Prosthetics

the intellectual virtue of techne or technical skills. Labs and design courses often aid this. Texas A&M has excelled in providing these opportunities to their students. However, one area for improvement is creating the opportunity to modeling prosthetics with a 3D modeling system and complete finite element analysis on these…

toward having the majority of its cast members with a Caucasian background. However, as we learned from our class in the lecture hall Hollywood /mainstream that Caucasians are playing the overwhelming majority of roles. In Jonathan Beller's article Prosthetics of Whiteness: Drone Psychosis, argues…

Interventional cardiology is a relatively new field in medicine. The doctors within this field treat heart diseases through minimally invasive procedures through the use of catheters, stents, and balloons. Catheter are thin tube made up of several types of material depending on how it will be used. A stent on the other hand is a tube composed of metal that can remain within the body to keep a blood vessel open. Interventional cardiology is said to be first discovered by Andreas Gruentzig in…

I support the Pit Bull Movement to aid in rescue and to educate people about these dogs and how loving they can be. The news and media have made these dogs look like beasts of terror when it was most likely the result of poor ownership. I want to share my story of how I came face to face with said beasts and all I got was a mountain of kisses, never ending love, and constant companionship. I grew up in a house where moving was a constant and the thought of having a dog was forbidden. My father…

In Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond explores the lives of several families living in poverty in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. One of the characters, Lamar, is a Vietnam veteran and previous drug addict with two prosthetic legs that was denied Supplemental Security Income because “he could still work.” His sole source of income is a welfare check of $628, and his rent takes $550 of that amount, leaving him with $78 for the rest of the month. He falls behind on his…

A disturbing statistic reveals “on average there are 3 million amputees in the U.S. every year” (“Facts about Amputations”). “Limb amputation is one of the most ancient of all surgical procedures with a history of more than 2,500 years” (Phillipo). Many individuals are affected by amputations worldwide. Through thorough research on this procedure, one finds out what amputations are, different causes, the surgical process, and rehabilitation. “Amputation is the intentional surgical removal of a…

A prosthetic device in substitution of a heart that is usually used to create more time of life until a transplant can be performed, also known as an artificial heart. An artificial heart creates more time to a heart transplant but it can also be a permanent substitution of the biological one. An artificial heart is very hard to receive, a patient must seriously be ill or about to die before it can even be considered. It is a very costly procedure and the whole transplant itself is very…

Monsters are not real, there is no monster under the bed or in the closet. The only monsters on this blue planet are the ones in your head. People see this everyday in literature and in the world people live in. The best kind of stories all the ones that show life the way it is not these happy ever after. Stories like The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, another story is Good Country People by Flannery O’Connor, and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. These stories are so attractive because life…

view of herself. However, she loses her fake leg, a symbol for her ability, as a result of refusing to accept that she may have been wrong in any form. Pointer, unlike Hulga, does not deny any wrongdoing. Pointer is an amoral atheist that steals prosthetics from girls he tricks. His inability to judge his actions morally or consider sin empowers him and allows for him to control others and ignore his own person wrongdoing, such as manipulating Mrs. Hopewell, Hulga’s mother, through social…

Kolfage’s determination was conveyed in this quote about him, “Three years later, [after the 16 surgeries] with three prosthetic limbs and new skills in his non-dominant left hand, he enrolled…at the Arizona’s College of Architecture…has a 3.8 GPA and hopes to ‘revolutionize architecture’ ” (Brian Kolfage).The soldier is now, even at a disadvantage, working hard and is determined…