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1 It was exactly a 11 years ago when Amanda became paralyzed. Amanda remembers her mother freaking out and crying because she had no clue what to do. The day started off as a Wednesday morning, it was the first day of eleventh grade. Amanda Grace, who became paralyzed from the waist down when she was five years old, was heading to school. Amanda had long dark brown hair and is five foot and one inch tall. Her great grandmother was paralyzed when she was younger around the age five. That's how Amanda became paralyzed. She had gotten her great-great grandmother’s genetics. When she got to school she saw Wrecking Single, a five member boy band, by the front door. Wrecking Single was a popular boy band group. They had a variety of music. …show more content…
Pop, Country and hip hop. Three of the boys had dark brown hair and green eyes. One had golden blond hair and ocean blue eyes, and the last guy had black charcoal hair with hazel eyes. There were so many people crowding them. Amanda wondered if she would be able to squeeze through the door. Amanda had never heard of the band before. So, Amanda carried on with her wheelchair to her next class of the day, math.
Minutes passed as Amanda was trying to find her locker. Then out of nowhere came six big tenth grade boys. They were on their way to meet up with some friends and purposely tripped over Amanda’s wheelchair leaving it tilt to the side. They meant to push her over, because they were the bullies of the school. Also, Amanda was in their way, and the boys wanted to catch up with their friends. Instead of helping Amanda up, they decided to leave Amanda on the ground. “Can I get some help please?” Amanda shouted. No one came. All the teachers were by the front of the building greeting the new students coming into the building .Two minutes later, Louis, from Wrecking Single, was heading towards Amanda. He said, "Are you ok? Sorry that happened. I did not see you at first." Louis called the other boys over to help her up. Wrecking Single gave Amanda two Wrecking Single tickets and two backstage passes to their summer concert. One week later, Amanda Grace was at their concert with her mother. Amanda was enjoying the concert very much. Every time she would look at Louis, Louis would look back. It was love at first sight. When the concert was over, Amanda went backstage to see the boys. Louis gave her a kiss. Amanda said, “Why did you kiss me?” Louis never replied, and there was an awkward stare between them. Amanda asked again, “Why did you kiss
me?”
Chloe Valentine lived in Ingle Farm with her mother Ashlee Polkinghorne, 23 and her mother’s partner Benjamin McPartland, 28 . Together they thought it was a good joke to force Chloe to drive a motorbike three times her weight . The motorbike was a 50cc dirt bike of 50kg while Chloe only weighed 17kg . Chloe’s estimated speed on the motorbike while driving was 40km/hr . During this time she became unconscious after falling off the motorbike numerous times and was only submitted into the Women’s and Children’s Hospital eight hours and a half after the incident . Shortly after submitting Chloe into hospital, Ashlee Polkinghorne had left and Chloe valentine died on January 20th 2012 .
Downing uses the strength from her competitive athlete days to help her learn to live with paralysis on her own terms. From an early age, the author became involved in sports, competing on the swim team, diving and gymnastics; however, in her early twenties cycling became her beloved sport of choice. During a conversation with her physical therapist, Downing quickly found out the hardest part of her injury is
I will be evaluating the case of Angela and Adam. Angela is a white 17 year old female and Adam is her son who is 11 months old (Broderick, P., & Blewitt, P., 2015). According to Broderick, P., & Blewitt, P., (2015) Angela and her baby live with her mother, Sarah, in a small rental house in a semirural community in the Midwest. Adam’s father, Wayne, is estranged from the family due to Sarah refusing to allow him in the house however, Angela continues to see him without her mother’s permission which is very upsetting for Sarah. Angela dropped out of high school and struggles raising her son (Broderick, P., & Blewitt, P., 2015). With all that is going on in Angela and Sarah’s life right now their relationship has become strained and hostile which
Sixth grader Jodee enrolled at a private academy and the first few months were without incident. Jodee reveled in having friends and tried to do everything right to stay in good standing. The trouble started when she called her mother to leave the party early. Jodee begged her mother not to tell her what was going on with the twelve-year-olds—but they were all caught in the act. Monday morning at school she found her favorite suede shoes floating in a toilet bowl of urine with a note attached—“Bitch, this is just the beginning.”
