...Kirsten Logan “The Rental Heart” Essay Love is hard, especially when we live in a world with so many millions of people, different, every single human being, so unique and away from other human beings on the earth. We live in a world were hatred, war and racism has dominated for years. And we keep asking ourselves, why? Why do we still need love? Why can’t we live without it, and sometimes can’t live with it? What does it mean for us, when our hearts tell us to fell something for other humans? Its questions we keep asking ourselves because we don’t know how to handle love, how to control it, how to balance between our bad and good emotions and in the end we don’t know what real love is, before getting heart, maybe a few times. Love, emotions, a broken heart that never ends feeling empty, it’s basically what the story is about in the novel “the Rental Heart”. The short story presents a protagonist as neuter story teller. We don’t really know anything about this person, which sex the teller has, looks, anything from the outside besides the tellers thoughts and the chronological story that tells about the various attempts at love. The narrator introduces us to many different types of persons “she” had a relationship with. but that isn’t the focus we have in the novel, it is really about the questions we have on the persons’ sex’. The narrator keeps switching sex on “her” lovers, and sometimes we wonder if “she” switches “her” own sex. for example the narrators switching personality...
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...ABSTRACT Heart failure is one of the leading causes of mortality in the world. At present, there are approximately 26 million heart failure patients worldwide (1). Heart failure is a life-threatening disease and addressing it should be treated as a global health priority. The prevalence and cost of the condition is set to rise due to Ireland’s ageing population and increases in diabetes and coronary heart disease (2). To a large extent, heart failure is a disease that is managed medically. Medications such as ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers are well established in the treatment of heart failure, reducing mortality and hospitalisations (3). Lifestyle interventions can substantially improve the population’s health, because obesity, hypertension, diabetes and smoking all dramatically increase the likelihood of heart failure. The goals of treatment in patients with heart failure are to improve their quality of life by controlling the symptoms of the disease and to prolong life by slowing the disease’s progression. Research was carried out on heart failure, its frequency, guidelines to prevent it, the burden it has on the patient, management of the...
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...conveys the message that the Africans are savages and that Africa itself is a place of no order and no civilization. To begin, on page 17 of Heart of Darkness, Conrad has his protagonist Marlow describe the Africans in many inhumane ways. “Black shapes crouched, lay, sat between the trees, leaning against the trunks, clinging to the earth in all attitudes of pain, abandonment, and despair they were nothing earthly now, nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation One of these creatures rose to his hands and knees and went off on all fours towards the river to drink.” After calling the African people creatures and shadows of disease and starvation, it was apparent that Conrad definitely did not think of the Africans as human beings. This portrayal shows the natives as "shadows" and unearthly "creatures," not as dying and sick men. The men are not other human beings, but in fact incoherent shapes with no humanizing characteristic to classify one man from another, which furthermore makes the indigenous Africans people into animals. Although the story has many different statements such as the one above, due to the time period of this story, I do not believe that it can be seen as racist. In our time, statements such as these would be seen as complete and utter racism and totally unacceptable. However, at the time of when Heart of Darkness was written, things like these were not only said, but also widely accepted. For this reason, I believe that now obviously this would...
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...A Classic Game Gamers Need to Play Kingdom Hearts starts off with the fourteen year old boy protagonist Sora who has lost his friends Riku and Kairi to the darkness which destroyed their island, called Destiny Islands. After being set adrift and landing in Traverse Town, Sora finds out from Leon, a mysterious swordsman, the darkness was from the Heartless and the only way to destroy it is through the weapon called the Keyblade, which is in his possession. Along with the Keyblade, Sora meets two companions; Donald Duck and Goofy, who were sent to find the Keyblade, joins him on his journey. Eliminating the Heartless was not the only thing the Keyblade could do, it could open the gate to different galaxies. With this, Sora set on this wild adventure to find his friends. Kingdom Hearts is a video game that is classified under the genre of an action RPG. RPG is an acronym that stands for role playing game. A traditional role playing game includes a menu based combat system, a central quest or storyline that flows through the game, and levels or character statistics that a character can gain and build up throughout the game. An action game, however, usually consists of a real time battle combat system. Kingdom Hearts accurately combines the two genres into its game style. Unlike most role playing games that have a menu to choose certain attacks from, Kingdom Hearts is a button masher that can issue attacks with the different buttons on the controller which makes it better at...
