Sanatorium

Italian novelist, Dino Buzzati, in his story, “Seven Floors,” describes the struggles a man, Giovanni Corte, has with his slight illness in a sanatorium. According to the story, the seven floors of the sanatorium are separated based on the “gravity of their state;” the seventh floor is for the extremely mild cases while the first floor are for the casses the doctors can’t fix. Self-serving bias, described in module four, is defined as the tendency to perceive oneself favorably. The story begins…

Patients were forced to have abortions and sterilization because the system was not equipped to accommodate children. Bearing the physical scars of their affliction, primarily on the hands and face, over 1500 recovered patients continue to live at the sanatorium facilities. Most in their eighties and having spent the majority of their lives institutionalized feel there is no where they can go (McCurry, 2016, April…

Throughout the region and perhaps the country the staple ghost story is the story of a ghostly hitchhiker. “Endless variations on the “vanishing hitchhiker” story are some of the most frequently shared of all community tales across the United States. Whoever started the hitchhiker story in our own region simply proves its persistence in American lore as one of the more widespread… (Thacker 38)”. In Mountain Mysteries by Larry Thacker the hitchhiker is known as “Gabriel’s Messenger”. There are…

A vacuum in physics is described as a space completely empty of matter. Much like in physics, it’s completely possible for a void to be completely empty in one’s life. What people do with free space is fill it up with objects or other things of value. No one enjoys empty spaces in their lives and are immediately filled. In Haruki Murakami’s Town of Cats Tengo lives with a vacuum in his life questioning the relationship that he has with his father trying to fill the void he’s been living with not…

HAUNT Paranormal was founded by three women, Jennifer Woodward-Proffitt, Adrienne Harless, and Ashley Sturgill on June 13, 2005. Since then, these fearless females have led their team of paranormal investigators through St. Albans on several occasions. It was on one of these occasions that several members of the team were witness to the manifestation of a shadow person. This anomaly presented itself on the first floor of the building, near the women’s isolation ward. “The team had just left…

Destinee Tanner Hensley English 11/ Seventh Period 02 February 2017 Part 1: Plot Summary ?Babylon Revisited? written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The main character is Charlie Wales, an American Expatriate, who used to be a massive drinker but when the stock market crashed in 1929 he started to get sober, and only has one drink per day. He comes back to Paris in 1930, and visits an old bar that he attended very much while he lived in Paris, and he asked for the many of his old drinking buddies…

Heinrich Böll was one of the best known German authors of the 20th century (Michaels). He became internationally known around 1971 when he was elected president of the International PEN Club. He went on to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972. Some of Böll’s most acclaimed works are Billiards at Half-Past Nine and And Never Said A Word. Like any author, Böll’s works are influenced by his own experiences. In Billiards at Half-Past Nine, the inspiration from his life impacts the novel in…

Animal Farm is a fable about animals who rebel against the cruelties of their farmer, drive out their human masters, and run the farm themselves—with ambitions to create an “‘animalist’ republic” in which “all animals are equal” (“George,” Contemporary, “George,” St. James). Despite the farm animals overcoming difficulties through equality and cooperation, the the pigs, who assume more power under the leadership of Napoleon, manipulate the other animals (“George,” St. James). Gradually, the…

little jars that had 10 different fruit jellies inside of them. On the day that they went to go deliver his gift the subway train they were going to take it lost its life current and so they had to take a bus that was running late. They reached the sanatorium…

had their first child called Richieu, who as we already know, died during the war. During her whole life Anja was always a very anxious woman, and suffered a depression soon after Richieu was born, and needed to stay for about three months in a sanatorium recovering from it. Anja´s father was really rich and because of this he helped Vladek in starting his own factory. Both Vladek and Anja lived comfortably for a while until Germany invade Poland,…