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    Vivian Bearing: A Tragic Heroine that Triumph Margaret Edison’s play Wit is about Vivian Bearing‚ a professor of seventeenth century poetry‚ specializing in John Donne. She is a strong willed intellectual being treated for ovarian cancer. Vivian lives a very secluded life and avoids human emotional contact. Just like any tragic hero‚ Vivian has flaws that prevent her from human kindness‚ which leads to her downfall. Her treatment of cancer causes her to realize that she needs emotional connection

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    The film “Wit” has provided me the opportunity to obtain a greater understanding of medical ethics‚ and how it is incorporated within medicine. “Wit” has allowed me to experience a patients’ thoughts and feelings while receiving care‚ giving me the insight on how important it is to practice medicine with empathy and compassion. Medicine is complex in that although it is important to remain knowledgeable‚ it is also the duty of the healthcare professional to maintain the patients best interest when

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    on the movie Wit When I watched the film “Wit” at first‚ I became curious to the reason why it was entitled “Wit”. The overall plot of the story seems so simple but there are a lot of twists which become clear as the story unfolds. In the latter part of the film‚ I realized that it has been given the title wit because in the end‚ Vivian recognized that what is more important than intellectual learning is the human compassion that she gets just when she needs it the most. Vivian Bearing

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    Sister Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model Abstract The following paper introduces the Roy Adaptation Model. The paper begins with describing the model and introduces Sister Callista Roy‚ the publisher. A background on the Roy nursing model is given in context to Sister Callista Roy’s education along with her credited influences that help to give rise to the model. The paper goes in detail to explain the components of the model including the four major concepts: humans as adaptive systems‚ environment

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    Why do you think Vivian agreed to be in the study and stay in the study? In the movie Wit‚ the main character Vivian really value learning‚ which is why she committed herself to be part of the study. Vivian is a successful English professor who has accomplished many things; however‚ her obsession in education causes her to have lack of social interaction or friends. While Vivian is an intelligent woman‚ she does not have the knowledge what life and death really means. When Vivian first found out

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    Wit: an Analysis

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    Wit: An Analysis Abstract Wit is a movie about a woman dying of cancer. It is a powerful drama that chronicles the last few months of her life. The recurring theme throughout the movie is the nurses’ role as the compassionate‚ caring individual who humanizes the main character. The nurse seems to be everywhere and able to do just about everything that is needed. The nurses’ sole purpose in this film is to promote healing‚ preserve dignity and respect the patient as a whole person. The nursing

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    WIT The film “Wit” shed light on events that sadly do occur in a hospital setting. Doctors‚ nurses‚ and other staff members in the midst of work‚ forget that their patients are human. In the beginning of the film‚ Vivian Bearing‚ a professor is diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancers which are metastasizing. (Later in the film Vivian admits she had not gone to the doctor in five years‚ that is contributory negligence on her part.) Her doctor‚ Dr. Kalekian‚ very coldly tells informs her of her

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    Wit, the Play

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    In the play “Wit” by Margaret Edson‚ the nurse Susie Monahan deals with a number of issues pertaining to nursing. The purpose of this paper is to discuss three of these issues. Nursing image‚ Nurse and doctor relationships‚ and the therapeutic relationship between nurse and patient. We first meet Susie Monahan the primary nurse of Vivian Bearing the main character who is diagnosed with Stage IV cancer on page 16 of the play. She is fully involved in her patient’s care as well as helping her prepare

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    Wit Play Analysis

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    play "Wit‚" and reading more of the play gave me a more broad perspective. Not only was the movie great‚ but it let me learn more about a fascinating author who was quoted throughout the movie. The movieWit” is based off a cancer patient. When Vivian Bearing was younger she and her father would read books with difficult vocabulary‚ which led her to love literature‚ and became a professor and known for her knowledge of metaphysical poetry. The movie Wit was based on a professor‚ Vivian‚ in her

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    is this made evident in the texts you have studied? Connections between John Donne’s Selective Poems and Margaret Edson’s play Wit to a great extent enrich the audiences understanding of each text and the themes of death and love. When these texts are studied together it is evident through continual intertextual reference that Donne has heavily influenced the play Wit. Although the texts differ contextually‚ with Donne’s 17th Century poetry and Edson’s 20th Century script writing‚ their contextual

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