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The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy.
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“The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy.
Ivan, who happens to be a court judge, lives a normal ordinary life, that a person of his social class affords, but he dies a terrible death. He is born, and raised in a family of three boys and comes from an average family. At thirteen years of age, he goes to a law school and acquires the principles and a change in behavior as he is climbing the social ladder. He later becomes a judge in the newly transformed legal institution and locates to another region. He gets married, and starts a family, but this does not deter him from having a carefree attitude in life.
He concentrates mostly in his work, and ignores his family as he is so preoccupied with his social status. The wife becomes pregnant, and Ivan feels like the wife manners are interfering with his respectable lifestyle, that seems to be loved and cherished by many in the society. He lives a kind of life full off hypocrisy, as he indulge in his work, and maintains a distance between him and his family. He portrays a contented professional look at his work place and adopts an official approach at home. The level of hypocrisy in him increases day by day.
Living with his wife becomes an issue and he tries to forget his tribulations by getting a promotion, and becomes a magistrate. He achieves this unfairly as one of his friend, has an influence in the legal system. The promotion is made possible by one of his friends, who holds higher rank in the legal institution. This gives him an opportunity to spend a lot of his time at his workplace, and neglect his family. Ivan accidentally falls down, as he is hanging the curtains at his home hurting one of his sides. He does not give it much thought until he starts to feel pain. (Tolstoy pg125)
This causes more tension in the family, as his attitude towards the family members becomes intolerable. He finally decides to visit a doctor, but the source of the pain can not be traced. He develops a terminal illness as a result of the fall. He tries his best to look for treatment, but his condition keeps on deteriorating forcing him to stop working, and spend his days resting in bed. He soon realizes that as a human being, he is immortal, even though it is difficult for him to accept, and deal with the situation. During his illness which turns out to be continuous and painful, it makes him think that he should not be suffering as he has lived a righteous life. To him death is painful, and he feels he does not deserve to suffer. He hates his family for avoiding the issue of his eminent death, and not being honest about his sickness. (Tolstoypg59)
Life is a game and regardless of his social status, the main person he finds solace in, is a peasant boy who happens to be his servant. The boy shows sympathy for him, as well as he does not fear death. This makes Ivan doubt the kind of life he has been living. Lastly, he gets to understand the difference between the fake life he has lived all his life, and a real life. Artificial life is full of egocentric individuals, while real life manifests itself through sympathy and kindness. He finally dies in peace, as he accepts his family and pities them finding joy at last.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY l 1033 Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich. The Death of Ivan Ilyich:Easyread Large Bold Edition. London: Read How You Want.com, 2009.
Poor Health and Victimization in U.S. Jails
Poor Health and Victimization in U.S. Jails
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Health conditions and victimization among incarcerated individuals in U.S. jails – ScienceDirectIn the above paper, the researchers have researched the health conditions and the victimization among inmates in American jails. The method used was a cross-sectional one to assess the needs of 3650 jail inmates and look into their health conditions compared to the general public outside of jails. They also looked into victimization and how this affects the inmates negatively to a very great extent. The results were that the inmates have failing health compared to the general public in the outer sector. One of the contributing factors towards victimization is having a physical disability or mental illness. The research acknowledges that few people can look after those who go in there
within the prison system.
The victimization and failing health result from interaction with the criminals who victimize the newly brought inmates. For example, if a person gets in there and their belongings are stolen, they do not have a place or a person to report. They are likely to suffer to a great extent. Their health also gets into danger if, for example, what is stolen is something like their beddings. Their findings state a very close relation between victimization and poor health conditions of the inmates. Their research also found out that a particular type of individuals are taken advantage of when they get into jails, including chronic illness, severe mental illness, anxiety disorder, disability, and chronic physical illness. This research implies that most people involved will take their work seriously and make sure that jails and prisons are correctional facilities and not places where individuals are exposed to diseases and victimization.
There is a very high number of those incarcerated in the United States. For example, in 2018 alone, there were 10.7 million admissions of offenders into the American jail system. This means that even though there are many prisons and jails, there is congestion in the prisons. This study looked for the difficulties that the individuals in the prisons go through and how these challenges are related to their health conditions, focusing on victimization and its effects on the health of those incarcerated. This study has focused its research on the relationship between the mental health conditions, physical health conditions, and other disabilities among the inmates with the illnesses prevalent, and its findings inform us that it is not the best environment for a person to thrive in their health and other conditions related to their health. This is because there is a lot of victimization.
There is the victimization of this kind because there is a very high number of inmates, and therefore it is difficult for the administrators to look out for all those who behave in a way that is not pleasing. This means that in the jail system, it is a survival for the fittest, and therefore those who are unable to do this suffer at the hands of their fellows. Most of the individuals in the jail system are also law offenders, and their likelihood of bullying their fellow, especially the new ones and those who have health conditions like poor health, is very high. Therefore those who are physically well built make life difficult for those who are not physically well built, and this means that they suffer under them as there is less fear of what might be done to them as they are already in jail.
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Grosholz, J. M., & Semenza, D. C. (2021). Health conditions and victimization among incarcerated individuals in U.S. jails. Journal of Criminal Justice, 101797.
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Poor Health and Victimization in U.S. Jails
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Health conditions and victimization among incarcerated individuals in U.S. jails – ScienceDirectIn the above paper, the researchers have researched the health conditions and the victimization among inmates in American jails. The method used was a cross-sectional one to assess the conditions of 3650 jail inmates and look into their health conditions compared to the general public outside of jails. They also looked into victimization and how this affects the inmates negatively to a very great extent. The results were that the inmates have failing health compared to the general public in the outer sector. One of the contributing factors towards victimization is having a physical disability or mental illness. The research acknowledges that few people can look after those who go in there
within the prison system.
The victimization and failing health result from interaction with the criminals who victimize the newly brought inmates. For example, if a person gets in there and their belongings are stolen, they do not have a place or a person to report to. They are likely to suffer to a great extent. Their health also gets into danger if, for example, what is stolen is something like their beddings. Their findings state a very close relation between victimization and poor health conditions of the inmates. Their research also found out that a particular type of individuals are taken advantage of when they get into jails, including chronic illness, severe mental illness, anxiety disorder, disability, and chronic physical illness. This research implies that most of the people involved will take their work seriously and make sure that jails and prisons are correctional facilities and not places where individuals are exposed to diseases and victimization.
Reference
Grosholz, J. M., & Semenza, D. C. (2021). Health conditions and victimization among incarcerated individuals in U.S. jails. Journal of Criminal Justice, 101797.