The Right to be Heard: Voicing the Due Process Right to Counsel for Unaccompanied Alien Children

Every year, the Department of Homeland Security detains thousands of unaccompanied alien children who have crossed the border into the United States. The framework set out in Lassiter v. Department of Social Services and Gideon v. Wainwright for all civil litigants creates a stumbling block in recognizing a constitutional right to counsel in the immigration context, but this Article argues that unaccompanied alien children do, in fact, have a constitutional right to counsel. Unaccompanied alien children are in unique circumstances and their right to counsel is three-fold. First, immigration law and procedure are complex and an unaccompanied child can effectively pursue claims for relief before the immigration courts only with the assistance of counsel. Second, pending the outcome of immigration proceedings, a child may have the right to reunification with family members in the United States. Third, the conditions in detention facilities are often horrendous and appointed counsel would ensure that a child is not subjected to inhumane treatment while his or her case is pending. This three-fold necessity, in addition to the unique circumstances of unaccompanied alien children, gives rise to a constitutional right to counsel

Swinburne\u27s The Tale of Balen : an Edition with Critical Commentary

Warren Hill Kelly\u27s Swinburne\u27s The Tale of Balen: an Edition with Critical Commentary comprises a variorum-like edition of the poem that records all variances of the poem evident in its manuscript through its first and second editions, Chatto & Windus 1896 and 1904, or those editions produced during the poet\u27s lifetime and therefore potentially bearing evidence of his editorial input. The edition forms as its basis the poet\u27s final intention expressed in the manuscript, and notes all alterations within the manuscript and the first two published editions, and by coupling the edition\u27s text with the notations pertaining to the manuscript, readers have access to, in effect, a transcription of the poem\u27s manuscript. The edition contains also an introduction that accounts for the poem\u27s antecedents, that is, the poet\u27s life and influences as well as the history of the Balen myth, and that traces the poem\u27s critical reception since its publication into the present. The introduction contains also a brief user\u27s guide and some observations regarding Swinburne\u27s manuscript practices

Standardized Blood Transfusion Documentation

The aim of this project was to improve nurse satisfaction through the use of a standardized blood administration documentation template. The goal was to reduce the time that nurses spend charting by offering a structured documentation template and to ensure that the procedure is correctly recorded in the patient’s electronic record. The leadership theme that supported this project is Information Manager, as the clinical nurse leader (CNL) uses information systems and technology at the point of care to improve health care outcomes. The selected microsystem is a medical/surgical/telemetry unit, which has 38 beds with 38 registered nurses (RNs). When surveyed, 39% of the RNs were confident administering blood products and 48% were aware of what is necessary to document regarding blood transfusions. The change theory that was utilized for this project was Kotter’s Change Model. A blood transfusion template was developed to meet the needs of the nurses, providers and patients within the microsystem. Ultimately a delay in releasing the template resulted in pushing the project timeline back. It is expected that having a structured template will result in expedited chart searching, timely display of patient information, better coordination of care among providers, improved patient outcomes and increased nurse confidence when documenting transfusions

The Exile’s Epic Path to Healing: Authorial Intrusion in Purgatorio and Omeros

This paper explores why two seemingly dissimilar poets, Dante Alighieri and Derek Walcott, writing from different time periods and places, both utilized authorial intrusion and became secondary characters in their respective epic poems, the Purgatorio and Omeros. I propose that by inserting themselves into their stories as minor characters, they were able to address their keen sense of exile. Exile granted these poets a freedom not only in what they could write, but also in how they could write, by allowing them to merge the personal and the political. As minor characters in the larger dramas they created on the page, Dante and Walcott used their character personae to reclaim both their lost homeland and history; as secondary characters they were better able to challenge the sins and injustices of larger institutions and establishments of the time, namely the crisis of Church and State in Christendom for Dante, and colonialism and its lingering aftereffects for Walcott.

A home for friendless women with critical essay but what was she wearing?

This dissertation is a historical novel accompanied by a critical lyric essay. Through a combination of scholarly research and creative activity, the novel reimagines the lives of the women who lived as inmates and administrators in the Home for Friendless Women, a charity home that operated in Louisville in the late nineteenth century. The critical essay draws from my interdisciplinary background to combine personal experiences, archival and scholarly research, and literary analysis to connect the U.S. dress reform movement in the 1850s, and its failure to change public perception about what was acceptable attire for middle and upper class women, with the morally-laden vocabulary used after a contemporary woman is raped and she is asked, by law enforcement, by well-meaning friends and family, or by society at large: “But what were you wearing?” The novel is divided into three sections. Section 1 is set in 1878 and is narrated by Ruth, an Oberlin college student who ends up at the Home after being sexually assaulted by a male classmate. Section 2 takes place in 1889 and is narrated by Belle, a former sex worker. The final section is set in 1901 and is narrated by Minnie, one of the Home’s Board members