Withers

Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story The Birthmark features Aylmer, a famed scientist, and Georgiana, a beautiful woman with a unique birthmark. Throughout the story, the couple delves into the world of science as Aylmer devotes himself to removing Georgiana’s birthmark with his experiments. Hawthorne purposely pokes at scientists who envision themselves as godlike, meaning that they can control nature at their will. As the story delves further and further into Aylmer’s madness, the distinction…

The second assigned reading of Goleman’s book has been just as difficult as the first. I am still finding it difficult to stay interested in the content of the book. Although some of the information I fairly interesting and there are moments in the text that are quite enjoyable to read I still find myself not being that engaged with the writing. I enjoyed the brief narratives that Goleman uses to give example of the information he writes. I enjoyed the section of “When Smart Is dumb” where…

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is about a scientist, Dr. Jekyll, who wanted to split his good and bad side with a potion. He would flip between the personalities by drinking the potion. After so many times Mr. Hyde could come to light and take over whenever he pleased. That was not a good thing. Mr. Hyde was evil. Mr, Hyde would commit crimes, and kill people for no reason. About a year later an important politician was murdered, and his maid saw Mr. Hyde kill him. Everyone was hunting…

clean, modern aesthetic to his designs that happily marry elegance and comfort He used calm colors to give the rooms a relaxing vibe. What makes most of his interiors grate is the personalization that he bring, what the client brought to the space wither there art collections or there chose of colors. My interests are bright colors mixed with geometric Islamic patterns, the love of Islamic art inspires me to do attractive, colorful…

History is filled with examples of perseverance, because rarely to people achieve greatness without it. Nelson Mandela is a great example of perseverance he spent 27 years in prisons for his cause “in prison, he became an inspirational leader and symbol for his people”(Stutman). Despite being sent to jail, Mandela did not give up instead he continued to inspire others while incarcerated, and continued his work after his release. Walt Disney too is an example of perseverance that changed the…

took me for a tour around the hospital to get to know it’s departments a little bit more. My disk is located in the human resources department, so I am working there. The first task that I have had was verifying employee’s (medical staff) licenses wither they renewed them or not and get them printed and filled them. Also, I joined the staff that were responsible to interview the new applicants. It was my first time that I joined the interviewer group (interviewing committee)…

The Power of Language in Shakespeare 's Othello In Othello, the contamination of linguistic matter (whether through verbal or human associations, through deliberate perversion, or by senseless mouthing of meaninglessness) ultimately destroys the ordered control of normal behaviour patterns, personal or social (Shaw 306). In one of the finest play written by William Shakespeare, language is not only the medium that conveys the drama but also the action. For example, talking about an event will…

current state of mind, of course I can change in time however I want to hold on to this one, of many parts of my mind. The reason behind saying this is because many people ask: "Living forever would suck, you 'll watch everything around you die and wither away until your all alone, and you will never be able to die yourself to join them.", I don 't want to die, ever. I don 't believe there is anything after…

In recent discussions of domestic violence, a controversial issue has been that genders play a role on the punishment given. On the one hand, some argue that being a male or female has no effect on how you get punished. On the other hand, however, others argue that there is double standards between men and women in domestic violence. In sum, then, the issue is women get more of a lenient punishment than men. Though many people assume that there is no double standards in domestic violence,…

draws to a close, Chillingworth “withered up and shrivelled away.(177)” Hawthorne’s diction shows the final cost of revenge is death. “Wither” has the connotation of a flower falling into decay while “shrivel” suggests the loss of momentum and will. Both words suggest that Chillingworth has decayed because of the parasitic nature of the spirit of revenge. “Wither” also has another connotation of a person slowly dying because of disease. In Chillingworth’s case, the fatal disease is his…