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clear. The pain of labor was unbearable; it felt as if a knife was stabbing me a thousand times around my hips and at the same time my bones felt like they were on fire for 32 hours. During the time of my delivery, I had gotten the epidural shot to numb the pain from my waist down so I didn’t feel any pain until after it…

uncontrollably, unable to lift my body (the waist and up) into the air to see what had happened. I hear muffled voices saying, “Poor girl,” “I bet that hurt,” and “come one sweetie, let us go to the other room.” I can feel my body heat escaping my numb limbs. The only noise I can hear clearly is my heart throbbing rapidly. My vision turns blurry quickly, and then returns to clear. I can only sketch out a figure of a woman, but I know it was…

(Title) People are often told to fall in love with a person’s true self. But what if that’s not the only way to fall in love? What if you could fall in love with someone portraying another person? According to Kurt Vonnegut, that might be a good way to do it. In the story “Who Am I This Time?” by Kurt Vonnegut the theme you could fall in love with the idea of a person is developed by voice and characterization. Kurt Vonnegut uses voice in many different ways to prove the theme. One being a…

complicated, especially when the person committed suicide. Grief has a multitude of emotions, effects, and stages. Grief causes emotions to emerge. One of the emotion that happens during the grieving process is shock. Well, in, shock, people might feel numb not believing that the person isn’t real. People might feel angry at the person for leaving them without an explanation. They might be angry with themselves or others for missing clues that the person gave. People might feel guilty for not…

We all fall apart Thesis statement: In the story Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, there are three main themes that the plot, subplot, conflict, and characters show. Introduction A unknown person once said, “ One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss, or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.” This is incredibly shown in multiple occasions throughout the book Walk Two Moons. The characters go through loss, love,…

The morning of November 9th, 2016, citizens of the United States awoke to learn that Donald Trump would be the next President of the United States. Some cried, some cheered, as for me, I felt numb as I sat looking at my phone in disbelief. As I reflected on the past few months, many thoughts rattled around my head and disappeared, but one message remained. Donald Trump didn’t win the election because he knows politics and how to lead the most powerful nation on planet earth, he won the election…

“Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, who performs as Kendrick Lamar, was born in Compton, California, on June 17, 1987.”(Biography.com, 2016) “Kendrick Lamar is an award-winning rapper and songwriter best known for his innovative take on life in Southern California as well as for his affiliation with rap star and super-producer Dr. Dre.” (Biography.com, 2016) Kendrick Lamar is quickly becoming one of the most exciting rappers in today’s entertainment world. Like many other known rappers Kendrick Lamar…

You either become numb or hypersensitive to abuse. Coming from an abusive childhood only to enter into an abusive marriage, the only way a person could survive was to shut off emotionally. That’s exactly what my mother did. As for me, I’m somewhere in between numb and hypersensitive. Sometimes I feel as if I’ve successfully cut off all my emotions, only to fall apart after the tiniest blow…

abusive towards his own children. That caused Dicks drinking to skyrocket through the roof because he didn’t want to remember being anything like his father was. Drinking took away his pain, it took away the memories, it made him numb to everything. Dick had finally became so numb that the only thing that could even remotely be able to pick him up from the hole he was in, which kept getting deeper and deeper, would be faith. Alcohol had such a tremendous downhill affect of Dicks life, having not…

Ma’s and Victor’s relationships cause them to isolate themselves from their children, negatively impacting that emotional state later on. Ma endures a physically and emotionally draining relationship with Old Nick, forcing her to grow numb to pain, and therefore numb to Jack. Old Nick regularly enters Ma and Jack’s room at night, where he forces Ma to adhere to his sexual desires. However, Jack wakes Old Nick up one night, who then strangles and yells at Ma over her parenting skills. She then…