...The Hurt Man Life is full of loss and you cannot avoid experiencing it and well as sorrow. As people grow up they come to realize that the world is not as it seemed to be when they were younger. They get more independent and their perspective of life changes. They will have to realize that they are not going to live forever. In the short story The Hurt Man, written by Wendell Berry and published in 2003, we meet Mat who learns all of this. During the short story Mat is growing up. He is born unexpected but he is still very much appreciated. His parents watch him closely so he does not get hurt but this change as he becomes older. At the age of five, the household gets busier and Mat is now more independent. “[...] he was curious and active, when he would be out of their sight. He would stray off to where something was happening, to the farm buildings behind the house, to the blacksmith shop, to one of the saloons, to wherever the other boys were.” (ll. 31-34) This is a perfect example of a child’s natural and healthy development. In line with them getting older their curiosity and independence increase. They do more and more stuff on their own without their parents supervision. It can be extremely difficult for the parents to let go of their children but the importance of it is huge. The difficulty comes, amongst other things, with the world being filled with danger and threats. Mat’s mother, Nancy, is doing a good job even though she has experienced a mother’s worst...
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...In “Renewing Husbandry,” Wendell Berry argues against the industrialization of farming. He begins by explaining that it began with the invention of the tractor; when his farm first utilized the tractor he resented the mule plow that his father used. He saw the mule team as slow and ineffective, however, later he recognized their value in their slow caring pace of working the land, which he labels “husbandry.” He then claims that the economic growth of society has devalued farming and forced small farms to diminish while large farms flourish. He views that this shift of economic power creates a harmful blow to the quality of farming, he blames mechanization for the destruction of small farms. This ridicule of industrialized farming fails to understand that the renewal of husbandry begins with the individual. Berry believes that the mechanization of farming creates separation between the farmer and the land. Berry states, “Once one’s farm and one’s thoughts have been sufficiently mechanized, industrial agriculture’s focus on production, as opposed to...
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...Luis Ignacio Villamor 1A BSPS 1. The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa, in 1939 conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. Johnson chose one of his graduate students, Mary Tudor, to conduct the experiment and he supervised her research. After placing the children in control and experimental groups, Tudor gave positive speech therapy to half of the children, praising the fluency of their speech, and negative speech therapy to the other half, belittling the children for every speech imperfection and telling them they were stutterers. Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects and some retained speech problems during the course of their life. Dubbed “The Monster Study” by some of Johnson’s peers who were horrified that he would experiment on orphan children to prove a theory, the experiment was kept hidden for fear Johnson’s reputation would be tarnished in the wake of human experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II. The University of Iowa publicly apologized for the Monster Study in 2001. In this case, special obligations in human subject research and openness is being violated since humans are being used in the experiment and its even kept a secret to the public which is inhuman since some experienced psychological problems. 2. While animal experimentation can be incredibly helpful in understanding man...
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...through the eyes of someone who lived and witnessed this time in history. Who wrote this book? When was it published? What is the book’s purpose? Who was supposed to read this book? This book was written by Frederick Douglass himself and it was published in 1845. The purpose of this book was to inform the readers about the horrors of slavery and the effects it had on the people. I also believe that since this book was written during the time of slavery, he wanted to persuade people against it. I believe he wished everyone, especially children during the time to read it to realize the horrors of such an institution. Who were William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips? What were their roles in book? William Lloyd Garrison is the Founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, while Wendell Phillips s the president of the society. These men played roles in getting Frederick Douglass to publish his work and story about slavery. Mr. Garrison also hired Frederick for the cause of abolishing slavery. Briefly describe the author of this book – i.e., birth date and location, geographical movements, life when book was published. Based on the course/textbook, was he a typical slave? The author, Frederick Douglass, is said to be born around 1818, however the exact year is not known since slaves are not told their exact birth date. He is born into slavery on a farm in Talbot, Maryland and worked on farms there as well as in Baltimore. When he published...
