Emotional detachment

Cold Little Bird, a short story by Ben Marcus, is about an intelligent young boy whose parents struggle coping with his emotional detachment. Throughout the story, the boy’s father, Martin, has the reader questioning whether or not there actually is a problem with Jonah or whether he is over-reacting. Through various scenes in the story one may conclude that it is combination of both. A Cold Little Bird is told through the point of view of the father, Martin. Martin is portrayed as a loving father

between people either by adoption, blood or marriage. In the three stories read in class many of the family members are emotionally detached from each other. Emotional detachment is when a person avoids making connections with those in his/her personal and social round. The members in Louisa, Walter and Paul’s families show emotional detachment towards Louisa, Walter and Paul because their family members do not understand them nor do they want to. Louisa’s mother, from Shirley Jackson’s short story

burying his mother or for killing a man?” (96) Meursault’s emotional detachment is first seen at his mother’s burial when he spared himself the tears, and didn’t attempt to look as if he had the blues, his emotional detachment was one of the primary reasons the jury convicted him with a maximum punishment of execution. The jury should have an objective look on cases, which is the reason for their appearance in court rooms, however, emotional attachment could and will result in their objective outlook

yesterday maybe, I don’t know” (Camus 3) That doesn’t mean anything, Maybe it was yesterday.” The opening sentences of the stranger exemplify Meursault's existential character. Which therefore leaves him with an emotional indifference and a detachment from the people around him and his complete detachment from the rest of society around him. Meursault is an odd character, he is portrayed to the point that he can no longer return to his current emotions. Meursault seems as if he isn't able to think for himself

simple enough, breakfast at the Krebs' family table will prove otherwise. Krebs' sister starts a conversation about indoor baseball that quickly becomes a conversation about whether or not Krebs really loves his sister. We first see Krebs' emotional detachment in his replies to her eager questions about love between his sister and himself--"you bet," "I don't know," "sure," "uh huh," and "maybe" (157). During breakfast, his mother also mentions that she would like him to start working and find a

recorded in order to compare the results. The criteria for control of infection were improvement of vision and pain, no recurrence of hypopyon and decrease or absence of cells and flare in the anterior chamber and vitreous. Cases which develop retinal detachment after the first vitrectomy or after silicon oil removal were

Introduction Coats’ disease is an idiopathic condition characterized by retinal vascular telangiectasia and exudative retinopathy mostly affective young males unilaterally (1). The spectrum of Coats’ disease manifests from mild to severe visual disturbance. An unusual presentation is with a macular hole and only few case reports of this rare association exist (2)(3)(4)(5). In addition surgical treatment of macular hole associated with Coats’ disease has only been described once by Wong et al in

have a supplementary specialized role to protect the eye, impairing any one of these components via trauma or damage to the eye leads to a severe reduction in visual faculty. Damage to the retina, specifically, can cause a condition called retinal detachment whereas the name denotes, the retina becomes detached from an underlying layer of pigmented epithelium cells known as the retinal pigment layer and thereby

Mortality Even with the improvements in diabetes control and patient care, Type 2 diabetes is associated with a higher risk of death than the general population. For the current modelling analysis, the relative risk (RR) of death was estimated to be 2.45 for patients with DME and this was estimated based on the results from two studies. Mulnier et al. reported a RR of 1.93 (95%:CI: 1.89 to 1.97) for diabetic patients when compared to the general population.23 In the second study, Hirai et al., determined

112) seeking to develop an original and different type of intelligence. In contrast, Boyatzis, Goleman and Sala (2004, as cited in Cherniss, 2010) characterise EI as encompassing emotional and social competencies related to workplace performance. However, Bar-On’s model of EI (1998, as cited in Cherniss, 2010) as emotional and socially competent conduct, enabling successful adaptation to the pressures and demands on one’s environment, would seem to lend itself most adaptably to health care administration