Air We Breathe Chapter Summary

Food is an essential thing needed to survive. In A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson; Rowlandson faced many challenges that she had to overcome. During her captivity, her biggest challenge was finding food every day. Her captors’ food was different compared to the food she was used to in her Puritan society in Europe. This forced her to adapt to her captors’ eating habits if she wanted any food. Although, these eating habits went against Rowlandson’s religious beliefs, she realized that she was willing to eat nearly anything to make it out of captivity alive. Rowlandson’s attitude towards her captors’ food changes drastically over the course of her captivity because she wants to survive.

Mental Illness affects an immense amount of individuals no matter their race, culture or age. It is everywhere we go, yet still an issue some choose to ignore; whether it is the person facing the illness or those around them. People handle their sickness in a variety of ways. Some by using violence as their only answer, others run away from their issue and majority choose to accept and make the best of it. After reading the novel The Secret Life of Bees, it would be easy to think that the main theme is discrimination or family, but in reality it is actually focused on the toll that mental illness takes on a family. The protagonist of this novel, Lily Owens, has always had a troublesome life. Both her parents, Terrence Owens, also known as T. Ray, and Deborah Fontanel are ridden with illness, sadly caused from each other. Lily also meets a new family in this novel after running away from her cruel father who abuses her. This family is also dealing with mental illness. August Boatwright is a member of this family and has been surrounded by this sickness for more than half of her life. Two of her sisters have this problem and it has genuinely affected August for better or worse.

Food could be easily accessible and was used wastefully, like during holidays and celebrations,”We drank, we ate..”(10). They had the luxury of not worrying about where their next meal was and were not bothered by the thought to “spend the day without food...we were not really hungry”(17). Eliezer’s perception of food and his hunger change whilst on the train,the women had prepared food for the said trip, but in the end there wasn’t really “enough to satisfy our hunger”(23). They had all continued like that for the next few days until arriving in a new strange place, where they all learned the true intent of the Nazi’s. Eliezer learns his place quickly and established that he can’t skip meals,“I was terribly hungry and I swallowed my ration on the spot”(44). Things escalated quickly as the Nazi’s wicked plan of starvation was put into full force, the “hunger was tormenting us” food that people would consider nauseating such as “potato peels” and “a few stalks of grass” for “six days”(114-115). The impact that food and hunger had on Eliezer was that it made his perception of the world different, before when he wasn’t A-7713, food was just that food. Now that he is nothing more than a prisoner, all he cares about is food and he even considered his fellow prisoners as “emaciated creatures ready to

All Quiet on The Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, is a novel composed after World War One to convey the experiences of German soldiers during this horrific time of fighting. He brought to light many important issues that occur during wars. In this book, three horrors of war that had the largest impact were the lack of sanitation in the trenches, the loss of comrades, and the shock that came from unexpected and ongoing shelling.

From the early 1900s to now the process of food has changed significantly. Today, thankfully there is cures for food poisoning and scientist are doing research and finding more and more information about the situation. Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, to thank for the most part because without his book, people would not have known about how their food is made and where is comes from. Even in today’s society, foods are being recalled. From Upton Sinclair’s book, the Government made the Pure Food and Drug Act, which is now used all over the world.

In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel recounts his experiences and the affects that they had on him during the Holocaust. Throughout the novel the reader gets to see Elie’s transformation from a religious, sweet little boy to the shell of a man that was left after his experience. During Elie’s traumatic experiences we can observe him going through several changes both physically and mentally.

The book i am reading is "NIght" by Elie Wiesel. The topic i chose was health. Many factors contribute to your health, either it being good or bad. When you eat a full three meals every day you stay healthy. When you only get a small portion of bread and soup each day, then you probably will become sick. If you dont get enough water you could become severly sick also. Theese are only a few factors that contribute to your gealth. My poster will show you how different things can contribute to your health.

Throughout life, one learns through experiences to cherish even the simplest of comforts. Through pain and unimaginable suffering, it is impossible for one to not lose faith or hope in life. Throughout the book Night, Elie Wiesel’s experiences from before he even enters the camps, to the end where he is free. Explains the mind of one who has endured great suffering and lost, causing them to finally break after continuous torture. Leading to loss of faith in religion, life, and even humanity. Where one can’t begin to comprehend the reason why someone of such cruelty can choose whether someone shall live or die.

