Porphyria

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The Effects of Unhealthy Relationships Unhealthy relationships weave a common thread throughout the history of literature. Unhealthy relationships can be seen in characters exhibiting possessive and obsessive behavior towards their significant other. This behavior, along with unrealistic expectations and hopes, causes the downfalł of many literary romances. What truly illustrates an unhealthy relationship, however, is how it destroys the lives of the other characters in the work. In…

Ways the texts My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover relate. Texts that are written by the same author may typically be about the same things or they may be related in some way. This goes for the two stories that this essay is written about. In Robert Browning’s texts Porphyria’s Lover and My Last Duchess there are many ways that these two stories compare and contrast to each other. Firstly, we will talk about the women and typically how they are both the same, but different. The…

Clinical presentation Acute HCV The incidence of acute HCV infection is about 1/100,000 per year, but this figure is probably an underestimate because it mainly refers to symptomatic patients. Progression to persistent or chronic infection occurs in about three quarters of cases, is influenced by the IL28B genotype, and is associated with chronic hepatitis of a variable degree and with variable rates of fibrosis progression. Only exceptionally does infection clear spontaneously in the chronic…

The collective narrative of the United States, albeit still being written, is fascinating. Nowhere in human history can one find another example of a nation being born purely out of ideology and belief. Margaret Thatcher effectively conveyed this reality with her iconic statement “Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.” The United States is not often viewed from this perspective, but the nation's experimental nature is undeniable after careful consideration. There are…

a. 5 qualitative observations: milk tea tastes sweet, the room is warm, the moon cake is square-shaped, my shoes are green, the cookies smell delicious b. 5 quantitative observations: six books on the table, a dozen of chips on a table, 2 people in the room, the candy costs &2.5, room temperature is 68°F 2. Photosynthesis, car rusts, digestion, detergents, combustion, cooking, baking, respiration, forming water, pesticides 3. a. I always cry when I cut onions so I want to find a solution for…

social standing. The Duke’s viewpoint shows that he cares much for his status, unlike the unknown speaker in Porphyria’s Lover. He seems to wallow in self-pity at the beginning of the poem, sitting in a dark and drearily cold room alone waiting for Porphyria. Also, during Porphyria’s speech to him, it is interpreted that she is from a higher social standing than he, which is why she is so torn about their torrid affair. This lack of social standing for the unknown speaker and the Duke’s…

intern in charge of her case, I was baffled not finding an underlying cause. With further history from relatives, it was noted that she also had a history of recurrent abdominal pain and photosensitivity. This made me think of Acute Intermittent Porphyria as a possible differential diagnosis. This case, which presented with primary neurological and gastrointestinal symptoms, turned out to be a hematological condition. This is one of the many cases; I had in my medical tenure. The confluence of…

the theme of physical isolation. Robert Carver shows the narrators isolation is self-inflected in the story “Cathedral”. Self-inflected isolation is also displayed in “Lusus Naturae”. The narrator of the story “Lusus Naturae” had the disease Porphyria causing visible signs that resemble a monster appearance. She also explained that her father once held her in his arms but now she sits on the other side of the table although the hurt her feelings. The family kept her away from others outside…

Robert Browning’s poems, most notably, “Porphyria’s Lover and “My Last Duchess,” are two works that share a common theme. This theme began to arise in the living years of Browning, but has become more prominent in todays world. Both poems exhibit men who are seemingly normal in the beginning but at the end we find are very disturbing. Both men were in a loving relationship with a woman who they presumably killed. Much discussion has come about from these two poems, not because of the blatant…