A Soldier's Secret Character Analysis

During this time period, two developments in medical science contributed to fears about the living dead—the rise of anatomy in medical education, and the theory of galvanism. The theory of galvanism is the idea of using electrical power on dead tissue to reanimate it, and in order to demonstrate galvanism on human bodies in medical schools, anatomists needed human corpses to practice on. During this time period, however, popular opinion on use of human cadavers for dissection was highly negative, which made obtaining those bodies much more difficult. David Humphrey wrote in Dissection and Discrimination, “The safest way was to steal the dead of groups who could offer little resistance and whose distress did not arouse the rest of the community” (820). Much like Victor Frankenstein, these anatomists had to succumb to stealing bodies from graves for their demonstrations and experiments.

Women could not go to work and make money, in the south they stayed at home and did work inside the house and cooked. “Mayella looked as if she tried to keep clean…” (Doc A; Chapter 18) All women had expectations to live by. Men in the 1930’s went to work everyday trying to make money so their family could survive.

Now everyone immediately did not believe a word he had said because he had been found out and would say anything to get a lighter sentence or even immunity, but when investigators started looking into the case, more and more evidence started piling up against Nicholas’ mother. Investigators asked her to take a poly-test, and she failed it. Everything fell into place in that moment, all the evidence that was put forth finally clicked in my head. The director does, however, know how to end a film spectacularly well and leaves the viewer with no definitive verdict, leaving everything up to the viewer.

The ill patient was not in the tub for two hours; Dr. Pilgrim would force the patients to stay in the tub for several days to weeks. This would cause severe pain to the body and could potentially ruin nerves in the patient's body. This was a harmless treatment turned into torture (The horrors of insane

In our society, we go to the hospital to get better. Our hospitals have the best equipment and specialists that can cure many diseases. The holy-mouth men are the dentists in the Nacirema society that help their patients as well. Miner writes that the holy-mouth men rituals "involve discomfort and pain" (Miner). Obviously, Miner does not like the dentist and he illustrates his dislike for going to the dentist and be believes the general public dislikes this particular ritual too.

The challenge involved working with the Army’s protocol in place at the time for dealing with the health of wounded or dead soldiers and sanitary conditions among camps due to a lack of proper shelter. Letterman noted that transportation has an important influence upon the manner in which wounded soldiers are attended to after a battle and that there must be adequate shelters to tend to the wounds of soldiers. As Letterman declared to the General, “if the transportation is not sufficient to enable officers of the department to conduct it properly, the effect must fall upon the wounded” (“Dr. Letterman’s Gettysburg Report”). Letterman’s concept of the medicine wagon would soon prove to become a technological innovation for the Army. After all, as declared by Letterman in his “Report Detailing the Medical Department of the Army of the Potomac” the removal of so large a body of wounded was no small

My favorite literary character is Janie Johnson, the protagonist of The Face on The Milk Carton. Janie has gone through a lot knowing that her “parents” aren’t her actual parents. If I had a chance of meeting Janie Johnson I would love to expand my knowledge about her life and how she felt going through her whole life without knowing her biological parents. One question I would personally ask Janie is, How did you feel when you found out your whole life was a lie? I would ask Janie this because in this story she lived 15 years without knowing her real parents.

Keysha, the protagonist of Lesson Learned by Earl Sewell and I are alike in many ways . We both share the same views of the world, are viewed by the world in similar ways and I would respond in a comparable way to the central conflict of the novel. Therefore, I believe given the chance, we could be friends. Keysha views the world as if everybody is against her and there's nobody there to help besides her dad and stepmom.

Mitford takes note that “not one in ten thousand has an idea of what actually takes place” (310) and there is so much more beneath the surface of things. Mitford also uses oxymorons such as, “he has done everything in his power to make the funeral a real pleasure for everybody” (314). It’s clear that a funeral isn’t a “pleasure”, it’s an incredibly sad experience (for most people) and it just goes to show the depth Mitford will go to portray her aggressive opinions. As Mitford continues to describe the shocking details about embalming she gets into a routine and systematically gives us disconcerting imagery every other paragraph, such as, a corpse “whose mouth had been sewn together” (312). Mitford’s style is informative and she doesn’t shy away from being brutally open by using unsettling imagery, which once again makes her case even

I hit the swing I opened my head I remember seeing blood on head my father sees it as well. He panics makes me more worried I start crying he takes to a hospital in Mexico called la Cruz roja. Then they put me in a room just with doctors to stitch me up. Once again like I said earlier, I can never be without my father so I start crying really loud calling for my father kicking and punching the doctors so they had to hold me down so they can give me this medicine so I would calm down and so they can stitch me up after that. I was honestly surprised that I had not died, I remember asking my father why didn’t

A lack of government regulation, formally educated doctors and overall specialized knowledge contributed to insufficient medical care (Breslaw). Common treatments were aggressive and designed to achieve balance within one’s body. Popular techniques encouraged physicians to induce bleeding, vomiting, and other conditions in hopes of curing a patient (Jones). Although most practices were horrific by today’s standards, progress was slowly taking place in the medical field. On October 16, 1846, Harvard Professor of Surgery John Collin prompted a patient to inhale an anesthetic substance prior to an operation.

She gained Oregon the right for women to vote but also was a writer and an American pioneer of the West. On October twenty-second, eighteen thirty-four, Abigail Jane Scott was born in Groveland Illinois. Growing up, Abigail has many family hardships. Her father was upset when she was born, as he had hoped his first born would be a son, her mother was overworked and had almost no time for family, Abigail had

In the year 1861 the Civil war started. The Confederates and The Union fought, thousands of men and women died and America was torn in two. The Girl in Blue, by Ann Rinaldi takes place in 1861 when a girl by the name of Sarah Louisa Wheelock runs away from home, disguises herself as a man and joins the Flint Union Grays, a regiment that becomes a part of the 2nd Michigan Infantry. Sarah wanted to help the Union, however women were not allowed to fight, only become nurses, so Sarah disguises herself and goes by the name Neddy Compton. Throughout the book Sarah is constantly battling with herself, trying not to be found out to be a girl until the unexpected happened.

If they could have men tried and sent back to war without additional expose of infections then could this perhaps make the war continued for a longer period because there would have been more soldiers to battle on the field. They would not suffer from the common diseases that most of them died from and the infections. The advancements could ultimately cause catastrophe or simply help soldiers prevent amputation from common infections. Books addressing the topic In Hospital and Camp : The Civil War Through the Eyes of Its Doctors and Nurses’, Learning from the Wounded:

The rumble was coming soon, and the rumble was when the greasers fight the socs. Ponyboy was very excited because he did very well in the rumble, even though he got a slight concussion and is acting weird now. Right after the rumble, they went to the hospital to visit Johnny, only to witness his death. As Dally witnessed this, he went to rob a grocery store, causing the police to chase him. He finally raises his gun with no ammo and the police shot him.