1. Bedlam noun pejorative terms for an insane asylum; a state ofextreme confusion and disorder 2. Chauvinism noun fanatical patriotism; activity indicative of belief inthe superiority of men over women 3. Draconian adj. of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws 4. Herculean adj. extremely difficult; requiring the strength of a Hercules; displayingsuperhuman strength or power 5. Martinet noun someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms maudlin adj. effusively or insincerely
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and Agnus (Agnus recently died because of her health) when she sent Lyddie off to the tavern to pay off her debts: “They have put our mother to the asylum at Brattlebro. Now they are thinking to sell the farm. (122;note to Charles)” This shows that without the factory she (and Rachel) would have nowhere to go‚ and her mother is in the (insane) asylum so Lyddie can’t get to her either. Lyddie has a roof over her head‚ food‚ and making “a lot” of money. They may not be the best-poor working conditions
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to deal with extreme loss in the past‚ her fiancé had killed herself in front of her‚ Blanche is devastated when Mitch decides to leave her. Stanley also destroys what is left of Blanche’s sanity when he rapes her and haves her committed to an insane asylum. Stanley is a major catalyst in Blanche’s own self destruction but the main cause of her breakdown is that her sister Stella doesn’t believe her when she tells her she has been raped. Completely co-dependent on her husband Stanley‚ Stella is unable
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in something like this was French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. The study started at the most expansive hospital‚ an ancient Salpetriere which was located in Paris‚ France. The Salpetriere was in that time home for beggars‚ prostitutes‚ and the insane until Charcot took it and transformed it into a temple of modern science. The most intelligent people in the new disciplines of neurology and
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the story within frames of the story. That is‚ the narrator retells a story he heard from Crossley in the Asylum at a cricket match. We do not know who is the narrator; therefore‚ we percept the narrator as the author’s “second self”. Thus we should believe the narrator and see the story about Crossley from his point of view. From the narrator we get know that his interlocutor‚ Crossley‚ is insane and claims that his soul is split in pieces. In the beginning of his story Crossley points out that his
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2nd Great Awakening: 1820-1859 People: Rev. Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875)‚ whose career took off after his dynamic evangelical revivals in the late 1820s in New York’s upstate "Burned-Over District." Finney’s brand of Christianity demanded perfection but allowed for repentant sinners to return to the fold. Barton W. Stone - an important preacher during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. He was first ordained a Presbyterian minister‚ then was expelled from the church after
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Is murder ever justifiable? “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. This universal phrase‚ used by Ghandi many years ago‚ is still used to reinforce the fact that if one murders another they don’t deserve to be killed. If people thought like this the human race would come to extinction. Many believe that if someone was to kill your loved one‚ you would have the right to kill in retaliation. If someone kills (who do they kill) do they deserve to be killed? The answer is no‚ because regardless
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There are two physical settings in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”: the house the narrator shares with the old man where the murder takes place and the location from which the narrator tells his story‚ presumably a prison or an asylum for the criminally insane. However‚ the most important setting for the story is within the obsessed mind of the narrator..When the police question him about the old man’s scream in the night. He bade the gentlemen welcome and said the old man was absent in the
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Linda was hospitalized for mental reasons during her lifetime and because of that she ended up putting all her energy towards nursing in mental facilities. Linda became a director of training schools at the taunted insane hospital in Worcester‚ Massachusetts and another insane asylum in Michigan. Linda retired at the age of 70 while living on a farm in Lowell‚ Massachusetts. After suffering from a severe stroke she was hospitalized again and remained in the hospital until she died on April 16‚ 1930
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into Matthew Allen’s private asylum of High Beech in Epping Forest‚ where he stayed for four years until he discharged himself‚ walking the eighty miles home to Northborough in three days‚ eating grass on the way‚ which he said tasted like bread. He wrote two long‚ suffering poems‚ Don Juan and Child Harold‚ which documented his precarious mental state. He was certified insane by two doctors in December 1841 (48)‚ and was admitted to St Andrews County Lunatic Asylum in Northampton‚ where he stayed
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