Bed rest

to do is horrifying let alone actually experiencing it. This is exactly what happened to the narrator of the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”. I can somewhat relate to this due to the fact that I’ve been sick many times and it sucks to be lying in bed for those couple of days being able to do nothing. But being placed in a room for three months with absolutely nothing to do is a whole different story. The narrator suffers from nervous depression and uses the “resting cure” which is advised by…

form of medication to be able to deal with living with you. SHELLY I didn’t mean to be such a difficult child. I tried my best to be normal. But if I take all her pills she won’t have to worry about them or me ever again. (SHELLY crosses over to the bed. She takes a pillow case off of one of her pillows and exits. After a few seconds an SFX of rifling through a pill cabinet plays.) INNER VOICE Make sure you get the good stuff. This has to work the first time or they’ll know what you’ve…

followed by screaming, flailing, fast breathing, and sweating that usually occur within a few hours after going to sleep.” (Laberge p1). Most night terrors are caused my extreme tension, stress, medications, excessive tiredness at bed time, eating a heavy meal prior to bed, drug abuse, use of alcohol, or any incidences involving a head injury. My father, Rob Dahlager, had a Navy background and training and experienced night terrors after he came home and settled in with my mother. My dad’s night…

a socialist form of government. The pigs hide behind the lie that all animals are equal, and are constantly changing the rules to make life better for them without the rest of the farm realizing it. While the pigs live in the farmers house, eating platefuls of food on a table, sleeping in beds, and wearing human clothes, the rest of the animals work hard outside building the windmill with limited food rations and sleeping on stacks of hay in a cold farmhouse. However the pigs say they are in the…

had a part in defeating Troy he also put a end to the long Trojan war. Odysseus & his fellows journey was not over, instead of going back to their homeland Odysseus and the rest set sail for another journey so that when they come home the would have more memories and experiences than anyone living. Odysseus and the rest seen an island where the Ciconians lived but it was an empty city because they fled to the mountain, so Odysseus and his soldiers took everything they need to survive on…

as his own, making him look better and brighter than the rest. This marked the beginning of his recycle towards complete power. Throughout the rest of the novel, Napoleon began climbing up in power, giving the pigs and him specifically, more power. They got more food because they used more brain power keeping the farm together and often changed rules that made the lives of the pigs more enjoyable, such as “‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets”’(Orwell 69). Slowly, the pigs began…

Rest, diet, exercise, electroshock therapy, and isolation were all parts of Mitchell’s treatment plan to cure nervous, anxious, hysterical women. When these women did not respond to treatment, Mitchell assumed it was due to their villainous tendencies and their personal moral corruption. Though he sympathized with his female patients for the women’s work they must do and how overwhelming it must be to care for sick family members, he believed that those unaffected by his Rest Cure either did not…

did not seem to get better anymore, so I had to find another host family to stay with me for the rest of the months that I had in America. I needed lots of courage to ask someone to host me. I did not want to put pressure on my friends by asking these question. Finally, I asked one of my friend’s parents when I hung out at my friend’s house. Fortunately, they said that they could host me for the rest of months in…

That temperature was driven up by Global Warming and what day it was- The Summer Solstice. Normally, Lucas would only go outside today for a few minutes, and following schedule, he had been inside for the rest of the day except for now. The stark white balcony was in deep contrast with the rest of the house. The midnight black of the exterior wall of the building was an exceptional color and choice, but it came at a price. Because they lived close to the sea, the house was almost always…

When I told my dad he suggested that the phone lines were down because there was a snow storm on its way. I shrugged it off, allowing myself to believe him, even though I knew it was a lie. It was that thing, the creep, pissed that I tried to expose it. I quickly grew to hate my mirror. In the day, when I would dress for school, or try to do my makeup, I could see it. Sometimes it would be just a flash, like it was running past my door. Other times it would peer at me from the doorway, still…