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Acknowledgments The genesis for this book was my undergraduate senior thesis, or namely the many conversations I had with my advisor about John Pope. James McPherson heard and read far too many attempts by a callow youth to rehabilitate ... ...
Though one partner is suffering from dementia, the pair’s love for one another is undimmed. In its latter stages, a sinister tone creeps in — prior to one of the most beautiful dissolves I’ve seen in recent years. Darkness and light played a large part in Archand’s film too, and...
Grzegorz Cisiecki's "Smoke" aka "Dym" is an impressive little short with fantastic sound design.It tells the story of a young man who became the captive of surrealistic dementia.The dazzling visual style of the film and its fascinating soundtrack combine to create a mysterious,dreamlike mood...
Air pollution can cause various respiratory and neurological diseases and continuous exposure can lead to death. Previous studies have reported that particulate matter (PM) exposure increases the risk of depression, suicidal thoughts, and suicidal death;
Alice Munro objectifies the women in “The Bear Came Over The Mountain” mindfully. We know this for sure, because after looking at her corpus of short stories we find she does not write this way about womenby default. There are big name male writers out there who do write in a solipsi...
making him a very reliable source for the reader. The importance of the narrator in two of Poe’s stories, “Ligeia” and “Usher.” Bieganowski suggests that “as the reader becomes an active mediator containing the psychological effects of the story’s utterance, so the narrator’s ...
I recall an uncle who declined from dementia, And a brother-in-law who motioned to his children: “It’s waiting for us all. Learn how to let Others want to take care of you in the end.” Unless we die young, eventually we will ...
She might well be, but dementia is not the focus of the story. This is about how certain details resonate, and memory is a weird thing—it is only after she learns of her lover’s death that she remembers something she’d buried—his brusque (but kind) goodbye after their encounter. ...
Small stories in short interactions:The functions of narratives in care home worker interactions nursing homesThe study investigates story-telling in naturally-occurring interactions in a care home for older people with dementia in England. Stories were ... A Koester - 《Narrative Inquiry》 被引量:...