To Know That You're Alive

Agent Swan had remained true to her word and the very next day, work on repairing Anna’s injuries began. She had several metal brackets and pins put into her leg to help stabilize it and her old injuries were also looked at and repaired properly. After work had been completed on setting Anna’s bones right again, she began to undergo treatment as I had done when first administered the cure. Slowly, as her tissues and muscles began to heal and rejuvenate themselves, Anna’s immune system came…

Flannery O’Connors “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” is a story that discusses a grandmother and her family going on a vacation that ultimately ends and their deaths. There deaths were led by the grandmothers’ tendency to not know when to stop talking and from not being able to go with the intentional plans. In a way the story should be titled A Good Woman Is Hard To Find, because the irony of who was really good and who was really bad left the ending with a plot twist. If the grandmother had been a…

kick into gear, the overall effect is that the body speeds up, tenses up and becomes generally very alert”. This same response will initiate for various reasons and is a learned response. It has played pivotal roles in keeping us alive as a species for generations. When you’re faced with an unknown situations, especially when you have knowledge it can possibly be dangerous this system allows us to defend ourselves more ferociously or escape at a more rapid pace. This is not something a human…

I’m Ailee.” she stuttered. “Huh? So you’re Ailee. But you pretended to be Rosa, who lost her memories?” A girl asked. “So that means the Rosa with her memories is the real one? What is this?” Another girl asked. “Hey Rosa… I mean Ailee. So what you are telling me is that you two alternated who came to school? Are you serious? How could you do this?” “I didn’t intend to fool you guys from the beginning. When I woke up in Sokcho, I lost my memories. I didn’t know what anything was and I came…

guys. First of all, you guys started off having jobs, getting money, getting good pay checks, and now you’re grown men. Herschel, I’m very sorry for not glancing at your handsome face for the last time, but if I did, it would’ve been an unforgettable moment. If you guys could just be here with us, it would make the world to me, because we can’t take imaging you guys sitting here with us when you’re not. Even though you guys probably believe we’re in trouble, it’s fine. You guys are more…

to be suicidal. I also feel happy because I know that this song gets the message across for teens who are around my age, who feel that they aren't worth it. “1-800-273-8255” is definitely an anthem for suicide prevention. Although they never mention the actual number, you still get the message across and they highlight what someone with suicidal thoughts is going through. I never thought that I was worth living, I really just wanted to die and not be alive. I always believed that no one cared…

the back of the hallway in the furnished basement of a friend’s house. Yeah, yeah, Sean, you're a scaredycat, blah, blah. Imagine this, you’re at your friend’s birthday sleepover. He lives about an hour’s drive in the middle of nowhere and at midnight, you hear the booming sound of a thud and a clink. While playing numerous video games when everyone else…

your body to keep you alive (minor responsibility, eh), heart rate is an essential part of losing weight and exercising safely. According to Watchfit.com, "working out at about…

article Womb Wars, talks about a woman named Marlise Muñoz, who was 14 weeks pregnant and completely brain dead, the state of Texas wanted to keep her body alive for 6 more months to save the baby (Williams 10). Marlise wasn’t a surrogate mother, but imagine if she was, the couple who hired her as surrogate mother could request that her body be kept alive in order for their baby to be born, due to a contract (Williams 10). The idea that a woman’s body can basically be used as container due to a…

Arguing with a Condescension to the Realm of Reality: Three of the Ideas from Republic that I Disagree with There are different degrees of arrogance. Some people think they're right, and you're wrong. Others think they're right and you're wrong, so they're better than you. Then, there's a special category for just one man, and his subsequent disciples. He thought he was right and the rest of the world was wrong, which meant that everyone else was ignorant, and needed to follow other people…