Alexa Kersting's Argumentative Essay

Adversity is something everyone is impacted by somehow in their life. Although, those in medical careers that help extremely sick patients often are dealing with adversity on the daily. In the Final Exam, Pauline Chen the main character and the author of the book a general surgeon and liver specialist is faced with many adverse situations that she needs to deal with. One of such situations is when a little boy is in need of a liver transplant. The 2 year old boy was too small for an adult liver and children livers are a rare thing to be able to use.

Josie’s death shouldn’t have happened, and would’ve probably been avoided if someone took the time to truly listen to her mother’s concerns. Reading Josie’s story opened my eyes to the dire need of communication between the medical team and patients and/or family members. Sorrel, Josie’s mother, tried numerous times to alert the medical team of the changes observed in her daughter, yet no one listened. She highlights the severe breakdown in communication and the necessary steps needed to rectify our medical

Alvarez uses Minerva’s demand that her father earn her respect to show how she created her own inner strength and power in order to challenge her gender role. The discovery that Minerva’s father has another family and has kept it a secret leads Minerva to feel betrayed. In response to his excuses she says, “’I don’t owe you a thing,’ I said. My voice was as sure and commanding as his. ‘You’ve lost my respect’” (Alvarez 89). Minerva needs people to earn her respect; she is not going to hand it out to anyone. She has morals and her father has broken them, so he doesn’t deserve her respect – as a male he thinks he has the authority to do this, but she knows better. Minerva challenges the female portrayal by not blindly listening and following

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is a unique three-part narrative that follows a variety of perspectives while following the transformation – both physically and spiritually – of Kalanithi. Following his diagnosis of Stage IV metastatic lung cancer, the Stanford University neurosurgical resident found himself once again questioning: “What makes human life meaningful?” Through his education, both in the humanities and the sciences, Kalanithi found that literature and medicine supplement one another. By having the relationship he does with literature and medicine, Kalanithi is a step above other physicians from a humanistic standpoint. By focusing specifically on the significance of the passage above, the way in which the two subjects complement one another can be further analyzed and appreciated – a concept that arguably seems to be lacking in modern medicine.

It was a dream of mine to partake in normal child activities, but psychologically I wasn’t the same. My cancer had disappeared but not the memories, or my persistence and tenacity. After the chemotherapy I began to find the wonders in science, and decided to become an engineer. My persistence gave me the goal to achieve the status of engineer so I may help others who may not be able to help themselves or improve daily life through science. Cancer hasn’t just left me with memories and scars, instead it gave me the tenacity to overcome any situation comes my way.

It was just a normal afternoon in the life of Kim Roemig, a Cardiology Nurse in Cedar Rapids, when one of her final patients of the day came in. Just as they were waiting to get his medicine, something didn’t feel right. Kim got this instinct that there was something wrong. This man had a heart attack just as the door closed to the Emergency Room, where she pushed him because she knew that something felt different. If it hadn’t have been for Kim, this man would not be with us right now.

Out of the many events of my life that have molded me to aspire to be a physician, a humid August day in 2003 would be the pivotal moment that introduced me into the path of medicine. My father, brother, and I had been working on the front of our house to add on a porch, when my mother pulled up from receiving a routine chest x-ray due to her having influenza, and even as a nine year old child, I could tell by her expression as she approached us that something had gone terribly wrong. With anguish in her eyes, she said, “They found two spots on my lung, and they say it might be cancer.” and in that instant, my world began to collapse in on me. All I understood about cancer at such a young age was that it killed people, devastated lives, and

Chris McCandless was in his early 20’s, he was the kind of that guy that wanted to learn and experience life without all of the material things. He wanted to be independent from his parents and friends so Chris did something that would be insane for most of us humans but to him, it wasn’t. He went into the wild of Alaska for months, in fact, McCandless even thought he could make it out alive at the end of his journey. As a matter of fact, he was known as being a risk taker and enjoyed being out and about in the nature side of the world. Many would believe that Chris McCandless went into the wild to purposely kill himself; however, I myself believe that McCandless did not do it purposely.

Emma Sulkowicz was allegedly raped as sophomore in college at Columbia university. She states that it started off as a consensual sexual encounter, but then she was anally raped. After eight months and hearing from two other girls that had been sexually assaulted by the same man, she went and filed a complaint with the university. The man that was accused was found “not responsible” by the school. This lead Emma to take matters into her own hands and she started the Mattress Performance which was where she would carry her fifty pound mattress with her wherever she went until the accused either left the school or was kicked out. She also filed a police report, which was not pursued based off lack of reasonable suspicion.

Everyone in this diverse world is said to be unique. The unique qualities people have come from their specific talents, personalities, interests, appearances, and so much more. Carlina Powell is one person out of so many in this world, and her qualities make her the unique person we know today.

My great-grandfather Vincenzo negotiated Prohibition by fermenting two barrels of wine a year. It was perfectly legal, he insisted. Vincenzo was lucky to be a New Yorker. In her fine history of Prohibition, “The War on Alcohol,” Lisa McGirr, a professor of history at Harvard, shows us that a poor Italian in Illinois or a black man in Virginia might very well have been jailed, shot or sentenced to a chain

The federal charges Devries face was credit card fraud, money laundering, and embezzlement. The crimes stated above carry 121 months in prison, restitution, and other charges. Everyone in the community wanted to max for each charge, however the suspect made a deal with the state federal prosecutor. Under the circumstances, the deal stood for Devries to serve 110 months in a federal state prison without a chance for parole. The prison’s sentence occurred to be lite from the sentence that was requested by law. Also, heavy fine to reimburse the bank for the money lost, but the suspect will be jailed for a long period of time. In order to see, the refund of the money the victim has to wait for Devires to return from prison and find employment to start to repay of the fund. Not to mention, Rhonda will serve an addition three years of supervised release once finish the jail’s sentence. The supervised release, wills consist of where an ankle bracket or residing in a halfway house, a place where former prison go after completing a prison’s sentence. Overall, the U.S. attorney and the criminal’s attorney on behalf of the suspect of the multiple offenses

Hello, I am Isabel Gardner and I deserve my freedom because of all the cruel and harsh treatments as well as . For starters I am the slave to the most ruthless human being on this planet. Also without me your revolt against Britain would have stopped dead due to the death of General Washington. Also, there are many documents that you yourselves have published talking about freedom and breaking away from your “master”. What I am saying is that I have been through many hardships and have read a lot about freedom so hear me out just this once.

In the early 1800s, the Victoria Sponge Cake became an archetypal teatime pastry that was widely popular in England, although recipes have traveled to North America. Ms. Pontellier often meets with her friends during meals, or to have tea in the afternoon or late at night. The solitude in which Edna and her friend, or friends, will drink their tea provides the perfect opportunity for Edna to discuss her feelings towards her own life and the standards of society that she does not agree with. Teatime can occur at any given time during the day, and may refer to many different occasions such as breakfast, lunch, or a time for chatter. Typically in literature, “whenever people eat or drink together, it’s communion” (Foster 8). Ms. Pontellier shares

Katniss Everdeen sprinted off her platform and raced off into the woods, but just before she could make it she felt a sharp stinging in the back of her leg. She had just gotten shot, but she kept sprinting, only looking back once to see all of her competitors dying around her. As the Hunger Games is a battle to the death, the Olympics are too. Samantha Retrosi, a luger, has been to the Olympics and can point out all of the chilling similarities. Retrosi argument is compelling because she needed money, and she compares the Olympics to the Hunger Games.