“The Tri X-31-Pex-Alert- 170 Dim-ethyl Fumarate, and my exceptional blend of VX [a chemical nerve agent] showed great promise, and should have done the trick?”
Lying on the floor, frustrated by the formula failure once again, Lawton looks at his paralyzed legs in total disappointment. “Maybe an extra dose of Tri X 31 plus THC or CBD,” he interjects, and within a matter of seconds a strange feeling rushing through his legs, and he makes a valiant attempt to stand. He is upright, painfully covering a few steps; each step is a sense of achievement, accompanied by a feeling of satisfying exhilaration, which lifts him to the heights of success, just before he crumpled to the floor.
“It works! I have done it! It works!” shouting in hysterics, laughing
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Sitting at a large wooden desk is a heavyset man with thick puppet eyebrows in his later part of sixty proudly holding a strange rock. “Paul, now calm down,” he says, holding the telephone to his ear, “I can hear quite well,” chuckling a little over his colleague’s condition, “you’re the one who is hard of hearing.”
Doctor Lawton’s
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“Yes,” the proffesor responds adding, “There is one element I’ve exposed… surely you have discovered it in your concluding analysis?” he asks, moving the receiver to the other ear to assure the doctor all is well. “Don’t get me wrong Paul, the cure for M.S. Is fantastic, but what we are about to do may alter the course of history.” He explains rubbing his head. “Yes Paul, the course of history!” he repeats as he laughs at the question in his partner’s voice. “I have spent years trying to get my hair back, until one day I accidentally discovered the power of this meteor.”
When Lawton hears that statement, he suddenly drops the receiver doubling over in agony, sprawled out on the floor with the receiver lying next to his outstretched hand. “Are you all right?” the professor voice bellows over the phone, as Lawton places the receiver to his mouth. “I’ve failed,” Lawton, says [moaning in agony], with an unacceptable mind frame he wonders, how could this possibly have happened, “The VX needs an upgrade.” he explains, realizing the result was only
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Throughout David Sheff’s book, he incorporates detailed diction in describing his environment, past, and the people around him as to allow the reader to be able to imagine what he had seen during this course of his life. As the father of a drug addict, Sheff had also had his own experience with drugs, in which he describes this experience with words and phrases such as “I heard cacophonous music like a calliope”, “[The brain’s neurotransmitters flood with dopamine], which spray like bullets from a gangster’s gun” and “I felt
Roger, being a physician and man of science, his natural curiosity overwhelms his thoughts and leaves him to
Everything for a year had been leading up to this point and here I was in the middle of the happiest place on earth in tears because my friends had abandoned me in the middle of Disney on the senior trip.
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... the second drug(a paralytic) and the third(which causes heart attacks) are felt fully by the convict, who is unable to cry out for help as he is partly unconscious and paralysed.
Drugs is one of the themes in this story that shows the impact of both the user and their loved ones. There is no doubt that heroin destroys lives and families, but it offers a momentary escape from the characters ' oppressive environment and serves as a coping mechanism to help deal with the human suffering that is all around him. Suffering is seen as a contributing factor of his drug addiction and the suffering is linked to the narrator’s daughter loss of Grace. The story opens with the narrator feeling ice in his veins when he read about Sonny’s arrest for possession of heroin. The two brothers are able to patch things up and knowing that his younger brother has an addiction.
The story of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is quite an interesting story that opens the reader of the book into a world of confusion: Dr. P.'s world. The man, described in the story, is an accomplished doctor, in fact a teacher at an accomplished music school who seems to be fine on the outside, but with further analyses in Dr. Sacks' office, he mistakes his foot for his shoe. This is an astonishing mistake that intrigues the doctor and the reader to know why he mistakes objects for other objects. He then later, as he and his wife are preparing to leave; Dr. P. grabs his wife's head and tries to pull it off as if it were his hat. Later, Dr. Sacks pays a visit to the couple at their home to try and further understand the situation. Dr. Sacks questions him with cartoons, with people on the television, and even resorting to the pictures on his very walls. Dr. P. only recognizes a few faces out of the faces that hang on his very walls. This is quite shocking to the doctor; Mrs. P. then ca...
He comes into the office with his wife, who explains that she has been concerned since seeing some changes happening to her husband. John has been moving in slow motion, takes longer to get ready in the morning, loses his balance, and needs to put his hand on the wall for support. John is reluctant to admit that anything is wrong, but it is noticed that his hand is shaking and his handwriting is almost illegible.
Additionally, these two very different plots built on the addiction to cortisone portray opposite types of genres. Roueche’s “Ten Feet Tall” is a short story written for the New York Times under the title “The Annals of Medicine” and illustrates the true story of a schoolteacher, Robert, who becomes critically ill. While Bob’s story could fall under the category of science fiction, revealing medical advantages in drug productions and their side effects, Ed Avery’s addiction to drugs displays his manic consumerist society as a scientific, horror film. Cortisone, in Ed’s case, is a manifestation of the American dream gone wrong. The diabolical intake of large, societal doses of rules, discipline, religion, education, non-dependency, life standards, status and power, demonstrates the thin line between living the dream and manic behavior. Specifically, ...
One night as he is working late, he is called to the Chief Executive’s office. The Chief bestows his confidence and trust in him by giving him the responsibility over a crucial case and announces his promotion as Senior Associate. After the announcement has been made, one of the senior executives notices an AIDS lesion on Andrew’s forehead. He asks Andrew about it. Andrew was momentarily disturbed by the question, then quickly explained that he had bumped his head.
"Law, things happen for a reason, we can’t stress. He’s Adlet, he’s going to fight this." Lilly responded as confidently as she could. However, despite her best efforts, her voice still shook like an earthquake. In the room, one of the surgeons glanced over to them. With an aggravated look, the surgeon made eye contact with one of the other doctors. He said bluntly,
...came by quickly and examined him. Bojoby had damaged his language and hearing part of his brain. They had to right down the news on a piece of paper and show him. When he read the words he broke into tears knowing he would never hear or talk again. He starting wheezing and the heart monitor he was attached to started to beep rapidly. They quickly wheeled Bojoby into an operation room. They took at least three hours as his mom waited for the doctor in the waiting room. Finally the doctor walked in. “I’m sorry, but there was too much damage to his brain. There was nothing we could do.” The doctor said softly.
Ali and Connor gasped, basically jumping out of their seats. Both kids got overwhelmed and started asking multitude of questions, when the mom hushed them. Ali, not being able to contain herself, asked “But how did this happen?”
“Ah,” I gasped. The knife fell from my hand and clattered on the table. I leaned on the counter and massaged my head. I reached for my medicine but pain exploded in my head again making me drop to the floor. My phone started ringing in my pocket. I fumbled for it with trembling hands.