...Ethics Paper HCC/335 La’Verne A Love Professor Holly Martinez de Andino June 16, 2014 We are hearing all too frequently about End of life issues and decisions that family members are having to deal with because of not being prepared for when the time comes for a loved one. I will discuss more in depth the issues, problems and solutions to making this seemingly painful and undiscussed topic something that will help make it less painful and more important to do before the time comes. Death is something that is inevitable, it will eventually come to us all, some sooner than later and we should do all that we can to make it less stressful and painful to the loved ones we leave behind. Making these End of Life choices beforehand has always been considered a “taboo” of sorts because it’s just an issue that is never discussed. There is no said population that this matter should be discussed with because no one knows when they are going to die unless they are contemplating suicide and that’s an entirely different situation. End of life choices is a role that many of us may have to step into whether for ourselves or assisting our loved ones with them. “Only about one in four people have signed advanced directives that spell out their wishes if they’re unable to make medical decisions on their own, according to a 2006 report published by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press”. An advance directive includes two types of documents, a living will describes...
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...four days later another cave-in happened and the rescue seemed almost impossible. The group of 33 had no water, no food and very little oxygen and at the time there wasn’t any knowledge of survivors. The fate of this group seemed nothing but doom for 17 long days. Then finally the first contact was made. The rescue team finally made connection with the group and found out amazing news that everyone was alive and well, with no injuries. A small path was created down to the area where they were trapped and food and water was provided for the duration of their entrapment. Fortunately, after two months the entire group of 33 were rescued and all in good health. How was the media supposed to handle such horrid news? How were the families and loved ones going to be informed and what were the options of compensation for such a sudden traumatic event? People had so many inquiries of how long the timeline of the retrieval for the group was going to be. There were so many questions left unanswered. When dealing with a globally known situation, how does one handle the “news”? To fully get the point across of the gravity of the situation, how was the communication to be handled? What needed to be said and how was it going to be said? An article from BBC had an entire section called “angry families”, where they quote one woman, “We hope they are all fine, but we are also...
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...without a word. “People hit me, they cursed me, swore me, and I couldn’t do anything. They were too much. In a group of 30 people, 29 were against me”. A tear ran down his cheek. I couldn’t hear the voices and the noise around me. It was just the two of us. I took his hand and he calmed down. Not a word was said anymore. I just can’t believe. Is this the world we live in? Where people are abandoned just because of their sexual orientation? They remain the same person: kind, happy, calm, sweet, with their same characteristics. Or because they have a disease? We are not in the Middle Ages, science has developed a lot and almost every illness can be cured. This is not the problem. The really issue is that the people in cause don’t have the loved...
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...Dyeing to be loved! I met him at a mutual friend’s party. At first I thought ...”oh my Gosh, this has got to be the most beautiful man I have ever seen. Why on earth is he devoting all his attention to me when he could have anyone in this room?” The fact that he chose me to engage with that night made me feel like a princess. His words describing my beauty shook my soul and lifted my feet. I felt as though I was floating above myself, looking down on the man that I knew would change my life. I had no idea that allowing this kind and gentle man to sweep me off my feet would nearly cost me my life. The first year was amazing; he went out of his way to make me feel like the only woman that he could ever be with again. I was his angel, his savior, his muse! Every night was filled with overlapping compliments and loving embraces. My life was perfect, I had the man of my dreams, a promise of an upcoming wedding and talk of starting a family to make our lives complete. I was on cloud 9. I remember the first mean thing he ever said to me like it was yesterday. I never thought I would hear the words ugly or fat come out of his mouth especially when he was referring to me. I was crushed…I literally felt a piece of my heart break off into my chest. For what I am sure was only a second I couldn’t breathe, but to me it felt like an eternity. No way was the angel that God sent me intentionally stomping on my heart like this, it felt like a nightmare and I couldn’t wake up...
