Honeymoon

Financial exploitation of our elder society continues to reach epidemic proportions. It is a form of elder abuse that often goes under-reported or ignored. We need to educate and train our professionals and concerned citizens. We need to generate new laws and regulations to ensure the safety and well-being of our elders. As of 2013, 44.7 million people were 65 years or older. This amounts to 14.1% of the population, or 1 in 7 Americans. When we think of abuse we often don’t realize that there…

The fifth concept I learned in this chapter is battered child syndrome. In 1962, the recognition of child abuse became came about, thanks to the paper the Battered Child Syndrome written by Dr. C Henry Kempe. Battered child syndrome is a type of child abuse and it happens when a child is continually abused by his/her parent. The reason why it took so long for child abuse to be discovered is because they used to be seen as property just like women. Before the 19th century, children and women were…

Prompt: How would Curley have acted if he were placed in Tom Buchanan’s situation in ch. 7 of TGG? The Wrath of Curley Ballcannon It was a brutally hot day. Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway, Jordan Baker, Curley Ballcannon and his wife, Daisy, were all gathered in a muggy New York hotel room and the tension in the air was thick. Everyone knew Gatsby and Daisy had been having an affair for a couple months, but Curley had a mistress as well. No one dared to address either of their infidelities, until…

Gothic horror is considered to be an offshoot of literary Romanticism, because of their having many traits in common. Both are focused on emotions and commenced in the 18th century as the objection to the Enlightenment and its significance of rationality. These genres were also inspired by medieval literary works and imported its typical settings, superhuman characters and appearance of preternatural events. Spiritualism, the faith that dead people’s spirits can contact with the living, thrived…

The Life of Junot Diaz and His Notable Works Junot Diaz is known for incorporating different genres in his works that stem from the traumatic events that he and his family experienced under the wrath of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic for more than 30 years, before becoming immigrants (Contreras 5).“Diaz establishes an interesting technique that brings together different genres of North American pop culture: the comic book, science fiction film, and 1960’s…

The Great Gatsby The roaring twenties were known for an expansive gap between the classes; the upper class invulged themselves with extravagant parties, complete with flappers, banned liquor, and live music, while the lower class had to prioritize their time between work and more work. Those who were considered upper class lived a luxurious, carefree lifestyle and enjoyed these aspects of the time period to the fullest. However, this lifestyle led many to make careless decisions. Throughout F…

married to Darnay, Manette won’t be happy either because his love for her makes her happiness most important to him. On the day of Lucie’s wedding, Manette’s sacrifice for Lucie is displayed. Right after Lucie and Darnay turn the corner to go on their honeymoon, the Doctor’s expression changes from enthusiastic as he parts with Lucie to scared and lost, showing that he has relapsed and will most likely resume making shoes as shown by, “A great change had come over the Doctor; as if the golden…

A question that constantly comes to mind is whether or not the rich have an advantage within the court system. In other words, do the rich get off of punishments easier? This question has been engraved into my thoughts since my youth. On one side of the question, some people are under the impression that the rich have an even playing field as those who are not as wealthy. The reasons that the rich are let off easier from punishments are infinite. Take the court case of Oscar Pistorius.…

the Devil, using her cat, aptly named, “Satan” to wreak havoc on neighbors and killing her own husband. She was considered the first witch accused and executed in England. Nearly thirty years later King James and his wife were sailing from their honeymoon in Denmark and experienced a fierce storm. After being convinced by the ship’s captain that it was witches who caused the storm and later six Danish women admitting to be witches and the cause of the storm, King James took witchcraft…

When you are truly, madly and deeply in love, you stay in love with that other person without second guessing your future with them. It is not a love that is there for a month or two and then it disappears randomly but it is a love that is there unconditionally. In the fiction novel by Nicholas Sparks, there are various possibilities of themes, but the most explicit theme of this novel is that true love is forever and it can have a tremendous impact on one’s heart and the feeling towards someone…