...A Mother’s Worst Nightmare ... I’ll never forget the day my worst nightmare as a mother became reality. It was a cold September, Sunday morning. I had been awaken to the sound of my mother’s voice; “We are going to talk later. I can’t deal with you right now.” The tone of her voice made my bones tremble with fear. I was scared to get up but I could feel the Lord telling me I had to get up. NOW! As I climbed out of bed my fiancé, Tim, started rambling. All I heard was something about, “I don’t know what she’s freaking out about, blah, blah, Jadon got his finger stuck in this, blah, blah. I didn’t do anything.” At that point everything sounded like far off distant, distorted whispers. I got up and left the room closing the door behind me. I found my mother in the kitchen. I could see the sweat pouring down her. I asked her what was going on and the coffee mug in her hand suddenly hit the floor and shattered. I’ve never seen my mother shake like she was that morning. As much as I didn’t want to know what was going on, I knew I needed to, and soon. God was still sitting in the crook of my ear screaming at me, “NOW!” I was out of creamer so I asked my mother to take me down to the store so I could get some. I did just that and being that Sunday mornings ran a lot smoother when we all had our coffee, she agreed to take me. I came out of the store got in the car and asked her to please tell me what was going on. She immediately started freaking out that...
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...duration of 1.5 years. The patient reported that her primary combat duties included driving fuel tankers in a convoy from base to base and performing guard duties to secure the perimeter of the base. In the context of that duty she reported being exposed to multiple life-threatening situations, witnessing dead and mutilated bodies, a near plane crash, daily mortar attacks on the base, making many split-second life-or-death decisions, and the loss of one of her soldiers. After returning to the United States she began to experience at least five distinct intrusive memories and nightmares from these combat experiences. She engaged in avoidance through attempted thought suppression, conversation redirecting, and alcohol abuse. She avoided crowds and social situations and began to fail out of college because she felt unable to focus on her academic duties as a result of her symptoms. She expressed severe nightmares/tremors and had an eradicated sleep schedule. She wakes up numerous times throughout the night and on some nights avoids sleeping completely. On presentation to the posttraumatic stress clinical team, she was diagnosed with PTSD. In addition to her other symptoms, the patient reported engaging in compulsive checking behaviors. She reported checking her front door lock 5 to 10 times a day and peering out of her windows on a constant for...
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...Discussion on Canadian Ethnic problems and multiculturalism Abstract: The history of Canada has gone through various events, some of which produced a nightmare for the country and from which the people as well as the leaders are still trying to awake, while making sure that such events do not take place ever again. In this essay I discuss the Canadian Ethnic problems and it's multiculturalism by mainly focus on two typical examples :the aboriginal people and the Chinese who have suffered injustice through out the history in different aspects such as politics and cultural. And later ,by looking at the current situations of the Canadian ethnicity in general and going over the past decisions that the government had made, I try to suggest the possible solutions. Introduction: As we all know, Canada is a country with large immigrants. Therefore , the history of Canada is largely the history of the meeting of different cultures. As its early settlers are mostly immigrants from Central and Western Europe, European culture is playing a dominant role in Canada's culture. Since the eightieth of the twentieth century, as the number of immigrants from different parts increased significantly, the new immigrants brought in their own culture with them as well. Thus, people are now feeling more of the tensions between those cultures and of prejudice felt among these groups toward one another. For this reason, how to deal with the relationship...
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...graphic experiences. He explained the memoir in such a graphic and serious tone because he doesn’t wish this nightmare upon anyone else. Ishmael uses all sorts of gruesome language, violence, and gore to alert the reader about always being aware of their surroundings and notifying other people. In the beginning of the book, Ishmael reaches his Grandmother’s village. The village is destroyed by rebels. This is the first place he sees the savageness of the rebels. He watched men fall to the ground bleeding, women dying, children dying, ears bleeding and more, “A woman put her arms around the man and begged him to stand up. He got to his feet and walked toward the van. When he opened the door opposite the driver’s, a...
