Ruth Elizabeth Stiff
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History and knowledge, especially about the Earth, are my passions. I enjoy putting my thoughts to paper and I always try to encourage self-motivation and love for life. LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!
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Life Inside The Victorian Prisons
“It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons “ — Oscar Wilde The Victorian Era reminds us of the “Class System”, when the wealthy lived in elegant surroundings and had plenty to eat and beautiful clothes to wear. The “Poor” class had virtually nothing to eat, nothing to wear and very often nowhere to live. When ‘prison’ was a better alternative to living ‘at home’, it does make us wonder (in 2025), just what was life like in Victorian prisons (in the 1800s)?
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiffabout a year ago in History
The Victorian Mental Asylums
Today, Mental Health is one of the most important ‘fields’ within medicine. Every single day, new ways are being found in which to help those with mental health problems to ‘recover’ as quickly or as slowly as he or she needs, in other words, at the person’s own pace. This ‘medicine’ is not just tablets and tranquilizers or anti-depressants, but a whole range of ‘ways’ to help the person ‘mentally’ to get back to a normal life.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiffabout a year ago in History
