The Death Cure, written by James Dashner is a very intense heart pounding book from beginning to end. After Thomas and his friends are captured by WICKED they have the decision to either get their memory back or live in a world not knowing who the were before. But what they don't know is that Thomas knows more than they think. All that Thomas knows may just end up saving all of his friends lives. The main character, Thomas used to work for WICKED. Thomas is the only one that knows who WICKED actually is and what they really want. In this book he is trying to save his friends from being fooled by this evil company. WICKED is going to try to and capture Thomas and his friends. This is going to take Thomas, Newt, Minho, Jorge and Brenda
working together to stop WICKED. I would recommend this book to young teen readers who like action and have enjoyed the books in the past.This books non-stop action will leave you wanting to read the next book. I gave this book a 5 out of 5 stars because of the heart pounding action. I really liked this book and I hope you will too.
Many people have life changing revelations in their lives, but very few people are as young as Jared when he realizes what he does about his life. Ron Rash wrote the short story, "The Ascent," about a young boy's journey that brought him to have a significant revelation about his life. In the story, Rash uses a naive narrator, foreshadowing, and imagery to show the setting of the story that led to Jared's revelation about his life.
In the beginning of the story the main character, Fever Crumb, is rational and reasonable. “Then there was her hair, or rather, lack of hair. The order was keen to hurry humankind into the future, and they believed that hair was unnecessary. Fever shaved her head every other morning.” (8). This quote shows how Fever is rational because she removes things from her life that have more to do with comfort and beauty, which she believes to be irrational, than have to do with usefulness. Fever has been sheltered from irrational things for most of her life so when she is thrust into the city of normal people she doesn't understand why they have or do irrational things. In the end of the book she doesn’t have the same disapproval of irrational things as she does in the beginning. “Fever touched her fuzzy scalp, and tried out a smile. “I’m planning to grow it out.”(324) This shows that Fever doesn’t mind irrational things anymore. Her shaved head was a symbol that she did not fall victim to comfort and beauty but now she is growing her hair back. Initially when Fever interacts with other people she is usually not shy and she will tell them if they are doing something irrational unless she can sense that it has a lot of meaning to them but by the end she no longer cares.
Hunting big game animals for sport was a popular pastime with the wealthy classes following World War I. The morality of killing for sport was not questioned in reality, but in this short story the author does question it by taking it a step further and having the protagonist, Sangor Rainsford, hunted by the antagonist, General Zaroff.In a short story full of irony, one of the greatest ironies of Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” is that General Zaroff repeatedly tells Rainsford that he maintains a sense of civilization on his island.
The ending of the Blood Meridian is both abstruse and compelling. The setting when the kid first walks into town (pp.324) seems almost too familiar. This town could be any number of different towns located throughout the Midwest, but it seems strangely related to the town of Nacogdoches. The Kid, once thought to be on some sort of migratory movement to the West, has now completed a full circle and has returned to the place of his birth. Birth not in the physical sense of being delivered from his mother’s womb, but rather the Kid experienced a rebirth in the form of one of the judge’s “great clay voodoo dolls (pp.13).';
The Dying of the Light is an article by Dr. Craig Bowron that captures the controversy surrounding the role of medication in prolonging life. The author describes that many medical advancements have become a burden to particularly elderly patients who in most instances are ready to embrace the reality of death. Dr. Bowron believes that dying in these modern times has become a tiring and unnatural process. “Everyone wants to grow old and die in his or her sleep, but the truth is most of us will die in pieces,” Bowron notes (Bowron). The article does not advocate for euthanasia or the management of health care costs due to terminal or chronic illness. Bowron faults humanity for not embracing life and death with dignity as it was in the past. He blames the emergence of modern medical advances and democracy as the sole reason why everyone is pursuing immortality or prolonging of life rather than embracing the natural course of things. The article is very articulate and comes out rather persuasive to its target audience that happens to be health-conscious. Craig Bowron uses effective rhetorical strategies such as logos, ethos, and pathos to pass on his message. The article’s credibility is impeccable due to the author’s authority in health matters as he is a hospital-based internist. A better placed individual to dissect this issue by analyzing his experiences in the healthcare profession. The article incorporates a passionate delivery that appeals to the readers’ hopes, opinions, and imagination.
Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides The virgin suicide’s was written by Jeffrey Eugenides it was an interesting and fun Filled novel. There were stressful things that take place that lead to the twist and turns within it, The story is told by men looking back who grew up in the same neighborhood as the Lisbon girls, their lives had forever been changed by their fierce, awkward obsession with the five young sisters: Therese, Mary, Bonnie, Lux, and Cecilia. The men noticed and became very into the sisters when Cecilia tried to commit suicide. She was the first sister to attempt suicide among all the Lisbon sisters. She cut her wrists with her father’s razor blade and laid in a bathtub full of water… she laid in the bathtub full of water so that the blood would bleed out of her faster.
