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"America's Forgotten Pandemic", 2007.
A review of Alfred Crosby's work "America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918".
1,194 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 40.95
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The paper examines Alfred Crosby's book, "America's Forgotten Pandemic", which is considered the definitive work on the Spanish influenza that spread worldwide between August 1918 and March 1919. The paper examines Crosby's main arguments about why this pandemic, though so large in scope and so damaging to the youth of America during that era, escaped the national consciousness. The paper discusses how "America's Forgotten Pandemic" has become extremely popular over the course of the last twenty years.
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"Crosby's narrative has become extremely popular since the 1980s due to the spread of other infectious diseases. While influenza scares has died out largely due to the advent of modern medicine, the spread of the AIDS virus, Asian flue, and SARS epidemic have cast pandemics into the mainstream consciousness. Crosby's analysis of the pandemic is not only a narrative that describes the event and brings it to life, but also just as importantly it chronicles and explores the curious loss of national memory of this cataclysmic event."
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China's HIV/AIDS Pandemic, 2002.
Examines the pandemic proportions that China's AIDs inflicted have reached and what is being done about it by the authorities.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 15 sources, $ 106.95
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China's HIV/AIDS pandemic, in its first 1985 manifestation, was termed a 'foreigner's disease'. Patterns of infection in neighboring nations resulted in a more concerted approach. In contrast to other countries, China denied the extent of the epidemic for 15 years. According to WHO and various health officials, all past and current estimates of HIV infection in China are extremely conservative with the actual figures being as much as 25 times those that have been reported internally. Infections could reach ten million by 2010. Many of the programs reportedly established by 1990 are just now being put into place. The most essential need is for an effective surveillance program, along with a health education campaign. As in all Third World countries, major obstacles interfere with the implementation of such programs. The more serious of these hindrances consist of highly diverse populations, most of whom are simultaneously very mobile. The fact is that, while China superficially appears to be in a relatively advanced epidemic stage, the country is similar to Africa in that it is most likely pre-pandemic.
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Influenza Pandemic, 2005.
A very thorough overview of the influenza virus and whether or not the U.S. is prepared for an influenza pandemic.
4,811 words (approx. 19.2 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 123.95
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This paper defines and classifies influenza, explains how it is spread, and explains why the U.S. is not prepared for the onset of an influenza virus. The paper also discusses the morbidity and mortality rates of influenza and how it is diagnosed. Finally, the paper examines the central role of the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control in preventing, controlling, and treating the disease.
What Is Influenza and How Does It Spread?
Classification of the Influenza Virus
Definition of Pandemic and Causes and Reasons for Its Spread
How Well Is USA Prepared for the Onset of the Influenza Virus?
The Morbidity and Mortality Rates of the Influenza Virus
Details about WHO and CDC and Their Methods of Tackling the Disease
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"When the influenza virus becomes deposited in the respiratory tract of a person, the various signs and symptoms appear almost immediately. The onset of the symptoms is almost like being hit by a truck; this is how a patient may experience the virus. Some patients can even accurately pinpoint the time of the onset of the fever or chills or the cold. Some patients may face photophobia other ocular problems and though these are not very common symptoms, they may occur in some rare cases. In some children, there may be stomachache and vomiting and also a feeling of general malaise. In infants these may become difficult to diagnose and the treating physicians are warned against treating them as symptoms of an ordinary common cold, whose symptoms are very similar to those of influenza."
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Avian Flu and the Pandemic Threat in Late 2005, 2005.
An analysis of the media accounts of the Avian Flu virus in Canada in 2005.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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The paper reveals media accounts of the Avian (bird) Flu threat that repeat biomedical and biosocial notions of the disease. It looks at how drug companies compete to produce drug treatments and vaccines, for the future, in activities that will make billions in profits from a pandemic whose scope is not yet realised. The paper focuses on the Toronto medical community's reaction to a perhaps approaching disease and notes that many doctors and nurses do not wish to serve Avian Flu patients. There is also a comparative note on the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic in Canada, and an in-depth analysis of the rise of Avian flu in humans abroad.
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"The threat posed by the Avian Flu virus and the possibility of a pandemic, in the coming year, focus on biomedical and biosocial views of illness and health. This paper refers to a number of Toronto media summaries on research to date, and the threat posed by an Avian Flu pandemic, showing a number of foci that seem quite important in terms of how the possible pandemic is discussed. Later, time is given to more 'cultural' responses to the possibility of an Avian Flu pandemic, which should stimulate serious thought on our ideas of entitlement to health, long life, the duties of health professionals, .."
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?When You Have Forgotten Sunday: The Love Story?, 2002.
The paper analyzes the poem, "when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, $ 24.95
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The paper examines the literary and sonic devices used in the poem, "when you have forgotten sunday" by Gwendolyn Brooks. The paper shows that the symbolism and personifications that are evident throughout the work bring a clear meaning to the poem and aids the reader in understanding how precious the love was between the two characters.
