Essays on Illness

Overview In general definition, pathophysiology is described as the study of “the abnormal physiological processes that cause or are associated with disease or injury.” As such, it essentially includes a progression of steps that assistance lead medicinal services experts to test, analyze and treat an…

In stanzas 1-3 the character understands the situations that she is in at the moment. The sudden shift in tone in the fourth stanza enables us to examine how Emily Dickinson describes the comfortableness and closeness of the character of the poem, as she is…

Pain medication should improve the quality of life of those who live with chronic pain, however, it seems that for many, it only makes life worst. A recent report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said there was definitive evidence that cannabis…

This essay introduces the Draper family who lived during the haunting years of 1348 to 1350. During those years the Black Death entered England and began to run rampant causing almost 4 million deaths across the country. Their village of South Cowton, now located in…

In the play Death and The Maiden, written by Ariel Dorfman presents a story that has two sides. On one side, horrifying crimes that have offended people’s human rights were pledged and one victim, in particular, Paulina, is still suffering because of her past. She…

TrackPoint – Ready, Steady, Go! TrackPoint is an iOS mobile application made to enable people diagnosed with, or suspected of having Parkinson’s disease, to self-track the progression of their tremors. The application will allow the user to monitor the progression of their disease by measuring…

Abstract “I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.” (The Blind Owl Quotes, n.d.)― Sadegh Hedayat. The Blind Owl Sadeqh Hedayat was greatest Iranian…

Death and Identity In her novel, When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka explores the concepts of isolation, and death. The novel also included some pointless deaths such as the man that got shot while trying to pick an unusual flower. It was also mentioned…

Marshall Frank, author of “Ending Death Penalty is Right in Every Possible Way” from the Florida Today newspaper in January of 2016, states, “Of 196 countries in the world, the United States ranked fifth for confirmed executions in 2015,” (Frank). It seems almost unreal that…

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a clonal myeloproliferative disease resulting from neoplastic transformation of multipotent stem cell. The disease is characterized by high levels of leukocytes, splenomegaly, myeloid hyperplasia in bone marrow and high levels of mature myeloid cells in peripheral blood (Elhoseiny et al.,…