...Her husband rarely spends time in their vacation house, and the narrator is basically confined to her house. Several studies have linked solitary confinement to mental illness. This paper will analyze the narrator’s already severe depression, and the effects brought about by being confined in her house. In the beginning of the story, the narrator already suffers from a mental illness called nervous depression. Nervous depression is the “lowering of pressure or lowering and weakening of nervous or mental vitality,” (If You Have). Her husband diagnoses her with depression and condemns her to stay in their vacation home until she is cured. Although the narrator says that her husband “does not believe that I am sick,” he does tell her that she is “absolutely forbidden to work until she is well again,” (Gilman 655). While...
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...The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, is a coming of age novel depicting the story of the a girl as she morphs into a woman, Esperanza Cordero. As one of the 20th centuries most powerful works about self-discovery and growing up in a society ridden with prejudice, the House on Mango Street, consistently provides morales to readers which transform their views on the society both in the U.S. and globally. Moreover, Cisneros constantly utilizes literary elements throughout her writing such as metaphor to enhance the clarity of the central idea in Esperanza’s narrative, that there is a lack of one’s ability to express themselves freely as a result of a multitude of reasons. Esperanza’s lack of ability to express herself freely is a result...
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...MICHEL FOUCAULT & THE SHIP OF FOOLS TERM PAPER - WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Submitted by, Meera M Panicker 1st yr Integrated MA Introduction When I started reading Foucault’s madness and Civilization, i had no idea about what i was going to do for the term paper. I was just fascinated by how his ideas on all of it, madness and normality sounded. When i started reading, it was at first not easy to understand, but slowly i started understanding little by little. Foucaults works have little reiews from the west and more reviews from the French. The French had cut and dissected the book in no way the western world has, and this actually made reading harder because there were very little available on the subject. So, i have relied on more of a personal understanding of what i have read. The narrenschiff or the ship of fools, like it had fascinated Foucault also fascinated me. I was fascinated by how renaissance exalted madness and gloricised it in its artworks, but how event then it was excluded at the same time....
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...Montag first starts out as a law holding fireman, but as he becomes more knowledgeable he begins to commit minor civil disobedience acts. In the city the citizens are confined to many laws. On one day Montag is walking back from his work back to his house . While he is walking Clarisse McClellan decides to join him on his way back home. As they were walking back Clarisse asks [" Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"(Bradbury 12) and Montag responds " That's against the law!" (Bradbury 12)]. Montag is aware of the law against reading books. He tells Clarisse it is forbidden. Montag is surprised that Clarisse asked about reading books. Since he is a fireman he knows well you could get in trouble for reading a book. Though Montag wants...
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...security levels within jails, state prisons, and federal prisons. Let’s start by discussing what jails are, as well as a brief history. * The term “jail” is used by counties and cities to house criminals for short periods of time. Jails normally house individuals who have been convicted to serve a short sentence, awaiting trial, people who have not yet posted bond and detainees who have been arrested on suspicion of committing a crime. * The first jail, also known as “gaol” was built in England by King Henry II in 1166. The gaol’s original purpose was to detain individuals awaiting trial, however, vagrancy had become a problem in the fourteenth and eighteenth century, and jails were used to house displaced persons, mentally ill, and the poor (Seiter, p. 72, 2011). Individuals housed in these early jails lived in deplorable conditions. They were filthy, had horrible food, and little medical care. John Howard, who became the sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1773, saw these horrible conditions and drafted the Penitentiary Act of 1779. The Penitentiary Act created four requirements for English prisons and jails: 1. Secure and sanitary structures, 2. Systematic inspections, 3. Abolition of fees charged to inmates and 4. A reformatory regime in which inmates were confined in solitary cells but worked in common rooms during the day (Seiter, p. 73, 2011). * Early jails in the United States followed the English model, but instead of cells, inmates were held in one...
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...In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator and her husband John are renting a house for three weeks. Her husband, who is a physician, believes she suffers from temporary nervous depression. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression” (Gilman 275). He makes her stay in a room and orders her to get as much sleep as possible. He believes it is best for her not to write or do any activity she enjoys. Being confined to a room, she becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper and believes a woman is trapped inside the paper. She eventually tears all the wallpaper off and says the woman is now free....
