Professor

The movie Wit portrays the gripping trials of a patient with terminal cancer and the ethical dilemmas health care professionals must face when treating such a disease. It follows the journey of Vivian Bearing, a middle-aged English professor who is suddenly diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. She agrees to undergo an experimental treatment conducted by Dr. Kelekian and Dr. Posner where she will receive a vigorous dosage of chemotherapy in attempt to combat the growing cancer cells.…

of facing death. These two works are similar in the sense that they both contain professors, confronted with their mortality. Though similar in profession, they have lead very different lives; as a result, they respond to their fate differently. In the play Wit, readers are introduced to Dr. Vivian Bearing. Vivian has recently found that she has ovarian cancer. Previous to her diagnosis, Vivian was an English professor with an intense passion for words, learning, and teaching. Dr. Vivian saw…

talk with Professor Gregory Bernstein. I chose Professor Bernstein, because I read in his bio that he had written and sold several scripts. Becoming a writer for television and film is my goal, and the reason I chose to attend ASU, so I was interested to see what advice he could give me about the craft. When I met with Professor Bernstein we discussed how and why he became a writer, what it takes to make and sell a script, and films that we each enjoy. After introducing myself to Professor…

varying styles of teaching by different professors can greatly influence the results. Some teachers will make attendance mandatory, which in turn, will force attendance rates to go up. On the other hand, some professors will make attendance optional, and some students might take advantage of this policy and not attend class. A professor could also be a very interactive and engaging teacher who will attract most of the students to the class, while a professor with a monotonous style of teaching…

exam, that she had an obligation to maintain a specific grade point average in order to keep her scholarship. She should have been more attentive to her academics to avoid failing the exam and losing her scholarship. Under Consequentialism, the professor should not be considerate of student M’s personal circumstances which prevented her from studying for the exam (124). Having a job on campus does not justify student M to cheat through the lens of Consequentialism. According to…

Throughout my exploratory essay there was an objective tone instead of a subjective tone. This tone helped me write an efficient exploratory essay in which I include factual evidence and textual analysis towards the topic of segmented assimilation in which specific generations go through, as they adjust to a new culture and society. Instead of including emotions and my opinion on the situation, I had to use historical resources, via web or journals, such as social studies. The medium of this…

into college and adults. Overall the girls do not really talk a lot, but they all seem engaged in learning what Professor Nirider has to say. They act as a very close-knit group, always willing to help another student do the moves and actively working with Professor Nirider. The class emits this overall positive and open feeling, which is a key component in a beginning dance class. Professor Nirider really expresses her passion for dance in the energy and positive attitude she puts into…

Many people believe that an intelligent person are more likely going to life a happy life, but this movies shows otherwise. It really shows how that even intelligent people don’t always have it easy in life. The main character, Will, is portrayed as a genius but lives in a poverish like life style. Rather than use his talents to the best of his ability he would often hang out with friends. They would typically would do delinquent (not juvenile delinquent) like activities and get themselves in…

pair structure makes sense if greetings are exchanges in which participants test each other’s relationship” (Duranti 192). In fact, this can be applied to most of the examples here, where, two women try to establish if they are still friends, a professor imposes his authority, or where a man acknowledges his responsibilities towards his girlfriend. Duranti goes on to relate that, “even when there is no speech, there are usually plenty semiotic resources in an encounter for participants to give…

expression” the community will lose value if we take away people’s abilities to speak on their own beliefs (2). I agree with Frischler that people are becoming more timid to share their ideas and that the universities need to make sure that their professors are not promoting one-sided ideas in their classrooms. Darren L. Linvill also spoke on the subject in his article “The Bias Fallacy” written in 2013. Linvill goes more in depth about how the bias teaching is affecting the students, he states…