G.M. Shepherds illustration of Bill Cummings’ behaviour portrays to the reader how sport is taken too seriously in Australia. Shepherd exhibits through Bill’s “rabid” and obsessive behaviour over his son’s sporting career, how the attitudes of sport obsessed Australians can integrate sport into their identity as well as in their culture; through this Shepherd also implies that those that do not participate in sport are excluded. Shepherd suggests how it is essential for boys to succeed in sport for their parents to be proud of them, resulting in a disregard and shunning of other extracurricular activities. Ultimately, Shepherd emphasises on encouraging other opportunities so that “whether Nick Cummings wanted to be…an avant-garde playwright…
For most people money is something that they spend their whole lives trying to get. Why? Because it is an object that is constantly needed to stay afloat in this world. Such a high value is placed on it. If someone has a lot of money they are great and successful but if they do not they are placed at the opposite side of the spectrum.…
My responsibility for this workshop was to proceed with a handover of a patient to an intern (played by Dr. Michael Adamson). This was a particularly disasterous session. My performance was not only unfit within the scope of academic criteria, but was clearly short of acceptable for a real-world SBAR. During the reading of the scenario I was daunted by the task of having to SBAR report a patient to admission at a hostpital, based on information I was reading for the first time; my practice with the hand-over system was minimal prior to the session.…
It was my first day of training. UCSD Medical Center (or whatever the name is). First stop: Emergency Room. As I walked inside I saw doctors and nurses bustling about. To my left a resident was stitching up a bicyclist who had been in an accident.…
William Merrit Chase was an artist in the 1800-1900’s. Summering in Shinnecock Hills near Southampton, NY, he lead an art school, where he created beautiful paintings of both the landscapes and the society. His painting Young Women with Red Flowers, an oil canvas created in 1904, was located in the Gesture and Pose section of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. Next to this, the painting titled Portrait of Mary St. John Hutchinson by Vanessa Bell is displayed. Vanessa Bell was a painter and member of the Bloomsbury Group.…
The article “Goldman Sachs Is Now Using Spotify To Recruit Millennials” by Portia Crowe, appears in the Business Insider magazine. Goldman Sachs Group, one of Wall Street’s largest investment banks, is running recruiting ads on Spotify as part of a unique effort to reach young potential employees. The campaign will run in both the US and the UK and link back to the firm's career quiz. The quiz will job candidates explore divisions within the company that are suited for them. The ad on Spotify asks questions to listeners about wanting an opportunity to have a positive impact on society.…
My reflection focuses on the role I took as an ODP student at the pre-operative checks on admission unit, anaesthetic and surgery in the general theatre. For purposes of completing this assignment, I will refer to the patient that journeyed to the theatre for lobectomy thorascospic (a surgical procedureto remove one of the lobes of the lungs to check for any disease) operations as Mrs. A for the purpose of confidentiality. The reflection is presented based on Gibb 's Reflective Cycle (Gibbs, 1988). The reflective cycle comprises of five stages and these include the description, the feelings, the evaluation, conclusions, and the action.…
My gut sank to an unbearable low as I watched my thirty-two-year-old mother require support to limp just five steps to the restroom; cancer stripped her of life. At twelve-years-old, I felt distraught in my inability to save her and return the endless love that my Haitian parents poured into my nurturing. However, the hope the physicians brought us has inspired me to become a doctor so that I, too, can serve as an envoy of hope to sufferers of illness. My father is a physician I strive to be like. Every patient always has a smile on their face after seeing him because he does not only treat diseases: he treats people.…
The beginning of the Unit 2 seminar discusses the first week and the inability to actively participate I seminar due to the lack of sound and a personal introduction. Professor Rollins showed slides about late work and classroom policies along with prompts to contact her with questions. The first unit’s discussion was regarding scientific thinking and the steps of the research method. Defining questions, conducting research, and pre-reading to insure that the same question is not asked over and over and over again.…
After I had graduated from high school, I decided to attend Milan Institute because I wanted to work in a medical environment. I knew that Milan's Medical Assisting career training would give me the opportunity to do that. I would highly recommend this school to anyone who's looking for a good start in a new career. While in the Medical Assisting program, I did have trouble keeping up with all of the homework and following through on assignments. I thank my instructor for helping me with this and keeping me on track so that I could complete the program on time.…
In recognition of the outrageous number of mass shootings that have taken place in the past ten years, Robert Dow writes his take on how to prevent these shootings in an essay titled, “We Stop the Next Aurora Not with Gun Control but with Better Mental Health Treatment.” He discusses how to prevent future mass shootings, the other arguments presented with this topic, and how capital punishment is useless in these cases. Dow takes a unique approach on this subject of mass shootings and he successfully argues his point by using concrete examples, by using simple and easy to understand diction, and by adequately explaining the other sides of the argument. Dow’s main point in his essay is that mass shootings can be prevented with better treatment…
The focus of this marketing analysis is on a Canadian based corporation by the name of Rogers Communications. Rogers is a communications and media company which primarily offers wireless voice and data communications, high-speed Internet, cable television and data networking services. The company also offers additional services pertaining to the media advertising sector, including radio and television broadcasting. Rogers is one of Canada’s leaders in corporate social responsibility, which benefits society as a whole, the environment and its stakeholders. Rogers’ social responsibility initiative benefits society as a whole by committing acts such as giving $65 million in handouts and in-kind community investments in 2015.…
While this assignment had me excited from the beginning I was also scared that I would not do so well because I had forgotten how to do it. When I first started to do the assignment,…
I have focused this reflection assignment on an issue I was faced with during my third year placement in an acute hospital on a surgical ward. I felt very uneasy and awkward throughout the entire experience. I have focused on one issue that stood out the most for me and discussed this in detail. The issue was that my communication skills were ineffective due inexperience. I had not dealt with a patient experiencing a miscarriage until this placement which made me feel unprepared.…
This week for clinical I was able to work with a patient who was non-ambulatory as well as nonverbal. I found this to be an eye opening experience because I had not worked with a patient who could not verbally communicate back to me. This gave me a new perspective in regards to both caring for patient and communication techniques used with nonverbal patients. I found that this clinical for this week was an amazing experience. Prior to meeting my patient I had been very nervous about coming into clinical because I found out he was non-verbal as well as non-ambulatory.…