...Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” is a horrifying tale with three allegorical elements. The first element comes into play in the very beginning when the royal court locks themselves up in a fortress, ignoring the dying peasants outside their gates. Poe says “When [Prince Prosepero’s] dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand ... light hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court and with those retire to the seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys” (87). This marks the beginning of Poe’s scolding against ignoring others and selfishness. Instead of helping the dying peasants, Prince Prosepero and his court begin a magnificent party. This leads the second element of the allegory,...
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...Amherst Academy in Massachusetts. However, even though Dickinson did not have many relationships with friends or people, this did not stop her from making the best out of her career. As a private prolific poet, Dickson was blessed with great success dealing with her poetry. She has had about one thousand eight hundred of her poems published in her life time, including After great pain, a formal feeling comes, and I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-; two poems which Dickinson is popular for today. These two poems strongly illustrate a theme of death and dying, to assist the reader understand and analyze the depth of this theme; Dickinson uses strong symbolism, tone, and figurative language throughout her works. Dickinson’s symbolism throughout these two poems is strong and magnificent. In After great pain, a formal feeling comes the author uses many objects to symbolize feelings having to relate with the major theme of death and dying. “The nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs” (line 2). Dickinson uses the comparison of the nerves to tombs because the tombs symbolize death, as well as stone and stiffness, which help the reader understand that the poem is relative to a funeral feeling, dealing with the emotions that come along with death. “The speaker of after A great pain is not in fact, dead it is only the “the glittering retinue of Nerves “that has become like Tombs-”...
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...The University of Southampton UK should study the subject before they publish a paper on it as if no one else has ever studied "near death" before. If the University of Southampton UK had bothered to study the data already available, they would have seen that the things they bring up have already been explained. This paper brings up nothing new other than a misleading conclusion. What they bring up is so well understood by neuroscientists that they can even reproduce the visions. This in itself proves that visions do not mean there is life after death and that we are not so special. For example, this abstract mentions some people seeing a light at the end of a tunnel as if that can only be explained as proof of life after death or a universal...
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...Dr. L. The capstone project in which I am initiating on dying with dignity is special to me, not only because of working many years in Oncology, Intensive Care Units, Emergency Rooms, but receiving the diagnosis years ago and being sent home on hospice. The medical care received trigger concern even today and creating a way to bridge the gap between nursing caring for a patient that the diagnosis results in walking out of the hospital and one that when leaving the hospital would not be able to know the difference between smelling fresh air or the air in a body bag. The sixth stage of the dying patient (Hamilton, C. A. 2010) is postmortem. Nurses did not show experience of how to care for a family of the dying patient, the question are you comfortable was often asked but what can we do to provide comfort was an issue for the dying.The medical personnel provided care as if they were afraid to enter the room. The patient and the family felt uncared for; the patient felt as if death had already occurred. The patient, of course, was me. Educating nursing and another medical personnel while in school is where the end of life care should start and not stop with one class, students should experience caring for dying patients and the families, become familiar with varies cultures and age groups. Learning that principle of ethics and morals is crucial to caring for people to the end. I am learning a lot throughout this course, and my capstone project is helping a healing process...
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...My experience of death and dying happened almost seven years ago, when my mother-in-law passed away due to complications of her cancer. I was was there during her last days in the hospital. We admitted her to one of the largest private hospital in the Philippines. In the Philippines, we do not have a palliative wing in that same hospital during the time that she was admitted. She was given morphine thru PCA pump to manage the pain. She had her own private room . We were able to spend time with her and be with her during her last hours. I have observed the same care here in Canada, the difference I have observed is they have a standard palliative program and it is at no cost to the patient. There are spiritual rituals that we observe in the Philippines. During the wake, it is not allowed to sweep the floor, leave the dead all alone in a room- it is said that someone should be there 24/7 to ensure that bad spirits does not take away the soul of the dead. We observe our wake up to 5-7 days. They even hold it as long as 10 days, when they are waiting for a family member going home from abroad. Wakes are held in their own home or funeral home. For the family members, they are not allowed to do recreational activities while the wake is ongoing, or to the point of not getting married in the same year a family member had passed away. Most of the widows would wear black to represent their grieving. For visitors, they are not allowed to bring home food that is served during the wake...
