Stroke is a leading cause of serious‚ long-term disability among middle-aged and older adults worldwide (1). After the age of 55‚ the risk of having a stroke doubles every ten years (2). Several factors are thought to be important for the long-term prognosis on functional recovery post stroke‚ including location and size of brain lesion‚ initial severity of motor impairment‚ spontaneous recovery capacities and the effects of rehabilitation (3). Active movement practice and repetition are thought
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Analyse the Whitsun Weddings in relation to the key themes. Support your analysis with reference to Joyce‚ (Dubliners). There are six key themes shown in Larkin’s The Whitsun Weddings‚ these are journeys‚ relationships‚ repressed emotions‚ England – town/country‚ disappointment and a metaphor for. Many of these themes can also be seen in Joyce’s Dubliners. The most striking theme is journeys‚ as the whole poem is about what the narrator sees from his train carriage whilst journeying between
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“Araby”I watched my master’s face pass from amiability to sternness; he hoped I was not beginning to idle. I could not call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which‚ now that it stood between me and my desire‚ seemed to me child’s play‚ ugly monotonous child’s play. (See Important Quotations Explained) SummaryThe narrator‚ an unnamed boy‚ describes the North Dublin street on which his house is located. He thinks about the priest who died in the
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work‚ “the Irishness of Dubliners can be studied at‚ at least‚ five levels: religious questions‚ cultural aspects‚ political situation‚ geographical distribution and personal experience.” Evidently‚ given the broadness of these themes‚ a sense of Irish parochialism influences nearly all aspects of The Dead. Bennion (1997‚ p.1) corroborates‚ but goes further and posits that the story’s characters are not only uniquely Irish‚ but uniquely Dubliners‚ “As the name Dubliners implies‚ the main characters
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In the story “Araby” Joyce defines the setting in terms of figurative blindness and paralysis. The author reinforces the theme and the characters by using imagery of light and darkness. This illustrates the boy’s experience on how individuals frequently expect more than common reality can offer and feel disillusioned and disappointed. He
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Routine‚ Escape‚ and Life & Death in “Araby” Of the many stories in this collection‚ Joyce uses many themes in each particular story and reuses the themes again many times in the stories following. The three major themes that were quite a standout were when the main character of one story had to deal with either: the Imprisonment of Routine‚ the Strong Willing Desire for Escape‚ or the Corresponding Intersection of Life and Death. Along with many others‚ “Araby” had these three themes laid out
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James Joyce was born in Dublin‚ in 1882 and subsequently became one of Ireland’s greatest writers with books such as Dubliners’ being hugely successful among many around the world. Still considered one of the greatest writers to this day‚ Joyce even succeeds in having a day dedicated to him named after one of his characters. One of Joyce’ important traits was his ability to paint a realistic picture of Dublin through many of his stories. He believed in portraying Ireland as it really was.
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THE BOARDING HOUSE The Boarding House is included in Dubliners‚ a collection of fifteen short stories by the Irish poet and novelist James Joyce‚ which was first published in 1914. This story of a boarding house‚ like the other stories in Dubliners‚ describes the lives of ordinary citizens of Dublin and illustrates their various qualities. There are three main characters - Mrs. Mooney‚ her daughter Polly and Mr. Doran. At the very beginning the author describes Mrs. Mooney‚ who relinquished
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“Eveline”- An Opportunity That Was Let Go “Eveline” is a short story out of the collection called the “Dubliners”‚ wrote by James Joyce. Joyce has written fifteen stories within “Dubliners”‚ all in which seem to follow the same pattern. Each story has it ’s own plot image. There tends to be four stages‚ that the plot goes through during each story; childhood‚ adolescence‚ mature life and public life. Joyce uses these stages as a symbolic representation. In this story of “Eveline‚” a teenager
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In literature‚ the knowledge of the history behind an author’s literature work gives people a better understanding of the story and the tone of the author behind it. In the story "Two Gallants" by James Joyce‚ he presented his city Dublin in no positive matter. He uses these two chivalrous men to recall Ireland’s political scandal and poverty. Lenehan and Corley‚ characters of "Two Gallants" are products of that. You can compare the men’s betraying maids to steal from their employers in Dublin dealing
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