Poison Ivy

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a pair of teenage lovers is introduced, whose love leads to their tragic demise. Whilst Romeo and Juliet are responsible for their own behaviours, Shakespeare demonstrates that other factors beyond their control contribute to their predicament. Being from opposing families, the toxic feud greatly influences Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. In addition, the concept of fate does not fall lightly on the lovers, however, it is evident that the lovers’…

Halt, with a poison arrow. Will gets thrown into a race against time to reach Malcolm, a powerful healer, before Halt succumbs to the poison; all the while the leader of the Outsiders is slipping away. In this journal, I will be characterizing Will as loyal and smart. Throughout the book, Will can be characterized as loyal and smart. To start with Will could characterized as loyal. One example is, when Will attempted to capture the last surviving Genovesan to find out what poison was used on…

Concentration Camps… the place that tore families apart, the place where Nazi’s torchered, ruined, and killed Jewish prisoners. It all started in the month of May 1949. There were 24 concentration camps. Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, was the worst of them all because of the many gas chambers, poor living conditions, and the death marches that killed millions of Jews. Most Concentration Camps contained one or two gas chambers. But Auschwitz had eight gas chambers. Auschwitz had…

Poison Control, Seizures and Tourniquets After taking this course in first aid, has proven to be very useful to people from all walks of life, like the busy parent and working professionals, that I am. There was many thing that I learned from taking this class, but the three things that I found interesting and or could be useful to have up to date knowledge about are, poison control, seizure and tourniquets. If you took a first aid class prior to 2010, like I did then, there’s a reasonable…

Mills English 121-117 5 October 2015 Drinking Poison? I remember when I first heard about it. I was living in Provo Utah at the time and I had seen several picket signs that had been thrust into the lawn outside of Utah Valley University. Each sign painted an eerie picture as it contained an image of a skull and crossbones within a water droplet leaking out of a water faucet. Beneath the haunting image was a caption that read, “We are drinking poison!” There was a small group of people in…

Lead shot a poison, but does it matter when the intention is to kill? There is a controversy in the hunting community, whether lead shot does enough harm to waterfowl to continue the ban on lead shot for waterfowl hunting. The main reasons for using lead shot are stopping power, range, and cost. The alternatives are non-toxic shots such as steel, Hevi-Shot, bismuth. The most commonly used is steel because it is the cheapest of the non-toxic shot. There are many problems with steel shot, but if…

PAST: The United States Chemical Corps begins its lineage in World War I. During this conflict, trench warfare was the primary means of gaining ground and remaining protected on the war front. In order to combat the long and tiring battles of trench warfare, axis powers began using chemical weapons to draw allied forces out of the trenches or to kill them with the effects of the chemicals themselves. After these types of attacks became more relevant within World War I, the U.S. developed the…

of the word. Wagamese also brings the perspective of a journey into the title through the use of the verb “Walk”. After analysing the true meaning of the title, readers can begin to look at how the medicine is working to counteract the predominant poisons within the novel, alcohol and sorrow. Through the use of storytelling along the journey into the backcountry both Eldon, and his son, Frank, are given the opportunity to finally come to terms with their pasts, and in…

Prevention and Intervention Recognition of risk factors and the cumulative affects of stress are essential in the early diagnosis and prevention of suicide. The following diagram outlines the process leading to either suicide or prevention. Figure 2. How does suicide occur? From: “Youth suicide: Epidemiology and prevention strategies” by M.S. Gould, 2012, Texas Suicide Prevention Symposium, p. 7 Prevention approaches for adolescent suicide have traditionally been conducted in three areas:…

Literary Analysis: Dulce et Decorum est & The Unknown Citizen Verbal irony is something that can be used in our everyday life. Auden’s poem’s title, “The Unknown Citizen” begins with a verbal irony. Owen mocks war in his poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by showing how sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country. Both of the poems use irony to present to the reader the pity of war, how there is nothing heroic about the “unknown citizen” and how the two poets have a similar intention on…