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...Losing Loved Ones Kyla Jones SW Death and Dying Oakland University Abstract Death is something I personally think about a lot. I have not experienced much loss, but the losses I have experienced have affected me enough to the point of thinking about why people die at random times of the day. I have had a total of five deaths of family and friends in my 20 years of life. They have all been within a few years of each other but the first death there was a larger gap in between until the next death. The first death I experience was my Grandma’s best friend Kim, then my Grandma’s Sister Carol, then my great great grandpa, then my father and last but not lease my friend who was like a younger brother to me. Some of these had a major impact on how I view death and how I am when death is a topic of concern for most people. At the age of 20 I can say I am not afraid of death because I have accepted that it will happen to anyone, and if it is your time to go then God believes it is your time to go. I look back and wished I handled myself a little different when it came to certain deaths, but once I experienced a death of someone really close to me that was the one that really made me question what is the point of living if we are going to die anyways? But if I experience another death soon, I believe I know how to deal with it head on and be able to help the other people who are affected by it as well. I am very thankful for having people surround me and explain to me more so what...
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...Narrative: Everyone experience that one little feeling when you adore Or like someone it’s an amazing feeling believe me there is This one amazing girl that I just constantly can’t get my mind off of her like I adore her to much I won’t say no name but there is a story behind this whole thing but if only I could remember the beginning oh well…let’s start with how I met her so it all started in high school sophomore year 2013 I went to a school called Blu Ford High School where everything at that school wasn’t what you call paradise I mean everyone was happy and excited that they get to see their friends and stuff but I wasn’t really interested in all that stuff I was restraining myself from caring about school and education high school was like a child’s playground to me but that all change in a matter of seconds after seeing that one person a girl I adore honestly I didn’t know how to keep my composure because she was really amazing I mean she was gorgeous in every type of way she was a light-skinned girl with nice hair, great personality, and etc. but truth be told we started out not being friends because I didn’t know her, and I didn’t really want to make the effort on doing so but one day she was sitting outside on the lunch table with her friends, the same table that I was sitting on but we made no eye contact no communication whatsoever it was just awkward just being there and not saying anything especially since I has a crush on her or whatever but it’s totally fine...
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...TO BE LOVED OR FEARED AS A LEADER? Leaders in fields ranging from military and politics to business and even education have been posed with the choice of instilling love or fear among their respective followers. Traits like warmth and trustworthiness of a leader instill love among followers and fear of a leader originates mostly from his strength and competence. Although there are numerous other traits in a leader, warmth and strength are the most influential. According to psychology, a major part of other people's perception about a person is determined by these two dimensions of personality (Cuddy, Kohut and Neffinger, 2013, p. 56). The dilemma of the choice between these two is inherently present in the nature of the two extremes i.e. either of the choices will make you fall at the opposing ends of the human emotional spectrum. It is interesting to note that the question of choosing between the two extremes is not a new one . Tracing this conundrum back to the sixteenth century takes us to the writings of Machiavelli. His political philosophy in 'The Prince' acknowledges the best leaders to command both fear and love. Having said that, Machiavelli recognizes the opposite polarity of the two emotions and maintains that since it is difficult to combine both in one person, it is better to be feared as a leader than to be loved (Machiavelli, 2003, p.53). Today, about five hundred years later, the Machiavellian concept of a feared leader is still quite rigorously followed...
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...A Loved One Lost It was a quiet summer night and I was just sitting in my room watching TV. My fan was blowing refreshing cool air on me and it helped relieve me from the heat of the summer. It was also a little annoying as it makes a whirring noise, but despite the sounds it was still very calm and relaxing. My mom was in our computer room playing on the computer just as usual. My dad was asleep in his bed at an early time as he usual. My brother was downstairs in his room and everything seemed just fine. However, there was something in the back of my mind that I was thinking about that kept me from being completely relaxed. Something that I just couldn’t help but think about that made me a little less than relaxed. My grandma was having a double bypass heart surgery and I was a little worried about her. My mom and dad had both assured me that everything was going to be fine, but I couldn’t help but worry a little bit. She was my grandma after all and I loved her and she loved me and I didn’t want anything to happen to her. All of a sudden I heard “ring, ring, ring” it was the phone. I didn’t think anything of it at first, but then I thought to myself how it was kind of an odd time for a phone call because it was a little late. Luckily my room is right next to our computer room, which is where my mom was. Also fortunate for me, the walls aren’t very thick and my mom has a loud voice so I could hear everything that she was saying. However, I didn’t know who she was talking...
