"Other People's Secrets" by Patricia Hampl is a reading about the publishing of her first collection of poems being published and the dark secret her mother kept hidden that is realeased in one of those poems. In the reading, the main point made by Patricia Hampl is whether or not it is someone else's right to tell someone else's secrets. In the reading, her mother does not want her to publish a certain poem because it releases the secret that her mother has epilepsy, something her mother has kept hidden for much time and does not want out. Hampl's main claim is that is that her mother's secret is an unreasonable reason not to publish the poem. Hampl's approach to the situation is pretty wry and sarcastic, almost as if she didn't care…
Jennifer was born three months prematurely due to her mothers' complicated pregnancy, directed by pre-eclampsia and a kidney infection a month before giving birth. Jennifer was hospitalized for three months, with congenital heart disease and was in need of heart surgery. She was discharged from the hospital three months later, when her parents soon discovered that she was deaf, had orthopedic problems and, by the age of three, was extremely hyperactive, restless and destructive. She was also being treated as a post-rubella hearing-impaired child. A Diagnostic Center report stated that Jennifer, at age five, was non-verbal and did not respond to verbalization. Jennifer had help from her parents and attended many treatment programs, to assist her development. By the age of seven years and eight months, after many evaluations by an audiologist and psychologist, Jennifer had certainly made wonderful improvements; she was being referred to a normal classroom for deaf children so that her current level of development could increase.…
Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick is a story about a sixteen-year-old Nora Grey, who lives in Maine in a small town named Coldwater. Nora lives in with her mother in a farmhouse on the outskirts of town. Nora's father had been murdered in Portland the previous year. Nora never really cared for Boys (unlike her best friend Vee) until she meets Patch and Elliot. Patch Cipriano is a fallen angel posing as a high school boy. Nora describes Patch as tall, dark and annoying. Elliot Saunders is a transfer student from Kinghorn Prep. Patch is always by Nora's side, often saving her when bad things begin to happen. Soon after Nora learns that she is the descendant of the Nephilim.( Nephilim are a race of half-angels, half-mortals) Patch needs Nora because…
Horace Kephart was born in 1862 in Pennsylvania, but he spent much of his youth in Iowa. He had become the director of the Mercantile Library in St. Louis in Missouri. Also he became an expert in exploration, be outdoors and to study nature was one of his greatest passions.…
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The writing by Leslie Guttman called Important Strangers describes thoroughly of how much of an impact strangers can do in our lives. Leslie talks about two people that meet, but they meet for their own good because they are both grieving. She talks about how people are put in our paths for a reason and how it benefits both of us. The small piece of writing can really connect to us all because each year we meet a new person and sometimes it’s for bad or good.…
Jim Frederick’s book “Black Hearts” explores the harrowing account of soldiers from 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 502nd Infantry Regiment during their deployment in 2005-2006 through Iraq’s “Triangle of Death”. The story is one of failed leadership at all levels, resulting in broken bonds between brothers, drug abuse, and ultimately the rape and murder of an Iraqi family. The soldiers’ descent into complete isolation was brought on by not only dire combat situations, but also a complete disregard for their mental health by higher. This essay will compare and contrast the roles of SSG Eric Lauzier and SFC Jeff Fenlason, and how their leadership had a positive or negative effect on their subordinates.…
Question: We follow the stirred up emotions of the main character in a visual or oral text to chart struggle and change.…
The book I chose is Ransom by Lois Duncan. This is a story about five teenagers, Dexter, Jesse, Bruce, Glenn, and Marianne, that get kidnapped and their parents are contacted to pay a ransom to get them back. The teenagers are from very different backgrounds and have different social statuses at school. They all live in a “rich” known neighborhood called Valley Gardens which is how the kidnappers chose them. Ransom is a crime thriller and the mystery of not knowing what’s going to happen next keeps your reading.…
Li-Young Lee’s, “The Gift” unquestionably communicates several ideas, some rather direct, and others buried within the rhetoric and composition of the poem. Although the meaning (of the poem) may be left to interpretation, one of the most prominent concepts of the story, in my belief, is the gift of love and consequent tradition of offering it to loved ones. In the beginning of the poem, the narrator describes his father comforting him in the painful situation of removing a metal splinter from his hand: “My father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the blade.” The father’s calm and affectionate demeanor can be further attested to in the second stanza, “...I recall his hands, two measures of tenderness, he laid…
Hello! My name is Stephanie Punneo. I do not have any preference on what people call me by. Some people call me Steph while others just say hey you! It makes no difference to me. I'm not a stickler about it, but people do often mispronounce my last name. However, since this is not an in-person course I don't think it will be a problem. My last name is pronounced pawn-oh. This course is part of my prerequisites to apply to the nursing program, but I am hoping to learn more about human…
The secret to a man is through his stomach, that’s what many naive women think, that’s simply the information out there. Food is important but it’s not the only thing that will glue a man to you. In fact not very men really cares if a woman knows how to cook or not. It’s more than cooking. But have you ever asked yourself the reasons why a man will stay with one woman and be happy?…
When teenagers in high school fall in love, it is probably the most unrealistic and distorted kind of love. They are completely oblivious to the idea and true meaning of it, and it is such a difficult concept to understand that once they think they have found it, they believe it is true and real. High school couples are ignorant and stubborn. Some have no idea what lies ahead of them and some refuse to accept the fact that there is more to life than just high school and their high school relationships. Teenage couples always have that longing to be with each other, causing them to have a constant physical attachment, which in reality is impossible. They also create some of the most unrealistic fairytale promises, saying that they will stay together forever and overcome any obstacle early on. For these reasons, the entire idea of teenage love is practically a myth, because the chances of them being Happily Ever After are nil.…
The story with the young teenager didn’t seem like a quest but in fact was because it had the same characters and actions that a quest has, it's a quest in disguise.…
Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, known in the music world as Halsey, is a musician. She was born September, 29, 1994 to a white mother who worked as a security guard for a hospital and a biracial father who managed a car dealership. As a child growing up in Clark, New Jersey she had a fondness for music. By fourteen, she played the violin, viola, cello, and guitar. At seventeen, after a suicide attempt which lead to a seventeen-day admittance to a psychiatric hospital, Halsey was dingoes with bipolar disorder. She is famous for identifying herself as “tri-bi”, meaning bisexual, biracial, bipolar.…