This infamous short story by renowned writer, Edgar Allan Poe, contains many dramatic twists and turns while brutally describing the murderous events that took place at a marvelous masquerade ball. As the story begins Poe walks the reader through each of the rooms in the house. When he describes that sound made by the clock it shows that there is a nervousness in the crowd of people. Later on in the party this happens again but instead of just a single daunting ring there were twelve, which brought fear to the guests. Once the last bell had sounded, a mysterious masked figure appeared and took everyone by surprise.…
Many families think that when they choose cremation, then there is no way they can hold a memorial service, funeral, or even remembrance service. There are new options available to you which make it easier to bring cremation and ceremony together. The funeral directors can provide you with a rental casket for your loved one, so that family members and friends can benefit from attending a visitation and a funeral prior to the cremation.…
You’re visiting the hospice for the twenty third day in a row, the bright flickering of the fluorescents and the squeaking of the linoleum floor greet you as you walk in. You are visiting your great grandmother, whose ninety three years old with a broken neck, who is unable to speak or eat. She hasn’t talked to you in several weeks due to the feeding tube and has lost the ability to move. She is a hollow shell of the woman she once was and her bright blue eyes have been fading endlessly every day. Her funny and bubbly attitude has become crushed and every single day as you leave you think to yourself if she should still continue living or not with the way she is. That’s when she’s able to finally talk and whispers “I don’t want to live anymore,”…
Families can have a surplus of money left over if they decide to cremate the deceased instead of paying for a typical burial and funeral service. The amount of money left over is more than enough to pay for memorial diamonds or another type of keepsake that will last for years even after the funeral service is over.…
Introduction Attention-getter: Organ donation from one person can save the lives of up to eight people. A single tissue donor can improve the lives of up to 40 people.…
Terminal illnesses cause great pain and suffering. For example here are some words from Andy Whelan, “...we as parents could offer no comfort - Jessica pushing us away as she rode out her searing pain in solitude...her body stiffened and her face contorted in pain.” (Zhang). Mrs. Whelan’s daughter Jessica Whelan was only four years old when she was diagnosed. Jessica had a form of cancer called neuroblastoma and had been fighting cancer for 13 months. In November she was given just a few weeks to live and later died due to cancer. Patients should be allowed to have doctor-assisted suicides because they should have the right to die and end their suffering, but some people are against the legalization because they believe they will make the…
Imagine being sentenced to a slow and painful death due to terminal illness. Sounds like…
“So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is…
Online, physically, or verbally you can be a victim of being bullied. You don’t have to keep things as they are. The question is how to handle the situation (Do you attack the bully and become the bully yourself? Or do you ignore the bully and pretend all is well?) What you do is speak up and ask for help. I would know, because not only was I a victim, I was also a person who stood by and simply watched it happen.…
Review “How Should I Brainstorm?” in the media piece “The Writing Process.” The media piece “The Writing Process” explores six ways to brainstorm:…
In a study on bullying based on the CDC’s survey of a high school study in the United States, Dr. Adesman’s team reports that depression and suicide are much more prevalent in teens who have been the victim of bullying. Teenagers should not be bullied or be the bully because, teenagers can take the step of suiciding themselves, the bully can get extensive consequences for bullying, and the victim can be depressed when they are adults.…
In times like today, people have mixed views on smoking and on the effects it has on the human body. Most people who smoke, feel that non-smokers are against them, and believe in the myths that are portrayed by cigarette companies. They do not realize how addictive cigarettes are, and end up stuck with the burden. I feel that her entire article is truly opinionated and biased about non-smokers and she really doesn’t have the hard evidence, just personal experience.…
Imagine you are in the hospital and that you have been placed on life support because you are in need of a new kidney, heart, or liver. Would you be put on the national transplant list, hoping to get the life sustaining organ you need, or would you go look for someone willing the sell the organ you are in need of? People donate their bodies to science every day so that students can dissect them and hopefully learn something. There is also approximately 18 people who die every single day while waiting for an organ transplant (www.inpublicsafety.com, 2014). In 2014 there were over 100,000 names on the national transplant list. Each month another 2,000 names are added to this list (www.inpublicsafety.com, 2014). It would be very difficult to watch someone you love die because a match for organ donation could not be found. It would be even harder to watch that same loved one die because they purchased an organ off the black-market. Organ sales are dangerous and unethical due to the selling of diseased organs, high cost of the organ, and unsanitary conditions.…
End of life care is one of the most taboo topics in American society as it requires those involved to acknowledge that their lives will eventually come to an end. Planning for such an outcome can be difficult but ultimately it is necessary in order to save others from dealing with the burden of end of life care while unprepared. As a nurse it is especially important to have a firm grasp of the many different factors that weigh in decisions related to end of life care and be ready to assist both the patient and his or her family in any way needed when that time may come. A careful examination of the resources available in a community to assist with this care, the gaps in care prevalent in American society today, the cultural…
Who owns your body? Discussion of the sale of human organs is too often overshadowed by cases of mistreatment, murder, and corruption. Most people fail to acknowledge that such abuses stem directly from the legal bans on selling body parts. Those opposed to a market in organs argue that selling body parts not only threatens the quality of the organ supply but will inevitably exploit people forced by poverty to enter such a market. But the ethical issues about whether people should be allowed to sell parts of the body are not so clear. The usual argument in favor of allowing the sale of not only organs, but also tissues, bone marrow, gametes (eggs and sperm) and even genetic material, is that we need to increase supply. In the United States,…