BACKGROUND Clinical guidelines emphasize medical therapy as the initial approach to the management of patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD). However, the extent to which medical therapy is applied before and after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in contemporary clinical practice is uncertain. We evaluated medication use for patients with stable CAD undergoing PCI, and asse...

Heroism is a valued part of any society, yet its realization depends on the decisions of individual actors and a public reward to individuals who undertake heroic actions. Military combat related activities provide a useful starting point for thinking about the empirical nature of heroism. Interestingly, if we define heroism by those who have been awarded military honors such as the Congression...

Violence is now becoming a way of life to deal with political, economic and social issues. Ever since independence, the agitational methods employed during the days of our struggle for freedom have continued to be applied even against our own Government. With the passage of time bitterness, violence, disrespect for authority and tendency towards mob rule have been growing. Non-violence and the ...

This article seeks to interrogate the construction of identities in Edgar Tekeres A Lifetime of Struggle for the purposes of establishing political legitimacy and heroism for himself.This article observers that the autobiographical narrator attempts to achieve this end through constructing heroic identities on a multiplicity of sites such as heredity, military,prisoner,welfare,masculine,intelle...

the Valles de Tuy, a town that was war-torn throughout his early childhood. His grandfather, José Luis Rojas, taught the child how to draw, but when Cristóbal was 13, his father died, and he began work in a tobacco factory to help support his family. In 1878, an earthquake destroyed much of the Valles del Tuy region, and Rojas moved to Caracas, where he continued his artistic development under ...

The biblical story of Samson may be understood at various levels and from different perspectives. Since the story of Samson in the Bible is sketchily drawn, the interpretations of the narrative are numerous. One version, according to David Grossman, a contemporary writer and liberal Israeli political activist, regards Samson critically, viewing him as a tormented individual who opts to end his ...