Hi, need to submit a 500 words paper on the topic Play: A Doll House by Henrick Ibsen. John Q. Doe English 344 8 May 2000 A Doll’s House Questions Because of the its composition, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional melodrama. Firstly, the conflict driving the plot surrounds a crime, forgery. Many melodramas centered around a crime. Additionally, the play employs the traditional roles, or stock characters, found in a melodrama: the hero, the heroine, the villain, and the spurned lover. However, the manner in which Ibsen portrays his characters and their interactions breaks the norms of melodrama.

In melodrama, the stock characters act in prescribed ways. The hero always has the same characteristics. He is good but not so clever as to avoid being tricked by the villain. Ibsen breaks from melodrama by having his characters interact in a manner driven by an understanding of human behavior and psychology. Instead of filling simple prescribed roles, Ibsen’s characters have complex, layered personalities. The villain, Krogstad, is not a villain in the end of the play. Though he attempts to blackmail Nora early in the play, his actions are a result of his mistreatment at the hands of Torvald, and he abandons his plans of blackmailing and returns the incriminating documents. Torvald, who is to play the role of hero, begins the play as a strong man who shields his wife. By the end, however, his actions reveal that he is a selfish man who does not love his wife but only himself. Lastly, Nora, the heroine, abandons her family because she has never had the opportunity to experience freedom of choice. Men have always told her what to do. A traditional heroine would love her husband no matter the circumstances and would never abandon her children.

2.A Doll’s House is not a tragedy, which, by default, indicates that it would be a comedy. In the traditional sense, a comedy is a play that ends happily, no matter the action that occurs during the course of the story. A Doll’s House does end happily. Nora abandons her husband and children, which seems a horrible act, but in so doing, she makes the choice to become a real person. She decides to give herself the freedom to choose what happens in her life by leaving the protection, and oppression, of men. The theme of freedom and of finding oneself is uplifting and in no way tragic.

A traditional tragic form, such as the model outlined by Aristotle, cannot exist in a realistic style. In order for a tragedy to be traditional, the protagonist must be a man of noble birth with great power. He must be unassailable except for one minor flaw, so that the audience can experience the pathos of his downfall. In a realistic form, the playwright seeks to explore the protagonist’s behavior from a psychological perspective. By adopting this perspective, the writer cannot create the character type demanded in a classical tragedy. All men are flawed in many ways, and this point is at the heart of realistic drama. The traditional tragedy assumes that the protagonist has just one flaw. Additionally, the modern world no longer contains men of noble birth with great power. Most aristocracies around the world have fallen, and the existing ones are not aristocracies in the sense of conveying noble blood through established heritage or are so lacking in power as to be meaningless. Thus, our societies no longer have the type of character needed to create a traditional tragedy.

I need help creating a thesis and an outline on Care of Toddlers. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. It accounts for significant morbidity and mortality, especially in those with underlying cardiac or pulmonary disease. The etiologic agent is respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), an RNA virus whose growth appears to be primarily in the respiratory tract epithelium. Other viruses, such as influenza virus, adenovirus, and parainfluenza virus, can produce similar clinical states. Almost all children have been infected by RSV by the age of 3 years. The peak rate of hospitalization occurs at before 6 months of age. Both the diseases affect children below 1 year.

In this paper, we have made a study of two toddlers, one affected by acute Epiglottitis and the other by acute Bronchiolitis both under the age of 6, for the similarities in their symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment and care requirements.

Epiglottitis is an acute swelling of the glottic structures caused by bacterial infection. It is a true medical emergency and requires rapid, accurate diagnosis and treatment to avoid airway obstruction. Epiglottitis involves infection of the supraglottic structures, usually with Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIB). On rare occasions other pathogens are involved, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, staphylococcus aureus, -hemolytic streptococcus, and H. influenzae type a. Epiglottitis is has virtually disappeared in North America as a result of widespread immunization. The disease may rarely be caused by group A streptococci. Epiglottitis occurs throughout the year but is more common in the winter months. Eighty percent of infected children are younger than 5 years of age, with the peak incidence between 2 and 6 years of age. Since the institution of the HIB vaccine, the incidence appears to be declining, and epiglottitis currently accounts for only 1 to 10 of every 10,000 pediatric admissions. Older children may be affected by supraglottitis that is more indolent and is caused by group A streptococcus. There may be genetic and immunogenic factors which predispose individuals to invasive HIB disease.

On the other hand, Bronchiolitis is an inflammation of the small airways that results in expiratory obstruction and wheezing. The term “bronchiolitis” is usually applied to an illness of young infants and children, characterized by respiratory distress and hypoxemia. Older children may also have wheezing with viral infections. Bronchiolitis is typically caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Other agents that have been associated with bronchiolitis include adenoviruses, parainfluenza viruses, rhinoviruses, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Transmission occurs primarily by direct contact with infected secretions. Viral shedding typically lasts 6 to 10 days. Attack rates among family members are 45 per cent, and transmission in daycare centers approaches 100 per cent among infants previously uninfected.

Symptoms

In the case of the toddler with acute epiglottitis, the symptoms might include acute illness with high temperature (often 39.5C+) and associated toxic state for less than 2 days, acute onset of severe inspiratory and expiratory stridor which is rapidly progressive. The child appears anxious, still, swallowing is painful and so there often is drooling of saliva.