...Should Abortion be legal? Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and about four in ten of these are terminated by abortion. In 1973 Roe V. Wade decision, the supreme Court ruled that women, in consultation with their physician, have a constitutionally protected right to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy. Abortion is a very serious and dangerous thing to decide 50% of women who have had abortions report experiencing emotion and psychological problems lasting for months or years. Only 12% women reported having a physical problem with their health among having an abortion like an infection called hemorrhage and uterine perforation. My personal experience having an abortion is when my mom had one in 2000. She said that she was not ready to raise other child at this moment in her life, because she just moved to North Carolina and was looking for a job. She felt no guilt about what she has done she thought it was the right thing to do at this point in her life. Most people would argue that abortion is not only wrong, but it is murder to an innocent child with no fault of its own. The first reason that abortion should be illegal because it is murder! For example, the fetus is a distinct individual therefore its DNA is completely its own while the baby is in the womb the baby will show definite signs of emotion. I think that when a human egg and a human sperm meet, the resulting individual is simply human. The number of American babies killed...
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...“An individual’s identity is shaped by the way they perceive their connection with others and the world around them.”. This concept is shown in both my prescribed texts, “She Ain’t Going Nowhere”, by Guy Clark, and “Ode to Autumn”, by John Keats, and in my related text, a strip from the webcomic “Garfield Minus Garfield”, by Dan Walsh. Belonging is defined by Merriam Webster as “to be attached or bound by birth, allegiance, or dependency”, and this definition emphasises the idea that we are moulded by our connections with others- that is, how we belong to the world, and to other people. My first prescribed text, She Ain’t Going Nowhere, is a song about a woman, and her lack of belonging to a specific town or location, but rather to the idea of travel, and the road. Clark talks not of where the vagabond is going, but rather...
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... or stopped the family prior to entering the room. I questioned this ethically because our job as nurses is to take care of the patient and the family. We failed this patient’s family by allowing the family to be seen in such a way that is unforgettable. I can only imagine the pain and hurt this young woman felt when walking into a room that had...
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...This chapter speaks about gender in so many different ways including gender switching, gender inequality and homosexuality to name a few. The question we are being asked is very specific in that it is asking why wives still take their husbands names even though the tradition began as a way to show that they are the property of the man they share a name with (father or husband). Something that will help me explain this is the term hegemonic masculinity, which is defined as "the condition in which men are dominant and privileged, and the dominance and privilege is invisible (Conley 287). This means that hegemonic masculinity is so strong that it goes unnoticed by those who are being dominated. It is also a gender norm that the woman changes...
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...complain.” This selfless act goes unnoticed. Sacrificing a life goes unnoticed. Soldiers are heroes. The Doctor- A doctor is a qualified practitioner of medicine; a physician. Doctors spend an average of 8 years in school after high school, training to save innocent lives everyday. Chris Trokey, a 3.2 pound infant at the time with a 50/50 chance of surviving, managed to get his life saved by Dr. Shannon. Dr. Shannon stayed with the infant at all hours, sacrificing his own time and well being. 30 years later, Dr. Shannon took part in a vigorous car wreck. Chris Trokey had grown up to endure a career as a paramedic- a paramedic who saved Dr. Shannon’s life. Chris did not save his life for the recognition or the popularity. Dr. Shannon and Chris Trokey reversibly saved each other’s life, remaining a hero to one another. Doctors are heroes. The Firefighter A firefighter is a person whose job is to extinguish fires. Firefighters voluntarily enter buildings and places that burn to ashes. They do not do this because they have the urge to play in fire that day; they do this for the sake of others. Timothy Stackpole, a dedicated firefighter, saved a woman from the burning Brooklin rowhouse without hesitation of jumping into the flames. Stackpole announced “The greatest high you can get in life is by helping somebody,” which persists as something he takes much pride in. Stackpole risked his entire life, not getting to see his family again. After saving this woman, Stackpole rushed to the hospital...
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...anemia. The first one is decreased intake of iron in your diet. This mostly affects infants less than six months old because their diet consists of mostly breast milk and breast milk is a poor source of iron. For adults we can increase our diet with foods that are rich in iron like red meat, pork, seafood, beans, dark leafy vegetables to name a few. We should also take a vitamin C supplement or eat more foods rich in vitamin C such as broccoli, grapefruit, kiwi, oranges, and strawberries. These foods can aid in the absorption of iron. The second cause is increase demand that the body has for iron when a child or adolescent is going through a rapid growth there is an expansion of blood volume. Another example of this would be when a woman is pregnant and the body has an increase blood volume for the growth of the fetus. The third cause is absorption nutrients are absorbed in the duodenum but before they can get there they must first be converted into a form that’s easier for the absorption, this occurs in the stomach. If there is decrease stomach acid this converse cannot happen. This decreased in stomach acid can occur...
