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Psychological studies conducted in the last fifty years have found that social isolation has a profound negative affect on people. This is because humans by nature are social creatures, who need and thrive of off physical and emotional connections. This is one reason that that isolation is used by prisons and in torture as the separation is expected to make the person more likely to conform to expectation. Many people who have been socially isolated for long periods of time begin to experience negative effects such as, hallucinations, high blood pressure, increase in illness, verbal and rational reasoning skills ...

It is believed by many scholars like Ellen Moers, who wrote Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother that when Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly wrote Frankenstein, she wrote the story as a reflection of her own fears and issues with parenting. I also think that Shelley may have felt that her offspring were somehow against the laws of nature and that this is why most of them died at birth or in early infancy. Where Victor only had created life from the confines of death, she herself brought death from what should have been life. This of course was no fault ...

In an article about hip hop music and its intersection with jazz, Jared Pauley writes that both genres have often flirted with each other. Over the years, hip hop artists have utilized the flavor of jazz music through sampling. In the 1980s to the mid-1990s, hip hop acts "took jazz samples to the top of the charts while others worked directly with respected jazz musicians. With the new millennium, this trend continued" (1). One artist that has continued the trend is Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar is an emcee that has been on the scene for a number of years, ...

Death in early twentieth century

Causes-In the beginning of the twentieth century, the most common causes of death were infectious diseases. These were the likes of pneumonia, influenza, and tuberculosis. Most treatments at the time were not very effective. In the event of severe attacks on individuals, they took a massive toll on health and often led to death. Other diseases included gastrointestinal infections such as diarrhea, typhoid, and cholera. At that time, most people did not maintain proper hygienic standards. Though most were aware, they at times ignored them or never took them seriously. Nevertheless, these diseases were not very fatal and could ...

The Age of Enlightenment is also commonly referred to as the Age of Reason. It lasted from 1650 to 1800. Many agree that the cause of Enlightenment was the Thirty Year War (1618-1648) though it was only an outcrop of many underlying issues that faced Europe at the time (Broner, 122). It came to an end during the French revolution. It is such wars that motivated German philosophers and authors to criticize the idea of nationalism and wars to protect nationhood. The German authors included Hugo Grotius and John Cornenius, who were the pioneers of the ideas that formed ...