The wrist was caked in mud and dried blood, the hand drooping forward. I wanted to get a look at the cut, but I knew that once I removed the mud it would start bleeding again. As we stood there, surrounded by a crowd of adults and children of all ages, I spotted what looked like a clean rag in the sand and walked over to pick it up. All eyes followed my every step. The audience was far more intrigued by the western doctor than by the injury he was treating, Cuts they've seen before. I started wiping the wound. The boy watched carefully, still without expression, even when the plug of mud fell away in one lump and a pulse of blood spurted out. By the second pulse I could see that the cut was very deep, running straight into the wrist from the thumb side. I sued the rag for compression, placing it where the mud had been. From the liveliness of the bleeding and the dropped position of the wrist and thumb, I knew an artery and some tendons were cut. It was likely that the nerve running between them had been cut as well.
The passage above from Surviving the Extremes shows various thoughts going through Dr. Kamler's brain as he performers an everyday "mini" surgery in a new environment. Although Dr. Kamler adapts to the new location well and has a positive attitude through the surgery I feel as if he is finding the new environment a bit different, weird as well as stressful. Throughout the first few chapters Dr. Kamler shares his experiences and also his attitude and thoughts pertaining to the new environments that surround him.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Currnetly
Pages this week- 101
Pages this semester- 1313
The wrist was caked in mud and dried blood, the hand drooping forward. I wanted to get a look at the car, but I knew that once I removed the mud it would start bleeding again. As we stood there surrounded by a crowd of adults and children of all ages, I spotted what looked like a clean rag in the sand and walked over to pick it up.
This passage was my favorite from this week because it shows how Dr. Kamler learned to adapt in different environments. We can all connect to the situations when we are put under pressure by a live audience. Dr. Kamler describes his circumstance where he is forced to work under strict pressure of an audience trying to save a young boy in a new environment.
Pages this semester- 1313
The wrist was caked in mud and dried blood, the hand drooping forward. I wanted to get a look at the car, but I knew that once I removed the mud it would start bleeding again. As we stood there surrounded by a crowd of adults and children of all ages, I spotted what looked like a clean rag in the sand and walked over to pick it up.
This passage was my favorite from this week because it shows how Dr. Kamler learned to adapt in different environments. We can all connect to the situations when we are put under pressure by a live audience. Dr. Kamler describes his circumstance where he is forced to work under strict pressure of an audience trying to save a young boy in a new environment.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Doctor Anyone?
Last year in the class Biomed year two we were required to read the book called Surviving the Extremes. I wasn’t really interested in it much and we always had well over enough work to do for that class including labs and dissections. I finally decided to read the book this week as the description on the back drawled my attention.
Surviving the extremes is a true story that a doctor has written when traveling to many environments and curing different people. Some of these environments include Jungle, High seas, Desert, Underwater, High Altitude, and finally Outer Space.
In the first chapter Dr. Kamler a doctor from New York City is on an expedition with various other scientist. The doctor has accommodated on the trip to serve as the team doctor and watch over everyone’s health at the extreme conditions of weather, adaption, as well as lifestyle changes. Reading through the first few chapters I came to realize that Dr. Kamler is a doctor who is confident of his actions and can adapt to environmental changes. In addition, Dr. Kamler reacts to medical situations in different environmental areas very calmly as well as accurately. In other words in challenging locations and environments Dr. Kamler can pull of a medical procedure and treat patients. For example, as Dr. Kamler is in the Jungle a young Indian boy has cut his wrist open by mistake. Although the doctor does not have the right supplies needed nor the language needed to communicate with the young Indian boy he proceeds with the stitching and successfully reunites the boys wrist to one. The first few chapters focus on Dr. Kamler's attitude, nature, and adaption towards new environments. These new environments come to show and explore different medical options to the extremes.
Surviving the extremes is a true story that a doctor has written when traveling to many environments and curing different people. Some of these environments include Jungle, High seas, Desert, Underwater, High Altitude, and finally Outer Space.
In the first chapter Dr. Kamler a doctor from New York City is on an expedition with various other scientist. The doctor has accommodated on the trip to serve as the team doctor and watch over everyone’s health at the extreme conditions of weather, adaption, as well as lifestyle changes. Reading through the first few chapters I came to realize that Dr. Kamler is a doctor who is confident of his actions and can adapt to environmental changes. In addition, Dr. Kamler reacts to medical situations in different environmental areas very calmly as well as accurately. In other words in challenging locations and environments Dr. Kamler can pull of a medical procedure and treat patients. For example, as Dr. Kamler is in the Jungle a young Indian boy has cut his wrist open by mistake. Although the doctor does not have the right supplies needed nor the language needed to communicate with the young Indian boy he proceeds with the stitching and successfully reunites the boys wrist to one. The first few chapters focus on Dr. Kamler's attitude, nature, and adaption towards new environments. These new environments come to show and explore different medical options to the extremes.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Currently
Pride and Prejudice- Pages 150
Tell No One, Harlen Coben
My heart slammed into my throat. "Elizabeth!"