Amanda Wingfield is mother of Tom and Laura. She is a middle-aged southern belle whose husband has abandoned her. She spends her time reminiscing about the past and nagging her children. Amanda is completely dependent on her son Tom for finical security and holds him fully responsible for her daughter Laura's future. Amanda is obsessed with her past as she constantly reminds Tom and Laura of that " one Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain when she once received seventeen gentlemen callers" (pg.32). The reader cannot even be sure that this actually happened. However, it is clear that despite its possible falsity, Amanda has come to believe it. Amanda also refuses to acknowledge that her daughter Laura is crippled and refers to her handicap as " a little defect-hardly noticeable" (pg.45). Only for brief moments does she ever admit that her daughter is crippled and then she resorts back into to her world of denial and delusion. Amanda puts the weight of Laura's success in life on her son Tom's shoulders. When Tom finally finds a man to come over to the house for diner and meet Laura, Amanda blows the situation way out of proportion. She believes that this gentlemen caller, Jim, is going to be the man to rescue Laura. When in fact neither herself nor Laura has even met this man Jim yet. She tries to explain to Laura how to entertain a gentleman caller; she says-talking about her past " They knew how to entertain their gentlemen callers. It wasn't enough for a girl to be possessed of a pretty face and a graceful figure although I wasn't slighted in either respect.
Amanda was a woman who lives in a world of fantasy and reality. In the past memory and the future of the fantasy made Amanda very strong, but in the face of reality she was fragile. Just like Tom used to explain “I give you truth in the
Her eyes were heavy, her body weak. As she crawled into the bathroom two feet away, Abby felt her body slowly succumbing to the numbness. All of her pain would be gone in less than 10 minutes, so why would she want to turn back? What about the senior trip Abby had planned with her best friend? What about the chair at the dinner table that would now be vacant? A couple of hours later Abby’s family came home from her little sister’s soccer game. Little did they know what they would find as they approached the top of the stairs. Her little sister, Ali, stood still as she looked down at her feet. There on the cold floor lay her big sister, her role model, and her super hero. Ali was crushed when she saw the pill bottle in her hand and the pale color of her skin. Her mom fell to her knees screaming and crying, wondering where she
The bus came to a screeching halt, the students stood up and started gathering their things. Sophomore Destiny Oatts trudged down the steps, ready to get off and go into school when she lost her footing and fell forward.
Janie and Sarah make their way to Jeremy's locker. When he sees them, he asks when Sarah with have her bass. She hadn’t been
All of the students started walking toward the east field where the lockers were located. Of course Stephanie S. Stufflebeam was near the mermaid fountain closest to Elizabeth’s locker. Stephanie’s honey yellow hair was straightened, her green eyes stared Elizabeth down like a hawk, and she wore a hot pink tube top with a short, short skirt. When Elizabeth came into ear range, Stephanie grabbed a megaphone and shouted: “ Hey, loser! A little birdie told me that your mom got a new job! How much does it pay?” She looked at me hard then everyone else, “what do you all think?”. Her best friend Paige shouted “I bet that stupid, little restaurant that no one goes to and where no one gets paid very much, I mean look at those jeans!”. Everyone started
As a precocious three-year-old, Jeannette often cooked herself hot dogs on the stovetop. One day while doing so, the gas flame catches on her dress and fire zips up her torso. Terrified, she calls for help and Mom dashes to her, wraps her in a blanket, and a neighbor drives them to the hospital. At the hospital, the nurses place her on a bed of ice; Jeannette's younger brother, Brian, steals a chunk of ice and eats it.
Joni was a young girl when she injured her spine. Her and her friends had gone to Chesapeake Bay to go swimming when she misjudged the depth of the water where she dove in. She was only 17 years old, her life had changed in that moment forever. Joni had fractured her vertebrae that left her paralyzed from the shoulders down and was now considered a
First, Laura displays a greater physical drive that Amanda does not have to go through. In scene 7, Laura tells the reader what it was like every day in high school. Laura says,
Mason, Dylan, and Avery drove up in one car. Brinley, Harper, and Ethan in the second. Then me, Ashton, Leighton, and Liam in the third. Liam was helping direct Ashton since he had never actually driven there himself.
Gabby took a bullet to the brain and it left her in critical condition. The Congresswoman from Arizona since has been able to relearn how to talk—a feat partly credited to music therapy. The bullet hit her in the left side of the brain, mainly where things such as speech are controlled, as to where her words had abandoned her. Since speech is triggered by the left side of the brain and music is controlled all over, scientists have discovered that speech can be mended once again on the right side of the brain. That’s exactly what happened to Gabby. She would go to intense one-hour therapy sessions. The therapy can be frustrating and emotional for aphasic patients, whose inability to speak is no reflection on their intelligence. Another individual who music therapy has helped is a young man named Chis Stephan who before his incident was a football player at their high school. Chris got injured in a car accident one night and sustained a traumatic brain injury. The doctors were concerned when a week later he still had not awoken from his coma, as to where he awoke thirty days later he still needed help getting back to being himself. That is where music therapy stepped in. The music and sessions helped Chris to make his voice stronger and louder as they sing songs and do breathe support exercises with music. His walking also has become more rhythmic and faster as he practices walking to the rhythm of the