WIT

Course Concepts Illustrated in ‘Wit’ Wit is a film narrated by a terminal cancer patient, about her experiences. There are many viewpoints and themes represented in the film. The ones I will talk about here are the different attitudes and views towards death and sickness presented by various characters in the story. The opening scene is the main character, Vivian, discussing her diagnosis and possible participation in a research study with Dr. Kelekian. Right away, the impression…

Picture a girl heading out onto the field. She are about to try out for her school’s soccer team. She have everything she needs: the gear, the attitude, and the skills. She’s been training endlessly for months. As she approaches the field, there is a surprising amount of boys and little to no girls. She asks the boy’s coach where everyone is, and he replies “Didn’t you hear? My boys needed new jerseys and soccer balls. We had to dip into the girl’s funding, the team is cut. Better luck…

“Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It”, popular lyrics sung by Will Smith, represents one example of success in the rapper’s life. This song exemplifies the way Smith lives life by moving and dancing without any fears of tomorrow. Will Smith, a zealous actor and songwriter, has gone through life experiencing substantial adversity. But, in the end Smith persevered from these challenges and transformed into a sage man. “I love living, I think that’s infectious. It’s something that you can’t fake,” Smith describes…

Professor Bearing’s Journey Through Cancer In the story “Wit “by Margaret Edson, the author depicts how a professor by the name Vivian Bearing was brilliant, cold hearted and then she became filled with kindness. Professor Bearing was a tough love teacher; she doesn’t really care about the students and their struggles. Her main fervor is for 17th Century poetry, especially the complicated Holy Sonnets of John Donne; well at least at the beginning of the play. In the latter half of the story…

The plot of the movie Wit, based on a screenplay by Margarete Edson, revolves around a woman dying of ovarian cancer in an academic medical center. The protagonist, Vivian Bearing, a professor of English literature and expert on the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, struggles to come to grips with her diagnosis. She has built her life around the academic world of literary criticism and left little room for experiencing and showing love. Throughout the movie, viewers are able to follow her from the…

around the US, thousands of people are diagnosed with different types of cancer and treated with chemo. Unfortunately, not every cancer facility gives their patients the privacy they are entitled to and the respect they deserve. After viewing the film Wit (Bosanquet et al., 2001), Dr. Vivian Bearing, a professor and scholar of 17th century poetry, is violated in many ways as she progressed through stage 4 ovarian cancer and up to her final days to her painful death (Bosanquet et al., 2001). In…

regarding the corporate mission, (De Wit, & Meyer, 2010). The mission is essential to define the direction, beliefs and values of a corporation, (De Wit, & Meyer, 2010). Without a mission there is no guidance, therefore the corporation will easily loose its direction. This leads to missed opportunities by being indecisive in their objectives. Corporate governance insures that executive management is developing strategies that are in line with the corporate mission, (De Wit, & Meyer, 2010).…

The play Wit by Margaret Edson is set in 1995 and it is at a hospital. The mood throughout the play is somber. The play is about professor Vivian Bearing. She gets diagnosed with stage four advanced metastatic ovarian cancer. This play shows her looking back on her past and trying to come to terms with the diagnosis. She decides to go along with a new experimental treatment. The treatment ends and its doesn’t work. She ends up dying. However, she never fully comes to terms with death, or the…

The movie Wit deals with Vivian Bearing, a professor of 17th century poetry with stage IV ovarian cancer, and her journey through experimental chemotherapy which is accompanied by several flashbacks to significant moments in her life. Two of the main characters, Susie and Jason, play a role in shaping their patient, Vivian Bearing’s, outlook on her life, because both of them have a significant connection to her— they are two of her caretakers (Susie is one of her nurses and Jason is one of her…

Cindy, I liked how you wrote out the workflow to show how the patient moves within the PATA department during their appointment. The California Healthcare Foundation (2011) recommends process mapping, a visual representation of all the steps in a workflow, as a tool to help with detecting where processes intersect and where inefficiencies occur. Additionally, the movement of the patient could also have been diagramed out on the floor plan provided by McCarty, Gallien, and Levi (2012) to…