infectious diseases are both a focus of public health in this area. According to "Healthy People 2010 Chapter 14 Immunization and Infectious Diseases" infectious diseases "remain major causes of illness, disability and death. Moreover, new infectious diseases are being detected and some diseases considered under control have reemerged in recent years. In addition, antimicrobial resistance is evolving rapidly in a variety of hospital - and community-acquired infections. These trends suggest that many challenges still exist in the prevention and control of infectious diseases." (Healthy People 2010) "

Tags:influenza, epidemics, nursing homes, food service workers, Healthy People 2010

Abstract
This paper examines "When The Network Wakes Up: The Emergence of the Global Mind" by Dr. James Canton which offers an optimistic, utopian view of the future for humans and computer technology. The paper presents a justification of his argument and then critiques the work using aphorisms by James Mander and Neil Postman. The paper includes Canton's source article at the end.

Table of Contents:
Summary of Strong Example of Utopian Writing
Justification/Qualification
Critique Using Required Mander Aphorism
Critique Using Chosen Mander Aphorism
Critique Using Required Postman Aphorism
Critique Using Chosen Postman Aphorism
Significance of Assessment

From the Paper
"Postman's fifth idea, that "media tend to become mythic" is demonstrated by Canton's missive. Canton reveres technology so much that he elevates it to a God-like status. This is a dangerous assumption, as it allows for the ruling of technology over man and society. The very point of society, some may argue, is that it is human in nature - not computerized! One must remember that "technology is as a stranger intruder, to remember that technology is not part of God's plan but a product of human creativity and hubris, and that its capacity for good or evil rests entirely on human awareness of what it does for us and to us" (Postman). Canton ironically even chooses his words in an unconscious manner demonstrating his God-like reverence of the Global Mind, amusingly referring to it as "he or she". He speaks too of "the next generation of intelligent life forms" which will be immature if they are "based on the current evolution of humanity." Canton makes technology of the future so grossly God-like that he assumes it will be building our successors!"

Tags:technology, utopia, computerization

Abstract
This paper explains that the Chinese Communist uprising in Canton in 1927 was put down by Nationalist forces under Chiang Kai-Shek, but it remains a seminal event in the development of China's present government. The author points out that the novel itself is a meditation on the revolutionary spirit, embodied most clearly in the main character, Ch'en, who sacrifices his life for his cause in order to achieve in death the unity with humanity that he missed in life.

Abstract
This paper analyzes the work of Isak Dinesen, a modern short story writer equated with Scheherazade. The paper discusses Dinesen's writing-style, which the author says is best enjoyed by those who want to read something that is neither real nor ever could be real. The paper then reviews one of Dinesen's stories, entitled "The Immortal Story", about Mr. Clay, an old, immensely rich tea trader who lives in Canton and does not have the best of a reputation. The paper shows how this story demonstrates Dinesen's powerful story-telling abilities.

From the Paper
"Isak Dinesen's desire to be a storyteller and her ability to write as one, render her a modern day Scheherazade. In the book, "1001 Arabian Nights," there is a young woman named Scheherazade who had to tell stories every day in order to live. The frame tale goes that Shahryar, the King, would marry a virgin every day and he would send the wife from the day before to be beheaded. He did this because he was very angry since his first wife, of many years, had been betraying him. By the time Scheherazade came along, Shahryar had killed three thousand virgins. Scheherazade volunteered to spend one night with the King. When she was in the King's chambers, Scheherazade asked if she could say goodbye one last time to her sister Dunyazad. Dunyazad came into the King's chambers and had been secretly prepared to ask Scheherazade to tell a story during the night. The King lay awake and listened with awe to Scheherazade's first story and asked for another, but Scheherazade said there wasn't time as dawn was breaking, and regretfully so, as the next story was even more exciting. And so the King kept Scheherazade alive as he eagerly anticipated each new story, until, one thousand and one adventurous nights, and three sons later, the King had not only been entertained but wisely educated in morality and kindness by Scheherazade who became his Queen."

Tags:story-teller, Mr., Clay, Immortal, powerful, real, surreal, tea, trader

Abstract
Canada and the United States are both democracies and federal states. A federal state is one which brings together a number of different political communities "with a common government for common purposes, and separate 'state' or 'provincial' or 'cantonal' governments for the particular purposes of each community" ("Canadian," 2008). Both the Canadian and American system of government stemmed from that of the British Parliamentary System. While the United States' system was reformed into one that solely revolves around serving the president rather than any other part of the government, the Canadian system still cleaves onto the parliamentary system, even retaining the parliamentary name for its Cabinet members, "Ministers".

From the Paper
Student's Name Name of Instructor Course Name March 18, 2008 The Differences Between Parliamentary and Presidential Systems of Government in Canada and the United States Introduction Canada and the United States are both democracies and federal states. A federal state is one which brings together a number of different political communities "with a common government for common purposes, and separate

Tags:parliament, president, countries

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The Qing Dynasty was the last imperial regime and during its rule, China went through a major transition from the traditional to modern-day Chinese life. The paper examines the Qing Dynasty and examines the methods used to expand its control over ever increasing areas of China and its neighbors. The paper also examines the dynasty's political and commercial relations with other states and its sinocentric" policy where it considered itself the center of the world. The paper also briefly looks at the factors that brought about the downfall of the dynasty and the opening of China to the outside world.

