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Birth Centers, 2002.
This paper examines birth centers, an alternative place to give birth for women who cannot afford or do not wish to have a hospital birth.
2,412 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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The paper gives a brief history of these types of centers. The writer then brings sources that illustrate the need for alternative birthing options. The paper looks at the history of the development, licensure, accreditation and reimbursement of birth centers and nurse-midwives, and explores the research that gives evidence of the safety, satisfaction to mothers and the economic savings of birth centers.
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"The MCA in New York used their own two decades of experience with home birth and the services of these two centers to develop the Childbearing Center to serve women who sought an alternative to the increasing routine medical intervention given during normal births in hospitals (Birth Center 1, 1998, p. 45). Women seeking care at this center were usually well-educated, middle class women with insurance to cover hospital maternity care, and exhibited the same demographics as the previous generation of women who began the childbirth education and breast feeding movement in the United States. These women wanted to make informed decisions about healthcare and wanted more from the birth experience than women had previously."
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Multi-Cultural Patient Care, 2002.
A look at the health care demographics in the U.S. and how this is pushing for the need of multi-cultural patient care. Focuses on the Family Birthing Center.
857 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This research paper discusses multi-cultural health care. With the demographics of the United States changing and the birthing hospitals being flooded with immigrant women, this paper focuses on the Family Birthing Center and its need to adapt and change. It explains how this institution needs to offer special services to the diverse population and how they are so far, succeeding in this context.
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"As the demographics of the United States continue to change to include more foreign nationals, health care professionals need to become increasingly aware of multicultural issues. Developing a greater cultural awareness of a particular client population can aid health care providers in improved care giving. With the steady increase of people from other countries coming to the United States, health care professionals have been asked to assess and respond to the needs of a more diverse community such as the one confronting The Family Birthing Center. Changes in the racial, ethnic, and religious make-up of this country challenge those in health care to assess how to deliver care to their clients. Many advanced health care professionals have recognized the need to respond to changing populations, including the American Nurses Association, which recognizes the importance of cultural preparedness and offers culturally diverse curriculum among its programs (Peterson)."
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Vaginal Birth After Cesarean, 2004.
A discussion of the pros and cons of giving birth vaginally after having given birth by Cesarean in a previous delivery.
2,260 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper examines some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with giving birth vaginally after having previously delivered by a Cesarean (VBAC). The paper looks at why doctors try to avoid them, but also gives support from the literature for their safety and success. The paper further discusses contraindications and the major problem which is uterine rupture following prior C-section. It points out that uterine rupture is usually due to Pitocin use, and that VBACs have a 98 percent success rate.
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"Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) is becoming increasingly popular and the medical profession has tried somewhat to discourage it because of the risk of uterine rupture. While postpartum fever seemed to correlate with uterine rupture at VBAC in a recent study there was no relationship between single or double..."
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Developing a Birthing Room at a Hospital, 2007.
An analysis of the benefits of having a well-equipped birthing room in a hospital.
2,252 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper discusses the increasing preference of women to give birth in birthing rooms. It discusses the benefits of the relaxed and comfortable environment of the birth rooms and how many hospitals are now beginning to build birthing rooms. The paper discusses the necessary amenities that should be available in all birthing rooms for a comfortable, yet safe delivery.
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"Recent research has shown that the place of birth has a direct impact on the pace and quality of delivery, and when the woman feels confident and satisfied with the choice that she has made about her place of delivery, then she can be sure that her delivery would be as uncomplicated and natural as she desired it to be. A birthing room in a hospital, with the bare minimum of medical intervention and a homely atmosphere, with provisions for the partner and the family of the woman to take part in the amazing phenomenon of birth would be the ideal option for today's woman having a baby, unless she has had complications during her pregnancy, for which a hospital setting would be a much better option. Having a safe and comfortable and natural delivery is the ideal of every woman on earth, and if a hospital facilitates this, then the woman would be obliged forever to the hospital and the medical team that helped create this setting and put it into action. (Evidence regarding place of birth)"
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Birth Order and Juvenile Delinquency, 2002.
A discussion of whether birth order alone is a reliable determinant of a person?s propensity to become involved in juvenile crime.
3,952 words (approx. 15.8 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 107.95
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This paper examines whether the sociobiological approach of a person's personality holds true in the field of juvenile crime. Specifically, the paper evaluates whether birth order is a significant determinant in whether or not a young person commits crimes and in the rates of juvenile recidivism. It takes interdisciplinary approach to the issue of birth order and juvenile delinquency, drawing on diverse literature from fields including psychology, law, criminology and sociology. The extent of birth order on youth crime is explored through a critical survey and integration of current research on the various determinants of juvenile delinquency.
