...Caitlyn Jenner's ESPY Award BCOM/275 June 1st , 2015 An ESPY Award is presented by the network ESPN to recognize individual and team athletic achievement and other sports-related performance during the the year and is followed by an annual ceremony presenting the award. The article I located covers who this year’s award is being presented to, Caitlyn Jenner. This has been a very controversial subject as many people believe there are other people who should have been chosen instead. Nesheim (2015), “Almost 40 years ago, Bruce Jenner’s Olympic success came as a result of strengthening both his mind and body leading to his status as one of the world’s greatest athletes, but the decision to publicly come out as a transgender woman took a different kind of courage and acceptance of one’s self. To celebrate that bravery, ESPN today announced that Jenner will be presented with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at The 2015 ESPYS Presented by Capital One. Presented annually to individuals whose contributions transcend sports, the Arthur Ashe Courage Award is the pinnacle of the sports celebration, which will be televised Wednesday, July 15, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC from Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE.” I personally do not think Cailtlyn, Bruce, Jenner should be given the ESPY award. I think there are many other athletes such as Army veteran Noah Galloway. He lost his arm and leg in Iraq and then went on to become a competitor on Dancing with the Stars, it was said he was the runner-up for the...
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...Transgenders Deserve Respect Caitlyn Jenner used to be known as a former Olympic track runner and a father of ten children, but today, he is known as one of the role models for the LGBT community. She made her first appearance on the ESPY Awards and expressed her thoughts on what the transgender community should have. It was difficult for her to come out of the closet, but luckily, she received love and support from her loved ones. Countless people look up to her for being inspiring and courageous. She is still learning new things of what a girl physically deals with. Caitlyn stated, “Thousands of transgender people are coming to terms with being true to who they are” and yet, they are being humiliated, abused, becoming homeless, and worst...
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...Born William Bruce Jenner on October 28th, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York, to Esther Ruth and William Jenner, Bruce’s siblings were Lisa, Pam, and Burt. The legend of Bruce Jenner was conceived and where he increased fame as an all American Hero, and unofficially being baptized the “World’s Greatest Athlete”, was when he won the Decathlon gold medal during the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. In 1977, Jenner donned the cover of the Wheaties box, called the breakfast of champions, and developed into a cultural icon. Married three times to three different women Bruce Jenner was considered a ladies’ man. Chrystie (Scott) Crownover his first wife, Linda Thompson his second, and Kris Jenner his third, furthermore Jenner is the father of six children, three boys and three girls, Burton, Cassandra, Brandon, Sam,...
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...Kendall Jenner and Her Racy Modeling Photo Cynthia Park COMM/310 June 9, 2014 Terry Marler Kris Jenner, the mother of the infamous Kardashian clan, has recently been in the news due to a scandalous photo of her 18 year old daughter, Kendall Jenner, which she shared through Twitter. Kendall is shown topless in the photo, covering her breasts with her hands. This photo was taken for the catchy “In Bed with W Magazine” Campaign. Although this photo is very racy, the news outlets that were discussing this photo were more concerned that Kendall’s mother, Kris Jenner, was extremely proud of this photo. In the interview that Kris Jenner had with Huffington Post Live, she stated that “She has like, the perfect body, especially one that wants to be in the modeling business. I don’t know, I got a lot of curves and I couldn’t pull that off. But she always looks remarkable.” This interview had many news outlets struggling with the fact that Kris Jenner is very open and honest about her 18 year old daughter and her approval of these photos seems to be too aggressive. There was one show in particular that was very prejudiced when it came to Jenner and her views on her children, especially with this photo. The show, The Young Turks (TYT), had four different analysts that were sharing their opinions on what they would do in their own lives and giving Kris Jenner quite a bit of backlash on her view of her daughter. The points that each show had made was sharing the fact that not...
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...Smallpox and Vaccination Images are a significant tool in the history because it elucidates feelings, behavior and new tendencies in society (Leggat 1995). In the history of vaccines, it is not different; there are many pictures that explain reality in different societies at different times. From this context, this essay will analyze two pictures that link smallpox early attempts of treatment in two different societies. The first selected picture was found in AIDS: The Burdens of History a book wrote by Fee and Fox in 1988. The image explains the early vaccination technique called “Jennerian vaccine” that was a prodigious improvement in the history of medicine. I believe that this picture was intentionally made to show how the vaccination worked and its safety to all population, including children. As we can see, this 187-year-old picture presents four people who are essential to demonstrate the accurate and innovatory technic. The mother in this picture represents the maternal care and the responsibility that parents need to have with their children. Another interesting point in this picture can be found in the doctor’s face; his face demonstrates a seriousness and responsibility, which are essential qualities for a good doctor. I wonder if the purpose of this picture is bring focus to the importance of the vaccination to ordinary people. I imagine that during the outbreak of smallpox, the population was very scared, and the leak of information about vaccination contributed...
