Bathtub

Maryland, in the year 1984. I was a 15-year-old teenager growing up in Reisterstown, Maryland - a town about an hour away from Baltimore. I was just like any other red-blooded American male teenager growing up in 1980's America. I liked video games and Pac- Man, loved "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark", tried my hand at the Rubik's cube, and was concerned about the USSR and nuclear war. Oh yes, I,like millions of other teenagers loved good rock music and was just beginning to…

exceptional impact on one’s ideas. He uses an example of two men Smith and Jones. Smith will inherit a large sum of money if something fatal were to happen to his 6 year .old cousin. Smith plots to kill his cousin and does so by drowning him in a bathtub. Jones’s situation is the same except when Jones goes to kill his cousin, he sees his cousin slip and drown. Instead of holding his cousin’s head underwater he stands by and watches as his cousin die. (865). Technically Jones didn’t do anything,…

countless others are injured as a result of medical errors? The silent killer program begins with Sorrel King, whose 18-month old daughter died from dehydration at John Hopkins Hospital. In 2001, Josie King wandered away from her parents, crawled into a bathtub at home, turned on the hot water and was seriously burned. After nearly two weeks of being nursed back to health in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Josie was well enough to transfer to a step-down unit in preparation for going home.…

her teenage years, the narrator’s Abuelita was always there to care for her. As the story continues, it is divulged that this time the help will be different because Mama Luna is dying. After Mama Luna passes on, the narrator carries her into the bathtub and weeps. As the narrator lay in the tub with her body, moths fly out of Mama Luna’s mouth and envelop the room. The central idea in Viramontes’ story showcases the changing force of loss, grief, and the struggle to fit the standards of one's…

I wake, hungover as usual to the unavoidable screech of Effie Trinket screaming, “The tributes are here!” I have this strong bitter taste in my mouth with a never ending headache due to my drinking habits. The constant horrors of the games and the grief over my family’s death, and the fact that every tribute I’ve ever trained has been killed in the arena has haunted me for years. I turn to the obvious fate that has been chosen for me, the inescapable addiction of drinking and isolation. My…

Diversity is beautiful when people are willing to accept others. Yet, when people are forced to tolerate others, they can be startled quickly - causing reverse effects. In “Did Busing Slow Boston’s Desegregation,” Farah Stockman explains how pushing people to integrate can have negative results. Moreover, Stockman emphasizes the role of neighbors in desegregation through the use of rhetorical strategies. The author believes the purpose of neighbors in society is to shape each other’s identity,…

Logan Bokor Mr. Malgieri Forensics 2 November 2016 The JonBenet Ramsey Case JonBenet Patricia Ramsey was a six year old beauty queen who was murdered in her family's home in Boulder, Colorado on December 25th, 1996. She was the daughter of a wealthy businessman and a socialite. She won five different beauty pageants and is currently buried in Georgia next to her mother who died from ovarian cancer and her half-sister who was in…

and after sleep, I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night, not being able to move, but the worst of that, I’ve been waking up in places which I had not fell asleep at, I’d go to sleep at my bed, wake up on my couch, the stairway, or even the bathtub. This out of all of them, is truly disturbing to encounter.” He became to be a sweaty fit of words, but after he told the camera this, he looked down and back up, “My friends and I will investigate my problems and keep a video log, possibly…

I really wanna drop the soap. Yup. You heard me, drop the soap. Not slipping on the soap by accident; I want to purposely release the soap out of my wet hand and wait for…well…my tragedy. Dropping the soap is a rape situation that is said mainly in male prison cells when taking a shower, in case you’re wondering. Once a man drops the soap, he will be broken on the inside and I guess out. I am seriously not trying to be a bad person here. Also, it’s not that I want to get rape or agree with rape;…

Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese director and Like Father, Like Son is one of his masterpieces, which was produced in 2013. In this movie, Kore-eda describes the subtle relationship between a pair of father and son. Father not only to raise a child, but also comprehends from the child. So sometimes son is also a “father”. The theme of this film is about family affection. Japan is a very traditional country; the meaning of reincarnation is greater than marriage in some ways. Children have the…