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I need a primary source for a seven page paper that is to be based off of mental illness. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Answer
All of her poems are basically about her illness.
Lesbos
by Sylvia Plath
Viciousness in the kitchen!
The potatoes hiss.
It is all Hollywood, windowless,
The fluorescent light wincing on and off like a terrible migraine,
Coy paper strips for doors --
Stage curtains, a widow's frizz.
And I, love, am a pathological liar,
And my child -- look at her, face down on the floor,
Little unstrung puppet, kicking to disappear --
Why she is schizophrenic,
Her face is red and white, a panic,
You have stuck her kittens outside your window
In a sort of cement well
Where they crap and puke and cry and she can't hear.
You say you can't stand her,
The bastard's a girl.
You who have blown your tubes like a bad radio
Clear of voices and history, the staticky
Noise of the new.
You say I should drown the kittens. Their smell!
You say I should drown my girl.
She'll cut her throat at ten if she's mad at two.
The baby smiles, fat snail,
From the polished lozenges of orange linoleum.
You could eat him. He's a boy.
You say your husband is just no good to you.
His Jew-Mama guards his sweet sex like a pearl.
You have one baby, I have two.
I should sit on a rock off Cornwall and comb my hair.
I should wear tiger pants, I should have an affair.
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air,
Me and you.
Meanwhile there's a stink of fat and baby crap.
I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.
The smog of cooking, the smog of hell
Floats our heads, two venemous opposites,
Our bones, our hair.
I call you Orphan, orphan. You are ill.
The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B.
Once you were beautiful.
In New York, in Hollywood, the men said: 'Through?
Gee baby, you are rare.'
You acted, acted for the thrill.
The impotent husband slumps out for a coffee.
I try to keep him in,
An old pole for the lightning,
The acid baths, the skyfuls off of you.
He lumps it down the plastic cobbled hill,
Flogged trolley. The sparks are blue.
The blue sparks spill,
Splitting like quartz into a million bits.
O jewel! O valuable!
That night the moon
Dragged its blood bag, sick
Animal
Up over the harbor lights.
And then grew normal,
Hard and apart and white.
The scale-sheen on the sand scared me to death.
We kept picking up handfuls, loving it,
Working it like dough, a mulatto body,
The silk grits.
A dog picked up your doggy husband. He went on.
Now I am silent, hate
Up to my neck,
Thick, thick.
I do not speak.
I am packing the hard potatoes like good clothes,
I am packing the babies,
I am packing the sick cats.
O vase of acid,
It is love you are full of. You know who you hate.
He is hugging his ball and chain down by the gate
That opens to the sea
Where it drives in, white and black,
Then spews it back.
Every day you fill him with soul-stuff, like a pitcher.
You are so exhausted.
Your voice my ear-ring,
Flapping and sucking, blood-loving bat.
That is that. That is that.
You peer from the door,
Sad hag. 'Every woman's a whore.
I can't communicate.'
I see your cute décor
Close on you like the fist of a baby
Or an anemone, that sea
Sweetheart, that kleptomaniac.
I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.
Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.
Are products containing silica bad for you?
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I heard silica can cause silicosis and other issues.In all my research it only refers to it being a problem for people who work in auto shops and glass companies and stuff like that. But is silica dangerous in household products? I'm asking because I recently bought a hair removal product but it contains silica.
Answer
no - only if as a dust. It is sand, glass, quartz - pretty benine unless inhaled as a fine dust
Potential Health Effects
Inhalation:
a. Silicosis: Respirable crystalline silica (quartz) can cause chronic silicosis, a fibrosis
(scarring) of the lungs. Silicosis may be progressive; it may lead to disability and death.
Acute Silicosis can occur with exposures to very high concentrations of respirable
crystalline silica over a very short time period, sometimes as short as a few months. The
symptoms of acute silicosis include progressive shortness of breath, fever, cough and
weight loss. Acute silicosis is fatal.
b. Cancer: Crystalline silica (quartz) inhaled from occupational sources in sufficient
concentrations is classified as carcinogenic to humans. In its Ninth Annual Report on
Carcinogens, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) listed crystalline silica as a known
human carcinogen, based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in
humans indicating a casual relationship between exposure to respirable crystalline silica
and increased lung cancer rates in workers exposed to crystalline silica and determined
that âcrystalline silica inhaled in the form of quartz or cristobalite from occupational
sources is carcinogenic to humans (Group 1).â
c. Autoimmune Diseases: There is evidence that exposure to respirable crystalline silica
(without silicosis) or that the disease silicosis may be associated with the increased
incidence of several autoimmune disorders, -- scleroderma, systematic lupus
erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis and diseases affecting the kidneys.
d. Tuberculosis: Silicosis increases the risk of tuberculosis.
e. Nephrotoxicity: There is evidence that exposure to respirable crystalline silica (without
silicosis) or that the disease silicosis is associated with the increased incidence of kidney
diseases, including end stage renal disease.
Eye Contact: Crystalline silica (quartz) may cause abrasion of the cornea.
Skin Contact: May cause abrasion to skin.
Ingestion: No known health effect.
Acute Effects: One form of silicosis, Acute Silicosis, can occur with exposures to very high
concentrations of respirable crystalline silica over a very short time period, sometimes as short as a
few months. The symptoms of acute silicosis include progressive shortness of breath, fever, cough
and weight loss. Acute silicosis is fatal.
Chronic Effects: The adverse health effects -â lung disease, silicosis, cancer, autoimmune disease,
tuberculosis, and nephrotoxicity -- are chronic effects.
Signs and Symptoms of Exposure: There are generally no signs or symptoms of exposure to
crystalline silica (quartz). Often, chronic silicosis has no symptoms. The symptoms of chronic
silicosis, if present, are shortness of breath, wheezing, cough and sputum production. The symptoms
of acute silicosis are the same as those associated with chronic silicosis; additionally, weight loss and
fever may also occur. The symptoms of scleroderma include thickening and stiffness of the skin,
particularly in the fingers, shortness of breath, difficulty swallowing and joint problems.
Medical Conditions Generally Aggravated by Exposure: The condition of individuals with lung
disease (e.g., bronchitis, emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) can be aggravated by
exposure.
See Section 11, Toxicological Information, for additional detail on potential adverse health effects.
Red Flint Sand and Gravel, LLC Date Prepared May 2008
Reference No. MSDS for Silica Sand
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