Cicely Saunders

In this short story, “A & P” John Updike writes about his character, Sammy, who is a clerk at a local A & P grocery store. His immature, judgmental, and disrespectful behavior leads him to take action without thinking through the consequences. As Sammy narrates the story, he gives the readers a vivid description of what is going on around him along with his judgmental input. Updike illustrates how Sammy’s behavior and choices eventually have consequences. Sammy is inexperienced with the…

“A&P”: A story of Moral Turpitude Short-short story “A&P” by John Updike is the best story that deals with many of life’s feelings and beliefs based on individual values taking place in a 1950’s New England, middle class neighborhood. An epic battle between lust vs. social scale vs. respect and responsibilities provides an emotional rollercoaster of morals and values. It results in a final conflict between boss and employee. John Updike’s short-short story revolves around a teenager named…

The American middle class and blue collar class provokes American’s imaginations. The idea that hard working men and women can climb through the ranks to achieve wealth is sacred amongst American citizens. John Updike delivers in his short story titled A&P an explicit view of a middle class teenager’s sexual fascination. The story is set in an A&P grocery store where the young protagonist and narrator named Sammy works as a cashier. The rising action begins once Sammy spots three girls who walk…

How to go about handling a situation when seeing a child chained to a tree? In the story “Puppy” by George Saunders, Marie one of the main characters wondered the same thing. Saunders story had multiple viewpoints one being from Marie, a mother of two children and Callie, a mother of one who is trying to sell a puppy to Marie. Saunders has a deeper meaning than just being about selling someone a puppy, it is a story that tries and make you see that looks are deceiving and that we should not…

simply ‘hospice’ in the 1800s and more accordingly was used to describe caring for dying patients. In the beginning a hospice was a place for ill or tired travelers to rest. It became what we now know them as after a physician by the name of Dame Cicely Saunders began working with people with terminal illnesses. She created the first modern hospice in 1967, called St. Christopher’s Hospice, in the United Kingdom. After the opening of St. Christopher’s Hospice, a woman by the name of Dr.…

Whether in the family kitchen, living room or local coffee shop, people can be overheard discussing one of the most important topics of the day: health care. Health care impacts each one of us directly or indirectly. Health care has been a topic of conversation since WWII. Initially, health care was a privilege and not a right. There was a cost for this privilege and it came in the form of a premium or monthly payment. Today, we can thank the Affordable Care Act (ACA), for what was once a…

Cancer is a person’s worst nightmare because most people decide just to give up on life. Sometimes when people find out that they have cancer when it is in stage four, which is the final stage of all types of cancer. Most of the time, cancer patients want to take treatments, but some of them say that there is no reason to take treatments because they know that it will not help. Doctors try to get patients to take treatments in hopes of them living longer and possibly having more time to spend…

A Nurse leader is defined as nurse who is interested in the profession of nursing and interested in refining the ways to better and improve upon goals to make a better healthcare system. Nurse leaders are “essential to help shape and lead the future of a dynamic integrated patient-centric health care system” (Kennedy, M., Moen, A. (2017)), helping to maintain an overall healthy and functioning community. Nurse leaders need to ensure that they possess the necessary skills to provide “safe and…

Hospice Hospice is a combination of a variety of services and programs that are sometimes provided in a home setting for clients who are terminally ill, and have decided not to prolong the dying process. The service can be inpatient, in a hospital setting, in nursing homes and at the client’s home. Most hospice clients are in their final three to six months of life. Most are elderly, however, hospice is available to anyone who needs the service, so long as they are in the final stages before…

people have the right to live healthy and pain free, should also be applied when they are sick and suffering wanting to be at peace. According to the author Sheryl Grey Stolberg in the New York Times, May 11th 1999, the founder of hospice Dame Cicely Saunders talks about, "You matter because you are you. You matter to the last moment of your life, and we will do all we can, not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die." This suggests that all people have the right to…