Emily is a 24yo, G1 P0, who was seen for an ultrasound evaluation and assessment and transfer of care. As you know, she has type 2 diabetes and had a recent hemoglobulin A1C performed in your office of 6.8. She currently is not on medication. Based on her height and weight at the start of the pregnancy, her BMI was about 42. She unfortunately has a history of abuse and domestic violence. She is hepatitis C positive but I am uncertain about a viral load. She does have some issues with anxiety and depression and post-traumatic stress disorder but is currently not on treatment. She also does smoke cigarettes but is down to about ¼ pack per day. Overall she believes that her LMP was in July, which would suggest that she is about 13-14 weeks…
1) Who is Emily Grierson? What was the former position of her family in the town? What has happened to Emily after her father died? What are her economic circumstances? How does the deputation of aldermen from the town of Jefferson treat her?…
"A Rose for Emily," written by William Faulkner, "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor, "The Birthmark" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Toni Cade Barbara's "The Lesson" all share a common theme of isolation. The four stories also share a common thread in each of these short stories is the protagonist's arrogance and pride leads to their ultimate downfall.…
In our everyday life we see students doing things like coughing, sneezing, not being clean, or simply not washing their hands. Students do not realize that all these factors can affect their health. There are many ways that we can prevent health problems being passed in the campus caused by eating in the incorrect place.…
"A Rose for Emily," written by William Faulkner, is a short fiction about the life and death of Miss Emily Grierson under the background of Southern United States’s decay in 19th century. “ Miss Brill” is Katherine Mansfield’ short story about a woman’s Sunday outing to the park, revealing her thought about others as she watches a crowd from a park bench. Seemingly very different in the imagery and language, portray of the main characters and plot, the two fictions all show out two elderly women who live lonely in the past, not accepted by the environment and have tragic fate.…
“Will you marry me Emily? Please, my love, you will make me the happiest man around.” “Ha, she thought, does he really think I’m that ignorant to his feelings for other men. I can’t do this. Why does he ask me this when I know how he really feels about me? I’m a convenience for him to hide his other life. But I’m so very lonely and daddy always told me I would end up being a lonely woman. I know that he loved me but he didn’t want me to be happy.” Emily’s father was a lonely, bitter man and she didn’t want to end up that way. He was gone now, and it was time to live her own life. She could change Homer; she knew she could. He will learn to love me, and if not, at least I will be married. I could be happy with Homer, Mrs. Homer Barron had a nice ring to it.…
In the short story “A Rose for Emily”, the reader can conclude that Emily appears to have had schizophrenia by way she interacts in the town. Emily’s mental problems start to come to light to the reader when she begins having hallucinations. The reader gains further background and further sees mental instability in Emily right after her father dies. The town people also begin to see that there are mental issues with Emily, yet do not want to make it known to keep the integrity of the town. Emily’s inability to form age appropriate coping skills furthers the point of schizophrenia.…
In a “Rose for Emily” one can feel sympathetic towards the main character, Emily. Her father is a very strict man who did not feel anyone was good enough for his daughter. He did not let her partake in their community or experience love. This left Emily emotionally unbalanced. As a result, Emily is a recluse who cannot deal with the thought of being abandoned.…
“Symbolism” the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. I decided to use this specific form of figurative language to compare the stories of the yellow wallpaper and a rose for Emily. I decided to use the house from the rose for Emily and the wallpaper from the yellow wall paper as my two symbolizing comparisons. The yellow wallpaper represented pain, death, mental abuse, loneliness, suffering, and the filling of being trapped. The house in the rose for Emily represented death, sadness, pain, abandonees, suffering, and loneliness as well.…
story “A Rose for Emily”, characterization is used to showcase Emily Grierson, a character who…
1. INITIAL RESPONSE--After reading the text, answer the following questions that should help you to compose an initial response: What is your initial reaction to the section? Did you enjoy the reading? Explain fully. What were your feelings about the characters and events that take place? Did anything confuse you or surprise you? Let your first thoughts guide the response. As you read, however, check back and record ways in which your initial responses to the early chapters change.…
Miss Emily Grierson, the main character in the short story, “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner, was raised sheltered and over-protected from society by her father. Miss Emily wasn’t allowed to get close to anyone including her own family because of a falling out over her late Aunt Wyatt’s estate. When Miss Emily’s father died she could not accept it. The town discovered Miss Emily had kept her father 's dead body at the dinner table for three days after his death. She told them that her father was not dead (Faulkner 32). Miss Emily unconsciously began associating change with loss after the death of her father. An example of Emily 's refusal to change would be her old fashioned ways.…
A key trait to southern gothic fiction is that it often contains a character that is in a state of helpless isolation from the people around them. In the short story “A Rose for Emily”, William Faulkner characterizes Miss Emily Grierson with sexual repression and a psychological state that keeps her mind in the time before the Civil War. This characterization stems from her father, her boyfriend Homer Baron and the town of Jefferson itself, and causes her to resist change at every turn throughout the story.…
Often people are stuck in the past and cannot accept the truth, the present, and modernization going around them. The character of Emily Grierson in William Faulkner 's "A Rose for Emily" is one from this category of people. Emily Grierson was a strange personality with distinguished characteristics. From the point of view of many, she is a crazy woman because she kills her lover in order to keep him forever with herself. Miss Emily Grierson is a static character that is locked in her past life. She is not able to change herself and roll on with the wheels of time. William Faulkner, through the use of various symbols indicating death and decay, portrayed a woman whose life ends long before her death.…
Today is your birthday. I just wanted to tell you how very happy I am that you were born and made your way into my life. Although my calendar tells me that today I have to tell you how much I love you, I hope you know I love you every day of the year, far more than simple words can express. It's magic each time we hold each other, each time we cuddle, and each time we kiss. I feel goose bumps all over again. I never want to let you go for fear of losing you, so I just hold on a little bit tighter each day, refusing to let go. You will never know the warmth I feel inside me when I'm with you. You're all I ever wanted. I love your eyes, I love the way you kiss me, the fact that you are always there and the way that you love me. There are so many things that I love about you. We've been together so long even your farts and burps don't bother me anymore. There are no words enough in the world to express it better than I love you.…