...My name is Yolanda Briones , I am Mexican and I’m 17 years old. If anyone would ask me how I would describe myself, I would say kind, hardworking and humble. I don’t really understand the history of our world and all the problems or differences some countries have against others. I think we are all equal, and we all have the same value. I treat everyone the same way. I don’t care in what conditions they were raised in or if they are poor or rich. I was raised by a Mexican mother, she thought me all I know, and thanks to her I’m the person I am today. We were not economically happy, we didn’t have a huge and fancy house, but she always tried her best and hardest to get my brother and me everything we needed, not the things we wanted, but the things we needed, which are the ones that are really important, she would say. She always told me “You are a little person, and maybe you can think that you are just -one more- , on this entire world, but you can be gigantic if you want to, you can make the difference everywhere you go, and please don’t look for wealthy, look for your happiness ‘’ .And that’s what I’m trying to do, I am looking for my happiness. A few years ago, I found out my happiness is helping people, in every way I can. That’s why my dream career is always been; a doctor or a teacher. Doctors save lives, and teachers help us build them. I had excellent teachers few years ago, many of them have really inspired me to be better, they have had a great effect on me, with...
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...Doctor In kindergarten, my class was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Crayons danced across sheets of paper to illustrate our dream occupations. Our drawings were hung in the hallway for our parents to see at Back to School Night. I remember looking down the line and seeing pictures of ballerinas dancing, firefighters putting out a blaze, and astronauts leaping across the moon, careers that were seen as typical dreams of five year olds. My picture showed a girl throwing a ball in the air, being a professional athlete, but as you can see my point of view of my future has changed. Now I want to be doctor because I want to cure cancer and do the impossible by helping people and not just work out and play my whole life. A question could be asked like why choose to be a doctor and not a professional athlete, well I believe a doctor can make a change, inspire people, be a leader and etc. Being a doctor you have to be able to be a directive, supportive, coaching, and delegating leader. A directive leader finds aspects to positively acknowledge and give direction, and ensures that those under their management understand what is expected of them in which a doctor must do his or her colleagues or patients. He or she must be able to coaxes ideas from those working under them, listens and encourages, and keeps the decision making process collaborative by asking open questions. They also have to be capable to find topics to praise, lead with novel ideas, explain the rationale...
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...changed my life I had walked these halls a thousand times within the last month, everytime trying to block it all out. You can not be upset in there, do not let them see… I thought while I tried to keep the shield up that guarded all my emotions. What had felt like a year, was just over a month since Jackson, my baby cousin had been admitted into the hospital. Before I walked in, breaking the threshold to his room, I took a deep breath, repeating those words which had seemed to be on replay lately, Do not let them see, keep it together… I walked in the room to see the Doctor fiddling with all the wires on Jackson’s fragile little body. I sat in one of the open chairs and watched my defenceless cousin. I wanted to do something to...
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...experience is a great way to keep a reader into what they are reading because for me I really like to connect with what I’m reading and if they use dialogue I always read it as if I was saying it and also I try to connect to what happen to them in the reading. In the reading they use dialogue in paragraph 5, 8, 10, 11 and 14. 2. Dr. Thuy vision of living “The American Dream” was to live with money and not be poor she wanted to have a bigger and better house then she did when she was growing up. Her vision isn’t really different from her parents she isn’t as hard on her children as her parents but her vision is more the same as her parents because she sent her children to become a doctors and her parents wanted her to live a better life that’s why they wanted to become a doctor. That’s why Thuy sent her children as well she wanted them to live a great life when they became older. Group Discussion 1. The authors purpose of this passage is everyone want to have money and life in a nice house and people always say “it the American dream” they want something better for them self. The tone was a strong the author wanted me as a reader to know if you want something you have to work for it because it doesn’t just get handed to you. That why they became doctors so they could make money and get a bigger house and not be poor like they were when growing up. The authors purpose doesn’t detract I feel because they are just trying to show a purpose of working hard for what you...
