Stitch

Nicolas de Largillière, a French artist known mainly for his portraits of the upper bourgeoisie, painted Portrait of a Woman in 1696 with oil on canvas. It can be found hanging in the European galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Due to a lack of evidence, the identity of the sitter has been widely debated. What can be gathered from records and documentation is that it appears to be either Madame Marie de Thorigny or Hélène de Thorigny; two women from the same wealthy family that…

It was March 8th 2012, in small city, Coucil Bluffs, Iowa. The nurse was dripping numbing liquids into the blood gushing wound. The only thing I felt was a stabbing pain from the wound and a burning from the numbing medicine. They the nurse started typing on the computer. “Tap your fingers, and tell me if it is numb,” said the Nurse. “ I can still feel everything,” I replied “Well I guess we'll just have to add more,” Stated the Nurse. She opened the door to go grab more numbing medicine and I…

We all have a purpose, we’re unique in our own way, and we’re a blended family with a mixture of different people all wanting the same, to become a Monarch and live the Viriliter Age motto. We range from sixth graders, high school, staff, principal, and even higher; a President. We surround ourselves with people who are not only like us, but also with people who are not so like us. Damien Memorial School itself is a smoothie, blended with people from all over this Island; with not only Kalihi…

In late 2015, scientists found that the best borrowers are not, in fact, the characters of the 1997 movie, but microscopic animals called water bears. Water bears, more specifically named tardigrades, are found to have scavenged about 17.5% of their genes from other creatures. This ability to obtain used genes from other creatures’ discarded DNA is found to let tardigrades undergo extreme stress. And not just homework stress. Tardigrades live in water, and have to be submerged to survive.…

My studies have also inevitably intersected with computer technology and computer science. Forinstance, last year I participated in a collaborative project at the UW Astronomy department. Weused high performance scientific computing methods in C to stitch together composite imagesusing data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Success in such technical areas of study retroactivelyassumes skills almost completely overlapping with those of an analyst.Being an analyst combines technical and analytical…

Praying your neighbors hadn’t seen him you started to cut off his shirt. You worked quickly to remove the bullets, sanitize and stitch the wounds. “Ok fella I’ve done all I can now it’s up to you.” You said sweeping the bangs from his face. ----- It’d been a week since you’d found the sokovian at your door. In that time he’d been floating in and out, awake but not aware. “Hey, there…

fact that I had to get stitches, so it wasn’t a big deal. The doctor said how it would hurt for the first stitch, and said how I would have a good doctor doing it though, so I didn’t have to worry. They did the numbing and it only like burned a little but I was good after that. The doctor who was doing the stitches finally came in to get to work. As he was doing it he messed up on the first stitch like 5 times and since that was the one that hurt the most I was in pain. At the same time I was…

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out and lived in the woods for two years, writing and studying nature .”We all scurry like a bunch of aunts.” Henry stressed taking your time focussing on the big picture rather than getting blinded by detail. My favorite quote from this man is “A stitch in time may save you 9” which simply means take your time and move on the next adventure instead of rushing, scattering, and getting so into detail that you forget the big…

_____ is skeptical about it, since “men and women are not suppose to wear the same thing. Men spose to wear the pants” (271), he finally surrenders. In the final scenes, Mr. _____ lets Celie teach him how to sew, "here, help me stitch in these pockets. But I don’t know how, he say. I’ll show you, I said. And I did. Now us sit sewing and talking and smoking pipes" (272). This passage signifies the critical change in their relationship; finally, Mr. _____ acknowledges the power of…