Sandy

Six years ago, my family and community were devastated by the uncut strength of mother nature. Superstorm Sandy, the storm of the century, decimated a large part of the Northeast Coast. My home was lucky enough to be a raised ranch where the main part of our home was on the second floor. But because I live less than a mile from the ocean, we were slammed with twelve feet of storm surge. It was enough to flood my entire basement with six feet of saltwater and was just one step away from…

where they both attended college. When Garth found his love for singing his immediately left for Nashville, but he did not know it was going to be a disaster back in 1985. The big city was not as much of a dream as he thought. A year later he married Sandy Mahl and gathered up a band that would be called “Santa Fe.” When the band and Garth left for Nashville for their first and his second time, the band fell apart in scarce, but Garth stayed to pursue his tradition. It took a year until Garth…

“Strutting on the Red Carpet” Summary In this article “Oh The Things They’ll Do to Look that Good Strutting on the Red Carpet,” by Sandy Cohen, he discusses the things celebrities do to look good on the red carpet! In the article, Cohen details the excessive preparation that celebrities take before their evening on the red carpet. All celebrities set unrealistic goals to look flawless & beautiful while strutting down the red carpet. The celebrities start getting ready for the red carpet…

completely different ideas! A few years ago -- it’s awful, but I honestly have no idea how long it’s been since my sister’s wedding in South Carolina. It was more than ten and less than twenty years ago that my sister, Sandy, announced she would be getting married. Sandy had live in the South for roughly 5 years with her first husband whom she married in Pennsylvania in the aforementioned “system”. Said marriage did not go as planned, evidenced by the fact that I am describing her…

Entertainment plays a huge role in the everyday lives of all Americans. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter was a frequent user of violent video games. In January 2013, Connecticut Senator Christopher Murphy stated that video games gave the shooter “a false sense of courage about what he could do that day”. The Newtown Elementary…

this incident will affect her performance review during her probation period. In addition, no medication was given to Mr Tan despite his repeated complaints on having pain on his hip area. In the following late afternoon, Senior Staff Nurse (SSN) Sandy discovered a big bruise of 5cmx 5cm over Mr Tan’s right hip while changing his diapers and she inform the medical officer to review the patient. X-ray was done and it shows that patient was suffering from a right hip fracture. Mr Tan’s family was…

Simultaneously, however, Prospero’s sympathetic side was made as apparent as possible within the confines of the original script. While West Hyler’s production heavily utilized costuming and blocking to emphasize Prospero’s ever-increasing power, Nick Sandys’ specific portrayal of the scheming magician attempted (with mixed results) to bring out the elusive fatherly side of Prospero’s dominant nature. In short, Prospero derives his “power” from his magical abilities (namely his ability to…

Looking through your ray ban sunglasses you notice that the breezy beach is endless. Your standing on a wooden plat form engraved below your feet a carved name that writes “John and Erin forever”. Miles and miles of grain sandy beach stretching across as far as your eyes can see. As, you take off your blue sandals; you line them up with the other multicolor sandals. Making sure not to mess up other shoes you tip toe down the old wooden stairs careful not to step on a rusty old nail. Before your…

Why is police brutality more prevalent nowadays? Accusations of the use of excessive force by the United States police department continue to generate headlines more than two decades after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which brought the issue to mass public attention and urged some Law enforcement reforms. According to the article written by John Wihbey and Leighton Walter Kille, excessive-force complaints against law enforcement officers, internally generated, have more than doubled from 2003…

Muriel Spark was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on February 1, 1918. She was educated in Edinburgh, the setting used in most of her novels and went on the become editor of Poetry Review, an internationally acclaimed quarterly. She later published a series of biographies on writers like William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley and Emily Brontë and is best known for her novels, Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she received multiple accolades. Spark was made…