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"This is a narrative poem, it tells a story that is focused on two lovers. The poem compares Sunday to their love. The tone, which is defined as style or manner of expression in speaking or writing, of the poem is rather laid back but at the same time it evokes the sense that the writer possesses a certain amount of strength. The diction used in the poem adds to this strength Brooks uses very descriptive words and describes her actions and personality very well."
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"America's Forgotten Wars", 2006.
An overview of this book by Sam C. Sarkesian.
1,445 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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"America's Forgotten Wars" by Sam C. Sarkesian is one of a number of books that exposes an alarming trend in United States military policy that many have termed the "Vietnam syndrome." The paper shows that what is unique about Sarkesian's approach is that he attempts to establish that the military policies that led to defeat in Vietnam were by no means unique, and that the United States' handling of third world conflicts in general has always followed a distinctive pattern.
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"The current prescription of the Vietnam syndrome to all potential third world conflicts, to Sarkesian, is a detrimental mindset; this is because it has instilled a "never again" attitude in many Americans. Implicit in this way of thinking is that counterrevolutionary conflicts are somehow not winnable, to the point where they should be avoided altogether. However, it would seem that this perspective itself is one of the contributing factors to American defeat in counterrevolutionary wars--it is merely presumed that Vietnam was the single blemish upon the history of the United States military."
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"The Forgotten City", 2002.
A brief analysis of this poem by William Carlos Williams.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 57.95
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This paper analyzes the contents and meaning of Williams' poem. It includes considering how the narrator feels about his observations of the town, the importance of the fact that a hurricane forced him to travel through the town, the suggestions that are made about the role of media in society, the significance of the title, and the meaning of the phrase "strange commonplace."
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"The narrator of the poem refers to an experience driving through the towns of New Jersey. He passes through what he calls "extraordinary places." His experience of the towns suggests that the viewing of this world is part of the process of him overcoming his jadedness. He constantly refers to the sights of this world in positive ways. He refers to the places as "extraordinary places, as vivid as any I ever saw." He also refers to "long, deserted avenues / with unrecognized names at the corners and / drunken looking people with completely foreign manners." While this last description is not necessarily a positive one, the poem has a mood of excitement about it. The impression is that these sights have opened the narrator's eyes and allowed him to really consider what he is seeing. In short, he is finding interest in what he sees. He also states that "a large body of water / startled me with an acre or more of hot / jets spouting up asymmetrically about it." "
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The Forgotten Victorian Modernists, 2003.
A critical study of the evolution of modern poetry.
3,109 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 90.95
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This paper discusses how modernist poetry did not explode from reactions to the First World War by analysing the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold and T.S. Eliot. It shows how modernism, in fact, has its roots in Victorian poetry, though we do not generally give the Victorian poets any credit for it. It attempts to demonstrate this by studying not only the poets, but also the scientists, philosophers and psychologists of the times.
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"Traditional and moral values suddenly lost their meaning, and everything that once was ?true? was put into question. This loss created feelings of despair that led to ?the social dislocations and personal longing for absolutes that constituted the intellectual climate in which?Modernism [was] born and developed.? The modernist movement in poetry is, of course, not an immediate result of these new feelings, and many poets of the time continued to follow traditional forms of writing, but there are a number of poets who reacted rather dramatically to the anxiety of the time. These poets, Alfred lord Tennyson and Matthew Arnold in particular, exemplified the sense of loss felt by all those living in the Victorian Age and anticipated the modernist poets."
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Abu Ghraib and Sabra and Shatila: Crimes Forgotten, 2005.
Examines how the Israeli and American publics quickly lost memory of the human rights abuses of Sabra and Shatila and Abu Ghraib.
2,105 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 37 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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Using polling data from the Israeli and American publics from the early 1980s, along with newspapers too, this paper studies how public support for the 2003 Iraq War and the 1982-1983 Lebanon invasion rebounded, despite the Abu Ghraib and Sabra and Shatila incidents.
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"The United States of America, scholars might someday say, happened upon the invasion of the Mesopotamian state of Iraq while searching for international terrorist groups in all of the wrong places. This is stated glibly because it is a very long and complex story. For the purpose of this study, it is only necessary to understand that having conquered Iraq, terminated its central government, and unwittingly facilitated the decline of civil society, the United States began detaining and interrogating petty criminals, former Ba'th party officials, violent insurgents, and frankly any other suspicious persons within the country's borders in March of 2003."
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Famous and Forgotten, 2002.
A short essay on presidential successes and failures.
1,991 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper examines the history of the American Presidency and attempts to determine the factors that make a president considered successful in his term or a complete failure. It uses examples from history and by comparing these men and their presidencies, illustrates how much can be learned about presidential success and failure. It discusses how success comes to Presidents who use rhetoric effectively, have the ability to change and be pragmatic and expand presidential power and how successful Presidents also come during times of crisis and often at the destruction of an old political regime. In conclusion, it shows that what determines the success of ones presidency is up to many different factors that include the president's personality type, political powers of the time and current events.