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...percentage of the U.S. population, factory farms have taken their place ("How is Land in The United States Used? A Focus on Agricultural Land", n.d.). However, while factory farms produce more food optimizing economies of scale, modern technologies, and genetic engineering, factory farming more often than not incorporate abusive treatment to the animals. Factory Farming is an inhumane way of producing meat and dairy products due to its common practices of confined living conditions, wide usage of antibiotics and genetic engineering, and slaughterhouse practices. One of the most common forms of animal cruelty in factory farms is the overcrowded and confined living areas of the animals. Chickens are the most confined animal in Factory Farming with up to 120,000 birds on one farm. (Madhani, 2015). Both egg-laying hens and fryer chickens are housed in “battery cages”. Battery cages hold between five and ten hens with each hen allotted between 67 - 76 sq. inches (less than the size of a standard sheet of letter paper). Being confined to such a small area creates multiple physical and mental problems for the chickens. Among the more common noted problems is the inability to spread their wings, standing up, nesting, perching, and dust bathing. (“The Humane Society of the United States", n.d.”). Debi Zimmermann (Ph.D., Veterinarian) commented on chicken living conditions at the Canadian based egg supplying Burnbrae Farms, “With 7–10 hens squeezed into each small barren cage there...
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...means she was an activist for women’s rights. She is today remembered for her semi-nonfictional short story, The Yellow Wall Paper, which she wrote after a difficult period of post-partum depression. She wrote the book in early 19th century when feminism was rather revolutionary. The book is a true impression of a strong woman reacting to adversity. The Yellow Wall Paper is a short story that describes the suffering of a woman confined to her home after subjection to post-partum depression. She appears as a woman who is totally submissive to her husband. While suffering from acute depression, she has to spend her days restricted to her house. However, there is a frightful wall paper in her bedroom that she keeps staring at day in day out. This yellow paper drives her totally insane, and she eventually tears it down. She feels alone in her little world. Unfortunately, her husband does not give her any support despite her sickness and does not want her to write. She also cannot visit or interact with family and friends and is confined to a house where her husband thinks air would help her. He does not want her to do anything even reading. She is just expected to eat, sleep, and rest. This essentially means existing, and it is what is driving her mad. Many people who have read the story describe Perkins as a bold, outspoken and exceptionally intelligent. They say that they support all the remunerable and courageous women who...
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...A prime example of African Americans being discriminated against over the phone( thus needing to put on a “white voice” for survival in America) is housing discrimination. Housing discrimination against African Americans is nothing new. In 1968 the Fair Housing Act passed and up until that point it was legal to bluntly discriminate people from living in certain houses. Since then, discrimination still exist, but in more subtle ways than a “No Blacks Allowed” sign. According to Galster (1990), in 1980, one out of every five black person looking for housing for sale will face discrimination. This includes being told different answers than their white counterparts about things such as the price, availability, general information and qualification requirements. Even worse, if they want to rent they had a 50% chance of being discriminated against and being told different things about the housing availability, application process, and general information about the dwelling. Black people were shown less houses than their white peers. Results also shown that Hispanics were discriminated against as...
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...much from the time of living in caves to the present day two story houses. The only thing that has essentially changed is how we go about protecting ourselves from these external and internal threats. With the rapid growth of the internet, it has become essential to be cautious of the unseen threats that lurk in cyberspace. This essay is going to touch on the relevance of network security and the protection of families. One of the greatest missions placed upon all of God’s children is to protect one another. "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel" (1 Timothy 5:8). The greatest weapon God bestowed upon us to protect our families and each other was the Bible. The teachings of the Bible can be compared to a firewall in network security in that the Bible gives Christians a set of rules to live by. A firewall is network security device or host software that filters communications, usually network traffic, based on a set of predefined rules (Stewart, 2011). Each predefined rule in a firewall has a specific task, just like each story in the Bible gives God’s children a specific life lesson. The church that a Christian attends closely relates to a secure Local Area Network (LAN). A LAN is a network confined to a limited geographic distance (Stewart, 2011). You will never find a better example of a network that is confined to a limited geographic distance than you will at a church on Sunday...
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...with more nutrients; they’re higher in Omega-3 fatty acid and vitamin E. Corn-fed beef, on the other hand, is relatively more affordable. The million dollar question should be, it’s affordable, but at what cost? What makes corn-fed beef so much cheaper than grass-fed? Corn-fed cattle go through a process, almost like an assembly line. The first step, the cow and calf live in a cow-calf operation. Here, the cow is artificially inseminated for the sole purpose of reproduction. For the first 6 months, the calf stays with their mother, once they’re old enough they’re taken to a pen, where they’re introduced to corn. To make a long story short, the calf is finally moved into a CAFO (confined animal feeding operation). From this point on, they’re all confined to small caged in areas. These facilities house hundreds, even thousands of farm animals. From this point on their diet is strictly corn, protein, vitamins (to speed the growth process) and antibiotics. Below is a quote from a website dedicated to factory farming and their issues. “Without the drugs, this type of beef production would not be sustainable; the animals would all be dead before they ever made it to market weight.” ( http://www.factoryfarming.com/beef_production.html ) The expense for corn is close to nothing, due to...
