1.) The story Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters by Gail Giles makes you appreciate your family relationships through the mysterious plot line of the story. Jazz is popular and idolized by her parents and members in the community. She was homecoming queen and her mother describes her presence as, “Jazz has a touch, you know.
Henrietta Lacks was a black tobacco farmer from the south who, in 1950, at the age of 30, she was diagnosed with aggressive cervical cancer. Lacks went to John’s Hopkins medical center for treatment for her cancer. In April of 1951, she underwent surgery to remove the larger tumor on her cervix. Henrietta Lacks, died three days following the surgery. Even though Henrietta Lacks died, her cells from the tumor have lived on and have made a major impact on the biomedical community.
There have been many documented cases pertaining to mothers who have killed their own children due to the invasion of the involuntary hormonal imbalance of postpartum depression. “Women like, Claire Briggs who beat and tortured her second child to death, he was two-month-old. Briggs had her first child removed by social services due to her severe addiction. Lindsey Lowe age 25 killed her twins, Stacie Marie Parsons bashed in the head of her 4-year-old daughter because she was jealous of her, and Andrea Yates has become known nationwide for her incomprehensible crime (Citation Information =Article Title= Andrea Yates Biography =
After having been mistreated by a boy from the dance hall, Mr. Harling gives Antonia an ultimatum, she either ceases attending the dances or her job with the Harling family would be terminated. Blinded by selfishness and pride, Antonia tenaciously gives up a life of generosity and virtue in exchange for a sad and miserable life of self-centeredness, choosing instead to work for Cutter. However, after living unhappily in an empty relationship with Larry Donovan who promptly abandons her, Antonia’s life focus changes dramatically. She learns the emptiness of self-seeking behavior. It is only after meeting her Bohemian husband Cuzak that Antonia rediscovers her true self again and finds self-fulfillment as a wife and mother.
Through her use of a changing narrative perspective, Margaret Laurence creates a contrast in character development. Laurence shows the reader the male protagonist of the story, Chris, through the eyes of a child first, then of an adolescent, and finally through an adult’s eyes. At the beginning of “Horses of the Night,” the narrator, Vanessa notices that Chris looks completely oblivious towards Vanessa’s Grandfather’s belligerence, as he is displaying “no sign of feeling anything.” This is the first sign Laurence provides about Chris escaping in order to cope with reality. Next, when Vanessa visits Shallow Creek she comes to a realization that most of the stories Chris has shared with her about the farm, only exists “in some other dimension.”
They entered the cabin and Cassandra immediately detected the overpowering smell of mildew and old, stale lady finger cookies. "Time to pick our bunks now girls" all the girls around Cassandra squealed and immediately ran to a bunk with a friend and Cassandra was left alone on the extra army cot in the corner. Cassandra sat down and began to unpack her things and then she stumbled across the journal her mother gave her. She all of a sudden felt really lonely and upset. When she finished unpacking her things into the small dresser she put the book under the pillow.
The search for love is what inspires Janie’s epic journey through life. As a young girl Janie is already searching for her true love, but unfortunately her dreams are crushed by Nanny. Nanny tells Janie that she must marry now, despite not being in love. Her first marriage to an older man by the name of Logan Hillicks is where Janie first questions her role in society; Janie questions whether she belongs in the house or should be doing manual labor in the hot Florida sun. Janie soon grows unhappy in her first marriage and runs away with a man with big dreams, Jody Starks.
The story revolves around two different narratives, one set in 1942 and the other in 2009, eventually merging in the end. The past narrative follows the fate of a young girl named Sarah, who is arrested with her family during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in Paris and struggles to protect her younger brother by locking him in a closet before being taken away. The present narrative follows a journalist named Julia, who is investigating the roundup for an article and uncovers a connection between Sarah's story and her own family. As a modern-day journalist, Julia is initially detached from the historical events she is researching, but as she uncovers more about Sarah's story, she begins to feel a personal connection to it. She becomes increasingly invested in the fate of Sarah and her family, and her investigation ultimately leads her to confront her own family history and identity.
However, Ross’s narrative structure satirizes the Greek myth while destabilizing paternal bonds between a daughter and her absent father. Like Theseus, Ross’s main character, Christine Clark, goes on a quest to uncover the “secret of her birth,” (Ross 37). However, she is not searching for her father to form a paternal relationship. Instead, Christine wants to understand her conception. However, when she finally meets Sam Schwartzes, her father fails to provide any knowledge.
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is written by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. The book is an adaptation of the scripts from the Netflix Original Series, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is about a girl who was imprisoned by a cult leader as a teenager from the Midwest, freed after 15 years and decides to move to New York. The beginning in the book starts off with four women celebrating Christmas, wearing old fashioned dresses in a rusting bunker.
It talks about loneliness, desperation and confusion that anyone who has no guide to ease them into the world goes through. It also talks greatly about the human mind’s ability to repress the memories that it finds too traumatic to deal with. The plot starts out simple, an unnamed protagonist attending a funeral in his childhood hometown. He then visits the home that he and his sister grew up in, bringing back memories of a little girl named Lettie Hempstock who lived at the end of the lane, in the Hempstocks’ farmhouse, with her mother and grandmother.
Organ donation is currently the only successful way of saving the lives of patients with organ failure and other diseases that require a new organ altogether. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services there is currently 122,566 patients both actively and passively on the transplant list. This number will continue to increase, in fact, every ten minutes another person is added to the list. Unfortunately, twenty-two of these people die while waiting for an organ on a daily basis. Each day, about eighty Americans receive a lifesaving organ transplant.
The human life is known in their stories to tell and these stories are written from their experiences in life. Marion got a recommendation to seek the help of a Narrative Therapist because she came to the point of feeling down, the children have grown and left home. A counselor must be aware that Marion, a 45 year old woman, plays a fundamental role in the creation of her realities, though it may seem true, it is just a subjective interpretation of her experiences. It is important that Marion feels understood by her counselor in order to work through her feelings. It is a fact that there are always events that may fall outside her story but narratives are drawn upon to become her dominant story.
The superhero or villain that I would like to change places for a day would be Natasha Romanoff, better known as the Black Widow who is apart of The Avengers. Even though she doesn’t have a robotic suit, a hammer, or a shield like some of the other Avengers, she can still take down an entire army with her impressive combat skills. In addition to her amazing fighting talent, Natasha does not age. She was born during WWII, but because her body has been scientifically engineered she is not affected by diseases and aging. Although it would only be a day in which I would not age, it would still be amazing to be one day younger.
Mental health is a level of psychological well-being, or an absence of mental illness. It is the "psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment”. From the perspective of positive psychology or holism, mental health may include an individual 's ability to enjoy life, and create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), mental health includes "subjective well-being, perceived self-efficacy, autonomy, competence, inter-generational dependence, and self-actualization of one 's intellectual and emotional potential, among others”
