APGAR SCORES Professor Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) • American paediatric anaesthesiologist • Founder of neonatology field • Also founder of Apgar score (1952) ← “designed first standardized method for evaluating newborns transition to life outside the womb” ← Further related Apgar score to labour‚ delivery and anaesthetics ← Apgar score at 5 min can predict neonatal survival and neurological development • In 1949: she was the 1st woman at Columbia
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distinction will be drawn between content and structure words. The text being analysed is an extract from the novel To the Lighthouse‚ by Virginia Woolf. The text is therefore narrative. The literary technique used in this text is very rare‚ it is known as the stream-ofconsciousness. This suggests that most of it is written as an unbroken flow of perceptions‚ thoughts and feelings. What is written is not from an objective narrator’s point of view‚ but rather‚ what is happening inside the character’s mind
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Edna felt as if she were being borne away from some anchorage which had held her fast‚ whose chains had been loosening—had snapped the night before when the mystic spirit was abroad‚ leaving her free to drift whithersoever she chose to set her sails.” (Chopin)
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From drift to shift by Jody B. Miller is an inspirational book which focuses on people who have gone through major changes in their lives. This book will serve as an inspiration and a guideline to people who need to evolve‚ become better and happier persons by fulfilling their ultimate purpose or innermost desires in life. As somebody who has gone through struggles herself‚ Jody B. Miller’s book is inspiring and realistic as one can relate to the real life stories of the people in this book. This
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George C. Herring’s book From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 describes how the American colonies originated from Europe and our journey westward in to California. Herring does a good job making his way through our nation’s history. Depicting all the major events that took present. Describing major contributor‚ the present-day nation that we live in. Herring starts the book off by introducing the early forms of government that The American colonies started. He goes on to talk
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The Lady from Shanghai (1946) has all of the elements that encompass a great film noir. For the purposes of this short paper‚ I will focus strictly on one prominent scene in the film and the elements that comprise it. The scene I have chosen is the crazy house scene‚ one of the final scenes in the film. Michael awakes from his drugged stupor and realizes he is in a crazy house. His mind whirls as he begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together‚ realizing that Elsa was in fact the murderer and
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The Train from Hate” by John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin’s “The Train from Hate” tells a story of a black family in Oklahoma during the time of racial separatism. When the family boards a train to head a couple miles out of town to Checotah‚ the conductor informs the mother that they must leave the train when it stops. The mother tells the kids that they must exit the train and head back to their hometown of Rentiesville. The narrator‚ who is a young boy does not understand why the white conductor
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Essay Virginia and Massachusetts Introduction Massachusetts has been at the fore front of history for spill 250 years. The Pilgrims came onto land in 1620‚ and Massachusetts became the location of the primary Thanksgiving within the fall of 1621. Within the 1700’s‚ because the economy of the world benefited from long fishing‚ trading‚ and construction‚ the residents became more and more rebellious against Britain’s persistent taxation. In 1773‚ history was created once Bostonians had their far-famed
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In this “Voice from the Field”‚ three steps are listed to help build preschoolers math skills. Froebel was the man that introduced blocks to the preschool ages. He called them gifts. He stated that using these gifts would help children develop. The book talked about using a variety of instructional approaches. It also talked about letting children use different styles of blocks to explore. The last step that it mentioned said to ask the children a variety of questions. Giving children adequate
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Raiders from the sea is the first book of a series. The book is about thirteen year old Bree and her brother Devin. The story is set around the late 900s and based in Ireland. The story starts out with Bree exploring one day‚ when she sees a boy near the slippery rocks she becomes worried and calls out to warn him. When he sees that someone else is around he starts to panic and slips. When he slips he hits his head on a rock and becomes unconscious. Bree quickly hurried over to the boy and carried
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