Essays on Regeneration

             Now mental psychiatrist called Dr. W.H.R Rivers who specializes in mental patients who used to be soldiers of combat in the British War. Dr. Rivers begins treating a patient named Sassoon who wrote a declaration against war and was sent to him as “shell-shocked” and send him back to…

How does Barker convey Burns’ experience/regeneration in Chapter 4? The extract opens with Burns standing by the window, looking out on a bleak and depressing landscape, “sky and hills together in a wash of grey.” The pathetic fallacy reflects on Burns’ mood; downcast, depressed. He feels the need to escape; but is trapped. A sense…

Once a pipe dream, researchers now are uncovering ways to repair spinal cord injuries. Current methods reduce the nerve cell damage or death that occurs in the hours following injury and increase the efficiency of surviving nerve cells. New evidence suggests that future treatments also may assist the regeneration of lost connections. Prospects include transplanting…

Sarah Lumb – Sarah is a completely fictional character. The girlfriend of the character Billy Prior, she is working-class, “Geordie”, and works in a munitions factory in Scotland producing armaments for British soldiers. Ada Lumb, her mother, appears briefly and has a very hardened attitude towards love and relationships. Sarah Lumb – The girlfriend of…

Amphibians and Reptiles are vertebrate animals known for their special ability of body part regeneration especially the tail. The process in which these animals regenerate the tail is called autotomy. According to Clause and Capaldi (2006) caudal autotomy is a strategy used by lizards in order to escape from a predator. Kaplan (2000) defined autotomy…

The site is rather common: someone in a wheel chair unable to use their lower body, or worse, unable to function from their neck down because of an accident. You may even know one of these people. They all have one thing in common: spinal nerve injury. To the majority of us, one of the…