...Laurie Kaye Abraham does an incredible job of explaining the differences between Medicaid and Medicare in the book entitled Mama Might Be Better Off Dead as well as explaining why the family uses which program. According to what was found in the readings, Medicaid is a state and federal health insurance program that is intended for people that are poor. If an individual is poor with Medicaid, the government commitment to providing health care to the recipients does not always provide equality. In addition, Medicare is a government insurance for the elderly. Since Medicaid is a state and federal program that provides health insurance to families that are poor you must have a low income. On the other hand, Medicare is a federal program that would provide health insurance coverage to individuals that are 65 or older or that is diagnosed with a severe disability. If diagnosed with a severe disability, income would not be a factor. One of the characters in the book, Jackie, which is Robert’s wife, qualified for Medicaid once she went on welfare. Their children were also eligible to receive Medicaid benefits. In addition to the characters, Mrs. Jackson, the grandmother to Jackie, has Medicare that covers her medical bills. Medicare...
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...“Mama Might be Better off Dead: the Failure of Healthcare in Urban America,” is a novel written by Laurie Kaye Abraham that tells the story about urban healthcare by following the life of a family living at Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood for one year, known as the Banes’ family. Even though this novel focused on telling the readers about urban America’s health care system, we still can see and learn about the family values and trajectories of this Banes’ family when we were reading this book. It is because, the author illustrate this story through one’s family narrative. An analysis of this family’s experiences and trajectories can be best determined by using the life course perspective and also by using the conflict theory. Life course...
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...In the fictional novel, “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, a character by the name of Gregor lives a life full of dependability and stress; a lifestyle I would find exasperating. Gregor becomes the foundation of his family, holding them all up. Gregor works as a traveling salesmen in order to support and provide for his family. Although Gregor dreads his job, he still feels obligated to go to pay off his father’s debt. This provokes a bothersome lifestyle, full of pressure. Considering Gregor's strenuous lifestyle and his family's excessive dependence on him, Gregor is better off dead. The excessive importance and dependance placed on Gregor causes him to only serve others, and never put himself first. Gregor himself even knows that he...
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...basically the ruler, it would probably be Brutus or maybe even Antony. Julius Caesar plays one of the most important roles, in this play. But to me, the play is better off without him. I think Antony would be a better leader, he would have more control in everyone, but he also would help everyone out, and have more respect towards others. Caesar was stabbed by multiple conspirators, but Cassius was the first to stab, and Brutus was the very last to stab. Caesar seems to abuse everything he has, he abused all his powers away, he no longer has them. This is why people don’t want to get along with him, he accuses them of everything and he also doesn’t care about their actions or any part of...
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...A critical thinker must clear his or her mind to make a good sound decision. Critical thinking is a tool that people use in everyday life. Critical thinking is a tool that a person uses no matter what profession him or her is in. In the business world today critical thinking is an important tool to use because when an organization uses critical thinking he or she uses it to hire employees or for making decisions that will benefit the organization. People use his or her thinking skills for various reasons. He or she may use it to job search or try to figure out what to wear. Critical thinking is beneficial to the decision making process and everyone uses it in his or her life daily. Critical thinking can help us process information better and it also analyzes the information quicker. Critical thinking is a skill that a supervisor or an employee may use on the job. At work a person maybe faced with situations that need the skill of critical thinking. Using this skillful tool all the time a person will improve the quality of ones own thinking. Critical thinking and decision making are a lot alike because you can not do one without doing the other. Decision making is used all the time by everyone, even without knowing it. I can recall an experience when I had to use my critical thinking skills to make a very important medical decision. I had a brother that was on Dialysis, diabetes, and high blood pressure. My brother...
