Essays on Dorothea

The chosen theorist is Dorothea Orem, who was born in 1914 and died in 2007. She started her career after earning a diploma at Providence Hospital in Washington DC. In the start of her career, she worked as a nurse staff and then she became a nurse educator as well as administrator and nurse consultant. Also, with the help of her experiences, degree of doctorate level, she successfully introduced her general theory of nursing related to self-care, self-care deficit, and nursing system. However, the main focus of Orem was on self-care theory. Orem has defined four meta-paradigm concepts in ...

The Concept Analysis

The Concept Analysis In our daily lives, it is expected for us to look over and take care of ourselves. However, there are limitations, which hinder us from doing and performing such activities. That is why; we need other people to continue activities we cannot do. For instance, when we are experiencing pain or any disease, we go to healthcare institutions so that healthcare professionals can attend to our needs. These individuals, especially nurses, are required to provide healthcare needs to patients. Thus, nursing models and theories are established for the purpose of advancing the discipline and addressing issues ...

2. Dorothea was born in Maryland in 1914 and she graduated from Providence Hospital School of Nursing with a Diploma in Nursing in 1934. She later received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing Education and a Master of Science degree in Nursing Education in 1939 and 1945 respectively (The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing Faculty & Students, 2016). She had a background in different clinical practices including private-duty, OR, adult medical-surgical, pediatrics, and ER supervisor. She also taught biological sciences and was a director in a nursing school. In 1949, she worked with the Indiana State ...

Analysis of Sphinx

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030–1650 B.C.) was a period of significant transformation in ancient Egypt. It was during this period that older cultural principles and artistic conventions revived. The changes that characterize the Middle Kingdom 1 can be seen in its architecture, culture, jewelry, literature, paintings and reliefs. The focus of the essay is to analyze the “Sphinx of King Senwosret” from Thebes, Karnak temple in Dynasty 12 and describe the artwork visually. It looks behind the political or symbolic meaning and why the Sphinx a really important symbol.

Sphinx of King Senwosret III

Sphinx of King Senwosret dates back to 1878–1840 ...

It is a photo of Florence Owens Thompson and her children taken by one Dorothea Lange of the Farm Security Administration documentary. The migrant mother photograph as has become popularly known has been a perfect representation of the untold suffering of the average working American class that lived in the period of The Great Depression. The photo artist brings viewers of the photograph to the personal space of the subject of the picture Florence Thompson and her children. This enables the photo artist to highlight an issue of great concern in the society and one that needs immediate action. ...

Psychology

In a study published in the Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, researchers worked on the importance of the prior knowledge before facing the present situations or conditions (Bransford, and Marcia K Johnson 717). Research shows that subjects usually develop semantic thoughts joining the present information and prior knowledge. Therefore, researchers studied the role of prior knowledge and its importance in comprehending the present information. They were trying to show that prior knowledge is not only involved in comprehension but is also necessary for the meaningful information. They also studied the effect of prior knowledge on subjects by ...

Abstract

The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established to address chronic rural poverty during the Great Depression in the US. A string of known and unknown artists was hired by the organization to capture the images of poverty and lives of rural farmers, with the hope of garnering support for them. The essay describes FSA briefly and then goes on to select a social documentary photograph from an FSA photographer. It evaluates the photograph and how successful it is in expressing the hardships faced by countless rural farmers and migrants during the 1930s. The essay discusses the selected photographer Dorothea ...

A. Background

The theory of Self-care Deficit was developed by Dorothea Orem. This theory states that a self-care deficit occurs when the patient or the guardians of dependents are unable to meet the requisites for self-care (Edney, Jaime & Young, n.d.). When this happens, nursing help is needed. More specifically, nursing care is used to help people enhance their self-care abilities, which they would need for survival and for maintaining their well-being and their quality of life.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1914, Orem completed her diploma program from the Providence High School of Nursing and later received her bachelor’s and ...

1. Components of Metaparadigm

There are a number of factors that influenced the nursing theorists when it came to the definition and description of the metaparadigm components. In order to understand these factors, it is important to start by understanding and identifying these metaparadigm components. To start with, it is important to have a complete overview and understanding of the person (who is in this case the client for example a patient). Understanding the person societal, psychological, physical as well as physiological variables that might affect him is therefore important (George, 2011). Secondly, the environment in which the person lives both internally and externally is also ...

