Long ago and far away, in The Land of Civil Unrest, a man died. He was not the first man ever to die, nor was he to be the last, but his death (and subsequent rebirth) was to be the foundation of a following ( Read more... )

if God does not love all of His children, then why believe in the first place? who is anyone to say who is and is not worthy of God's love and forgiveness?

Doctor A. is a researcher currently studying hypothermia. Most of his data come from experiments with fully informed volunteers whose responses are carefully monitored as their body temperature is lowered in a cold water tank or shiver chamber. Dr. A, of course, also relies on results gathered by previous hypothermia investigators ( Read more... )

a heart transplantation team at a major urban teaching hospital invariably has more candidates for heart transplantation than hearts available to transplant. the program is known to benefit both low-risk and high-risk patients. nevertheless, thirty percent of the candidates die before a heart becomes available. members of the transplant team, who ( Read more... )

sharon adler is a thirty-three-year-old woman who presents to her physician for a routine physical exam. she is married and has two daughters ages four and two. in discussing her family history, she tells her physician that her paternal grandmother died of breast cancer in her early fifties. an aunt on her father's side died of ovarian cancer at ( Read more... )

brian: you're confusing ( Read more... )

the reading list is as follows:

::american taboo - philip weiss
::wicked - gregory maguire
::the metamorphosis and other short stories - franz kafka
::confederates in the attic - tony horowitz
::the bell jar - sylvia plath
::a room of one's own - virginia woolf
::bridget jones' diary - helen fielding
::the communist manifesto - karl marx
::21 ( Read more... )

miss l, a twenty-eight-year-old, unmarried woman, is admitted to general hospital to deliver her first child. in the past, she has been treated for pyromania and schizophrenia (paranoid type), and since the age of eighteen she has spent a total of five and a half years in a state mental hospital or in the inpatient unit of the local community ( Read more... )

the stranger - albert camus

since it was first published in english, in 1946, albert camus's first novel, the stranger (l'etranger) has had a profound impact on millions of american readers. through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched algerian beach, camus explored what he termed "the ( Read more... )

i am your fantasy. your wet dream pulling you down screaming twisting turning biting i am everything you ever wanted ( Read more... )