My heart pumped as if it was victimized in a heart attack. The pulse seemed to be rising higher and faster as time shortened. I glanced back, sought out for clarity. Everyone spotted my shivering body stranded in the middle of the hall during the afternoon. All eyes on the overwhelmed kid, wondering what she had to say in the event. Was this really happening? I closed my eyes for a second, taking me back to early morning where this event took place. Today was the speech-and-debate summer competition. Participants of the summer program, friends, and families all were invited to overlook their students’ overall achievements in the debate category. Parents settled down on tiny seats arranged across the hall, like preschoolers eager for their …show more content…
After she winded up her speech, the host spilled out the names of the next few contestants. “Okay. Thank you for that wonderful speech, Carly. Up next, is Himaja.” As the host called out my name, various thoughts pounded against my head. What do I do? What if I freeze up? Oh, I’d make a complete fool out of myself. This might turn out to be an embarrassing moment in my life. As much as I wanted to pretend this never happened, I shoved my back, trying to show courage. I bet everyone was staring at the bursting sweat on my palms, as I headed to the short stage, placed for everyone to look at the speaker. I stood up, yet to see families and judges easing up to my throat. As I gathered note cards in my hand, their looks pierced straight through me. As I began my speech, I said, “Thank you families, judges, and others for taking the time out of your day to listen to my speech...” This was always the “proper way to inform your speech,” quoted by my oral presentation mentors. Every second, I put up the decision to look up at my sister and mother. Those were the two figures who supported me in life. They believed in me and looking at them gave me the chance to prove their significance in my …show more content…
All the hope was raised by the participants. Eyes spotted the host, who seemed ready to announce the next winner. “Second place goes to… Himaja Kodi!” Immediately, the news flashed in my eyes. The true love and support from my friends and families couldn't be covered by any of the boasting I could have had at that time. More than excitement, astonishment raised in my eyes. Moments later, I headed to the stage, striving with thoughts. What is going on? Is this really happening? I have to ease back to reality. Was I that good? The thoughts didn’t matter anymore as I received the second winner prize. I stared at two important figures, my mother and sister. We shared a smile of delight
Cardiomyopathy, by definition, means the weakening of the heart muscle. The heart is operated by a striated muscle that relies on the autonomic nervous system to function. Cardiomyopathy is diagnosed in four different ways based on what caused the illness and exactly what part of the heart is weakened. The four main types of cardiomyopathy are dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, restrictive cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia. One other category of cardiomyopathy that is diagnosed is “unclassified cardiomyopathy.” Unclassified cardiomyopathy is the weakening of the heart that does not fit into the main four categories.
The sweat was dripping down my face as I pushed the weights off my chest. Everyone ran towards their bags after a student said there was a gun in school. Twitter was the first source that we checked just to make sure. Boom! The door slammed open as coach Ben yells “Hurry up and get out”. My heart started beating faster and faster. We didn’t know what was going on. As we were running to the gym everyone was panicking and pushing each other. I could feel the burn on my elbow but I didn’t know what it was. When we got to the gym my elbow was covered in blood. We were told to get down and stay quiet. Later on we were told a student brought a gun to school and was planning on committing suicide. That was one of many gun incidents at my high school.
The debate team of Wiley College faced many colleges to be recognized and finally in the end winning a debate against the reigning debating champions, Harvard University. One of the debaters who caught my attention was James Farmer Jr., the youngest on the team that started out as an alternative. James Farmer sought recognition from adults and wanted to show everyone he was capable of debating. James Farmer incorporates a lot of Ethos and Pathos into his speech making, allowing him to leave his audience filled with emotions and in awe. Although James Farmer interested me, especially the way he presented his final speech, James Farmer and I are very different in the way we deliver our speeches.
I heard a blood-curdling scream and I jumped. I felt silent tears running down my heavily scarred face, but they weren’t out of sadness. Mostly. They were a mixture of pain and fear. I ran into the eerie, blood-splattered room and screamed as I felt cold fingers grab my neck.
Our heart is like a double pump mechanism where the right side pumps deoxygenated blood to our lungs and the left side pumps oxygen rich blood to circulate back through our bodies. This process provides a continuous supply of oxygen and eliminates carbon dioxide waste from our body. When there is a disturbance to this process, it causes our heart the inability to pump sufficiently to meet our body’s demands. This causes the body to accumulate blood and fluid in the organs and tissues and will lead to impaired circulation or congestive heart failure. Congestive heart failure is not only the inability to maintain the adequate oxygen delivery; it’s also systemic in attempting to compensate for inadequacy. In general, there have been many great
Heart failure, also known as CHF or congestive heart failure affects nearly 5 million people in the U.S. yearly with 1.4 million of those being under the age of 60. Half of these will die within five years of being diagnosed. (Heart Failure Statistics) CHF usually occurs over a period of time as the heart’s pumping ability grows weaker and can either consist of right-side heart failure, left-side heart failure, or both. “Right-side heart failure occurs if the heart can't pump enough blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen” and causes symptoms such as edema. “Left-side heart failure occurs if the heart can't pump enough oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body” and will show symptoms of dyspnea and fatigue. (What is heart failure?)
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Oxygen was first admitted to the client with chest pain over 100 years ago (Metcalfe, 2011). Chest pain is a large bracket that can contain many different conditions, but for the purpose of this analysis it is focused manly upon a myocardial infarction. A myocardial infarction is mainly referred to as a heart attack, and occurs when one or more coronary arteries leading to the heart reduce or completely stop blood flow (Tuipulotu, 2013 ). Administering high concentrations of oxygen to patients with chest pain is now embedded in guidelines, protocols and care pathways, even with a lack of clear supporting evidence (Nicholson, 2004 ). High concentration of oxygen means that up to 60% is administered (Knott, 2012). More recent research has suggested that the use of oxygen in this scenario is unnecessary and can lead to unwanted side effects, especially in normoxic cardiac patients (Moradkham & Sinoway, 2010 ). The aim of this comparative analysis is to dismantle and understand both the benefits and risks of the commonly known practice of administration of oxygen to the client with chest pain. Through completing this analysis using recent and appropriate evidence a more improved practice can be given and understood.
