Principle theme Five days at Memorial by Sheri Fink tells the story of the days after Hurricane Katrina at one hospital in New Orleans. Memorial hospital owned by Texas based Tenet corporation had 312 short term acute care (STAC) beds, and leased the seventh floor to Lifecare for a long term acute care (LTAC) hospital. Lifecare’s LTAC at Memorial cared for medically fragile patients with long term complex medical needs. The hospital and health care providers received intense scrutiny after the hurricane due to the higher numbers of dead patients in comparison to comparable New Orleans hospitals, out of the 34 patients which died at the facility, 24 were Lifecare patients.
Mistakes are inevitable. Before Hurricane Katrina most individuals evacuated the areas that were likely to be flooded. Hospitals, including Memorial, were not required to evacuate like everyone else. This meant that over two hundred patients were still in the building and even more staff when Katrina hit. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink explores what happened inside the hospital during the aftermath of the storm and the legal battles that persisted long after the week people were trapped inside the building.
Fink’s Rhetorical Strategies: Facilitating the Consideration of Several Perspectives In Five Days at Memorial, Sheri Fink strikes a convincing balance between persuasion and objectivity. The events that took place during Hurricane Katrina continue to be scrutinized, and this book investigates the potentially unethical decisions made by people in authority. Doctors and nurses were forced to work long hours while suffering from severe emotional trauma, a fact that Fink does not discount in her assessment of their decision-making processes.
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The book I read for my literature circle was Lost in the War by Nancy Antle. The book takes place in Connecticut. The book is about a 12 year old girl named Lisa who lost her father in the Vietnam war. Lisa and her younger sister Jenny are having a hard time dealing with their mothers horrible nightmares and memories as a nurse in the vietnam war. Lisa´s
“I do not think at all, I make no decision- I strike him madly at home” (Remarque 216). All Quiet On The Westward Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a book about a young German and his classmates fighting in World War 1. The main character is named Paullistened and he finds himself exposed to the reality of war. Paul and his friends try their best to survive, and it feels like everything they learned before in school was useless to them.
The last sentence of the poem leads the reader to believe that it will end happily, but she alludes once again to the discrimination against her heritage. After being discriminated against and removed from their land, the ancestors of the speaker pass on their history
From here, a uniform mood and tone is set throughout the poem and can be seen heavily in not only the choice of words but, also the plot and structure of the poem. The theme of sympathy is really conveyed through Erdrich’s melancholic tone. Throughout the poem, we see a very gloomy and melancholic tone set by the events happening. “Until I could no longer bear / the thought of how I was” (51-52), these two lines portray her battle after she is rescued and how instead of her relief she is feeling a longing to be back with her captors. Lines similar to these two lead embody why the tone is so gloomy and sad especially when readers see the battle she is experiencing because she is safe now, away from her captors but, she doesn 't really want to be.
Universal Themes in All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front was a novel published by Erich Maria Remarque in 1929. It is said to be the greatest war novel of all time, and it still continues to impact life today based on its universal themes. Just like how war impacted people 's lives back then, it still continues to. This novel discusses the effect it has on the soldiers, and the amount of devastation caused. War is horrible, and it always affects the community; whether it be economically, physically, or mentally.
Through the development of the story and how the changes and the chaos that happens in the story, it is clear that the theme is chaotic. To start, the poem states a soft and calming image in your mind, telling how nature would not remember humans if they were to disappear. In addition, it provides an opinion on people like after a war it would be peaceful and the poem states and spring herself when she woke at dawn would scarcely know that we were gone. The mood that the poem is showing is calmness and how nature and everything can be peaceful with or without humans. The poem shows a clear mood and theme, being very calming but sad at the end and having this changing mood and it really has an impact on its reader.
A Week From 1944 It was Monday, May 29th 1944. The brisk winds chilled the air, and I could see my breath as we ran through the mud. My standard issue black boots failed to repel the moisture seeping through to my socks. It had been raining for days, off and on, not too heavily, but a constant soft mist regardless, and it saturated the ground like a gentle flood.
Comparative Essay How can different perceptions about one topic be expressed in poetry? The main theme that the two sets of poems convey is war, but it’s expressed in different point of views through the use of diction that builds tone. The tones of these poems play a big role in conveying the differences between the different eras that these poems are written in, and shows how societies have changed from the Victorian era till the time of World War I. The diction and tone in Borden and Owen’s poems is so much different than the diction and tone in Lovelace and Tennyson’s poems due to different perspectives and point of views. In all four poems the main idea is war, but each set conveys a perspective of war, a positive perspective
Religion in Macbeth and Beowulf Whether it be a play or a poem religion will influence how the author writes their story. Some writings might hold more religious standing than others, for example Macbeth and Beowulf. While both Macbeth and Beowulf express Christian views, Macbeth’s Christian standing is stronger because it doesn’t use paganistic views like Beowulf, and the characters express a more biblical background. Shakespeare 's biblical imagery in Macbeth is far greater than Beowulf’s biblical standing.
He also related to the deeper meanings of perseverance in finding the difficulty from an adventure even with time and the infinite impossibility. While working at something that’s impossible, the poem ends with the emotional imagery of a knight reminded that the quest is not always able to fulfill, no matter what we
