Ectopic pregnancy

The portrayal of irony is shown in two literary texts, a short story titled “Jacob's Chicken," by Milos Macourek and a poem titled “Porphyria’s Lover," by Robert Browning. Irony is an expression that is used to insinuate sarcasm; it typically signifies the opposite of what is said. In other words, irony is seen as appearance versus reality. The short story “Jacob’s Chicken” is about a passionate child who draws a unique chicken that others do not initially appreciate due to its unusual…

Aah, the quintessential scenario of sacrificing one for the sake of many, also known as collateral damage – but with a poignant spin: five middle-aged fat prisoners vs the small innocent girl child. In other words: death vs death. This moral ethical dilemma was first introduced to the world in 1967 by Philippa Foot when she notoriously challenged debates over abortion and it has since become a fascinating moral, legal and psychological enigma. The results are equally captivating when one…

3. Motherhood and Sexuality According to Rich, the motherhood exists in two different reals: “biological motherhood or ‘the potential relationship of any woman to her powers of reproduction and to children,’ and motherhood as an ‘institution, which aims at ensuring that that potential—and all women—shall remain under male control’” (qtd. in Villar Argáiz 128). In Ireland, these institutional views of motherhood were crucial, the articles 41 and 45 of the 1937 Constitution (Shannon 262) linked…

In November of 2016 at the TEDxManhattanBeach Conference, Dr. Wendy Troxel delivered her powerful speech, “Why schools should start later for teens.” She effectively convinces her audience to take action against public policy and to ponder how the lack of sleep affects teenagers in negative ways. Dr. Troxel achieves this by employing her use of strong appeals, style details, and persuasion to prove her objective. Troxel uses ethos to give her speech more credibility through her own knowledge.…

Hulga, a well-educated, large blonde women crossly known as Joy Hopewell appears in, Flannery O' Connor, Good Country People as a thirty-two year old with an artificial leg. When Hulga was ten years old her leg was blown off in a hunting accident. She lived in the country with her mother, Ms. Hopewell, and her sisters, Glynese and Carramae, because of a heart condition she has. This bulging, impolite, squinty-eyed woman strongly professed to have believed in nothing, not even allowing her mother…

when writing an argumentative essay, first the writer needs to gather all the information needed to start the essay. The writer needs a topic to begin with like for instance, why breastfeeding your newborn baby is more substantial than bottle feeding. With a topic as this, this would make a great argument because so many nursing moms and new moms would have a different opinion for each one. Let’s just say that this is the topic for the essay, the writer would need to have a reasoning to back up…

In 1992, Mary Fisher gave a speech to the Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas, entitled “A Whisper of AIDS”. In this speech, Mary Fisher shouted out to a nation that was allowing AIDS, the enemy, to win because of prejudice and politics. Mary Fisher wanted to “lift the shroud of silence” (Fisher) against the AIDS epidemic, by reminding her audience that AIDS does not discriminate and neither should we. With her powerful and moving speech, she accomplished this by using statistics…

Furthermore, we allow women to terminate unwanted pregnancies and we allow women to give away unwanted children for adoption, then there should not be debates as to whether a woman can produce a child for another who cannot. Alike what Purdy argued, as long as all parties consent and the contract in place…

can be very shocking or disturbing to some mothers who find out that their child could be born with abnormalities or a disability, and they do not know how to handle the situation. It can also be a hard decision to make in having to terminate a pregnancy because of a health condition of the unborn, or the unborn is not developing right. However, some mothers accept the fact their child could be born with abnormalities or a disability. It will be less stressful if the mother was educated and…

Abortion No matter where you are in the world, your race or ethnicity does and should not matter. Abortion is a terrible act, and should be made illegal. It does not matter what background you come from. If you come from a rich and will respected family, or you come from a poor unknown family. Abortion should have never become a solution to a problem that you created. Killing a harmless baby that hasn’t even come into this world is not okay and should never be okay. Whoever came up with the…