Today's Date:
December 16, 2024
Airline Travel and Disease Transmission
Airlines are the most common mode of international travel and each year, millions of people from all over the world board planes and enter into foreign countries, bringing with them different cultures, languages, and of course, different pathogens. While disease →
Breastfeeding and the Facts: Toward a More Balanced Form of Advocacy
In a selection from her book, Having Faith, Sandra Steingraber, who has a formal background in the biological sciences and a keen interest in the impact of chemicals on human health, discusses the immense problem with breastfeeding and contaminants through →
End of Life Nursing : Ethical Complexity, Self-Determination and Advocacy
In terms of end of life care, also called palliative care, nurses face some of the most challenging ethical dilemmas in the field of healthcare, especially as they are responsible for patient advocacy. Patient advocacy extends far beyond its basic →
Case Studies for Amnesia
Amnesia involves profound memory loss, which is usually caused by physical brain injury, diseases that attack the brain, or the effects of drugs that alter brain function. Amnesia can also have psychological causes, such as traumatic and emotional events. There →
An Analysis of Shakespeare’s Women
One of the persistent topics of interest in the field of Shakespeare studies is that which considers the various roles that women play in the bard’s comedies and tragedies. Literary and historical scholars affirm that women did not enjoy political, →
Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily: Fallen Monuments and Distorted Relics
William Faulkner was born in 1897 and spent the majority of his life in the South, where he became well acquainted with various character types that inevitably emerge in his stories. Frustrated with school and hoping to find his own →
Social Justice and Language in “Raisin in the Sun” and “The Story”
Language forms part of the backbone of the manifestation of social injustice in literature in two plays that address similar themes, although in vastly different ways and, for that matter, in completely different contexts. The plays in question, “A Raisin →
The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Reductionist Arguments to Define the Unknown
On a surface level, the problem of evil involves a series of questions based on how evil can exist in there is a God, especially if such a God is considered to be an omnipotent figure that might have the →
Portnoy’s Broader Complaint: The Inescapability of Being Jewish
Although it is impotence that initially drives Portnoy to Doctor Spielvogel, his underlying complaint is not overtly sexual in nature: he contends that the very fact of his Jewishness is responsible for the degradation and shame that has cripples him →
