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    always be solved by a special treatment. Amy Bloom uses the story “Silver Water” to show that mental illness can not always be fixed through special treatment. A woman expresses her older sister Rose’s mental decline, which caused her family to experience one of their loved ones suffer through one of the most harsh mental illnesses. Rose’s loved to sing and be around music especially since her voice was “like mountain water in a silver pitcher, the clear blue beauty of it cools you and lifts…

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    M said he sees loss as a “silver lining.” I followed up after his response with a question asking him to elaborate more on what he meant by a “silver lining.” He said that with any loss in life, whether it be a death or physical loss, you “will always have something there and always gain something new.” He believes that through our losses…

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    promiscuity. Through a mutual agreement, they both indirectly start to help each other address their issues. They set a goal, a dance competition, and take baby steps to achieve that and ultimately bring closure to both of their lives. The Concept of Silver Lining’s Playbook is about how sometimes bad things happen to good people, but you can move past them. Pat Solitano’s life had been affected by many different circumstances. His family, his relationships, and his experiences. His family life…

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    of patients who have mental illness’ wait for a cure or treatment that helps their cause. Most of the time there isn’t a cure or treatment that will help and patients have to keep searching until there is one, which may never come. In the story, “Silver Water”, the author Amy Bloom uses Roses’s mental illness to show how treatment doesn’t always work the way people wish it would. Rose goes through a series of events that shows her struggle with her mental illness and how it affects the people…

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    artists that I really liked is Andy Warhol; Andy was born in Pittsburgh, he was one of the leading figures that started the visual art movement known as pop art. My favorite artwork from Andy is silver car crash; silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) portrays a body twisted in the mangled interior of a silver car. This painting was made in 1963 when Andy Warhol was at the age of 35. It is the last painting of the Warhol that was left in private hands. The painting is 8 by 13 feet in dimensions, and…

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    channel to the ‘Promise Land’ but there were still discrepancies. The Promise Land is another word for heaven used in biblical writings and often a metaphor for freedom for slaves In another one of W. E. B. Du Bois’s works entitled The Quest of the Silver Fleece one of the main themes was the slavery after slavery. Many of the characters in the novel were still in debt to the rich Cresswell’s who basically controlled the town. Blacks were deceive of how much money they owed to continue a system…

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    Taking place in Rome and Britannia during 70 AD, after the reign of political chaos of the Year of the four emperors, Lindsey Davis uses this historical fiction novel to focus on the series of events of Marcus Didius Falco. Considered to be an amateur private informer during this time, Falco’s sleazy reputation with a sense of strong justice ultimately depicts his un-success and need of funds. However, Falco runs into a complicated issue as the fiction novel shifts toward a mysterious standpoint…

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    Between the time period of 1500 to 1750, silver production boomed in Latin America, which was then transferred to Europe and Asia. There were many social and economic effects of the flow of silver from the mid sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. Economic effects included silver induced more trade, and the government became more greedy. A social effect is that silver induced suffering of the people. Documents 2, 4, and 8 talk about how silver induced trade. Document 2 is…

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    Deborah Anderson Silvers is a graduate of the University of South Florida. She completed her Master’s thesis on a series of paintings by Gentileschi. Anderson Silvers begins her thesis by providing an extensive detailing of Gentileschi’s life at home, as well as providing insight into the social customs of 17th century Roman society. Like Garrard Silvers supports her arguments with Biblical text; however, unlike Garrard, she draws parallels between the character of Susanna and Artemisia herself,…

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    Love hurts, and can drive people to do the unthinkable. Pat Peoples experiences this in the Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick. This book displays multiple mental illnesses throughout the characters, a mental illness is a condition that impacts a person 's thinking, feeling or mood and may affect his or her ability to relate to others and function on a daily basis. Each person will have different experiences, even people with the same diagnosis(). Pat is happily married to his wife Nikki,…

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