Next Friday

On April 16, 2015, my life as I knew it crumbed at my feet. I received the devastating news that we all encounter throughout the duration of our lives: “Grandma died.” On April 16th, my beloved grandmother passed away, exactly one week before my 16th birthday. On April 16th, I lost one of the women who I cherished the most. It was a typical Thursday. I awoke to the chirping of my alarm clock, went to school, ate the lunch I managed to get together two minutes before the bus left, rode the bus…

hernia surgeries which brought in more patients. The doctor then opened up Shouldice Hospital, a special healthcare setting that made patients feel comfortable and at home. Shouldice Hospital allows for walk-in patients on the days Monday through Friday, which is convenient for the patients. Many individuals value their time and dread the process of waiting long periods of time to be able to meet with their primary care provider,…

I felt the walls caving in. It was February of junior year, my grades were falling, my friends were disappearing, and I was struggling to find a prom date. I was at a dead end, I needed to change direction but there was nowhere to go. I decided to create a path. It started with a notebook, and continues on to this moment. I wrote a few words, paused, considered stopping. I doubted a notebook could help me. Something pushed me to finish. I posed a question, “Why am I writing in here?” The answer…

As a middle schooler nothing was better than the relief of stepping of the bus on a Friday afternoon free of homework free of worries. Walking down the street towards my house realization came upon me when reality caught up with what was happening. I approached our driveway the moving truck was being loaded my mom and dad home from work early and waiting there in the drive with a look on their faces like they had to explain how they killed someone. Almost as it was nothing they both explained…

Drugs in the high school school community are a cause of chaos amongst the other children affected by it in the community. I see high school students on a daily basis that abuse drugs. Other times I see them distributed in the community I live in. It is one of those things that you get used to because you see it happening on a daily basis around you and with people you may consider friends. To many people it is a aggravation that they wish to rid from the community. Drug test should be…

story. By the time the bell rang they had a list full of plot ideas and Alec was laughing so hard from Magnus’s jokes he was almost crying. “Are you going to the homecoming dance?” Alec asked. “Yeah, but I don’t have a date.” “Neither do I. Hey, on Friday there's a football game. I'm going to be there to cheer on Jace and Isabelle. Maybe we can hang out at the carnival together afterwards.” “I don’t know. People might get suspicious if you’re hanging out with someone who's bi.” There. He let…

class assignments.” (Unit 6, ND, para 2). To help the class become more productive, a token system will be implement. By giving a child a penny each time they complete a task or behave will reward positive behavior and give them a opportunity on Fridays to use their pennies for the classroom store. Primarily a token economy is “a system whereby participants earn generalized conditioned reinforcers (e.g., tokens, chips, points) as an immediate consequence for specific behaviors; participants…

type of research method is Max doing. Answer 1: Naturalistic Observation- a research tool in which a subject is observed in its natural habitat without any manipulation by the observer. Question 2: Aaron is an all-state football player. On the game Friday he hurt is arm. The trainer didn’t think it was a serious injury so he gave him a fake pill and told him it will make the pain go away. 1 hour later Aaron said he had no pain in his arm. What effect explains this scenario? Answer 2: Placebo…

I recently attended a four day training where the first item on the agenda was to close down our work laptops and turn off work phones. This was an unusual request at work. In general we all walk around with our laptops from one meeting to the next and some with their work phones. In a meeting we are all constantly checking our e-mails and instant messaging others in relation to topics being discussed in the meeting but more often than not related to other work related tasks. The attention…

every night when I try to go to sleep I can’t get that night out of my head, I constantly relive it. It’s been ten years but I remember it like it was yesterday. My friend, my best friend actually I picked him up at 10 am for work on Friday December 20th, we lived next to each other and worked at the same place, it was a cold gloomy day. It didn’t start snowing until about 12 but we were just getting busy at the restaurant. We were both scheduled until 11 that night, my mom always warned to be…