Sundowner

In the story of Santa Ana by Joan Didion she dicusses many things about the scary winds that people experience. The Santa Ana winds is something that make the people act out of character, nauseous, very nervous and even depressed. A wind that is so powerful, people understand how everything changes when its time for the Santa Ana winds to come. According to an Israeli physicist, “During the ten or twelve hours which precede them, the air carries an unusually high ratio of positive and negative ions” which mean that people are more angry and prone to irritation due to this high ratio. People acting out during the time of the wind, its almost like they are having a side effect to something. This could well be a government move and the people in California have no idea about. Didion suggest that, “Easterners commonly complain that there is no ‘weather’ at all in Southern California, that the days and seasons slip by relentlessly, numbingly bland”(Para 5). Living in California you experience many different types of weather, during the season you probably won’t even understand why its raining in the summer time. The people who don’t live in California says the reason that this is the home of the unpredictable weather and citizens. In this essay I certainly agree with the Easterners, we have many days that past by very quickly. Also, the winds are indescribable, most days it would be scorching hot and out of blue it would honestly start to rain. Living in Southern California, you…

In the opening paragraphs of the Los Angeles Notebook Joan Didion characterizes the Santa Ana winds using various stylistic elements. Her essay characterizes the Santa Ana winds as Controversial, Theoretic, and Catalytic. The stylistic elements Didion uses to convey these views are Diction, Logos, and Metaphors. Joan Didion exemplifies diction conveying the controversial characterization early on in the first paragraph of the essay with the following quote. “We know it because we feel it. The…

In the “Santa Ana” by Joan Didion, she describes the Los Angeles wind and the effect it has on people. Didion describes the Santa Ana winds as a very unpleasant time that people have to go through. She says, “Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe…” (Didion 47). Her description of the Santa Ana winds is extreme and shocking. Didion says the winds make people depressed and sometimes the winds make people go crazy. The way the Santa Ana winds are described makes me not want to be…

In Southern California there is a period commonly in the fall that produced winds that are known as the Santa Ana Winds.because This wind comes from the desert and then travel around the Southern California area. The Santa Ana Winds are known for being hot and extremely powerful. Due to the conditions of these winds they bring destruction to the areas that they affect. In the passages “The Santa Ana” By Joan Didion and “Brush Fire” by Linda Thomas real life experience of the Santa Ana are…

Some people in life make the best out of every bad situation they are in while others do not. In “The Santa Ana,” by Joan Didion, and “Brush Fire,” by Linda Thomas, both writers discuss their feelings towards the Santa Ana winds. Both Didion and Thomas are from Southern California where they are both well aware of the Santa Ana winds. The Santa Ana winds are dry winds that blow from northern to southern California. These winds are a major topic as there is controversy over if they are a good or…

Famous female author, Joan Didion, wrote “The Santa Ana” to educate readers about the reactions of the LA population to the notorious winds in the area. She writes about how “The winds show us how close to the edge we are” (Didion 47). Every person has a different metaphorical wind that forces him or her to fall off of their own personal cliff, and mine is depression. Depression is a commonly misunderstood mental disorder. Some people even use it as a description or an emotion, for example, “Oh…

Under Title VII, sexual harassment, like racial and ethnic harassment, is illegal since it constitutes discrimination with respect to a person’s conditions of employment (Bernadin, 2003). Moreover, in the Oncale v. Sundowners Offshore, Inc. (1998) decision, the Supreme Court made it extremely clear that Title VII’s prohibition on sexual harassment protects men as well as women (Robinson and Frink, 2002). Usually, sexual harassment happened to the victim is because of her or his sex. For example,…

she finally decided to join her team, she would pay for both to have a weekend together at an event for women with matchmaking and speed dating activities. Ex. F, Jun. 25, 2015. Burke then filed a harassment claim with the EEOC. Pl.’s Compl. ¶ 24. Burke was terminated from work during the investigation and thus sued Strickland for both harassment and retaliation after receiving her right-to-sue letter. Pl.’s Compl. ¶ 25. ARGUMENTS AND AUTHORITIES A plaintiff can bring an action under…

their first gig, the group played four songs over and over again (Zollo “Tom” 2). The group was a hit in their hometown of Gainesville, FL, and after the dance, they were asked to play at a fraternity, and the boys agreed (Zollo “Tom” 2). Afterwards, the group decided to call themselves The Sundowners and the band signed up for a “Battle of the Bands” at the local Moose Club, where if they won, The Sundowners would receive a summer long contract to play on Friday night (Zollo “Tom” 2). The…

Blennow, Mony J de Leon, and Henrik Zetterberg the authors stated that Alzheimer’s is the most common case seen in dementia and accounts for 50-60% of all the dementia cases. The onset of Alzheimer’s is most common in people around the ages of 60s and 70s. It is possible for someone with Alzheimer’s to develop it at a younger age but it is not seen frequently in anyone younger. The most common symptoms of Alzheimer’s is confusion, negative cognitive impacts, negative social impairment,…