Recliner

The night began calm but suddenly became poignant. Weeks of preparations made by her family paid off as Brenda entered her party. A smile extended from one ear to the other. She always dreamed of having her 10th birthday party at a ranch house with all her family, except her dad. Out of a million people she could hate, she only hated him. Brenda’s father, a man who destroyed a lot of innocent girls lives, attempted to show up at her party. A week before the party, someone arranged flowers onto a…

The Butler Community College Fire Science department motto is “Duty, Pride, and Tradition”. It speaks for itself. It is straight to the point to what they want people to know about our firefighters. Our past, present, and future firefighters. The Duty, where our past firefighters have lost their lives. The Pride our present firefighters wear daily with their bunker gear. The Tradition that the future firefighter will continue to uphold. Everyone knows about the brave firemen and women, the…

The Card Game One evening, on a cold rainy night. I sat at my grandparents kitchen table. I stared into my grandpa’s glossy green eyes as I knew I was about to win this game of crazy 8’s. All of the sudden he dropped his cards on the table, stood up, and started to walk around. I called out to him asking where he was going, he did not answer. I started to follow him, when he abruptly stopped at the front door of his newly built house. I glanced at him and noticed he was just staring off into…

The most impactful books are those that bring world inside of them to life in vivid detail. In Hope Jahren’s “Lab Girl,” the world brought to life is our own. However, rather than conveying a human-centric story, Jahren focuses on an often-forgotten character: plants. Jahren is a geochemist and geobiologist, and “Lab Girl” is a cross between a memoir and a textbook explaining the intricacies of plant life. The most memorable excerpts are those where plants are personified, from the stories…

families just like any other person. Pain and pain management in NFL spawn a culture of prescription drug use and abuse by Sally Jenkins and Rick Maese states that After Fred Smoot fractured his sternum and had to spend four months sleeping in a recliner because he couldn’t lie flat, team doctors told him that he could either miss the rest of the season or figure out a way to play. Smoot did make it to the field every Sunday thanks to a needle full of…

The evolution of advertising has changed so much since the 1930’s, where clothing was marketed towards ‘everyday’ people. Looking back at the advertising from then, you can clearly tell they were marketed toward hard workers, busy house wives and active children all in one advertisement. Minimal skin was showing and typically the person in the advertisement was hosting a get together or working hard on the family farm. The most important part of advertisements in that era was about…

I walk into my grandparents condo, the sunlight is gleaming through the glass slider doors but my grandma's smile is brighter. I look around, I see my grandpa sleeping on the couch, and my grandma is calmly sitting on the recliner with her book. She looks up to see me and my cousins, and she offers us cookies that I know grandma made for us. Heroes aren't always fool-proof, they aren't the type you see in movies that fly through the air and save cities. In my mind, Michigan heroes are people…

Ch.1 Finally, it’s Friday. That means two days of freedom from the demons of Dieruff high school. I honestly can’t wait to get into bed which is scary because i’m always dying to get out that hell hole I call home. Normally on Friday’s nights, I could count on mom and dad being out having their precious date night, but that hasn 't happened for a couple years since we’ve moved to Asheville. Tonight the house will either be dead silent or so loud with their screaming that you’d think we were…

The exterior and interior walls were completed by Doug, I decided to keep it at one story to make it easier for the people living there. An ADA home is very different from a normal house, there are many different codes that you have to abide by. The main reasoning is to keep the people living there safe as well as enjoyable. Some of the things we have encountered that play key roles in the building of the house is the doorway width, square footage of the rooms, and the window height. The way we…

hooks the tubing up. The nurse then assures that all of the tubes are ready for the patient to begin shortly after they sit down. The receptionists then take the patient from the waiting room to their designated chair. The patient takes a seat in the recliner and gets comfortable. The nurse begins preparing the skin for dialysis. This consists of cleaning the site for a minimum of two minutes with small soap/water wipes, betadine, and an alcohol wipe. The nurse is then able to insert the first…