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...cervical mucus every day for the first part of your cycle until you are sure you have ovulated. Calendar Method — You will chart your cycles on a calendar. The best way is to combine all these methods. When they are combined they are called the symptothermal method 2. 'Birth control' is any thing that stop a woman or girl from becoming pregnant, or giving birth. Birth control can mean a wide range of things – from 'contraceptives' (used to reduce the chances of a woman becoming pregnant) to other ways of avoiding pregnancy, like not having sex. Contraceptives work by preventing a man’s sperm from fertilizing a woman’s egg, and can be done in several different ways. Students typically have a problem in distinguishing the difference between these two. Describe at least two methods of each and then explain why these are so easily confused. Two main types of contraception: Depo Provera which causes the woman to not have a cycle for three months and block the sperm from getting to the egg and another method is the birth control patch which is changed weekly. . Other types of contraception’s are surgical procedures like the man having a vasectomy or the woman having her tubes tied. The difference between these methods are the contraceptives that have to remember to be injected or attached to the skin can make you become pregnant if you forget but the surgical procedures are suppose to last a lifetime. 3. Between 2001 and 2007 the rate of incidence of Chlamydia occurrence...
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...to make her philandering husband understand how furious colonists were over the new stamp tax”. Ben Franklin stayed in England long after the Stamp Act was repealed. He had started another life in England with a new family and left Deborah to take care of everything in America Abigail Adams was another strong influential woman in the Revolutionary War era. Abigail was head of her household and managed the farm, as John was away for 10 years in political affairs. Throughout John Adams career, he often asked Abigail for advice. In letters written back and forth between the couple John asked Abigail for counsel on what to write in The Declaration of Independence, in which she responded ""Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar [sic] care and attention is not paid to the Ladies [sic] we are determined to foment a Rebelion, [sic] and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation." ("National First Ladies' Library", n.d.). One woman who I was not aware of prior to watching this video was...
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...father who was a doctor she eventually embarked as a health worker. Throughout her journey Irena Sendler becomes appalled by the many conditions occurring in her surroundings. Irena decides to join a council for aid to the jews.She comes to the conclusion that while aiding she’ll save the lives of children taking in consideration that she'd be putting her own life at risk . Many years exceed and her plan goes unnoticed, all secrets come out at one point and when Irenas secret was revealed she was arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to death. Until the end still no one managed to break her spirit and at last minute she's saved by the Zegota members. Irena Sendler is truly...
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...and race. Race is not unnoticed in my group as I am part of an inter-racial couple, my wife being black and myself white. We talk about race issues daily, and it is an open dialog with friends and family. The topic of crime is also talked about since we both are in Criminal justice programs but in two different colleges. The feeling that crime is mostly same race has to do opportunity, as we all agree. We as humans live in our comfort zones, with familiarity. Violent crimes tend to be done to people we personally know. This would convey the issue of same race. It is universal on the thought that violent acts are done within a community and familiarity in that community. This is also believed to be why crime is steady in the same race. Hispanics and blacks have harder times getting jobs, and thus cause friction. The feeling of neglect and loathsome can cause a desperate need and thinking. The fact that the lower class can’t afford lawyers and often use the public defenders mean they accept the fact they will not get out free or easily. We as a human look onto our own race as a safety, for example, a black woman would not worry as much seeing a black male coming into a store. She wouldn’t think twice about talking with him or associating with him, and this goes with each race, a comfort zone. We don’t fear our own race as much as another race. When a crime is done and it is two different races, it causes fear of that race. A white guy kills a black woman, then black women will...
