Essays Tagged: "affliction"

Ritalin

han in the rest of the world according to federal studies. Are doctors just catching this disabling affliction more often? Or does society just want a convenient way to solve a complicated problem. ...

(6 pages) 126 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Drug and Clinical Treatments for Bipolar Disorder

f bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have ...

(8 pages) 225 1 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

A review of "Beowulf"

ld stone gods / Made heathen vows / hoping for Hell'sSupport, the Devil's guidance in driving their affliction off.' (175-178). With the use of the word'old' in this section, it can be inferred that t ...

(3 pages) 78 0 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The Bipolar Disorder Experience

f bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have ... f bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have ...

(16 pages) 330 2 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Treatments for Bipolar Disorder

f bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have ...

(8 pages) 137 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

This is a review of George Eliot's "The Lifted Veil."

explains to us that while at school in Geneva, his experiences with his mother's passing and an eye affliction were the cause of his psychic powers. His father comes to school to retrieve him. Once he ...

(1 pages) 30 0 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

The Fighting Irish.

e to another battle, across the ocean to the "new world". After settling, the Irish had yet a third affliction thrown upon them, which was their struggle to overcome the prejudices surrounding them in ...

(5 pages) 61 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

bullshit

f bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this affliction can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have ...

(8 pages) 251 3 4.1 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Theodore Roosevelt.

ood friend, Edith Carow. Theodore was often ill with asthma most of his childhood. He overcame this affliction by building up his physical strength. By the time he became a teenager, he was well built ...

(3 pages) 58 0 0.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

The Loss of Humanity- Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"

to change, in order to support themselves once it is clear Gregor is not going to recover from his affliction. In the end the tragedy lies, not with the death of Gregor, but in the life it is obvious ...

(6 pages) 100 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Roger Ascham's "the Schoolmaster".

learned through hardship and misery. Although learning may teach safely and a man may not feel this affliction through his schooling, he is only shrouding himself with a drape in an attempt to hide fr ... think our hardship is greater than any other.To lose something, is to gain another. If a man feels affliction, he will gain experience, and along with it, he will gain a greater understanding of life ...

(4 pages) 43 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia A birth defect research paper written for an infant development class.

disease that requires daily medication for life. Although normal for those people living with this affliction, this paper will describe the nature, rarity, history, seriousness, treatment, and future ...

(13 pages) 90 2 3.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

This paper is about racism and how it is portrayed in the following poems: "Jasper Texas 1998," "A Party Down at the Square," and "Night, Death, Mississippi."

hysical and mental health. Although it has stricken hundreds of millions of people every hour, this affliction stands strong. Though this disease can be treated, there is no absolute cure. What could ...

(4 pages) 64 1 4.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Discussing the political and religious poetry Milton, Marwell, Herrick

century poetry. The poems that, I will discuss are: Corinna's Going a-Maying, Upon Julia's Clothes, Affliction, The Collar, A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa, Eyes and Tears, ... is behind it, but if she would be completely naked then it wouldn't be that exciting. When we look "Affliction and the Collar" we see a huge changing to Herrick's idea. In "Affliction and The Collar" ...

(6 pages) 52 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

17th century poetry, John Donne, Marvell, George Herbert, Sir John Supling...

man so close to his religion and this surely reflected his poetry. He wrote many religious poems. "Affliction" and "The Collar" are my favorites for this famous poet of 17th century. Another poet wh ...

(8 pages) 86 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Peace in Sorrow - Affliction as used by metaphysical George Herbert, cavalier Ben Jonson, and the blind, Puritan John Milton

To many of the world's inhabitants, the world "affliction" was not in existence until the opening of Nick Nolte's 1999 film of the same name. The i ... was not in existence until the opening of Nick Nolte's 1999 film of the same name. The idea behind affliction, a word that stresses pain, suffering, and distress, has been occurring since emotions we ... ce emotions were first able to be perceived. Nearly every class of literature displays some form of affliction. Literature scholars often employ the works of English authors in the seventeenth century ...

(3 pages) 35 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Freudian Slip: D.H. Lawrence and Odour of Chrysanthemums

l it would not wait anymore and jumped to the forefront. Now, bestowed upon the reader is that very affliction. The first piece of advice given to any aspiring writer is to write what you know. ...

(3 pages) 34 0 5.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Fate and the Hero in Oedipus Rex

f fate or of his own actions, it perhaps is seen that it was his destiny to undergo the torment and affliction. Oedipus was conscious of the fact that he alone was accountable for his actions and deci ...

(3 pages) 102 0 3.5 Apr/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Explanatory essay of gambling addiction.

a feeling, and for many people these feelings become an addiction. Compulsive gambling is a serious affliction that affects many people. While it may seem perverse to consider this a serious disease, ...

(4 pages) 101 0 4.5 Nov/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

"Of Mice and Men"

erior Lennie. When they start work at a new ranch, several different characters are introduced. One affliction that seems to face several characters is loneliness, created by factors such as the chara ...

(4 pages) 14 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe