Bloodletting

Ways of Knowing All professions endeavor to develop a body of knowledge that guides and defines their particular profession, nursing as a profession is no exception. Florence Nightingale is seen as the founder of modern nursing, in that she developed high standards for the care of her patients, including their environment. Nightingale initiated formal education for nurses and advocated for social reform. Knowledge in nursing may have changed over time; Nevertheless, the central tenets and…

had spread during that time, like the plague and syphilis. The Black Death, known as the Black Plague, came to Europe by the way of the sea in 1347. During the next five years, it would kill over 20 million people in Europe. Many physicians used bloodletting along with lancing the boils to solve the plague. By early 1350, the disease was over although it kept coming back every few generations for many…

Mental illness is extremely prevalent in society today. A mental illness is defined as a condition that affects a person’s thinking, feeling, or mood (“Mental Health Conditions”). It may affect people’s ability to relate to others and as well as their ability to function on a daily basis (“Mental Health Conditions”). About forty million adults in the U.S., ages 18 and above, suffer from a mental illness (“Facts & Statistics”) and about one in five U.S. adults experience mental illness each year…

subjects. Because the kings were revered as half-gods themselves, the priests made sure that they were well-respected. It was also a priest’s job to regulate the correct kind, amount, and placement of the offerings given to the gods, as well as bloodletting ceremonies and human sacrifice. During the ceremonies, elaborately-dressed priests would conduct the music, processions, dancing, incense burning, and offerings. In this…

When the Spanish arrived in what is now Mexico, they were shocked by the level of complexity of Mesoamerican civilizations, but particularly by their penchant for human sacrifice. While human sacrifice is well documented among the Aztec of Central Mexico it is not as well documented among the Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. There is debate among archaeologists as to whether many of the burials claimed to be evidence of human sacrifice among the Maya should be reinterpreted as funerary, citing…

The Nature of Blood in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the African Political Space By Segun Omosule Ph. D Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.08052037088; jala1964@yahoo.com/omosulesegun@gmail.com/www.scholarsviews.com ABSTRACT The preoccupation of this paper is to prove that Macbeth and the orgies that are associated with him are borne out of fear and that the series of killings that are recorded during his reign are meant to prove that he is a fearless soldier and…

This essay will introduce the themes of feminist approaches within performance art, in relation to the female body. Focusing in on the feminist approaches such as: violence against the female body that is used in cinema and film. Discussing the way of displaying the violence and how that challenges the female body, in order to create a memorable performance or cinematic film. These specific themes will link to the artist Ana Mendieta, through examining her works ‘Rape Scene’ and ‘Death of a…