One of the hardest obstacles I have faced is losing the one person who meant the entire world to me, my grandmother. I know when people pass, their relatives and friends usually state that they should not have been taken too soon; with my grandmother, this was entirely true. Chenyl Clara Landrum was her name and she was the sweetest, most caring, and compassionate human being I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. She always put others before herself, whether it was her mother who had Alzheimer’s, her son or daughter, or her six grandchildren. My grandmother was certainly an amazing treasure. One morning she was hit by a truck, waiting to turn into her home. The man was busy looking out the window and by the time he looked to the front, it was too late. He slammed …show more content…
Two months later, she was admitted into the hospital for gallstones. The night of June 30th, I stayed the night with her. At 4 in the morning, on July 1st, she got a random but excruciating sharp pain. Of course I ran to get a nurse and all she said she could do was put a cool towel on her head. After the sharp pain subsided, she felt surprisingly better. That afternoon, she was scheduled to have surgery to remove the gallstones. The doctors told me it was only going to be a 45 minute to an hour surgery. The surgery ended up taking four hours to complete. The doctors never came out to tell us about any complications or if the surgery went well. I understood why they wouldn’t come to talk to me, since I was only 15 at the time and the only one there. Yet when my mom got to the hospital and she saw me still waiting, she was a bit confused on why the surgery was taking so long. The nurse finally told us she would be in her room in a couple of minutes. We headed up to see her, and my grandmother has never been good under anesthesia. She was groggy and wasn’t really talking much, but we understood why. We said our goodbyes, and were
The book I choose for the book talk is “Dead and gone” written by Norah McClintock, this book talks about a murder mystery of Tricey Howard. The main character of the story is Mike, an orphan whose parents got killed in a car crash. He lives with his foster father named John Riel, who was once a police officer. During a swim meet, Mike see Mr.Henderson is staring at a girl name Emily without stopping. Then he informs Emily about what happened in the community center. However, as return Emily blackmails Mike to investigate Mr. Henderson. During the investigation, Mike finds nothing suspicious, but realize Emily is the daughter of Tricey Howard. Tricey Howard was murdered years ago, but the police still haven’t find the real killer. At the meantime,
Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate is the story of an African boy, Kek, who loses his father and a brother and flees, leaving his mother to secure his safety. Kek, now in Minnesota, is faced with difficulties of adapting to a new life and of finding his lost mother. He believes that his mother still lives and would soon join him in the new found family. Kek is taken from the airport by a caregiver who takes him to live with his aunt. It is here that Kek meets all that amazed him compared to his home in Sudan, Africa. Home of the brave shows conflicts that Kek faces. He is caught between two worlds, Africa and America. He feels guilty leaving behind his people to live in a distant land especially his mother, who he left in the midst of an attack.
Kahn was a writer and contribute editor of magazines for wired and national geographic. Stripped for parts appeared in wired in 2003. Kahn was awarded award in 2004 for a journalism fellowship from the American Academy of Neurology. She wrote this short essay describing how organs can be transplanted. The Stripped essay is an- eye opener. Though not many people tend to think of how a body should be maintained after death. Jennifer Kahn depicts a dramatic image for her audience. She uses the terminology “the dead man “though technically correct, the patient is brain dead, but his or her heart is still beating.
and make fun of black elders. And would talk to them any kind of way.
Death and Grieving Imagine that the person you love most in the world dies. How would you cope with the loss? Death and grieving is an agonizing and inevitable part of life. No one is immune from death’s insidious and frigid grip. Individuals vary in their emotional reactions to loss.
In the short story “A Kind of Courage” by Ruth Sterling, the protagonist, Davy, is trying to win Ginny’s heart.
There are many policy issues that affect families in today’s society. Hunger is a hidden epidemic and one major issue that American’s still face. It is hard to believe that in this vast, ever growing country, families are still starving. As stated in the book Growing Up Empty, hunger is running wild through urban, rural, and even suburban communities. This paper will explore the differing perspectives of the concerned camp, sanguine camp, and impatient camp. In addition, each camps view, policy agenda, and values that underlie their argument on hunger will be discussed.
After a basketball game, four kids, Andrew Jackson, Tyrone Mills, Robert Washington and B.J. Carson, celebrate a win by going out drinking and driving. Andrew lost control of his car and crashed into a retaining wall on I-75. Andy, Tyrone, and B.J. escaped from the four-door Chevy right after the accident. Teen basketball star and Hazelwood high team captain was sitting in the passenger's side with his feet on the dashboard. When the crash happened, his feet went through the windshield and he was unable to escape. The gas tank then exploded and burned Robbie to death while the three unharmed kids tried to save him.
Main Characters: Macey Clare, Austin Fent, Mr. and Mrs. Macey, Monica and Henry Fent, Venita Edna, Grace, and Lindsay.
The novel, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other (2011) written by Sherry Turkle, presents many controversial views, and demonstrating numerous examples of how technology is replacing complex pieces and relationships in our life. The book is slightly divided into two parts with the first focused on social robots and their relationships with people. The second half is much different, focusing on the online world and it’s presence in society. Overall, Turkle makes many personally agreeable and disagreeable points in the book that bring it together as a whole.
She completely disregarded my question and continued cooking. I could see in her face that she was concerned but captivated, which caused me to gain a revolting feeling in my stomach. She came into the living room and looked at us all and told us she had a tumor in her throat, but also told us it was nothing to worry about. The doctors explained to her that the tumor was very unlikely to be cancerous. I was still in shock, my mom had a tumor and needed surgery.
How would one feel and behave if every aspects of his or her life is controlled and never settled. The physical and emotional wrought of slavery has a great deal of lasting effect on peoples judgment, going to immense lengths to avoid enslavement. In the novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison uses the characters adversity to expose the real struggles of slavery and the impact it has on oneself and relationships. Vicariously living through the life of Sethe, a former slave who murdered one of her kids to be liberated from the awful life of slavery.
This book is told from the diary of the main character, Sam Gribley. Sam is a boy full of determination. He didn’t give up and go home like everyone thought he would. He is strong of mind. After the first night in the freezing rain, with no fire and no food, he still went on. He is a born survivor. He lasted the winter, through storms, hunger, and loneliness, and came out on top even when everyone expected him to fail. “The land is no place for a Gribley” p. 9
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain is her own story that she wrote about during the Great War otherwise known as World War One. The main theme of her story is the struggles that she had to face, whether it dealt with her family, or her personal goals such as attending college or the world that she was surrounded by. On page 17 Brittain stated that "When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans." Another important aspect of Vera's goals was the aspiration and ambition that she had, that aspiration allowed her to move forward in her life.
As She Walked Through the Shadow of Death is a psychiatric thriller about the Winslow family. Annabel Winslow has what seems like the perfect life. She is married to a prominent psychiatrist, lives in a nice house, and has three beautiful children. In his practice her husband, Dr. Winslow, treats patients that have been involved in abusive relationships. This should make him the perfect husband, right?