Abby May

Though marijuana was highly respected in ancient cultures, it eventually gained a bad reputation, mostly due to misleading and exaggerated information in the media and lack of funding for research. In fact, laws banning marijuana in 1937 wrongly accused marijuana of being among the most dangerous and addictive drugs (Burnett). Even after it was disproved and deemed relatively safe, government representatives kept marijuana banned, leading the public to believe that marijuana is worse than it…

Jane Austen was not known for her interesting or memorable life. Many label her life as “uneventful” or “dull.” The stories she creates in her novels seem as if they couldn’t be any more different from her own life. Jane Austen’s novels are exciting and full of romance and adventure. Jane Austen never married, but she did yearn for a husband, someone for her to love. At first glance Jane Austen’s life had no similarities to her novels, but her experiences did influence her writing. Jane…

Chapter four, “‘It may be,’ he replied, ‘because I will not encounter the dishonor that besmirches the husband of a faithless woman.’” Both of these texts show the importance of reputation in the Puritan Era in many different…

Case #1 The ethical issue in case #1 is concerned with consent and autonomy. Since the patient is currently incapacitated and unable to give consent, the law requires that a surrogate be used to provide consent and act on his behalf. In this case, the surrogate is the man’s wife, Sue, who provided a copy of John’s advance directive as consent to remove the mechanical ventilation. Thus, the problem facing the residents is whether they remove the mechanical ventilation that is keeping John…

trying to cure them of their addiction. She wants to treat them emotionally and support them as well. I could tell how invested she becomes in her clients and really wants them to accomplish their goals. I am currently in a research lab with Doctor Abby Reitman here at Old Dominion University and our research focus in on alcohol abuse and I am also certified in alcohol intervention. This interview just encouraged me to continue to strive to help people who are at their worse. My ultimate career…

feelings for Abby. The next morning John takes Mary to court as proof that the young ladies are lying about seeing the devil. This is to try and help save his wife and many others from being hung. In turn it ends with him being charged with working with the devil and being sent to jail. Three months later, early in the morning, many people have come to the jail. They are there to try to get some people to confess to witchcraft because that would save their lives. John…

Essay 2 Currently a popular cultural phenomenon has risen over the last couple decades. Women’s sports, but more specifically women’s soccer popularity has been up for debate amount multiple age groups. Over the last 20 or so years women’s professional soccer stateside has a mountain of obstacles to face. From the gender equality on turf, to the two found leagues, or the dramatic pay deficits found within the female population. It seems like quite a large topic for debate that many argue…

Merriam-Webster dictionary defines hysteria as a “behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess,” such as that of the citizens of Salem during the Witch Trials in 1692. As one of the first groups to settle here, Puritans feared the unknown like the forest, and banded together for protection. With little room for individuality, grudges and other personal disputes built up with no outlet. Fueled by destructive lies and wrongful accusations of others, hysteria evolves…

Men are always represented in the relation to the divine hierarchy which is the physical world and the world of animals but they are never represented in isolation. It becomes easier to understand the actions of Lear with the almost constant references to nature, once the concept of correspondence between man’s nature and the natural world is understood in terms of legitimizing the social order. In King Lear, the tragedy shown in the play is when Lear tries attempting to overthrow the ‘natural’…

The long road to women gaining their rights began on July 19,1848 when over 200 women gathered in Seneca Falls, N.Y. for the Seneca Falls Convention. This convention was a two-day event and over the period of the two days the Declaration of Sentiments was read, then on July 20, 1848, it was signed. This event was only the beginning of the movement towards the women’s suffrage movement. The next seventy-two years consisted of many battles, some won and some lost. Each battle, even the ones lost,…