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...Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Is it better to be feared or loved? Varsity blues was a film created in 1999 and directed by Brian Robbins. It is a story about a high school football team and their dictatorial coach. The football players have to balance between dealing with their social lives and their football team life. The setting of the film is Texas where football is considered more of a lifestyle than a game. The pressure the players face is their tough coach who is constantly on their backs. The movie focuses on a quarterback of West Texas high school who prefers getting an academic scholarship to playing football. The character’s name is Mox. He is characterized as a good person. A struggle arises between him and the coach, Kilmer. Kilmer is a very dictatorial but performing coach with two titles at the state level and 22 other district level championships. He is a performance driven coach and wants to add on to his titles at all costs. Mox faced a lot of pressure to play football from both his father and his coach. His father had always wanted him to play from the time he was a child. Mox is brought in to play when Lance Harbor a first string quarterback is seriously injured. He is expected to work with the team for the 23rd championship title amidst a lot of pressure coming from Kilmer. Mox realizes the hardship of being a starter. Kilmer is continually demeaning to Mox. Mox, however, still maintains his respect for Kilmer and follows his instruction. Kilmer’s obsession...
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...“I Loved You” Poetry Analysis In analysis to the title, the past-tense word, “Loved”, can predict that the author will explain why he once loved or why he has stopped loving the person, feeling sad, or even happy, that they are no longer in love. “I Loved You,” by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, is developed with a single stanza consisting of 8, approximately parallel in length, sentences; consonant, polysyllabic, and connotative diction; and informal and abstract structure. The combinations Pushkin weaves together displays that he does not want to spend much time having to tell the person about his strong but hopeless love with details and reasons because having to explain about his dim love that is actually ever-lasting is hard on him already, giving him emotional sadness and pain. Pushkin begins his poem with a repetition of the title to stress his feeling about the person. He continues the first sentence, followed by another, with contradictions. “[…] and I probably still do./And for a while the feeling may remain…” Even though Pushkin claimed to have stopped loving the person, he still has love and compassion him or her. The ellipses following “remain” tells the reader that the feeling will continue, for a long period of time and it may never go away. Pushkin, though, does not want the person to love him back. Even though he loves the person still—and maybe for the rest of his life—he does not want their love in return because of the trouble and pain he brings along with...
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...They Loved America Too! Teresa Wright HIS 206 United States History II Instructor Anderson April 10, 2016 They Loved America Too! Mexican Immigrants faced many challenges when came to America. They came to better their lives and help their families. Americans treated them as if they were dirty, filthy people. Fleeing the instability of their homeland during the decade of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), the early immigrants to Silvis were lured by the promise of work in the burgeoning American railroad, where they were offered low-paid but mostly steady work. The Quad Cities was an important hub, and the Mexican families were allowed at first to live around the railroad yard, in abandoned boxcars, before moving to Second Street, where they built modest homes and a solid, self-sufficient community. Though bigotry was rampant, the community took up America's sense of urgency after the attack on Pearl Harbor, answering the call for workers in the Rock Island Arsenal and young conscripts in the Army (Harrison, Vol.82, Issue 7). The Mexican families continue to do whatever was offered to them for work. They raised their children to be young men.There were many groups sending their children to war. A small, nondescript block of Silvis, Ill., gave more young men to fight and die in World War II and the Korean War than any other "similarly sized stretch" in the United States-22 families sent a total of 57 soldiers, eight of whom died (Harrison, Vol 82, Issue 7). The Mexican...
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...The Man Who Loved Flowers Why do people feel like killing another human being? And what are they telling themselves to make it okay? In our world today there are a lot of murders. Many of the killers are convicted for their crimes then there are also some of them who manage to slip away from the police and the investigation but then come the hardest sentence of them all. You will have to live whit the guilt of what you have done for the rest of your life because you cannot tell anybody. The main character in the story “The Man Who Loves Flowers” by Stephen King from 1977, acts like it is no big deal maybe his greatest regret is that he will never see his one true love, Norma, again. The main character is a young man, who appears to be in love. He wears a grey suit and a tie that is pulled down a little. His eyes are light blue and his hair is brown and cut short. He is plain looking, but because he is in love, people on the street think he is beautiful. We are told he is on his way to meet his girl Norma, and it all sounds very romantic. In the beginning the story is sweet, it is really romantic. Especially in the line “The air was soft and beautiful, the sky was darkening by slow degrees from blue to the calm and lovely violet of dusk” (p.175, ll.2-4) In this sentence there is a complete love story, and you expect something lovely to happen later in the story. There are told about all those little shops, and all those happy people, the reason there are giving, is that it...
