...Analysis Of The Text «Doctor In The House» By Richard Gordon This text is an extract from the book “Doctor in the house” by Richard Gordon, a famous English writer, who was born in 1921. He has been an anaesthetist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, a ship's surgeon and an assistant editor of the British Medical Journal. He left medical practice in 1952 and started writing his "Doctor" series. "Doctor in the House" is one of Gordon's twelve "Doctor" books and is noted for witty description of a medical student's years of professional train¬ing. This text is narration with elements of dialogues. The style of written prose is formal. Author mainly uses past tenses, but present – in dialogues. In that text Author shows us in detail the process of examination, but tries to show it through different actions and feelings of students during the passing the exams. The main character is medical student R. Gordon. Author tells us about him nothing, because he wants to say that Gordon is an ordinary student. Author uses indirect method of characterization, and we can learn something of him only through his feelings. And we see the exams through his own eyes. The story is told from first person narration. The composition of this text consists of the following components: exposition, when the author gives the concept of an examination. Narration, when the author describes passing the examinations, written paper and viva, also an interesting story about marking the papers at Cambridge. The tension...
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...Daniel Watts English 135 February 12, 2009 John Mario is a seven-year-old student at Mustang Middle School. Everyday his parents yell and punish him for things he says he can't control. His parents are tired of getting angry phone calls from his teachers about his absentmindedness, random outbursts and inconsistency to sit still. Katherine, John's mother, brings home a pamphlet on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) she got from an associate at her work. The two parents read over the pamphlet for a few days and eventually take John to a pediatric neurologist who specializes in helping children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. After a few months of therapy with the doctor John has learned to control most of his symptoms of ADHD but still can't control all of them. Laurence, John's father, believes John is acting out for attention where as Katherine wants to give the therapy more time to work. John's parents argue over their son's actions almost as if on a daily basis and eventual have a deep emotional impact on John. The short tale of John Mario bears common resemblance to many households across the world. People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are looked down upon or cast aside from society because of their inability to conform to society's standards. If people took the time to study and be patient with ADHD diagnosed people then there won't be many cases like John Mario's. There are several symptoms of ADHD with the most noticeable...
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...Health Patterns: The Taylor Family Amber D. Yancoskie Grand Canyon University: NRS-429 Family Centered Health Promotion December 9, 2012 Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns is a system that was created by Marjorie Gordon in 1987. This system served as a guide to establishing a broader nursing database. Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns consist of values/health perception, nutrition, sleep/rest, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive, self perception, role relationship, sexuality, and coping. Assessment is the first tool in the nursing process in formulating health care plans for the individual as well as the family. A thorough assessment lays groundwork to promote family health (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The patterns of functional health can be used to determine how a family interacts with one another and deals with their everyday life. According to Catherine Ross, a professor at the University of Illinois; “It is in the family that the macro-level social and economic order affects individual physical and emotional well-being” (Mirowsky, Goldsteen & Ross, 1990 para.1). This essay will describe the health patterns of the Taylor family by using specific questions personalized to each of the 11 functional health patterns. The Taylor family is comprised of Judy, 52 years old and David, 53 years old. The two have been separated for more than fifteen years and have three adult children and five grandchildren. Joshua, the eldest is 28 years old and engaged...
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...Abortion has been an issue since 1820. In the beginning the problem was more about protecting doctors who have licenses. “Regular doctors thus had an incentive to ban abortion as part of an effort to drive irregular doctors many of whom were women out of business” (Straggenborg, 1991). The AMA (American Medical Association), which was the group that the regular doctors made, started a campaign that made the people believe that the white population was getting smaller and the population of the immigrants was rising. Abortions were made illegal to insure the stability of the population of American citizens. It seems odd that the only reason that abortions were made illegal at one point was because of money issues and a lust for white supremacy. It seemed to have nothing to do with the rights of a child or a woman. One of the reasons why abortion came into question in the beginning of the 1950s was due to the fact that a lot of doctors and lawyers were seeing many cases of illegal abortions and it was becoming a large social problem. Since there was a lack of competition for legal abortions, doctors found no problem making them legal again -- “They felt that abortions were justified under certain circumstances, and they began to see the laws against abortion as an infringement on their own medical discretion” (Straggenborg, 1991). And so the issue arose again with many pro- choice groups speaking up. Then with court cases like Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade, abortion again...
