Restraint Essays

  • Restraint

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    Restraint Restraint is a major idea in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Restraint constantly influences the decisions people make. Kurtz’s lack of restraint kills him, while Marlow’s restraint saves and prevents him from becoming like Kurtz. Kurtz is a man who “[kicks] himself loose of the earth” (Conrad, 61). He does not have allegiance to anyone except to himself. Kurtz’s absence of restraint exists because he holds a lusty power in an un-civilized country. Restraint is affected by three factors;

  • Discipline and Restraint

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    Discipline and Restraint Without discipline and restraint where would this world be? Where would we be? We all have someone or something we learn from or look up to. We can be told who to like or who to admire, but does it really work like that? No, it doesn’t. We all are given the power to choose from birth. But growing up everyone has two, or in some cases one, person they learn from, their parents. Their parents teach them discipline but restraint, well that’s something they teach themself

  • Essay On Restraints

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    A restraint is any physical or chemical measure in the healthcare setting to keep a patient from being free to move (Craven, Hirnle & Jensen, 2013). Nurses are presented with dilemmas in deciding whether to use restraints to protect the patient from falls, harming themselves or others, suppress agitation and to facilitate treatment. Improper usage and misconceptions of restraining can have negative consequences including physical and psychological issues. Physical and psychological disadvantages

  • Restraint in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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    "Restraint! I would have just as soon expected restraint from a hyena prowling amongst the corpses of a battle," comments Marlow as he questions why the hungry cannibals aboard his steamer hadn't gone for the white crew members (Conrad 43). "The glimpse of the steamboat . . . filled those savages with unrestrained grief," Marlow explains after recalling the cries of the natives seeing the steamer amidst a brief fog lift (Conrad 44). "Poor fool! He had no restraint, no restraint . . .a tree swayed

  • Excessive of Self-restraint in Saint Augustine’s Confessions

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    Excessive of Self-restraint in Saint Augustine’s Confessions When it comes to renunciation, "no pain, no gain" is what I've slowly, reluctantly, inexorably come to believe. And when Pete opted for scholarly monkhood, I think he was just trying to outsmart his pain. . . . He'd calculated that by considering the physical world "illusory" and burying his nose in metaphysical texts he could go on doing something comfortable--while his ignorance and sufferings and hometown and troublesome family

  • Essay On Patient Restraints

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    Restraints are defined as, “a measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control or within limits” (Google 1). How would someone feel if he or she were restrained from natural movement or thinking? In the medical field, restraints are meant to be used to prevent harm of the patient and others with a doctor's order, yet this is not always the case. Restraints in today's time hold a negative connotation although are necessary for patient safety. In an article written by Samantha

  • What Is Patient Restraint (QSEN Competencies In Patient Restraint?

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    Patients’ Restraint: QSEN competencies in patient restraint. Physical restraint, according to Health Care Financing Administration, can be defined as any handling, physical and mechanical methods applied to a patient with the aim of denying him or her the freedom of movement or access to his or her own body (Di Lorenzo et al., 2011). It may involve use of belts or ties that restrain movement of an individual such as seclusion. Seclusion refers to isolation from others, often done in a room that’s

  • Nurse Restraint Essay

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    There are three main types of restraints used: physical, chemical, and seclusion. Physical restraint, which is the most commonly, involves the use of an intervention or device that hinders the patient from moving or restricts the individual from contact with his or her body (Bauer & Weust, 2017). A physical restraint usually involves one or more of the following: a wrist, ankle, or abdomen restraint, a sheet tucked in so tightly it restricts movement, the use of all side rails to prevent the patient

  • Restraint in Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness

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    Restraint in Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness Throughout Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness  the importance of restraint is greatly stressed.  This being the restraint to remain human and maintain sanity.  In Heart of Darkness, Marlow was able to remain his restriant despite how difficult it was for him. He was always surrounded by cannibals and constant chaos.  On the other hand, Kurtz was unable to keep his restriant, as a result he lost his humanity and sanity, and eventually

  • Restraint Clauses: Case Study

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    A) ISSUE: Is the restraint clause preventing X from setting up a competing business within the Adelaide central business district enforceable? LAW: All restraint of trade clauses are prima facie void at common law in the interest of public policy. For a restraint of clause to be valid, the party relying on the clause must be able to show that the restraint is reasonable in terms of the geographical extent of the restraint, the time period involved, the bargaining strengths and position of the parties