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...“The Never Ending Nightmare, a Nightmare within Itself” I will never forget the day when one of my worst nightmares became a comical reality. It started out as any normal Friday the Thirteenth, or so I had thought. For my sense of time had completely been forgotten. Beep! Beep! Beep! This was the annoying sound of my alarm clock that I would wake up too every morning. I used to dread this sound but lately, it was like a gift from God. I had been restless the past couple of nights—tossing and turning about my bed. I would have dreams, no, horrible nightmares of performing in front of a large crowd and just freeze. I was not able to move nor was I able to speak. I would just stand there in front of what seemed like the whole world and sob. This sounds like an exaggerated case of stage fright only, it was not. I had never experienced anything of the sort. I would enter stage left, cross downstage, and then begin to recite my self-published, might I add, monologue to my peers and professors. About a good four minutes in, the lights would start to flicker. It did not bother me at first, but it continued. Eventually, the lights shut off completely. The only light remaining was the ghost light placed at center stage behind me. Suddenly, an eerie fog made its way through the cracks under the doors and in the walls. Everyone in the audience seemed to twist into a sick-like, monstrous mutation. Their faces went from laughter and serenity to anger and despair. Even their bodily appearances...
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...The Six Most Exciting Facts About Truman Capote 1. Truman Capote was neighbors with Harper Lee. Truman and Harper became friends at the age of only five (Alter). The two renowned American authors lived across the street from each other in Monroeville, Alabama (“Truman”:A childhood). Lee and Capote had many things in common, including the strained connection they had with their parents. They also had their love of reading, writing, and being read to in common. Furthermore, Harper would go on to work for Truman as a writing advisor before going on to write To Kill a Mockingbird (Alter). 2. Capote carried his childhood blanket with him always. Truman Capote did not have an easy, loving childhood. While he was still young his bipolar...
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...The Nightmare society faces “Are some, like Dracula or Grendel, chosen for curse and others for blessings?” Timothy K. Beal displayed this in his article. Some of our flagrant fears are the monsters that are encountered in life. Grotesque aesthetics, evil mentality, and other characteristics represent the monsters who haunt our dreams. However, what goes through the mind of the monsters to pursue the acts of villains and proceed to be a terrifying figure intimidating a frightful society. Both Grendel and Freddy Krueger reflect the values and attributes of their respective time periods. The menacing monster in the story Beowulf was a force in his time period. Grendel a descendant from Cain who represents evil and now Grendel has brought...
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...Thien Tran Bane Long ago, deep inside the prison of Pena Dura, a legendary child was born. His father ruled the prison and has power over everyone. The child mother died while giving birth to him. But just before she passes away, she gave the child the name Bane. Bane was raised in the harsh and dangerous prison environment for many years. He read a lot of books so he can gain knowledge about the world outside of the prison. He also got stronger building up his body in the prison's gym, and learned to fight in the school of prison life. By the time he was a teenager; he had learned four different languages and was one of the biggest and strongest guys in the prison. Every night, Bane would get haunted by nightmares of the people that were killed in the prison. As each day passes by, the nightmares keep on getting worst. It got to a point where he would wake up each night and go kill people in the prison because he wanted to get rid of the nightmares that has been haunting him in his dreams. Bane’s father couldn’t do anything about it because Bane was too powerful. The only way to stop Bane from killing people every night is too expel him from the prison. A few days later, Bane was banished out of Pena Dura prison. With nothing but his clothes, Bane decides to make shelter in a cave in the woods. As he sleeps, the nightmare still haunts him. Every night, he would get up and go kill wild animals because it eases the pain. Bane was not happy of his actions but it was the only way...
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...vice versa. Acceptance is commonly shown when a character first faces alienation. The first example is :Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa,into the room, to soothe her, to love her”(36). Liesel felt alienated by her mother because she gave her to a foster family and Hans wanted to let LIesel know that she is not alone, se he stays with her...
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...In the time depicted in this book, grief was an all-pervasive feeling, which could greatly change people and affect their future actions. One such effect could be the change in a group’s situation when someone affecting them dies. An example of this in this book is the Vandenburg family: “He was nearly two years old when his father died, [...] When he was nine his mother was completely broke. She sold the music studio that doubled as their apartment and moved to his uncle’s house. There he grew up with six cousins who battered, annoyed, and loved him”. The loss of Max’s father likely had little direct emotional effect on him due to the early age at which they were separated, however the loss of his father likely contributed to their change in...
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...joined the Nation of Islam. There are many differences between Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X in the way they acted and influenced the African American community. This paper will look to describe their differing views and analyze their actions and their lives. In most cases a person’s childhood has a lasting affect on the rest of a person’s life. In comparing Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X this seems to be the case. Martin Luther King Jr., was born January 19, 1929 and was raised by a strong supportive family. He had a somewhat privileged life and “never experienced the feeling of not having the basic necessities of life.”[1] His father “was a community leader in Atlanta and pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church” and his mother “was a school teacher and an accomplished pianist.”[2] Although King was well off economically he was also exposed to the poverty and racism in Atlanta. “Despite the comfort and security of his own home and neighborhood, King developed an early awareness and sensitivity to the impact of poverty on large numbers of people in the...