A picture paints a thousand words. It speaks audible words that penetrate the hearts of those on lookers scrutinizing them. It speaks louder than expected. Pictures are frequently found on advertisements, billboards, magazines, internet, television, and other media. They are intended to convey an idea in the most brief, concise and effective way. A picture is worth more than a thousand words. It screeches diverse messages depending on how one views them. It squeals in the most simple and subtle manner where the echoes are carried by those who has seen them even for a long time. It is an effortless medium ...

The portrayal of Feminism in 16th Century Literature

The literature of a particular era is influenced by the contemporary social political, social and cultural issues. Sixteen century lifestyle and way of living was completely different from the way we are leading a life in 21st century. The political, social and cultural transitions took place during the era. The repercussions of these states of affairs were felt in literature. One of the social issues in Sixteen century was the traditional role of women. Many contemporary writers portrayed ideal women in their literature. The portrayal was based on the established protocols of the ideal women. The character does not fit in ...

“Artists are men who wish to become inhuman. They seek painfully the traces of inhumanity, traces which are never found in nature. These are real truths and beyond them we know no reality.” 1 Art such as paintings and sculptures are man’s way of expressing their thoughts. In the eyes of an artist, they can see the suffering behind the beauty, and this reason allows them to create beautiful artworks. Artists desire to fully express themselves using only their canvass and their brush; hence, they will attempt to construct their masterpiece in the most creative way in ...

Migrant Mother; Dorothea Lange, 1936 is a unique visual project mainly aimed at diagnosing the American economic ills of that time and its future prospects. Psychologists believe Lange’s ability to place a photograph in its context has managed to create the sharpness of its critical edge more apparent. The photograph managed to challenge the entire agricultural, political economy. The photographs have also wakened up some scholars and politicians to understand the detrimental effects of the racism (Paine 1). Among the documentary photographs, Migrant Mother; Dorothea Lange, 1936 was an exemplary in both prevailing styles and meanings of the world. Her ...

Modern trends in photography are the logical development of ideas and aspirations that we see in the works of artists of the IX – XX centuries. Thus we can clearly see the similarity in the closely cropped low-key lighting portraits, that are so popular today and the ones, created almost century and a half ago by Julia Margaret Cameron. The way she used to shoot expressive portraits of celebrities, not widely appreciated in her own day, became widespread among world-class photographers nowadays. Adam Clark Vroman with his landscape, cloudscape and architectural views, had a great impact on ethnographic/documentary photography. He ...

Purpose

The purpose of the collection by Dorothea Lange was to depict the life in the early days of camp, a period when barracks were under construction, classrooms were not arranged orderly and the internees led a very uncertain life. The aim of the curator was to catch the semi-tragic life that her subjects led.

Question at Issue

Is the depiction of the life that the women lead as seen in the collection an accurate representation of the state of affairs in the barracks? This question is important because Dorothea Lange was a photographer with zeal, and her work in this collection captured the semi-tragic life ...

Artist biography MAX ERNST (1891-1976)

Max Ernst is a German painter, sculptor and poet. He's one of the brightest figures of Surrealism. The artist was born in 2 April 1891 in Brühl, Germany. He was a second child in a catholic family of Philipp and Luise Ernst (Fiedorek). In 1908, Max Ernst graduated from the lyceum in his native town, and in 1909 he started studying philosophy in the University of Bonn. During his studies at university, Ernst thoroughly studied psychology and showed a great interest to the art of mentally ill people. Soon young Ernst left the university and fully devoted himself to art. A ...

Dorothea Lange was already famous as a photographer of the Great Depression with her stark and harrowing images creating what can only be termed as a sensation. Her stark and no hold barred imagery of the sheer poverty and destitution found in the Depression rankled people’s hearts and created a sense of outrage. Lange was commissioned by the War Department to take photographs of the Japanese internment that took place just after Pearl Harbour. Although she was working for the War Relocation Authority, Lange was definitely not prepared for the sheer scale of civil rights abuses that were caused by ...

The novel “Tale of the city” dissects the society behaviors that have evolved in San Francisco in the early years of 1970s. Culture had changed to the worse. Life of sex and drugs ruled the city of Francisco leading to contention between the limits of sexual freedom and emotional freedom. The life in San Francisco could be traced after the World War II when the US military discharged approximately 9000 gay servicemen who sought refuge in San Francisco. Moreover, a wave of lesbians also emerged due to the warm hearted welcome that San Francisco accorded towards gay and lesbians. ...

