Drowning

Intent or Accident: Exploring the Death of Lydia Lee The death of a 16-year-old girl was the main event that launched the story of the novel, Everything I Never Told You, into action. Lydia Lee died by drowning, but the author, Celeste Ng, seemingly left the reason for her death up to speculation. Did Lydia kill herself or was her death entirely accidental? Lydia did not commit suicide, and she did not have the intent of dying in the lake that night. This is demonstrated by the promises she…

Brave New World v.s. 1984 Have you ever felt like nothing you did had a meaning? In these novels you will see how people living in these systems were brainwashed and had no actual feelings or emotion. The two novels are fairly different, but they address the same problems in their predicted futures. Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley and 1984 written by George Orwell are based on a class system that is not of the people’s choice but in 1984, the authority has more control of the system…

accident,” (Rachels, 1975, p.680). On the other hand, John intends for drown the child in the bath, but as he enters the bathroom, “Jones sees the child slip and hit his head, and fall face down in the water,” (Rachels, 1975, p.680). The child ends up drowning himself without Jones having to do anything but to watch. Jones does not call for help and allows the kid to continue to…

Similar to Tianqing, Jianshan drowning is equally symbolic as it concludes that his chances of being saved from the vast are not possible. His death in the movie is an feature that is inevitable. The effectiveness of this scene, through the influence of the color red, aids in the audiences…

Asserting that ethics can manipulate the way people interpret situations, in their 2009 novel Freakonomics Steven D Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner identify the cause behind many socioeconomic events, contrasting seemingly unrelated topics, and then connect unthought of events to more commonly known ones, bringing out their correlation. Their purpose is to expose how the world really operates, with great influence from moral beliefs, by stripping layers from the surface of modern life in order to…

As Auden studied the painting he soon realized something. There was a person drowning on the very bottom right part of the painting. As the boy was drowning everyone was carrying on their day ignoring the boy as he is losing his life. In the poem, Musee des Beaux Arts, by Auden it states, “ While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along”…

states “England, in this great fight to which you go...Be glad, whatever comes, at least to know/You have your quarrel just.” (stanza 1) Contrastingly, Wilfred Owen says “In all my dreams before my helpless sight,/He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” (stanza 2) Wilfred uses his experiences to write about while Seaman simply offers his audience his mere thoughts. Finally, both poems are similar in the sense that they are addressing possible future soldiers. Wilfred Owen wants the…

I was sitting in the lounge with my husband Dallas as there was a knock on the door. I was surprised to see that it was one of our sons on the doorstep because he was in the Irish Civil War and we weren't expecting to see him for quite some time. He was in tears as he informed us that he had accidentally shot his brother and that he was dead. I remember feeling as if someone was holding me underwater, I couldn't breathe and I fell to the ground in shock. It took a while to sink in but when it…

The problem that was tested in this experiment was, how will the color of light effect the germination of the radish seed? The experiment consisted of testing five germinating radish seeds under four different color lights, red, blue, green, and normal fluorescent light. The seeds were placed in a Petri dish covered in a wet paper towel and a piece of colored cellophane was also placed on top. The results were quite interesting because the seeds showed no difference in number of germination…

The Victims by Sharon Olds centers the question of who the real victims of divorce are. On the surface, it may appear a certain way, but upon further inspection, the answers may be something very different. The Victims can be split into two parts according to tone and tense. The first half of the poem is from the “child’s” point of view, and the second half, in the “adults” view. The first half of the poem (lines 1-17) is in the past tense and it appears as if the speaker is a young child…