Lice

“The film Monsieur Lazhar is a french langage film about childhood, death, grief and mentoring. Monsieur Lazhar is a small story with dark, deep reverberations that may have the power to heal: it is about the response of young children to the death of their teacher, a woman whose attempt to soothe a young boy with a hug was misinterpreted, and it is about the authoritative but wounded man who replaces the deceased teacher as an instructor.” (Garrett,2013) This paper is going to prove how main…

If the infant has a medical condition, it is important to check with their PCP to ensure that infant massage is appropriate for the infant. Some medical conditions that apply are any radiation therapy treatment, cancer, seizures, lice and more. Some other precautions to take into consideration are if the infant has a fever, diarrhea, skin rash, lesions, or has had an immunization in the past 2 to 3 days. The reasons these conditions need to be taken into consideration is they make…

Death and dying is different for every person experiencing the loss and is influenced by a person’s culture, lived experiences, environmental factors, and the person themselves. Indigenous Australians practices regarding death and dying are not dissimilar to Western but have unique aspects and it is important that nursing professionals are aware of and understand the process and cultural aspects of death in Aboriginal culture in order to provide culturally sensitive care to the patient as well…

While the idea that a fetus is a person or, at least, warrants moral consideration is held by plenty-- this view is largely tied to our inherent emotional feelings about human babies, and has little to no logical standing. Those who ascribe to the belief that a fetus has full moral status by virtue of the fact that it will be a human or that it contains human DNA are negligent of the very characteristics that establish humans as moral patients to begin with. Our self-awareness, self-conscious…

World War I World War I was a gruesome war that lasted a little over 4 years. The war started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. This caused a chain reaction that entangled international alliances and caused the major powers to be at war in just a couple of weeks. This was one of the causes of the war that started rebellion and eventually lead to the splitting of two separate powers, or groups. The two powers…

The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto, Chil Rajchman’s The Last Jew of Treblinka, and Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys: A Woman Survivor’s True Story of Auschwitz are the accounts of three Jewish people who experienced the German’s answer to the Jewish problem from their particular time and place of the “Final Solution”. Sierakowiak’s diary was written while he was living in the Lodz Labor Ghetto with his family and died before he was deported. Rajchman’s and Lengyel’s…

Reflections of Judgment Through Fiction When reading through various works of fiction, we sometimes come across material that almost speaks directly to us, or may even describe our current situation or feelings. Although the works are truly fictitious, the inspiration for these stories comes from deep within the mind of the author, who is human, and human emotions tend to bleed through fiction. This is how we can find a surreal connection to so many stories that never actually occurred. Some…

Hypertension, heart disease, diabetes and respiratory infections are just some of the chronic conditions that are seen in prisoners. Inmates are thirty percent more likely to have asthma, fifty percent more likely to have diabetes, and 90 percent more likely to have a heart attack. (Cecere, 2009) Eighty-nine percent of the deaths in prison are due to illnesses. Some of the major contributors are heart disease, liver disease, respiratory disease and cancer. (Noonan, 2015) Outside of jail,…

The yellow-shouldered blackbird (Agelaius xanthomus) is indigenous to the island of Puerto Rico. It is speculated that this species is derived from the red-winged blackbird which is native to the Haitian Island. Physically the yellow-shouldered blackbird looks just like it sounds, black with brachial yellow patches around the shoulders of the bird. The males are usually larger,heavier and have larger wings than the females of the species. On average the adult birds measure between twenty to…

Being alive during world war two is one thing, but experiencing world war two as prisoner in a concentration camp and able to tell the story of your experience is another. This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a story written by Taduez Borowski and his experience as a prisoner in one of the most infamous camps known to man. The story is inspired by Borowski 's own experience during his time in the concentration camps and he shares his story so it would never be forgotten. Borowski was…