Alzheimer's disease is a frightening and debilitating illness that is characterized by "confusion, memory failure, disorientation, restlessness, amnesia, speech disturbances, inability to carry out purposeful movements, and hallucinations" (Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Heath Dictionary). The condition happens equally to men and women and usually begins in later stages of middle life. There ... to those detected in Alzheimer's sufferers. He came to discover that people with Down's syndrome are very sensitive to tropicamide, the drug used to dilate the pupil of the eye. Potter then cont...

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... as someone who is the village drunk, he is calm most of the time, but every once in a while he gets drunk, and goes looking for a fight, mainly with Jack Potter. At the end of the story he is then greeted by Jack and his new bride and seeing this Scratchy calls off his fights. This goes to show that fulfilling ... before running off and marrying. But at the end it is actually his wife that gets him approval. By brining her along, Scratchy "approves" of him, and therefore does not carry out with his intention of a gun fight. So Jack's fear of acceptance was unfounded at the beginning, bu...

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