The Turner Diaries

them streaming into factory and office much as usual, and certainly still cheerful.” While this may be true from some British citizens who were impacted by the German air raids that were particularly brutal during the first stages of The Blitz, as diaries from the Mass Observation show, not all British citizens were cheerful in response to the bombing of their respective cities. A diarist by the name of J. Thronley wrote in September of 1940 that “we distrust the cheerful things written in our…

Her grandfather Allen writes in his diary about a man named Bill who died in the war leading him to think “about life and about destiny” (Knisley 65) While not facing death in terms of aging, Allen encounters death through the loss of a fellow soldier. This diary entry enables Lucy to connect with her grandfather by seeing that they share the same inquisitive thoughts on life at a similar age. Often…

With healthcare being such a rapidly moving field it is important that we, as aspiring medical professionals, understand what is progressing in our profession. Within the blink of an eye healthcare changes; doctors, professors, phds, are coming up new theories, journals and studies daily. It is our job as current students in this field to do our best to further understand these journals studies, etc.and the writing that is involved in our field. Why you may ask? There are arguably an infinite…

The objective of this essay is to discuss with reference to published literature “ICU diaries are frequently promoted as being beneficial for the patients’ psychological recovery from critical illness”. Intensive care unit (ICU) is an environment where often the most fragile patients are, and where they receive treatment. During their sometimes prolonged stay in ICU, patients often experience strong physical and psychological stress, including critical life threatening illness, terror, lack of…

From the Private Journal of a Journey The events of American history are very much connected to the influence of American literature and what it has become today. The effects of the world around him/her mostly gather the inspiration that a writer needs, and this is how the geography and history of America have made an impact on American literature. When beginning to read From the Private Journal of a Journey by Sarah Kemble Knight I learned that it was a private note she had wrote in her journal…

Anne Basting investigates the narrative construction in three autobiographies written by individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Two of the narratives follow a linear structure, which has one “self” as the narrative. The third narrative is structured liked a journal. Basting is interested in particular looking at one’s self through the written narrative. The first narrative, Living in the Labryinth, follows Diana McGowin in her life before and after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Her…

The symbolic approach to ritual was first written about by Victor Turner (1920-1983), who studied the Ndembu tribe of Zambia, and studied their use of symbols in rituals and rites of passage. Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was an American anthropologist whose largest and most important works were on the Balinese cockfights in Indonesia, and defined culture as a web of ideas expressed in symbols, that can have multiple meanings. Stanley Tambiah (1929-2014) was a Professor Emeritus at Harvard that…

Nat Turner was born a slave in a Virginia plantation owned by Benjamin Turner. He was very religious and believed that when he was little, he talked about events that had occurred before his birth. He claimed that he received divine visions and that god had spoken to him. According to Turner, the insurrection was god’s will that he was prophesized to carry out. These murders were carried out to terrorize whites, yet abolitionists still supported their actions, little did they know that the men…

“Do not give up, stay strong, keep your head up high, keep trying, work hard, you got this…” these are few of the many different phrases my best friend has said to me. These words demonstrate the motivation that all of us need in order to be strong and successful in this world. Although we all go through difficult situations in our lives, we learn how to deal with each and every one of them. In fact, we all have someone that we go to with our problems, that has greatly impacted our lives and/or…

Background Turner’s syndrome is a genetic disorder that occurs in 1 in every 2,500 female births. Though it occurs in about 3% of fetuses, 99% of these fetuses are spontaneously aborted[1]. Turner’s syndrome can be defined as a combination of phenotypes with varying expressivity along with the complete or partial loss of an X sex chromosome[2]. Symptoms of Turner’s syndrome include, but aren’t limited to short stature, glucose intolerance, broad chest and widely spread nipples, amenorrhea,…