Medicine Woman

wasn’t doing well. She was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis when she was in her twenty’s. When my mom was growing up, she showed little to no signs of having the disease, but after I was born her condition started getting worse. From different medicines, doctor’s appointments, not being able to move my grandma has been through a lot. Multiple Sclerosis, sometimes called MS, is a disease in which your immune system eats away the protective covering on the nerves, causing disrupted communication…

some women in the plays are oppressed, like Antigone who is not allowed to given her late brother a proper burial. Beneatha also experienced some struggles when an obstacle comes between herself and her dream of becoming a doctor and practicing medicine. The lens of feminism, helps portray the female characters as strong and independent, which is the opposite belief of women in the societies these characters are living in. Feminism is a controversial issue in modern day American and people…

small town, middle class, upper caste educated woman Rukimini who examines gender constructs that marginalize woman from her vantage point of being a bureaucrat’s wife. Her own social identity as the part time lecturer is diminutive to that of her husband’s status as the District Commissioner. The paper seeks to enquire Rukmini’s subject position in terms of inhabiting the margins of being a postcolonial, subaltern and further a north eastern woman in co- relation…

Mistress Sara Wheelowes is told. She was exorcised by her father and had the devil removed from her soul. There was small discretization of nonscientific medicine because of the lack of education among village folk. The information of social differentiation is recounted to have the reader understand the levels of educational knowledge regarding medicine for Englishmen of the time. Mental illness was crucially questioned during England’s 17th and 18th century. The author addresses the works of…

In "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield, an elderly woman describes how she feels and what she sees as she visits Seaside Park on a Sunday afternoon for her weekly ritual. Miss Brill portrays a lonely, elderly English school teacher who would like a different reality from the one she lives in. Miss Brill attends Seaside Park as an escape from her reality and to feel as a part of society. Miss Brill time is only taken up by her trips to the park and her 5th grade students. Mansfield shows the…

A professor of bioethics, Peter Singer, published an article in The New York Times Magazine, arguing his “solution” to poverty. He claims that what money you’re currently spending on luxuries should be given to those who need need food, medicine, and other basic life necessities. The issue of poverty is so complex, however, that every solution has pros and cons. In Singer’s solution though, the cons outweigh the pros. Obviously, most people would take any opportunity to help out a fellow man who…

Madison Glatfelter Ms.Carbaugh Honors English 2 27 September 2017 “Are You Calling Me Sexist?” What would it take for a woman in Asia to feel equal to the oppposite gender? Since the majority of the population in Asia is made up of men it is easy for people to create an unfair bias and gender inequality. Population, politics and rights, and employment are three main problems within gender inequality in Asia. Although it may seem like Asia is a place of total gender equality, the women actually…

Lia’s mom, Foua and I have a lot in common as far as passions, but are very different in life experience. Foua cares so deeply for her daughter Lia. She constantly does what is best for her, and is a selfless woman in many ways. She sacrifices her own desires for the sake of her family and the well-being of her children. Her value is family. I relate to this in many ways. My family and friends are very important to me, and even from a young age I have been a “caretaker” to many. I find joy in…

After a couple years at the age that sexual curiosity tends to begin, girl has obtained a very basic level of knowledge. During this stage of her life she is withdrawn from her studies at school to learns how to become a woman of the West Indies culture. She is to be molded into a woman by her mother figure. Over time girl hears abundance of instructions from her mother's teachings. Some of these instructions include "Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the…

reach their full potential in the workforce. No woman held a job outside of housework, teaching, and cleaning. At this point in history, there were no female physicians, lawyers, or engineers in the United States. Society suppressed woman’s…