Ashley X: the battle of Growth attenuation Ashley X is nine years-old and is severely disabled due to a disorder called static encephalopathy. Because of this disability her brain is affected leaving her to be physically and cognitively impaired. Ashley’s mindset is the same as a 3-6-month-old baby. To treat her disease her parents decided to use a treatment that’s normally used to stimulate the growth of an individual called Growth Attenuation. Along with the growth attenuation, they decided to have a hysterectomy, estrogen therapy, and an appendectomy. This form of treatment to me is unethical, unnecessary and as a human her rights were violated. However, Gary L. Stein and Sandy walker would agree that this form of treatment has improved…
Blue’s Growth Attenuation Therapy: an Ethical Analysis Caring for a child with severe disabilities is a great challenge for caretakers who aim to provide the best life for the child with accessible resources. For some, Growth Attenuation Therapy (GAT) is perceived as a useful tool for not only improving the care provided by the caretaker, but also the quality of life for the child. This is the case with a child named Blue who suffers various disabilities, such as brittle bone disease, seizure…
When people are seeking new opportunities in other countries, China and India is popular choices for investor as the two most populous on the Earth. Both are emerging economies that have illustrated average GDP growth greater than 7 percent over the few years*. Noticeably, both India and China are largest avoided by the global economics crisis in 2010,maintaining above GDP growth when western countries are suffering economics contraction. Despite of successful changes, we still need to…
According to the World Bank, as of 2011, the Indian economy is nominally worth US$1.848 trillion; it is the tenth-largest economy by market exchange rates, and is, at US$4.457 trillion, the third-largest by purchasing power parity, or PPP. With its average annual GDP growth rate of 5.8% over the past two decades, and reaching 6.1% during 2011–12, India is one of the world's fastest-growing economies. However, the country ranks 140th in the world in nominal GDP per capita and 129th in GDP per…
Worldwide population growth is an issue that grows more and more urgent with each passing day. Our earth is nearing its capacity, and its important that we address this issue to avoid a worldwide state of emergency. Garrett Hardin and Clark Wolf both discuss this issue in detail, and offer their own solutions on how we should solve this problem. However, while Hardin presents a valid view of our world population problems, Wolf provides a more well rounded argument, and goes further to provide…
Review Paper : The Stages of Economic Growth After the World War II, the idea of ‘development’ became major concern of many countries and international organizations. Many researchers try to figure out how development works and how this process could help modernization process in the world. Walt Whitman Rostow in his article ‘The Stages of Economic Growth’ also try to figure out how economic develops. In his article, Rostow (1959) argues that economic growth in modern world is not a continuum…
such as training and educational advancement is one of Downey’s goals in their economic development plans in order to promote quality customer service, which exemplifies economic growth. South Gate seems to hold bettering educational opportunities more because it is more present in their economic development plans in comparison to Downey’s. As stated in their Economic Element, South Gate seeks to increase educational attainment levels by partnering with Los Angeles Community College, public…
Often, economists have skirted around the economic impact that geography plays for developing nations. For many of these countries, their location contributes to the prevalence of tropical diseases. In order to overcome this obstacle, a developing country should focus its efforts on expanding the nation’s healthcare infrastructure by constructing a network of accessible and affordable medical and emergency services and dedicating resources to the research and development of vaccines against…
There are two main traumatic experiences that the country has. The first one occurred between 1861 and 1865 whereby the northern and southern states fought. The northern Union states defeated the Confederacy states (slave states) (Yang 2012). The second one is the Great Depression that occurred in 1930 whereby 25% of all the citizens of the country lost their jobs in the economic downturn (Mundi 2015). Nonetheless, there was a recent shakedown of the world’s biggest economy when there occurred…
Now imagine what an overpopulated world would be like to live in. In today’s world the population is constantly increasing and will continue to for years. The continuous growth of Earth’s population will eventually lead to a population that is incredibly dense. Over population is when the community becomes so dense that it starts to deteriorate the community and its standard of living. This is an issue that needs to be taken very serious if it happens because it is a concern that will affect…