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...Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, the play tragically ends with the death of one of the main character’s daughters. On the other hand, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, although including tragedy and sadness in the ending, did not involve death. Likewise with comedies, although some classics do end in marriage as in Chekhov’s The Brute, comic endings can vary greatly. Moreover, plays over time have varied greatly in their morals, structure and form, and belong to a much larger scale than only death and marriage. Musical Greek dramas, biblical re-enactments of Medieval drama, pastoral drama of 16th century Italy and the “Theatre of the Absurd” are all contributors to the definition of drama. While Byron may not have been completely serious when coming up with this saying, it is unfair to limit the end of all tragedies to death and of all comedies to marriage, especially since the categories of drama vary greatly. First of all, a common genre in dramatic plays is tragedy. Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba is an ideal example of Byron’s “tragedy”. The play discusses the sexually repressed lives of a group of young women living in the house of the all-powerful dictator Bernarda Alba. One of the girls, by the end of the play, becomes so frantic about the man she has been forbidden to see that she eventually shoots herself. “ADELA: No one can hold me back! (She tries to go out). ANGUSTIAS: You’re not getting out of here with your body’s triumph! Thief! Disgrace of this house! MAGDALENA:...
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...In The Round House, Joe Coutts speaks of his friends’ and his deep connection to characters from the Star Trek: The Next Generation series; however, this devotion goes farther than boyhood obsession (Erdrich 20). Joe and his friends use the series as a form of escapism, much like many other reservation residents abuse alcohol or religious devotion to escape the hardships of reservation life. Joe says that pretending they lived in a different world allowed them to no longer be “skinny, picked on, poor, motherless, or scared” (Erdrich 20). These young people on the reservation are looking for a way to cope with the oppressive environment they have been forced to live in; by picking up a new identity and a new universe essentially, Joe, Cappy,...
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...| What is Friendship? What is friendship? People have been asking this question for centuries, and we can never know the exact answer that will fit everybody’s definition of friendship. Friends are people without whom your life wouldn’t be complete. They are the people who you know for ages, or even if you don’t you feel like you were born on the same day. They will always be by your side and will help you with any troubles. In the dictionary you can find three definitions of friendship:1. The quality or condition of being friends2. A friendly relationship3. Friendliness, good will In order to know what all these definitions mean we need to figure out what is the definition for friends. A friend is defined as a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts. So friendship is when two people know each other well, and trust each other. Friendship is the relationship between two people who really care about each other. Your friendship will keep you happy, but it is not easy. Friendship demands time and effort, and sometimes you have to step over your pride and put yourself on the place of your friend, and see what she feels even if you think you are correct. But in exchange, a friend can provide a lot of support and comfort in good times and bad. Many things are needed to make friendship a real one, including trustworthiness, support, honesty, and loyalty. Friendship is supposed to make both people happy, and enjoying their relationship. Yes...
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...early 1900’s, and Billy Budd on a ship in the late 18th Century. These settings help to identify the mood of each story. Metamorphosis takes place in the early 1900’s in the apartment of Gregor Samsa. Kafka does not provide a geographical setting for Metamorphosis, however, the significance of the story taking place on land is the ability of the characters to escape at their own will. Metamorphosis begins with Gregor unable to get out of his bed for work, later succumbing to the fact that he has morphed into an insect. Gregor’s extreme tardiness for work causes upheaval and chaos in the Samsa home; The father is screaming, Gregor’s boss comes to the house to find his employee, Gregor’s mother and sister are crying because they are scared, and there are guests in the home. The setting of the entire Samsa family being confined into a small apartment makes the the turmoil that arises a much larger issue than it really is. At a certain point, the Samsa family, led by their father, decides to isolate Gregor into the living room. This isolation is the start to planning a death for Gregor in order to restore the family dynamic in the Samsa home. Billy Budd takes place on a boat in the Mediterranean Sea in 1797 during the Napoleonic wars. The fighting between France and England at the time helped frame the setting of the story. The names of the boats Melville chose, “Rights of Man” and...
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