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"The Mixquiahuala Letters" ( Ana Castillo ), 1999.
Analyzes this novel about two women whose relationship is based on letters.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 55.95
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"Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters is a novel about the difficulty of friendship in which the shared past of two women, Alicia and Teresa, is recounted and reflected on in letters from Teresa. But this simple description belies the wealth of complications in the novel; not the least of which is the breakdown of the friendship or, at least, of the communication between the pair. For, despite the intensity of the connection over the decade they have known each other, the letters from Teresa make it clear that the two women have, in the long run, missed each other--in the sense of never having managed to fully comprehend each other. The immediately apparent cause of this failed connection is the random noise generated by patriarchal power plays that seems to clutter up their channels of communication. The problem, however, also casts a wider net."
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"So Far from Good" by Ana Castillo, 1999.
Analyzes novel's portrayal of character of Sofi, impact of culture & family history and their mother-daughter relationship.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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"Sofi had devoted her life to being a good daughter, a good wife, and a good mother, or at least had given it all a hell of a good try . . . Now there was no mother to honor, no father to respect, no 'jitas to sacrifice for, no rancho to maintain, and no land left to work (Castillo 218).
The purpose of this research is to examine the transforming character of Sofi in So Far from God by Ana Castillo. The plan of the research will be to set forth the cultural and social context in which Sofi can be seen as shaping her identity from her environment and family history. Also discussed will be psychological implications Castillo's portrayal of mother-daughter relationships--especially how human relationships are shaped by the response to unique cultural forces.
In a way, Sofi is defined by a social environment of women and.."
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American Nurses Association (ANA), 2006.
This paper discusses the American Nurses Association (ANA), the only full-service professional organization representing the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses (RNs) through its 54 constituent member associations.
1,520 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that the American Nurses Association (ANA) advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing and lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public. The author stresses that ANA, as part of various nursing umbrella organizations, promotes a unified advocacy to any cause-oriented or socially relevant issues affecting the society and health care profession. The paper relates that a regular membership in the American Nurses Association requires a baccalaureate degree, Registered Nurse (RN) certification and a license to practice the nursing profession the United States; however, additional categories of membership are available for foreign, unemployed, student, disabled and elderly nurses.
Table of Contents:
Overview of the Organization
The Statement of Purpose of the Organization
Advantages and Disadvantages of Membership in the Organization
Requirements for Membership in the Organization
Why this Organization Interests You?
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"A major drawback of the ANA is the membership dues - at $ 255.00 for the Full Membership Dues, some nurse practitioners, especially those in economically depressed areas of the United States, will find the amount steep! Although it is a prestigious organization to be part of, this stature costs a bundle. The ANA have Reduced and Special Dues though but these are for student, unemployed and retired nurses. Another possible disadvantage of joining the ANA is the political agenda they endorse; a particular member or a group of members may not believe or may be against some of the association's political agenda."
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Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), 2004.
An analysis of Ana Mendieta's work based on her connections to her Cuban heritage.
936 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper presents a biographical history of Ana Mendieta, who was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. The paper describes how Mendieta came to the United States as part of Operation Peter Pan. The paper contends that Mendieta has been considered a performance artist, a land/earth artist, and even a body artist. The paper describes her Silueta series. In creating the Silueta series, she is performing using the land and her body. Unlike the other land artists of her time, she did not aggressively shape or change the land; she just simply united with what was there.
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"Freud has said that there are two sensations of home, one that signifies home but more over belonging, familiarity, intimacy and an overall sense of comfort. The other is of privacy or of something that is kept from sight. Mendeita's removal from her country had a colossal impact on her work as an artist. She had a deep sense of loss for her home and her culture and this is shown clearly in the Silueta (silhouette) series. In order to maintain a sense of home in the cornfields of the Midwest, Ana immersed herself in her native culture to make an identity for herself, to keep a sense of home and to regain what she lost."
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ANA's Nursing Code of Ethics, 2006.
A description of several aspects of the ANA's Code of Ethics.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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The paper describes several aspects of the American Association of Nurses (ANA) Code of Ethics including its content, its principles and degree of clarity, its usefulness and its strengths and weaknesses. The development of the Code of Ethics over the decades is also discussed.
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"Butts and Rich point out that effective nursing requires both broad knowledge and a set of well developed abilities and skills. The required tasks are many and varied and in order to do them properly care must be taken to.."
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The City of Santa Ana, 2002.
This paper discusses Santa Ana, one of the largest cities in California.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper describes some key geographic elements of the city of Santa Ana.
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Daphne Marlatt's "Ana Historic", 2006.
