Vermont

Peterson’s “Skater’s Ice” (9 - Erin) Your mother and I purchased this numbered print in the late 1990s. The print features ghost skaters on a stream, which flows under a covered bridge. The covered bridge brought back memories of our trip to Vermont and the ghost skaters fascinated us. According to prices on the Internet, Charles Peterson’s work has substantially increased in value. James McCaffrey’s “The Walled Garden” (5 - Erin) Your mother and I purchased this print of a street scene…

Sue Thomas was born on May 24, 1950. She was a beautiful baby girl, born with no complications. However, Sue became profoundly deaf at 18 months and the doctors had no explanation for why this happened. Sue’s parents were devastated, but were determined that Sue would be able to speak and function normally. With years of speech therapy, she developed her voice and became an excellent lip reader. Despite how successful Sue was with talking and reading lips, she was still labeled deaf and put…

although we never quite had enough kids for even teams. I had an interesting introduction to sports; when I was about one-year old, my parents moved my whole family from our home of Akron, Ohio to Manchester, Vermont, where we lived for six years while my family owned our own popcorn business. In Vermont I was exposed to many extreme sports such as skiing, snowboarding, and snowmobiling, while still being immersed in the New England and Boston team culture that many Northeasterners are faithful…

Kipling’s “text is an expression of [his] life and worldview” (Seema). Rudyard Kipling’s world was that of the late 1800s through the early to late 1900s. Kipling wrote poetry, short stories, news articles, and novels. Kipling wrote during the Victorian era and is most famous for his novel The Jungle Books. Although present in all of his writings, Kipling’s poetry displays his deep, intellectual thoughts deceptively masked by simplistic writing and childlike ideals. Kipling’s childlike ideals…

I stood in the middle of a glass box - water started to rush in. It filled the box until there was only an inch of air left at the top; I needed to break through the glass to my freedom. I was forced to stay in the box until I figured a way out; this was my life. My parents were the box and their rules combined with my stress and anxiety, was the water. What my parents say is not to be challenged. I was depressed and anxiety consumed me.I continuously asked for help but the entire time I was…

• Explain the major professional challenges you faced in the completion of your practicum. As a part of my practicum, I worked at Department of Health, White River Junction, Vermont. One of the things I have noticed is that my practicum site is a little disorganized. As a part of my practicum, I was supposed to contact local physicians about the community resources on safe disposal of prescription medications. I was told that there was a drop-box located in the local sheriff’s office and…

A hippo isn’t just a huge water mammal that lives in Africa, it’s also Greek for horse. Horses in the wild live in herds, but nowadays they rely on humans for their survival; this can change some of their characteristics. Horses have many different breeds, but they can have many different health problems. When horses live in the wild they live in large groups called herds for survival; but now the depend on people for their care (Emery, 2015). Horses need to be kept clean; such as their bodies…

Holden really wouldn’t go away with Sally because he only likes her for her looks. Sally is not the kind of girl Holden would want to take. His ideal girl to go to Vermont would be Jane because he truly loves how Jane plays the game strategically and she is a very natural person. As Holden says he “probably wouldn’t’ve taken her even if she’d wanted to go with [him]. She wouldn’t have been anybody to go with” (174). Holden also says that she is a “royal pain in the ass” (173). Plus afterward he…

Physician-Assisted Suicide With the recent popularity of the book and movie, Me Before You by Jojo Moyes, the already controversial topic of physician-assisted suicide has been brought back into the limelight. The story follows the love story of a permanently paralyzed man and his caretaker. Overwrought with pain and suffering, the quadriplegic chooses to end his life through the assistance of a physician, much to the despair of his caretaker. Minus the love story, part of my life is…

Every summer I spend 6 weeks away from civilization, canoeing and working hard with group of 8-12 young women. I have been doing this for the past 6 summers of my life. Throughout these summers people have told me how much I will value the time I spend in the wilderness. They tell me these experiences that I am so fortunate to have is something that I will truly never forget. But every time I heard this I brushed it off seeing as I was a young kid and all I cared about was having fun (which I…