From the Paper
"Today, visitors from all over the world are amazed to see the Great Wall of China. They talk about its remarkable distance of over 2,100 miles and the scores of years that it took to complete it at the cost of how many people. Yet, the wall is much more than bricks and mortar. It is symbol of China's blocking out the outside world and isolating itself against the West. During the Qing Dynasty, the empire isolated itself from the rest of the world because of its initial strategy to maintain much of the Ming structure and its resulting ethnocentric view of the world and tributary system, the need to keep its multi-ethnic nation whole, and the focus on the safety, wealth and prosperity of its people through barriers against infiltrating foreign powers. Wearing these ethnocentric blinders eventually led to the Qing regimes' decline as the European powers came into the country with a very different mindset."

Tags:ming, imperial, confucian, tibet, emperors, mongol, manchu, trade, canton

Abstract
This paper analyzes the political background and history of the united front policy in the Soviet Union in the early 20th century and subsequently in China after the formation of the communist parties, as well as the alliance between the Soviet and Chinese communist governments. The writer describes how the Bolsheviks turned to China to continue the world revolution and how Lenin's military and economic support of Sun Yat-sen helped to ally the two main communist parties in China at that time. However, with Stalin's rise to power, the Russian Comintern began to direct the Chinese revolution not so much to ensure its victory but rather to secure their alliance with China. This ultimately led to the destruction of the CCP.

Outline:
Chapter One:
Why Was The United Front Entered Into?
Wider Foreign Policy Implications of the Soviet Union
Leninist Strategy on the Colonial Question - Alliances with Bourgeois Groups
Benefits of the Alliance to the CCP and the GMD
GMD
CCP
The CCP as Being Greatly Influenced by the Comintern and the Soviet Union
Chapter Two
Development of the United Front and the Nature of the Relationship Between the CCP and the GMD - Equal Partners or Subordination?
Nature of the Early Relationship Under Lenin & Sun
Changes Under Stalin
Wider Foreign Policy Thinking
Stalin V. Trotsky
The Role of the CCP and the Left GMD in Their Downfall
Comintern as an Arm of Stalin
Comintern Sentencing the CCP to Death in 1927
Chapter Three
Other Reasons For the Failure of the United Front
Peasant and Agrarian Question - Getting Down to the 'Rice Roots'
The Role of Chiang Kai-shek
No Military Forces and the Naivety of the CCP

From the Paper
"The CCP was a tiny party during this time barely claiming a thousand members in 1923, due to it only having been established in 1921 in Shanghai. Then, it was no more than a grouping of radical intellectuals who having been influenced greatly by the May Fourth Movement, wanted to see further and greater change and reform in Chinese society and who regarded that the best way to achieve this would be to form a communist party. The CCP if united with the GMD could gain more members and grow from its humble size and it would also gain the prestige of affiliation with the famous Sun Yat-sen who was regarded as the father of China's Republic and the cooperation of his organization."

Tags:colonial, nationalism, resistance, bloc, socialism, imperialist, Japan, commisar, Canton, Marxist

Abstract
This paper presents results of a sociological research (using observation, analysis, concepts and methods) conducted at two very different airports (one in Ohio and one in NYC) at different times, in order to come up with a sociological analysis of people in airports. The results include over four hours of observations studying behavior, setting, interactions, rules or social patterns and social categories.

From the Paper
"If planes are delayed, if a passenger is late, or if baggage is lost, the efficiency at which the airport operates is affected, which changes the atmosphere and therefore the mood of travelers. I reasoned that because an airport is not just a location, but a system that governs all its inhabitants, I might notice that people in an airport are only as social as they need to be. Because of their very personal reasons for being at a very impersonal place, and because the airport thrives on a system, human beings are naturally less social."

Tags:akron, canton, laguardia

Abstract
This paper presents an in-depth examination of Switzerland, its government, people and international outlook. Several issues particular to Switzerland, such as its policy of neutrality, are closely considered. First, the paper describes the history of the nation and the ethnic mix of its people. Then, it discusses the government system, which is known as a federal system. The Swiss military and its armaments and policies as well as its relationship to the Swiss people is also discussed. This includes a look at recent reforms in the Swiss military system. Finally, the paper addresses the Swiss policy of neutrality. According to the paper, this policy has been a means of protecting Swiss independence and security. Additionally the paper cites that Switzerland uses neutrality as a foreign-policy tool to keep pace with world developments and get a better perspective of these developments. The paper concludes by showing how Switzerland interacts with the other neutral countries in Europe.


Outline:

The Swiss Republic and its Federal System
The Swiss Military
The Swiss Military and the Citizens
Reforms in the Swiss Military: to Promote Swiss Interests
The Concept and Law of Neutrality

From the Paper
" Switzerland is a neutralist federal republic, guided by its own constitution (Heatwole 2009). It was adopted in 1874 and, since then, was amended many times. Its political system combines direct and indirect democracy with the principle of federalism. Under this principle, sub-national units of government are given vast powers. Sovereign power belongs to the people. They elect representatives and create laws directly through referendums. Citizens, 18 years old and older, are eligible to vote. The federalist system empowers the cantons and half-cantons with the powers of government. These include the power to declare war and make peace; sign treaties and alliances; to train, recruit for, and direct the armed forces; and to regulate foreign commerce. Cantons and communes are empowered to impose taxes. The federal government also builds roads, railroads and communications, hydroelectric power, and regulates higher education and labor. The cantons can create a wide range of policies and enjoy a high level of autonomy (Heatwole). The Swiss Constitution was intended to balance the interests of the State as a whole with those of the individual cantons."

Tags:cantons, ethnic mix, neutrality, European Union