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People with disabilities have been discriminated, not only in the 1930s, but throughout the sum of time. Many people of the mentally ill community were taken advantage of and were the “test monkeys” for some inhumane treatments. From before, after and during the 1930s, they were thought of as a burden to society. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice And Men, Lennie Small, one of the main characters, suffers from an intellectual disability. Although he is not the brightest, he is big and strong but does…

Spruce The book, Through Black Spruce, begins with Will explaining who he is and that he is a famous bush pilot from the town of Moosonee. In the second chapter, it explains he is telling the story of his past, meanwhile in the present he is in a coma. This book focuses on one major event that his niece Susan ran away and has disappeared with a Netmaker boy, Gus. While walking home from his friend Joe's house he is stopped by Marius Netmaker and two others. Marius and his friends are drunk and…

Traumatic Brain Injuries How do you think a brain injury could affect your life? How difficult do you think it would be living with the lasting effects that a brain/head injury causes? These are questions that athletes of all ages are now having to ask, and the answers are disturbing. To have a traumatic brain injury, there must be some type of violent trauma done to the brain. There are numerous classifications to brain injuries, including whether it is a brain or head injury. Depending on…

A Case Study on Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Puberty Essence, B, Lewis Housatonic Community College  A Case Study on Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Puberty Insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, also known as type 1 diabetes, is an autoimmune disease that is caused by the destruction of cells that normally produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas that removes glucose from the bloodstream for use by the body. Therefore, low insulin levels limit glucose…

Pharmacology Research Paper Webster dictionary defines a drug as "a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body”. The four major classifications of drugs are stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, and narcotics. Each of these classes of drugs takes a different physiological effect on the body. Since each class causes a different type of physiological effect on the body, the reasons for their use varies greatly depending on the…

is not ground for his dignity, preciousness, and right to life; rather, that decisive ground is the fact of his being a person” (Schwarz, CMA pg. 137). An example given in CMA that is used in support the argument is of a child in a coma. Typically, a child in a coma is portrayed still as a human being; however technically they aren’t by the definition of Warren. The question at hand is, how does this child qualify for life while the unborn fetus does not? The basis for the argument is for the…

Philosophers have continually debated over what defines an individual being, and what this means for the world in terms of ethics. I am going to discuss two basic categories of theories on personal identity – a reductionist view through the eyes of Derek Parfit, and a non-reductionist one, namely, the self-interest theory based on the assumption of a Cartesian Pure Ego. Theories of identity similar to the Cartesian pure ego have been an underlying assumption in many belief systems. Many…

and read the message in my head. Immediately I dropped my phone, sat down and thought about what I just read. He basically texted me saying that being in a “coma” and lying to me this long about it wasn't supposed to turn out to be serious. What was supposed to be my closest guy friend, Lied to me about getting into a car crash and being in a coma. This whole summer I spent my days teaching him new things and trying to get him to remember the past. The anger that I had was unbelievable and I…

vary depending on the circumstances and the severity of the contact with the presumed rabid animal, and can be costly in the developing world. Other experimental treatments have been attempted, such as putting the patient into a chemically induced coma and using antiviral drugs, though only five out of thirty six infected patients survived subsequent to this…

Under the Dome by Stephen King also has its own summer TV show on CBS The book revolves around the small New England town of Chester's Mill, Maine. Life in the town comes to a complete halt as the fight for survival begins. The book is 1,072 pages long, but it's worth it. I am still currently reading the book; I love the book very much. I love the story plot, and the characters I find are well developed and interesting to read about their life 'under the dome'. The book is Th1rteen R3asons Why…