As one goes through life, they experience situations in which they may not know what to do. Having to make a decision does not come easily, especially when what one may want is not necessarily, what they need. The decisions we make affect not only our lives, but everyone involved in our lives as well. The film, To the Bone, discusses the topic of decision-making. It answers the course question, “How do we decide what to do?” as it uncovers the truth about the difficulty of one’s decision making through an accurate depiction of a young girl with an eating disorder. Decision-making can be a constant struggle. Throughout the film, To the Bone, the focus jumps between the decisions that one wants to make versus what the right decisions are. It begins by focusing on the main character, Ellen, and her struggle with anorexia. She leaves her first inpatient care facility and returns home to her stepmother and her sister, who are extremely concerned for her. In regards to her health and where she needs to go, Ellen’s stepmother takes over the decisions because what Ellen would decide is not what is right for her. She sends her to a …show more content…
However, the film To the Bone allows us to see truth behind life altering decisions. At times, we are able to make our own decisions, but sometimes the decisions one wants to make, or is used to making, are not the decisions that are right. So when the outcome of such decisions are not benefitting one’s life or the lives of others around them, sometimes it is essential to allow someone else to make the decisions for them. One may seem reluctant towards accepting such decisions, but once they see the positive affects they can have on life, they will realize that the right decision overpowers the decisions they want to make. Decisions are an important part of life, only being made after careful consideration and the knowledge that its affects are not
Obesity and opposition are the two main issues of this film. The issue of obesity, treated lightly in the beginning of the film and then severely by the end, reflects society’s approach to weight loss. To ...
The concept of choice is one that humans have abused time and time again. While free will may seem like a positive, the storyteller often portrays what can go wrong when humans are making the decisions. The way in which these choices are made can happen in a variety of manners, but the fundamentals of free will are very similar from story to story. In “The Chameleon is Late” and “The Two Bundles”, free will results in death remaining on earth, but the decisions that led to this outcome were made in unique ways.
Tests and decisions are as numerous in any man's life as are the beats of his heart. The consequences follow him forever - he is judged by them and they affect his entire existence. However, judgement should not be passed on a man's single decisions individually, but only by observing how he has chosen to live his life.
If this man wants to eat a cookie before dinner, he will eat the cookie simply because he chooses to. The cookie is irrelevant. He begins to form new values with his choice as the guiding force. No more blindly obeying codes previously laid down in the past, this man has see...
The pursuit of truth has driven him to explore the best ways and practices that can improve the human life and enhance understanding to identify the underlying cause of world ills. He demonstrates the heart and not the brain may be the man’s primary source of intelligence. He continued to argue that human consciousness and emotions may affect the world of reality. The reaction of his heart to a bowl of yogurt may appear humorous, but has great impression in our lives and that money is not a pathway to happiness but in some culture's gross materialism is a symbol of insanity. The film discovers that human life is better when expression of positive emotions such as love, care, compassion, and gratitude than other negative emotions of stress, anxiety and depression. Furthermore, it proves that consensus decision-making is a norm among all species.
To conclude, personal choices are very significant in one’s life. In “The Use of Force”, by William Carlos Williams and “Lather and Nothing Else, by Hernando Tellez, both authors showed how people make their own judgments every day in life. However, the stories were different in certain cases because the decisions made by the individual caused the conflict to either end in an optimistic way or undesirable way. Personal choices are important because they help people solve conflicts, but the person must be careful if there personal choice they create is strong.
