I am looking at the world of global health, specifically epidemiology. Many of the journals of this field, no matter the subject of disease, are produced with a similar template. First the most important element of any scientific publication would be the sections the paper is divided into. These always include Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, concussion, and references. If a publication had its information organized in a non standard way, the article may be subject to criticism. Another important characteristic of a medical journal is the tense of the writing. Mostly when speaking about an experiment conducted the paper is usually written all in past tense. The text is also written to the reader in 3rd person language- this study, the researchers, etc. Besides the structure of a scientific paper, one convention is to have graphical or data as results. In a results section of a medical journal there could even be a subsection entitled graphs and figures. No experiment in the medical field would be complete without this type of contribution. Finally one more important distinction in my field are citations. I mentioned before that there is a section in a paper dedicated to listing articles that influenced the author of the paper, but these references are shortened to be included in the actual text of the paper to indicate the exact information tha was gathered from the referenced source. The citations used in scientific papers is usually MLA format. This includes the (author's last name, and year of publication). The year is included to separate other works by the same author. If the article is written by 3 or more authors a citation would list the first author's last name et al. Et al. is an abbreviation to mean more authors contributed. Generally most references are found in the introduction, since it would be the section where the author writes the influential background knowledge gained from other articles that helped him or her with their experiment.
The main stream movie A Beautiful Mind covers the story of John Nash a famous mathematician who won the nobel prize. John Nash also suffers from a mental disability called schizophrenia. His disability puts obstacles in his life with his family and work. With the disease John believes that the voices he hears are real, and specifically they tell him to crack codes and send him on secret missions which endanger his and his families lives. Throughout the movie the audience has a hard time deciphering if the missions and characters used to represent the voices are real or not. This displays how tangible John Nash's voices felt to him. Disability functions as a negative influence in this movie. John's schizophrenia puts pressure on his relationship with his wife and friends who all act as if he is mad. However at the end of the movie his illness is shown to be beatable. Instead of being sent away to be medically treated for his 'insanity', John is determined to stay with his wife and kids and to learn to ignore the prominent voices in his head. So even though disability is displayed as the obstacle in this picture, it is shown to be surmountable task to overcome.
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