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...In the movie Split it tells the story about a man named Kevin Wendell Crumb that has 23 personalities inside of him. Crumb has what is called Multiple Personality Disorder or DID. Multiple Personality Disorder or DID is a complex psychological condition that is likely caused by many factors, including severe trauma during early childhood. By having so much trauma in someone’s life it can cause a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. This is what caused Kevin to be this way because he was brutally abused by his mother. Although, Kevin Wendell Crumb is actually not shown until the end of the movie all his personalities are shown throughout. The movie starts out with three girls, Claire, Marcia, and...
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...Quote Essay Have you ever just heard or read something that someone once stated that just genuinely connected with you? Likewise, I recently had that feeling about a quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes. In this essay, I will be writing this essay about how the quote “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes honestly connected with myself and how I apply it in my life. My first reason this quote connected with myself is when I play sports. There are moments when I participate in football or wrestling where I just feel like I cannot carry on and I compelled to find the motivation to keep moving forward and not give up. For instance, in football, I occasionally...
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...In the essay, “The Pleasures of Eating”, by Wendell Berry (May 25, 2010) he wants to address the question of how to improve the American farm and todays eating lifestyle. He declares that a consumer should better their knowledge on food and its origins. Berry outlines how the new consumer conforms to social standards and is disjointed from the food they eat “not knowing that eating is an agricultural act”(6). This unhealthy relationship illuminates the deteriorating connection of consuming and the Earth. This leads to the stage of a boring and minimal life, where people experience the food has “anonymous substances” that is “beyond resemblance to any part of any creature”(9). Berry follows with how the individual can escape the industrial trap...
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...In the article The Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry,his argument is saying if you don't know what you are eating then you are not free.We cannot simply be free if our food and the food sources are controlled by someone else like a big company.His way of saying to eat responsibly is to eat and live free.I agree with Wendell because the food that is processed by big companies can to lead to many health problems like diabetes,cholesterol,heart problems,and obesity in which many people might already have. Wendell Berry argues that to eat responsibly is to eat free.He has my vote for that because first we should know where our food comes from,how was the food treated before it became food,or what type of chemicals does it have and are they...
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... The books The Doctor’s Plague by Sherwin Nuland and The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson both tell stories of devastating epidemics in an age before the advantages of modern medicine. Today, medicine seems very scientific – doctors test treatments, gather data, and run experiments before a new drug or treatment is deemed safe and effective enough for widespread use. Modern doctors train for years before they begin practicing and benefit from the vast body of medical knowledge collected over centuries of laborious study. Before we developed these scientific habits, however, medicine looked very different. Before the use of microscopes in medicine and the discovery of germs, many strange theories about the origins of disease flourished in the habitat created by a lack of and desire for understanding. Doctors proposed theories about miasma (‘bad air’ that carried disease), too-tight corsets, and the unfortunate illness-prone “constitutions” of poor people as explanations for the spread of disease before the actual nature of puerperal fever and cholera were understood (Nuland, 58). Miasma theory had an especially strong hold on the minds of the scientific community, and while not entirely untrue, it was not applicable in the cases of puerperal fever and cholera (Johnson, 113). The prevalence of miasma theory made it difficult for doctors – especially with the lack of scientific knowledge, procedure, and tools needed to properly test medical theories – to meaningfully oppose the...
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...What if you wanted something that you knew you could not have? In the book Jayber Crow, by Wendell Berry, it tells a story of a man named Jayber Crow who is going through a rough time in his life dealing with death, heart break , and grief. He tries to find out who he is. In this book, you will see all of Jayber’s happy moments and many heart breaking times and how he is abject in the story. In Jayber Crow, Jayber tells of all the deaths of his loved ones and how he is left all alone. Jabber is also introduced to the woman that he loves but he can never have her. In the book Jayber always has hope that his days will get better, and that there is hope that he will get the woman he wants. Everyone in the story laudable Jayber and will come to...
