Essays on Sick Person

Culture sums beliefs, and attitude towards something or someone. These customs distinguish one cultural group from another. Cultures are carried through languages, rituals amongst other institution from generation to the other. For that reason, every cultural group always try to retain its culture regarding anything is it makes them stand out of the crowd regardless of regional differences. On the other hand, the cultural practices are the way that cultural group reveals their culture regarding a customary practice or a traditional practice. Therefore, it is important to note that every group has different cultural beliefs and practices from the ...

The hero of the film A Beautiful Mind is a real person, mathematician John Nash, who became a Nobel Prize winner in his later years for his early work. And this "beautiful mind" is suffering from one of the mental illnesses - namely schizophrenia, which resulted in an aggravation of the disease to the dangerous persecution mania, in a lighter form - to the visions taken for reality. The fate of a talented scientist tracked for half a century - from the second half of the 40s to the late 90s. And, apparently, this movie should be considered as ...

Past, Present, and Future

The Significance of American Indian Ceremonies: Past, Present, and Future

Introduction

Every ceremony in the Native American culture plays a vital and significant role, especially with its people. Some individuals outside the culture often referred the ceremonies as a religion, however, most Native Americans considered their ceremonies as beliefs and practices. The beliefs and practices are part of their rich culture, an integral part of their being, and strongly influenced by their unique methods of living such as acquiring for food, hunting, and agriculture. Every Native American who practiced the tradition and culture believed that their ceremonies could help them ...

What is pneumonia?

Pneumonia, or as it is called - lung inflammation, is the infection of one or both lungs which is usually caused by bacteria, fungus and viruses. Until the moment when penicillin was discovered, every third sick person died from the infection. Despite all the achievements of modern medicine, pneumonia remains a serious and dangerous disease. 5% of the patients with pneumonia die.

How can you get pneumonia?

In some cases, the disease is transmitted drip-virally. A sick person sneezes; his secretions contain bacteria and micro-organisms which, getting into the lungs of a healthy person, cause inflammatory infectious processes. In other cases, pneumonia occurs due ...

Understanding of Miracles

Introduction A miracle is defined as an event that is not explicable by the scientific or natural laws. The event can be associated with the supernatural being God or gods of a certain society, a saint, magic, miracle worker, or a religious front-runner. A miracle is utilized to depict the beneficial happening, which is statistically improbable, but do not contradict the rules of nature, like enduring a natural disaster or a simple incident, with no concern of its possibility such as birth.

Existence of God

The existence of God is a major issue to the Catholics and they relate him to the ...

Introduction

Mental illnesses across cultures is an issue that has had many debates and research over the years. The reason for this is stemmed from the fact that people from various cultural background react differently from others. The conflicting reactions have led to the development of this research. A researcher wants to find the connection between the arguments in order to find the right answers. Culture cannot be stated to belong to one person. This fact is because it involves sharing of values, traditions and beliefs. According to WHO, there are millions of people across the world who have a ...

In our modern, sophisticated and highly secular world, the concept of witchcraft might seem ridiculous and anachronistic. Yet, even today there are many people in the world who believe strongly in the supernatural, including the power of witchcraft to influence the world around them. Despite 19th century mysticism and Romantic period interest in the Druids, Europe has largely abandoned any such traditions. However, belief in witchcraft is still quite common in much of Africa. However, even in Africa witchcraft has changed significantly from what it was in the distant past. The following essay will examine both European and African ...

Recruitment of staff is a rather tasking activity carried out by the management of an organization. Basically, all recruitment procedures are similar but a few differences arise depending on the activities and organizational structure of the firm or organization recruiting the personnel. There is also a difference in recruitment in the different job titles (Johnson, 2000).

The main aspect to consider in recruitment of staff in any organization is the environment around which the applicant will operate. The professional qualifications can be acceptable but if the person is not fit to work in the specified environment, the interviewee is unfit for the ...

