Rocking chair

I remember sitting on the edge of a wooden brown chair facing the crowded streets outside my favorite cafe on a bright sunny day, phrasing the truth about the past two years of my life word by word. I would fold my short tanned legs underneath me, unfold them, then cross them, then fold them up on the hard wood chair trying desperately to make myself feel more comfortable. The rays of sunlight shining in through the large glass windows in front of me made my olive skin glow, and tips of my…

The world record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes held during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported experiencing hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech having wavered memory along with concentration lapses. Does sleep deprivation have an effect on the brains memory process as well as making people more susceptible to false memories and poor judgments. The ability for the human memory to recall is astounding upon itself…

My older brother had just won his first basketball game, I ran him his Gatorade after he was released from talking to his coach. After the game, Matt ran up to my mom and hugged her, she praised him for his hard work as we walked to the parking lot. As we were walking to the car we saw one of the parents mom bent over her son attending to an injury. Between my mother’s maternal instinct and her West Virginia upbringing, she rushed over to help. The boy was frantically crying as his mother was…

I am staring at the ambulance waiting for it to pull away. Feeling the fear rise up in my throat like bile the taste sticks in my mouth. I walk closer to the house and hear the dogs barking like crazy. Oddly enough that was not even on my mind when all of this happened. I hear the neighbor come back over to our yard and she has my good friend with her and I shakily stagger to meet her in the yard. Bailey looks me. “Oh sweetheart come here.” she says sweetly with her arms outstretched and i…

It was the summer of 1864. I was nineteen years old. I was living on a farm, in Texas, just on the border of mexico. That was such a beautiful time of year. The golden wheat fields flourished and lilacs painted the meadows a shade of bright periwinkle. But that summer will haunt me for the rest of my life. I tossed and turned one night, gloomy and sleepless. I peered out my window to the barn. The creaky white picket fence, surrounding the fields had unlatched in the night, leaving an endless…

Our Aging Population: Florida’s Next Senior Living Boom My research paper will study the expectation of the next senior population boom in Florida and if the state has plans in place already for handling the housing needs and the availability of resources for the long-term care of this cohort. The disciplines that I am using in my research are Social Work/Gerontology and Sociology. While there are many theories within the Social Work/Gerontology discipline that is relevant to this topic,…

Does Animal Experimentation Question Human Ethics? It’s not morally acceptable to harm human, but why is it morally acceptable to harm animals? Ethical and scientific concerns regarding animal experimentation is starting to develop. People involved in the scientific communities are starting to question if the data collected from animals explain useful information for human conditions. People against animal experimentation consider it immoral and strongly believe that there should be an…

My story all starts one night when my fiancée and I were heading to dinner to meet up with some friends. Little did I know we were going to be convincing me to go on a cruise to the Caribbean. Now I’m by all means a home-body. I don't like to be out of my comfort zone and being in a large boat in the middle of the ocean is defiantly out of my comfort zone. So eventually they convince me that it's a good idea and I get to work on getting my passport since I never planned on leaving the lower 48.…

It is a step containing six steps and is usually done while on the ground. As the toprock is done mostly in an upright position, the downrock involves more movement in which your hands are more involved on the floor ("Breakdancing History”). Down-rocking uses more footwork and floor-work, in which the hands move as much as the dancers feet do. Power moves are next within the sequence and they involve the momentum and are the highest points in a dancer’s battle tactic. Different power moves…

Set, in part, in the tiny town of Tularosa, New Mexico, Tularosa by Michael McGarrity is a story of muder, mystery, history, and culture. Kevin Kerney, an injured, ex-chief of detectives for the Santa Fe police department, must come out of retirement when his godson, Sammy Yazzi, a Navajo, Native American soldier, goes missing from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. As the story unfolds, Kerney must dig deep into stories from his own past, as well as stories of the native people of the…