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...(Reuters) - With the failure this weekend of BP's "top kill" attempt to plug its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well, fears are growing that the economic and environmental impact of the nearly six-week-old spill can only spread. Here are some facts about effects of the worst ever U.S. oil spill, triggered by the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig: THE SCALE OF THE CATASTROPHE "This is probably the biggest environmental disaster we have ever faced in this country," top White House energy adviser Carol Browner said on Sunday. "There could be oil coming up 'til August." Browner told CBS's "Face The Nation," "We are prepared for the worst." Louisiana, the nearest state to BP's gushing undersea well that is 42 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico, has been the most impacted by the spill so far. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said this week that more than 100 miles of Louisiana's 400-mile coast had so far been impacted by the spilled oil. State officials have reported sheets of oil soiling wetlands and seeping into marine and bird nurseries, leaving a stain of sticky crude on cane that binds the marshes together. Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, saw dying cane and "no life" in parts of Pass-a-Loutre wildlife refuge. "Oil debris", in the form of tar balls and surface "sheen", has also been reported coming ashore since the April 20 accident in outlying parts of coastal Mississippi and Alabama. In the week of May 17, Coast Guard officials found tar balls...
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...Richie sitting in his kitchen, night after passing night, just waiting for nothing, not even wanting anything. That is death, even if his heart is beating, if he is breathing, he would be better off dead for all the impact he is having on people’s lives. Milla is no different, she waits around for a dead man, eating alone at every time of the day and trying to read. The passage doesn’t mean anything up until the end of the book, when the gunman from the beginning of the book shows up once again. He climbs into Ed’s cab and tell him to drive to every place he has had a message in. He talks to Ed and makes him realize that he is not dead anymore. “You said that every time I look in the mirror, I should remember I’m looking at a dead man’..., He says, ‘Are you looking at a dead man now?’..., I say, ‘No,’” (p.350) This conversation might as well be the moment of enlightenment for Ed, he finally realizes he has a purpose in life, that he out of everyone made his own life worth living only by helping others. The cards did have a purpose and yes Ed might have helped others, but he mostly helped himself. That is why the...
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...Knowing this, Wiesel was a happy child. Wiesel was also a somewhat sensitive kid, he always cared about other people. He saw everyone equally and has good people. Until one day, the Nazis came to his town saying they were getting moved somewhere better, that they were going to get clean. The Jews went along with them, they were pushed onto small, crowded trains and hauled off to, what they thought was, a new town. However, what they were really getting hauled off to were concentration and death camps. Everyone was terrified once they knew what was happening, especially Elie, being about 15, and his little sister. They didn’t understand why all this was happening to the Jews, Did...
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...and more dead zones appearing all across the world in our rivers and oceans. They are stating how the problem is getting worse and that the area of the dead zones is getting larger. These dead zones are low oxygen areas that are having a huge impact on the marine life and fisheries, because the organisms simply can’t survive. Overfishing and rich nutrient runoff from land masses are causing areas of algae, which then turn into spots of bacteria that take oxygen out of the water. Scientists think this new problem is related to climate change, due to the warmer oceans and rivers that lay stagnant. Wind and current are also factors and the lack of mixing shallow water with deep water does not allow for good nutrient distribution. The number of dead zones in oceans has been doubling every decade since the 1960’s, and range from small patches to enormous 70,000 square kilometer areas. This is very detrimental to our world’s fish habitat and is slowly killing off fish egg and larvae due to the high stress levels of fish in a low oxygen environment, and some scientists believe that this could possibly wipe out all ocean life. We basically are deciding the fate of our world’s fish and other marine wildlife, so we must take different approaches to try to help the situation. Over-fishing on coastlines is one main factor that we have to curb, and runoff into oceans and rivers must be monitored better. Where there is a large quantity of people there also tends to be more dead zones, so...
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...immediately knew something bad was bound to happen very soon. The next morning, Black Elk went and gathered his horses, put on his special shirt that reflected his vision, painted his face, put one eagle feather in his hair, and set off towards where the shots were coming from. They arrived at the top of the ridge and could see cavalrymen all scattered out over the hills that laid before them. The women and children were running for safety and dropping as they flee. Black Elk whipped his horse and charged, he had nothing but his sacred bow witch he held out in front of him. He did not feel sorry for their deaths. As He witnessed all the dead bodies, he wished he was dead too, but before he goes, he yearns for revenge. Black Elk ended his experience thinking that there might be a day they could have their revenge....