A look at how Daphne Marlatt's book, "Ana Historic", makes use of unconditioned language to express the feminine experience.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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Daphne Marlatt's novel, "Ana Historic", is unique in that it refuses to follow the typical novel form, a structured style of writing familiar to us all; it is after all the style we have learnt as children. However our inherited writing structure has been decided by our forefathers, men who established the English language and its writing style and in this way shaped how our thoughts and ideas must be arranged. This paper looks at how Marlatt rejects this idea of the conventional, masculine English language and along with it the boundaries that arrange and reign in our thoughts.
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Massacre of the Dreamers, 2007.
This paper examines the book 'Massacre of the Dreamers' by Ana Castillo.
1,757 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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In this article, the writer studies the book 'Massacre of the Dreamers' by the novelist, poet, and Chicana activist, Ana Castillo. The writer notes that Castillo offers an explicitly nationally and ethnically based form of feminism for Latina women that the author calls Xicanisma. The writer discusses that over the course of Castillo's historiography of the Chicana and feminist movements, Castillo combines personal as well as historical testimony to create a political and spiritual manifesto for Latina women today. Further the writer shows that Castillo condemns both the racism and negative assumptions that have limited Latina women from assuming power within their culture, even while she pays tribute to the considerable successes and accomplishments of Latinas in various Mexican activist movements.
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"Castillo is equally unsparing when condemning the misogyny of Mexican culture, even in its most radical forms, such as the American Chicano Movement. Beyond the ideologies of Catholicism and Communism that have denied the gender imbalance within the Mexican community and society, Castillo believes Chicana women must band together to articulate and find ways of healing and addressing their unique difficulties as a community. Only then will the feminine principle as well as machismo endemic to contemporary Mexican life once again find its space within Latino culture and spirituality."
"Castillo, however, does not deny the common assertion of the American women's movement that the personal is political. She states she had to look within herself to get beyond the dichotomies of masculine and feminine that hampered her ability to see herself fully as an activist, sexual being, and a spiritual female being."
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So Far From God, 2007.
This paper provides a book review of the book 'So Far From God' written by Ana Castillo.
936 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 33.95
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In this article, the writer studies the story 'So Far From God' by Ana Castillo. The writer notes that in "So Far From God", Castillo sets her work in Chicana country, and creates a mystical work of fiction that draws the reader into the story, making it nearly impossible to set down. The writer looks at the various characters in the book and then discusses the different themes of the story. Further the writer notes that the style of writing is somewhat disjointed and strange, almost like Castillo is just telling a story aloud to a friend instead of creating a novel. The writer concludes that the endurance of the human spirit and the female spirit, is what Castillo is trying to show to the readers of this particular book.
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"The themes that are presented in the book must be discussed in some detail, because they are very important and significant. Each theme of the book revolves around one of the five female characters. Sofia, the mother, embodies the great wisdom that is seen in some individuals. She goes through so much, but she manages to retain her sanity and her sense of humor, both of which she feels are very important. The wisdom theme appears to be at the core of what Castillo is trying to show. There are, however, other themes and ideas that are embodied by the four daughters."
"Esperanza, who is the most liberated of all of the sisters, spends her college years involved with the Chicano movement and tries to better many people's lives. Despite how helpful and kind she is, she is killed covering the Gulf Crisis as a reporter for a television station. Her death is largely meaningless, and it leaves the reader without any kind of way to find redemption in the death of this character."
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"So Far From God", 2006.
This paper reviews and analyzes Ana Castillo's novel "So Far From God" as well as the author's clear message of female empowerment.
1,554 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 51.95
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From the very first pages of "So Far From God" author Ana Castillo creates a place in which the female characters can choose to triumph over the men who try to hold them back. This paper also clearly details the plot and main characters in the novel as well as the author's unique use of imagery and spirituality.
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"Esperanza also gives herself up to the patriarchy in some ways, but she ultimately prevails over it as she wanders the earth, finally becoming the messenger that she wanted to be. After receiving her Master's degree in communications and landing a job at the local television station, Esperanza passes up a promotion to a larger market to rekindle a relationship with her ex. When that doesn't work out, she goes to an even better market, Washington D.C., where her dangerous assignment in the Middle East leads to her torture and murder. But it isn't Esperanza's fate to just be dead. She returns to the family as a spirit force, offering hope and comfort to her mother as she had once done for her."
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"Peel My Love Like an Onion", 2004.
Examines issues of love and separation in Ana Castillo's novel.
