Silas Marner

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY CIA I CASE STUDY: THE GENAIN QUADRUPLETS Sneha Ganguly- 1313249 Keerthana Ullas- 1313231 Hitha Maureen- 1313228 Sneha Elizabeth- 1313249 THE CASE STUDY The Genain quadruplets (born in 1930) are a set of identical quadruplet sisters. All four of them developed schizophrenia, suggesting a major genetic factor to the cause of the disease. The pseudonym Genain, used to protect the identity of the family, comes from the Greek, meaning dire birth. The sisters were given the…

Susannah Cahalan’s memoir, Brain On Fire, conveys her journey and struggle through a detrimental disease, in which she loses significant aspects of her core identity. The memoir exemplifies the theme that loss of identity yields self discovery, concentrating primarily on how her experiences shaped the progression of her life before and after her disease. When creating the found poem, I wanted to focus the ideas around Susannah’s struggle for her identity. I utilized repetition with the phrase,…

Diagnose of lady Macbeth I diagnose lady Macbeth with post-traumatic stress disorder because of the symptoms that I found that describe her and the way she acts. Lady Macbeth show trouble concentrating because of the way she acts and in the movie look like she was scared and shaking. Lady Macbeth be feeling overwhelm because she acts like she doesn’t what she be doing. Then when lady Macbeth was trying to scrub off the blood from her hands and to take away the evidence. When lady Macbeth was…

Every person in society sees the world in some abstract way. Some never lose that vision and their thoughts on the world only become more abstract. Each of those thought processes has a beginning though, whether it is through an addiction of some sorts or mental illness. The Yellow Wall-Paper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, creates a perception of a woman who is slipping from reality as every waking moment passes by. A wall that the character stares at shifts to where she starts to see a woman…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and Sarah Kay’s poem, “The Type” were written in different time periods. Both texts discuss contradicting ideas about the role of women in society and ability to express discontentment. (present voice not passive/weird wording) “The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in a time period when (or where) males dominated society, and women were effectively worthless, dependent of their partner and were also seen as illogical. The text…

In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman, the narrator is going through a nervous depression as she spends summer vacation in a house with her husband and sister-in-law. Even though her husband, John, seems to be taking care of her with good intentions, his means are to control her. Being trapped in her bedroom, she takes notice particularly to the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom. With her imagination running vigorously, and no means of expressing it, she begins to lose touch with reality.…

Allyson L. Masciotti-Hamedl and Kevin Hamedl, from Poughquag, N.Y., which is located in Dutchess County, N.Y. have a lawsuit against Disney Vacation Development Inc. They state that a bed bug infestation ruined their stay at Disney's Vero Beach resort in Florida. Continuing on, they mention suffering from physical and emotional distress for several months afterwards. Their lawsuit is seeking damages of between $100,000 and $1 million. It states Disney failed to “exercise reasonable care and…

Window of the Soul: How Writing Allows Expression of the Human Condition Throughout every society’s history, there has been a prevalent inequality between the females and males of that population. Women were considered slaves or property belonging to men; thus they have been viewed as second-class citizens and intellectual inferiors. The result of this prejudice was to restrict woman’s lives exclusively in the domestic sphere. This limitation severely controlled their interactions and…

Source II: Wallace, Shana. “Beyond Imminence: Evolving International Law and Battered Women's Right to Self-Defense.” The University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 71, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1749–1781. In this article author, Wallace objects to the use of battered woman syndrome as a self-defense. Wallace also explains that as of 2004, battered woman syndrome statistically is the most widely used self-defense plea by abused women who kill their attackers. She provides two major criticisms on…

we don’t die, we shop. But the difference is less marked than you think.” (DeLillo 38) Murray criticizes the concept of consumer culture by indirectly suggesting that it influences the shopper’s identity. By accumulating labels and symbols, one is slowly killing their identity and replacing it with these labels and symbols. Furthermore, Babette’s preference for her green visor sheds lights on the ways in which consumerism manipulates ones identity. DeLillo, in this instance, describes how…