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This paper discusses quality indicators at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.

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"Cedars-Sinai Health System has a lengthy mission and vision that show its commitment to quality. Its mission states; "Quality patient care is our priority and professes a commitment to several parameters of quality, including leadership excellence in providing quality healthcare, biomedical research, education and training of physicians and other healthcare professionals, and striving to improve the health status of our community." Cedars-Sinai's vision is to enhance its position as the leading healthcare provider in the Los Angeles area and..."

Tags:Cedars-Sinai, quality indicators, medical

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The paper discusses how Cedars-Sinai is one of the finest health providers in the state of California. The paper looks at how hospitals and health care facilities are facing several kinds of legal and ethical issues that complicate their service. The paper shows how the organization is indeed performing at its optimum best and is ensuring the safety and the well being of the patient, while at the same time maintaining the high quality and standards that are expected of a Medical Care Center like Cedars-Sinai. The paper concludes that perhaps this is the reason that more and more numbers of patients are flocking to this hospital today.

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"Cedars-Sinai is one of the finest health providers in the state of California, and perhaps this is one of the reasons that the hospital has been able to make numerous advances in medicine, because of which it has been possible to save many more lives than before. Today, there are more than 1,800 physicians from almost all the specialties there are, affiliated with the Cedars- Sinai. In addition, there are 8,000 employees, 2,000 volunteers, and about 15,000 more people belonging to various fund-raising groups, and it is all these people together who make up the quality of health care that is offered in the Cedars Sinai hospital. (Cedars-Sinai is leading the Quest for Health among California Hospitals)"

Tags:medicine, advances, ethics, patient

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David Guterson?s "Snow Falling on Cedars" examines the shaky relationships between Japanese-American islanders and whites in the story?s setting of Amity Harbor. The paper shows how far some people are willing to go outside the norm when dealing with people from different races and the consequences of these actions. The paper shows that interracial relationships prove to be hypocritical in the novel, as the Japanese-Americans and whites seem to be friendly to one another in normal situations, but in times of war and during a murder trial, they are torn apart and suspicious of one another.

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"Hatsue's mentor, Mrs. Shigemura, teaches Hatsue what Japanese girls had always been taught - to stay away from white men because they are sex-driven, and to only marry a Japanese man "whose heart is strong and good" (84). In their final time together, hidden away in the cedar tree hideaway they have had for years, Hatsue decides it does not feel right to be with Ishmael. Regardless of this, her mother finds out the secret relationship that exists between her and Ishmael. Reacting like any parent of the time would at the news of an interracial relationship, Fujiko Imada demands her daughter never again speak to or see the white boy. One can only think that without the influence of Mrs. Shigemura and the general attitudes towards interracial relationships, she would have never come to this conclusion."

Tags:Ishmael, Chambers, Hatsue, Imada, Shigemura, Kabuo, Miyamoto

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This brief analysis provides a discussion of the grotesque characterization used by David Guterson to underscore his themes of survival and human dignity in the novel "Snow Falling on Cedars."

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"Set among the amputees and psychological casualties of World War II, the characters in David Guterson's "Snow Falling on Cedars" illustrate characteristics of the grotesque. Guterson uses the grotesque to show an underlying dignity of the human spirit that is capable of transcending the frigid experiences of war and prejudice. Ishmael Chambers characterizes the grotesque more than any other character in the novel. He is the walking wounded, forever unable to cope with the loss of the love of his life, Hatsue, to..."

Tags:WWII, prejudice, heartbreak, discrimination, destruction

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This paper discusses the overall themes that flow through "In Snow Falling on Cedars" and "No-No Boy" focusing on the themes of pain, anguish and the struggle of a person to find themselves within their environment.

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"In each novel the authors used combines techniques to express their ideas. They use the basic story line as well as a range of underlying themes. In each of the novels the search for meaning is a basic underlying theme, and in both of the novels the meaning becomes clear on so many levels: while the environment does not define us, we are defined by how we react to that environment."