The conflict between the two main character's Nurse Ratched and McMurphy serves as a bridge for the overarching theme of sexuality. Or to be more specific the battle of sexuality. In the book the two main characters represent both sides of the spectrum when it comes to sexuality concerning genders. Nurse Ratched represents feminism and McMurphy represents masculinity. With the two conflicting views of how the character’s believe the institution for the mentally ill should be run you can see more of the juxtaposition between the two. Nurse Ratched who ruled with an iron handed fist to keep her distance away from the patients of the ward and establish her role of a women in power in the institution. This from the beginning of the book sets a

Wiesel had to overcome many adversities such as death, cruelty, and starvation. These adversities made Elie Wiesel become the man he is today; he is truly a humanitarian.

Virginia Woolf is a very accomplished author and journalist. Just like the fictional character Matilda Cook, in the novel Fever 1793 By Laurie Halsh Anderson she lost a parent at a very young age. They both were young women looking for adventure and finding it in the most unexpected places. In the summer of 1793 a horrible epidemic hit home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This epidemic was killing hundreds of people daily. Matilda Cook is a 13 year old girl trying to find herself within the midst of a fever outbreak, a strict mother, and trying to figure out the balance between childhood and womanhood. I believe the theme of this of this book is losing your childhood illusions and finding maturity. I know this because throughout the book you can tell that Matilda is growing up. I know this because the quotes from the beginning of the book are more extravagant illusions while at the

Small rations, consisting of cornmeal, beef and/or bacon, resulted in extreme Vitamin-C deficiencies which led to deadly cases of scurvy. Plus ,the high frequency of scurvy, many prisoners endured intense bouts of dysentery which further weakened their frail bodies. Around 12 bodies were found morning.

is unable to live his life after 1945 and still believes he is 19 years old, despite the fact he is much older. In the excesses section, all five chapters deal with a type of neurological disorder that causes a surplus of a type of behavior in the patients. This section includes the story called “Witty Ticcy Ray”. Ray is a patient that has Tourette 's Syndrome, but always had excess joy and happiness, until he was prescribed a drug by Sacks. This drug caused him to lose his personality and caused the cure to be worse than the disease itself. Also included, in this section is the story called “A Cupid’s Disease”. This story tells of a 90-year old woman who had syphilis but rather than choosing to get treated, she chose to stay energetic and live her life without having to take medication. In the transports section, all six chapters deal with patients who have vivid dreams, or unconscious experiences. In “Reminiscence”, Mrs. O’C dreamed of her days as a child in Ireland. This caused her to feel as if she was actually living her childhood over again. In another story, “Incontinent Nostalgia”, an older woman who had Parkinson 's was given a medicine to treat her shaking. This medication caused her to remember her earlier happy memories she formed before her

In this article Charles E. Butterworth explains the issue of malnourished and starved patients in hospitals. Charles is convinced that iatrogenic malnutrition has become a significant factor in determining the outcome of illness for many patients. Patients are starved and malnourished because of hospital stays. Malnutrition is huge in major city hospitals. People involved in patient care share the same conviction that when a sick person commits to a doctor their nutrition health should be assured. When a patient enters the hospital and places oneself in the hands of a doctor, it gives the patient a feeling of security. Patients don’t expect to suffer from this condition, but yet there is evidence

The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey tells the story of a group of patients in a 1960s psychiatric hospital. The novel is told from the perspective of one of the patients who, up until the very end of the story, is mute. This character is named Bromden and because of the fact that he doesn’t speak, people think he is deaf. Bromden is in the psychiatric hospital because, although its is unclear whether he actually is skitzophrenic, he has been diagnosed as such. Bromden and many other psychiatric patients live in this ward, under the “command” of Nurse Ratched, nicknamed “Big Nurse”. Nurse Ratched is very bossy and strict with the patients in the ward. Many of the patients find her intimidating, until a new patient shows up