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...Low Resting Heart Rate The number of beats per minute (BPM) of your heart is your heart rate, and what's too slow for you may depend on your age and physical condition. Physically active adults and athletes, often have a low resting heart rate, but it’s not causing problems. Older people are more prone to issues with a slow heart rate. As people age, changes in the rate of their pulse may change and can signify a heart condition that needs to be addressed. What does It Mean to Have Low Resting Heart Rate? For many people, a heart rate of 60 to 100 BPM while at rest is considered normal. However, your heart rate may fall below 60 BPM during deep sleep, but if your heart beats less than 60 times a minute during normal waking hours, it is slower than normal. Alternative names for this...
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...The “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad, takes a look into imperialism through the eyes of its main character Marlow. Conrad used this story to condemn King Leopold II’s exploitation of the Congo and imperialistic views. Unlike capital rich imperialism, which seeks long term sustainment, King Leopold’s capital poor imperialism allowed for hasty exploitation of easily obtained resources through forced labor. The story takes a powerful look at the cruel and inefficient exploitation of natives by the “civilized societies”. This essay will discuss Conrad’s distain for imperialistic societies as seen in “Heart of Darkness”, and how these criticisms are relevant in contemporary societies. The story “Heart of Darkness” explores the issues and hypocrisy...
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...An atrioventricular heart block is when there is an interruption or delay of the conduction of the electrical impulses. Electrical impulses are what cause the heart to beat. The electrical impulses occur between the atria and ventricles, or the top and bottom of the heart There are three different types of AV blocks, ranging from first degree to third degree. The type related to this diagnosis is second-degree, type I. Type I second-degree AV block occurs when each electrical impulse occurs slightly slower than the preceding one until the impulse does not conduct to the ventricles (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2008). Etiology/Cause: There are a few different causes of an AV block. One cause is myocardial ischemia, or tissue damage of the heart muscle. The damage to heart muscle causes the electrical impulses mentioned above to occur more slowly or at an irregular rate. Another cause is myocardial infarction, otherwise known as a heart attack. With myocardial...
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...“Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?” (24) Man is blind. Power and savagery combine to form an impenetrable wall, concealing the truth. Vision and comprehension are constantly obscured throughout the novel, Heart of Darkness, as Marlow journeys through the Congo with an attempt of “penetrating the darkness of the heart of the dark jungle and of the savagery which it nourishes” to find the truth hiding in the dark, only to find this dark fog impervious (Dowden). Through the use of blindness, Conrad displays an inability of man to see the truth. Throughout the novel, Marlow and his crew encounter fog, which obscures their vision more and more, the deeper they get into the jungle. As Brandon Kershner states, Conrad seems to play on “the interest in immediate perception, especially in difficult conditions for visual perception and comprehension…; the interest in smoke, fog, mist, and so forth as an integral part of the subject’s representation” (Kershner). One morning when the sailors get close to the heart of the jungle where Kurtz lies, they wake up to “a white fog, very warm and more blinding than the night.” (35) Just as Marlow and the other sailors cannot see clearly in the jungle, they fail to see...
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...Heart of Darkness illustrates three different depictions of women. These depictions are the naive woman, the mysterious woman, and the wealthy and influential woman. The sparse mentionings of women reveal the way the writer views their significance. They are never given names and are briefly mentioned throughout his work. In Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness, women are hardly mentioned but play a significant role in revealing the different aspects of imperialistic Europe. One of the women that are mentioned by Conrad is the naive woman, who is called The Intended. The Intended is Kurtz’s fiancee and only appears for a brief moment. She is symbolic for what the Europeans believed imperialism to be. The Europeans saw imperialism to be the colonization and civilization of Africa. In reality, the imperialists were in Africa raping it of ivory and working the natives to death. Furthermore, the Intended only saw the good in Kurtz. “And all this, she went on mournfully, of all his promise and all his greatness, of his generous mind, of his noble heart, nothing remains nothing but a memory”(94-95). The Intended seemed to worship the ground Kurtz walked on, for she says “‘I would have treasured...
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... Throughout the book, Marlow is told many different things about Kurtz. Ranging from really good to terrible. Kurtz is a highly gifted person, but shows it in an interesting way. Marlow is told on multiple occasions that Kurtz is seen as one of the Company’s best people. Mostly because he brings back more ivory than everyone else combined. Marlow doesn’t actually meet Kurtz until the end of the book; which leads to Marlow hearing many things about Kurtz on the way. The first thing that he hears is that Kurtz had traveled to the jungle to collect ivory and he had ideas to try and bring civilization to those there. His ideas failed and it caused him to become savage; just like the natives living there. Kurtz had written a report, assumed to be have written before he became savage, saying that a white male is seen as supernatural to the Africans and thus with this authority he has power over them and believes he can knock some sense of good into them. Since he began to adapt to the ways they already do things, Marlow can only assume that this did not occur. Kurtz is known as one of the best people the Company has. Apparently the higher ups in Europe have bigger plans for Kurtz, but unfortunately those plans never become reality. When Marlow arrives at the first station, him and the manager begin to have a conversation about Kurtz. The manager states that Kurtz is seen as the best because he is excellent at getting ivory for the company. Marlow finds out that one of the reasons...