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...Functions of Management Management is proficient throughout the four functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. According to Bateman-Snell, planning is the management function of systematically making decisions about the goals and activities that an individual, a group, a work unit, or the overall organization will pursue in the future. For that reason, the necessary functions of management can be broken down into four diverse areas, planning the intentional to handle the tactical, deliberate and operational choices for the association. Organizing is the institute’s role of gathering and synchronizing individual, monetary, substantial, informational, and additional sources required to attain objectives. Leading is the management function that absorbs the manager's attempts to encourage elevated routines by employees. Controlling is the management function of scrutinizing development and building desirable transformation. Planning is a management function utilized to position preset policies by harmonizing a stringent system of gatherings and or consultation calls to correspond the purposes specified by the chain of command. Studies of the present promotional atmospheres and international situations will aid in the design of the possible strategy so that barriers can be evaded. It is imperative not to holdup in preparation because of time limits and swiftly altering marketplace atmospheres. Management appraises their present place in...
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...Anorexia Nervosa are slowly gripping a part of the female adolescent to young adult population. Although, Anorexia Nervosa has only been public since the 1970’s, records of the disorder go back as far as 1689. Thomas Morton, an English physician, studied subjects with a disorder he called the “wasting” disease. He had two cases, which were very similar. One was an eight-teen yr. old girl and the other was a six-teen yr. old boy. Both subjects had similar symptoms. They both had a strong lack of appetite, sensitivity to coldness, and extreme sadness. The girl eventually starved herself to death; however, the boy did recover (Gordon, 1990, p. 12 -13). Throughout the centuries there have been many cases of girls “fasting”, and not due to religious purposes. In the 1870’s the disorder became a topic of more medical concern. It happened around the time two doctors, Sir William Gull and Charles Lasegue, simultaneously published...
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...Gordon’s Health Assessment Framework (Functional Health Patterns) CLIENT PROFILE: Client Initials: LT Date of Birth: 20 September 1975 Marital Status: Married Gender: Female Ethnicity: Chinese Occupation: Full time Registered Nurse working from Monday to Friday in an acute hospital Religion: Christianity Education: Bachelor of nursing Primary Language: English Usual Health Practitioner(s): 1 General Practitioner / Family doctor 2 Gynaecologist & Breast Surgeon at hospital – yearly check-up 3 Chinese Traditional Medicine Physician – for ……… CHILDHOOD / ADULT ILLNESSES There were no significant childhood illnesses that LT could recalled. LT acquired White Coat Hypertension since her 30’s. She does monitor her blood pressure frequently especially she feels fatigue. She manage the symptoms with low salt healthy balance diet, regular non-strenuous exercise, and relaxation techniques. This year, she had a unplanned pregnancy and was miscarriage due to foetus no heart beat. IMMUNISATIONS LT was born in Singapore and has completed all the compulsory/ recommended/neccessary National Childhood and Adolescent Immunisation, ---- Family Health Service, Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore. (provide website) She also completed other Optional Vaccinations as follow: Flu vaccines prior to her year-end overseas vacation trips, HPV vaccine Tetanus vaccine Chicken pox vaccine HOSPITALISATIONS (List...
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...Under the Silk Cotton Tree: A Healing Narrative for Grenada In Under the Silk Cotton Tree, Jean Buffong tries to recreate a prelapsarian, pristine, pre-communist, 1950s or 60s picture of Grenada that can heal Grenadian society after its violent history. What stands out in this novel is that, even though Grenada has had such a violent political history, it does not even mention politics. It is as if Buffong has given up on politics; so much so that she does not even bother to critique it any more. Yet she does critique corrupt religious figures, from obeah practitioners to those of the higher echelons of the Roman Catholic Church. This suggests that Buffong sets her hopes on a return to an African-based spirituality in harmony with nature and community, illustrated by the novel’s nature symbolism and African-Caribbean religions and folklore. In Healing Narratives, Gay Wilentz develops the idea that “cultures themselves can be[come] ill” from a brutal history of colonial conquest and slavery (1). The colonists’ violent disruption and dislocation of African communities were compounded by the psychological violence caused by the repression of the root culture and the imposition of the dominant culture; conditions which laid the foundation for sick Caribbean communities. Members of these communities suffer from the identity crises caused by the conflict between Western materialism and African spirituality. Although the enslaved Africans clung to their culture to maintain...