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...“The Doctors plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis” is a 203 page history and fiction book that covers the related topics of medical history, biology, arrogance and scientific discovery. It was written by Sherwin B. Nuland and Published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2004. Sherwin B. Nuland, or shall we say, Dr. Nuland is among other things a “…Clinical Professor of Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine and a Fellow at Yale's Institute for Social and Policy Studies. He is the author of over ten books, including…. HOW WE DIE: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter. In addition he is a contributor to leading publications including the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the New York Review of Books.” (Gellene, 2014) Despite Nuland’s many accomplishments as an author, it is his background in medicine that helps lend to the genuinely descriptive, yet straightforward writing style he takes in his book “The Doctors Plague”. Upon opening the book readers are greeted with and epigraph that’s words are borrowed from a predecessor of Nulands, Charles Delucena Meigs, Professor of midwifery and the diseases of women and children, Jefferson Medical College, In one quote the epigraph hints at the severity and hopelessness that doctors and patients alike faced when dealing with puerperal fever. Sufficiently intrigued, but without knowing anything but the name of the monster, Chapter 1 describes in detail the symptoms; the way puerperal fever destroys it...
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...When visiting the Mazza Museum one work of art caught my eye, and when I saw it knew that it would be the piece that I used for this paper. The piece of art was painted by Wendell Minor and is titled Heartland. This work of art is found in the children’s book Heartland written by Diane Siebert. This piece was created in 1988, and uses acrylic paints. Heartland is placed in the Ohio History section of the museum and caught my eye because it reminded me of my childhood. I really appreciated the way this painting depicted a typical American farming property because I grew up on a farm, and it will always be a huge part of my life. The first element of art that I found to be relevant in this painting is the artist’s use of color. Minor uses color to show us the time of day in the painting through the different colors in the sky, showing a beautiful sunset full with shades of orange, yellow, red, and purple. The artist also shows the viewer that the painting takes place during the summer time by the full colored green trees, and the dried out green color of grass that has been kissed by the...
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...A repetitive cycle it is. At one point of the cycle, it may be hard to move on. To look at the past and try to move on is an obstacle one faces as they grow up. Nature can be beautiful if an individual knows how to live along with it. As seen in the poem, “The Chambered Nautilus,” Oliver Wendell Holmes traces the life cycle of a nautilus, emphasizing the various stages of its growth and development as well as its death. The nautilus, a cephalopod mollusk with a light external spiral shell and numerous short tentacles around the mouth, swims and travels along with the beauty of nature in the open sea. In this poem, Holmes portrays that the value of nature is to teach individuals to grow up and expand, to hope that life will improve and become...
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...Kayla Demel Art Appreciation 103 Online 04/1915 Comparison of Wendell Castle’s Cavalcade and Harry Bertoia’s Sounding Sculpture Comparison of Wendell Castle’s Cavalcade and Harry Bertoia’s Sounding Sculpture The artwork Cavalcade by Wendell Castle compared with Harry Bertoia’s sounding sculpture were designed for different purposes but both use elements of art to emphasis the meanings of each. I found these sculptures at the Wichita Art Museum. I selected these two because I found sculptures very interesting. The Cavalcade was made by grouping different shapes together to defy gravity and it grabbed my attention because it did not look correct because the ball was off certain and shouldn’t have been stable. The Sounding sculpture grabbed my attention because it was made to make music by many different bars hitting each other. The Cavalcade sculpture made by Wendell Castle is mahogany, lacewood, poplar, cooper, and gold leaf. The dimensions are 53 ½ by 21 ¼ by 17 1/2. This was made in 1989. There are many different shapes that has it owns color and identity. It wasn’t supposed to be symmetric because it makes a unique attack on gravity. The base of this piece is a blue green color and then a black longer piece that looks like it could be a vase is on top of that. The long black piece is not straight up it is slightly leaning to the left. Then there is a gold platter looking shape that is holding a ball off-center. I think that the artist is trying to make...
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...Today, humans and their actions are a major deciding factor in how the world is ran. Most believe that we are in the era of the anthropocene, which is a period of time that human’s are the dominant influence on the climate and the environment. Three major writers: Wendell Berry, Aldo Leopold, and James Lovelock all have their opinions on what role humans have compared to nature as well as what we should do as humans regarding our relationship with nature and the world. Berry had the agrarianism viewpoint; Leopold had the ecocentrism viewpoint; Lovelock had the Gaia hypothesis. All three authors give their own opinions, however I don’t believe in any one of those viewpoints solely, but more as a collaboration of many different viewpoints we...
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