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Kate Chopin?s "Desiree?s Baby", 2004.
Summary and analysis of Kate Chopin's short story, "Desiree's Baby".
1,723 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 55.95
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This paper begins with a summary of the plot of "Desiree's Baby" and then provides an analysis of the story's main characters and its theme. The paper describes how "Desiree's Baby" sends a message that judging another human being based on his or her skin color is completely immoral and unjustified.
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"Kate Chopin?s short story, ?Desiree?s Baby,? begins by explaining how Desiree comes to live with Monsieur and Madame Valmonde?Monsieur Valmonde finds her as a child sleeping on his property, and he and his wife decide to raise her. When Desiree grows up, Armand Aubigny falls in love with her, and despite Monsieur Valmonde?s warnings that Desiree?s origins are unknown, Armand marries her and they have a baby boy. At first, they are both extremely proud and happy, and Armand even treats his Negro slaves kindly because he is in such a joyful state of mind. However, Armand?s manner changes when the baby is three months old: he stops looking into Desiree?s eyes when he speaks to her, he treats the slaves awfully, and he seems to fall out of love with Desiree. Desiree is miserable and cannot understand why her husband has changed."
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Desiree's Baby, 2007.
This paper examines the work 'Desiree's Baby' by Kate Chopin.
1,613 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Kate Chopin's short story 'Desiree's Baby' investigates both racial otherness and gender differences. The writer points out that the plot of the story, having as its climax point the discovery of the traces of black genealogy in Desiree's baby, seems to focus on racism primarily. However, the writer discusses that looking at the story from a different angle, one can say that the gender conflict plays an even more important part in the structure of the story. The writer concludes that Chopin draws a very powerful image of the patriarchal society specific to her time, but still lingering in the present, in which only the man has the power to act in which the woman is nothing more than her social role, and this role she has to perform with a null identity so as the man might assert his own identity.
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"However, even at first glance Armand seems to prove that he can fight prejudice and cross over such social barriers as the lack of a noble name, his attitude here is actual the first sign of male possessiveness and aggressive dominance over the woman: he will give Desiree his own proud name, and in the act Desiree will become one of his valuable pieces of property."
"The fact that Armand treats Desiree as a piece of property and an accessory to his estate and to his old name is reinstated when the baby is born and he proves to be a male, and which significantly contributes to the father's masculine pride."
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"Desiree's Baby", 2007.
An analysis of the imagery in Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby".
1,071 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 37.95
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This paper examines how the light and dark imagery in Kate Chopin's story "Desiree's Baby" reinforces the social value placed on skin color in the time period and setting of the story and how, it is also a source of irony. It looks at how the mixed-race child delivered by the main character raises a question that has an unexpected answer and how the irony of the answer is caused by faulty assumptions that characters make and accept until the real truth comes to light. It shows how images of darkness and light reflect on people, physical setting and secrecy and truth.
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"The author alludes to Armand's "dark, handsome face" a number of times, but suspicion for the responsibility of the dark-skinned child still falls on Desiree's white shoulders because her parentage is unknown. When the child reaches three months old, Desiree begins to realize that the "love-light seemed to have gone out" of Armand, but she does not understand why until one hot afternoon as she watches her child sleeping on the bed. Suddenly, the realization that her baby has a similarity with the quadroon child who is fanning the baby with peacock feathers dawns on Desiree and she feels her veins turn to a paralyzing "ice." "
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"Desiree's Baby", 2002.
A look at feminism, realism and racial-dynamics in Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper looks at critical interpretations of Kate Chopin's "Creole local color" story 'Desiree's Baby.' The criticism comes from three separate schools: feminist, realist, and racial-dynamic, all of which are discussed in the paper with regard to the story.
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Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby", 2007.
This paper analyzes the short story "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin, specifically its ending.
1,425 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper explains that the core theme of Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby" is race and race relations. The author points out that the reader should be aware of the clues, sprinkled throughout this dark story, which reveal the real character of Armand and hint at the twisted ending. The paper relates that the clues in the story, from the dark, brooding house to the unhappy slaves to the stigma of a child, which appears to have black blood, are symbols of the racism rampant in the South before and after the Civil War. The paper includes many quotations.