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...statement. Depending upon your religious beliefs or group, this may not be an offensive action towards your god. American Baptist Churches, American Jewish Congress, the Presbyterian Church and Unite Methodist Church all believe that abortion at times is acceptable. Isaiah 55:7 - Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. The Unnoticed War (TFP, 2010) Peace abroad is meaningless without peace at home. (TFP, 2010). The author believes that we as a country are doing our best to protect our own. This scourge is as horrible as anything terrorists can fathom, because it strikes at the very core of humanity and our country: the family. By destroying the most basic human bond of all—that between mother and child—abortion dissolves the precious glue that binds our nation together. (TFP, 2010). There are thousands of organizations that are standing up for and against abortions. To say that this topic goes unnoticed in our country is clearly incorrect, as we would not be reading this article if that were true. The author would not have to “fight” so much to be heard. Life starts at the moment of Conception (TFP, 2010). The author states that life starts at the moment of conception, some may argue that life starts at first heartbeat which would be 18...
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...Crusade I think the authors did a decent job in this article The Women’s Crusade. The article seems to mainly deal with the oppression of women’s rights and struggles across the globe. It also speaks of disturbing trends in many societies that are sometimes as a whole tend to go unnoticed in certain countries. Even though I am a woman myself, women’s rights has never really been something that excited me or even really grabbed my attention. This is probably because it is the 21st century and the country I live in being the USA. Where being a women here doesn’t matter as much as say a third world country, although this has not always been the case. The thing that I really like about this article is that the authors used stories to get the point across. In doing so they showed how much women’s rights are repressed. The article uses the story of Saima Muhammad’s life as great support for the article. Telling of how she was routinely beat by her husband until she started a successful embroidery business. You can plainly tell that suppression has been going on for a while in this country. Especially when anything Saima’s mother-in-law said was shown. One example Sharifa stated that “A woman should know her limits, and if not, then it’s her husband’s right to beat her”. This really just does to show how ignorant a society can really be. In just reading that I think this may have been something that was learned through harsh means, through either getting beatings herself...
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...female dancers and choreographers expressed feminist ideals in their dances. “[Loie Fuller] embodied the fin-de-siècle images of woman as flower, woman as bird, woman as fire, woman as nature” (Wesleyan University & the Wesleyan University Press). Fuller was creating her dance during a time where the grounds for using electrical lighting were fertile; she planted her seeds here. “With colored beams projected from below and around her body, she manipulated huge swaths of silk to create swirling designs” (Bennahum, 73). She utilized both this lighting and costume in order...
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...underlying idea, shaped in a unique way that is brought to life through various elements to make the underlying idea concrete. The two key elements utilized in this story were setting and symbolism. Each played a significant role to capture the theme of this narrative. The story begins in a country setting; a woman is standing at the edge of a flowing river. It was a clear and sunny day and the sky was blue. As I read the opening paragraphs, I had a sense that the environment described felt to be peaceful and serene, as one might feel when they transcend into the afterlife. I believe this to be the author’s first hint at the theme, and set the mood for the entire story. The setting is an important element in story telling; as Annenberg Learner (2013), explains, the [setting] “is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of What happened? Who’s there? Who’s coming?” (par.1). In essence, the setting described in this story helps the reader ultimately piece together the underlying idea of what the author is trying to portray. As the story unfolds, we begin to understand the protagonist is on a solitary journey. Initially, the journey feels as if the woman is visiting a place...
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...“Larkin rarely presents women in a positive light” In the light of this statement, compare the ways in which Larkin writes about women in his poems. In many of Larkin’s poems, his presentation of women is often in a negative light. However, In Wild Oats, Broadcast and Talking in Bed it can be interpreted that Larkin portrays women in both a positive and negative light. For example in Wild Oats, Larkin seems to visually prefer the ‘bosomy rose’, however he goes out with the ‘friend in specs’, in Broadcast he describes his love for the woman compared with his love of music, and in Sunny Prestatyn he compares the vandalism of the poster girl with rape. In Wild Oats it can be interpreted that Larkin does present women in a positive light, as he describes the woman as a ‘bosomy English rose’. Here, Larkin uses a ‘rose’ to symbolise the woman, suggesting that Larkin finds her exceedingly beautiful and attractive; portraying women in a positive light as he appreciates and recognises their beauty. However, a contrast is established between the derogatory choice of word ‘bosomy’ and ‘rose’, which implies Larkin has a sexualised view of women, and that he sees them as sexual objects, therefore negatively portraying women. Also, Larkin describes ‘the friend in specs’ as being someone he could talk to. This is a negative portrayal of women as it suggests that she is inferior to the ‘bosomy rose’, and it also suggests Larkin is misogynist as he’s only talking to the ‘friend in specs’...
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