Pain - Protecting Our Mind, Body, and Soul
One of the most despised realities of life that people deal with is pain. It often tends to be an ignored subject because the implications towards each person creates such distressing thoughts that people would much rather ignore it than attempt to ascertain different aspects of its existence. Pain manifests itself as either physical or psychological.
People often look towards the wrong field to elucidate the existence of pain. No more stupid apology for pain has ever been devised than that it elevates. For example, people tend to attribute affliction to a theological belief that it exists as a punishment for doing wrong. It is an explanation due to the necessity of justifying pain from the Christian point of view. Pain is nothing more than the signal given by the nerves that the organism is in circumstances hurtful to it: it would be as reasonable to assert that a danger signal elevates a train. The agony created when a dog's tail is stepped on not only informs the dog that it is in danger, but also causes the dog to react with a loud cry notifying the offender that he or she does not approve of the action.
The most common effect that people suffer from pain is physical pain. Sometimes, it can manifest itself as something that lasts merely moments such as when accidentally striking an arm on an unforeseen object. But one would have thought that the ordinary observation of life was enough to show that in the great majority of cases, pain, far from refining, has an effect which is merely brutalizing. The severity of the pain may overcome the person and not allow he or she to perform his or her normal tasks. Pain not only incapacitates a people, but also creates a great deal ...
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...es capable of defrauding the most innocent being. It teaches them all sorts of detestable tricks. Poverty has taken all honor from these men that Maugham speaks about, the loss of all material things and riches they used to have has brought them to the lowest of lows and will leave them all there to fight for themselves. Money laundering, pyramids, inexistent sweepstakes contests, are all used by these characters to cheat thier way through the world. With moderate means they would have been honorable men, but ground down by poverty they have lost all sense of decency.
The very nature of pain brings about shivers and uneasy feelings in many people. Its diverse forms of expression create deep seated anxieties that we would preferably circumvent, but it is only when we analyze it that we can truely comprehend its purpose as a protector to our mind, body, and soul.
...oes not show emotion to either side, which truly makes a difference. I am astounded that the slum dwellers of Annawadi are doing what they can to make it through the day, attempting to fulfill Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs of the Western world. This development into a Western country was short-cut ridden, the result of corruption and social structural factors that cause widespread poverty. The other side of greed is apparent within this non-fiction text, a moving text published by Katherine Boo.
Regarding the second part are the description and definition of pain in earlier modern society, it has shown that the pain included physical
The Underground Railroad began at the end of the 18th century, by this time slavery had been abolished in every northern state. The Underground Railroad was most widespread within the 3 decades following the Civil War. When the north made the decision to abolish slavery, the south reacted by making laws against helping slaves to escape and rewards began to be offered to anyone who could return a slave to their master. In 1807 slaves could no longer be brought into the country, this sky-rocketed the value placed on slaves. The Underground Railroad...
The Underground Railroad consisted of many secret routes that the runaway slaves took to escape to freedom. Although some historians claim that the Underground Railroad was never as effective and organized as people make it to be, the system did exist. It’s conductors were always black and they rescored bands of slaves into the North, relying on both black and white homesteads, called “stations.” At these stations, the runaway slaves would hide and be fed. Harriet Beecher Stowe said that she and her husband hid slaves too, and her novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was based on a real-life story of how Eliza Harris and her son escaped to the North.
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Curtis, Anna Louise (1882-) Stories of the underground railroad, by Anna L. Curtis; foreword [by] Rufus M. Jones, illustrated by William Brooks Publisher New York, The Island Workshop Press Co-op, 1941
The Underground Railroad despite occurring centuries ago continues to be an “enduring and popular thread in the fabric of America’s national historical memory” as Bright puts it. Throughout history, thousands of slaves managed to escape the clutches of slavery by using a system meant to liberate. In Colson Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad, he manages to blend slave narrative and history creating a book that goes beyond literary or historical fiction. Whitehead based his book off a question, “what if the Underground Railroad was a real railroad?” The story follows two runaway slaves, Cora and Caesar, who are pursued by the relentless slave catcher Ridgeway. Their journey on the railroad takes them to new and unfamiliar locations,
Conclusions. An adequate and clear understanding of the concept of pain and implementing interventions of pain treatment and management is essential in the clinical settings. Understanding the concept of pain is necessary for its relationships with other concepts that are related and similar to the pain experience for theory building. The in the end, understanding the concept of pain will ultimately benefit the patient and lead to better and approp...
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Pain, which is defined in its widest sense as an emotion which is the opposite of pleasure (White, 2004, p.455), is one of the major symptoms of cancer, affecting a majority of sufferers at some point during their condition (De Conno & Caraceni, 1996, p.8). The World Health Organization (WHO, 2009, online) suggests that relief from pain may be achieved in more than 90 percent of patients; however, Fitzgibbon and Loeser (2010, p.190) stress that pain may often be undertreated, even in the UK. Foley and Abernathy (2008, p.2759) identify numerous barriers to effective pain management, among which are professional barriers such as inadequate knowledge of pain mechanisms, assessment and management strategies.
"Raising Minimum Wage Will Hurt More than Help." Cato Institute. Detroit News, 9 Apr. 2013. Web. 21 Apr. 2014. .
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middle of paper ... ... Being free of pain is something that we feel within us to be intrinsically joyful, and no reason can be used to explain further why we wish to be joyful, or in good health. These things we just sense, and even a murderer, who rejects morality on the social level, will do whatever he can to avoid the displeasures of his inner being. His sentiments, if only for himself, remain within him. “One thing can always be a reason, why another is desired.
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"There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man of woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer-committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear." George Eliot (1819-80), English novelist,editor. Felis Holt, the Radical, Introduction (1866).What is pain? In the American Heritage Dictionary, pain is referred to as "an unpleasant sensation occurring in varying degrees of severity as a consequence of injury, disease, or emotional disorder." The word is rooted in Middle English, from an Old French piene, from Latin poena, meaning "penalty or pain", and from Greek pointe, meaning "penalty." Pain is a very realistic problem that many individuals face daily.