Comfort food

uniquely they can be perceived from individual to individual. A trigger can spark a feeling in one person that may not faze another. Take something as simple as food for example. My favorite food brings me comfort and satisfaction, while that same food may not appeal or interest somebody else. However farfetched it may seem, the variety in food that is present strongly resembles the variety of religions that exist. Everyone has their own preference that invokes feelings as a result. Roy Robson of Think

culture, food is the main event at every gathering. At funerals, mourners are given “koliva”(boiled wheat, sugar, and cinnamon), a special cake(vasilopita) is baked on New Year's Day, and the midnight Easter service is followed by a feast, consisting of lamb. Families and friend’s share their favorite old recipes from their great grandmother’s. Though some may argue that food creates discrepancy within a community, food exacerbates the unity of society. Every American loves their comfort food-- french

of someone who was not necessarily born into or chosen for their family. Calpurnia does an excellent job of taking the role as Jem and Scout’s motherly figure. She has rules and shows the kids discipline, teaches them life lessons and supports and comforts them as they grow up. Calpurnia is Jem and Scout’s African American cook who has been with their family since before their mother died. Scout said that ”She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long

guarding each other against the outside world and the lessons that come from it to establish comfort in their lives. Neither of them allow growth in their relationship, which can be harmful since it ultimately leads to a blockage in recognizing the world’s wonders. It is why Ibsen emphasizes that when comfort is the chief concern of the home’s foundation, the home gains no experience to make them

Comfort theory was created in the 1990's by Katharine Kolcaba who was performing research on the analysis of comfort across many disciplines (Petiprin, 2016). From her research, she created a theory of nursing based upon three major forms of comfort that humans need to achieve wellness (Petiprin, 2016). They include: relief, ease and transcendence. Relief is the feeling obtained by patients as needs are being met (Petiprin, 2016). Ease is what patients feel when they are relaxed and have the sense

Violence against women during times of war is something that is very rarely discussed, especially the violence that was directed towards Vietnamese women during the Vietnam War. Even now there is discourse surrounding these Vietnamese women, or “comfort women” as they are called. Today there is very little officially known about what took place, and what happened to these women. The women were stolen from their homes, violated, assaulted, and blamed as victims. Their children were discriminated against

Japanese Comfort Women It is estimated that between one and two hundred thousand female sex slaves were forced to deliver sexual services to Japanese soldiers, both before and during World War II. These women were known as comfort women and the Imperial Conference, which was composed of the emperor, representatives from the armed forces and the main Cabinet ministers, approved their use by Japanese soldiers. (Walkom) The term "comfort women" refers to the victims of a "premeditated systematic plan

Kolcaba’s Theory of Comfort Kolcaba’s work on comfort was the compilation of other theorists’ work, which had used comfort in their theories. She had found that comfort was often used, but never defined as it pertains to healthcare. When the theory is applied in the healthcare setting, the interventions to enhance comfort relate to positive patient outcomes (Kolcaba, 1994). The word comfort can be defined in different manners. It can be a verb or a noun and can be physical or mental (Kolcaba &

as soon as I open the door. Home is the smell of freshly cooked food, the kind you can smell before you even open the door, and when you do open the door it just wafts out at you. Home is where the dogs jump up and down at the back door and bark vigorously until you open the door and then they attack you with kisses. Home is where your family all lives within twenty minutes of each other. Home is where we are most comfortable. Comfort can have a plethora of different meanings, all of the preceding

Comfort women, or ianfu as they are called in Korean, are females who were forced sex slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army (Chunghee). Some of the women were dragged off with physical force as their families wept, while others were actually sold to the army by their destitute families (Watanabe). Still other were officially drafted by the Japanese Imperial Army and believed they would be factory workers or nurses (Hwang in Schellstede 4). Some Korean village leaders were ordered to send young women