In a life of poverty, illnesses surround its inhabitant. From poor nutrition to unfit living conditions come afflictions that range from a cough to polio. And as a society we preoccupy ourselves with the short comings of poverty. Creating a revolving door at hospitals treating the poor for their present illnesses, but paying no mind in preventing them for the future. In SAT," Ofri describes her experience as a doctor treating an impoverished unambitious young man, Nemesio Rios. Instead of just following up on Rios' routine check up, Ofri decides to prepare Rios for the SAT so that he could have a chance to go to college. For educational preparation is the preventative medicine for ones future well being because improving ones economical status increases their overall health. However, with Rios' situation Ofri recalled the image of a corpse she had seen long ago that reminded Ofri of Rios, which motivated Ofri to help Rio. But, with Rios being so lazy would he, when left alone, follow through with the SAT. Or where Ofri's efforts was just a tip of the iceberg? From this experience Orfi learned the much more important meaning of preventative medicine.…
The chapter "Another Gun, Another Unlocked Door" is a chapter from Estelle Blackburn's expository text Broken Lives. This chapter focuses on one night of Eric Edgar Cooke's murderous sprees where he steals a rifle and shoots a baby sitter, once again leaving the city of Perth in the hands of fear and danger. The purpose of this chapter is to fight for Cooke's guilt. It shows that he had no fear of being caught and was a devious man when it came to him stealing, killing and the plans he came up with. Through particular aspects of its construction including point of view, structure, language, personality presentation and tone, our response to the ideas conveyed are able to be shaped and moulded to the ideas that are presented…
She gets to you and is able to help you. You can see again because of this doctor! This doctor is Ida Scudder. She lived in India, later moved to America, and she came back to become a doctoral missionary. For the majority of her life.…
“Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is a short story/poem was published in The New Yorker in 1978. There are many things that the story “Girl” shows us. One is the oppression of women and the lack of the options that women got. Another is the change in parenting techniques as orders like these wouldn’t be issued in today’s world. The narrator also shows how the gender role has grown since the late 1970s, shows the little girl protesting toward her mother, and shows the love a mother has for her daughter.…
The poem “Last Night” by Sharon Olds is a short poem about a fear of sex without…
1. Walls opens with the story of burning herself because it shows how she has been dealing with struggles ever since she can remember. The incident when cooking hotdogs showed how Jannette was independent at such a young age and got things done even with no help form others. It reads on page 14 “He pushed open an emergency exit door and sprinted down the stairs and out to the street…’You don’t have to worry anymore baby, ‘dad said ‘you’re safe now’.” By Rex doing this, taking her away from the hospital, is showing that the Wall don’t need help and handouts form anyone will they will do everything to help themselves.…
“It is a sin to write this.” begins the story of Anthem. By the end of the story, Equality 7-2521 has a different moral assessment of his actions, but was the eventual assessment of his actions correct? His eventual evaluation being that of seeing this as a breaking of bonds with collectivity, an achievable freedom and disregard of the Council. In all terms, this judgment is correct, indifferent to the few flaws it may have. This can be proven through evidence from the book.…
My Ex-Husband Gabriel Spera That's my ex-husband pictured on the shelf, Smiling as if in love. I took it myself With his Leica*, and stuck it in that frame We got for our wedding. Kind of a shame…
How can someone pursue a personal desire if they spent their life trying to conform? Alden Nowlan’s short story, “The Glass Roses” explores this through the protagonist, Stephen. Stephen’s personal desire to feel accepted conflicts with his feeling of having to become like the pulp cutters because he is not mentally or physically ready to fit in with grown men. This results in Chris finding a way to become his own person. Stephen’s journey to pursue his personal desire is shown through setting, character development, and symbolism.…
We Were There Too!! By : Rayna Mathaun Joseph and Sybil were a part of the most important war in American history, the Revolutionary War, how America all started to be a free nation. The brave two characters Joseph and Sybil. The event was In the mid 1770s also when the war were about to start. This is from ¨We Were There Too¨ a story that tells a story about two young people in the Revolutionary War .…
Everyone has a choice what they do with it is up to them. Sharon G. Flake wrote the book You Don’t Even Know Me which is a very intense and emotional book. This book speaks of topics one would not hear regularly. Many parents and the reader wonder why would they let a teenager read this book. She wrote this for young adults because she probably experienced this or saw many of her friends go through these kinds of problems. According to research by State Farm, every twenty-eight seconds a youth drops out of school. Many of them get jobs to survive, and many live at their parents until they can live on their own. As you may know, almost fifty percent of the kids who drop out of school end up either in a gang or in jail, and/or even homeless. The book also deals with teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.…
Refugees are some of the strongest people in the world, but why? Some may say it’s because they have gone through a lot to get to where they are, others may say it’s because they have hope. The answer is all of that. In one book “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanna Lai, we have a Vietnamese family in Saigon as war breaks out. The book is very descriptive on what a family has to go through during those tough times.…
Inside out and back again Refugees are people like us. They just went through a hard time by fleeing home and then finding home just like Hà. Hà is a Vietnamese girl who fled her home because of war. In the articles, “Children of War, Refugees Who, Where, and Why” and in article “Canada,” there is a war and families fleeing and becoming refugees. In the novel Inside Out and Back Again by Thanna Lai, Hà’s life gets turned inside out and her family has to flee their home and become refugees.…
If I Stay by Gayle Forman, is an heart wrenching story about seventeen year old Mia and the power of her internal choices. The conflict being, Mia suffers a horrible car accident; resulting in her having a out of body experience. Mia witnesses the aftermath of the crash and events in the hospital. Mia shares detailed anecdotes about her family and her love story with a guitar player named Adam. Mia then has to make the decision whether to stay and live, or leave and die.…
‘Song of Hope’ is a poem written by Oodgeroo Nuccal (Kath Walker) an Aboriginal Australian. The piece is classified as Aboriginal Australian literature. It was published in the 1960’s. The purpose of the text is to give hope in a new beginning after the events involving the racial tension between the Aboriginals and the white settlers. The poem is directed to the Aboriginal people of Australia who suffered from these events.…