After her diagnosis of chronic kidney failure in 2004, psychiatrist Sally Satel lingered in the uncertainty of transplant lists for an entire year, until she finally fell into luck, and received her long-awaited kidney. “Death’s Waiting List”, published on the 5th of May 2006, was the aftermath of Satel’s dreadful experience. The article presents a crucial argument against the current transplant list systems and offers alternative solutions that may or may not be of practicality and reason. Satel’s text handles such a topic at a time where organ availability has never been more demanded, due to the continuous deterioration of the public health. With novel epidemics surfacing everyday, endless carcinogens closing in on our everyday lives, leaving no organ uninflected, and to that, many are suffering, and many more are in desperate request for a new organ, for a renewed chance. Overall, “Death’s Waiting List” follows a slightly bias line of reasoning, with several underlying presumptions that are not necessarily well substantiated.
Dr. Sandra Wilson (2001) provided great insight on why people do what they do in her book “Hurt People Hurt People”. As a Correctional Case Manager for North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women in North Carolina, I have heard many stories from hurt women who have hurt others and as a result landed in prison. So many times I thought to myself that if this person had received therapy or counseling earlier in life, it’s possible that this circumstance would never have happened. Affect
on the best social and environmental outcome cannot be default of the system. In place
In Thomas Nagel’s “Death,” he questions whether death is a bad thing, if it is assumed that death is the permanent end of our existence. Besides addressing whether death is a bad thing, Nagel focuses on whether or not it is something that people should be fearful of. He also explores whether death is evil. Death is defined as permanent death, without any form of consciousness, while evil is defined as the deprivation of some quality or characteristic. In his conclusion, he reaffirms that conscious existence ends at death and that there is no subject to experience death and death ultimately deprives a person of life. Therefore, he states that Death actually deprives a person of conscious existence and the ability to experience. The ability to experience is open ended and future oriented. If a person cannot permanently experience in the future, it is a bad or an evil. A person is harmed by deprivation. Finally, he claims that death is an evil and a person is harmed even though the person does not experience the harm.
Although Necrophilia is a widely controversial topic, it is also one that is very unheard of: or is it? According to Katherine Ramsland’s “Necrophiles”, it’s a more common crime than it seems. She tells the stories of a variety of necrophiliac serial killers. In “A True Necrophile” by Katherine Ramsland, she also tells the story of the most popular mad men of them all, Ed Gein. As Katherine describes, Ed “apparently just loved bodies”. He used body parts to make ordinary household items such as skin for lampshades and bowls made from human skulls. Eventually, he used his own dead mother’s skin to create a female body suit and mask, using it to cross-dress. Ed was a serial killer, a cannibal, and he got pleasure from
In her book, every patient tells a story Lisa Sanders presents a patient that sought medical help due to a medical or a surgical illness, she then described the steps taken to diagnose to patient and subsequently treat them. She goes into details about what both the doctor and the patient were thinking and their reactions to the diagnosis. She also records her different encounters with the other doctors and their opinions over the ever fading physical examinations and the new high technology testing that is often prioritized. But mainly, great emphasis was placed on the declining use of traditional physical examination in favor of high tech medical testing and newer procedures. Lisa Sanders provides several case examples of what can be overlooked when the physician does not spend adequate time listening to the patient and performing a careful physical examination. Lisa Sanders substantiates her stories by citing quite a bit of research in order to support her contention but she also keeps an open mind and she clearly does not dismiss the value of more modern medical testing procedures but rather she highlights the synergy formed by conjoining those with physical exams to provide a comprehensive analysis.
The scratching of many quill pens can be heard throughout the room. The rustling of papers, the pausing to dip in ink, these are the sounds that mark this building. This the year 700 AD, and these are monks in a little monastery in Ireland. This particular order has stood for hundreds of years, faithfully and quietly living out the Gospel. They arose in the early hours of the morning to spend several hours reciting the Psalms, hymns and Scriptures together, paused, and then did so again. They have eaten a quiet, sober meal together, and then sought to go about their daily labors. Brother Mark has been at his task since, copying the precious manuscript of the Rule of Saint Benedict. It is nearing the evening meal, and if you had been at this work, you would
I thought The Death Cure by James Dashner was a good book, not my favorite of all time, but not the worst. This is the third book in the Maze Runner series. Thomas and his friends are used for experiments by W.I.C.K.E.D a government agency. There is a Disease called The Flare that the population is getting, it makes people crazy turning them into cannibalistic zombies. W.I.C.K.E.D starts doing experiments to try and find a cure for it. This book is about the last experiment, it will tell people if they are immune to The Flare, and which ones already have the awful disease. The evil and corrupt government agency W.I.C.K.E.D tells everyone that they will allow an implant to be taken out of their brains to let them regain their memories. Thomas
As M. Scott Peck describes it in his book The Road Less Traveled, grace is a strong force that helps nurture the spirituality of a being and encourages spiritual growth. In order to explain this powerful force of grace that effects everyone, Peck talks about the miracles of health which humanity experiences unconsciously. One of the things that the miracles of health do is that they help human life and human spirituality grow. They are also not completely understood by scientific thinking. This concept relates back to one of the most important truths of religion and that is that one must have faith. Humanity must accept that not everything is able to be explained scientifically, so humanity must place its faith in God in order to somewhat understand