Bloodletting

Akhaians and Trojans died in the midst of war seeking for glory and not for Helen. These men believe that their brave act will make them renowned throughout the lands for generations not knowing that taking part in the war will only lead them to their own demise and lamentation of their family, women and friends. Many of the Akhaian and Trojan soldiers fought for glory for themselves. These soldiers cared so much about glory and honor because they know the bitterness of life, they know that they…

This specific title marked the long anticipated return of Tsui Hark to the genre after the largely disappointing "Black Mask 2" and "Zu Warriors", that were criticized for the excessive use of special effects. During the rule of Qing Dynasty, a regulation is passed that forbids common people from learning martial arts. Fire-Wind, a paranoid general and his team of soldiers help the government to impose the new law; however he ends up ravaging northern China, killing fighters along with…

Florence Nightingale, born into a wealthy British family in 1820, is known as the founder of modern nursing. While she felt “called by God” to become a nurse, her training and experience as a nurse was not based a spiritual form of medicine, but rather increasing biomedical and direct observation based. Unlike most nurses at the time, Nightingale gained her knowledge of nursing through both hands-on experience and a (short) formal education: she enrolled as a nursing student at the Lutheran…

Throughout Beowulf and Frankenstein there have been parts in the book in which characterize certain actions and certain themes that make the book’s interesting, for example in Beowulf it was the action of pride that lead Beowulf to accomplish what he did and die the way he died. Because beowulf was being so prideful he did not listening to an advise that a wise king gave him about pride and went on to do the things he did, the way he did them. In frankenstein it was the idea of nature,…

The bubonic plague, once hitting Europe, resulted in the death of 25 million people. Outbreaks during this catastrophe resulted in medieval society falling apart, for instance, the spread of this disease, the efforts to terminate it, and the reactions from foreign nations as well as Europe’s citizens, generated the shortage of labor all over Europe, as well as demands for higher wages, which were never agreed to, and the loss of faith, when people desperately prayed for salvation, with no answer…

War’s Devastating Effects Many historical events in Afghanistan are influencing and affecting many people, and it’s devastating effects may even be felt all the way around the world. Khaled Hosseini’s historical novel The Kite Runner is a story about Amir, a Pashtun, who attempts to find his place in the world after past events throughout his childhood leave him traumatized. Amir feels guilty about how he treated his half-brother, Hassan. Hassan is killed by the Taliban, and Amir is offered…

A room of contagious patients, untrained staff, a bucket of water for bathing patients and washing hands, no indoor plumbing and raw sewerage running through the streets, leeches as part of care…it almost sounds like a horror movie; but this is a fairly accurate description of early hospital care throughout the world. Originally known as ‘houses of God’ most of these primitive hospitals were little more than a few beds to provide care to the ill, infirm and insane who had no family or means…

In 1804 the outcome of the Haitian Revolution resulted in French- African slaves winning the war, taking control of the government, and kicking out of the country, every and any Frenchmen or Roman Catholic archetype in the land. This event is known to be the only occasion that ever transpired in victory for any type of slaves in recorded history. It has been traditionally known among the people of Haiti that it was by invoking the fighting spirit and asking for his spiritual guidance.The…

Experiential Art Therapy with the characters In A Dangerous Method Nikita Viswanath New York University - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Abstract Since I have started interning just a couple of weeks back, I have taken the movie “A Dangerous Method” by David Cronenberg to use my class readings – Transference and Countertransference which helped me understand the movie better from a psychoanalytical perspective. A Dangerous Method – Gist of the story In 1904 a…

psychiatric doctors concluded that “seclusions from relations are the principal auxiliaries” in order to keep a patient in check (Delvin, #6). The common use of phlebotomy, a way of puncturing a patient 's vein or main artery in order to achieve bloodletting, caused a great number of patients to bleed out and result in death. Upon notice of a deceased patient, the majority of those found were unclaimed by their families and were left to be taken by medical students to be used as dissection…