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...live. Day in and day out you pass her room and hear her crying out from the immense pain. The pain medications are no longer working. She’s tired of fighting, tired of hurting, and tired of waiting to die. After consideration and discussions with her family she has decided to ask the doctor to help and end her life. The doctor feels remorse for the elderly lady and wants to help but cannot decide if it is the ethical thing to do because he knows that what he’s being asked to do is considered physician-assisted suicide. How is physician-assisted suicide any different than regular suicide? Does the fact that a person is terminally ill make it right? Who gets to decide if it is right? These are questions people may ask themselves when deciding whether or not they think physician-assisted suicide is ethical. Whether it is requested or not, many would say it is unethical for a physician to deliberately cause death to a person. Physicians take an oath to first do no harm. Others may say that a person has the right to make his or her own decisions about his or her life. In this paper, I will explore each side of physician-assisted suicide and how it relates to virtue ethics, along with how I feel relativist would see the issue. Does physician-assisted suicide differ from regular suicide? Physician-assisted suicide is when a physician aides in a patients death by providing the necessary means for a patient to end their life. This is usually done in the form of prescriptions...
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...giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical bills, and it also stops the person from having a bad quality of life. INTRODUCTION Attention getter : Imagine yourself being unable to walk, unable to see, and can barely breathe let alone speak. Your life was well lived all those years before. You are now in such unbearable pain that you can’t even cry. You can no longer complete simple tasks on your own and there is no way that you could function without assistance. You think and feel as if your life has no meaning. Although your family is there to support you, you wonder could ending your life be the answer? Well in all reality this isn’t something anyone needs to imagine. This is a real situation for many, many people. These people should be able to make their own choices and have control of their own lives. Thesis What’s life without the quality of life? Now let's take a look and examine 3 reasons why Physician Assistant suicide should be legalized. PAS is about giving people the right to choose how they want to live and die, saves money in medical bills, and it also stops the person from having a bad quality of life. Transition to body of speech : BODY A. Main-point 1: Everyone has the right to choose how they want to live and die. i. Supporting details: First of all, deciding if you want to be alive or not is a personal decision. Neither the doctors nor the government has the power to decide...
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...Red Cross club members in becoming organ donors and to act upon their decision to donate. I. INTRODUCTION A. Attention Getter: What is the feeling of having to wait long for something that you really need? How do you feel when it’s something you can’t do without? Many years back, one of my best friends in primary school was diagnosed with a kidney failure. He was around seven years when the wait for a new kidney began. Two years later, he had been called thrice informing him that there was still no match for him. Fortunately for him, a young adult involved in a bad accident agreed to donate his organs after death. His kidney was the match that my friend needed. Similarly, most people would want to be able to say that they have saved a life? What other selfless way than becoming an organ donor? B. Tie to the audience: You never know whether one of the people on the waiting list would be you or somebody you know. C. Thesis statement: There is a growing need for organ donors and it is becoming a donor after death is a lifesaving decision. D. Thesis and Preview: I’d like to talk to you about the need for organ donors, how to become one after death and how it benefits both your family and the organ recipients. However, there are numerous stigmas associated with organ donation but most of them are false and as a result of lack of proper information about organ donation. Therefore I will also talk about the arguments against donations. (I’ll begin by informing you about the...
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...Euthanasia is when the terminally ill people want to end their life, this is also known as assisted suicide or mercy killing. Euthanasia is legal is some places but illegal in most, but there is much debate whether it should be or not. Euthanasia should be legal everywhere because it relieves the terminally ill people from their unbearable pain, and it is also violating their rights. Dr. Jack Kevorkian has participated in many assisted suicide with lethal injections. They were all from his patient’s request. These terminally ill people want to kill themselves but were unable to. Sadly has been sent to prison because of this. He has been in prison for eight years and has been released in June 2007. He has promised not to do another assisted suicide again. Kevorkian “I intended to do my duty, not murder.” The terminally ill people are in extremely and unbearable pain, physically and emotionally. Their wish is to be finally relieved from this awful pain. They are ill, suffering and may even end up being depressed. There is usually not any medication that can make them get better. There are medications to make them drugged out, and may feel less pain or even no pain at all, but who would ever want that? To be drugged out of your mind for you do not know how long! Also all these medications leaves side effects. It is just wrong and unacceptable. Not letting terminally ill people end their own life is violating their own rights. Not the doctors, family, friends or religion should decide...
