Stocking

Wearing compression stockings. These stockings help to prevent blood clots and reduce swelling in the legs. Raising (elevating) the legs when resting. Losing weight. Exercising regularly. If you have persistent symptoms or want to improve the way your varicose veins look…

he describes “the idealized and impossible symmetria of Greek sculpture” (Stocking 63). The idealization of the human form was not meant to represent any individual, but instead was to represent the superiority and perfection of the society. For example, Stocking states, “Heracles comes to represent a full embodiment of physical ideal located in the mythic Greek past, not ‘god or athlete’ but ‘god and athlete’” (Stocking 57). In this instance, Herakles represents the absolute perfection of the…

challenges me both mentally and physically. Those are the two most important things a person can do each day to better themselves as a person. I am also an outstanding leader at the Real Life Center. I am responsible for the storage of food, and the stocking and operation of the food pantry. On a regular day, I come in and do a quick check to insure everything is where I left it, because…

Technology has advanced rapidly and undeterred over the course of the last few centuries. Along with new innovation comes the thought of not just how we achieved it, but also the societal influences around it. Friedel writes that a large factor in innovation is the “capture” of some innovation(4). He describes capture as “the means by which an improvement becomes not simply an ephemeral, contingent act or product, but part of a sustained series of changes”(4) or in simple terms, normalizing the…

fabric colors, textures and patterns to create new styles of dress. Coats, jackets, and evening dresses were often trimmed with fur. Hemlines rose for most of the decade but dropped slightly toward the end. Stockings and shoes assumed a greater prominence now that they were more visible. Silk stockings in all the colors of the rainbow, often with patterns, were designed to match the outfits of stylish women. (History1900s,…

In Kate Chopin’s A Pair of Silk Stockings, protagonist Mrs. Sommers is her own worst enemy- her own antagonist. After becoming the new-found owner of fifteen dollars, Mrs. Sommers embarks to save the money for her children. But situations tempt Mrs. Sommers, and she spends all of the money on herself, left with a powerful desire to never return to her duties as a mother (Chopin, 1897). Set in the city, A Pair of Silk Stockings focuses on the need for self-assertion within repression…

In the play, Death of a Salesman, there are so many different and important things that go on and make the play something that everyone wants to watch and read. Three of the things that make it important, are the flashbacks that he is having all throughout the play. During these flashbacks, he tells a lot about his life, and a few of the reasons that he is the way he is now. Another important part of this play is the way he talks to dead people and recognizes live people as dead people. The last…

main message that the author has brought to the readers is to jump out of our comfort zone because it can enhance readers’ experiences and knowledge. The author showed this theme through the glass snowdrop, a village shop called Monday and Brown’s stocking system, and Tristan’s character development. In my opinion, this theme is still relevant in today’s society. Firstly, the author uses the symbol to prove the theme by having the stallholder telling Tristan about the glass flower. One day on a…

Trout Fishing Following bass fishing, trout fishing is the second most popular form of freshwater fishing in the United States. Like there bass brethren, trout, regardless of stripe, offer anglers an aggressive, fierce fishing experience. But much like the term bass, trout is idiomatic, and generally refers to a trout species that may be geographically unique. There is a diverse number of trout species spread across three different families of fish. Trout is closely related to both saltwater…

receives a letter from Maria. In that letter, Maria insists Malvolio to wear yellow cross-gartered stockings to humiliate him. Malvolio mistakes the letter to be from Olivia and goes on to wear yellow cross-gartered stockings. In the play, these stockings add humour in the play based on how silly and ridiculous they look. After reading the letter Malvolio says, “She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she/ did praise my leg being cross-gartered, and in this she manifests herself to my love”…