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...At the beginning of the shift, the new nurse walks onto her unit optimistic and light hearted. She places her belongings in her locker, activates her Vocera, and gets her clipboard ready for a brief morning meeting and shift report. She walks into each of her patients’ rooms in the early morning with the night shift nurse, introducing herself and discussing today’s plan of care for each patient. When she arrives to her last patient’s door, the night shift nurse explains that this particular person will be ‘difficult’. She hears “he is quite a handful,” “he’s really sick but just hasn’t died yet,” “the room is full of family,” “everyone is hysterical,” and “you won’t be getting out of his room any time soon.” A few other staff members collect...
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...The story “The Masque of the Red Death” is about widespread death and mixed extreme emotions on the plague. Over half of the population has already caught and died from this plague, therefore people are panicked and trying to hide from dying. Prince Prospero gathers all the rich people to live and hide from the deadly plague in his castle. Prince Prospero bolts himself and the other rich people in his castle with plenty of food and liquids to survive for the longest time possible. They put music, entertainment, family and friends to hide in the castle. There were seven different rooms that all had different meanings and colors in the castle. These rooms were like a big maze. The first room was blue and stood for birth. The second room was...
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...Emily Dickinson had many tragic life experiences that influenced her poetry and caused her to write on the theme of death. Dickenson’s life was filled with multiple tragic deaths, which caused her to spend half of her life in sorrow. She experienced many deaths of people close to her, in which influenced her writing as a major reoccurring theme. Although Emily Dickinson wrote about death, she often times wrote about it in very odd ways such as death being eternal but also death as a state of life and this can be seen in her poems, “Because I could not stop for Death”, “I heard a Fly buzz”, and “I died for Beauty. Emily Dickinson writes the majority of her poetry during a period of stress because of the Civil War, which also influenced the depressing yet unique way of her poems. Her poem, “Because I could not stop for Death”, is an ironic allegory in which death is portrayed as a gentleman. In the first line she writes, “Because I could not stop for death/ He kindly stopped for me” (1-2) meaning that she is coming to meet death on his own terms. Usually death is shown as being unavoidable and all around evil, but Dickinson describes her carriage ride as, “I had put away/ My labor and my leisure too/ For His Civility,” (6-8). She describes death as being civil meaning that death was courteous and polite. The way that Dickinson capitalizes “His” gives that line a possible religious context as well because when writing about God, His name is always capitalized. The next line speaks...
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...The author commits this fallacy when she says “If the public rightly disapproves of the abuse of technology on the dying, yet wrongly identifies euthanasia with letting the dying die, then our attitude to euthanasia inevitably becomes more positive”. Initially, reading this statement was very difficult to understand because of the excess of words but after dissecting it I realized that the author meant if the public disapproves of using equipment on dying individuals then they are basically in favor of euthanasia. In order to not commit this fallacy, the author could use more concise words or switched some of those words around, that would get the point across without ambiguity for example, If the public disapproves of the use of technology on the dying, yet incorrectly defines euthanasia as letting the dying die, we would all have positive attitudes about...
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...Raymond becomes worried. It is not until page twenty-four that Tom Kelly is fully introduced into the play. At this time he is passed out in a drunken state on the chair and Mr. Eagles is about to visit. Mr. Eagles is the big boss, and everyone is afraid of him because in one instant someone could lose their job. Everyone tries to cover for Tommy, but little by little the they fails, and it becomes completely apparent when Tom says, "No, no, Glen Wright was the shortstop for Pittsburgh, not Honus Wagner (pg. 26)." Of course he answered the wrong question and says it at the wrong time because Eagle is also in the room. Eagle stays in the room just to say morning to Tom Kelly before leaving and then calling him into the room for a meeting. It is then that everyone realizes that Tom Kelly will lose his job, and Gus becomes angry. After the meeting Tom comes back into the room with tears in his eyes. To everyone it is almost as if he did lose his job, but Tom says, "No, Gus, I'm alright (pg. 28)." He explains to everyone that he has been given a second chance, and everything is going to be okay for him. It is now that Tom Kelly changes his ways. He becomes a sober man in a blink of an eye and works hard everyday. His life was changed at that moment, and instead of putting it to waste he works on his mistakes and fixes himself up mostly for himself, but also for his job. It is something that not everyone gets; a second...
