Essays on Medicine Page 193

Deep sleep allows the body an escape from time, achieving physical and psychological rejuvenation. Various stages of the sleep process pass sequentially before reaching deep sleep. Robert Frost’s poem “After Apple-Picking,” clearly describes the troubled reality of one individual’s inability to reach deep sleep. The consequences are distressing and exhausting dreams that consume physical and…

However many feminist theorists continue to emphasize the entirety and truthfulness of the female body. Even a feminist, against gender restrictions, is captured in a lesbian body and has to conform to their expectations An important aspect of the body, which features in both novels, is the hands. The hand represents a strong connection between…

A monologue from the play by Sophocles NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Dramas. Sophocles. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906. HERACLES: How many and how fierce and sore to tell The labours I with body and hands have wrought! And such an one not even the Spouse of Jove Set me, or the abhorred…

A monologue from the play by Sophocles NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Dramas. Sophocles. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906. DEIANIRA: Friends, while our guest is parleying in the house With the girl-captives, on the point to go, I am come forth to you in private, first Wishing to tell you my devices, next…

A monologue from the play by Sophocles NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Dramas. Sophocles. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1906. DEIANIRA: You come, having been told, as I suppose, Of my distress; but you are ignorant– And may you never by experience learn– What canker gnaws my heart. For Girlhood feeds In the same…

A monologue from the play by Euripides NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Plays of Euripides in English, vol. i. Trans. Shelley Dean Milman. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1920. ANDROMACHE: Hear, that with pleasure I may touch thy soul Not to be born, I argue, and to die, Are equal: but to die…

Anne pulled a screwed up five pound note out of the pocket of her worn out jeans with her shaking hand and handed it to the elderly cashier, picked up the small paper bag and slowly walked out of the shop. Anne was 5 feet and 7 inches tall with long golden shiny locks that flowed…

  It does not however stop with one certain individual. The transition from seeming to being develops in oneself throughout the course of their life and it does not end there. It is apart of the human ego which is passed on from generation to generation. To take pride in oneself and make yourself a…

There was an exception to this rule, which was for widows who were entitled to a proportion of their husband’s estate. During this time a small number of widowed women had petitioned Parliament in matters that related to their estates, a major problem here was that vast majority of women, had little or no access…

  Before actually thinking about the subject of suicide and physician-assisted suicide I probably would have never said what I have, because in the society we live in it is viewed as a horrible sin. Know that I have actually taken the time to analyze the situations of people that could be in such situations…