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"Chopin creates a chilling work that seems at first to be light and loving. The truth is that Armand blames the child's origins on Desiree, who cannot cope with the loss of his love and kills herself because of it. He is little more than a murderer because he hides the truth from everyone and lets Desiree bear the shame of carrying Negro blood, when it is really Armand himself who is the culprit. The story is horrifying and especially so because the ending is so shocking."
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"Desiree's Baby", 2003.
An analysis of Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper looks at Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby" and discusses issues of gender, race and social status. It contends that Desiree is a helpless victim of a patriarchal society.
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"Kate Chopin's early short story Desiree's Baby contains the themes that inform the fiction of Chopin, a woman who lived before her time whose stories might be seen as a vindication of the rights of women and an author whose literary works were .."
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" Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin, 1990.
Reviews Kate Chopin's use of imagery and symbolism in her short story "Desiree's Baby".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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"In her short story "D?sir?e's Baby," Kate Chopin creates an image of Louisiana society and bolsters that image with her use of color imagery and symbolism. The society is sketched in lightly with references to the people, the places, and the mores of the society, and the use of color helps create this image while also foreshadowing the ending of the story. The important conflict is indicated early in the story--Monsieur Valmond? is described as "practical" and as wanting to know "the girl's obscure origin" (49-50). Armand Aubigny, on the other hand, is in love and does not care.
Contrasts between black and white, light and dark, sun and shade, are made throughout the story. Significantly, the child D?sir?e is found in the shadow of the pillar, and Armand falls in love with her 18 years later while she stands in that same..."
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The Aging Baby Boom Generation, 2005.
This paper is a literature review of peer-review journals and professional publications to explore the impact of the aging baby boomers on the future healthcare system.
8,185 words (approx. 32.7 pages), 46 sources, APA, $ 175.95
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This paper explains that the aging baby boom generation, who are characterized by prevention and wellness values resulting in longer life expectancy, will have a significant effect on the number of elderly needing long-term healthcare services. The author stresses that the Medicare system does not provide protection against catastrophic or long-term events, many drugs and prevention services, all of which will be needed by the aging baby boom generation. The paper concludes that, along with the concern for this cohort, there is the continued need for the entire population--the rich and the poor, the young and the old--to have healthcare coverage; the social system may offer the most adequate solution.
Table of Contents
The Problem
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Importance of the Study
Scope or Delimitations of the Study
Review of the Literature
Introduction
Overview
Aging Trends For Baby Boomers
Future of Healthcare Funding
Future Healthcare Costs
Future Healthcare Funding
Changing Ratios Between Current and Future Funding Contributors
Access to Services
Medicare, Current Access to Care
Changes Needed for Care Access
Healthcare's Future
New Demands For Care
Quality of Care
Baby Boomers Define Care
Current Changes and Future Possibilities in Care Quality
Baby Bloomers Are Dissatisfied
Baby Bloomers Want More
Long-term Care
More Information Availability
Alternative Therapies
Summary
Conclusion
Implication of the Study
Position of the Author
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"Baby boomers have redefined quality of care, demanding preventative measures for optimal health. This generation demands more service, more information, and more options. Since they are the largest buying population, they have changed the healthcare system and will continue to do so. Among the changes needed is improvement in long-term-care coverage. Private insurance for this coverage has increased but presents problems such as how to market a high-cost policy to those with little money. Public-private partnerships are another alternative. However, this type of assistance may end up raising Medicare costs without offering enough assistance to the public. Social insurance is also discussed. In this case the costs would be disbursed among the total population, including those 65 years and older."
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Chopin on Race and Women, 2005.
An examination of the themes of race and woman in three of Kate Chopin's short stories, "The Story of an Hour", "Desiree's Baby" and "The Storm".
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper provides a look at three of Kate Chopin's short stories "The Story of an Hour", "Desiree's Baby" and "The Storm" and how they outline and denounce the gender and racial oppression of the 1800's.
