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    Heysham Gibbon Jr.’s invention of a heart-lung machine, Gibbon was able to perform the first successful intercardiac surgery, also known as open heart surgery. Born in Philadelphia on September 29, 1903, Gibbon was born to John Heysham Gibbon Sr., a surgeon, and Marjorie Gibbon (Shumacker, 1982). Later in his life, he earned his B.A. from Princeton University in 1923, and his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1927 (Knight, 2001). Seven years later Gibbon went to work…

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    to be a surgeon ever since I was a little child, and Operation was the primary testing ground of my skills. I know what you are going to say, “It’s such a childish game. It is not like the real thing at all.” I thought that same, but when I continuously lost, my frustration grew higher and higher. Losing any sort of game, makes me want to play it more. I do not want to call it stubbornness, but rather my competitive nature to always win and be persistent until my goal is reached. A surgeon does…

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    Bad Hair Transplants

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    How bad are bad hair transplants? Bad hair transplants don’t happen too often, but when they do, you need to know what option you have. But, before any other details abut these options we should talk about bad hair transplants in general and what they can look like. Hair is one of the most important assets of a human, both men and women. The idea is this, as soon as you start losing your hair, there will be self esteem problems and you will not be the same person you used to be when you had a…

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    an individual makes ontological assumptions and takes epistemological stances throughout their entire life, usually without realizing such. Ontology is "the study of being. It is concerned with 'what is ', with the nature of existence, with the structure of reality as such" (Crotty 1998). Our assumptions about the nature of being, create our epistemology which is defined as "the theory of knowledge embedded in the theoretical perspective and thereby in the methodology" (Crotty 1998). I…

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    highly regarded. He has been viewed as one of the most significant Rationalists alongside Descartes and Leibniz. In “Ethics,” Spinoza unfolds a monistic view of ethics, talking about God and Nature. His main argument is that a personified infinite being is not the transcendent creator of the universe, but it is Nature that determines and governs the system of our existence, hence, nature necessarily means God. Owing to the fact that Spinoza stands against the traditional conception of God, he is…

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    Defining the Being that does the defining, the awareness that is aware, the formless thing that gives form, seems to be an almost impossible task to do through language. Some philosophers arduously endeavor to explain these concepts in convoluted and seemingly clever ways. Making up new names for old terms in an effort to build a new foundation through which the ineffable could be understood. The essay ‘What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World’ by Roy Hornsby is a good example of this arduous…

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    Nt1330 Unit 1 Assignment

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    SIGN IN: CONTEXT SELECTION +*Description +* As a Box Office Manager, I want to select the database context, so that I would not have to type in the context ID when signing in to the application. +*Rationale +* In order for the user to be able to select the name of the context, opposed to having to first finding the context ID, then typing it into the application each time they log into the system. +* Acceptance Criteria+* □ User must select a context to sign in □ System _shall_ display the…

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    philosophy. It is the prologue to Aristotle’s works and sets the tone towards his philosophy. The Categories centres on the nature of a being—what it means to be a being. The idea that Aristotle is trying to present in chapter two is dividing the forms of speech in order to make the basic distinctions of them. In chapter two of the text, Aristotle identifies the four types of being. They are as followed: 1) things that are said of a subject, but are not in a subject; 2) things that are in a…

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    "The A-Team" is a song written by Ed Sheeran and released in 2011, the song is about a woman addicted to "level A" drugs, such as opium, meth, and other hard drugs. Someone who is addicted to a "level A" drug and is a woman, is typically called being a part of the A-Team. If a woman is part of the A-Team, it means she is most likely addicted to a "level A" drug and cannot afford the drug or much else for the matte. Which results in the woman becoming a hooker or prostitute so she can earn enough…

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    Dr. James Murray and Dr. William C. Minor. These men were very similar in nature, but led very different lives due to circumstances of environment and mental health. Dr. Murray was a lifelong academic, always pursuing education. Dr. Minor was a surgeon for the Union Army in the United States Civil War, who grew increasingly madder until he murdered a man in the streets of London, which caused him to be confined in an asylum for almost the rest of his life. Although Dr. Murray and Dr. Minor’s…

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