This freedom of choice, Gawande states, ultimately places a burden on either the doctor or the patient as the patient ultimately choose a course of treatment that is ultimately detrimental as in the case of Lazaroff, a patient with only a few weeks to live, but rather insist on “the day he would go back to work.” Despite the terrible risks and the limited potential benefits the neurosurgeon described, Lazaroff continued to opt to surgery and eventually died painfully as a result of surgery. Gawande suggests that Lazaroff “chose badly because his choice ran against his deepest interests,” which was to live despite his briefing remaining time, ultimately distorting his judgement into choosing a course of treatment that ultimately ended his life in a much more painful manner. Another case of patient decisions that Gawande discusses is Mr. Howe, who aggressively refused to be put on a breathing machine, neglecting the fact that “with antibiotics and some high-tech support...he would recover fully.” As Gawande and K awaited for Mrs. Howe’s decision to save her husband’s life, Mrs. Howe emotionally breaks down
Bone’s parents were mostly self serving and care nothing for their son, as a result they divorce and left Bone to contemplate about his life. As a result, he left his home at an early age as well as dropping out of school. His views became more selfish after that, usually stealing and dealing drugs to survive. He ends up with a biker named Bruce who bullies his and controls his everyday life. At first he seemed like a second abusive father, but in the end he sacrifices himself to try to save Bone from a fire. Bone starts to think that his parents were like Bruce and had alternative motives that he did not understand. Through the story, he meet with Buster and Froggy. These two people become the personification of Bone’s troubled past. Bone sympathizes with Froggy as she is abused by the pedofile Buster. Until finally, he takes Froggy, whose name actually is Rose , to her
The skeletal system is composed of many bones, joints, cartilage, ligaments, and tendons. The key functions of the skeletal system are to supply a supportive frame for the body, to shield the internal organs such as the heart and lungs. Providing attachment points for muscles is also another function as this enables the parts of the animal to have good locomotion, the long bones produce bone marrow. However, for this report, I will be concentrating more on the joints of the canine skeletal system. The joints are the articular exteriors at the end of the bones, they are shielded by a coating of cartilage. There are three main types of joints within the canine skeletal system they consist of the fibrous joints, these do not allow any movement
The skeletal provides functions such as support, protection, and movement. The skeletal system provides a framework that supports the body with muscles attached to them acting as levers allowing for movement. As bones are very rigid they provide support for vital organs such as the heart, lungs and brain. A physiological function of the skeletal system is the production of stem cells through red bone marrow found in the proximal epiphysis (the ends) which can become lymphocytes (white blood cells), erythrocytes (red blood cells) and thrombocytes (platelets).
As human are we willing to take the risk necessary to survive? Lisa Belkin author of “The Made-to Order-Savior” and Lisa Slater author of “Who holds the Clicker?” both tells us a story about the choices we make as humans to survive and the ethical questions raise by it. In Belkin’s essay is about a little girl named Molly Nash who is born with a rare disease called Fanconi disease. Her only way to survive is through her parents having another child with an exact match as her the procedure is called “In-vitro fertilization”. Now in Slater story is about this middle age man Mario Grotta who suffers from OCD. Obsesive compulsive disorder is what stands in the way of Mario having a normal life. Mario who has been through mostly every procedure possible finds himself with one last hope by inserting Neural implants. A risky operation that involves drilling a hole in his skull. Both essays connects with the risk both humans take to survive. The question is “When should we step on the slippery slope?” the answer should be when there’s no other possibilities left. No matter the ethical questions raised, we should advance since with time we progress with medicine. Also as human instinct we should risk the possibilities even when death is a possible outcome
Difficult choosing discloses people’s inherited characteristics. The main problem is that society tries to burden us with its ow list of morally good/bad choices. But, every human has its own compass which tells what is morally good/bad, and which situations requires them to make a reasonable decision. So, we can uncover our ability for moral commitment.
I think that towards the end of the movie I was hoping for these woman to get better. Throughout the whole movie we see the patients struggle with their eating disorders, and its just heartbreaking. We find out in the end that after the women have left Renfrew they just fall back into the usual eating disorder routine. They work so hard just to go back to stage one, and I think that this aspect of the movie was what made it so sad. We take away from the movie that these eating disorders are not easy to treat, and these problems never leave the patients. The patients have to live with depression, like Polly who ended up committing suicide after leaving Renfrew. Some woman have to live with physical reminders of there eating disorders, for example one of the patients said that she was a woman trapped in the body of a little girl that was not even able to have a period. Alisa lost a baby due to her eating disorder, which leads me to my second take away from this movie. These eating disorders do not only effect the individual living with them, but also the people living around them, like their family and friends. Usually people tend to forget that patients have families and friends who have to live with the pain of seeing their cousin, mother, sister, daughter, son go through these eating disorders. One of the most heartbreaking scenes in the movie is seeing Shelley’s twin cry and scream at her sister for not trying to get better.
We make choices every hour, every minute, and every second of our lives; whether big or small our choices are slowly putting us in the direction we choose or end up. Many of us do not realize what contributes to the choices we make and why it affects others the same way if affects us and because of this many authors and writers have written stories and articles about coming to terms with making a choice and how to better ourselves when it comes to decision-making for the future.
If life were merely a contest with fate, then should we not think before we act? Though some may argue that the proper time to reflect is before acting, I have learned from experience that, more times than not, this is not the best approach. The ability to act on instinct is crucial to success, in many situations. During an earthquake, for instance, one must quickly respond in whichever way necessary to protect themselves, as well as their loved ones. No matter how prepared, or trained, one may be, there is no way to predict what the essential motions should be taken at the time of an emergency.