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"John Quincy Adams seemed doomed from the start. The son of John Adams, John Quincy was forever subjected to unfavorable comparisons. In the election if 1825, he was elected by a coalition in congress, although Andrew Jackson carried the popular vote. The people where sick with the current federalist regime and wanted a change from the patrician government that existed. Adams was a symbol of this old regime, and was unpopular with the common people. Adam?s is best described as a President of disjunction, leading a crumbling regime ripe for reconstruction. Although Adams tried to change the current regime to save it, he was doomed the day he was elected."
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Long Forgotten Memories Relived, 2002.
The memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto survivor from the Holocaust.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper is the presentation of memories from a Holocaust survivor. The author takes us on a memory search in remembering what it was like to survive Warsaw Ghetto and what part the author played in the rebellion. The author reminds us of what was as well as what can never be again with the chilling tale of life in the camps of the Holocaust.
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Avian Flu, 2007.
An analysis of the possible outcomes of avian flu if it becomes a pandemic.
1,358 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper presents an examination of avian flu (commonly known as "bird flu"). The writer explores the facts and myths surrounding the flu. It then compares it to past pandemics, such as the Spanish Flu pandemic, that have become a reality and killed large numbers of people. The paper discusses what may be expected if the avian flu does become a pandemic.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Flu
Why the Concern
If It Happens
Conclusion
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"According to experts the basis for the concern is the fact that like the Spanish Flu pandemic the Avian Flu, if it mutates will present a flu virus to the system that humans have never before experienced. As people age they build immunities and those immunities help their systems fight additional illnesses that they are exposed to or contract. With the Avian Flu the strain of viral infection is one that has never before in recorded history been introduced to the human body and that makes it extremely deadly.
If the flu does become a pandemic it is estimated that it will kill more than 50 million people world wide and more than half a million in the US. Even more concerning is the belief by experts that at least 250,000 of those killed in the United States will be young healthy adult Americans (Daugherty, 2005)."
"With most flues the only real danger is to the elderly, the infants or those who have chronic health issues such as asthma, diabetes or other medical problems. With the Avian flu it will most likely attack and kill many people who have no health issues which makes precautions important to everyone, not just the weak or immune compromised."
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Homelessness, 2006.
A discussion of research on the pandemic of homelessness, its pervasiveness and causes.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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Homelessness has been described as a chronic illness affecting all societies regardless of the degree of economic development and overall wealth of the nation. It is pandemic and epidemic in some societies. Various researchers have attributed the cause of homelessness to a series of factors that work to create homelessness from three dimensions. This paper discusses the problem of homelessness, noting that it has reached pandemic and epidemic proportions in societies throughout the world. The paper also examines the conclusions research has drawn about the factors causing homelessness.
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Nursing Avian Flu, 2006.
A discussion regarding the role of the nurse in a pandemic of avian influenza.
1,033 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of nursing and an impending pandemic. Specifically it refers to avian influenza (bird flu) and the impact of a pandemic on nursing practice, present and future, along with the nursing role in influencing the issue.
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"One of the problems with diagnosing avian flu are the signs and symptoms, because they so closely resemble the signs of other flu strains or the common cold. Typical symptoms include fever, muscle pain, headache, malaise, nonproductive cough, sore throat, and runny nose. Symptoms such as these should be taken seriously if they are diagnosed, especially in anyone who regularly has contact with poultry or other birds. Another problem with diagnosis is that the disease can incubate in the victim for up to four days, making it difficult to determine just when and where the infection occurred. Victims can also infect others even after symptoms of the disease disappear, which is another problem with diagnosis and prevention. The disease is most deadly to senior citizens over 65, young children, and individuals with underlying health problems, such as breathing difficulties or heart conditions. Symptoms usually dissipate in seven days, but the cough can last in many individuals for two weeks or more. Currently, influenza deaths in the United States average about 36,000 per year ("Avian," 2006.) Since there have not been any cases of the virus in birds in the United States, many people might ignore the symptoms if they occur, but with world travel so easy and quick today, infection could easily come from travelers returning from a trip to Asia or the Middle East. Thus, healthcare professionals should always be aware and on the lookout for these symptoms in any of their patients. "
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The Black Plague, 2003.
Describes the history, effects, and consequences of the mid-14th century plague pandemic.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, $ 55.95
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The paper looks at the Black Death in Italy and other European countries. It shows the rapid spread of the disease due to environmental conditions and the devastation to medieval society.
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"The Black Plague
History, Effect & Consequences
History, Effects & Consequences
In general, the plague pandemic of 1347-1350 was one of the worst disasters to ever affect the human race. The tragic events of those years events of those years are said to..."
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