Tags:psychological, pain, struggle, identity, pain, anguish, disconnection, prison, environment

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The writer of this paper analyzes the character of African-American Rena in Chesnutt's novel, who is able to 'pass' herself off as white. Given the ethical circumstances of duress under which the heroine lives, the writer contends and explains why Rena's actions may be justified. This paper discusses early 20th southern society in America, which made a fetish of racial distinction. This paper details the plot and main characters of Chesnutt's novel, while focusing on the issue of 'passing' and how easy it is to misconstrue one's race. This book makes a powerful case against the practice of passing, which are detailed in this paper. The writer delves into the ethical ramifications of passing in a racist society and explains why Rena denied a fundamental part of herself by pretending to be white.

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"When Rena learns of the transience of George's affections and she falls ill. However, Rena recovers and vows goes on to work toward uplifting her race, although she dies at the end of the text, perhaps in a nod to the author's acknowledgement to the common cultural trope of the 'tragic mulatto.' But Rena is not condemned because she engages in 'passing' The House Behind the Cedars makes a powerful case against 'passing,' but not because it is unethical. Passing is not wrong ethically or morally in a racist society, and race itself is a fluid category. But by not identifying with her parentage heritage fully, Rena denies a fundamental part of herself and becomes tied to a man who is not worthy of her."

Tags:racism, white, black, african, american, passing, south, ethics

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This paper explains that in the the book and the movie a strong theme of racism reveals something very profound about life and the human condition in general.

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In the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterman, events in a community on a small island in Puget Sound show the persistence of certain attitudes after World War II and how people who survived that conflict continue to live out the tensions and resentments of that war.

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"In the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterman, events in a community on a small island in Puget Sound show the persistence of certain attitudes after World War II and how people who survived that conflict continue to live out the tensions and resentments of that war. Kabuo Miyamoto is a Japanese-American who spent the war in an internment camp, but once released, he still finds that his neighbors distrust him and are prejudiced against him because of his ancestry. Such prejudices become all the more heated in the context of a murder trial. World War II is always present for the characters in this novel, serving as suspected motive for the murder, as the crucible in which attitudes and human being were shaped, as a source of continuing discrimination, and as the major historical event remembered by the population."

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This is an insightful essay dealing with the impact of World War Two on two communities, which contain Japanese Canadians and Americans. The two novels, "Obasan" and "Snow Falling on Cedars", show the prejudice and racism of the Second World War, as well as the paranoia of the white community. The essay describes the impacts of the war, and also contrasts how memories and emotions of war can be suppressed by silence or resurfaced in everyday life. This essay shows both effects using the two novels to show the various outcomes.

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"Many memorable events in people's lives have the power to affect their memories, emotions, and relationships later in life. These events may be positive or negative and are dealt with in various ways, such as silence, anger, denial or confrontation. In "Snow Falling on Cedars", by David Guterson, and "Obasan", by Joy Kogawa, the event of World War II creates lasting impressions on all the characters, which are evident even many years later in both plots. In "Snow Falling on Cedars", a man named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged for the murder of a well-liked fisherman. While he and others are on the stand, memories of World War II surface, revealing a complex plot containing separated lovers, a battle for land, and the island's always present, racism. In Kogawa's novel, a schoolteacher named Naomi Nakane visits her Aunt Obasan because her uncle has passed away. During the visit she remembers her family's separation and relocation during World War II through the reading of diaries, and eventually learns the details of her mother's demise after thirty years. Both novels deal with the prejudice toward the Japanese in North America during the Second World War, as well as show the lasting effects that war leaves on its survivor."

Tags:guterson, japanese, kogawa, asian, prejudice, racism, relocation, unfairness, memory, emotion

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An examination of David Guterson's "Snow Falling on Cedars". The author examines the cultural issues in the novel. This is done by exploring the main character and how she is torn between two cultures.

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?Snow Falling on Cedars,? by David Guterson is more than just a love story, a murder mystery, or a tale of Japanese-American internment during World War II. While it is indeed all of those, there is a distinct other dimension of the book which explores the unique difficulties of culture. In this case, the female protagonist, Hatsue, is caught between two cultures, belonging partially to both and wholly to neither. She is of Japanese descent and traditions, growing up in American society, in love with and loved by an American boy. During the course of the novel, she must decide finally what and who she is, where she belongs. It seems intuitively natural, in our American arrogance, to assume that she should embrace American culture including the old adage that love conquers all. However, to say that Hatsue should forsake her Japanese heritage and marry an American is to subordinate her to our own image and deprive her of her essential character - fundamentally a racist act."

Tags:culture, tradition, acculturation, fusion, choice