Section I: Matching (Maximum 20 points)

This section consists of ten (10) matching questions worth two (2) points each. Match the moral theories in the shaded box below with the ten numbered descriptions set forth below the shaded box. Choose the moral theory that corresponds best to each numbered question and write the letter that corresponds to the appropriate moral theory in the space provided below. [Hint: Some questions may have more than one moral theory that is applicable to it. In such a case, simply choose one applicable theory and write its corresponding letter on the space provided. Only one correct response is required ...

Introduction

Most of the time, people with flu ignore the disease especially when the symptoms are very mild. Moreover, people think of the flu as a bad cold. However, flu is worse than cold (Williams, 2014). Because of misinformation, there is a necessity for a better information dissemination concerning the flu, its causes, and the flu vaccines. Thus, this report gives information about the flu and the flu vaccine.

The Flu

Flu is a viral disease primarily caused by influenza viruses (CDC, 2014a). Most of the time, influenza viruses attack the windpipe and the lungs. Flu is considered a highly contagious disease, and its symptoms are known ...

Introduction: Ethics is a philosophical approach that is concerned with defending, systematizing and recommending concepts of wrong or right conduct in the human social arena. The approach addresses disputes that arise from moral diversity. Being an ethical person involves doing and conducting oneself in an acceptable manner according to societal behavioral standards. Various ethical theories have been put across and are applied in our lives to address various ethical issues like cloning, abortion, legalization of drugs and euthanasia. The theories include emotivism, utilitarianism, moral rationalism and eudaemonistic virtue ethics. This paper will discuss the ethical theory of utilitarianism and how ...

For some time now, arguments and counter arguments have been proposed in the support and against euthanasia. Both passive and active euthanasia attract almost and equal share of the controversy. It is arguably a case that may require circumstantial decision-making since the situations leading to one to want to die are different. Is euthanasia whether passive or active right or wrong? It is also argued that the right to die in the case of a terminally ill person ought to be respected at all time. The augment claims that the patient experiences and undergoes pain for a long time, and, therefore, ...

Plato looks at pleasure as a source of delight and sensual enjoyment. In his work ‘Gorgias’, Plato talks of Socrates, and makes him relay his views. His concept is that things are termed beautiful based on the pleasure derived from them or their use. In the same way, the lack of pleasure from an item determines its lack of beauty. Plato classifies pleasure into two categories. There are those pleasures that lead to good ends, and there are those pleasures that are purposed only for fulfilling desires. Therefore, there are good pleasures and bad pleasures. Plato holds that the methods, ...

Vocation is a Latin word which is generally used to describe the sacred duties and responsibilities, concerning religious orders. Martin Luther was the first one to borrow the term from its religious context and to apply it to the contemporary occupations. The term vocation has already been accepted and recognized as a synonym of job or profession. Vocation is not just a borrowed Latin term to enrich the vocabulary; it comes from a belief that every profession or job that has a legitimate purpose is a calling from God. Moreover, each vocation asks for a set of skills, abilities and talent who are bestowed by God ...

When the first congress on alternative medicines was organized by the Faculty of Medicine in the University Of Rome in the year 1973; private practitioners from across the world presented more than one hundred and fifty brands of alternative medicines (Whistler 14). The congress, which sought to establish the validity and effectiveness of alternative medicines established that most of the alternative therapies were indeed functioning and that they could be tested and proven scientifically. Some of the therapies were found to be common in more than one community with most of the communities coming from the Asian continent. The ...

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Last year one of my uncle along with his family arrived back in country after more than ten years of his stay in Australia. So I went to my uncle’s place along with my father there I met my cousin Jane who was in her bed and was looking very sick. My uncle told us that she was suffering from jet lag due to long distance air travel. I asked details of this illness from my uncle and got to know that jet lag is a physiological illness as a result of variations in the body’s normal ...

Diphtheria is a microbial disease common especially with children below the age of ten years. It is normally caused by a bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae, and its signs and symptoms start showing two to eight days after infection. Some of its signs and symptoms include fever (38 degrees), fatigue, severe skin rashes, blood-stained nasal discharge and breathing difficulties. The Gram positive bacterium as well as the facultative anaerobic are other common causes of Diphtheria (Marguiles 20). Diphtheria is a disease that is commonly transmitted from a patient to another person through direct contact with the sick person, and also by breathing the sick person’ ...