Foster (2005) implemented a randomized control study that examined whether removing particular postoperative function restrictions (PFR) reduced the incidence of hip dislocations. Foster (2005) followed 265 patients that received an uncemented THA and divided the patients into two evenly distributed groups: patients who had PFR and patients who were not PFR. The criteria for PFR was that the patients were to use an abduction pillow while in bed‚ restrict the patient from driving an automobile‚ patients
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Rhetorical Analysis on Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor In the essay‚ “Seeing and Making Culture: Representing the Poor” written by Hooks‚ the author addresses on how the society represents‚ and displays poverty through false assumptions made by the higher class popular culture‚ and media representations . Hooks uses her own personal experiences to connect with her readers‚ about the issue on poverty. Also adding to that‚ she references to a black philosopher‚ named Cornel West
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Anti-Wal-Mart Advertisement Claim: Wal-Mart’s uncharacteristic low prices on merchandise in comparison to other businesses have jeopardized the survival of smaller companies. When anyone in general thinks about Wal-Mart‚ they would probably think to themselves that it is a great place to shop for merchandise and apparel‚ and how there is so much selection. While they think of the previously mentioned‚ their number one reason in all likelyhood for considering Wal-Mart is the low prices
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Jose Perez P.4 8/20/13 Humorists and their Role “There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they’re called humorists.” Alen De Botton states that “the chief aim of humorists is not merely to entertain but`to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly`” I agree with his opinion. Humorists are entertainers; even before written history they have always been essential to society. Comedians such
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The Article‚ Supplements are a Shame by Mike Tanier‚ argues one big factor that is influenced by many athletes‚ gym rats‚ and regular Americans who take supplements on a daily basis. The main argument that this article stresses is how most of the supplements that people take is just a big waste of money. Mike Tanier also argues that there is a lot more we don’t know about supplements than what we actually do know. For instance‚ even though we do not know how big the supplement industry is‚ we have
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The Imperial Bedroom by Jonathan Franzen is primarily about privacy and how America has reacted to the addition and deduction of privacy. Franzen makes a very convincing case that we were overreacting in a big way to our fears that we would lose our privacy. He uses a mixture of sentence structure which helps to raise your thought on the subject‚ and then answer the short sentence with an explanation in a longer one. Throughout this essay‚ we see much of Franzen’s sarcastic ways which helps
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In light of the recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ people across the country—especially politicians—have been pushing for immediate action towards gun policies. Some believe that the government should allow for guns in schools‚ others think that there needs to be more gun regulations and less firearms in the hands of citizens. Nicholas D. Kristof‚ a columnist for The New York Times‚ has a firm belief in the latter. In his essay‚ “Do We Have the Courage to Stop
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Not All Industrial Food is Evil Lauri Gavilano EN1420 December 13‚ 2014 Not All Industrial Food Is Evil In the article Not All Industrial Food Is Evil‚ published on August 17‚ 2013‚ in The New York Times‚ Mark Bittman questions how a pound of tasteless and watery tomatoes cost $2-$3 a pound when 2lbs. of canned tomatoes‚ that had a better taste to them‚ could cost only half that amount. Now that businesses have to produce so much food for the population and with the processes tomato market
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WOMEN IN SLAVE COMMUNITIES Slavery is the saddest period of human’s history. What slaves went through was really hard and it takes strong people to survive to that’s situation. They not only had to work every day of their lives without any compensation‚ but they were also broken down morally and separated from their families. Slaves were not treated as humans. They were treated as objects and machines and the only thing they were supposed to do were to obey to their masters‚ and if not‚ they
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1510-120 10/18/2013 Rhetorical Analysis I picked the music video “Same Love” by rapper Macklemore and director‚ Ryan Lewis. Macklemore is confident and proud of the fact that he is fully supportive of everyone’s sexual orientations. Although Macklemore’s audience is more toward homosexual people‚ the message also reaches out to all different kinds of people because he put it in a song‚ so everyone who listens and likes the song will hear the message. Throughout the music video and lyrics‚ he
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