OB Reflection Paper #1 Jacob J. Felix University of Detroit Professor Melissa Major January 11‚ 2015 On Monday January 5th I along with other nursing students were assigned to the OB clinical at Henry Ford Hospital Detroit. We met Professor Melissa Major‚ who was assigned to be our instructor at Henry Ford Hospital Main Campus. We were taken on a tour of the Labor‚ Delivery‚ and Recovery‚ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit‚ and Postpartum. I began to observe how all three areas contribute and coincide
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rights of women affected by it. In spite of tradition‚ religion‚ or cultural beliefs‚ female genital mutilation has proven to be a harmful practice that desecrates the civil liberties of all girls and women affected. Also referred to as female circumcision‚ FGM is practiced in 28 countries in Africa and the Middle East. This “social ritual” causes injury to the female genitalia. The operation‚ often performed by a village elder without the use of anesthesia involves total removal of the clitoris
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William of Saint Thierry’ biography” William of St. Thierry (1070-1148) became a cistercian monk as a result of his infirmity‚ and decided to retire from his position as a Benedictine Abbot.(1135) His Exposition on Romans is the only surviving commentary on Romans from the 12th Century and is described as a monastic text. “William’s aim is not refutation‚ dialectic‚ or scholastic disputation‚ but joy and delight: His goal is humility of heart and devotional purity. Williams motivation is the centrality
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The Role of Women within Orthodox Judaism 1 Since the beginning of the Jewish religion‚ women have had what seems to be a marginalized role that encompasses almost every facet of life. In many cases within the body of Jewish texts‚ clear misogynist statements and commentary are made dealing with every aspect of what it means to be female. Within the Orthodox movement‚ these restrictions appear to be the most prevalent. Through examination of the role of women within the key
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others up until their first pregnancy. There are three variations of FGM; the first is Sunna Circumcision. Sunna in Arabic means “tradition.” Sunna Circumcision consists of the removal of the prepuce‚ (the tip of the clitoris.) The second variation is a Clitoridectomy; this is the removal of the entire clitoris and adjacent labia. The third and extreme variation is Infibulation‚ (pharonic circumcision). Infibulation is a clitoridectomy‚ followed by the young girls’ wounds stitched together with
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Reflection-David Reimer-Sex Roles & Gender •Summary: David Reimer was born an identical twin boy in 1965. At the age of 6 months‚ David and his brother each had difficulty urinating‚ so a doctor decided to treat the problem with circumcision. The doctor botched the circumcision on David‚ using an unconventional method and accidentally burning off David’s penis beyond surgical repair. At the advice of Dr.John Money at Johns Hopkins University‚ David’s parents agreed to have him “sex reassigned” and made
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"Father of a Multitude" and she is called "Princess." The change of their name resembles a new reality. A changed status before God. Physical signs of the covenant is where God introduces circumcision. God has often refers to "my covenant"‚ which is signified by name changes and the physical sign of circumcision. Each divine directive calls on Abraham to take radical action that required total dependence on God. The first thing he did was traveled to unknown land‚ then he took his son Isaac to be
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Table of Contents Question 1 My recent learning experience was from one of my psychology modules. The prescribed book is Personology from individual to ecosystem‚ chapter 17 i.e. African perspective. The driving point of this chapter is “Why an indigenous African psychology not develop?” The chapter cited the importation of the mainstream psychology a predominately “Euro-American” science into Africa resulting in a lack of development of a purely African personology theory.
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DESERT FLOWER Waris Dirie was born into a family of nomads in a Somalian desert. Growing up‚ she was privileged to run free with nature’s most majestic animals‚ and learned a respect for nature that many of us as Americans could never fathom. However‚ these thrills are just on the surface of what life is really like for African women. She suffered through intense traditional mutilation in her childhood‚ and endless hours of hard labor in the fields everyday. At the age of 13‚ she ran away
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1. The first eleven chapters of Genesis possess a ________________ and ____________ emphasis. universal and cosmic (Davis‚ 1998‚ p. 155) 2. With the introduction of Abraham‚ Moses begins to ___________________ redemptive history. Particularize (Davis‚ 1998‚ p. 155). 3. How has archaeology verified the historicity of these chapters in Genesis? It further reinforced that the Bible is the only true source of information verifying the events and time of Genesis. This is because of a large quanitity
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