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...In the United States, 90% of parents vaccinate their children and follow the recommended schedule. That is about twenty-eight immunizations against fourteen different diseases in the first two years of life. But, at least 10% of parents skip or delay some shots, and around 1% do not vaccinate at all "Vaccines-Calling the Shots". Most people have gotten at least vaccinated once in their lives. Doctors use vaccines as sort of a boot camp for immune systems from adults to small children. The way it works is by using a dead or weakened virus that would imitate the real virus if it attacks. The immune system responds by attack to virus and leaving behind white blood cells that know how to fight the virus now. Vaccines came from Dr. Edward Jenner. He was the first man to deliberately inoculate people with a mild, non-fatal disease called "cowpox" that came from a similar strain to smallpox, thus making people immune to the virus. He called his technique "vaccine” from "vacca" Latin for cow "Vaccines-Calling the Shots"....
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...CHAPTER 1 1.1INTRODUCTION Leprosy is caused by mycobacterium called leprea. The Norwegian doctor amuer Hansen isolated the bacterium in 1875. Leprosy is also called hansen’s disease after him, although it is first human pathogenic bacterium causing disease in man, though it has not been cultured in laboratory (rees.r. 1939). A large number of people in this world are exposed to these dangerous diseases, some of the conditions are likely to harm the health and mental of the patients. The challenges of leprosy and the stigma following the diseases had been universal. The extent and size of the stigma varies from country to country depending on the level of the spread of the diseases. Leprosy has long been stigmatized because of visible deformities resulting from progressive and permanent physical disabilities associated with the disease. These may triggers physical and psychological isolation (Brycegon, 1990). The history of leprosy stigma is as old as the history of leprosy. In Western Europe it reached its peak in the middle ages. Since the church puts leprosy unclear people used to carry bales in order to notify (signal) their presence so that starts to worsen leprosy stigma. A study of stigma has continued to show that leprosy is more common and sevior as compared to developed countries. Ethiopia, being one of the developing countries is also a victim of this diseases and stigma that occurs following this diseases. In Ethiopia leprosy was identified as a major health problem...
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...Almost 100 years after Jenner, Louis Pasteur attempted to develop immunizations for other diseases aside from smallpox. Pasteur injected chickens with an attenuated form of cholera and then demonstrated how the chickens were immune to the fully virulent strain of cholera. This allowed to Pasteur to realize that exposure to weakened strains of a disease could cause immunity against that disease. After recognizing this, Pasteur attempted to create a vaccine for anthrax. Pasteur obtained cultures of the anthrax bacterium and then conducted an experiment involving farm animals; the results of which was the immunization of 70 animals. The success of his experiment attested that exposure to a weakened strain of a disease could lead to immunity. During Pasteur’s life, he was able to expand on Jenner’s work and provide explanations for aspects of vaccination that Jenner was not able to. The impact of the vaccine has been unparalleled in history. In the past two hundred years, many vaccines have been created by applying Jenner and Pasteur’s work. Extraordinarily, atments before, now have vaccinations. The World Health Organization states that vaccinations save approximately 2.5 million lives every year from diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, and measles. Every day, scientists...
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...The Kardashian’s and Jenner’s are very interesting families with many weird things about them. What if someone were to give them their own day? Well there would be a few reasons why I believe they should get a day and some of them include ones that I am about to share. Both of these families are very busy and always up to something weather its weird, funny or is something important. Many things go on in their lives, and this is why they have their own reality TV show, though it is called Keeping up with the Kardashians it also includes the other sisters which are the Jenner’s. Now having a show is nice but I believe that all of the people who watch the show agree with me that they deserve a day to their self’s every year. Most of them have...
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...In the first years after the pandemic, Paul Lewis continued to head the Henry Phipps Institute at the university of Pennsylvania. Lewis was one of the people that believed that B Influenza caused the disease and continued to work on it after the pandemic passed. The reason people said that he continued work on it was because he made a vaccine that seemed to work. The navy administered a vaccine prepared by his method to several thousand of man and women but came out ineffective. Lewis made a small batch that he personally prepared and tested and came effective only towards the peak of the pandemic, not into later stages the vaccines took effect to the disease because the disease itself was weakening. Only three out of six people that received the vaccine got pneumonia and no deaths, but this was solid evidence for effectiveness. In 1917 he was invited to give the Annual Lecture on Tuberculosis then eighty-five years later Dr. David Lewis Aronson a man that worked for the best European laboratories considered Paul Lewis the smartest man he had ever met. Lewis view broadened and he became interested in mathematics and biophysics. Lewis with no resources of his own he asked Flexner. Lewis wanted to examine fluorescent dyes and the disinfectant power of light. Lewis went up from $3,500 to $5,000 before the war. Flexner considered him underpaid but that changed after the war, University of California offered him professorship but Lewis declined, University of Pennsylvania paid...
