Title: Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake Eyes
Genre: Mystery
Author: Wendelin van Draanen
Pages: 277
Choice: 3
I think the word “responsible” describes the main character, Sammy. She is very brave and she’s a troublemaker, but she also cares a lot about other people. I believe that Sammy is responsible since she took good care of the baby and worried about it even after it was taken in by a welfare organization until its mother got it back.
It started when she was hanging out in the arcade one day while her friend, Marissa, played games. Then all of a sudden a frightened woman comes in and hides behind her. She gives Sammy a Sears bag and tells her to meet her back at the mall at 7:00 with the bag. After she leaves, Sammy soon discovers that a baby is inside the bag! When she returns at 7:00, she waits there for three hours but the mother doesn’t show up. The woman specifically told her not to take the baby to the police, so Sammy didn’t.
She returns to her grandmother’s house with the baby, and since there are no kids allowed where her grandma lives, she has to be extra careful that the baby doesn’t cry. The reason that she went to her grandmother’s house is because that’s where she lives. Her mother left her a long time ago. Anyway, she spends the whole night taking care of the baby by feeding it with the formula provided in the bag, and changing its diapers. She soon gets really sick of it.
In the morning, before school, she decides that it’s unsafe and annoying to have the baby around and take care of it, and she feels the baby would also be safer in the hands of the
This story represents a coming-of-age for Sammy. Though it takes place over the period of a few minutes, it represents a much larger process of maturation. From the time the girls enter the grocery store, to the moment they leave, you can see changes in Sammy. At first, he sees only the physicality of the girls: how they look and what they are wearing, seem to be his only observations. As the story progresses, he notices the interactions between the girls, and he even determines the hierarchy of the small dynamic. He observes their actions and how they affect the other patrons of the business. Rather, how the other people view the girl's actions. His thought process is maturing and he starts to see things as an adult might see them.
Sammy is a 19-year-old boy conveying a cocky but cute male attitude. He describes three girls entering the A & P, setting the tone of the story. "In walk these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. There was this chunky one, with the two piece-it was bright green and the seams on the bra were still sharp and her belly was still pretty pale...there was this one, with one of those chubby berry-faces, the lips all bunched together under her nose, this one, and a tall one, with black hair that hadn't quite frizzed righ...
Responsibility is a lot of different things and has many different parts. One part of responsibility is social responsibility. Social responsibility is being responsible for people, for the actions of people, and for actions that affect people. Social responsibility is about holding a group, organization, or company accountable for its effect on the people around it. When you do the wrong thing, many people pay for it, especially everyone that you know.
She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its experience, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison (49).
First, after a couple of weeks since their mother left, the girls become lazy. They don’t have much motivation to do their work. But, during these weeks, one of the girls, Beth, goes to the Hummels everyday to help take care of their baby, while the baby’s mother is at work. Though, the baby is very sick with scarlet fever and soon dies in Beth’s arms. After the baby dies of scarlet fever, everyone is scared that Beth might have come down with it. Beth becomes very sick and has her sisters, nurse, and doctor watch over her. The sisters don’t tell their mother that Beth is sick because they don’t want to worry her, while she is visiting their father, since he is ill.
While in the waiting room, she realizes she is the only child and starts to read a National Geographic. The articles are naked women, a dead man “slung on a pole,” and a volcanic eruption and what she reads upsets her. She hears her Aunt give a tiny cry of pain and then realizes that she too is doing the same. She contemplates if her and her Aunt are the same, if she is the same as other people as well. She imagines both her and her Aunt falling. She has to try and come herself down by telling herself she is almost seven and that she is Elizabeth. In the end, she describes the waiting room as bright and too hot. When Elizabeth lost her father, she had a lot of trouble coping with going to live with her grandparents. Elizabeth states “I felt myself aging,” she recalled, “Even dying. I was bored and lonely with Grandma, my silent grandpa, the dinners alone…. At night I lay blinking my flashlight off and on, crying.” This left Elizabeth unsure of her life on who she was or who she was suppose to be. She was moved by the mystery of self identity and what her place was suppose to be in the
A considerable amount of literature has been published on the impact of working hours (8 vs. 12 hour shifts) on fatigue among the nurses. These studies revealed that twelve-hour shifts increase the risk of fatigue, reduce the level of alertness and performance, and therefore reduce the safety aspect compared to eight-hour shifts (Mitchell and Williamson, 1997; Dorrian et al., 2006; Dembe et al., 2009; Tasto et al., 1978). Mills et al. (1982) found that the risk of fatigues and performance errors are associated with the 12-hour shifts. Beside this, Jostone et al. (2002) revealed that nurses who are working for long hours are providing hasty performance with increased possibility of errors.
Summary: Dad told Critter that a new baby is coming home today. Critter got all his favorite things out to show the baby. He also got out his favorite book to read to the new baby, but the baby didn’t pay attention to Critter. The new baby cried a lot even when Critter made funny faces and told jokes. Critter tried to dress the new baby but it was hard. Mother had to change the baby when she smelled bad. Critter is confused at what he can even do with the new baby. Mom shows Critter several things he can do with her: cuddle her, rock her to sleep, tickle her, giver her a rattle, let her play with his finger, pull on his nose, and even take her for walks! Critter is lucky to have the new baby.
Sam lives. Events occur that lead her to buy a new car and end up in
The problem in the previous paper addresses whether or not short staffing in a hospital setting contributes to an increased number of nurse burnout. The focus of my groups work is to identify relevant causes that contribute to a nurse burnout and the interventions with providing evidence based research. The significance of this issue is that nurse burnout has contributed to numerous adverse affects in a hospital environment. When a unit is short staffed it creates a nurse more stress and responsibilities that contributes to participating in workarounds which are “short cuts”. If the nursing interventions are not done per procedure then there can be associated complications. “According to the Michigan Nurses Association, short staffing is connected
The nursing shortage most likely does not mean a great deal to people until they are in the care of a nurse. The United States is in a severe nursing shortage with no relief in sight due to many factors compounding the problem and resulting in compromised patient care and nurse burnout. Nursing shortages have been experienced in the past by the United States and have been overcome with team effort. However, the current shortage is proving to be the most complex and great strides are being made to defeat the crisis before it becomes too difficult to change. Researchers anticipate that by 2010, the United States will need almost one million more registered nurses than will be available (Cherry & Jacob, 2005, p. 30).
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The major concern for registered nurses regard’s the nurse’s health and well being. Safe staffing levels are continuing to become more of a problem. The U.S is expected to experience a shortage of nurses as the “Baby Boomers” age and the need for health care grows (Rossester, 2014). This shortage is causing some health organizations to work with minimal amounts of nurses. This is affecting the nurse’s ability to provide safe care due to fatigue and injury. This shortage is also resulting in a dramatic increase in the amount of mandatory overtime, which often means that nurses stray from face-to-face patient care and can produce an increase in the amount of medical errors (American Nurses Association,
I have seen how challenging and demanding the nursing profession can be; nurses often are required to work long hours that are physically and emotionally demanding. Nurses usually attend to multiple patients, while simultaneously complying with the constant requests from attending physicians, as well as responding to emergency situations and engaging all the urgent matters that demand their attention. The majority of this
she enters her rooms she lets out a scream and bursts into tears. Her son is on the floor with a