The Hollow

Introduction: A fistula is defined as a pathologic tract connecting two hollow organs, or one hollow organ and the skin. Fistula in Ano is a benign condition but may causing considerable distress to the patient and difficulty for surgeons. Fistula in Ano effects approximately ten individuals in 100,000, with male predominance, higher abundance of anal glands is thought to be the partial reason. The infected gland leads to fistula formation after some time, which starts as an abscess. There are…

Judgment, insolence, and isolation festered in Europe because of differences. People fill with lament as they are dragged hopelessly from their homes, taken to impenetrable camps, and forced to endure pain and misery. People fought against injustice, yet many turned their backs and looked away. Philanthropists and righteous humans fought for the salvation and right of man kind. On the journey to winning a world war cities crumbled, gas filled chambers, and children ended in the ground. European…

Drug Addiction as an Important Element in Victorian Novels: A Brief Discussion with reference to The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins The consumption of drug has always been a common part in the lives of people. People consume different type of drugs for several reasons. Some take it for medical reasons while some others take it for pleasure. The addiction towards a certain drug can have great influence on one’s life both physically and mentally. While talking about drug addiction we mainly refer to…

Friend is towards Connie, and how she has poured all of her actions for Arnold to control when Arnold commands Connie to “Put the phone back” and she immediately obeys. “She was hollow with what had been fear but what was now just an emptiness” (Oats 12). This quote conveys how even Connie, describes herself as being hollow after she has been filling herself up with “confidence” in her mirror. She no longer has self-control because of the mixture of her low self-esteem and Friend’s manipulation.…

stared at…Gatsby’s enormous house, like Kant at his church steeple” demonstrating again that, as Kant critiqued religion and its truths, so too has the edifice of the American Dream become corrupted and hollow. Hence, Fitzgerald imposes an idea that the American dream becomes corrupted and hollow due to one’s desire for more in terms of social class. Hence, the universal and classic theme of conflict between social classes is still relevant today, relating to readers of any era allowing us to…

Brunelleschi couldn’t do this. So he tried to make the dome as light as possible. So he created a double shell. So the dome is actually hollow with stair in between the shells. This technique originated with the Persians. The hollow dome was also a great plan because it helped protect the inner dome from the elements. He also supports the shell with skeletal like ribs. Some are visible on the outside, while the rest are hidden underneath…

I despise this couch in the summer, the plastic adhering to my legs. I ridicule the couch in the winter, it’s coverings become ice. I feel the other cushion depress hear the wooden legs creak under weight. It’s my grandmother. We sit in silence, a hollow static that does not belong in this joyous occasion. My sister has had a daughter, Alexa, inspired by my grandfather, Alexander. The baby sleeps in a baby bouncer. Alexa is puny, her hands barely form fists and her nails are miniscule dots. My…

Kraft Lawrence once stated, “I believe they say good deeds done here on Earth will store up wealth in heaven, do they not?” Money allows the world to operate and with the lack of wealth, many would find it exceedingly difficult to live a happy and meaningful life. Though even with wealth, some people have many troubles preventing them from living life to the fullest. Prosperity however, is not ubiquitous and universal to all. Some people can only receive a meager income working at a minimum wage…

negative feelings grow until they result in a cruel prank on Jorgenson, the man O’Brien believes is to blame for the decaying of his relationships. In the scariness of the night O’Brien strikes: “There was that coldness inside me. I wasn’t myself. I felt hollow and dangerous. . . . Like a puppeteer. Yank on the ropes watch the silly wooden soldier jump and twist. . . . In a way I wanted to stop myself. It was cruel, I knew that, but right and wrong were somewhere else” (334,335). Again, O’Brien…

Roger K. Miller was a retired editor for the Pittsburgh Post who wrote a few books for children entertainment; his most popular novel is a children’s book written in 2007 called Invisible Hero. He now resides with his wife and children in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, as a children’s orthodontist. During the time when he worked with the Pittsburgh Post, he wrote articles about history lessons, one of which talked about Andrew Burstein’s novel, The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington…