Isolation: A Case Study

It seems that no matter how isolated one makes itself, there will always be a prevalent aspect of life that cannot be escaped. It is of course the tragedy of death, a dark and frightening end. Fifteen-year old Mariam was no exception to this unfortunate truth of life. One spring day in 1979, a chauffeur started yelling at Mariam to turn away and go back. It was a desperate cry to shield the young girl from what she was about to see in her home just after returning from her stay at a family friend’s home. Her home, a small house near Heart, Afghanistan; isolated from the world. Now had her lifeless mothers body hanging inside. The mother - whose name is not disclosed per request of family – had reportedly been in unstable mental conditions.

In the novelette Of Mice and Men, the author John Steinbeck utilizes two main themes of loneliness and isolation alongside the theme of hope. It is human nature to crave someone to call a friend, or have someone to talk to. Being lonesome can cause any human being to go crazy inside, and no one wants to fight a battle alone. On the contrary, too much hope can cause the isolation that everyone dreads. Excessive amounts of hope can blind you from other important matters going on in the world around you, and you lose sight of everything but that fantasy. In Of Mice and Men, the author expresses the theme of loneliness and hope through the characters, foreshadowing, and setting while some characters are led to their undoing after getting lost in the wilderness of isolation.

Isolation—shutting off a problem or memory that was difficult or threatening and removing the emotion behind it.

The Picture book “When We Go Walkabout” by author, Rhoda Lalara and illustrator, Alfred Lalara, published by Allen and Unwin is a popular dual language text featuring the Anindilyakwa language and English. This book is suitable in an early year context for constructing short texts in the Foundation English Literacy Strand (ACELY1651).

The purpose of this paper is to reflect on my fourth day of Clinical. Today was all motivated and had a positive attitude for accomplishing the day. I knew there was the possibility that my previous resident might have been discharged, I was happy, but worried whether he would reposition every so often to maintain and increase blood flow to the sacral region for the pressure ulcer. Also concerned whether he would take steps in preventing urinary infection especially with use of briefs. Therefore, when I step into the resident’s hall, I checked for his name at the door. The name was not there, so I knew he had gone home. With that news, I informed our instructor that the resident had been discharged. I was assigned to a new resident with unilateral

Then we expecting another incident after few years from now which will be another isolated case.

From the moment we're born, our parents are given a mission, create a better version of themselves. It’s important to understand that we keep close relationships with our parents. Growing up, we go through many phases in the relationships with our parents. As young children we cling to them because they display many forms of affection through hugs and kisses. All our needs are met yet we cry at 3 am because it’s dark and scary being alone. Isolation is a difficult concept for a young child to understand so they don’t adjust well to it. Only later in our lives do we tolerate being our own parents. As we young children become kids we often become more selfish especially if we’re an only child. We demand more from parents but most importantly,

In addition, providing the patient with counselling and psychological support is important to help the patient to cope with infection effectively. Along with the deteriorated condition, the patient may feel fear, pain or even frustrated. Therefore the emotional support from the nurses, family members and friends is essential for the patient to deal with the invaded bacteria actively. Thus, the family members should be educated with the correct concept of the way to motivate the patient through encouraging words and action, accompany the patient and take care of the patient. With adequate support, it helps on the path to recovery and the patient is less likely to develop serious mental health problems during the therapeutic period.

The snow crunched softly under her warm boots. She brushed the pristine snow off the bench and sat down. The falling snow swirled around her, twinkling in the sunlight like a thousand diamonds. It created a fluffy white blanket on the ground, masking the sights and memories of the day before. She breathed in, inhaling the scent of the crisp mountain air, the wind kissing her face. This was truly a place for her to clear her mind, after all of that that had just happened. The serene blue skies, the fresh alpine air, the panoramic view. From the summit, she could see every crack and crevice in the mountains around her. She could name all of the chairlifts, gondolas, t-bars. She could recite all the statistics of each piste, the steepness, the difficulty, the length.

Images of isolation expressing the conflict of male agency and the confinement of female identity is apparent within the poem through the device of narrative point of view. Specifically, the text is in a second person “you” perspective and because of this, the speaker describes their surrounding space rather than their own aesthetic features. In this way, they distance their physical form’s qualities away from the central focus of the reader’s visualizations of the scene, and so, isolate their identity as a result (OED). This fosters an underlying male dominance, in that, the reader’s focus transfers from the presumably female speaker to the male cop since the description of his blue eyes and expressions gives him definitive aspects to imagine

Often, home-working professionals complain about isolation and loneliness as they get fired from their boss and co-workers and it can be very sad for some. Since workplaces provide location to meet people and make friends with many people, home-based professionals need to be more creative and expert in knowing people and staying in touch with their peers.

Aspiration is a crucial element if an individual is to achieve lifelong dreams and live a personally fulfilling life. These goals or aims however, require persistence; and those around us [including friends or family] can impact the way we accomplish said goals. Isolation plays a large part in establishing how we move through society. Physical, emotional and social remoteness, will always affect an entity, while the presence of others can be completely ineffectual in our progression, due to the overwhelming abundance of exterior factors that relate to laws and pre conceived ideas. It’s not the individuals around us that help us to achieve but rather how the ideals of an entire society is projected to others.

Lahiri shows that one’s cultural upbringing and their ability to assimilate isolate a person from others, that holding onto one's past and societies expectation for one to assimilate immediately make it harder for individuals to assimilate into society, and that holding onto memories of your past help you navigate through the loneliness.

Strangeness is an experience that occurs in everyday life. It can happen when we meet people from different countries, when we travel to other countries or it can occur at home when we encounter people who are strange to us. Thus, the stranger can be a visitor, a guest, a new-comer or an immigrant. In addition, foreigner, other or enemy are words that can be used as a synonym for stranger. However, strangeness is not only related to people but also to situations, places, time or to attitudes of other people, even to our undiscovered traits. In this sense, strangeness involves several dimensions and aspects. George Simmel considers the stranger as a wanderer “who comes today and (may) stay tomorrow”1 this stranger or “potential wanderer”1 is

It is common saying that, man is a social animal and a person cannot survive without a society [Hamirani 2008].