Essays on Profession

The legendary film-critic Pauline Kael (1976) called “Taxi Driver” as one of the few truly modern horror films. There are many things proving it: its cold anxiety, atrocious violence, dark colors and an insane taxi driver dreaming about the purge of dirty streets of sinful...

In Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Robert De Niro plays Travis Bickle, a mentally disturbed Vietnam Veteran likely suffering from PTSD who spend his nights patrolling the crime ridden streets of a decaying New York City in his yellow cab. The film is commonly read as...

This visual essay looks at the work of filmmaker Martin Scorsese, focusing in on the film ‘Taxi Driver’. The aim was to make a correlation between this film and theories of semiotics, in particular the symbolisms Scorcese uses to question the protagonists Loneliness and Masculinity....

Anaya, known as Ana to her friends, is leading a regretful and unhappy life. Until one day, when she is unexpectedly confronted with an opportunity to fix her biggest regret in life. The Watchmaker’s Doctor by G. M. T. Schuilling asks – can changing one...

In light of the aging population in North America, healthcare professionals are seeking solutions for the impeding physician shortage. Numerous policymakers have begun advocating for nurse practitioners (NPs) and suggesting they could fill this gap. Policymakers have argued NPs provide a cheaper and faster solution...

Doctors are considered to be pillars of society. They are hope personified. As individuals expected to fulfill a public standard, they are compelled to show extraordinary resilience, patience, and other characteristics associated with being “perfect stewards”. However, as cynical as it may sound like, perfection...

In Lather and Nothing Else by Hernando Téllez, the barber has a choice of whether or not to kill the captain or to let him go. The barber makes the right choice because he wants to be known as the best barber in town not...

Everyday is a struggle to make the right decision between what is right and what is wrong. Or what is good and what is evil. Or what is moral and what is immoral. In “Just Lather, That’s All” by Hernando Tellez, the barber encounters this...

In Hernando Tellez’s “Just Lather, That’s All,” the barber would have been a coward if he had killed Captain Torres. This is because the barber would not like to commit the biggest sin of his career, which was to spill a drop of the client’s...

We have all heard of MRI scans but many of us do not know what it is and what it detects. MRI stands for magnetic resonance imaging. This is a scan that helps doctors and surgeons to see your internal organs, tissues, and bones from...