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...FRUITFUL QUESTIONS AMY BURNS JOURNAL #3 DR. BARRY POLLICK WRITING 101S, KADENA AFB 500 Hedgehog or Fox? Intellectual or the Artistic? Which is better? Fruitful Questions by James Sollisch emphasizes the importance of looking at things and problems more than one way in order to come up with a solution. This essay reminds me of a fable by Isiah Berlin told to me by an old professor of mine. In this fable the fox is a cunning creature, able to devise a myriad of complex strategies for sneak attacks upon the hedgehog. Day in and day out, the fox circles around the hedgehog’s den, waiting for the perfect moment to pounce. Fast, sleek, beautiful, and crafty—the fox looks like the sure winner. The hedgehog, on the other hand, is a dowdier creature, looking like a genetic mix-up between a porcupine and a small armadillo. He waddles along, going about his simple day, searching for lunch and taking care of his home. The fox waits in silence at the juncture in the trail. The hedgehog, minding his own business, wanders right into the path of the fox. The fox thinks he has the sure advantage now. He leaps out, bounding across the ground, lightning fast. The little hedgehog, sensing danger, looks up and thinks, “Here we go again. Will he ever learn?” Rolling up into a perfect little ball, the hedgehog becomes a sphere of sharp spikes, pointing outward in all directions. The fox, bounding toward his prey, sees the hedgehog defense and calls off the attack. Retreating back to the...
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...Edward Jenner was born in 1749 and died in 1823. Edward Jenner’s great gift to the world was his vaccination for smallpox. This disease was greatly feared at the time as it killed one in three of those who caught it and badly disfigured those who were lucky enough to survive catching it. Edward Jenner was a country doctor who had studied nature and his natural surroundings since childhood. He had always been fascinated by the rural old wives tale that milkmaids could not get smallpox. He believed that there was a connection between the fact that milkmaids only got a weak version of smallpox – the non-life threatening cowpox – but did not get smallpox itself. A milkmaid who caught cowpox got blisters on her hands and Jenner concluded that it must be the pus in the blisters that somehow protected the milkmaids. Jenner decided to try out a theory he had developed. A young boy called James Phipps would be his guinea pig. He took some pus from cowpox blisters found on the hand of a milkmaid called Sarah. She had milked a cow called Blossom and had developed the telltale blisters. Jenner ‘injected’ some of the pus into James. This process he repeated over a number of days gradually increasing the amount of pus he put into the boy. He then deliberately injected Phipps with smallpox. James became ill but after a few days made a full recovery with no side effects. It seemed that Jenner had made a brilliant discovery. He then encountered the prejudices and conservatism of the medical...
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...Middle East during the 10th century. Asians and Middle Eastern people collected samples of dry tissues from the scabs of smallpox survivors and would put it into healthy people’s bodies. The process of variolation consisted of making a wound on a person’s arm and inserting the dry tissues scabs in the wound to contract the virus and obtain immunity from it. This early method of vaccination protected the individual from getting the smallpox disease (Nazarko, 2013). Throughout the 18th century in Europe, people were still dying from smallpox. Every year a mass of 400,000 people would die from smallpox and one-third of the population lost their vision (Nazarko, 2013).In 1796, Edward Jenner became the godfather of vaccinations (Nazarko, 2013).The discovery of vaccines was brought to light after Jenner purposely implanted or inoculated the disease of cowpox to an 8-year-old boy, the inoculation resulted in stimulating a resistance to smallpox, the young boy did not contract the virus and had built the proper immunity to fight off the disease. Edward Jenner’s discovery became one of the most important steps in medical science. Jenner’s astonishing finding on vaccines opened the doors to the discovery of numerous types of vaccinations that have helped the world eradicate a considerable number of deadly viruses and bacteria (Nazarko, 2013). Vaccines have contributed to human’s life tremendously by preventing six million deaths worldwide (Andre, 2011). Unfortunately, the development of...
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...hooves instead of hands and their long and flaccid ears. In short, these people were turning into cows. Also illustrated in the center of Gilray’s cartoon was a doctor holding a syringe and gazing into the distance: Edward Jenner. People felt that vaccines were so absurd and dangerous that they were capable of transmute a human being. Jenner’s cowpox vaccine eventually permitted the elimination of smallpox off the face of the earth. In modern day, this ignorant fear seems rather amusing hence in most parts of the world, we have become accustomed to the method and reason of science. Although we do not possess the fear that a vaccine can turn people into cows, we do possess another fear: the fear of...
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...38). Immediate/Long Term effects of Inoculation: The British were rumored to have been inoculated against the disease (with the goal of mass spreading the disease), but were still susceptible to outbreaks [undermines reputability/efficacy of inoculation] (Pybus 38) Many doctors were unskilled and did not know much about how the body works, so their attempts at inoculation lacked sterility, cleanliness, and general sanitary conditions that we expect from modern physicians. As a result, the effects of inoculation were not clear because soldiers were still likely to die of infection (Rienti 9). Zabdiel Boylston was the first to inoculate for smallpox, but this experimentation led to the eventual creation of a vaccine for smallpox by Edward Jenner. As a result of Boylston’s trials with inoculation, smallpox became the first disease to ever (almost) completely be eradicated from the population (Spatz...
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