Seymour's Short Story

He soon created the condition in animals, so that he work on treating it. At last he discovered a new pathway to the heart. Not too soon after a young girl named Eileen Saxon, who was close to death, was rushed into John Hopkins to try this new solution. Although Thomas had done this surgery correctly countess times it was still Blalock (who had preformed the entire surgery by him self once) who preformed the surgery. In the article it states, “Each time the surgeon was ready to make a cut or stitch into Eileen’s tiny chest, he would listen for Thomas’s instructions.” Eileen became the first human to have a successful open heart surgery. Even though Thomas made the discovery, Blalock received all of the credit from the

A common myth is that hazing is a “reality” in Frats and sororities. We've all seen it in movies and we've all heard stories from our friends. Hazing can be defined as people or individuals who are forced to do something that is psychologically, physically, or emotionally harmful or damaging (Merriam Webster). Greek organizations all over the world have taken steps in developing human rights policies and strict “anti-hazing” policies to get rid of hazing in all forms from all campuses and fraternities. In the 1980s the movie “Animal House”, became a hit. The movie’s “mocking” of the wild side of fraternity life: binge drinking, hazing, sexual harassment, wild parties, drug use, and poor living conditions, became the American public’s view of Greek life. Many television movies and shows depict the ‘crazy side,’ of Greek life and choose to show its negative side. In doing so, many movies and shows do forget to showcase the beneficial side of joining a Sorority or fraternity and show its positive

The heart is what keeps the human body running. From the very first time someone presses their head up against their mothers chest or feels their own heart beat, they know that the pulse they feel means something important. It’s the rhythm that lets us keep on living. It’s strange to think that before I read this book, I barely knew anything about this absolutely vital organ in my body. Now, I probably know more history about the human heart than I ever thought I’d know. This book went totally in depth about the history of the human heart, and how modern medicine knows what it knows about this vital organ. It weaves history and information about the heart together in a way that keeps you interested until the last page, which is something I

In February 2017, Tim Piazza died as a result of hazing within his fraternity. In the article “Death at a Penn State Fraternity”, Caitlin Flanagan summarizes the death and events beforehand that made the death occur. She also gives insight as to other occurrences in other fraternities along with at Penn State. Throughout the article, Flanagan seems to rely on life being valuable and that life should not be cut short for social reasons within one’s control. Caitlin Flanagan provides meaningful commentary to help others realize the dangers affiliated with hazing and other “social norms”.

Reitman acquires information that in 2010, a first year student by the name of Andrew Lohse, pledged to a fraternity called Sigma Alpha Epsilon which disclosed the traditions of Greek hazing. The article elaborately describes the acts of hazing new pledges must face. “One brother recalls the night some of the pledges were served a scramble of vomit and eggs, known as a ‘vomlet’” (356). Lohse unveiled all of the hazing events that he had been involved with for nearly two years, until it had become clear that

The binge drinking and partying of fraternities and sororities is now under the concern of the chapter locally and nationally. Every year there is a national hazing awareness week that every fraternity and sorority on every campus in America participates in. The only way to fix the problem is the educate people about the problem. To outweigh the heavy expense on a member’s pocket is the ability to apply for scholarships within a fraternity or sorority nationally. A Greek organization offers aid when needed and if cannot solely help look for other outlets for financial aid for a member. Organizations focus on education and give endless resources to members within the house and on campus. Members of Greek organizations have so much potential to become well-rounded individuals and being in these organizations helps them shape these potentials to achieve the most success as

Evelyn and Jim Piazza’s son, Tim died last February 2016 after a frat hazing ritual at Penn State University. Tim, a Beta Theta Pi pledge had been forced to drink a toxic amount of alcohol and then tumbled head first down a flight of stairs. “His fraternity ‘brothers’ then placed

R E V I E W S H E E T 30 Anatomy of the Heart

In the world of Biology and Chemistry carbon is simply an element, an element of innumerable abundance. Out of what seems to be an infinite selection of carbon atoms going about their days, there is one special carbon atom in particular that has had a marvelous life so far. This is the story of a carbon atom only known as “C”, but to enhance the literary experience, we will call him Seymour.

While the college may “shut down” the chapter, it “will ‘recolonize’ on the campus, and in a few years the house will be back in business” allowing for these actions to reoccur and the dark side of greek life envelop the campus once again. Beta Theta Pi’s court-related actions toward the Piazza family were uncivil because they proved how the fraternity only cared about their own reputation and the money involved. Flanagan explains to her audience that the Piazza’s “will discover how thoroughly these organizations have indemnified themselves against culpability in such deaths” in order to protect their own image. Flanagan also says how “the cycle will begin again,” meaning that these actions are continuously occurring in our nation. Which further proves her point that proper legal action is rarely enforced when it comes to Greek life. The most disturbing point that Flanagan brought up, is how only one Beta Theta Pi member showed concern for Tim Piazza while he was nearing death on a couch. Being beaten by his “brothers”, Tim’s last minutes were spent being ignored and abused all because of his social status of being a “pledge”. Flanagan’s point demonstrates how the “brothers” involved in Tim’s death showed zero compassion for their pledge during his last minutes of

In the case of this Penn State fraternity, conformity prevailed, as the young men submitted to the chaos of crowd psychology and, as Miller explained, “literally delayed getting him help. And when they finally did call for help they did not tell anyone that he had fallen. When he arrived at the hospital it was too

It is interesting to note that Carbon-14 is radioactive while Carbon-12 and Carbon-13 are stable.

For years now, I’ve had dreams of going to medical school and becoming a surgeon. I don’t know what kind of surgeon I would want to be, but cardiothoracic is up there. In my eighth-grade science class we dissected pig’s hearts and a kid’s dad, a heart surgeon, helped. He told me I had the hands of a surgeon, which I thought was incredible considering my aspirations. Not only did this article interest me because I have general knowledge on the workings of a heart, but also because it shows the process of cleaning up mistakes in a medical

Furthermore, fraternities are infamous for their requirement to pledge in order to join the brotherhood. Although the specific acts inflicted on pledges is known only by members of fraternity, it is commonly known that hazing is part of the initiation. The pledges have to complete a series of humiliating and sometime dangerous rituals in order to join. They could be forced to consume excessive amount of alcohols and drugs, or be physically beaten or be publicly humiliated. Little known fact, white fraternities generally use alcohol for hazing while black fraternities result to physical violence. In a survey conducted by Dr. Susan Lipkins “31% of Fraternity and sorority members agree that a significant element in an initiation rite is humiliation.” “Also, many of the Greek Leaders agree that

Home: Where the Heart Is – An outline and tour of the heart from Franklin Institute.