Porphyria

After Henry returned from Vietnam, he was a completely different person. In order to truly understand the problems Henry portrayed, one must first understand the Vietnam war and the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Vietnam war was one of the most brutal wars that the United States has ever participated in. Over three million people died over the span of the war and many more sustained life threatening injuries. After the war started, the Northern Vietnam army, the Viet Cong,…

In David McCullough’s 1776, one of the most important years in history and the most defining year of the Revolutionary War is described in detail. McCullough focuses his writing on the important figures of the war such as King George the III and General George Washington. Describing these important figures in detail, McCullough made me feel as if I connected to the characters, unlike other narratives of the Revolutionary War that only focus on the battles and development of the ideals of liberty…

The perspective of a work of literature changes from the first time you set your eyes on it. My point of view of the poem Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning changed drastically from the beginning of this research project till now. As I looked into information over this poem and different aspects about it, I began to have more of an open mind towards it and understand the true meaning behind it. I learned that poetry has more to it that just the words that were printed on the page. It allowed…

she was too happy and to flirtatious, in his mind, and so he had her killed… Then he just goes on and says he wants to meet the new woman he is going to marry. Porphyria’s Lover takes a very strange twist. The writer is talking about this woman, Porphyria,…

together.” (Lines 45-46) This statement blows you away when you read it. You realize he, either directly or indirectly, got rid of her so to speak. The same thing happens in Porphyria’s Lover. The speaker is sitting there, not doing anything, and Porphyria shows up. You don’t really get what he is saying at first but then it hits you like a brick wall. The speaker then decides on what to do, “…I found a thing to do, and all her hair in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat…

discovered and the doctors’ inabilities to successfully treat the disease, many people started to attribute the spread of tuberculosis to vampirism. Although tuberculosis was the most common disease linked to vampirism, there were others such as porphyria, rabies, syphilis, and AIDS. In the last section, I discussed Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its different metaphorical depictions of the vampire. The metaphorical depictions include comparing Count Dracula and vampirism to human evil, disease, as…

TREATMENT GOALS • Stop progression of the disease • Prevent additional vision loss • Minimize functional impairment • Vision rehabilitation DISPOSITION • Recommendations for specialist referral ○ Patients who experience vision loss must be referred to an ophthalmologist experienced in retinal diseases ○ Immediate referral to a retina specialist is recommended when choroidal neovascularization is suspected or new visual symptoms appear in early macular degeneration ○ Consultation with the…

Immune Mediated Development of Guillain-Barré Syndrome Guillain-Barré syndrome is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy that presents with ascending motor weakness, sensory abnormalities, and loss of reflexes. Guillain-Barré syndrome can be divided into 4 major clinically distinct forms: acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), the Miller Fisher syndrome (MFS), acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN), and acute sensorimotor axonal neuropathy (AMSAN). There are a…

Margaret Atwood's short story “Lusus Naturae” demonstrates how people reject others, or things that are not easily understood. Having the tendency to shun what is not understood and what is thought is not morally acceptable. Not only does it demonstrate how humans reject others but it has a view on women's roles and the idea of feminism. Margaret Atwood intertwines the idea of feminism and discrimination. Woman for ages have felt they have been put inferior to men even to this day and age. They…

Although Lord Rockingham, the predecessor of Grenville, began to seek the repeal of the Stamp Act, this in no way meant the British Parliament was conceding their control. In fact, while the Stamp Act was repealed another called the Declaratory Act of 1766, gave Parliament the authority to make laws binding the American Colonies, “in all cases whatsoever.” In 1767, George III passed the Townshend Acts to collect taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and, tea. Recognizing that tea was a…