Essays Tagged: "Tuberculosis"

Robert Frost

him Robert Lee Frost, afterWilliam's childhood hero, Robert E. Lee. Frost's father died from tuberculosis at age thirty-four, in 1885.Isabelle took Robert and his sister back east to Massachuse ...

(4 pages) 200 0 5.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"The Touch of Magic" by Anne Sullivan Macy

mentally sick or anything, but because they had nowhere else to go. Their mother had died of tuberculosis and their father had left them. None of their relatives wanted them because Annie was n ...

(7 pages) 73 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

EDGAR ALLAN POE

mucho tiempo este esfuerzo y el domingo 8 dediciembre de 1811, a la edad de 24 años muere de tuberculosis en Richmond.El pequeño Edgarquedaría huérfano de padre y madre a l ...

(3 pages) 75 0 3.9 Dec/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and Tuberculosis

may not be explained in the essay great paper guysThe Differences and Similarities of Pneumonia and TuberculosisPneumonia and tuberculosis have been plaguing the citizens of the world for centuries ca ... interventions, course, rehabilitation and effects.To explore the relationship between pneumonia and tuberculosis we will examine a case study. Joan is a 35 year old women who was feeling fine up till ...

(10 pages) 110 1 3.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Antibiotics

human cells, ordinarily. The antibiotics are used to treat many various types of diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and several kinds of infections.People have been using antibiotics for more ... bial cells. Sometimes, as a last resort a doctor may use such a drug as streptomycin, used to treat tuberculosis. The overuse of such a drug could result in deafness, kidney damage and other side effe ...

(4 pages) 89 0 4.3 Mar/1997

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

Edgar Allan Poe. Includes his poem "The raven"

was a doctor. When Poe was 2 years old his father disappeared. His mother, who was seriously ill in tuberculosis, took Poe and his sister to Richmond, Virginia. Poe's mother died soon after this. The ...

(8 pages) 134 1 2.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Edgar Allen Poe and a look at "The Raven"

three Poewas orphaned when he father disappeared one night and never returned and hismother died of tuberculosis. Poe then went to a foster house where he wasadopted by John and Fanny Allen. Poe then ... when Poe married Virginia. Shortly afterPoe had married Virginia she contracted the deadly disease tuberculosis.Virginia then died ten years later.With the death of Poe's wife Poe became very depress ...

(7 pages) 278 1 4.6 Apr/1997

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

Basically this essay is about "The Life and Times of Edgar Allen Poe" it will tell you about his early life to his death

th his mother and sister from theatre to theatre, often sleeping backstage. When his mother died of Tuberculosis on December 11, 1811 at the young age of 24, Edgar and his sister, Rosalie, were orphan ... er, and asked Edgar to move to the country. Eager to please his beloved wife, who was stricken with tuberculosis, he agreed.In the years to come there would be both better and worse times in Edgar's l ...

(4 pages) 55 0 4.5 May/2002

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson - A Man of Many Faces. This biography deals with Emerson and his diverse lifestyle and writing practices throughout his life.

wife, Ellen Louise Tucker. The two got married but unfortunately, Tucker was very frail and died of tuberculosis. After his wife's death, Emerson abandoned preaching, perhaps seeing his call as a poet ...

(2 pages) 118 0 3.2 Aug/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Leprosy

acterium leprea, causes the virus. Mycobacterium leprea is very similar to the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. The reason Leprosy is also known as Hansen's disease, is because it was first identifi ...

(2 pages) 48 0 3.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Essay on George Washington before he was presdent. His entire life, including wars, from his birth until he was sworn in.

of Culpepper County. He then went with Lawrence to Barbadosin 1751 in an effort to cure Lawrence's tuberculosis. Lawrence died of his illness in 1752not long after they returned from the West Indies ...

(13 pages) 158 2 4.0 Jan/2003

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

Keat's ode to a nightingale

says that his heart aches, it could be a reference to how he suffered psychollogically through his tuberculosis, it could also be a reference to the pain that Keats had to go through because of the d ...

(5 pages) 186 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

This piece is about how John Keats personifies Death in his Odes

vey events in their lives, Keats's is no different. One could safely assume that his own ailment of tuberculosis is the reason why he personifies Death so much in his works. "Ode on Melancholy" is an ...

(3 pages) 98 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

EDGAR ALLAN POE: LIFE AND WORKS This is about the life and the works of the poet edgar allan poe, i basically describe his life and how it effected what and how he wrote.

oungest, all stayed by there mothers deathbed, they watched her die, as she coughed up blood due to tuberculosis. Edgar was not quite three when his mom died. There is confusion as to what happened to ...

(5 pages) 327 4 4.1 Apr/2003

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

"The Samurai's Garden" by Gail Tsukiyama.

tly what occurred when Stephen spent some quality time with Matsu in Tarumi, Japan, due to Stephens Tuberculosis. Stephan discovers the difference of personalities between his father and Matsu, as wel ...

(4 pages) 71 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.

ornton. In 1812 Emilys dad (reverend Patric Bronte), married Maria Branwell.Emily died in 1948 from tuberculosis after catching a cold at her brothers funeral in September.My essay is going to be abou ...

(7 pages) 56 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

"The Rape of Nanking," by Iris Chang.

of China, the Japanese General Matsui grew increasingly ill. This was due to his chronic illness of tuberculosis. The illness took place right his power shifted to that of a member of the imperial fam ...

(11 pages) 115 0 4.6 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Inventor of Blue Jeans, Levi Strauss.

b" at birth - and his older sister Fanny were the last of the Strauss children; Hirsch succumbed to tuberculosis in 1845.Two years after his death, Rebecca, Loeb, Fanny and Mathilde immigrated to New ...

(5 pages) 104 0 3.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Robert Fost , his life, from birth to life influences.

ay as one of best known and loved poets of all time.When Frost was 11 years old, his father died of tuberculosis. His Father would have been one of his first influences in his life, even though it was ...

(3 pages) 44 0 3.4 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Edvard Munch 1863-1944.

y religious military doctor earning a modest income. His wife, who was 20 years his junior, died of tuberculosis when Edvard was only five years old, and Edvard's older sister, Sophie, died of the dis ...

(2 pages) 68 0 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists