A woman died after being sucked into an escalator in a shopping mall in Jingzhou, China, but she was able to save her 2-year-old son by pushing him out of the way. On Sunday, 30-year-old mother Xiang Liujuan was riding an escalator in Anliang shopping mall and was almost at the top when the portion she was standing on collapsed unexpectedly. Xiang was trapped inside the moving machine, according to San Jose Mercury News. The whole incident was recorded on surveillance tape which quickly made its rounds in China over the Internet. In the video, Xiang is seen pushing her son towards a group of mall employees when the escalator was about to reach the top. The said employees tried to save her, but they were unable to pull her away from the moving mechanism. She fell into …show more content…
There were unnamed sources who said the mall’s maintenance crew have just finished fixing the escalator. However, their failure to screw the loose floor plate back into its place led to the horrific demise of the Chinese mother, according to a Wuhan Evening News report cited by the Post. The escalator death ignited the anger of many Chinese netizens who saw the video on social network Sina Weibo. There were some who blamed the mall staff for not turning the escalator off or preventing customers from getting on the faulty machinery. Most of them put the blame on the management of the department store. There were also others who highlighted the mother’s heroic instinct even at the brink of death. “I was appalled when I saw her sink and at the same time felt the greatness of maternal love,” the Post quotes another Weibo user. “The mother wasted no time pushing the child out when it happened.” Meanwhile, the Anliong shopping mall has not yet released a statement about the escalator
My mother was a complex, multi-faceted person. Many of you here today knew my mother personally, and many of you knew my mother indirectly through one of her family members. You may have known her as a coworker, a friend, or a support person. Of course, all of my mother’s family here today each knew a part of her, a “facet” of her--as a mother, a sister, an aunt, a grandmother, a cousin.
Motherhood begins from the moment a woman conceives. The mother and the child have an immediate bond. The ability to create life and bring it into the world is magical and it changes the woman emotionally, physically and mentally. An example of a remarkable mother-daughter bond in history would be that of the Native American women and their daughters. In A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris, the bonds between the three main characters, Rayona, Christine and Ida is a complete contrast to that of the Native American women.
First, the elevator is presented as an alive object through Lila Mae’s interpretation and its narration. When she recalls her
The failure tragically occurred on the night of the dance party, with the added weight of all of the partygoers proving too much for the supporting bolts to handle. At 7:05 P.M. one of the upper walkway’s supporting bolts failed causing the rest of the connections to break and “unzip” (Chronology). The upper walkway crashed onto the lower walkway causing both to fall onto the lobby floor below. Numerous key factors are often cited as having left the construction project vulnerable to such fatal design flaws.
Minnie’s right foot led the way and paused on each step. Like a young child first learning to master the staircase she would wait for her left foot to catch up before leading again with her right. Her feet glided lightly across the wooden steps and only the dust particles felt her movement. She seemed to have a pillow of air floating underneath her. Quite ironically, with each descending stride her body took, her hand would tightly grip the banister until her veins were crushed against her tightened skin with no way out.
Although Minnie could have murdered Horace, some evidence that he actually slipped is the broken cologne bottle. After his shower he might have forgot to put the soap back on the shelf and it fell out of the shower. Once he stepped out he slipped on the cake of soap and hit his head on the floor hard enough to kill him. When he slipped the kick of his legs could have knocked the sink and tipped the bottle of cologne over onto the
Maureen Fan. “‘Kung Fu Panda’ Hit’s A Sore Spot In China”. Washington Post. Published July 12, 2008. Accessed November 10, 2013.
...fought for what she thought was right. No amount of protection, that her mom tried to offer, could keep this woman from doing what she was meant to do.
In the book Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Suyuan Woo reluctantly left her twin daughters at the side of the road while fleeing from Kweilin. She had reached her limit which was brought upon by being forced to lighten her load while traveling on foot with two babies. Suyuan realized she did not have a high chance of survival with all the casualties from the war, so she trusted her faith in destiny as she carried her slings with her babies until her “hands began to bleed and became too slippery to hold on to anything” (14). By the time Suyuan arrived in Chungking she “had lost everything except three fancy silk dresses” (14). Her sacrifice showed how much Suyuan wanted what was best for her babies even if it meant she would lose them. When Suyuan
Is it because he was a woman that he cried out at the sight of a child being harmed? Did he not cry out at the death of his wife because she was a woman? The role of the female in this story reveals a sense of inferiority towards women. These questions that the story raises show how women were viewed as inferior and weak in the eyes of the Chinese culture.
A newlywed couple is expecting their first child. In her seventh month of pregnancy, the mother is driving to her doctor’s appointment. All of the sudden, she is hit on the driver’s side. She is unconscious and quickly rushed to the hospital. The doctor examines her; her placenta is ruptured. The doctor contacts the father for consent of the emergency caesarean section since the mother is incapacitated. The mother and child are in fatal danger if the doctor does not move quickly. The father consents to the surgery. Once the father arrives at the hospital, he is not allowed in the operating room. As he waits, the doctor comes out and tells him of his child’s birth. However, there were complications, so the child was in the Neonatal Intensive
The plaintiff Michael Aloe, widower of Robin Aleo, brought a suit individually and on behalf of his wife’s estate in Massachusetts/ U.S. First Circuit, against SLB Toys, Amazon.com Inc., Toys “R” Us, and Amazon.com Kids, Inc., after his wife dies from injuries sustained when an inflatable pool slide collapsed while she was sliding down. The decedent was attempting to slide down head first in an inflatable, in-ground swimming pool slide imported and sold by Toys R Us. The pool slide collapsed and caused her to strike her head on the concrete deck of the pool. The decedent fractured two cervical vertebrae and suffered a severed spinal cord. She died the following day after she was removed from life support.
Ann-Mei, Lindo, and Ying Ying subjugated by males because of their sex, and Chinese tradition. Ann-Mei is oppressed in many ways. Her mother is invited to spend time at the home of a wealthy merchant named Wu Tsing. During the night he comes into Ann-Mei's mother's room and rapes her. Despite emotionally scaring Ann-Mei this demonstrates the lack of respect for a woman in China.
...ven though the initial fall to the water was an accident tragically she is denied a decent burial and is buried as a sinner.
In January 2002 a college freshman, Karen Hubbard, bled to death after secretly delivering her baby in a bathroom stall at her dorm. Up until that night no one knew she was pregnant, not her family or her friends.