The 39 Steps

values and how the community handles illness would allow me to be calm, spend more time with the family, and inform the family why we do the tests. After reading the book, I also understand that the family sees epilepsy as a gift (Fadiman, 2012, p. 39). As a doctor, I would explain the consequences of not adhering to the medication; thus, allowing the family to know how severe the illness is, but I would tell the family they can also continue some of the rituals, such as washing Lia’s body in…

government controls many areas of media such as personal privacy, publishing graphic details and images, concealing security information, and hiding political bias. Although these restrictions may not immediately impact America negatively, this beginning step towards the censorship allows the Americans to become comfortable with the idea of it and therefore lay the foundation for the government to furthermore abuse the restrictions of what is displayed. In Legend by Marie Lu, the Republic also…

abused her. The second example is “He’s a wallflower”(37). This is an example of characterization, Charlie is a person who analyzes events from a distance and makes his assumptions. The third example is “And in that moment, I swear we were infinite”(39). This could be a theme that throughout the story, Charlie and his friends will become more closer. The final example is “I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live”(50). This final…

1986. Sadly, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of 39. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” This famous speech was given on August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. In front of 250,000 Civil Rights supporters, King called for an end to racism in…

On May 2, Stonewall Jackson unwittingly got shot by one of his own men while in battle at Chancellorsville,Virginia. Saturday night, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Tom Jackson, a Lieutenant General of the South, got shot by one of his own men while they were planning a night attack. When the surgeon arrived he decided that Jackson had blood clots in his wound. The surgeon had to act fast or the Union would come and attack them. On the way to the field hospital, the doctors decided that they…

Health Prevention Initiatives Managed care focuses heavily on health prevention initiatives as a critical component to decrease overall health care costs, as preventing disease has a direct cause and effect relationship with healthier populations, which result in lower overall health care costs. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) defines preventative care as health care that includes “immunizations, screenings for common chronic and infectious diseases and cancers, clinical and…

During the 1960s to early 1970s, Project Apollo sought out to explore the moon. Apollo 11 achieved this goal when Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon and said, "That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind." Landing on the moon was a major milestone for “mankind,” but was not the only goal of Apollo. New spacecrafts were invented such as the command module, the service module, and the lunar module. Procedures for getting to the moon and exploring its surface were…

problems fast. Second, don't give up. You will never solve a problem if you don't try. Last, be flexible. If a first you don't succeed, try another way. And if the second way doesn't work, try a third way.      There are a few steps to solving a problem that you should follow. First, read the problem very carefully. Try to understand every word and make sure you know what the problem is asking. If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary. Second,…

able to determine if these issues needs changes to better their day to day activities or lives. According to C. Wright Mills, “to think ourselves away from the familiar routines of our daily live in order to look at them anew” means that we need to step back and look at things from a different perspective. From the Panopticon to Disney world is one place that we need to look…

“We accept and welcome... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”(-Andrew Carnegie) The book Andrew Carnegie Story written by Charlie May Simon's, Published on 1965.. This book was mainly about his success in his career, and how this important…