In “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space”, Brent Staples explains the impact he has on other people just for being an African American man. Writing for an audience of black men who have experienced discrimination. With a wise, inoffensive voice, but somewhat of a neutral tone, the author uses figurative language, writing techniques and diction to explain his purpose of writing this essay to explain to his readers of his past experience of being a black man in public places and the effect it has caused in his life.…
John Flynn was born in the gold rush town of Moliagul on the 25th November 1880, as the third child to Thomas and Rosetta Flynn. It is said that Flynn’s later interest in bringing medical…
The book Bringing Adam Home by Les Standiford and Detective Joe Matthews, is the story of the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh. Adam Walsh was abducted by a stranger from a Sears store parking lot on July 27th, 1981 in Hollywood, FL. This case gained national publicity and changed the way law enforcement responded to cases such as this one. Convicted serial killer Ottis Toole confessed over twenty times to the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh. He knew details of the case that only the perpetrator would know. Toole would not be formally declared responsible until some twenty seven years later. There are four main points that will be critiqued…
The structure also shows the development of the Colonists fighting like the British soldiers, with precision and uniformity, to using both British tactics and Native American hit and run tactics. The structure is what helps the audience follow the military’s changes and transformations. The scope of the book is clear, the reader knows what Dr. Grenier is going in his book. The strengths of this book are the historians he included in his introduction. For example, he used one the most influential historian, Russell F. Weigley, because he suggested that, “Americans have created a singular military heritage.”…
In 1914, during the Second World War, soldiers were dying like flies with massive numbers of dead at over 10 million. Automatic rifles and artillery fire were no respecters of person, nor was chemical warfare, no matter what side you were fighting on. If a bullet didn’t kill a soldier, it was almost a death sentence if he was wounded in battle, no matter how minor the wound. This death sentence was caused by wound infections, and the doctors in the field hospitals were working fervently to save lives. Alexander Fleming was one of those doctors.…
Matthew and Greg Jaffe (the author of the Washington Post article on Matthew returning home) will be interviewed at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia on Monday May 9 starting at 11 AM. If you cannot work the live WEBcast into your day, it will be available in the Miller Center archives.…
Robert Morgan claims that the problems caused by westward expansion were not the fault of a few famous people but of common citizens.The claims of Robert Morgan are reasonable. To support this claim,the three text used will be, “ Thomas Jefferson’s America, 1801” --Stephen Ambrose, “Reporting to the President, September 23- December 31, 1806” (pages 418-21) -- Stephen Ambrose, and “ Chief Joseph Speaks…” --Chief Joseph.…
Colonel A G Butler DSO, The Official History of the Australian Army Medical services in the War of 1914-1918, Volume 1 (Melbourne: Australian War Memorial, 1930).…
The essay by Brent Staples, “Just Walk On By” is popular because most everyone has been exposed to a form of racism in their own lives. In today’s society, we are “judged” every day. Whether is it on appearance, our speech, or our standing in the social crowd, it is happening. Staple brings this point home when he said, “I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I’d come into – the ability to alter public space in ugly ways.” (236-237). When we are young and trying to “prove ourselves” to our peers, playing by the rules is not necessarily the way it is handled. Being accepted into the group is very important to our self-esteem. We can see clearly how these ghosts of old prejudices continue to haunt…
Adam Marcus`s presentation on cancer research fits into what we are currently learning about in many ways. We are currently learning about mutations and how they can affect an individual or population and Dr. Marcus kept talking about mutations. Dr. Marcus also talked about sequencing DNA, which we have also been learning about. Dr. Marcus and his team are researching a cure for cancer. Cancer is not just caused by one mutation, but by multiple mutations stacking on top of one another. If you can find the mutation that is at the bottom the stack and remove it, all of the other mutations fall down.…
In “Just Walk on By” the author, Brent Staples, uses his real life experiences and gives a great explanation to how the blacks were mistreated during his lifetime. The stories that he tells in this article take place during the center of the Civil Rights Movement. He gives us several stories in this article of situations that he was put in. The first paragraph of his article really grabs the reader's attention. He starts off with “My first victim was a woman white, well-dressed probably in her early twenties.” This first statement grabs you and makes you want to read more. He also uses excerpts of other black men who dealt with the same situations as he did. Brent Staples’ purpose of this article is to show that in today's society the same…
John, the narrator’s husband, follows the typical role of a male doctor in the Victorian era, as he is the head of the…
Few doctors in Colonial America actually received a formal education through a medical school, because there was really only one school: the Pennsylvania Hospital (Rorke, n.d.). This program was far too expensive and for some located too far away, thus they could not attend. Furthermore, because of the lack of complete knowledge, these schools would not have provided any more information than one would obtain by learning from another doctor, which in most cases would be a much cheaper education, thus, most doctors learned through apprenticeships. They had to complete a 7 year apprenticeship before being considered a doctor. Of course there were Quacks, or citizens who pretended to have…
2) Identify and compare the medical practices of the Middle Ages by the Anglo-Saxon physicians to those of the Greeks and Romans.…
During the mid-18th to late 19th-century medical education/training did not exist, during this time the practice of medicine was not seen as a profession. Everyone who had the desire to be physician could practice medicine, even without any scientific knowledge. According to Shi and Singh (2015), “from about 1800 to 1950, medical training was largely received through an individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician” and not through university education as is do it in the present (p. 87). In the United Stated (U.S.), during the preindustrial era, the American medicine was falling behind compared to the medical education, medical advances and research in Europe. Additionally, medical procedures in the U.S. were primitive and lack a scientific base to support them. “By 1800, only four medical schools existed in the U.S.: College of Philadelphia, King’s College, Harvard Medical School, and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College” (Shi & Singh, 2015, p.87). The medical schools that existed during 1800 were owned and managed by physicians and lacked practical clinical education in hospitals, also required less than the actual years of education for graduation.…