Siren

Hope Life is like a burning candle, lite with a dancing flame throughout the night and day; the candle burns out and you are left in an aphotic room with no emotion. I looked up to my father for everything, comforting me with assurance, he would never leave my life. For thirty minutes, life would leave my father. This would change the way I valued life forever. At no point in my life would I have ever expected to have such a tragedy hit me like a kick to the heart. A normal day in the Turner…

WHY DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE ARE MORE VULNERALBE IN DISASTERS Neil Hanna EMG 155 2/21/17 Mr. Bunge In 2011, there were an estimated 28 million deaf and hard of hearing people in the United States. People who are deaf are more vulnerable than people who aren’t deaf in a disaster. They are more vulnerable because they can’t hear, they might not know a disaster could be coming to their area and they might have trouble getting to safety or a tornado or disaster shelter. For example,…

“Females are strong as hell! Females are strong as hell!” A motto that has stayed true for generations, but has recently found it’s home in the Women’s Day Parade last month on March 8th. Female reign and empowerment is no stranger to our history, but let’s take a look back before today’s modern era. Before powerful figures like Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, and Mother Teresa. Let’s take a look at when even the mention of females standing up for themselves or pursuing “masculine” interest denounced…

In terms of mental health, XX reported a family history positive for anxiety (father), and depression (mother). There is not a family history of alcohol or drug abuse. XX did not report any other significant life traumas or deaths, and XX has had no previous involvement with mental health services. Physical Functioning and Health According to XX, he met all developmental milestones (walking, talking, toilet training), on time. Following the accident, XX was diagnosed with a mild traumatic…

It all started with me in the car heading to the Chicago airport. My stomach is quessy and feels like I have millions of butterflies in my stomach from excitement. The car ride felt like we were driving to Florida. Once we got to the airport, I got out of my car with my family. I look around and there are thousands of people. It felt like we were if the safari with a herd of wildebeest. Everyone running from there terminal to the baggage claim. We get to our termmial and over a big intercom I…

Attack from outer space by alien creatures with loftier brain power is the theme of the novel. In The Sirens of Titans the imaginary assault from Mars is essentially an action played by abducted Humans. Kurt Vonnegut’s serious development happened with the publication of Cat’s Cradle. A synthetic, artificial ingredient called Ice-nine threatens to harden…

In 1775, Patrick Henry convinces the colonists in his “Speech to the Virginia Convention” to fight for independence. Prior to Henry’s speech, a significant amount of colonists desired to stay under Britain’s rule, especially in regions such as New England, filled with loyalist populations. Patrick Henry effectively integrates several rhetorical devices into his speech to sway colonial loyalists towards opposing their mother country, Great Britain. The devices of allusion, logos,…

weather were issued. About one in the afternoon the worst happened and the warnings came true. An EF 4 tornado touched down in Enterprise, Alabama and the high school was in the tornado’s path. I was listening to the radio at my home when the warning sirens went off. I took the radio, my dogs, and my youngest child into the safe room, of my home. We continued to listen to the radio while I worried about my older child, at the elementary school. I also felt helpless to do anything about the…

Then the police jumped in their cars and turned on their sirens and went speeding away going after the 3 males. So a couple minutes later the police see them so then the police jump out the car and started chasing all three of them and sooner or later all the 3 males were down and were put in jail. There was a…

sailors into eternally staying on their island by feeding them drugged lotus flowers; blinding and escaping Polyphemus, a man-eating Cyclops who traps Odysseus and his men in his cave; escaping Circe, a witch who turns his men into pigs; enduring the Sirens, bird-women who kill sailors by enhancing them with their voices, driving them into throwing themselves overboard; navigating the Strait of Messina and its two guardians, Scylla, a monstrous woman with six dog heads around her waist, each of…