Superior

Superior “Love” In the Symposium, eros is considered as the love between boys and men, while the true friendship is wishing for the well-being of others in the Nicomachean Ethics and the compassion is a strong feeling to sharing the pain of the whole world in The Heart of Understanding. Considering love to be a strong feeling of affection, eros, the true friendship and compassion can all be described as “love”. Love can be explored from 3 dimensions, the reason for love, the form of expression…

Superior Leaders or Savage Warmongers? In the year 1162, near Delüün Boldog in Mongolia. The second son of the tribal chieftain Yesügei is born and is named Temüjin. Temüjin lives the life as the son of nobility until his father is poisoned by rival tribe leaders. The tribe he belonged to denied Temüjin his right to rule because of his young age, just being shy of twelve years. The tribe exiles him, his mother, and his brothers. The family struggled to survive Mongolia’s harsh landscape by…

The Wall Street Journal published an article “Why Chinese Mothers are superior” on January 8th 2011 written by Amy Chua. Amy Chua, author, is a lawyer and currently a teacher at the Yale Law School. Chua has been working at Yale since 2011, before Yale she was teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Chua wrote this article to express herself on her parenting skills which she calls “Chinese Mother” and how other parents have a very different parenting style than hers which she calls “Western…

The key to understanding why the ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeals is more convincing lies in understanding textualism and its various shortcomings. As stated above textualism is a school of statutory interpretation that focuses heavily on analysing the actual text of the statute. To go deeper, textualism utilizes what is called the “plain meaning rule.” Under the plain meaning rule, if the words of a statue are clear and unambiguous, then other factors (like legislative intent,…

Perin v. Hayne This is a case that involved the plantiff named Irene Perin, and the defendant who was named Robert Hayne. Robert Hayne who is the defendant was accused by Irene Perin of malpractice. November, 1968, Irene Perin had an anterior approach cervical fusion procedure done. This is a surgery that removes a herniated or degenerative disc in the neck. According to Ullrich (2014), “An anterior approach cervical fusion is performed to relieve neck pain and other paid due to spinal cord…

In the article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” the author, Amy Chua, states that the harshness of negative reinforcement is the most effective way for a child to reach the ultimate level of success. Chua is a mother of two daughters, and has chosen to raise her children the way her culture has taught her to. This is a very controversial issue, especially here in a America, due to the massive differences between the Chinese and Western parenting ideals. Chua believes that American parents are…

Use of Whipple Pancreaticoduodenectomy in a 54-Year-Old Male with Pancreatic Cancer Alex McColloster UNTHSC TEXAS COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE CASE REPORT SURGERY CORE CLINICAL CLERKSHIP Introduction Pancreatic cancer remains a highly lethal malignancy due to its clinically silent nature. Patients most often present with jaundice due to compression of the common bile duct, pain that develops insidiously and weight loss. Treatment is accomplished surgically;…

Autism Autism spectrum disorder refers to a broad spectrum of neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication that begin at a young age, which commonly exhibits repetitive behaviors and restricted interests (Xiao et al., 2014). This pervasive developmental disorder is more prevalent in males than in females and has recently gained more attention because of its rapid increase in prevalence (Xiao et al., 2014). Today, it is estimated that 69.5 per…

Evaluate how the name of a muscle can distinguish its location, action, shape, and function. Select five different muscles to make this distinction. Depending on the anatomical position of the body part, certain prefixes, and suffixes are utilized in order to find its location verbally. These prefixes and suffixes can be described by the: size of the muscle, location of the muscles, direction of the muscle fibers, amount of origins, shape of a muscle, and location of a muscle origin/insertion.…

Superior Vena Cava Syndrome The Superior Vena Cava (SVC) is the main blood vessel that transports de-oxygenated blood from the upper body to the heart. The SVC is a short vein located in the anterior right Superior Mediastinum, which is the area found in the mid-line of the Thorax (Drake et al. 2010). The vein is surrounded by many structures involved in the respiratory and circulatory system including the right Bronchus and the Mediastinal lymph nodes (Martini & Ivonne 2004). Figure 1 is a…