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...Stephen King’s short story, The Man Who Loved Flowers, manages to craftily blur the lines between love and insanity. King vividly describes New York City as a beautiful, vibrant place on that particular Spring afternoon. The only point in the beginning of the story where things don’t seem wonderful is where the radio is playing as the man buys his flowers. The news describes the problems of the world (including the hammer murderer on the loose), but it’s brushed off because the world seems bright at that moment. At the story’s climax, the imagery is dark and the sounds described are designed to cause the reader to imagine pure cacophony. Tomcats “making alien love” and a screaming woman are certainly not pleasant sounds. The most important fears expressed in The Man Who Loved Flowers are the fear of strangers (the unknown) and the fear of love (the fear of loss). The story takes place on a beautiful afternoon in May of 1963. Everything looks positively radiant with Summer coming quickly. Everyone smiles when they see the man in the gray suit because he is so obviously in love. The young man approaches an older gentleman who is selling flowers and buys the most expensive spill of tea roses. As the afternoon turns to evening, he makes his way to Norma’s. When he sees her his heart skips a beat. “It’s always a sweet shock to see her.” When he goes to her she pulls away. She tells him that he’s mistaken and her name is not Norma. We are then presented with the true identity of the...
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...I ONCE LOVED A SOLDIER (mypinkrosary_clvt) Do you know what I've done the moment I've lost you? Do you know what I've said the day you went away? Without words slithered from my lips, my tears just fell and my heart was broken ..and it all started the time I fell in love with a soldier.. An immense question faced me off. What came about? You dropped me off and left me empty. You ripped my heart into pieces. Implicit reasons gave me puzzles. I’m thinking then that it took you a tough time to finally say what you didn't want me to hear. So I made things easy for you. With a heavy heart, I let go and moved on. Undeniably, two of the hardest things I've done to someone I truly love. Now, I'm used to the fact that we're not together anymore, and that maybe we won't be. Eventually, everything will be a part of my past. But beyond doubt, you left a fossil in my heart. Because of you, I've learned a lot or I've been hurt too much. I can't help but shield my heart to love again. I often wonder if it is my way to keep distance from someone because true intimacy is just too bloodcurdling for me now. So I allow myself to let go of the things I fear to lose. So that when he’s gone, I won't feel not the pain of losing him, but the pain of losing myself without him again. Still, I believe that sometimes, the best relationships take place by accidents. Who knows? It's with a soldier again. What learning I've hauled out from the love I once had is that you really need to trust each...
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...The man who loved flowers When you meet a normal person at a normal event, you talk to them and everything they say seems normal. They laugh at your jokes, they comment on the weather, they complain about politicians and how they should lower the taxes, as I said a normal person. But after they have left the event is everything about them still normal? This is a story about a young guy from New York who to everyone seems normal guy who has found the love of his life, but actually is a grieving killer who kills woman when they tell him that they are not his soul mate Norma who died 10 years ago. This is Steven King’s “The man who loved flowers”. The story takes place in New York of May 1963, and the setting is very happy. The opening sequence tells us how everybody seemed to be smiling, the air was soft and beautiful, and that this was one of those nights where people who love the city would love this night. To add to the setting the main character is also very happy and very much in love. Because of the happy setting, you feel safe when you read it and you think of the main character as the “good guy”. His happy outer has en effect on the setting for example he makes the old woman at l. 13-17 p. 1, where because of the positive vibes he expresses makes her think of dancing and how spring is beautiful and so on. She begins to have happy thoughts. Even on l. 6 – 13 p. 2, when the radio is talking about how a lot of awful things are happening in the world it doesn’t change...
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