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“Reviews and Reactions: A Rhetorical-Cultural Analysis of the Business of Being Born” byDr. Kim Hensley Owens
My 3rd grade teacher called my mother and said, “Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don’t get him into therapy.” And wouldn’t you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress!” Laverne Cox
“I do have belief in God. That's why I do this work. My belief in God tells me that the most important thing you can do for another human being is help them in their time of need.“ Willie Parker, MD
“We don't say well, you have heart disease…You are morally unfit. You are weak. No. We say well, you have heart disease. But now that you know you have heart disease you have certain responsibilities. You should eat a healthy diet, and you should exercise, and you should see your cardiologist and you should take your meds…And that should be our same attitude towards addicts. We should say okay, well, you're an addict. You have something wrong with your brain the way this other guy had something wrong with his heart. But it's not a free ride.” From “The Compass of Pleasure” by David Linden
“I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy.” Angelina Jolie
The topic for this capstone course was inspired by my mother’s battle with ALS, a disease that robs the afflicted of their bodies leaving them unable to walk, talk, move, eat, speak, or breathe on their own, but leaves the mind sharp and the spirit intact.
This course and its poster presentations are dedicated to the 30,000 Americans currently living with ALS.