When Basil Hallward discovers the distorted portrait of Dorian Gray in chapter 13 Wilde's eponymous novel, he first ascribes changes to “some wretched mineral poison” his paints. Although passage corresponds climax story, it has rarely been discussed from a chromatic perspective. And yet, color mattered Wilde as well many decadent friends. Drawing on canonical text The Picture (1891), which rev...

Abstract According to Bocheński’s description of the history formal logic, there clearly is some objective development, though far from being cumulative or linear. The logic throughout world consists three relatively short pinnacles preceded by also periods awakening and followed extensive commentary running into long standstill decadence, when nearly all achievements are consigned oblivion.

The purpose of this study is to learn the meaning of being-a-child with cancer submitted to ambulatory treatment and using the toy library as a possibility to enable their expression about their world. Participants were seven children of ages 3 to 9 years, who had been diagnosed with some kind of childhood cancer. With the objective of learning about the meaning of these experiences to children...

Medicine in 19th-century Brazil was a scientific field where traditional knowledge, academic teaching, and clinical care found themselves clashing with new theories of illness and medical care underpinned by pioneer disciplines like parasitology, bacteriology, and anatomopathology and an experimental clinical practice focused on tropical diseases which afflict the poor. This new set of theoreti...

The dire need in the present electricity generation is to resort to methods entailing lesser non-renewable resources. The present decadence of the conventional energy resources such as coal, petroleum indicate that soon the development and the innovation in the Non-Conventional Energy Resources would be the man’s only recourse to the ever burgeoning demands in electricity. Thus a need for the d...