Outline
Birth Order and Social Behavior
Effects of Birth Order on Criminal Behavior
A Critique of Birth Order Theory
Other Predictors of Criminal Behavior
Conclusion
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"Sulloway maintains that the effects of birth order do not stem merely from biology. Rather, he ascribes this to children?s innate tendency to develop attitudes and personalities that are best suited for maximizing the resources that they get from their parents. Since siblings must compete for their parents? attentions, they carve out their own ?family niches? relative to their brothers and sisters, a niche that is often defined by birth order (Sulloway 1996: 48). Meri Wallace, a child development expert, locates the social construction of birth order roles on the part of the parents. According to Wallace, many of the characteristics resulting from a child?s birth order and family position actually stem from their early relationship with their parents."
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Home Birth, 2003.
Defines home birthing.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 31.95
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Discusses the parents' choice of where their children are born, conditions conducive to home birth, and the advantages of home birth, including privacy and psychological benefits. Examines the disadvantages for at-risk pregnancy and compares home birth to hospital birth.
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"For many women, the more they learn about hospital birth the more likely they are to opt for home birth. They prefer the idea of having their deliveries attended, not in a clinical setting surrounded by five or six strangers and ..."
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Effect of Low Birth Weight on Intelligence, 2005.
Considers the effect of birth weight, with infants having a very low or low birth weight (VLBW or LBW) on intelligence and development in later years.
2,169 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 67.95
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This report introduces the issue of low birth weight and its effects on intelligence, conducts a literature review using extant textual sources in peer reviewed and medical journals, reaches conclusions through comparing these portrayals and presents recommendations for future research before presenting, in the conclusion, a summary of the issues presented.
Introduction
Issue under investigation
Literature Review
Recommendation
Conclusion
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"The issue under investigation is low birth weight (LBW) in infants and its effects on intelligence and development using both cognitive and biophysical models of development. LBW infants are also often called pre-term infants in the extant literature on the subject. "Low birth weight (LBW, [is less than or equal to] 2500 g) preterm infants are widely reported to be at increased risk for developmental disabilities, with the risk increasing as birth weight decreases.[1-6] Almost universally, the increased morbidity reported for LBW children has been based on methods defining various outcomes for them as a group and examining the statistical effects of various factors on these group outcomes. However, LBW infants are also known to be a very heterogeneous group, both in biomedical and sociodemographic characteristics and in developmental outcome" (Koller et al., 1997)."
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage (Robbie E. Davis-Floyd), 2001.
Examination of author's argument that hospital birthing process & technology disempower women in the birthing process.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"In Birth as an American Rite of Passage, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd (1992) contends that the birthing process in the U.S. is the effort by the technocratic society to control a natural act (p. 2). According to her, the birthing process should be considered a rite of passage because it sends a powerful message to the women, ?the initiates,? that the technocratic institutions are superior to their natural capacities (Davis-Floyd, 1992, p. 16). Fundamentally, Davis-Floyd (1992) highlights the fact that woman?s creative power is usurped by the hospital and technology. Instead of being celebrated as a life-giver, she is disempowered and made to feel helpless and dependent on them (pp. 74-5). From the technocratic perspective, women?s bodies are regarded as entities that are likely to fail and need to be fixed during the birthing process (David-Floyd,.."
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The Relationship Between Birth Order and Power, 2000.
A thorough analysis of the role birth order plays in power, whether political or economic. Includes an extensive section on the effect of birth order on children's behavior.
2,827 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 19 sources, $ 84.95
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"Social scientists advocating family dynamics as reasons for an individual?s drive to achieve and exercise power in a society propose that ordinal position must be examined within the family structure in order to determine how birth order influences socialization which, in turn, affects personality and behavior and exercise of power."
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Pre-Term Births, 2004.
Examines how pre-term births can be prevented by making the correct decisions during pregnancy.
2,825 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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The majority of low birth weight (LBW), pre-term births are preventable with the proper pre-natal care and wise decision making by the birth mother. The paper begins by describing the problems connected with pre-term births, including the high costs, retardation, developmental problems, etc. It then provides demographic statistics about pre-term birth rates in the United States. Finally, the paper proposes a program modeled on a mentoring system, which could be implemented by a local hospital in order to positively effect changes in the LBW among teens and minority families.
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"Many individual programs have been designed and implemented by individual agencies, but if the at risk population is still not making use of these programs, there will be only small positive effects felt by the women in the highest need of help. In order to draw together the resources with the target community, any program must have a solid theoretical basis, and for this purpose, this proposal turns to the Health Belief Model (HBM). The HBM is a psychosocial model ( Rosenstock, 1990) which is designed to draw together the various resources while at the same time equipping the target population with the needed tools to take advantage of the resources."
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Birth Order and Achievement, 2007.
This paper researches whether birth order determines academic achievement in second, third and fourth graders.