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...KELLER - _________________________ DOCTOR - ___________________________ DIRECTOR ANAGNOS - ___________________________ ANNE SULLIVAN - ___________________________ HELEN KELLER - ________________________ SCRIPT: On June 27, 1880, a girl named Helen Adams Keller, a very well-knowned writer, was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in a white, frame cottage called “Ivy Green.” Her parents were captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller. (Helen is two years old. Mrs. Keller enters the bedroom) MRS. KELLER: Helen, wake up, sweety!. It’s a beautiful day!. (she tries to wake her up, but Helen doesn’t open her eyes. Mrs. Keller touches Helen’s forehead) MRS. KELLER: Helen, what’s wrong?. Wake up!. Oh, no you have a high temperature!. (Mr. Keller enters the bedroom) MR. KELLER: What’s wrong?. Why are you yelling?. MRS. KELLER: It’s Helen, she’s burning!. MR. KELLER: Again?. MRS. KELLER: I thought she was better, but the temperature is back. MR. KELLER: I think we have waited too long. I’ll send someone for the doctor. (Mr. Keller leaves. A few minutes later he comes back with the doctor. The doctor approaches Helen and starts to examine her. Mrs. Keller and Mr. Keller look worried) MRS. KELLER: What’s wrong with her, doctor?. DOCTOR: First tell me, how much time did you wait before calling me?. MRS. KELLER: Well, I noticed that she was sick about two or three weeks ago, but the temperature disappeared, that’s why I thought she was fine. DOCTOR: You waited too long. Have you...
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...The Fate of A Cockroach A Modern Adaptation By Ray Alcodray (Adapted from the plays “Fate Of A Cockroach” and "Not A Thing Out of Place" by Tawfik Al-Hakim) Cast of Cockroaches King Queen Minister Savant Priest Cast of Humans Adil Samia Youssef Doctor Ray Alcodray 1420 Dacosta Dearborn, MI 48128 U.S.A. 313 563 4126 info@arabtheater.org The Fate of A Cockroach - Copyright Ray Alcodray 2003 Page 1 of 49 The play opens in the Cockroach kingdom. A place behind the wall of the home of Adil and Samia somewhere in the occupied lands of the Middle East. Lights Up KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: Come along – It’s time for a day’s work. It’s not even dark yet! It will be any moment. Has the blinding light of day completely disappeared? Almost. Until it disappears completely, let me be, and don’t bother me. What laziness! What a state! I wasn’t sleeping you know. You must remember I have to make myself up. This beauty doesn’t come without a little effort. Don’t forget, I’m Queen! Heaven help all husbands. I’m the King. I’m exactly the same as you. There is a difference. And what might that difference be pray tell. My whiskers. Hah! Just as you have whiskers, so have I. Yes, but my whiskers are longer. That is a trifle of a difference. So it may seem to you. You mean to you. It’s your sick imagination that always makes it appear that there exists some difference between us. The difference is real – it can clearly be seen by anyone with eyes to see...
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...Vanessa Heber November 17, 2010 SOCI 202 (LW): Canadian Families: Past, Present, and Future Danita Kagan Research/Analytical Review Paper McDonaldization Research Paper In a world where society is so influenced by technological advancements and materialistic possessions and where most people are often inclined to decide the way the live their lives, purchase items and what values and beliefs they follow based on brands, brand characteristics and brand values. We see many North Americans follow a way of life based on brands they connect with such as those who are Nike lovers; most often turn into what the brand stands for. They have a love for athletics, they always must show high performance in more than just sports and always exert a sense of authenticity in their lifestyle, but most importantly they live their lives in a “just do it” mentality. Yet even further social institutions that affiliate around the Nike lifestyle tend to have this same sense of rationalization. However, Nike is a brand that has had a small influence on those who are the brands consumer, when compared to some larger more influential brands. Yet there is one brand, with high global reach that triumphs all brands. This brand is the largest fast-food chain worldwide and the most influential brand in North Americans particularly; this brand is of course McDonalds. In The McDonaldization Thesis: Is Expansion Inevitable written by George Ritzer, Ritzer reveals that on a global scale the brand personality...
