Isaac Asimov is a very talented writer. Isaac focuses on the intensity of his novels and short stories. Suspense is one of the things he focuses on when writing short stories such as "Marooned off Vesta." "Marooned off Vesta is a story of triumph and intelligence. This story shows what can happen if you put your mind to it"(Corke).
	Isaac Asimov, of Jewish descent, was born in Petrovichi, U.S.S.R. on January 2, 1920. His parents were Judah and Anna Rachel Asimov. Isaac also had a brother named Stanley and a sister named Marcia. In 1923 the Asimovs left the Soviet Union and immigrated to the States. Getting over seas was not as easy as it is today. The Asimovs had to endure a horrible boat ride with horrible food, seasickness, and the anxiety of what the future had in store for them. They made their home in Brooklyn, New York where
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Because of difficulties in their marriage, they were forced to divorce in 1973. Finding another love, he married again in 1973 to Janet Opal Jeppsonm, a psychiatrist, on November 30 (Galenet). Isaac had two wonderful children named David and Robyn Joan. These children were birthed by Isaac's first wife Gertrude. As talked about before, Isaac wanted to become a doctor. Although he did not fulfill this dream of his, he had many different careers under his belt; Boston University School of medicine instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor of biochemistry, and also as a civilian chemist at the U.S. Navy Air Experimental Station (Galenet). Believe it or not, Isaac was rejected twelve times before he landed his first short story in a magazine. But, his persistence made him one of the most known science fiction writers of all time, just under five-hundred books compiled of his works are what made him what he is today. Mr. Asimov has also received over twenty awards and honors for his works and novels
Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland on September 20th 1978. Sinclair grew up in a broken household; his father was an alcohol salesman and killed himself drinking. While his mother would not even think about drinking alcohol. So these personalities naturally clashed. So Sinclair found some solace in books, Sinclair was a natural writer and he began publishing at the young age of fifteen years old. Sinclair started off going to school at a small college by the name of New York City College. This was just temporary as Sinclair would need time and money to move higher up to a form of better education. So as a result Sinclair took the initiative and he started writing columns on ethnic jokes and hack fiction for small magazines in New York. The money he earned writing these columns allowed him to completely pay for New York City College, and eventually enroll to attend Columbia University. Sinclair worked as hard as he possibly could to get into Columbia University and he was going to do the absolute best he could while he was attending the University. Since Sinclair needed ex...
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana to Kurt Vonnegut, Sr. and Edith Lieber Vonnegut. He had an older brother named Bernard and an older sister named Alice. Kurt, Sr. was a well-known architect in the city and Edith was the daughter of a wealthy local family. The Vonneguts had been in Indianapolis for several generations, and were well-off, respected members of the community. Unlike the characters in most of his books, Vonnegut's early childhood was extremely privileged. It wasn't until the stock market crash of 1929 that he experienced the type of life that he would go on to write about in the future: the middle Middle Class.
John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902. Even when he was growing up, he had a passion and love for writing. Once he entered high school, he would stay up all night just to write. He would even invite friends to listen to his readings. Researchers have found out that Steinbeck would often sent short stories or pieces of his works to magazine companies under a fake name and add no address. At age fourteen, he knew he wanted to be a writer. After he graduated from Salinas High School, he went to Stanford to study marine biology. Steinbeck attended Stanford for six nonconsecutive years, then he dropped out, in 1925, without any degree. Had decided to travel to New York and worked many odd low paying jobs. Steinbeck started out as a reporter but was fired, then became an apprentice for painting, a surveyor, then finally a fruit picker. It wasn’t until
Dr. Stephen Hawking is one of the most recognizable and influential scientists since Einstein. He was born on January 8, 1942, 300 years after the death of Galileo. As a child, he was always interested in science. He spent many days and nights looking up at the stars or making fireworks with his father. He also spent time making complicated board games with his friends (McDaniel 26-28). At the age of eight, his family moved to St. Albans, where he was enrolled at the St. Albans School. Although Hawking was not the best student, he went on to Oxford University in 1959, where he graduated with a degree in natural science three years later (Hawking 1). That same year, he went to Cambridge University to pursue his Ph.D. in cosmology, but was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) one year later, in 1963. This prompted him to work harder at his schoolwork, as he was only given two years to live. In 1965, Hawking married Jane Wilde, an undergraduate student majoring in world languages at Cambridge University. He became extremely interested in the work of Roger Penrose, a cosmologist who had just explained how black holes begin from collapsing stars (Biography.com 17). In 1974 Hawking made the discovery of Hawking radiation, which escapes from black holes. This is one of the most recognized and revolutionary discoveries in cosmology. Dr. Stephen Hawking positively changed the world scientifically and socially, despite being crippled by a deadly disease.
