and Percocet. Patient have reported gradually increasing pain in both hips for the last ten years. Her past medical history includes osteoarthritis of bilateral hips diagnosed ten years ago and controlled hypertension. Patient lives by herself in a mobile home with six steps leading to her entrance. Immediately before surgery patient was using a standard cane for ambulation. Patient reports walking short distances and very slow due to pain in bilateral hips notably more on her right hip. At present
police commissioner for a father and a brooding knight of the dark for an employer. The next, she was broken beyond recognition. Barbara Gordon’s trauma forever changed her by taking away something structurally crucial to her identity: the use of her legs. However, she owns this newfound disability and makes it a facet of her identity rather than letting it become her identity. Similarly, after the events of 9/11, America was able to turn the loss of the World Trade Center into a part of its identity
women could not possibly exist in the contemporary patriarchal reality. It is often assumed in many action genre films that in order for a woman to be considered respectable she needs to assume typically male persona characteristics: composure, high pain tolerance, decisiveness, good judgment. Overall, she needs to be tough by the male expectations. The Bride embodies all of these, and then some by not abandoning her female characteristics. Not only is she resourceful (for example killing two men while