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...A Storm Gathering A Thursday night in Sudan Malik a Doctor educated from the university of Khartoum, is laying in his charpoy, feeling disembodied, as his bodily feelings has left him. We are told some of the things that has been happening throughout the week, mostly sad things such as the army accidentally killing nomads etc. Malik is unfortunately unable to pay his staff in cash, he has run out of medicine and is therefore unable to cure the people he promised to help and so it goes on. That night a female doctor arrives without much medicine, as she is just there to inspect the work that Malik is carrying out, and to inspect the nearby villages, when what they really need is Medicine and food. Malik is looked very badly upon as his effort is not helping, and he broke his promise. The next day the female doctor drives off to inspect the villages, while she is gone, Malik receives word that the village chief is dead, and is afraid of the locals retaliation as they assume the female doctor has killed him, they are saved by a sandstorm. Malik has a good heart he really wants to help the locals, his luck is sadly just not as good as his heart, most of of the time things seem to go against him. He is educated at the university of Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, he feels humiliated by the female doctor probably because the African people isn´t used to women walking and talking as they wish, furthermore women´s rights in Islamic religion is very restricted, and therefore her...
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...The Fate of A Cockroach A Modern Adaptation By Ray Alcodray (Adapted from the plays “Fate Of A Cockroach” and "Not A Thing Out of Place" by Tawfik Al-Hakim) Cast of Cockroaches King Queen Minister Savant Priest Cast of Humans Adil Samia Youssef Doctor Ray Alcodray 1420 Dacosta Dearborn, MI 48128 U.S.A. 313 563 4126 info@arabtheater.org The Fate of A Cockroach - Copyright Ray Alcodray 2003 Page 1 of 49 The play opens in the Cockroach kingdom. A place behind the wall of the home of Adil and Samia somewhere in the occupied lands of the Middle East. Lights Up KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: KING: QUEEN: Come along – It’s time for a day’s work. It’s not even dark yet! It will be any moment. Has the blinding light of day completely disappeared? Almost. Until it disappears completely, let me be, and don’t bother me. What laziness! What a state! I wasn’t sleeping you know. You must remember I have to make myself up. This beauty doesn’t come without a little effort. Don’t forget, I’m Queen! Heaven help all husbands. I’m the King. I’m exactly the same as you. There is a difference. And what might that difference be pray tell. My whiskers. Hah! Just as you have whiskers, so have I. Yes, but my whiskers are longer. That is a trifle of a difference. So it may seem to you. You mean to you. It’s your sick imagination that always makes it appear that there exists some difference between us. The difference is real – it can clearly be seen by anyone with eyes to see...
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...of age Task #1 Task #2If there is a scent which make me remember my school year it would have to be the D100s pod. I remember going to miss Allin’s class and the scent of cinnamon would take over. The strong scent of Cinnabon covering up the atmosphere Task #3 * Not only my dream but it has been my mother’s dream that I become a doctor. Becoming a doctor is not a very easy job to acquire. But anything is possible with hard work and motivation. If I were to become a doctor today I don’t know which doctor I would want to become but that doesn’t matter to me right now. I want to go to the University of Texas Austin. It is not a easy school to get inside of but once again with hard work it is possible. The reason I want to go to UT is because not only is it a good school but it also has one of the best Medical schools in the state. If there was any other option of university I had to go over UT it would be the University of Texas San Antonio, the reason why I would like this school to be my second option is because if you don’t get accepted into UT, UTSA allows you to transfer to UT If the grades are good and not only that but the university itself will reward you with scholarship money. * Task #4The things that I think that are most important are to me are hard work and reaching to your desired destiny. This can be done by succeeding in school. I believe anyone can achieve anything and anything is possible however a lot of things will also have to go which means...
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...pain free, and find happiness. Suffering from a terminal illness, or affliction, could hamper one’s happiness in life. If the goal is to be happy, then Euthanasia would be an answer for a person. Euthanasia may even bring about happiness in that it is what the person desires and wants, in order to no longer be a burden to his/her family. Also, Euthanasia would stop the pain and not prolong the dying process. Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. Dr Kevorkian assisted in at least one hundred and thirty one suicides. The number of suicides in Michigan increased, prompting the Governor to sign an anti-suicide law that made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in prison and fined more than $2,000 (Reuters, 1993). With the passing of the law one would think that most people would be against the right-to-die, not so. In a poll cited in a 1991 issue of USA Today eighty percent of Americans think sometimes there are circumstances when a patient should be allowed to die, compared to only fifteen percent think doctors and nurses should always do everything possible to save a person's life. It also showed that eight in ten adults approve of state laws that allow medical care for the terminally ill to be removed or withheld, if that is what the patient "Wishes", whereas only thirteen percent...
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