It is essential to the human body that the heart pump sufficient nutrient rich blood to the body’s cells, because the body won’t be able to function normally otherwise. When a heart muscle is unable to pump enough blood through to meet the body’s regular demand it is characterized as heart failure. Heart failure can usually be treated through conventional heart therapies and symptom management strategies, however conventional therapies don’t work for all patients with heart failure, this is what is depicted as advanced heart failure or end-stage heart failure. In other words “End stage” heart failure is when the condition becomes so severe that all conventional treatments no longer work, the only treatment that works for end stage heart failure is to have a heart transplantation-surgery to remove a person's diseased heart and replace it with a healthy heart from a deceased donor. However there are two large encompassing problems with this treatment. The first problem is that the patient is subject to shortages in donor organ availability and thus possible further decompensation and potential death while awaiting transplantation. According to the American Heart Association, there are over 500,000 new cases of end-stage heart failure in the United States every year. With only 2200 donor hearts available every year nearly 20-30% of the patients who die while they await a transplant. The second problem with this mode of treatment is that not all patients qualify for heart transplantation. Patients who have another disease in addition to end-stage heart failure do not qualify for heart transplantation. The discrepancy between the clinical need for donor hearts and the total number of hearts available, as well as the lack of treatment o...
Lucas devotes a section of chapter one to talking about the history of public speaking stating that every culture has some word equivalent of the word speaker. Lucas then goes on to tell the similarities and differences between public speaking and conversation. Stephan Lucas then goes on to explains in this chapter that nervousness and stage fright are among the leading causes for the fear of public speaking. But he then assures us that nervousness is normal, and a welcomed part of speech giving. Lucas proves his point by saying, “If you feel nervous about giving a speech, you are in very good company. Some of the greatest public speakers in history have suffered from stage fright, including Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Sanger, and Winston Churchill” (Lucas, 2012 pg. 9). Lucas says that you should not run from your nervousness, but instead try to turn it into a positive nervousness. Lucas then goes on to give six ways to turn the negative nervousness into positive nervousness. They are acquiring speaking experience, preparation, positive thinking, visualization, realizing you’re nervousness isn’t visible and not expecting perfection. Now that Lucas has touched on the history, fears, and possible rewards of public
The role of beauty pageants is to “ritually mark the bodies on view, rendering them into icons that verify the status quo. The beauty pageant "traffics in the ideal" in order to "give the shape and definition to the figure of the normative citizen of the democratic order" (181). This ritual marking of the body is done through "structured seeing" (185). The structured seeing created by three parties – – “the viewer, viewed, and the mediator"—is not "participatory" but is rather created through the "pornography of distance" (185). This allows "a kind of cultural didacticism we are an array of scripts, roles and positions can be writ large" (185). The mediator "choreographs the relationship [between the spectator and spectacle] and manipulates its conventions for their own ends" (185). However, the spectacle is always "overwhelmingly conspicuous while the viewer and the intermediaries remain obscure" (186). Essentially, the spectacle is always watched, but no say in how they are perceived. The spectacle is the only thing being watched. It is the only body that is truly present. Therefore, the "choreography between a disembodied spectator and a embodied spectacle enlists cultural norms and exploits embodied differences for commercial and creating a rhetorical opposition between supposedly extraordinary figures and putatively ordinary citizens" (186). This is resoundingly true of Gerty
People are always good at heart People have good hearts even when they do something bad, but they still learn from their mistakes When people decide to do something bad, after they do it they learn from their mistake and know it was wrong Everyone has inside of him/her a piece of good news, the good news is that people don't know how great others can be! - Anne FrankPeople don't know that they have great talent or good inside them Ignoring people who try to make someone feel bad about themself is what makes that person be positive If they ignore people who make fun of others or make bad comments about them and stay in a positive mood, that's what ¨makes you good at heart¨
I woke up to the pungent smell of hospital disinfect, invading my nostrils. The room was silent apart from my heavy breathing and the beep beep sound you often hear in hospitals that indicates you're alive. I slowly opened my eyes, squinting in attempt to sharpen the blurred images before me. I glanced around and took in the deserted, blue and white colour schemed hospital bedroom. How long have I been here? I shut my eyes, trying to remember what had exactly happened. Then it all hits me with a bang. The memory of it all starts to occupy my thoughts.
On Thursday, February 18th at 4:00 pm I attended my first ever debate at California State University of Northridge, in Manzanita Hall 230. I had always been interested in debate but never came around to diving deeply into the topic. Seeing this class option as I signed up for spring term classes got me excited and interested in learning more about this field, and as I entered the Aronstam Library on Thursday, I felt even more excitement and intrigue because I felt that even though I wasn't debating, my fellow audience members and I were participating and learning. I learned a lot at this event and it was very interesting to see how the two teams worked together and also apart to formulate their ideas, how they state their claims, reasons and values, I also really liked studying their styles of discourse.
At last we had brought all our practicing skills into work at the final stages. After working hard for three solid months it all paid off, the competing mat was beneath our feet. It was as if I could almost hear the girl?s hearts thumping before we walked onto the mat. I couldn?t stop smiling, I had the biggest grin on my face as if I were the cat who just ate the canary. Only when I thought that was enough, my facial expressions were amazing, all the nights I spent in front of the mirror or watching my self through the reflection of the glass door in my kitchen. It?s hard to go first because watching all the other teams compete makes you think, how did I do?