Sagan has said himself that he got his analytical urges to Rachel Molly Gruber Sagan, his mother. She was an oppressed intellectual who never met her full potential due to the bigotries against the poor, the Jewish, and women. There was not much known about Rachel’s family, though it was rumored that her father Leib Gruber was a murderer. When Rachel was eight, her father sent her to live with relatives in Austria, but when they were put up with her they sent Rachel to New York, back to her father. Rachel grew up poor in New York City, nearly homeless without much care from the likes of her family. Rachel spoiled Carl and later on lived through his intellectual success that she had never had the chance to achieve. Sagan’s father Sam Sagan has an even more obscure past. Sam was born on March 2nd of 1905 in Ukraine and came to America five years later. Unlike Rachel, Sam would have been happy with an average child, and though he admired his son’s intellect, he longed for a typical American family (Keay 1-6).
The Secretariat. (2011). Global burden of mental disorders and the need for a comprehensive, coordinated response from health and social sectors at the country level . ().
World Health Organization (WHO) has a program called Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) where they have tried to increase services by providing trained health providers to assist those in need. The goal is to create more policies and programs that can be implemented or enforced in primary, middle, and high schools to educate students and their families the importance of mental health and ways to learn healthy mental health habits to prevent future mental problems as adult that can later on lead to suicide. If these new policies and programs are successful the ideas can be taken to other parts of the world to help people who need mental help. As public health professionals the goal is to make sure that everyone has access to health care and try to prevent illnesses, so that everyone can be as healthy as they can
However the eastern culture has a tendency to ignores the aspect of mental health, which may be one of the reasons why a great amount of the population are unaware of the mental health disorders. Deeming mental health illnesses as an unknown aspect of health contributes to the stigma that is evident in societies. By taking community health nursing, and psychological disorders in the same semester, I was able to relate the stigma associated with mental health with social determinants of health such as income, employment, social exclusion, and housing. Social determinants of health are factors that can act as barriers to improving health, or factors that support health. For instance, if an individual is severely depressed and is unable to get out of bed to go to work, the individual will lose his/her job. Upon losing one 's job, the individual may not have a source of income, and may not have the means to have housing and is then evicted. This individual may or may not have the social support to receive assistance in this crisis, which can lead to homelessness or substandard housing. This is the unfortunate reality of what individuals with mental health illnesses, as well as physiological disorders may
Overall “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is poem that seems like a simple story told by a sailor about his woes at sea. But Coleridge uses many details to make symbols throughout the story for the reader to interpret and see the connections between it and religion. Whether it be through the Christ like albatross, which most would just see as a simple bird, or the woman on the boat showing how the lifestyle might be fun but ultimate leads to nothing we see that these small details create a bigger story than what is just on the cover.
Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 in Brooklyn to Lucille and Melville Feynman. Feynman's childhood home was in the community of Far Rockaway, in the outskirts if Manhattan.
Carl Sagan is known as one of the most famous scientists of all time. He revolutionized how the world looked at space and the search for intelligent life beyond our planet. The author of many books, he is most known for Contact (which was adapted into a movie) and for the PBS documentary Cosmos. As one of America's most famous astronomers and science-fiction writers, Carl Sagan turned a life of science into one of the most critically successful scientific careers of the 20th century.
The Mariner is not in the hands of a merciful God because his agony always returns. He asks for forgiveness of his agony but still after he tells his tale the agony returns at random times. A merciful God would grant permanent mercy. For all, the Mariner has been through death and hardship of his crew because of the killing of the albatross. The thought of his crime is enough agony but the Mariner's agony returns until he has to relive the tragedy of the killing of his crew by telling his tale to another person.
The Mariner, a tan man that is extremely old and malnourished with “a glittering eye” begins his story with his ship getting caught in a treacherous storm and being driven south towards the equator. As the Mariner is in the beginning of his story, the people hear the wedding bells ring. An albatross then appears and becomes friendly with the shipmates, the bird leads them out of Antarctica. The Mariner then shoots the albatross. After he shot the bird, his shipmates are aggravated with the Mariner, they believed that this bird was the miracle that lead their ship out of the South.
analogy for the Mariner's symbolic killing of the albatross” (156). Other critics do not concur with this view and according to them the punishment does not really justify the deed. According to them there is no redemption or restitution, but the punishment only aims to a world of chaos. Warren however argues, that this crucial part of the poem can not be just blatantly read without understanding, but must be seen as a crime made by mankind against the nature. He states:
As of the moment, mental disorders constitute four of the 10 leading causes of disability in the world, and mental and behavioral disorders account for 12% of the global burden of disease, yet the mental health budgets of the majority of countries constitute less than 1% of their total health expenditures. (WHO, 2001)