4,482 words (approx. 17.9 pages), 22 sources, MLA, $ 117.95
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The paper discusses how birth order has been suggested as the source of many personality traits. These personality traits can have an impact on the ability of a child to succeed in many areas of their life. The paper addresses the role that birth order plays in academic achievement among second through fourth graders on a standardized test. The research explores the background and significance of the problem, include a brief literature review of the topic, proposed methodology and a discussion of the project schedule and anticipated outcomes. The paper explains that understanding how birth order impacts academic achievement will help educators understand the abilities of individual students in the school system.
Outline:
Statement of Problem
Background and Significance of Problem
Preliminary Review of Literature
Research Methodology and Birth Order Theory
Do We Discount the Theory?
Practical Application of Theory
Research Questions, Design, and Methodology
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"The affects of birth order are well documented and there is s a wealth of academic information available on many areas of the topic. Alfred Adler extensively categorized the characteristics of each birth order. Adler's theory represents the most comprehensive classification of the affects of birth order on the personality and development of children. Adler felt that there were other characteristics that could affect a child's reactions, such as their opinion of themselves, but that this did not diminish the role of birth order in personality development. (Adler, 1928)."
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Birth of Venus, 2007.
This paper discusses the painting "Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli.
1,766 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that the "Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli is an important work in the study of art. The writer notes that this late-15th century painting reflects the struggle many Italian artists felt between the great history and traditions of their land, and the strong influence of the Catholic church. The writer points out that both of these influences are present in the "Birth of Venus", even though the painting depicts a pagan theme. The writer concludes that at a time when many pagan works of art were destroyed, including Botticelli pieces, the "Birth of Venus" was somehow spared.
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Birth of Venus: Specifications
Iconography and Meaning
Style
Historical Context
Conclusion
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"Botticelli's depiction of the water on which Venus rides could be described as iconography. While Botticelli paints complex and accurate human figures, the water is very simple; it is a blue field with some lines representing waves, and it looks almost like a blue carpet. When we compare that to how water is often represented in other works of art as a powerful, and sometime dangerous, force, we can conclude that Botticelli made the sea simple for a reason."
"In Roman mythology, the gods had the power to control nature, so it would have been inappropriate for Venus to ride to shore on large and dangerous waves. Botticelli made the water simple, calm and flat to show how it could be completely tamed by the gods."
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How Birth Control Affects Society, 2002.
A description of how birth control has affected society as a whole, society's perception of women, and the impact it has had on the AIDS virus.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper discusses the introduction of the birth control pill, outlining society's concept of a woman's duties from pre-1920's and up to the surge of the feminist movement. The paper explains how the popularity of the birth control pill, and the feminist movement has made a major impact on the difference of the roles and lifestyles of women. This paper also takes a look at the positive impact birth control has had on preventing AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
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Background
Birth Controls Impact on Society
AIDS
Conclusion
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"The popularity of the birth control pill brought the world into the sexual revolution. The easy access to birth control encouraged promiscuity, and eventually brought us into the women?s movement in the 1970?s. Women?s freedom over their sexuality allows freedom of their financial independence. However the true beginning of the women?s movement began as early as the 1920?s. The possibility of contraceptives would not have been possible in the 1960?s without the original women?s movement in the 1920?s. The purpose of this essay to describe how birth control has affected society, and the impact it had on the AIDS virus."
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Why Birth Control Should Be Readily Available, 2006.
A contentious argument regarding birth control.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses one of the most contentious issues in contemporary American life, birth control.
This paper examines birth control in America and argues that birth control is something which should be readily available to all citizens just as long as certain protocols are followed. In so doing, however, this paper also points out the arguments of those who are unconvinced that wide spread birth control is desirable. In the end, this paper's central contention is that having a child is an enormously challenging development in the lives of young people (or old people, for that matter) and it should only be undertaken if the parents (or parent) possess the maturity, the desire and the resources necessary to do the job well.
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Water Births, 2007.
This paper explores the safety issues for both mother and baby of laboring and/or giving birth under water.
2,147 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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The paper discusses the introduction of birthing pools for labor and childbirth. This paper critically analyzes the environment of water birth in its social context, taking into account the physiology, psychology and spirituality of childbirth. The paper looks at recent research that indicates the benefits of water birth for both the mother and the child and examines the beliefs and opinions of those who fear this approach. The paper concludes that that there is little evidence that shows any valid threat in this method for either the child or the mother.
Outline:
Introduction
Historical Background
The Claimed Benefits of Water Birth
Concerns and Objections
Recent Research
Holistic and Spiritual Approaches
Conclusion
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"Although it has only been relatively recent that the initiatives of using warm-water pools for labour and childbirth have been introduced into Western culture, there are records of women giving birth in shallow sea water in the South Pacific Islands, and also of Egyptian Pharaohs being born in the waters of the Nile. And, throughout the world today, there are many cultures that use water as a medium for birthing, due to the belief that it is a natural environment for child birth (Susanna Napierala pp. 67-74)."
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