Alzheimer's By Kelly Cherry

“Alzheimer’s” by Kelly Cherry is a rather depressing read focused on the tragedy of a man stricken with Alzheimer’s, her father no less. The man remembers that he was a musician, but mourns over the fact that he no longer has time for music as there are more pressing matters at hand now. Although he has this disease, he still can remember details of his life by thinking about his music, including clothing worn at the time. What will be discussed and examined is the context clues the poem provides about the what the man’s life used to be like, describe what the man’s life is like now, and the general function of the poem’s setting.

Stage 2 English Responding to Texts: Poetry On a Portrait of a Deaf Man - Sir John Betjeman Casehistory: Alison (Head Injury) - Ursula Askham Fanthorpe Have you ever lost someone, or felt like you’ve lost part of yourself? Death is inevitable, and it is likely that we’ve all experienced some form of it. The poems I will be talking about today are On a Portrait of a Deaf Man by Sir John Betjeman and Casehistory: Alison (head injury) by Ursula Askham Fanthorpe.

In her short Story, “ Birthday Party” Katharine Brush uses diction and vivid imagery to convey her disapproval for traditions of society and lack of appreciation of a wife by her husband. Brush’s diction is not overly complex. Brush crates a common scene of an “unmistakable married” couple celebrating “the husband’s birthday.” The husband wears glasses and the wife is “fadingly pretty.”

Socio-linguist Deborah Tannen demonstrates how men and women communicate differently in her essay “Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why Is It So Hard for Men and Women to Talk to Each Other?” In her observations of communication styles, she discusses the way in which men and women communicate leads them to conflict because they have different understanding of their partners’ role. She also explains male and female communication differences not only cause ineffective conversation, but also push couples into a dilemma in their relationship; however, as men and women better understand the differences, their relationship improves. In the first part of her essay, Tannen discusses men and women do not have enough effective communication, which damages their marriage.

Society often sets roles and expects for everyone to conform to the common mold. Therefore, in “The Pupil” when one of characters does not fit the mold that is expected for society, he is presented as weak and inferior. In the passage from “The Pupil” Henry James uses an ironic tone, and a third person limited point of view in order to present the complexities in the relationships among the three characters to set a hierarchy among the characters. James establishes a tense tone as the young man is afraid of Mrs. Moreen and what could potentially happen in his future job.

Literature Review: According to the study conducted by Glickstein (1997), Alois Alzheimer was the person who identified the Alzheimer disease for the first time in 1906. Alois Alzheimer was a doctor and he identifies the Alzheimer disease in his patient (Auguste. D.) who was showing symptoms of paranoia, psychological changes and loss of memory. During the autopsy of the patient, Dr. Alois Alzheimer observed the shrinkage in brain cells and around the brain cells. In earlier days after the discovery of the Alzheimer disease, no treatment was given to Alzheimer’s patients because loss of memory or Alzheimer disease was considered as a natural process which happens with every individual.

Alzheimer’s is named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer, who had discovered the disease in 1906. Dr. Alois Alzheimer witnessed nonconformities in the brain tissue of a woman who had died from a rare mental illness. The woman’s symptoms included memory loss and confusion, jumbled speech, and personality change, therefore she had

In the poem of “A Work of Artifice” by Marge Piercy, the author illustrates the relationship between a bonsai tree and its gardener. The bonsai tree signifies women and their nature while the gardener represents men. The narrative structure of poem relays the perspective of the speaker, how he perceives women as mere illiterate beings. Employing an oppressive diction and descriptive imagery, the speaker reinforces the idea that he regards himself superior to the tree, believing that the tree should fit into mold that would deem it acceptable in his eyes.

The poem “Quoof” written by Paul Muldoon is one that goes back in time to a simpler period of the speaker’s life and compares that scene to the speaker’s current state of living. The poem begins with the speaker carrying a hot water bottle to bed. The speaker refers to the hot water bottle as a “quoof” and states how that is the family word for the hot water bottle, otherwise the reader would really not have an idea as to what a quoof is. Muldoon’s poem compares this hot water bottle, known as a quoof, to the speaker’s father’s heated up half-brick in a sock. The poem does not have any specific rhyme scheme or meter, although it does flow as if it did.

Alzheimer was distinguished in 1907 but not considered to be a big thing until year 1970s. During this year researchers named this disease after Dr. Alzheimer. Dr. Alzheimer was the first person that matches the symptoms with plaques and tangles. Even though Alzheimer’s disease was discovered from senility and dementia, the government did not approve research funding, instead it was supported by the families who suffered from Alzheimer 's. In 1979, the Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association, Inc was formed and was renamed later on as Alzheimer’s Association. This association was build by five Alzheimer 's family support groups across the United States along with the National institutes of Health.