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Vulnerable population, according to (Galen, 2017), is an umbrella term for all the individuals who, due to a variety of factors, are at greater risk for poor health status and poor health access. There are several risk factors for vulnerability, such as: a person demographics, environment, socioeconomics of area, which makes these individuals have a greater risk for developing health problems because of challenges that include limited access to resources, poverty, marginalized sociocultural…

“Medical Miracles” are a treasured and exciting part of medicine and its advancement. They are indicative of great progress in medicine as well as unique occurrences for events that result in a happy or positive outcome. The discovery of ‘Immortal Life’ in cells happened in the mid-1900s following the treatment of an African American woman named Henrietta Lacks. The cells taken from her cervix were the first of human cells to grow rapidly and reproduce many generations of cells in a culture in a…

Galen, the author of Home Schooling: Political, Historical, and Pedagogical Perspectives, provided good points behind why parents choose to homeschool. One of the reasons mentioned was that parents have more control over what their children learn. Some of…

supporting animal testing and cruelty. The first tests were taken place in the b.c and a.d time periods, by Greek scientists, Aristotle and Erasistratus. During this time period tests were used to acquire knowledge about complex procedures and learning. Galen, also a Greek scientist, conducted animal experiments to gain greater understanding over anatomy and physiology. Ibn Zhur, an Arab…

How Does Personality Influence Communication Style Communication is a core human need. As humans, we are hard wired for communication. Even if a person is born with a disability such as deafness, they still have an innate desire and need to communicate. We all have personalities. Whether we were born with one or if it developed as we grew is still up for debate, but the fact is that personality influences all we do, including communicating (Maisel, 2011). But how exactly does our…

Animal testing and experimentations have been affecting the lives of an abounding number of animals for years. There are numerous ways we could avoid animal testing, yet scientists still do it. And with improving the new ways of science, it can also improve the quality of the products “Instead, replacing animal testing will improve the quality as well as the humaneness of our science.” Animal testing is a big dilemma; this predicament could be deciphered by using a analytical chemistry method…

The opening of the film felt like it didn’t leave time to appreciate Galen Erso, Jyn Erso’s father, as a character before removing him from half of the film just to kill him off. Understanding his motivations is hard when you don’t know the character. When Orr wrote about the surprising conclusion, he was spot on. It caught me off guard for a Star Wars film. Killing off all the characters that got the schematics to the Death Star was a bold ending. The amount of death and devastation in the film…

In this week’s lecture, we discussed individuals who devoted their time to medicine and made a pact to develop this art that will be later modernized, as well as used by physicians. Nevertheless, William Harvey demonstrated artistry and intellect due to his discovery of the circulation of blood. I understand that there are a plethora of scholars and scientist that have contributed to the science and artistry of medicine, however Harvey developed a new physiology that is still used in medical…

The debate about free will has been going on for years. After reading many articles, it seems that people have very different views regarding free will; two of these people are Galen Strawson and Robert Kane. Strawson believes that you cannot make yourself the way you are due to predetermined factors, while Kane believes that you can shape your own character through self-forming actions that pave the road for your decisions later on in life. Although both make very good arguments for their claim…

A wise leader, Mohandas Gandhi, once said, “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. The more helpless the creature, the more that it is entitles to the protection by man from the cruelty of man”. Over the years, starting from as early as 200 AD, animals have been used for testing for the benefits of human beings. They are crammed into cages that are two times too small for them and forced to take samples that range from diseases, beauty products, and…