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...Ever heard of the story The Tell Tale Heart? It is a dark story of a man descended into madness murdering an old man. But not everyone thinks he was a mad man, some think he was just acting or that murdering the man brought him into madness. Everyone has their opinion on this matter and we will be exploring just one of them. Well truly it’s more like I am defending my opinion on this story and how I believe the man truly was with evidence from the story itself. I would have to say that the man was truly insane and completely capable of planning ahead despite of his mental state. I say he was a mad man because of his reasons for his actions, the narrator explains in the story page 1 says: “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!” (Tell-Tale-Heart) and this was enough to drive him to murder. His drive for the murder was such a simple and pathetic reason that anyone sane would have to disagree that it would be an acceptable reason....
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...“The Tell-Tale Heart” is narrated by an unnamed individual about which little is revealed. The only fact that is known for certain is that the narrator lives with, and serves, an elderly man. At first he cannot speak to his motive for murder: “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire.” (1127) Grasping for a motive, he says, “I think it was his eye!” and then, as if to convince himself as much as the audience, he declares, “yes, it was this!” (1127) Searching for a reason for his actions, his uncertainty is apparent and he attempts to justify the brutal murder and dismemberment of the old man, for which there is no apparent logical explanation, by blaming the “Evil Eye.” (1127)...
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...The Tell Tale Heart, a literary masterpiece by Edgar Allan Poe. Esteemed by many, but narrated by a potential madman. The narrator attempts to make a case throughout the story of how his acts are deliberate and thoughtful. Although, throughout the story as the narrator insists he is mentally stable, the tone and phrasing of his words does nothing, but emphasize his ravings as those of a madman. The narrator’s arguments are based on nothing more than persistence, narcissism, and a reliance on the readers trust in a narrator’s facts to be unquestionably authentic. With every mention of the narrator’s sanity and the possibility of his mental instability he persists in dispute that he is no madman. The over emphasis of this causes the legitimacy of the narrator’s claims to appear fabricatedand even add to the counter case. In addition, at a point he is unsure of the reason for the murder: “I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this!” A sane man would never forget a reason to even provoke the thought of murder, let alone persuade the action. Every night he would come and watch the old man sleep for eight nights, clearly he had been thinking about it and...
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...Reading Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “A Tell-Tale Heart”, you begin to notice things about the narrator. You begin to wonder, is this all in his mind, or is this all calculated down to the point. Where it’s all strategically planned and well thought out. Although there are many occurrences where you would believe that he is a calculated killer. There is more proof to show that he’s mentally insane and he’s not as calculated as you would think. It paragraph one he starts to state, “ Healthily- how calmly I can tell you the whole story”. From this quote you would believe that he’s calculated because he wouldn’t be able to be so calm about the whole situation if he was mentally insane, which is correct, but moving on down the paragraph he then states, “I heard all things in heaven and in Earth. I heard many things in hell.” If he has any assumption to believe that he can hear those things and believe that he is really hearing heaven and hell then you have to believe that he might have something wrong with how his brain works....
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...Deciphering Achebe’s essay The first time I read Chinua Achebe’s “An Image of Africa” I became infuriated with what he had to say about one of my favorite texts. This happened because by way of his approach by simply stating that Western Culture is wired to see certain aspects differently than that of African or Eastern culture. After reading Achebe’s academic essay for the first time my immediate reaction, in his own words, is that “western psychoanalysts must regard the kind of racism displayed by Conrad as absolutely normal” (Achebe 11). I did not want that to be my initial reaction, but why should I argue my side of it if Achebe only believes that I see things this way because of where I was born? According to Chinua Achebe, before I even picked up “An Image Of Africa,” we were never going to see eye to eye on any level of his dissection of the novella Heart of Darkness. My first thought was to not even touch what Achebe had spoke about. To leave it as it was, an unchangeable belief that I would never be able to argue because of his demeanor. A demeanor that shouts, “I’ve felt this way for some time now, and I am finally getting this off my chest.” Someone writing with such conviction is quite hard to argue against. Anyone with a history in debate would know this. I felt as if my conviction was not as high as his over this topic matter, and the only way to argue with someone such as himself is to match his demeanor. Although I felt he was dead wrong with every topic he...
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