Family is a common factor, visibly prominent in people's lives. To many, the definition of family varies. “Families differ in terms of economic, cultural, social, and many other facets, but what every family has in common is that the people who call it a family are making clear that those people are important to them in some way.” Katherena Vermette’s The Break revolves on a community of families whose lives intertwined with one another.…
After reading the story about Leah and Elizabeth in the book “fjdsjfdsf” by jfsdfdls, my ideas and values about a nurse were reassured. The story is about a woman named Leah, who finds out she has been diagnosed with cancer and must die leaving her son and husband behind. There is no lesson or class in life that can prepare us for life-changing moments like this, so we rely on the presence and comfort of the nurse. In this story, Elizabeth was the nurse who gave her patient comfort and ultimately allowed her to die peacefully. Activity one asks the reader to reflect on the story and ultimately, reflect on how Elizabeth eased Leah’s pain and suffering.…
As soon as Tia arrives to Atlanta, she begins to realize she is so longer in a church community, and experiences the harder parts of the…
Sonny’s Blues Connection to Home Health Nursing James Baldwin’s, “Sonny’s Blues,” is a story about two individuals struggling on both sides of a drug addiction. Sonny is a jazz musician from Harlem, New York who gets addicted to Heroin, and is arrested for selling drugs. The other character, the one that is affected by Sonny’s addiction, is the narrator, also known as Sonny’s brother. Even though drugs are a central part of the story, it’s not only about Sonny’s struggle to reconnect with his family, but his family trying to overcome Sonny’s addiction as well. Throughout the story, there is an overarching value that is shown through the support that Sonny’s family gives him, in particular Sonny’s brother, also known as the narrator of the…
In the discombobulation of day to day life, all types of people are going to try to knock you down. This hardship was experienced personally by Brenda Roza as she realized that “there may not be that person next to you that's going to speak up for you”. There is no reason for strangers being malicious, to try to knock other people down when they’re not even known to you. Regardless, it is imperative that you are able to defend yourself- just as Brenda Roza did. Having been told throughout her entire life that she couldn’t do certain things, Brenda thought that that being a successful person might be beyond reach to her - impossible.…
In Jeannette Walls’ narrative piece, The Glass Castle, the most consisting theme of the novel is abuse through neglect, which is demonstrated by her own parents. According to Webster's Standard Dictionary, abuse means “Vicious or cruel treatments; to injure by mistreating”. Specifically, child neglect is the failure of a parent or guardian to provide the necessities for a child, such as: shelter, safety, supervision and nutritional needs. In this novel, Jeannette’s parents, alongside others, are the abusers. At a very young age, Jeanette and her siblings suffered from abuse through neglect on various occasions because their parents weren’t watching over them and didn’t take responsibility.…
she respects Madame even if she is not yet Diouana’s employer. In Madame’s eyes, this means that Diouana will be more obedient to her employers and will be less likely to speak her mind out of respect for her authority. By solely watching the movie, however, viewers do not immediately understand why Madame chooses Diouana over a more eager candidate on the street corner. “The Promised Land” gives a greater context to this issue that eventually leads to Diouana’s treatment that reduces her humanity.…
She decides to keep a secret diary from her husband for relief from the depression. From that point, her true thoughts are hidden from the outer world, and the narrator begins to slip into a fantasy world. Then things go downhill from there when, “the faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern,…
Settings are an extremely important part of a story; they give the reader an idea of the time zone the story takes place in along with the places and circumstances. In That Summer the protagonist, Haven, develops tremendously as a character. One trait that has stayed with her throughout the novel and her ups and downs is her ambition. She wanted to dive into a working environment for experience, so she got a job at a children’s footwear store at the local mall.…
Life Server A financially strained Valerie, learns she will be blocked from classes. She reads an email, “Urgent: Please pay your tuition, in order to continue your education.” This is Valerie’s last semester of law school. She visits Academic Advising asking, “Would it be terribly bad if I postponed one semester?”…
The theme of the book Yellow Star is, the understanding in which the main character of the book experience as a child. It taught me, what it was like for Jews during World War II. Made me feel like I was actually there experiencing the struggle the jews had to go through. I feel as though the treatment was harsh and unnecessary, because all people should be treated equally regardless of one 's race. No human being should ever be left to starve, or freeze to death, or be treated as animals,or being confined to a small area.…
In the book, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls the author showed us how her and her siblings Lori, Brain, and Maureen were raised in a dysfunctional home. The Walls children learned how to survive and depend on each other for support. While growing up Jeannette and her siblings’ basic human needs were being neglected in many ways such as emotional, physical and medical. According to Dictionary.com the word neglect means to pay no attention or too little attention to. Their mother, Rose Mary was extremely narcissistic and their father Rex suffered from alcoholic addition.…
Introduction Mrs. Carla Washburn’s a 76-year-old African- American women, widowed for 15 years, Son and daughter-in-law died in a car accident 14 years ago, and recently her grandson whom she raised since he was eight years old was recently killed in Afghanistan. Carla struggles at this point are medication needs and financial means. The struggle pins the drug cost to the funds available to purchase them, and this deepens the medical irregularity of her diabetes. Mrs. Washburn also has significant amount grief and loss due to the deaths of her family spanning 15 years, along with economic instability in the town from the major employer have increased layoff in the police department in return crime has increased. Mrs. Washburn is a church goer in need of spiritual guidance.…
One of the main characters is a small girl named Sylvia. The story opens with Sylvia introducing another character, Miss Moore. Miss Moore is an older black woman with a college degree. She moved to the neighborhood to try and better the lives of the children, and help teach them. None of the children like Miss Moore, especially Sylvia.…
This is when she discovers the power of words. The people only imagine the scenes from the story instead of the possibilities that their houses are in…