An Analysis of Nursing Theory In the Film: Wit Daniel Foytlin Kean University Abstract The Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, by Margaret Edson, was artfully converted to film in 2001. The story details the life and reflections of a brilliant, uncompromising, yet cold-hearted English professor, as she endures an experimental treatment for cancer. The film also provides a stark view of the medical community and its various approaches toward end of life care. The analysis of the film discusses the contrast between various Nursing Models, as viewed through the eyes of the patient and her reactions toward each model. Wit is the story of Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson), a doctor of English literature, who has recently been diagnosed with stage four, metastatic ovarian cancer.
Breast Cancer Power vs. Prosthesis Kathleen Shelton 11/4/2008 Breast Cancer: Power vs. Prosthesis examines society’s views of cosmetic cures/appearances vs. individuality.   Breast Cancer-Power vs. Prosthesis What honestly defines a woman in today’s society? Is it her physical appearance or her individuality? As I read this journal entry by Lorde, I can feel the same sense of loss and anger that she had to endure and overcome. Lorde did express her feelings clearly stating that, “Prosthesis offers that empty comfort of “Nobody will know the difference”.
The President of People for the American Way, Michael Keegan says this is very critical healthcare for millions of low income women. He thinks that if the Republican Party was really interested in preventing unplanned pregnancies, they would be more supportive of organizations that provide affordable contraception. Keegan said that if they Republican Party are interested in public health, they would also be more interested in helping women defend themselves against diseases. He said that if these bills do become laws that millions of American women will lose their access to family planning and reproductive health services. He thinks this bill is
5. Using examples from the reading you have done for this course describe and discuss how the social construction of “beauty” or the “beauty myth” affects women who have been diagnosed with cancer. Throughout history a woman's value has been determined in terms of her physical appearance and ability to mirror a socially constructed idea of beauty that continues within western society. As a result, a woman's body image, feelings of sexual attractiveness, and self-esteem has been negatively influenced by society. Due to society’s creation of unrealistic images of what women are supposed to look like, many women who have lost a breast to cancer with experience a decrease in self-esteem and have other negative emotions.
Header is ½ inch from the top Joan River’s Cure 1 Matthias Eichmann ENG 101 P.M. Gabler, Instructor October 20, 2009 Joan Rivers’ Cure: Will Plastic Surgery Make You Happier? John Cloud (2009)develop a title from your thesis/do not use the title of the article In her new book titled Men Are Stupid…….. And They Like Big Boobs,no quotation marks Joan Rivers writes about the medical details, cost and complications of cosmetic surgery and procedures, nearly all of which she has undergone herself. She also promoted in the New York Timesitalics and on NPR her view that women should have as many cosmetic procedures as they can afford. Rivers believes,“Looking good equals feeling good”(as cited in Cloud, 2009). However, plastic surgery can be a good thing for people who really have a medical reason to undergo those procedures.
In this essay I analyze the rhetorical situation of “A Whisper of AIDS” article and her use of pathos, logos and ethos appeal. Almost nineteen years ago, a HIV positive married mother named Mary Fisher steeped out on faith and gave a speech on the effects of AIDS on her and her family at the 1992 Republican National Convention. Her main goal was to not inform the audience at the convention but the world of the silence surrounding the discussion of AIDS. She emphasizes the problems AIDS was causing and the future problems it will cause if we do not educate ourselves about this disease. Mary Fisher uses her own personal HIV diagnosis as a powerful tool to draw in her audience and get her point across.
The Last Abortion Clinic Americans are still struggling with this intense issue regarding abortion. In The Last Abortion Clinic, FRONTLINE explores the efforts by pro-life advocates to help pass state legislation restricting access to abortion. The video examines the successes of the pro-life movement and touches upon the age-old balance between state and federal authority over Americans' lives. Some major issues that fall within the federal protection vs. those granted to the states by the 10th Amendment, also called the reserved powers amendment because it aims to reserve powers to the states (page 60). The pro-life movement has dramatically changed the landscape of abortion politics.
In, “My Mother’s Abortion,” Beth Matusoff Merfish, NY Times Op-Ed Contributor, argues that despite what conservative republicans may promote, more women who support abortion need to openly and proactively share their experience with abortion. She believes that if this becomes a reality it will help dispel the GOP’s conservative viewpoint on abortion. Merfish also speaks out against recent proposed legislation that, if passed, would deliver a hard blow to the pro-choice movement. She makes certain to fully and clearly disclose to the public that, “legislation would limit abortions after 20 weeks and impose new regulations that would leave just a few abortion clinics open” (Merfish Matusoff, 2013). She further confirms her pro-choice stance when she states, “We were part of the crowd who raised our voices in anger as the Republicans tried to shut down Ms. Davis” (Merfish Matusoff, 2013).
The Nurse’s Dilemma: Being Asked Not To Tell The Nurse’s Dilemma: Being Asked Not To Tell Nurses face ethical dilemmas on a regular basis. As nurses work to provide health care services, we often are asked to participate in ethically questionable activities (Potter, Perry, Stockert, & Hall, 2012). Today, a patient who was newly diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer with metastasis to her bones was admitted to the hospice unit. Her daughter is her primary caregiver and has asked me to deceive her mother by “turning over” my badge and telling her mother that I am from a home health agency. She specifically requested that I “do not say hospice” because she believes that her mother doesn’t know she has been admitted to the hospice unit.
She uses the disease tuberculoses as an example and then goes in an idea of war against disease. After she talks about how military metaphors stigmatize illnesses to people that have that illness. She then goes into a story of how she had cancer and hated how people were so pessimistic about the disease, and how she wants to change the metaphor. In this essay she explains how metaphors stigmatize illnesses in a series of ways. “AIDS and its Metaphors” is an essay written by Susan Sontag.