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"It is nearly universally understood that American author Kate Chopin's views on women and womanhood were at the least progressive for their time on the national political scope and at their greatest even a bit radical."
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Armand Aubigny, 2008.
An analysis of Armand Aubigny's character in the short story "Desiree's Baby" by Kate Chopin.
1,117 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses how readers know something important about Armand Aubigny's character by the third paragraph of Kate Chopin's short story "Desiree's Baby". The paper looks at how Aubigny is shown to be as cold as steel, a slave master and very racist, but also attempts to defend Aubigny's actions, claiming that he is a man from a culture where patriarchal and bigoted behavior is acceptable.
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"Rather than embrace the child and reassure one's wife, the way an average man would likely do, Aubigny leaves Desiree and child alone and retreats into his dark world. He was so racist and hateful of any color of skin not his own, he felt that Desiree had brought shame and injury upon his family name. What kind of a man would fall in love so quickly, and then brutally dominate his pretty, soft, feminine wife (taking advantage of her sweetness in order to have a son so his name can be carried on), only to push her away when the child she bore for him did not live up to his expectations? The answer is Aubigny is a man from a culture where patriarchal and bigoted behavior is acceptable. Yes, contemptible to those with grace and loving personalities, but acceptable because for many individuals, that is just how life was in the south prior to the Civil War."
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Mid-Life Crisis, The American Dream And Baby Boomers, 2002.
A paper which establishes a link between the mid-life crisis of Baby Boomers and the American Dream from a councelors point of view.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 89.95
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Each year approximately three million baby boomers turn 40. This is a time of introspection and re-evaluation of who the baby boomer is. This is the time of mid-life crisis and the American Dream. Most baby boomers went to college, got a successful job, married, had 2.5 children, and bought a house in the suburbs. Now they look at life and ask, "Is this all there is to life?" Many of these baby boomers are divorced, have quit their jobs, given up their home in the suburbs and find themselves in a mid-life crisis. It is the American Dream and the mid-life crisis that this paper will focus on. What is the mid-life crisis? Why has the American Dream failed for many? Why are the baby boomers finding themselves feeling unfulfilled in life? What does research show about mid-life crisis? Can mid-life crisis be considered an actual diagnosis for people suffering from mental anguish? What steps can the middle-age individual take to prevent the mid-crisis? How does this affect my worldview about those experiencing mid-life crisis? How does it relate to current news items on television? What are the ramifications of this research show in regards to mid-life crisis? As a counselor how will this research affect the way I might treat someone going through the mid-life crisis? How does this affect my viewpoint of my family, and perhaps my viewpoints of my family? Can I recognize how family members have suffered mid-life crisis and the effects of this in their life?
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Baby Boomers, 2005.
This paper discusses the health care problems of the Baby Boomer generation, born between 1946 and 1964, who in 2030 will be at least 65 years old.
4,955 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 21 sources, APA, $ 125.95
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This paper explains that the Baby Boomer generation creates a medical problem, especially in the Medicare system, because of its size, potential of living so long, altered traditional family structures and a large segment, almost 20 percent, at the low end of the income scale; in addition, the generation after them is small. The author points out that seniors have no alternative but Medicare, which should be restructured to more closely resemble the rest of the nation's health care system especially PPOs (Preferred Provider Organizations). The paper recommends that, if institutions focused on decreasing the cost of each medical procedure and ceasing to carry out senseless, wasteful procedures; funds would be available for senior care plus wellness education and preventive care.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Baby Boom Health Care Issues
Who are the Baby Boomers?
