The idiom “to kill two birds with one stone” is used to describe achieving two objectives at the same time. The term references a common hunting tool‚ the slingshot; slingshots continue to be used to hunt small birds‚ and at one point‚ they were very common. As you might imagine‚ killing one bird with a stone requires an excellent aim and control over the slingshot; to kill two could be considered even more difficult‚ a task for only the most skilled of hunters. This idiom dates from the 1600s‚
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Why Does Doctor Who Appeal To Women? “I’m The Doctor. I’m a Timelord. I’m from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I’m 903 years old and I’m the man who is going to save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below.” That quote is from the show Doctor Who‚ a British television series. It is the longest running science fiction show in the history of television. A man called The Doctor is a time traveller who wanders throughout space and time in his “spaceship” called
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Professional Athletes vs Doctors Professional athletes have an overwhelming role in todays society. These “heroes” are the idols of many young athletes and appreciated across the country by others of a widely varied age group. However‚ the purpose of these professional athletes is to entertain avid sports fans. While this is a pretty dominant role in todays society it shouldn’t be as dominant as the role of a doctor. The role of doctors is often overlooked by many. Doctors are also heroes and often execute real life miracles
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When most people think of Doctors they think of the person who they see very briefly when they aren’t feeling well but in all reality they are a lot more than that. A doctor is someone who works extremely long hours‚ is dedicated to healing patients‚ and their work is intellectually‚ emotionally and physically taxing. A doctor has many hats to wear throughout his busy day and “doctor” is just one. When thinking what kind of work results are important for a doctor you immediately think of healing
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The Clothes Make the Doctor‚ by Anna Reisman‚ shows how important it is to make a good first impression and with this includes your appearance. She starts her article out with her own experience while she was trying to find a new primary-care doctor. She tells how she felt when this doctor first came in and what she noticed most about her when they first started interacting. Unfortunately she didn’t feel like she should have. She says "what I remember most was the feeling that she had somewhere
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Hippocrates: How Doctors Forgot Who They Are It is fascinating and even unbelievable to think about advancement of the medical field in the last 100 years. 50 years ago‚ MRI and X-ray machines were yet not commonly used technology. Doctors were spending hours to collect pieces of a complicated puzzle‚ which included symptoms based on careful listening to patients’ descriptions of pain and some elementary tests such as blood testing. Nowadays‚ it is quite scary to imagine how doctors were managing to
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1990; but who is there to blame for this drastic increase in numbers? Doctors should be held responsible for the abuse of prescription drugs among people. At first‚ it seemed that doctors were not taking pain serious enough and they were failing to prescribe the right doses of painkillers to their patients. Sadly‚ this could have possibly started an epidemic of doctors prescribing too much medication to their patients. How did doctors go from not prescribing enough to making one of the nation’s leading
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Giovanni Fernandez Drama 16A Per. 3Red In both plays Macbeth and Doctor Faustus there are many different techniques used‚ but there are also many of the same types of dramatic styles. Macbeth is more of a villain tragedy that only has hints of comedy at intervals to take short breaks from the tragedy. On the other hand Doctor Faustus is a dramatic mixture of comedy and tragedy. Both of these plays however‚ contain the element of greed and show how it conquers people. Not many elements
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After leading a small crew there‚ the doctor‚ referred to as “Doc‚” refuses to allow the logs they find to be sawed up after he realizes they strayed from a boat belonging to “White and McNally.” It can be inferred that this is a powerful business in the story‚ representing the bourgeoisie‚
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greed of the Christian settlers that live in the small town of La Paz along with Kino’s people (Mexican-Indian). The doctor is trying to gain the pearl for more money. Kino’ race group and the Christian settlers are very much different. Physically‚ this contrast is illustrated by the dividing line between the city and the brush town where Kino lives. They city‚ where the doctor lives‚ is a massive block of cold stone and plaster‚ as opposed to the more flexible brush and dirt houses of the natives
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