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Love in the Time of Cholera: A Sociological Book Analysis Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Love in the Time of Cholera: A Sociological Book Analysis Summary In a book titled Love in the Time of Cholera, Marquez explores different ways of viewing, understanding, and representing love. The story kicks off when Dr. Juveni Urbino is invited to his friend’s residence. Saint-Amor, who he learns that has just committed suicide, based on a letter that he leaves behind. Urbino discovers that his friend spent a final night with a female companion. He also discovers that Saint-Amor was essentially a fugitive who had involved the self in cannibalism (Márquez, 2014). Traumatized by this information, Urbino seeks his entire day without peace. Towards the afternoon, he falls to his death while seeking to retrieve and access his parrot form a tree. Urbino’s funeral and eventual burial ceremony is arranged a day later. Following many years of waiting with patience, Florentino Ariza informs Urbino’s widow, Fermina that Daza loves her. The romantic affair between Florentino and Fermina starts more than 50 years earlier, at a time when Florentino is working at a telegraph office. While on duty, Florentino starts to deliver messages to Lorenzo Daza at his residence. In the process, Florentino is quickly attracted to Fermina (Márquez, 2014). Florentino starts to sit daily on a bench in the park across from the Daza house, reading poetry but mainly waiting to see Fermina. Following a quick correspondence between them, Fermina agrees to get married with him, resulting in a planned wedding two years later. When Fermina’s father realizes their plan, he takes his daughter away to Valledupar, the home of his relatives, where she finds a sympathetic friend in her cousin Sanchez. With Sanchez’s companionship, Fermina continues to communicate with Florentino via telegraph. Lorenzo eventually discovers that he cannot control his daughter and grants her the freedom (Márquez, 2014). While preparing for the wedding, however, Fermina suddenly calls off the wedding. Finally, Fermina meets Dr. Juvenai Urbino, who is a new physician in town who has just traveled from Paris. He is devoted to fighting cholera. One day, Fermina is diagnosed with Cholera, prompting Urbino to visit her house. Although she finds her in healthy conditions, he comes back to see her repeatedly to the Daza house. Previously, Fermina had objected the idea of Urbina conducting regular visits and the doctor’s suits (Márquez, 2014). However, her cousin Hilderbranda eventually urges Fermina to accept Urbina’s marriage proposal. As soon as he discovers that Fermina is set to marry Dr. Urbina, Florentino feels devastated, particularly due to the fact that he noticed that the two do not love each other. In order to evade this stressful situation, Florentino takes a long journey to the Magdana River, he loses his virginity and notices that sexual intercourse can sooth away one’s emotions and pain especially upon losing Fermina. Immediately that she goes back to the city, he begins an affair with the Widow Nazaret, and shifts form one woman to another (Márquez, 2014). Florentino’s behavior is characterized by uncertainties and mixed signals. On the one hand, he commits his life to getting Fermina back, seeks to work for his uncle Leo, head of the board of directors and manager of River Company. On the other hand, Florentino increases her level of obsession with women in an effort to cope with the loss of Fermina. In the face of all these turn of events, Fermina gets increasingly disillusioned with her marriage. She realizes that her marriage is not full of happiness as she had anticipated (Márquez, 2014). Urbino has a weak personality since his social success is largely dependent upon his family’s big name. At the same time, Fermina realizes that her husband is involved with an extra marital affair with Barbara Lynch, the wide of a Presbyterian minister. Urbino’s confession of the relationship angers Fermina, and she is further enraged when she observes that Juvenal has confessed his affair to the priest, while a real man, as she believes, should have denied everything. Consequently, she leaves her husband and goes to stay with her cousin for two years. When Juvenal eventually comes back for her, she is delighted because she sees it as an act of a real man (Márquez, 2014). Following his uncle’s retirement, Florentino is appointed the president of the company and general manager, an event that increases his status. This also scares him because he will grow old and die just like his uncle. As a result, he begins an affair with America Vicuna. However, the death of Urbino makes it possible for Florentino to marry Fermina. Analysis Social Inequality Although Love in the Time of Cholera mainly revolves around series of romantic affairs and promiscuity, numerous cases of social inequality and discrimination cannot go unmentioned. Underneath the veneer of happy characters depicted in the story rests sharp divisions that are mainly premised on level of income and class (Márquez, 2014). Sociological problems such as power, failure of institutions, repression, and popular resistance constantly emerge in Garcia Marquez’s book. A case of modernism emerges when the novel features Urbio who is not only refined, but he is also educated and rich. Urbino is a professional person of refined tastes and educated in Europe. Urbino enjoys great social status and prestige in an environment characterized by poverty and high illiteracy levels. Florentino, oh the other hand, represents an old-fashioned society that strongly values and celebrates masculinity (Márquez, 2014). Proof of Florentino’s lower social status is evidenced by the cholera attack that she suffers from, an indication that she comes from a family background that suffers from bad policies of corrupt political elites. For instance, city sanitation and political instability threatens their wellbeing and existence. Each character in the story reflects a social order that is revealed in many ways. For Urbino, cholera is a manifestation of the vulnerability of a societal order that he tries to ameliorate. This social order represents the poor and impoverished who need progress and modernization. The cholera pandemic provides sufficient proof of his limitations and need for a utopia project. Florentino, on the other hand, represents poor people who seek to move from poverty to richness. The continuous navigation across different boundaries of social classes and systems within which is never integrated, and which he crosses or goes through without ever staying in a single place, offers insights into the intuitive life apprenticeship. Within a social medium that is dominated by the ideologies of progress, the elite supremacy, and technological changes, his character develops as an implied challenge to such hegemonic values. Florentino moves within marginal spaces of poor neighborhoods of the city and brothels. Therefore, he is depicted as a bastard with a vulnerable and somber look that signifies his social condition and status. In an effort to describe him, the author utilizes racial elements that reinforce the marginality that he shares with wider sections of South America that are thrust towards the periphery of the system together with the poor mulattos who