Write a summary of the following excerpt from “Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia--and beyond
During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in
nervous diseases, the best known in the country. This wise man put me to bed and applied the rest cure, to which
a still-good physique responded so promptly that he concluded there was nothing much the matter with me, and
sent me home with solemn advice to "live as domestic a life as far as possible," to "have but two hours' intellectual
life a day," and "never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again" as long as I lived. This was in 1887

Gilman felt very melancholy and was having a severe nervous breakdown. This mental state was maintained for three years, which made her look for a specialist in nervous diseases, who would examine her and help her to heal. The specialist stated that she did not have any serious illness, but that she needed to rest as long as she lived to be cured.

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To make a summary of a text, you must rewrite the text in a reduced form, pointing out only the most important elements of the story. Therefore, anyone who reads the summary is able to understand the most important and relevant parts of the original text, even if they do not have many details of how it happened, since the details are presented only in the original text.

Charlotte Perkins explains how she suffered from severe nervous breakdowns due to melancholia. She goes on to explain how, after three years of suffering, she went to a specialist, who told to get some rest and that nothing was wrong with her. He essentially sent her off and told her to continue suffering as she had been.

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the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year, equal to about 9.46 trillion km (5.88 trillion mi). light-years are used in measuring interstellar and intergalactic distances.  

parsec  

a unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.25 light years (3.08 × 1016 meters).  

parallax  

the apparent angular displacement of a celestial body due to its being observed from the surface instead of from the center of the earth (diurnal parallax or geocentric parallax) or due to its being observed from the earth instead of from the sun (annual parallax or heliocentric parallax)  

absolute magnitude  

the magnitude (brightness) of a celestial object as it would be seen at a standard distance of 10 parsecs.  

apparent magnitude  

the magnitude of a celestial object as it is actually measured from the earth.  

redshift  

an increase in the wavelength of radiation emitted by a celestial body as a consequence of the doppler effect.  

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best of luck!

i do not know why. good luck

by: nicholas