No answer. The panic rose. I fell off the raft and started swimming toward the dock. But my strokes were loud, maddeningly loud, in my ears.
After analyzing my four currently blogs the sentences above from the book Tell No One by Harlem Coben still appeal to my senses the most. These sentences when rereading the blogs are my favorite because they appeal to my five sense, I feel as I can connect with the character and visualize his thoughts. In addition, I feel as any reader could connect with these sentences because we all have been through situations in which our heart is excitingly beating, and we put ourselves in pain or risk to save our loved ones. The sentences above written by Harlen Coben are short yet very descriptive and enough to appeal to a readers senses.
Total Pages This Semester-1212
Total Pages This Week-150
Tell No One, Harlen Coben
My heart slammed into my throat. "Elizabeth!"
No answer. The panic rose. I fell off the raft and started swimming toward the dock. But my strokes were loud, maddeningly loud, in my ears.
After analyzing my four currently blogs the sentences above from the book Tell No One by Harlem Coben still appeal to my senses the most. These sentences when rereading the blogs are my favorite because they appeal to my five sense, I feel as I can connect with the character and visualize his thoughts. In addition, I feel as any reader could connect with these sentences because we all have been through situations in which our heart is excitingly beating, and we put ourselves in pain or risk to save our loved ones. The sentences above written by Harlen Coben are short yet very descriptive and enough to appeal to a readers senses.
Total Pages This Semester-1212
Total Pages This Week-150
Thursday, September 22, 2011
True Colors
As I had wrote in my post yesterday Mr. Collin is a new character in the story bringing about a climax. The intentions of Mr. Collin were revealed in the excerpts I had read today from Pride and Prejudice.
Mr. Collin has come to the Bennet house because he has his eye on Mr. Bennet's money as well as property. In this society or time period it is important to know that property was only to be inherited by a male therefore Mr. Collin saw it appropriate to marry a daughter from the Bennet household in order to entail the Bennet property. The intentions of Mr. Collin shows how often in this time era greed was a major vice rather it be in marrying a women for her fathers property or steeling.
After being turned down by Elizabeth, Mr. Collin has no one to marry in the Bennet house hold. Weeks later a further shock reaches the Bennet house hold that the Lucas daughter has married Mr. Collin. Elizabeth is very confused of why Charlotte would do such a thing of marrying Mr. Collins. Charlotte explains to to Elizabeth that it was important for her to marry because of her financial situation. This is another difference in time era shown in the book. Often in this era women would marry at younger ages due to family financial situations as this is less likely to happen in today’s society. In Pride and Prejudice often times comparisons are shown from the time era the book was written in verses the time era and society today. The culture, family situations, and everyday lifestyles were very different as family life was much more valued in the era the book was written.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Mr. Collin the twist
Reading on in Pride and Prejudice the novel takes a different twist as well as introducing a new character who will play a role in affecting the Bennet family.
Over the weeks interactions between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have led Mr. Darcy to notice Elizabeth Bennet. Mr. Darcy begins to fall for Elizabeth who still sees him as an arrogant, high class guy. While the love story of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth continues Jane Bennet deepens her friendship with Mr. Bingley. As their friendship continues Jane pays a visit to Mr. Bingley at his mansion. As she hikes on the way to the Bingley Mansion, Jane manages to get mud all over her dress. Reaching the Bingley mansion with a spattered dress, she is looked down upon by the snobby Miss Bingley, Mr. Bingley's sister. As Elizabeth had accompanied Jane on the trip, Miss Bingley notices that Mr. Darcy pays a lot of attention towards Elizabeth. This observation burns Miss Bingley as she looks down upon the Bennets as well as feels for Mr. Darcy.
Although Mrs. Bennet does not wish for Jane and Elizabeth to return so soon, the girls return and come to meet Mr. Collin who is visiting their household. Mr. Collin is a clergyman who has acts very different when described in the text. Mr. Collin seems to have odd intentions as he proposed to Elizabeth after knowing her for a short period of time. In this time era that Pride and Prejudice was written marriages and short proposals such as the one Mr. Collin presented were common yet the behavior of Mr. Collin around the Bennet daughters is strange. At this point in the novel I have come to find that in this time era settings and appeals to the senses are very different as well as culture. These factors play a major role in the story as well as the climax of the entrance of Mr. Collin.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Creative Sentence
Object: Golden Temple
Ornamentation- shiny, distant, beautiful, adorable, attractive, clean, bright, elegant, excited, artistic, graceful, goregous, precious, famous, spotless, poised
Setting- expensive, alive, powerful, fragile, gifted
Scale- immense, great, massive, broad, square, wide
Condition- Outstanding, beautiful, important, rich, real
Infer-admiring, calm, passionate, fanciful, adorable, amazed, appreciative, ardent, tranquilizing
In this image of the Golden Temple poised, elegant ornamentation, alive setting, immense scale, and rich conditions emphasize ardent and tranquilizing exuberance.
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