A literature review is a summary of the argument in a research paper. A literature review is used to see what has or has not been investigated, to put the work in a perspective and provide evidence to support work. 4. How does deductive logic differ from inductive logic? a.
In 1951, a lab assistant named Mary Kubicek attended an autopsy at John Hopkins Hospital. On the autopsy table laid a poor African American woman who had died at the age of thirty from cervical cancer that consumed so much of her body that there was hardly an organ that was not overtaken by disease. The young lab assistant had never seen a dead body before and attempted to avoid looking at the face of the deceased woman. Instead, she focused on the woman’s hands and feet. That is when she noticed the woman’s chipped red toenail polish.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks starts in 1951 with a young woman of four. She told her close friends that she had “a knot inside me”. Her friends strongly encouraged her to go to the doctor, but she denied the advice. She kept this pain from her family so they wouldn’t worry about her, and then she became pregnant with her fifth child Joe. Shortly after she birthed Joe, she started experiencing external bleeding and stated she had a hard lump inside her womb.
Matthew Gurovich 9/21/15 Period 7 Chapter 14 Long Essay Question Prompt #3 Throughout the era of exploration, several countries in Europe such as Portugal and Spain led multiple expeditions to western continents, now known as the Americas. Within the journey, generals such as Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes stumbled upon several native civilizations, amongst them being the Aztecs in Mexico, and the Incas in South America. The fact that technology, agriculture, and ideas could spread much easier from west to east, rather than from north to south, was largely thanks to geographical and climatic factors.
The issue of privacy has been one dating back to the beginning of society. In order to protect it we have erected walls around us and called them homes, fences and called them territories, borders and called them countries. As the modern day arrived, society innovated to the point that ownership and privacy are no longer clear. Science has developed at a rate where morals and laws cannot keep up, more specifically, in the medical department. Such a problem is detailed in Rebecca Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
2015 Read and Response: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Throughout the Lacks’ family history there has been nothing more but absence of information and deceitfulness. The prolonged journey of finding out who exactly Deborah’s mother was and how she changed science was all but easy. One of the most common messages throughout the book was the conflict between individual rights and scientific exploration from high, authoritative figures such as scientists, doctors and the research community.
Despite the title of the book, “My Antonia” is very much centered on Jim Burden. The story begins with an outlook on Jim’s adult life, and we are then catapulted into his Nebraskan childhood. As the book progresses, we witness the mental and emotional development of Jim as he has new experiences and meets numerous people. The book then concludes with Jim again as an adult. As a reader, I have observed him complete a cycle (going from point a, to point b and arriving at point a again).
Tissue Ownership When I was younger I never really thought too much about my grandfather’s unsteady balance, notably small handwriting, mumbling or slurred words, and uncontrollable shaking. I used to think it was just because I was little and he was older; I never imagined my grandfather having a disease. Especially Parkinson’s, a complex and incurable disease that would attack his nervous system. Although, there are medications and other options to try and make Parkinson’s bearable, there’s still no cure for my grandfather. As I get older it makes me wonder, how important is medical advancement to society?
Imagine being a 17 year old African American kid always being judged just because of his skin color. Everywhere you go you feel like all eyes are on you, especially when you go to a school that only has eight black kids. That's exactly how Justyce McAllister felt in Dear Martin by Nic Stone. In the book, the main character Justyce goes through a lot of conflict involving his skin color. Even though he has a full scholarship at Braselton Preparatory Academy, and is a very smart student, he still gets judged.
The Levitical laws are often times baffling and arbitrary. They the raise question of why God has placed certain creatures as clean and others as not? However, the anthropological work of Mary Douglas and Michael Carroll helps give some insight to the nature of these laws and their purposes. Douglas gives two categories for the previous views of the laws found in Leviticus, which are they are meaningless or arbitrary, or they are to illustrate virtues and vices.
In chapter 6 of the textbook, we learn all about religion, more specifically, the role that government impacts religion and how possible conflicts may arise. In the state of of Missouri, a group of Satanists are suing the state for their anti-abortion laws which they feel are violating and discriminating against their religion. The group of Satanists are bringing their case to court and just might win due to the fact that the state of Missouri requires women wait an additional 72 hours after an initial appointment for an abortion in order to give the woman an ultrasound and persuade her to see that she is preventing the possibility of a life. In chapter 6, it also states that “Religious groups may oppose government policies seen as promoting social change conflicting with traditional religious values. ” (Rubenstein, 2016, p. 212).
Likewise, another challenge is not discriminating between relevant and irrelevant materials pertaining to your topic. Cone and Foster in chapter six recommend using primary sources and read them yourself. By doing so, this will eliminate the idea of solely relying on others’ descriptions of studies and findings, which may steam from secondary sources. According to Cone an Foster on page 96 of the thesis handbook, it states, “reviewers too often cite studies erroneously, indicating the authors said something they did not say or did something they did not do.” After carefully reading this section I learned the best way to do this is to look up the original articles and read them myself.
Chapter 6- In this chapter, Foster states that just because a piece of literature references the bible, doesn’t mean that it has a religious memo. When Foster read “Beloved” by Toni Morrison, he realized that writers use biblical references in ways that use metaphors. “The Satanic Verses” shows, the role of religion at a given time is complex . Even with a particular society at a particular time, attitudes about the relationship between religion and literature can differ.
Many times researchers doing reviews end up with a chronological catalog of all of the relevant sources reviewed instead of an evaluation that integrates previous research together explaining how it integrates into the proposed research program (Wang et al., 2015). Poor literature review fails to capture all sides of an argument and tends to be bias, avoiding to critically mention areas of agreement and disagreement (Shipman, 2014). Such a review is merely a collection of quotes and paraphrasing from other sources (Willig, 2013). Sadly enough most researchers undertaking psychological research are not skilled in doing a quality
Rape happens (pause), health issues occur (pause), and so do teen pregnancies(pause). Our bodies, our lives, our right to decide. Worldwide, 47,000 women die a year from unsafe abortions (pause). Anything from a simple herbal tea to a prescribed drug and occasionally even going to Mexico to have it done illegally.