1,451 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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In the novel, "Peel My Love Like an Onion" by Ana Castillo, the author addresses a number of issues related to immigration and the position of minorities in American life. In addition, she addresses issues of loss and separation from both people and other aspects of life. The paper shows that the love referred to in the title is both the love the protagonist has had for the two men in her life and also the love she once had for her chosen profession of Flamenco dancer, a love lost because of her polio and its crippling effects. The paper shows how she, in fact, becomes separated from everything she values in life, suggesting much about those in society who are cast aside for any reason and who then live desperate lives simply trying to survive.
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"There is a great difference between the working conditions Carmen experiences as a dancer and those she encounters in a series of smaller jobs she has to take later in order to survive, but there are similarities a well. There is a metaphor of servitude that runs through the novel, whether it be servitude to a demanding teacher like Agustin or to the system itself as she tries to survive in low-paid jobs in a society that places little value on people from Mexico, little value on women, and little value on those who have to do these low-paid and dead-end jobs that society may need but never really values."
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"So Far From God", 2007.
A review of Ana Castillo's novel "So Far From God".
1,013 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper examines how Ana Castillo adopts folkloric and fantastical tone in her novel "So Far From God" and makes the reader feel as if he or she is part of the community life of the novel. It discusses how the novel is told in the voice of a third-person narrator who does not directly participate in the actions and how the narrator tells the reader, like a neighborhood gossip, what will transpire over the course of the chapter, as in a folktale rather than a novel.
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"The fact that many of the characters have allegorical names, like the main protagonist's Sofi's daughters, Charity, Hope, and Faith (Caridad, Esperanza, and Fe) intensifies this sense that this is a tale of unconventional structure, like a fable with no moral, rather than a conventional novel focused on the development and evolution of a single character. Just like characters listen to tales told by wise, old women of the community like the centenarian Felicia, the reader listens to the narrator, uncertain of whether to trust her moral judgment, even when assured that the facts of the events are true. "
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The Perceptions of Two Noted Explorers on Mexico, 2002.
A comparative analysis of the perceptions of the two explorers Hernan Cortes and Bernal Diaz del Castillo on the exploration of Mexico.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper explores two perceptions of the early exploration of Mexico by the texts of two noted explorers, Hernan Cortes and Bernal Diaz del Castillo. In particular, two works are noted as being representative of the texts of that era, being Cortes' "Letters from Mexico" and del Castillo's "The True History of the Conquering of New Spain". This paper focuses primarily on these two sources, although other sources are used.
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Nursing Case Study: Code Of Ethics, 2004.
This paper analyzes the case study of the use of American Nurses' Association ANA code of ethics for a patient with cancer.
2,260 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper presents the case study of a patient with metastasized cancer. The author analyzes the situation. The paper reaches a conclusion on how the nursing staff should proceed based on the ANA code of ethics.
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"The case presented for analysis with respect to nursing practice and the American Nurses' Association Code of Ethics is that of Ms. W., a ... year-old African-American grandmother diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, who has been responding well thus far to radiation and chemotherapy treatments. However, recent tests indicate that Ms. W. has experienced a ... pound weight loss along with metastases to the bone. Her oncologist recommended immediate hospitalization for further evaluation but Ms. W. refused claiming that familial responsibilities."
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Language in Two Stories, 2002.
This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the short stories "Do Angels Wear Brassieres?" by Olive Senior and "ADJ, Inc." by Ana Lydia Vega.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper focuses its discussion on the use of language in the two works and comments on the authors' use or rejection or variation of what for recognition's sake we will call standard English. It explains that language is a powerful tool in storytelling, and these two short stories are excellent examples of the disparity of language, and what an important part it can play in the telling of a tale, especially a regional one. Language is so important; it can almost be considered another character in these two stories.
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"In "Do Angels Wear Brassieres?" the language for the children is the dialect of Jamaica, imitating the rhythmic and singsong way Jamaicans have of speaking, and the author uses this dialect almost from the first sentence in the story. "No. Not praying for nobody that tek whe mi best glassy eye marble" (Senior 1115). This way, the reader understands who the characters are immediately, and the flavor of the story is instantly set in the reader's mind. The author sets the natives and the foreigners apart by using language, and the difference is subtle but extremely important. The foreign adults are more "mature," and speak in the "proper" English language of grownups, while the children and the natives speak in the magical language of the islands. It sets them apart from each other, and additionally intimates what the natives lose of their heritage as they lose their lovely language to "proper" English. It is clear the narrator of the story is a child by the language of the narration; it is simple and lilting like the speech of the natives. Senior does not use punctuation to imitate the quick speech of the natives, and it is an interesting technique. It is difficult to read, but it captures the people perfectly. The language here is almost like another character; it is so vivid and so important to the story. If Senior had written the story in "normal" English, it would not have had nearly the impact or the charm that is has."
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