Parth Patel 04/27/11 Introduction to Medical School Hot Lights‚ Cold Steel Michael J. Collins‚ M.D. Hot Lights‚ Cold Steel is an exciting medical memoire‚ written by Dr. Michael J. Collins regarding his life as a resident at the famed Mayo Clinic. This narrative of Collins’ four-year surgical residency recounts his progress from an enthusiastic but inexperienced first-year resident to an expert Chief Resident. In detailing the rigorous path to a successful medical career‚ Collins conveys
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Jared Diamond’s book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel discusses the topic of the ancient and current civilizations with an eye-opening argument. Diamond’s main argument is that civilizations developed based on the environment and not because of individual humans. In this book he summarized a history of the last 13‚000 years in civilization. Although his points were scattered he makes it clear that he believes strongly in environmental determinism‚ which is the belief that physical environment predisposes human
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The book Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel is about how many different things contributed to the success of societies versus the destruction of other societies. The book starts out with the author‚ Jared Diamond‚ in New Guinea talking to a New Guinean politician named Yali. Yali asked Diamond "Why white men developed so much cargo…" Diamond was determined to seek an answer to Yali’s question. Diamond surrounds his answer on how History followed different courses for different people because of differences among
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Guns‚ Germs‚ And Steel Author: Jared Diamond 1. Write a short half a page biography of the author; include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Mason Diamond was born on 10 September 1937 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. He earned an A.B degree from Harvard University in 1958 and a Ph.D. in physiology from Cambridge University in 1961. Diamond was a Junior Fellow at Harvard from 1962 to 1966‚ at which point he became a professor of physiology at the UCLA
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AISI316L Stainless steels (SS) are widely used in biomedical industries to produce orthopedic implants‚ screws‚ cardiovascular stents and other surgery devices because of their proper mechanical properties and corrosion resistance at low cost [1–5]. However‚ they have represented some premature damages when utilized in the body environment. This sort of steels is susceptible to pitting corrosion and release of Ni‚ Mo and Cr ions in body environment which can intensify the risk of cancer and inflammatory
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Jared Diamond‚ the author of Guns‚ Germs and Steel provides an overview of life before we knew it. Many people including Yali‚ a local politician in New Guinea‚ had the idea that cultural differences were based on the color of people‚ instead of the environment they were from. Jared Diamond didn’t feel that way and he tried to prove that history was made based on the environment that you lived in. Diamond believed that the differences were divided between the Modern Stone Age versus the Industrial
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Brookter reminded us of the movie Steel Magnolias that talk about Diabetes. Shelby‚ who had Type 1 Diabetes and suffered from diabetic shock‚ she has a child when she couldn’t. Then‚ her mom‚ M’Lynn donated one of her kidneys to Shelby that helped Shelby. But‚ on Halloween‚ Shelby’s new
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businessmen‚ philanthropist‚ and made it large in the American economy. Carnegie was involved in the steel industry‚ and was the steel king of his time‚ owning nearly 80% of the Steel Industry. This is his journey of how he came to be‚ the King of Steel. In his early years he grew up in a family that put a lot of emphasis on how important learning was‚ which later in his life helped him. When he was a young 13 years old
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In my theater class I was given the assignment of having to write a critical review of the play "Steel Magnolias‚" by Robert Harling. So on the Wednesday before the holiday weekend (Rosh-Ha-Shana) I decided to make the trip over to the Hand Chapel on the Mount Vernon Campus‚ to see this play that I had already convinced myself was going to be dreadful‚ or at least that was what I wanted myself to believe. It was for this reason that in the beginning I wanted to be over critical and to pick apart
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| | INTRODUCTION The Bethlehem Steel Corporation (1857-2003)‚ base in Bethlehem‚ Pennsylvania‚ once was the second largest steel producer in the United States (after Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania-based US Steel). But following its 2001 bankruptcy‚ the company was dissolved and the remaining assets sold to International Steel Group in 2003. In2005‚ ISG merged with Mittal Steel‚ ending US ownership of the assets of Bethlehem Steel. During its life‚ Bethlehem Steel was also one of the largest shipbuilding
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