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Cindy Ziyi Zhuang MDA 110 Contemporary Issues and Cases in Healthcare Midterm Paper 03/01/2015 Beyond Caring In his fiction “Cutting for Stone”, Dr. Abraham Verghese presents a story of Marion and Shiva Stone, conjoined twins who are separated at birth by their presumed surgeon father, Dr. Thomas Stone. The twins were orphaned almost immediately after they were born. Their mother, Sister Mary Joseph Praise, an Indian nurse nun at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Dr. Thomas Stone’s perfect surgical assistant, dies from uterine rupture during the childbirth. Their presumed father, being shocked by the catastrophic death of his loved one, leaves the twins to two of his colleagues, Dr. Kalpana Hemlatha and Dr. Ahbi Ghosh, who

“The Lesson” is a very well written fragment of the past. This is a story from New York’s inner city of Harlem where children did not have substantial education much less the money to obtain it. Not only is this story about a poor girl out of place in an expensive toy store, it is also a social commentary that teaches readers an amazing life lesson. The character Miss Moore introduces

Finally, the lesson of the story is that do not be impatient. The setting contributed to how the lesson of the story was delivered. The old deaf man was not harming anyone and the café was not to close ‘til

‘Cutting for Stone’: Novel Review The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary and analysis of the novel, “Cutting for Stone,” written by Abraham Verghese in 2009. The authors biography and qualifications are explained. The novels back story which includes great suffering, abandonment, fate, the consequences of life, finding one’s identity, cultural awareness, and the strength of family connections is supported. Medicine takes the forefront to convey that practicing medicine takes more than knowledge. Medical providers need to incorporate compassion and empathy for patient’s, as well. The novel portrays that life is messy, and illustrates the tribulations it takes to enjoy the facts that everything isn’t what it may seem to be, and life comes full circle.

The central lesson that can be learned from this movie is that the choices you make dictate the life we live. Any choice you make or action you take make you become the person you are. You can become whatever you want to become if you put your mind and heart into it. Or just have to look within and take your determination to its fullest capability and reaching your

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4 September, 2015 A Lesson Before Dying Year: 1993 Title: A Lesson Before Dying The title of this novel “A Lesson Before Dying” is what the book’s plot revolves around. Dying refers to Jefferson’s death, while the lesson refers to the lessons learnt by Jefferson,

Randy Dickerson Mrs. Briscoe English 1 Honors 7 September 2017 Lamb To The Slaughter The motif of the story was violence. If you ever do anything violent it will catch up to you in many ways you cannot imagine. You will start feeling sad about what you did then you just can’t bear it anymore and you will feel bad and end up telling somone and you and the people you did it with will get in trouble. Don’t be violent because nobody will like you and you will have no friends because who wants to be friends with someone violent because who knows they may turn towards you and start being violent. Then what you have to fight back because you don’t wanna get hurt. Maybe you’re gonna be the one to turn and you will hurt your friends or family. Then

Archaeologists have discovered thousands of stone tools dating back 10,000 years or more in Redmond, Washington.

The main character and point of the view in Cutting for Stone is Marion Stone, and he has been employed at Missing Hospital in his main country of Ethiopia. While Marion is taking care of Ghosh, Ghosh encourages him to travel to America to use his medical talents where money would no longer be an issue and to have opportunities that he did not have a chance to experience (Verghese, 2009, pg. 433). Marion also feels regret that he and this twin brother Shiva were the reason that Ghosh was never able to practice medicine in America, but Ghosh explains that his main focus with his care was not the financial benefits and more focused on his patients themselves (Verghese, 2009, pg. 433). Ghosh even asks Marion to tell his father, Thomas Stone, that they were friends despite the years of no communication and Stone’s fear of relationships (Verghese, 2009, pg. 434). Marion left Ethiopia to travel to America with to escape imprisonment after Genet and her associates hijacked a plane and mentioned his name, but with no intention to deliver Ghosh’s dying wish or the

The theme of both stories, as said before, are the main characters having to deal with a higher power in their own way. In “The Lesson” it’s basically society, even though there wasn’t any form of fighting. She and her friends were basically notified of what was going on. Especially at the time when racism was a really common thing amongst the white and black citizens of America, and being young children, they didn’t really know

Stone Sharing Activity The meaning behind the name Codi is apparently "helpful", but I wasn’t named Codi for that reason. I was actually named Codi because my father didn’t want a girl has he already had two boys and wanted to add another son, luckily for him he got another one after me. On the other hand my mom wanted me to be named Carly Rae because that’s the name she always wanted to name a girl if she was ever fortunate to have one. My mom had already picked my brothers name so when it came to me my mom decided it was only fair of she let my father pick the next child's name.

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The lessons we learned from this week's stories were to be grateful and happy for what you have, and you are stronger and better than you think you are. The first story teaches us to be happy even when you don't have a lot of money. The king didn't realize he had a good life compared to others. They tried to find him a happy man's shirt but all along the king didn't realize he should've been happy and grateful. The second story The Stonecutter taught us you are stronger than you think. The Stonecutter wanted to be the biggest the best and the strongest, so he became the sun, wind and the rocks. Then he realized he was the strongest, because he could break the rock and no one else could. To summarize, these are the lessons we learned in the