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Rest, diet, exercise, electroshock therapy, and isolation were all parts of Mitchell’s treatment plan to cure nervous, anxious, hysterical women. When these women did not respond to treatment, Mitchell assumed it was due to their villainous tendencies and their personal moral corruption. Though he sympathized with his female patients for the women’s work they must do and how overwhelming it must be to care for sick family members, he believed that those unaffected by his Rest Cure either did not…

The Victorian rest cure, an (identification of a disease or problem, or its cause) explain in detail to upper class, white, Victorian women who were believed to be suffering from "panic/very strong emotion", or "(serious physical or emotional harm) related to an unsuccessful role (change to make better/related to changing something)" tried to put in them a "childlike submission to masculine authority" (Ammons 35). Charlotte Perkins Gilman, herself a victim of the Victorian rest cure, uses within…

established a republic. This revolution swept across Europe and had a considerable impact on the rest of it. It engenders in its conquest an exercise in state making and responses were in majority positive for Europe’s intellectuals and politicians. Although some saw the arrival of this revolution movement with relief and excitement others did not. But what were the really impacts of this Revolution on the rest of Europe? In 1792, when the Monarchy was overthrown and replaced by a republic,…

The Beginning of the Rest of My Life Admit not one of us ever thought about how we would feel in our junior year of high school when we were running around the playground avoiding some poor, unfortunate soul yelling ‘Ew! So-and-so has cooties.’ We still avoided thinking about it in seventh grade when we spent hours the night before planning an outfit that would impress the cute kid in class. Yet, we still got here and now were planning our next step and seeing everything we every really knew…

In the book, And the Rest Is History, author Marlene Wagman-Geller, the story of their first meeting is revealed. A photograph is what started their love. Dimaggio saw a photograph of her in her shortest shorts, a baseball cap, and high heels. He had immediate interest…

Rest in Peace Death Penalty Since the dawn of man, we have been executing people for various crimes. We have sadistically stoned adulterers, drowned witches, burned heretics at the stake, the list of these heinous executions goes on and on. As the years went on, the ways in which we executed became more humane, but that does not take away from the fact that this morbid tradition is wrong (Costanzo 1-7). The death penalty is an extreme policy that must be abolished. People of different religious…

In the late 19th century there was a popularized cure for mentally distressed women known as the ‘rest cure’. The ‘rest cure’ was basically a regime of keeping women forcibly in bed for extended hours, force feeding them large amounts of food, and removing any sort of creative or intellectual outlet. It was basically reducing the woman down to nothing if she was not willing to conform to the societal domestic standards of the time, and this being driven down into nothing is what inspired the…

A Learning for the Rest of My Life Perhaps one of the most polemic topics in the world is the homosexuality and all of its issues involved between the societies’ agreement. As the racism power, or even stronger, the prejudice against gays has been a hard point to deal with because there is a lot of people with empty minds thinking that being a gay is a huge sin. A few years ago I have witnessed a crucial moment when some guys acted as idiots cussing a homosexual off and I realized how tough it…

make some political statement about the United States or the world. It is important for society to separate theologian and science in order to produce results that are plausible. The historian Niall Ferguson in his book Civilization: The West and the Rest, concludes that there are six killer applications that allowed for the West to advance and they all play an important role but pertain to different aspect of civilization. Four out of the six are pretty mundane (competition, property rights,…

Have you ever had the passion for creativity? Have you wanted to create movies, videos, or be a famous Youtuber? In an advertisement produced by Samsung titled “The Rest of Us,” Samsung highlights the features of their new phone and products that can be used in film-making and production. In the advertisement, it uses Casey Neistat, a famous YouTuber with over six-million subscribers, to deliver a powerful monologue about creativity. He is known for being a top filmmaker on YouTube, producing…