The Cure

Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1914) was written to increase awareness about the devastating effects oppression had on women and the extreme measures that were required to change popular opinion in regards to women’s rights. Specifically, The Rest Cure, which was prescribed only to women and kept them shut out from the world, was created by Dr. Weir Mitchell. The…

women to the edge, causing them to suffer from depression, which some used to call madness. These women were usually treated using what was called the “rest cure.” During this treatment plan, they were taken out of their normal living arrangements and placed somewhere without human interaction and freedom to engage in activities. The rest cure was invented to free the women from their depression, but ultimately made their depression worse. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote a story…

the natural human desire to live a long life. For centuries extending human life has been the goal of many scientists. All throughout history scientist have tried making a serum that can cure death. It was not until recently that researchers discovered that manipulating human genes is possible. The article “The Cure for Aging” discusses these genetic manipulations that can prolong people’s lives. This article mentions how these genetic manipulations could help people and possibly prevent…

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892), the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her own personal experience of the “rest cure” to demonstrate the negative effects of the common practice. The “rest cure” is a treatment for nervous disorders that consists of time that is spent isolated or in complete rest without any activity. In the beginning of the story, the narrator seems sane although somewhat depressed, but as the story goes on she becomes increasingly unstable. The story begins…

takes some hard times to find a cure then I am all for it. Ebola is so dangerous that it is evolving to hurt us again, but we need to thrive to survive. WE NEED TO FIND A CURE. If not we can’t thrive as a human race. Why do we need to find a cure? If we can find a cure then we can help the sick and cause a decline in deaths from Ebola. Without hope from god and scientists we could not do this. Without hope we can’t find a cure we need to find a cure to help people a cure is our last hope to…

Cuba cures cancer with a vaccine! Cancer is at the top of the list of threats to the population nowadays. In 2015, there will be an estimated 1,658,370 new cancer cases diagnosed and 589,430 cancer deaths in the US. Lack of effective and definitive cure can be blamed. Cancer starts growing when cells reproduce uncontrollably and mutate. Tumor (formation of the new mutated cells) can become malignant and invade other parts of the organism. At early stage of cancer progression and when the…

Possibility of a Cure on the Rise A man has completely cured of HIV and has no need for treatment in regards to the disease, he has not experienced a relapse, and a baby born with HIV experienced a prolonged period of no infection before relapsing. With what is known about this disease and how it affects the immune system it seems like this should have never happened. Living with HIV has been long associated with a death sentence. In the following I will explore the possibility of a cure by…

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 want to be cured or were subject to the…

men and women will be diagnosed with cancer of any site during their lifetime. What I want to do later in the future is to help with the process of curing cancer. There are many obstacles to curing cancer. One of the major obstacles to finding a cure for cancer is that cancer is not just one disease, cancer is a category of illnesses. Cancer…

illness keeps on coming back. While taking on how to cure my illness, I pick up scripture, turn two pages and I found the book of Daniel and began to read it. When I read Daniel 1:2 to 15, I was interested,…