  • The Positive and Effective Use of Restraints for Patient Safety

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    Human Health and Function a restraint is used to stop a patient from being able to move freely, whether it be physically or assisted with medication. Types of restraints include physical, chemical, nonviolent/self-destructive, violent/self-destructive, and seclusion. Ultimately restraints are used in situations to help keep both the patient and the staff caring for that patient safe. The purpose of this paper is to recognize and explore ways to improve the use of bed restraints and further educate nurses

  • The Major Themes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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    The two major themes of Heart of Darkness are the conflict between “reality” and “darkness,” and the idea of restraint and whether or not it is necessary. Conrad’s passage describing the restraint of the hungry cannibals exemplifies both themes:  It describes how reality shapes human behavior, and contrasts the characters of Kurtz and Marlow.  “Reality,” as it is used here, is defined as “that which is civilized.” Conrad emphasizes the idea of what is real versus what is “dark,” what is civilized

  • Nihilism in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

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    develop the reader's consciousness of man's falseness in contrast to an obscure world. Any sense of restraint against the darkness that habituates in the natural world of man's uncivilized makeup is futile. Those that demonstrate restraint only emphasize existential nihilism as their actions result in meaninglessness. Through the characterization of Kurtz, the reader can witness a man who lacks restraint due to his acknowledgment of purposelessness, thus becoming a nihilistic hero. Marlow's search for

  • Social Contract

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    is to determine how freedom may be possible in civil society, and we might do well to pause briefly and understand what he means by "freedom." In the state of nature we enjoy the physical freedom of having no restraints on our behavior. By entering into the social contract, we place restraints on our behavior, which make it possible to live in a community. By giving up our physical freedom, however, we gain the civil freedom of being able to think rationally. We can put a check on our impulses and

  • Freedom in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    Freedom Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting." -Albert Camus. The dictionary defines freedom as the condition of being free from restraints. Freedom is not just a word one can say without meaning. It is a privilege, a privilege not everyone is granted. Freedom gives the liberty to choose what should is done and how. Freedom is the capacity to exercise choice and free will. In the

  • Confucius in the Analects

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    Confucius’s counsel and guidance recorded in The Analects instilled wisdom when they were first recorded and continue to provide a thought provoking analysis of life and the checkpoints that guide it. The Master’s commentary on restraint, diligence, decency, and citizenship are well intended and relevant. Politics and the role of government also come under scrutiny as Confucius offers his insights in bettering the organization of power. His proverb-like admonitions use clear examples of everyday

  • Romanticism in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    society caused by the industrial revolution:  it was an attempt to organize the chaos of the clash between the agrarian and the industrial ways of life. Romanticism was developing in a time in which all of society's rules, limits, and restraints on how each person should act where being questioned, tried, and twisted.  Wuthering Heights is a Romantic novel which uses a tale of hopeless love to describe the clash of two cultures-Neo-Classicism and Romanticism. One of the

  • Understanding Zapatista Longevity

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    leverage on the Mexican government to moderate their repression. The Zapatistas were particularly adept at using the internet to voice their demands and to protest the excesses of the Mexican government. The Mexican government also faced legal restraints which prevented an all-out war on the Zapatistas. After the uprising 1994 and the government counter-attack in 1995, the federal congress passed a law for dialogue in 1995. This foreclosed the option of a unilateral show of force by the Mexican

  • Theme Huckleberry Finn Essay

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    from society at the end, one last time, it was clear that he believed that society was too much for him. Also that they would try to make him civilized again, which he didn't want, so he goes off alone to finally be truly free of his troubles and restraints. This is also seen in the character Jim. While Jim is with Miss Watson, he is a slave. She isn't the one who made him that way, it was society. She was good to him and never did him any harm, but the fact is that no matter how good she was to him

  • A Discussion of Art and Nature in Shakespeare's The Tempest

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    defective in itself and must be corrected by nurture. Montaigne's essay, Of Cannibals, is an undisputed source of the novel which supports the former view. Montaigne believed that a society without the civilised 'additives' of law, custom and artificial restraints would be a happy one. Gonzalo's talk of his "commonwealth" mirrors this opinion in the play. Shakespeare agrees more with the latter view which is propounded by Aristotle in the following lines, "men...who are as much inferior to others as the body