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...The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia He argues that euthanasia as international killing goes against natural law because it violates the natural inclination to preserve life. Furthermore, in Gay-William’s view, both self-interest and possible practical effects of euthanasia provide reasons for rejecting it. is slowly gaining acceptance within our society. the result of unthinking sympathy and benevolence. Case study: Karen Quinlan’s tragic story Elicit from us deep feelings if compassion. We think to ourselves, “She and her family would be better off if she were dead.” To view that if someone better off dead, then it must be all right to kill that person. ▲Gay-William > It is inherently wrong, but it is also wrongly judged from the standpoints of self-interest and of practical effects. The definition of Euthanasia by Gay-William: - involves taking a human life, either one’s own or that of another. - The person whose life is taken must be someone who is believed to be suffering from some disease or injury from which recovery cannot reasonably be expected. - The action must be deliberate and international. Euthanasia is intentionally taking the life of a presumably hopeless person. “Passive euthanasia” – The failure to continue treatment after it has been realized that the patient has little chance of benefitting from it. Misleading and Mistaken In such cases, the person involved is not killed (the first essential aspect of euthanasia), nor...
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...Hamlet and The Lion King, the dead fathers make appearances. Simba’s father appears from heaven and looks down on him while Hamlet’s father appears as a ghost. 6. The kings in both Hamlet and The Lion King were virtuous. 7. The uncles in both Hamlet and The Lion King are not virtuous. 8. Both Hamlet and Simba are misunderstood. 9. Both Hamlet and Simba try to put off what they were supposed to do. Hamlet is supposed to get revenge for his father’s death, and Simba is supposed to reclaim the throne. 10. Neither Hamlet nor Simba really want to kill his uncle. 11. In both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern betray Hamlet. 12. In both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet’s childhood friends, can understand Hamlet better than anyone could. 13. In both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern discuss how they might probe Hamlet for discovering the cause of his supposed madness. 14. In both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern go along with Hamlet’s plan of having everyone attend the play. 15. In both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are unsure of what to do when discovering that the letter Claudius gave them orders that Hamlet be executed. 16. In both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern...
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...James Joyce published The Dead in 1914 it was his final story in the collection of Dubliners. James Joyce was an Irish writer, who had a major impact on the 20th century because of his modernist avant garde style of writing in his most famous work is Ulysses. The Dubliners are also one of the most notable works by Joyce. He was extremely involved in theatrical and literary he even wrote for the Irish Literary Theatre. Joyce was a heavy drinker and he underwent surgery for an ulcer it was a fail operation he passed away on January 11 1941. James Joyce wrote The Dead from an Irish middle class life in Dublin in the early years of the 20th century perspective. Gabriel Conroy is professor and part time book reviewer he is attending Christmastime...
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...published a book titled "The Epic of America". He states that the American dream is a "dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement." Throughout the years since publication, the American dream was something many families were able to achieve, that is until, perhaps, starting around 2008 when the "Great Recession" hit. Many Americans lost their jobs due to the country's fourth-largest investment bank going bankrupt. There was a job shortage, many Americans were laid-off, income was falling, and poverty was rising. Seven years have passed and slowly America has been recovering, but has it recovered enough for the American dream to be alive? For the average American the dream is perhaps a owning a house, car, children, a stay at home parent, medical insurance, vacations, and savings for retirement along with savings for college tuition. In today's society, the American dream is unobtainable because a stay at home parent is rare, bills are a struggle to pay for, vacations are rarely taken, most are not able to save for retirement because of debt, and many college students have to work while in school to pay off their college tuition. The American dream is in fact alive, but out of reach for the average American. In the article "7 facts that show the American Dream is Dead", Eskow states, "There was a time when middle-class families could lead a comfortable lifestyle on one person's earnings...
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...They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour. Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys. I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys. I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad. I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed. I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad. I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire. Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead,...
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