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Knowing the history of how mental health was understood and treated is an important part of understanding how the general public’s understanding of it has changed or stayed the same. This is also good because it allows us the ability to see where certain stigmas towards mental health may have come from. In the Wellcome … [Read more…]

QCQ 5

Quote:  “ I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief.  But I err: you have not wept at all!  I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears.  … [Read more…]

QCQ 4

Quote:  ““No, you mean never do consider economy and common sense. You should hear mama on the chapter of governesses: Mary and I have had, I should think, a dozen at least in our day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi – were they not, mama?”  Mrs. Dent here bent … [Read more…]

QCQ 3

Quote: “Shifting the Creature to center stage, in contrast, has habitually inspired all manner of leaps to interpret him as a metaphor for various marginalized human identities and situations, from Irish rebels to emancipated slaves. When we discuss some aspect of imaginative literature as providing “a metaphor for x,” x is always our destination—the tenor, what … [Read more…]

QCQ 2

Quote: “No one can conceive the variety of the feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Like and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its … [Read more…]

Learning Outcome 1

One major part of the writing process is being able to read and revise an essay. Great pieces of writing are not written overnight and are not written in one draft. There is a reason why the writing process is a process because it takes time and revision to make for a clear and concise … [Read more…]

Learning Outcome 2

When writing it is often really helpful to use outside sources to use as evidence to support your argument. By doing this you give your writing more credibility because the evidence that you are using can come from experts on a certain topic, and can also give the writer a better idea of what they … [Read more…]