Neurodegenerative disorders

There I was, after a painstakingly long night, clicking print and falling asleep. After the longest night of my life, I finally got some much needed rest. I had stayed up all night to finish the hardest term paper of my life. My first college semester was about to end in a disaster. I had neglected to write a ten-page term paper for my Logic. I left myself with one night to write this monstrosity. I was a foolish child; I chose to procrastinate the entire semester. For months I had known about…

Hush is a horror movie about a woman named Madison Young. Maddie is a mute author, who temporarily lost her hearing and her speaking ability when she contracted bacterial meningitis when she was 13. She ended up losing both her hearing and her speaking ability after she had a surgery that went wrong. Due to Maddie’s disabilities, Hush presents an emphasis on isolation and the importance of existential awareness that other horror movies fail to provide. Hush is different because most of the…

Turning Stones was a novel produced by Marc Parent. Parent was a caseworker for the state of New York for approximately four years. In these years, Parent had often experienced children who were abused and neglected. In hopes of saving these children, Parent would often have to remove these children from their homes and placed within the foster care system. This novel highlights the cases that had proven to be most memorable to himself and his own development. Child maltreatment was exhibited…

Imagine that you are a regular teenage boy and then one day your little brother gets sick. Really sick. In the novel, Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, Steven went through the five stages. Denial, bargaining, anger, depression, and acceptance, those are the five stages of grief that Steven went through. The first stage of grief Steven went through was denial. Denial is the act of declaring something untrue and refusing to believe that it is true. An example is, “ I bet Jeffy’s down there in…

According to many, we are living in the height of the ‘Fake News’ Era. We turn on the TV for 5 minutes, flip through five or six news stations, and get drastically different coverage, information and ‘facts’. Is each of these news stations blatantly reporting false information? Maybe they don’t know what the truth is? Or, maybe they think what they report is the only truth out there. Whatever the case may be, one thing is clear- news stations, journalists and politicians alike never come to an…

Everyone makes poor decisions in their life that later has an effect on them. In three short stories by Kate Chopin, she explains how many people often make irresponsible decisions which eventually leads to dissatisfaction. With this in mind, the story Regret discusses how a woman rejected a proposal to live a life she later regretted. Including, Desiree’s Baby, which depicts how a young man decided to send his wife and child elsewhere because of their race. In addition to, The Story of An Hour…

In Cree, one does not say, “I am sick.” Instead, one says, “The sickness has come to me.” I love that and want to honor it (Citeswt). Johanna Hedva is a Korean American contemporary artist whose most famous work is the Sick Women Theory. She got the idea of sick women theory from Audrey Wollen’s “Sad Girl Theory” and Kate Zambreno’s “Heroines.” She tries and gives the sick women the qualities opposite to a heroin because sick women are not considered as heroines. Her idea of sick women theory…

Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel “The Bell Jar”, briefs the story of an amazing, gifted poet, Esther Greenwood, whose falling apart piece by piece due to the pressure of society. Throughout the novel Esther gave many signs on how she's slowly falling apart. When working for the Ladies’ Day magazine in New York, Esther develops a mental illness. An illness that makes her unable to sleep then leads to her not being able to read and write. She then tries to commit suicide multiple times due to the lack of…

The Catcher in the Rye is a story about a boy who is named Holden who struggles in life and making his own decisions but, he finally gets his life straightened out after he’s in a mental hospital. The Catcher In the Rye By: J.D. Salinger is a story about a teenager who is explaining his life story while he is in an Asylum. He has three things besides Phoebe that helps him get through his struggles including, The red hunting Cap, Allie’s Baseball Mitt and the Carousel these all represent…

The loss of a loved one at a young age can cause disruption and irreparable damage to the mind. A child’s mind is pure and innocent and after a tragedy of losing a loved one, the mind is not equipped to deal with the loss, which can cause it to spiral out of control. In both the The Bell Jar and The Catcher in the Rye, each author creates a protagonist who loses a family member at an early age which results in a mental illness for each protagonist. The authors want the reader to understand that…