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...experiences create responses within us. Those responses can be conditioned or unconditioned. Learning from your experiences growing up allows for the growth of yourself through the perception of what you feel has changed you as a person. Self-reflection after experiences happened shows you how they affected you and what you can do to change that learned behavior or response. My Learning Experience and Response Growing up my parents were abusive to each other and us children. When arguments between my parents would occur my bedroom was the battle ground. My father seemed to think that threatening his life and asking me to “Kiss him goodbye.” Would keep my mother around. When she finally got the courage up to leave, she said it was because my little brother said how nice it was when my dad was on a hunting trip. Leaving my dad made my mother frightened and would tell us how she felt my father would kill us in our sleep, and she would go into detail often about what she felt he would do to us. Later my father’s family got involved, and they all came and beat up my family. My two younger brothers were crying and one still in an infant seat I had to take out and try to protect from them as they tried to grab them and run. Being the older child, it was more my responsibility to protect everyone as my mom gave me the keys to the house when she saw them all there when we arrived. I couldn’t help but wonder why she didn’t turn around the car. I had to set my brother down and run down the street...
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...Thursday the 3th of April Sometimes I feel like I am drowning Nightmare in Haiti: It is a nightmare for families in Haiti living as they do today. Lack of food and water, poor hygiene, and poor environment leads the Haitians to harder life. Many people have lost a family member which makes them weak and lost. By Caroline Holm Madsen Haiti today: Things changed, people got homeless and many people lost a family member. It is just three years ago the earthquake hit Haiti. Over 220.000 people got killed and more than 300.000 got hurt. Many houses were destroyed when the earthquake hit Haiti and today many lives in tents or the remains are used for rebuilding a lot of the houses. Many cannot afford to build a house, to support the family or to get an education. The poor get poorer and Haiti becomes the new Congo, which were the poorest country in the world in 2009. Congo had a GNP of 330 per. capita income. The Haitians live in an unclean environment. Bowl movement and rubbish are scattered across the streets and people become seriously ill. Family visit: For few weeks ago, a BBC crew visited a family of nine members who lost their home and two family members in 2010. They are now only seven family members today. We got into the family’s tent and in the corner we saw two kids, at the age of three, lying under a blanket with hundreds of swarming flies around them. It was dirty, it stanched, and it was humid. We were asking one of the boys who lost...
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...depression and traumatic nightmares to Oleg? It is essential to satisfy the primary authority for psychiatric harm, the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) s 32 (CLA), which requires Oleg be an individual of normal fortitude, directly perceived someone being injured or put in peril, or he was a family member, and suffered a recognisable psychological disorder as a result of the BKFC’s failure to take reasonable care. Upon considering whether a father in Oleg’s position would reasonably feel shock and fear when seeing a large kite collapse near his daughter’s close friend, and later develop severe depression and traumatic nightmares following Ming-Lee’s serious injuries, his response may be considered reasonable. Additionally, the BKFC should have kept this class of persons in contemplation as there were many parents and young children present. However, this may be disputed when considering the hot air balloon accident Oleg was in earlier which left him vulnerable, suggesting he is not an individual of normal fortitude. Further, while not a family member, direct perception is evident as he witnessed Ming-Lee being injured and put in peril, i.e. screaming and lying unconscious, distinguished to King v Phillips wherein the mother did not directly perceive anything. What may be contentious is whether Oleg’s psychiatric harm is a recognised psychological disorder. While severe depression fulfils this requirement, his shock, fear, nightmares and flashbacks do not suffice...
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...Family should be one of the most important things to everybody, no matter what it means to them. It goes beyond any other relationships. Family can influence people’s behaviours and personalities. It can provide confidence, responsibility, and safety to people. Liesel in ‘The Book Thief’, regained a lot of her confidence with her foster family. In the movie Moana, her family influenced her to be more responsible due to the accident that Maui did to the island. And last, in the movie Twilight, the Cullens made Bella become more confident and making better choices without regrets. In ‘The Book Thief’, Liesel Meminger’s biological mother and brother, her original family, at last abandoned Liesel and made her feel fear connecting with other...
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