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.
"It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage."-William Still. William Still was a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life guiding runaway slaves to freedom in the crazy years leading up to America’s Civil War. Still was the director of a complex network of opponents, supporters and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario. In Williams fourteen years in the service of the Underground Railroad, he helped approximately eight hundred former slaves to escape. Still kept careful records of the many slaves who passed through the Philadelphia "station." After the Civil War, Still published the secret notes he’d kept in diaries during those years. And to this day, his book contains some of the best evidence we have of the workings of the Underground Railroad, detailing the freedom seekers who used it, including where they came from, how they escaped and the families they left behind. (http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/shows/list/underground-railroad/home/)
Regarding the second part are the description and definition of pain in earlier modern society, it has shown that the pain included physical
In the nineteenth century, before the American Civil War, slavery was a normal occurrence in most of America. The Underground Railroad was a series of routes in which in enslaved people could escape through. The “railroad” actually began operating in the 1780s but only later became known as the underground railroad when it gained notability and popularity. It was not an actual railroad but a series of routes and safe houses that helped people escape entrapment and find freedom in free states, Canada, Mexico as well as overseas.
The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, nor was it an established route. It was, however, a way of getting slaves from the South to the North, or in this case, from the Deep South, to Mexico. In the 1800s, slavery was a major issue. As the United States began to mature, slavery began to divide. Slavery in the considered “Northern States” was emancipated, and slaves, still under bondage in the South, were looking for ways to get to the North. The Underground Railroad was one way to find freedom. A common myth about the Underground Railroad is that it was only in a pathway full of people, all trying to make it to the North for freedom. The truth is there was hardly any help in the South. The major help came along when the slaves reached the North. A former slave by the name of James Boyd was once interviewed in Itasca, Texas on this very subject. He recalls that many slaves running across the established border between Mexico and Texas to reach freedom in Mexico. ...
...s, and demons. Upon a deeper inspection, I feel the two poems are reflective of Poe himself. Poe was a troubled soul that dealt with these themes during the course of his life. This could be an indication as to why the dark themes is so prevalent in these poems. Regardless of the reason for the similarities, much like the darkness that surrounded Poe’s life, the connected correlations of these poems will persist evermore.
It is believed that the system of the Underground Railroad began in 1787 when a Quaker named Isaac T. Hopper started to organize a system for hiding and aiding fugitive slaves. The Underground Railroad was a vast, loosely organized network of people who helped aid fugitive slaves in their escape to the North and Canada. It operated mostly at night and consisted of many whites, but predominately blacks. While the Underground Railroad had unofficially existed before it, a cause for its expansion was the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act allowed for runaway slaves to be captured and returned within the territory of the United States and added further provisions regarding the runaways and imposed even harsher chastisements for interfering in their capture (A&E). The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act was a major cause of the development o...
"The Underground Railroad" was not really a railroad, but a title to a 200 year old struggle for freedom (Demand). "The Railroad" became the first civil rights movement for the United States, and one of the most impacting movements to date. It was also one of the first times in history where blacks and whites intermingled for the same cause in coherence. The actual operation was called "the freedom train" and on that imaginary train there were "conductors", these people later came to be known as the activists for the abolition of slavery. These brave men and women performed life risking tasks that led them to help as many slaves to escape as possible. These heroes gradually became incredibly well known over the decades. Many still have their names today like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Henry Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe and many more. (Demand)
" Chronic Pain (CP) statistics astounding according to The Institute of medicine approximately 100 million adults suffer from chronic pain which is more than heart disease, diabetes, and cancer combined."(IOM Relieving Pain in America 2011, p. 1)
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 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,
Aim. The purpose of this paper is to clarify and analyze the meaning of the concept of pain. The paper will clarify the defining attributes of pain and identify the antecedents that influence the perception of pain and list the consequences of pain. It will also state the empirical referents in reference to pain.
Pain and suffering is something that we all would like to never experience in life, but is something that is inevitable. “Why is there pain and suffering in the world?” is a question that haunts humanity. Mother Teresa once said that, “Suffering is a gift of God.” Nevertheless, we would all like to go without it. In the clinical setting, pain and suffering are two words that are used in conjunction. “The Wound Dresser,” by Walt Whitman and “The Nature of Suffering and Goals of Medicine,” by Eric J Cassel addresses the issue of pain and suffering in the individual, and how caregivers should care for those suffering.
The Underground Railroad focused around the time of 1820 to 1865. It took place in most of the southern states of America including Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, etc… Most slaves worked on big plantations and were classified as property not people. The slaves worked hours and hours each day of their life. There was no pay and no respect for most of the slaves. The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad, but it was like a railroad in many ways. There were specific routes you had to follow to get to your next destination, and conductors. Eventually the slaves would fail on escaping, or they would make it to what was sometimes called the promise land, “Canada”. Even though the North was slavery free, a black person could not run to New York and be safe. This was because by 1640 the courts gave a law that made it so slave owners still had a right to their property. There were st...
Edgar Allan Poe?s ?The Raven? is a dark reflection on lost love, death, and loss of hope. The poem examines the emotions of a young man who has lost his lover to death and who tries unsuccessfully to distract himself from his sadness through books. Books, however, prove to be of little help, as his night becomes a nightmare and his solitude is shattered by a single visitor, the raven. Through this poem, Poe uses symbolism, imagery and tone, as well as a variety of poetic elements to enforce his theme of sadness and death of the one he loves.
People can wear pain on the outside like a mask, hiding them from the world, but it also can hide deep within them waiting to be freed by some emotional circumstance. Oddly enough, pain is one on the most feared apprehensions in the mind of humans, yet in some situations, is the most rejoiced. In this paper I will take a close look at pain, from it's true meaning to real life occurrences in which pain is a reality.We all know what pain feels like, for everyone has experienced it at one time in their lives. There are two dimensions of pain; the physical and the emotional pain. Physical pain is a sensation of pure discomfort. For example, when you are walking through your house and stump your toe on a table leg, you don't just stand there and say, "That hurt." You yell loudly to the world (either nice or naughty) that you stumped your toe.