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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND The goal of the students in the graduate studies is to acquire a unique experience, to develop more professionally, to sharpen a variety of skills, and to learn some new ones. Graduate education represents mastery of an academic discipline. As distinct from undergraduate education, graduate education provides advance knowledge in the field of study that is characterized by specialized training in the discipline’s theory, research, methodology, and critical analysis. Since graduate education is concentrated, learning is more self-directed and involves more individualized instruction and mentoring than does learning for baccalaureate degree. A master’s degree provides student with the skills necessary to generate new knowledge and to apply existing new knowledge. It also provides student with the professional ethics and values of the discipline. Graduate school is training in research. It is for people who love research, scholarship and teaching for their own sake and for the difference they can sometimes make in the world. (Phil. Agre. 1996). Graduate school generally takes five to eight years. The first year is often the worst. It usually consists of an overwhelming amount of structured reading designed to give general background in the basic text of the particular field. Graduate education requires significant investment of financial and personal resources and...
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...THE MYNISTRY OF EDUCATION AND YOUTH OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA PEDAGOGICAL STATE UNIVERSITY “ION CREANGA” THE FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE THE ENGLISH PHILOLGY CHAIR COURSE PAPER THE MODES OF USING THE DEFINITE ARTICLE IN ENGLISH BASED UPON SHORT STORIES BY AGATHA CHRISTIE. Written by: Popusoi Veronica Student of Group №304 en./sp. Scientific advisor: Vasilache A. Senior – lecturer of English CHISINAU 2014 CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………p. 3 CHAPTER ONE. GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE CATEGORY OF ARTICLE in English.…………………………………………………..p. 5 1.1 Article. General notion. ……………………………...…...………….p. 5 1.2 The Functions of the Definite Article in English……………...…………...p. 7 1.3The Usage of the Definite Article with Class Nouns in English…p.9 CHAPTER TWO. DEFINITE ARTICLE IN USE………………………..p.24 2.1 Practical aspects of Using Definite Article in English..……...p.24 2.2 The Use of Definite Articles in Stories by Agatha Christie..p..32 CONCLUSION ………………………………………………………p.37 BIBLIOGRAPHY ……………………………………………………............p. 38 APPENDIX …………………………………………………………………..p. 44 Introduction Though the article is the part of speech that contains only two words it presents a great difficulty for a student of English. A foreigner can always be told by his wrong use of article. Mistakes in the use of articles...
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...Mexican–American War and the Civil War.[2] His family baptized him at the First Presbyterian Church in 1852.[3] In 1864 his family moved to Valdosta, Georgia.[3] Holliday's mother died of tuberculosis on September 16, 1866, when he was 15 years old.[1] Three months later his father married Rachel Martin. While in Valdosta, he attended the Valdosta Institute,[3] where he received a strong classical secondary education in rhetoric, grammar, mathematics, history, and languages – principally Latin, but also French and some Ancient Greek.[3] Autographed photo of Holliday taken in 1879 in Prescott, Arizona [4] In 1870, the 19-year-old Holliday left home to begin dental school in Philadelphia. On March 1, 1872, he received the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery.[1] Later that year, he opened a dental office with Arthur C. Ford in Atlanta,[4] where he lived with his uncle and his family while beginning his career as a dentist.[5]...
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...international identity and is the reason some people converted. Famous groups like the Rudeboys and Maytals helped Reggae to become what it is today. Reggae music was not always the most popular form of music in Jamaica. Reggae was influenced by the music genre of Jazz that was sweeping the nation. A lot of Jamaicans used Jazz to entertain the tourists. In the 1950’s Jazz Bebop became the new fad music for the youth of Jamaica and Jazz orchestras weren’t as common as in years past. In the 1960’s Ska was introduced and was the first style of music created by Jamaicans, this gave them a sense of identity. Ska was created by working class Jamaicans and they used it to express themselves and tell their stories. It was important because R&B singles weren’t being released as often, and didn’t attract as many listeners as it once did. Ska music consisted of the combination of Caribbean mento, calypso, and Jazz. The main reason for Ska’s popularity was because the music fit the moods of the time. People had the mind state to accept anything unique to Jamaica especially because they just got their independence. The only downside of Ska music was that it was very fast and people exerted so much energy so they couldn’t stay on the dance floor for too long. This led to the popularity of the new musical genre Rocksteady. Its popularity can be contributed to a very hot summer where the people had to dance to a slower type of rock music instead of a more wild pace of...