FDR – Advocate of the American People

In his seminal essay, David M Kennedy speaks about Franklin Roosevelt’s politician’s sensibility which he brought to the White House. According to his press secretary Theodore Joslin, Roosevelt had an incredible memory especially of localized politics and the officials who populated several far flung counties across the whole United States. Kennedy also compared Roosevelt with Hoover with the latter having a mathematician’s taste for things while Roosevelt was much more the consummate politician in every way. Kennedy’s essay focuses on several important elements which revealed Roosevelt’s unique personality especially the Cermak incident where the ...

A road trip can be defined as any journey by road, regardless of destination or stops en route. Characteristically, road trips in the contemporary society relates to long distances by automobile. Road tripping is typically about dreams; it encompasses dreaming on landscapes and cities and looking forward to exploring them. Road tripping and also entail hardships, paddling down rivers, slogging though thick canopies, confronting suspicious people, testing ones adaptability, exploring hostile places and anticipating for some kind of revelation. Both John Steinbeck and Dorothea Lange engaged in documenting what they saw on their road trip, one through books and ...

The Great Depression, HIS 204

Iconic Image of Great Depression Poverty and Despair: Migrant Mother, by Dorothea Lange The Great Depression as Era of Radical Activism and Political: The Successful Conclusion of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike at General Motors ABSTRACT Thus essay will describe the causes and consequences of the Great Depression of 1929-41, which was the worst economic upheaval in U.S. history. It will discuss the various theories about the causes of the Depression, such as Keynesian under-consumption or the monetarist view that the Federal Reserve Board failed in its duties. Then it will continue to describe the results of ...

Western Governors University

Abstract The paper talks about some of the issues faced in nursing. There are certain qualities all good nurses should have if they are to execute their duties well. These include empathy, leadership qualities, emotional stability, and good communication skills among others. These are some of the things which differentiate good nurses from bad ones. The paper also covers different nursing theories. Some of the nursing theories covered include the self-care deficit nursing theory by Dorothea Orem. According to this theory, patients respond best to treatment if they are allowed to take care of themselves. This leads ...

Introduction

A person that would understand the importance of valid and efficient assessments of early reading proficiency are the primary school teachers and principals. Efficient assessments demonstrate which of the children are failing in crucial reading skills so that the teachers can help students make better improvement in learning how to read. Valid and dependable tests do also help. Reliable and legitimate tests also help observe the efficiency and effectiveness s of instructions for all the children; without the need of consistently evaluating the children’s improvement in learning how to read, we would not be able to know which ...

1. How Dorothea Orem theory led to nursing actions that have made important differences to patients. The Dorothea Orem Theory is a general theory on nursing which focused on three concepts, namely, the theory of self care, the theory of self care deficit and the theory of nursing system. Patients benefitted from the Orem’s general theory of nursing because it paved the way for changes in the nursing actions. In Orem’s theory of self-care, Orem espoused the idea that an individual can initiate and perform activities that will benefit his health and well-being. With this theory, patients ...

Introduction

Dorothea Lange started her career in San Francisco as a freelance photographer and her notable project encompasses social landscape and the changes that occur within it. It was until the great depression in the United States in 1934 that she began to focus more on documenting peoples lives, poverty and other socio-economic related subjects (Bartomea and Petrosky 287). Paul S. Taylor on the other hand was a professor and economist at the University of California in Berkeley. His works are also associated to addressing the social problems created by the great depression (Bartomea and Petrosky 287). Lange and Taylor’s accomplishments ...

Selection of a core concept

Comparative analysis discussion Concept Statement Metaparadigms Philosophies Conceptual model

Choosing one theory and discuss where and how it may be best applied to nursing practice.

Concept comparison and analysis across theories embraces the assumption that concepts are the building blocks of theories since they highlight the conception of how scientists view a particular phenomenon. In the same way perceptions vary, definitely concept definitions and interpretations are diverse across disciplines and cultures. As such, in the following pages of this document the writer will explore these differences to detect the significance of their theoretical framework.

Nursing: Concept comparison and analysis across theories research paper

Introduction ...