Dependency ratio
Baby Boomer Expectancy
The Political Realities
Health Gestapo for Retiring Baby Boomers
Medical Services Delivery Problems
Recommendations
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"There are several diametrically opposed factors involved in the future of health care for Baby Boomers, not least of which is the fact that the senior-oriented health care delivery systems were "geared for a time when people died early." In addition, Baby Boomers constituted the largest generation ever, to be subsidized-as have all generations been-by the ones behind them; the ones behind them are very small. They are expected to live longer than previous generations, partially because of the advances in medicine; however, there are already signs that the problem with the advances in medicine lies in the ability to find enough qualified people to run the machinery of medicine, the CAT scanners and whatever other advances appear. These two dichotomies would be problematical enough without the other troublesome possibility on the horizon, that of having to decided upon a practical and ethical way to deliver health care when there are not enough personnel to go around, nor enough funds to pay for equal treatment options for everyone."
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Aging Baby Boomers, 2004.
Proposal for a project that would address several of the issues associated with the aging baby boomer population in America.
1,936 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper is a research proposal for a project that will attempt to determine the relative importance of the aging of the baby boomer generation. The paper explains the three main issues concerning the aging baby boomer population that the project will address. These issues to be studied are the perceived cost of lost labor by the actual retirement of the baby boomers, what steps people entering the labor force today are taking to address this, the perceived national financial projections for overall benefit procurement for baby boomers according to their children, and perceived projected costs to individual families for care and assistance of those people retiring, today and over the next twenty to thirty years.
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"The generation in America known as the baby boomers, born after WWII between roughly the years 1946 and 1964, is a significant part of the population today. Those individuals are aging, just as we all are and will within the next twenty plus years become a population of people in need of those services associated with aging. "In 2011, the oldest boomers will turn 65, retirement age. And for at least 20 years after that, we'll hear more than we want to hear abut their Medicare coverage and retirement finances. " (Williamson) Services that mainly consist of medical care and retirement benefits are costly and the generation of workers who are in their working prime today and who will be in the foreseeable future is a significantly smaller proportionate demographic than the baby boomers."
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Shaken Baby Syndrome, 2006.
This paper discusses infant health, specifically shaken baby syndrome.
1,001 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses shaken baby syndrome (SBS) including what type of person would cause it and what mental issues they might have. It also looks at the possible consequences to the baby and what people can do to prevent this syndrome. The paper explains that shaken baby syndrome is a serious form of child abuse and a growing problem in America today. The paper highlights how understanding some of the characteristics of the abuser can help social workers and healthcare professionals to identify potential abusers. The paper concludes that professionals and families working together can recognize and prevent shaken baby syndrome and thereby save the lives of innocent and defenseless children.
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"The syndrome is extremely dangerous because the size of the attacker greatly outweighs the size of the victim, which means they can inflict serious damage very quickly, and that medical personnel can overlook it if they are not careful. One author gives a graphic illustration of the danger of this abuse. He writes, "To give you some sense of proportion about how violent this shaking is, research now shows that a child falling from a third-story window has about a 1 percent chance of dying while in SBS there is a 25 percent risk of death (Parker, 2004). However, many experts see the syndrome as mostly an accident by parents or caregivers, who do not have a sense of how hard they are really shaking the child, and/or do not understand how much harm they can do."
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The Nestle Baby Formula Controversy, 2004.
Discusses the controversy surrounding Nestle's marketing of baby formula to Third World countries.
936 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper explores the initial controversy caused by Nestle Company and other multinational companies' marketing of baby formula to impoverished nations. The paper looks at the pamphlet, "The Baby Killer", which raised public awareness about the problem of how the baby formula was being marketed and the resulting infant deaths and looks at Nestle's response to the pamphlet. The paper also examines the consequences of the pamphlet in terms of how private voluntary organizations and international agencies have subsequently been able to influence the way companies do business in Third World nations, as well as the continuing controversy concerning predatory marketing in Third World countries.
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"The story of the Nestle Baby Formula Controversy begins almost three decades ago with the publication of a pamphlet called ?The Baby Killer? in 1974 by Mike Muller and War on Want, a London-based activist group concerned with problems of the Third World (Akhter 1994). The pamphlet claimed that Third World babies were dying because their mothers were feeding them infant formula that was being marketed by multinationals such a Nestle of Switzerland and United Kingdom?s Cow and Gate (Akhter 1994). The aftermath of the publication led to an international crisis for Nestle."
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