1)Didion refers to the migraines of her early years as a "shameful secret." "Migraine headaches," she writes, "were, as everyone who did not have them knew, imaginary." Why would she be ashamed of migraines?(ACES form). 2) To what extent are Didion's migraines her "fault"? (Consider the notion of a "migraine personality," which Didion describes as "ambitious, inward, intolerant of error, rather rigidly organized, perfectionist." Migraine has physiological and chemical origins, but manifests in reaction to psychological stimuli and quirks of personality. How does this make it different from cancer, a flu?)

3)What is the silver lining, benefit of a migraine?

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Read In Bed, by Joan Didion

1)Didion refers to the migraines of her early years as a "shameful secret." "Migraine headaches," she writes, "were, as everyone who did not have them knew, imaginary." Why would she be ashamed of migraines? (ACES form).

2) To what extent are Didion's migraines her "fault"? (Consider the notion of a "migraine personality," which Didion describes as "ambitious, inward, intolerant of error, rather rigidly organized, a perfectionist." Migraine has physiological and chemical origins but manifests in reaction to psychological stimuli and quirks of personality. How does this make it different from cancer, the flu?)

3)What is the silver lining, benefit of a migraine?

1) Because most people don´t understand them, they are usually underestimated and those who suffer from them are stigmatized as too sensitive or not trying enough to make them go away.

Explanation:

2) According to her doctor, in addition to an inherited predisposition, there is such a thing as a "migraine personality," meaning personal characteristics that further predisposition some people to suffer migraines. In that sense, the author feels as it´s partially her fault because her personality becomes an element that she could supposedly change to lessen her migraines. This would not be possible with "real" diseases such as cancer, or the flu.

3) The moments of distress help her to "count my blessings" when the pain goes away. She finds it useful, like a forced meditation through the pain that leaves her relaxed afterward.

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

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