Mr. Gawande starts his literature on washing hands. He introduces two friends a microbiologist and an infectious disease specialist. Both work hard and diligently against the spread of diseases just like Semmelweis who is mentioned in the chapter. Something I learned, that not many realize, is that each year two million people acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Mainly because the clinicians only wash their hands one-third to one-half as many times as they should. Semmelweis, mentioned earlier, concluded in 1847 that doctors themselves were to blame for childbed fever, which was the leading cause of maternal death in childbirth. The best solutions are apparently the sanitizing gels that have only recently caught on in the U.S. Then there was an initiative to make the sanitizing easier for all. The engineer Perreiah came up with solutions that gave the staff more time which was revolutionary in itself but the format worked only under his supervision. After he left it all went down the drain, so, Lloyd a surgeon who had helped Perreiah decided to do more research and was excited when he encountered the positive deviance idea, the idea of building on people’s capabilities instead of trying to change them. The idea worked and even got funding for ten more hospitals across the country. At the end of the chapter Dr.Gawande ponders upon the idea of how many he has infected because of his lack of cleansing.…
Loung Ung-the author- is an average middle-class five year old. She has three older brothers, two older sisters and a younger sister. Her parents “ma” and “pa” have been married since they were teenagers. On April 17, 1975 the Ung’s life style would be changed for the rest of their lives, when the Khmer Rouge soldiers arrive in the family’s village. The soldiers quickly move all the families out of the village telling them to pack very little. Loung soon finds herself on an overcrowded truck with many families learning she will never be returning home.…
Throughout April 1989, large numbers of students gathered in Tian'anmen Square, in front of the Forbidden Palace in the centre of Beijing in China. They were demonstrating against political corruption and economic instability. As the crowds continued to grow, so did the displeasure of the government of the People's Republic of China. By the beginning of June, armed soldiers were sent in to suppress the protest. This they did, violently, leaving between 400 and 7000 people dead (because of the lack of freedom of the press in China at the time figures are very unreliable).…
The book starts out with three seemingly different tales, and then merges them all together.…
Ha’s life is negatively affected by where and when she is living. For instance, in the poem titled Mother’s Days, Ha’s mother says, “People can barely afford food.” (Page 15) This shows that in the time that this book takes place, the people of South Vietnam don’t have very much money to spend, even on necessary items. To add to that, in the poem titled Current News, Ha says that every Friday in her class, the students talk about current news, but most of the news is bad. The teacher says “From now on, Fridays will be for happy news,” (Page 18) but no one has anything to say. This shows that, at this time, there is not much good news going around. Additionally, in the poem titled TV news, it says, “A pilot from South Vietnam bombed the presidential…
We should give Hiasl the respect we would give a person. Giving Hiasl respect would show him care but, we should still keep him in his own habitat in case anything goes wrong with his mindset of humans.…
When it comes to corrections, it covers all the legal reactions of society to some illegal behavior. (9)…
5. In Guangzhou what does Leah learn about the political situation in China? (page 22)…
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MING (10) got into a serious accident and looses his sense of hearing. Because of the accident, Ming has to attend a school for children with special needs and starts to avoid his friends because he is afraid that his friends know he is deaf and dumb. Young Ming has to fight with extreme loneliness since then. 19-years-old Ming gets falsely accused of being a peeping Tom. While the girl’s brothers threaten him, MING’S MOTHER comes out to ask what’s happening. After listening to the girl’s accusation, mother forces him to apologize to her, although Ming is telling her the truth. After they het home, he writes her a note that says “I’m deaf, but I have my dignity.” Then, mother acknowledges that she blamed her son wrongly, but does not know how to fix it right.…
She enjoys being in her mother’s presence especially when she gets to get driven in the cyclo with her mom. When she takes a cyclo she sits on Ma’s lap and “bounces and laughs as the driver pedals through the congested city streets” (2). Loung Ung also enjoys going with Ma and Pa to a noodle shop for breakfast with her other siblings. Ma is usually the one who yells at Loung for misbehaving but Loung respects what she says. For example, Ma yells at Loung to sit still and asks, “Don’t you ever sit still? You are five years old. You are the most troublesome child” (2). Being that Ma’s scolding needs to be acknowledged, Loung listens to her mother and behaves. At the beginnng of the memoir, Loung simply explains her daily life in Phnom Penh, which consists of spending time with her family, going to school, and playing with her…
One tragic event in China, which was the Tiananmen square massacre sparked the curiosity of Grace specially for the safety of Chun-mei during that event. For the first time in her life she asked a question to Kevin her adoptive dad about Chun-mei. An example is a scene that happened in the book, ”What about Chun-mei?” I asked. “I’m sure she’s alright,too.” our eyes met briefly. I look away. It was the first time I had said the name Chun-mei without anger. Because of this tragic event, it was the very first time Grace thought about the safety of her mother Chun-mei. It also sparked her interest on what is happening in China even though she hated her cultural heritage when she was a child. A few years have passed, Grace started to learn how to speak and write Mandarin with the help of Mr. Frank. After years of learning she started to appreciate the idea of being able to speak in another language Grace quoted that “Many times, I basked in the sense of superiority it gave me.” (Ting Xing Ye 121). Grace starts to appreciate the beauty and benefit of speaking Mandarin even though she abominated her culture when she was a child. She starts to feel superior of being able to speak Chinese since she is the only person in Milford that can speak it. Grace hated the idea of stereotyping other Asians saying they're all the same and she classifies all of them are different,…
2. Why does Tan’s mother go out of her way to prepare a traditional Chinese dinner for her daughter and her guests?…
Huong uses careful diction to portray the perspective of Hang as she travels through her journey and comes to her own realizations. Huong writes, “I understood something, perhaps for the first time: In every life, there must come a moment when what is most sacred, most noble, in us evaporates into thin air. In a flash of lucidity, the values we have honored and cherished reveal themselves in all their poverty and vulgarity, as they had to this girl. From this moment, no one is spared. (Huong 85)” In this quote Hang comes to a crucial moment in her life where she realizes the other side of her culture, the…
One of the new friends I imagine myself making is Kuo Keung, a potential junior from China. Kuo has visited America in the past due to his parent’s involvement in commercial trading policies between China and the U.S. He is proficient in both English and Chinese and his American accent and pronunciation are relatively fluent. Kuo’s birthday was in December and his parents had promised him the opportunity of attending the 3 week program in the U.S. as a gift for his 16th birthday. I learned many things about his life back home and most of the details had shocked me. At first, he told me that he was home-schooled by his mother and that he had no siblings. In addition, he described China and emphasized how its landscapes were far different than…