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Every Patient S Disease
1,367 wordsThroughout history, mankind has been afflicted with disease and failing health. They have ranged from infections to broken bones to psychopathologies. How mankind treats his weaker brethren is a true reflection of the culture in which he or she resides. To treat the sick poorly denotes selfishness and egocentrism whereas to treat the ill humanely denotes gentleness and self-sacrifice. Sometimes, however, barbaric treatment of the ill, mental illness in particular, is a result of ignorance. The d...
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1849 After Word Of The Gold Discovery
1,589 wordsCalifornia Gold Rush: by Lauren Burt James Wilson Marshall was a skilled carpenter trained by his wheelwright father in New Jersey. Marshall was building a sawmill for California land developer John Sutter in Coloma Valley near Sacramento when he observed something glittering in the new millrace that had been allowed to flow overnight. He described the nugget as 'half the size and shape of a pea. ' 'It made my heart thump,' he later recalled, 'for I was certain it was gold. ' Examining the nugge...
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The New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum
337 wordsIt wasn't a good idea to be insane in New Jersey 150 years ago. The state had no mental hospitals. People who went mad were just locked up in poor houses and jails, or farmed out to who ever would care for them cheapest. But in 1844 the Yankee reformer Dorothea Dix came to New Jersey to agitate for the construction of a modern state asylum. To prove her point, she traveled around the state to document the horrible conditions facing the mentally ill. She found people living in filth, chained up, ...
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Jail For Criminals And Insane Asylums
665 wordsEdgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart What Should the Killer's Punishment Be? In Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator describes the brutal murder of his roommate, while constantly pleading his case of sanity. Through this, we come to realize that the narrator is nothing other than insane. Although the narrator is insane, he committed a grotesque murder and should pay for what he did. In a case like this, although the person is insane, you want to give them a cruel and unjust senten...
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Place In A Mental Asylum
1,627 wordsKesey's brilliant work in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is the by-product of many factors. Kesey uses the setting of the story as his most powerful weapon in establishing his viewpoints. At first, one might consider the story to simply be a fine piece of contemporary fiction, but in reality it is a bitter commentary on the condition of the American society. Obviously, it becomes evident that Kesey will convey many viewpoints throughout the course of the story, however, I strongly believe that ...
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Few Gold Seekers
342 wordsGold seekers were much more interested in digging for gold than they were in living. The Prospectors would stay at camps at night and after they were done looking for gold. Some camps that they would stay in are known as the Lousy Ravine and the Whiskey Flat. Some of the Diggers would live in shacks that they built themselves. They also used things such as wagons, lumber, bits of canvas, and anything else that they could find. Usually the only buildings that were completed were the saloons and t...
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