Drowning

It was well after five thirty on Friday and I was just about to leave when the phone rang. Frowning, I reached over and lifted up the phone. “Hello. Julie Garrett here, can I help you?” “Security here, ma’am, there is a Miss Stone and Mister Ellis here to see you. From Loretto, says they need your signature on some inspection documents.” I let out an exasperated sigh. I thought I had finished all the documents related to Loretto yesterday. They were turning out to be an irritating client but…

From 2000 to 2006, drowning was the second leading cause of unintentional injury death among US children between 1 and 19 years of age.1 In 2006, drowning claimed the lives of approximately 1100 US children. Fortunately, childhood unintentional drowning fatality rates have decreased steadily from 2.68 per 100 000 in 1985 to 1.32 per 100 000 in 2006. Rates of drowning death vary with age, gender, and race. Age groups at greatest risk are toddlers and male adolescents. After 1 year of age, male…

trained to recognize distressed or drowning swimmers. According to statistics, an estimated 372,000 people died from drowning in the year 2012. Additionally, between the year 2005 and 2014, the U.S alone averaged about 3,256 unintentional drownings a year that ended up fatal. While the U.S has a significant amount of drowning accidents, so do other countries as well. In fact, according to RedCross, countries with lower income have approximately 50 times the drowning rate than countries…

example of one of his best works of art is Drowning Girl (1963). “Which came from a story from DC Comics’ Secret Hearts…

In Stevie Smith's poem, Not Waving but Drowning, the helpless cries of a drowning man are mistaken for friendly waves by onlookers. On a more complex level, the poem illustrates the lifelong struggle of depression and the agony it brings, which is only apparent when the damage has been dealt. The poem opens with a serious tone, introducing a drowning man, which then transitions into a more casual second stanza, making use of the literary device bathos. The use of this technique reveals that…

Roy Lichtenstein’s 1963 painting “Drowning Girl” is an appropriated image from the 1962 DC comic book, Secret Hearts #83, drawn by Tony Abruzzo. It also incorporates elements of the well-known Hokusai print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”. In keeping with pop art tenets, Lichtenstein borrows from pop culture while removing it from context in order to make his statement. Initial criticisms accused Lichtenstein of merely copying and not creating. But Lichtenstein made conscious choices about the…

Do you want to be drowning in student loan debt for the rest of your life? College is not worth the debt. According to the article Big Future by The College Board, the going rate for college is about $23,000.00 per year. That amounts to about $92,000.00 just for a four year degree. Some other reasons are because it not only causes student debt, but it also causes a lot of stress and frustration. It can also cause some long term and short term health problems that can be very detrimental to…

Drowning in Debt Ranked 13th in the world for external debt, Australia continues to drown. This debt growing as each year passes. The reason for this crisis is Australian government’s spending outweighing its revenue received through taxes. Our revenue and spending are becoming great issues as they both persist to exponentially increase every year. Taxes are one of the most significant aspects keeping our country running. In particular, corporate taxes being one of the main forms of revenue.…

Peter Singer’s drowning child experiment focuses on this concept if a child was drowning in a shallow puddle, would you save the baby or would you leave the baby to die in the puddle? The experiment tells people to look at saving the baby based on the fact that saving this child would leave your clothes muddy or in terms of the lecture, your expensive boots ruined. Some may believe that the risk of getting their clothes dirty or ruining their boots would not make them save the baby, but most…

One of five drowning victims is a child under the age of 14. Since around 71 percent of the world is covered in water, there's a chance that you or someone you know will survive an emergency by using techniques learned in a swimming class. According to JAMA Pediatrics (http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=381058) learning to swim may lower drowning risks by 88 percent, so learning as early as possible makes sense. Swim classes for older learners are common, but there are…