Vodka

I stumbled upon once I opened the door was my mother. As always, she had a bottle of vodka clutched into her hands. I went up the stairs and all I could think of was Lauren. Approximately fifteen minutes later the obnoxious doorbell chimed. My feet moved at such a pace that before I knew it I was downstairs. However I had not beaten my mother to the door. The minute I got downstairs, I saw my mother with her vodka, and Lauren awkwardly standing outside. “And who in God’s name are you?” My…

ROLE PLAY - ALBANIA LINK TO THE COUNTRIES UNDER CONSIDERATION From 1994-1992 Albania had a government structure which had characteristics features of the rule in China, Soviet Union and Germany. The country was then known as the People's Socialist Republic of China(1976-1991) and the form of government existing in the nation was Single-Party Marxist-Leninist Hoxhaist Socialistic republic under totalitarian dictatorship. Albania's rulers implemented elements of the Stalinist economic system in…

“I’m not a girl trying to be a star or trying to be anything other than a musician.” Amy Jade Winehouse Her friends described her as a typical North Londoner of Jewish descent, bright and funny but also shy and modest and slightly insecure- not about her voice though ( Kapadia, 2015). Everyone saw her as an old soul trapped in the body of a teenage girl, because of the depth of emotion that her lyrics and voice evoked (Kapadia, 2015). She had suffered from bulimia and severe depression prior…

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” (Wilberforce). Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery or a multi-billion dollar criminal industry that denies people's freedom.(Polaris) Human traffickers target young children because of their vulnerability, lack of awareness, and the market demand. Urban Light is a movement that's dedicated to restoring, rebuilding, and empowering young men who are victims of abuse, exploitation, and human…

Two weeks prior to my 45th birthday, my 21 year old daughter, Jacqueline, asked me to pick her up at her boyfriend's house because she said she wanted to talk to me. I could sense in her voice something might be troubling her by the nervous cracking in her voice and it was rather unusual for her to actually want to talk to me alone because for the last three years it seemed she confided in her mother more than anyone else, which is I assume is typical in most father/daughter relationships as…

Pamella finds Sess with foil and plastic (117). It seems like Sess is about to do drugs but Pamela tells him that he won’t ever need anything like that again because now she is his wife (117). Also during the Wedding Pris is smoking and drinking Vodka and Pamela recognizes why Pris is doing that. In Rat Park according to psychologists, endorphins also called opiates help a person feel better in bad situations and in Drop City, the sentence, “Her brain was flooded with endorphins” (Boyle 118)…

cream, pizza, and hot dogs. In comparison, Russians indulge in borscht, beef stroganoff, and caviar. For beverages, people in the U.S. consume soda, lemonade, or sweet tea. Tea is also common in Russia, but usually the first choice of beverage is vodka. Another vital aspect that makes up a culture…

how smart they are, and these weaknesses will always get in the way of them reaching their goals. For example, along with their journey to Dolgoye, the doctor and Crouper encounter a drunk man dead in the road. He had appeared to drunken too much vodka. “ ‘He drank it,’ the doctor agreed, ‘and gave up the ghost right on the road. There you have it, good old Russian stupidity,’” (pg 146, Sorokin). This shows that indulging in human pleasure can not only result in a hindrance to progress but also…

Final Reflective Essay After reading the memoir by Lev Golinkin, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, I have learned that our American culture and the Russian culture are more similar than they are different. Our research project made us analyze a huge part of both our and their culture, which made us discover that both cultures have been invaded by corrupt leaders, yet there is more corruption in Russian culture. After my reading and I-Search Project I have realized that American and…

so much on his pitching, and it helped him drastically to become closer to the pitcher that he had the capability of being. A different way that Ankiel seeked out help was through drugs and alcohol. Before games he would drink water bottles full of vodka, and would sometimes do drugs as harmful as ecstasy. “Ecstasy worked for a while. . . This, at twenty-one years old, from a place where drugs weren’t uncommon, where drugs solved the smaller problems in the moments before the bigger ones arose,…