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...Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Paper Kelly M. White NUR/408 August 10, 2015 Amy Reagan Community Emergency Preparedness and Response The terms “preparedness” and“readiness” can be used interchangeably. Preparedness is defined as the existence of plans, procedures, policies, training, and equipment necessary at the Local, State, and Federal level to maximize the ability to prevent, respond to, and recover from major events (Katz, 2013). Emergency preparedness is essential in assisting with disasters and emergent issues that happen around the world. Media coverage of disasters across the globe occur in real time with an intensity level that makes one believe that natural or manmade disasters happen more frequently. Disasters, in all forms, is a part of life and how we deal with these events depends on how well we are prepared. It is of the utmost importance that all of the population be aware of what to do and who to contact when an event is about to happen or while it is unfolding. A community’s ability to recover and be self-reliant after a disaster also depends on how well the community prepares for and responds to these emergencies. This paper will discuss and examine how the resources and people of the chosen neighborhood responded to the emergency at hand, a forest fire ravaging for more than 5 days (Neighborhood 2.0-News). The Neighborhood There is an uncontained forest fire that has been burning for more than 5 days in a forest west of the Neighborhood...
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...ПРАКТИЧЕСКИЙ КУРС АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА ГУМАНИТАРНЫЙ, ИЗДАТЕЛЬСКИЙ Сканирование, перевод в .d jvu: Суворов УЧЕБНИК ДЛЯ ВУЗОВ ПРАКТИЧЕСКИЙ КУРС АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА 4 КУРС Под редакцией В.Д. Аракина Издание пятое, переработанное и дополненное Рекомендовано Министерством образования и науки Российской Федерации в качестве учебника для студентов высших учебных заведений Москва УМ М АШ Г4АМ ь МЗДЛГЕЛЬСХМ ^ХВПЛЛОС 2006 УДК 811.111(075.8) ББК 81.2Англ-923 ГІ69 В.Д. Аракин , И.А. Новикова, Г.В. Аксепова-Пашковская, С.Н. Бронникова, Ю.Ф. Гурьева, Е.М. Дианова, JI.T. Костина, И.Н. Верещагина, М.С. Страшпикова, С.И. Петрушин Рецензент: кафедра английского языка Астраханского государственного педагогического института им. С.М. Кирова (зав. кафедрой канд. филол. наук Е.М. Стомнель) Практический курс английского языка. 4 курс : учеб. для П69 студ. высш. учеб. заведений / [В.Д. Аракин и д р .]; под ред. В.Д. Аракина. — 5-е изд., перераб. и доп. - М. : Гумалитар. изд. центр ВЛАДОС, 2006. — 351 с. : ил. ISBN 5-691-00978-8 (в пер.). Серия учебников цредцолагаст прсемствешгость в изучении английс кого языка с І по IV курс. Цель учебника — обучение устной речи па основе развития необходимых автоматизированных речевых навыков, развитие техники чтения, а также павыков письменной речи. Учебник предназначен для студентов высших учебных заведений. УДК 811.111(075.8) ББК 81.2Лнгл-923 ISBN 5-691-00978-8 (в пер.) © Коллектив авторов, 2003 ...
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...part 5 Creativity CAS INTERAMERICA 5403 WANETA RD BETHESDA MD 20816 casinteramerica@verizon.net 301-229-0351 Introduction Creativity is the development of ideas new to the individual. It is the one basic element in the methodology that singles out effective VE performance by bringing one closer to the attainment of optimum value. It takes creativity to discover alternate designs, construction methods, systems or processes that will accomplish the required functions of the present way of performing. Part 5.1 Individual creative capability Analysis of function through use of creativity is a principal root of VE requiring that individuals create on schedule. To some, this challenge seems overwhelming. It is similar to asking one to invent a useful object by noon on Friday of every week. Fortunately, everyone possesses some degree of creative ability. Normally an individual's creative potential is much more than he assumes. As a result, innate creative ability can be developed and improved through training and practice. While there is no precise scientific way of measuring creative action, creative behavior and potential can be subjectively evaluated. One can evaluate himself by reviewing the indicators of creative behavior shown in Figure 19. Part 5.2 Problem solving methods There are two approaches to problem solving: the analytical and the creative. a. Analytical approach. The strictly analytical approach is substantially singular in purpose. The...
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