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...sound. * After an hour Mary is convinced that along with the storm she can hear a child crying. She gets out of bed and ventures outside. * She leaves her room and into the dark corridors in search of the weeping noise. She walks until she finds a door and can see the light still burning. * She enters the room to find a thin little boy crying. He looks sick. He is the master’s son and was born in the same year as Mary. His mother died during childbirth and his father cannot bear to look at him. * Colin looks like his mother he spends all his time in the big dark room. He does not mind Mary looking at him and Mary is happy to stay with him. * Colin gets very excited when Mary talks about the Secret Garden. He wants to see it which makes Mary very anxious because if everyone knows about it, it will get ruined. She tells him the garden is a secret and he agrees to keep the secret. * Colin says he can get anything he wants because the house belongs to him. Mary tries to distract him. Colin then tells her to draw back a rose-colored curtain. Behind this is a portrait of Colin’s mother laughing. Colin says he dislikes it that she is laughing while he is sick and dying and the he likes it because it is a personal treasure for him which he does not wish to share with anyone. * Colin hates his mother for dying and believes he would not have be in sick and also his father would hates him. * To cheer Colin up Mary tells him that she will keep looking for the secret...
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...Just to Keep an Eye on the British Imagine a place with freezing weather, no shoes, eating gross food, if any, and rooms with so much smoke even the doctors are half blind. This terrible place is Valley Forge. At Pennsylvania in the winter of 1777 Washington's army marched into Valley Forge to keep an eye on the British, not knowing that this would be one of the worst mistakes of our lives. Many people are asking this question, if I were a soldier at Valley Forge would I have re-enlisted? I would not have re-enlisted for these four reasons. Bad living conditions, barely any food, nothing is sanitized, and with all of the disease and death going around, I don't want to be next. (My first reason )that I wouldn't have re-enlisted is the bad shelter. Dr. Waldo states that, “ Heartily wish myself at home, my Skin and eyes are almost spoil’d with continual smoke.” (Dr. Waldo 151) There are twelve people per fort. I share a room with one person and it's hard enough, but 12 people would be really hard. Just overall people are getting sick because of the living condition. A new leader Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben pushes us too hard and is a main reason why i'm leaving. The members of congress did not trust George Washington, so why should we? If I can't trust someone that is leading me into battle, with a new Prussian man who I don't know anything about him....
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...Code Blue “Skin warm, dry, and intact. Skin turgor good. Blanchable redness to buttocks…” I typed sitting at my desk, charting my last skin assessment of the night. Only 10 minutes left until midnight and I could officially clock out. The building was quiet – all the residents sound asleep in their beds. All of a sudden, the door leading to the hallway connecting another building opened, slamming into the wall. “WE NEED YOU IN HOUSE 3!” yelled Makayla; a nursing assistant from house three. She was bent over with her hands resting on her knees, trying to catch her breath after running from house to house. “What’s going on?” I asked, confused as to why they needed me, since they had two nurses in their house at the time. “We have someone dying!”...
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...possibility meaning that she lives in all the possibility poetry has. The house has many windows which symbolizes the many visions and viewpoints that poems may acquire. She then goes off and talks about all the rooms the house has which shows the endless options and freedom there is. The house cannot be seen by eye, which helps support the idea of poetry being represented...
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...his appearance because he is so dirty , he has not washed his shirt in six weeks, and the bed sheets are extremely clean. He is uncomfortable about referencing his bodily functions because he does not know how to politly say what he needs to do. What is a shooting license? How does it help the men get a good night’s sleep in the hospital? Why do the men not get in trouble when they do not act with proper decorum in the hospital? A shooting license is a certificate that says that a person is periodically not responsible for their actions. Nurses were praying too loud and the men were not able to sleep, so Paul threw a bottle in the hall where the nurses were praying to shut them up. After the bottle was thrown, an inspector walked in the room and asked who threw the bottle and someone with a shooting license took blame for throwing the bottle so everyone could go to sleep. The men do not get in trouble when they do not act with proper decorum because they can just blame it on the guy with the shooting...
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