occupy the city slums. In contrast to the dashing and worthy image of Dr. Urbino, Forentino is depicted as a bony and erect person with a dark skin and clean-shaven. His eyes are avid and behind round spectacles in silver frames. The motif of the journey suggests change and displacements. Modernity The author also develops a strong image of South American modernity in the character of Dr. Urbino. Urbino is invited back to the country from France, a modernized and advanced nation where he pursued a degree in medicine. While in France, Urbino embraced European modernity and lifestyle with the objective of saving the marginalized coastal Colombian town where he was born from perpetual poverty, ignorance, and backwardness (Briggs, 2011). These major problems are depicted in issues such as cholera, where thousands of bodies were wracked by the rivers of diarrhea and vomits, cramps, and sunken eyes. The terror that characterizes this pandemic allows Urbino to oversee a major transformation of the urban landscape and the bodily practices in line with the influences of the Continental biopower (Márquez, 2014). The multiplicity of problems and narratives that purported to describe the pandemic and accounted for reasons why it occurred, constitutes social forces that wield immense power to influence health conditions and the socio-political and economic relations. These situations offer significant means of deepening and expanding and challenging the kinds of social inequality that had been constructed and maintained through modernity. Specifically, these problems have further been worsened by the process of globalization. In the face of a countrywide scam brought by the cholera outbreak, public health officials and political leaders radicalized the disease, thus reimagining the extending racial and ethnic boundaries (Briggs, 2011). As a result, they attempt to change a moral and political problem into a means of consolidating the power of their institutions and legitimating and naturalizing the serious social inequality that was happening in the story’s background. Finally, the nostalgic and emotional tones associated to this evocative description reaffirms the worth of a culture in which nature and humans are identified. Everyday life is undoubtedly overruled by new and merging patterns of behaviors and values that are related o a break from the traditions. References Briggs, C. L. (2001). Modernity, cultural reasoning, and the institutionalization of social `inequality: racializing death in a Venezuelan cholera epidemic. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 43(4), 665-700. Márquez, G. G. (2014). Love in the Time of Cholera. New York: Vintage.

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Leave in Document on AHCA There has been a lot of debate over the benefits of the Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA), with conservative legislators campaigning towards the repealing of this policy. As a resident of NY and a health care professional, I would like to express my support for the AHCA, and point out my reasons why I believe this policy is beneficial for the United States. •	AHCA has no discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions o	One of the provisions of AHCA is that is prevents insurers from overcharging or excluding people with pre-existing conditions. People with pre-existing conditions are more likely to need health care; hence, this provision makes it possible for them to access the care. •	AHCA has made insurance affordable. o	This policy provides tax credits to the middle class, limits out-of-pocket payments to $7,450 and $14,500 for individual and family plans respectively. One of the main factors that limit access to healthcare is the high costs (Farrants et al., 2017). Therefore, this policy has been beneficial in improving access to care. •	This policy emphasizes on preventive care o	Preventive care is important in avoiding overall medical expenses because it enables people to maintain good health and access medical treatment promptly (Joseph et al., 2017). AHCA covers services that help in preventing the occurrence of health issues; this enabling maintenance of good health among Americans. •	AHCA not only improves access to care but also how the care is delivered o	Accessing care would not be beneficial if its quality is low. ACHA makes sure that Americans can not only access health services but also have services that are of good quality. For instance, the policy provides guidelines on the tracking of medical records to ensure that patients are not exposed to fraudulent doctors but those who care about their health. Scenario Surrounding My Legislative Visit I made a legislative visit to Daniel Donovan, the Congress representative for New York 11th District. My representative is a member of the Republican Party, which was strongly in support of repealing the ACHA and replacing in with the American Health Care Act. In spite of his political affiliation, Senator Donovan was openly against repealing the ACHA, a position in which I support. In my legislative visit, I presented a leave-in document expressing my support for the representative’s position on the issue. The following are three main points why I believe it was the right decision to maintain the ACHA. Reasons why I support the Representative’s Position First, I think that it is a good thing that ACHA does not discriminate people based on their pre-existing health conditions. IT is the role of the government to make sure that all people have access to quality care. Insurance should be about making the access possibility and not business first. This is why I am in support of the act’s provision of limiting insurance companies from making people pay more or preventing them from getting insurance because they have some pre-existing health conditions. Secondly, I believe that the policy’s focus on preventive care makes it more beneficial to the people. Americans should not have to wait till it is too late to have access to care. They should be able to afford preventive services to make certain that they stay healthy. Lastly, I support this policy because it make insurance affordable for a multitude of people. By making insurance more affordable, AHCA has made it possible for health care to be more inclusive. How my Nursing Experience Influences my Advocacy Position Working in the nursing environment has given me a chance to get a first-hand experience with the issues that affect people in health care. I have seen people being unable to access the care I am willing to give because they cannot afford to pay for it. Additionally, nursing has enabled me to conduct research and learn more about health care policy and what components are most important in it. These factors have helped me to see the positive influence that AHCA has had on America’s health care. References Farrants, K., Bambra, C., Nylen, L., Kasim, A., Burström, B., & Hunter, D. (2017). The recommodification of healthcare? A case study of user charges and inequalities in access to healthcare in Sweden 1980–2005. Health Policy, 121(1), 42-49. Joseph, G., Burke, N. J., Tuason, N., Barker, J. C., & Pasick, R. J. (2009). Perceived susceptibility to illness and perceived benefits of preventive care: An exploration of behavioral theory constructs in a transcultural context. Health Education & Behavior, 36(5_suppl), 71S-90S.