Drowning

Drowning and near-drowning incidents are leading causes of mortality and morbidity in both children 1 and adults 2. Over the past 30 years, there has been considerable interest in cold-water immersion incidents, particularly the reasons for the survival of some victims under seemingly fatal conditions. Research suggests that both hypothermia and a “mammalian diving reflex” (MDR) may account for survival in many near-drowning episodes 3. However, the extent to which these two processes interact…

The Media This past summer, reports of dry or near drowning experiences kept many families away lakes, pools and the like. People.com, formerly known as People Magazine, interviewed one family to share their story. Despite warnings, the Delgado family were not deterred from having fun in the sun this past Memorial Day weekend at the Texas City Dike (“Boy-Four-Dry Drowning,” 2017). However, little did they realize that later in the following week, they would lose their 4-year old son Frankie to…

reef. She pushed me and mocked me until I couldn’t take it anymore. I timed it perfectly between the sets, and swam over to the shallow reef. I guess I stayed down there a while because before I knew it, a wave had sneaked up on me. Deep. Dark. Drowning. I opened my eyes and felt the sharp sting of salt while I scanned through the sizzling black ocean. I thought I’d got off easy as I began…

When I was drowning, I never felt more alive. Gods, I can’t really explain it. Not in a way anyone else would understand. But here. Imagine this: you’re a bird and when you’re flying is the only time you’ve ever felt safe, only for your wings to be ripped off suddenly, without care. In free fall, you shiver and scream in fear—but adrenaline rushes through your veins like it hasn’t in years. Suddenly, you’re addicted to this feeling of helplessness. Suddenly, you’re okay with dying, if only…

Drowning is a pleasant thing to experience. That quote doesn 't seem to make sense because it’s an experience near death. In most cases might even traumatize the victim of the experience. The support of the us government using torture would sure be support of people experience drowning. Anything to keep the public safe and secure at any cost, even the cost of a man 's sanity. The United States of America has been using torture for quite some time now to get information from terrorist. Using…

Drowning A Boogie wit da Hoodie I'm drownin' I'm drownin' I'm drownin' I'm drownin' Wrist so icy, wonder why she like me, bitch I'm drownin' In water, I just bought a Cuban, dipped it in a fountain Every where that I go it's a light show, I'm surrounded Bust down, bust down, bust down, bust down, bust down, bitch I'm drownin' I just bought a Cuban ring and dipped it in a fountain Chain so heavy I feel like I'm holdin' up a mountain Everywhere that I go it's a light show, I'm surrounded Bust down…

Both Craig Womack’s novel “Drowning in Fire” and Gloria Anzaldúa’s semi-autobiographical work “Borderlands” explore the intersection between queer and Indian identities. One specific way that Womack and Anzaldúa focus on these identities is through the tension between native religions and Christianity in the lives of modern natives. Both authors come up with a compelling narrative of what it is like to be native and queer in the face of an institutionalized product of Western conquest like…

Drowning in Debt The concept of fiscal responsibility, to a majority of students, represents a new, unexplored terrain and their lack of knowledge allows the experienced system to entangle the fresh meat into their web of suffocatingly high, predatory interest rates. To express his frustration with the credit card companies, as well as sympathise with the students, Mancias asks then answers the question, “Who is to blame for this situation?” (274). The answer to his question becomes his thesis…

When Peter Singer raises the drowning child hypothesis, he argues on the duty to give when one can do it at a relatively little cost to ourselves (1997). Yet Singer seems to ignore the fundamental difference between a drowning child and the real situation, as well as some practical problems. My purpose here is to argue the example has shown no obligation to human. To clarify the point, we should first lay out how is the drowning child different from the reality. In Singer’s hypothesis, there is…

“Drowning the Oceans in Plastic” Summary The article, “Drowning the Oceans in Plastic,” by Mark Gold and Cara Horowitz is about how marine pollution is a global and international problem that costs billions of dollars each year to clean. To mend the problem, the people of this world should not litter. To begin, plastic garbage is extremely costly. In the article, it states, “… 20 million tons of plastic pollution enters the ocean each year… litter is also costly.” (1) This shows how a lot of…