Persistent world

Sukarno, once said "Give me 1000 old men, and I will undoubtedly pull out Semeru [a mountain in Indonesia] from the roots. Give me 10 young male mountain climbers, I will undoubtedly shake the world." In other words, having more manpower does not always do the job right. Infact, having less mountain climbers that are intelligent, persistent, and hard working would do the job better and bigger. Mountain climbers would force through all the challenges ahead of them, and would be persistent on achieving the goal all the way. My experience may not even be as close as what my parents went through, but I am glad that though I live in this 21st century generation, with easy living mindset and gadgets everywhere, my parents keeps reminding me to work hard to reach my goals. Persistence is telling yourself, that despite of all the circumstances that might tell you that “this is the end,” we will and should not be done if we have not reach our goals. We should not be tempted and swayed by an easy and fast life style. Instead, we should learn from Japan and other countries that have proven time and time again, on how important it is to be persistent and hardworking. Technology may help us to get and know things easier and quicker than before, but it should never shape who we are as human beings. Being persistence in a life that offers you many shortcuts and easy solutions to our problems, is a challenge to everyone…

This article focuses on studying the relationship between exuberance and persistence that children behave in multiple challenging contexts with different incentive values. Researchers also want to know if the incentive value of goals can play an important role in influencing the behavioral regulation of 109 exuberant pre-schoolers in China. Through several experiments they found that exuberant children tend to be more persistent on a goal-blocked task. This result stimulated researcher’s…

situation where they no longer wish to be treated. This is a highly debated topic for many reasons. Whether the reasons are possible unauthorized assisted suicide, concerns with potential abuse of power, issues with ethicality, or so on, they are being debated. “There have been over 100 attempts to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the past twenty years” (Catholic News Agency), but physician-assisted suicide is only legal in three states: Oregon, Washington, and Vermont. Out of the…

Nancy Cruzan on the frigid night of January in 1983 was driving home from her job at a cheese factory down Elm Road in Jasper County Missouri when she lost control of her car and was promptly flung from her vehicle when she crashed into a ravine. Cruzan was later found by EMT face-down in a ditch of water, and was successfully resuscitated when no vital signs could be found. Cruzan was then transferred to a hospital in a comatose state where the attending surgeon diagnosed her as having severe…

national television, show the world what you did and then dared the legal system to stop you, well sir consider yourself stopped.” (Galkin, M.) Kevorkian served a little over eight years in prison and was released due to good behavior on June 1, 2007. Close to a year after his release he announced his plan to run for U.S Congress and planned represent Michigan. He didn 't win the seat in congress but he did win 2.6 percent of the vote. (Jack Kevorkian.) At the age of eighty-three Jack Kevorkian…

chance to die with dignity.” The cases involving death have always been controversial. As the life expectancy began increasing and people began dying in hospitals, the controversy over right to die and assisted suicide came into place. This is when Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health 1990 came into limelight and became a hot topic for the next decade or so because their is no law backing up this case. “The war started when twenty- five year Nancy Beth Cruzan lost control of…

A court case concerning one’s “right to die” was Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health. On January 11 of 1983, Nancy Cruzan, who was a 25-year-old at the time, suffered a nearly fatal car accident after she lost control of her car. The accident cause deprivation of oxygen delivery to the brain thus resulting in irreversible brain damage. This left Cruzan in a persistent vegetative state. To maintain Cruzan’s life, physicians decided to surgically implant a feeding tube into Cruzan’s…

obligation to provide patients with food and water, including medically assisted nutrition and hydration for those who cannot take food orally. This obligation extends to patients in chronic and presumably irreversible conditions (e.g., the “persistent vegetative state”) who can reasonably be expected to live indefinitely if given such care. Medically assisted nutrition and hydration become morally optional when they cannot reasonably be expected to prolong life or when they would be…

This problem was seen the Terry Schiavo case in Florida. Terry suffered a “myocardial infarction” and resulted in prolonged lack of oxygen to the brain which irreversibly injured Terry’s brain and left her in a Persistent vegetative state. Terry was not legally prepared for and end of life event, so the authority over Terry was passed to her husband Michael, however, Terry’s parents did not approve of Michael being her guardian as Michael had a relationship and children outside of marriage.…

The chapter 3, Comas: Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Schiavo, introduces three new cases of patients facing a persistent vegetative state (PVS.) These cases discuss the ethical and political issues of keeping people in a vegetative state alive, being individuals who would never have a conscious life again. The first case began around the resolution of the Supreme Court of New Jersey about the removal of the ventilator to the PVS patient Karen Quinlan, in 1976. Her father waged a legal…