In an essay titled “Sage Femme” the author Samantha Tengelitsch uses many rhetorical strategies such as repetition, contrast, imagery, narrative and certain appeals to develop her argument. Tengelitsch use repetition by writing “my children slept soundly, the dog took little notice” several times throughout her essay which helps emphasize the ease of home birth. The description of the room she gave birth in creates imagery and establishes a peaceful visualization for her audience and illustrates her perspective. The author also uses contrast by displaying the negative aspects of giving birth in a hospital compared to giving birth at home.…
In Annie Dillard’s excerpt, the narrator follows the process after a new birth. The bustle of the obstetrical ward is documented carefully, by the narrator listing each individual step precisely and carefully. The nurses are often seen with a bored expression on their face while the new parents gaze at their children with wonder and amazement. The narrator adds her own personal emotional remarks to the monotonous routine of the nurses. These rhetorical devices contrast the different reactions from the nurse and the narrator to the new born child: a quotidien event versus an extraordinary one.…
In the “Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift had an idea that the best way to prevent poor children in Ireland from being a burden, is to eat them. He proposes, what we fatten up these famished children and feed them to Ireland's rich land owners. Also, these children could be sold into a meat market starting from infant to twelve. Throughout, this essay he offers statistical support for his proposal and gives specific data about the number of children to be sold, their weight and pricing.…
The author, Nicholas Kristof, wrote “ If Americans Love Moms, Why Do We Let Them Die?” effectively. Kristof’s main purpose throughout the article is to persuade his audience that although Americans claim to love mothers, they’re lying; due to the fact that the United States contains the most motherhood deaths compared to any other advanced country due the way our health care plans are structured. The author’s credentials and background allowed him to write the article effectively on maternal mortality as he demonstrates to be a man of great knowledge. Kristof has been a part of the New York Times as a longtime foreign correspondent, and is currently a columnist. Not only is Kristof well educated, but he has also had many accomplishments.…
Born of the Struggle When looking at Baby’s life in Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O’Neill, we as human beings can see the great impact of Social Determinants of Health, a situation that is also very common once we leave the book and look at the streets of our own country. From the beginning, Baby is born into a tragic story; birthed into a family with no mother and a teenage father living on his own. She finds herself growing up in a low-income household, creating struggle and causing the downfall of her health as she begins to explore the world she is encased in. With Baby’s father being a single parent forced to raise up a child at a time of little to no stability in his life, Baby’s ability to live as a healthy, regular child…
Thesis Statement: The novel “Lullabies for little criminals," written by Heather O’ Neill, examines the effect of social determinants which are poverty and homelessness on the main character Baby’s life. Poverty interwinds with homelessness in Baby’s life, building an insecure childhood for her to grow up with. Introduction: According to my thesis statement, I will explain how poverty restricts baby’s living expectation at first and the relationship between limited living expectation and homelessness will be discussed after that.…
Enhancing the prosperity of moms, newborn children, and kids is a critical general well being objective for the United States. Some of the objectives that have been used to improve the health of mothers and children are;To Reduce the rate of fetal deaths at 20 or more weeks of gestation,Reduce the rate of child deaths,Reduce cesarean births among low-risk women,and Increase the proportion of infants who are breastfed. 2. How is low birth weight defined? Gestational age?…
In the book, City of Thorns: nine lives in the world’s largest refugee camp, by Ben Rawlance, the stories of the lives of nine refugees present the struggles and frustrations of the tangled lives in a refugee camp with on-going conflict. There is a lot of different issues occurring throughout their experiences in the camps, some very horrific and life threatening to these individuals. Although the book focus more on the men in the camps, the experiences the women goes through demonstrate that there is a global health issue with maternal and child health care services. These experiences are shaped by the situation of being a refugee and living in a conflict zone and they outline the type of intervention they find most important and appealing.…
Americans Are Mommy Loving Liars The author, Nicholas Kristof, wrote “ If Americans Love Moms, Why Do We Let Them Die?” effectively. Kristof’s main purpose throughout the article is to persuade his audience that that although Americans claim to love mothers, they’re lying. According to Kristof’s, the United States contains the most motherhood deaths compared to any other advanced country due the way our health care plans are structured. The author’s credentials and background allowed him to write effectively the article on this topic as he demonstrates to be a man of great knowledge.…
Chapter 17 Mother’s Love: Death without Weeping Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. " Mother 's Love: Death without Weeping. " Conformity and Conflict Readings in Cultural Anthropology.…
Miyuki Ishikawa, born 1887 in Kunitomi, graduated from the University of Tokyo and later married Takeshi Ishikawa. She found work at the Kotobuki Maternity Hospital as a midwife and would end up becoming the director of the hospital, a surprising advancement for a woman in her country at the time. Despite little being recorded about her personal life, it would seem as though she lived one serving the new mothers and their children diligently throughout her career. However, at the end of World War II, Ishikawa assumed the grim title of “Oni-Samba” or the “Demon- midwife” as she carried out what is still considered to be the highest rate of infanticide ever to befall Japan. Ishikawa and her accomplices were able to carry out as many as 103 child…
Dreams of being a mother during the 19th century were demolished when the birth rate of babies increased dramatically, for the only way to “care” for a child, was to abandon them. A mother’s instincts are loving, protecting and caring unconditionally for their child. Through the early times, the birth rate of newborns was insignificantly high, due to many reasons, one being the lack of way to avoid pregnancy. The consequence of mothers was having to "get rid" of their babies, for their dreams of becoming mommies was "smothered by poverty and want" (p.68).…
Nuer Lives Nuer Journeys is an ethnography about African Nuer who have migrated to Minnesota. The author of the book is the anthropologist Dr. Jon D. Holtzman. The Nuer are an African people, specifically from Sudan (Holtzman 2008: 2). The Nuer base their way of life around growing crops and raising livestock. Additionally, they belong to the Nilo-Saharan cultural/linguistic group and are a sizable ethnic group in southern Sudan.…
In Jody Heyman’s essay “We Can Afford to Give Parents a Break,” Heyman organizes her essay with an efficient amount of patterns of development in order to make her statement clear and effective. Throughout her essay, exemplification is one of the patterns Heyman consistently uses as support for her argument. By providing a series of examples and facts on how underprivileged majority of mothers are in the U.S and other nations, it allows her essay to be more persuasive to the reader and illustrate her point compelling with the concrete support. The audience can sympathize with Heyman’s examples and understand how unfair the U.S is being for not adopting “more progressive and humane policies toward its own mother.”…
Birth without violence is what Frederick Leboyer always dreamed of, for sake of both the mother and the baby. Frederick Leboyer, author of the book, Birth without Violence: Revised Edition of the Classic, is a French physician whose adopted natural birth methods around the world to ease the process of childbirth (Wolfe). His first book was written twenty-five years ago and was loved and admired by mothers that he revised it into a new edition; though, it was immensely feared by medical professionals (Leboyer vii). In the revised book, Leboyer takes on the poetic aspect as he uses satire and opposing viewpoints to portray his message. He hopes once everyone “becomes aware of the ordeal it is for the baby to be “pushed and forced into this world”, they will meet the young...adventurer...with more sensitivity...intelligence…and respect” (Leboyer vii).…