The Cost of Life

In my opinion the will to survive is withing evryone. As time advances on, the zeal within each persons or creatures mind grows more and more according to the good and bad experiences that occur in ones mind.

In Titanic Rose and Jack zeal to survive was greater then anyone I have ever seen before. For example, as the ship is sinking instead of Rose and Jack giving up whenever he was locked to the pipe they fought through the water and corridors without quiting being an option.  Unlike the elderly couple that layed in the bed and excepted their fate and died with dignity.

In Call of the Wild  Bucks zeal to live is very evident! For example, instead of giving up whenever the men would beat him and knock him down, he would jump up and go right back at them with strength and fury.  If Buck would have given up he would not have become the leader that he wanted to be and became.

140 Character Slant

Doctors save lives in order that their patients get their second chance that everyone deserves to have, whether they know the person or not.

Every year millions of people see doctors for various reasons. These working-class heroes put their own lives at risk every day to save those of the citizens who are plagued by unexpected injuries and illnesses. A doctor survives by providing help to others, having strength, and keeping their composure through the hard times they may encounter.

One way a doctor shows his dedication to saving lives is by helping others.  During Tim Delgado’s private time with his wife Alison Bedingfield, Bedingfield suffered from an aneurysm while lying in bed.  Acknowledging that his wife was having an aneurysm in his article, “Saving a life: A doctor’s duty” Delgado took action.  With Bedingfield struggling to breath and gurgling in pain, Delgado being a Med. Student knew he had to do a tracheotomy. Delgado told himself, “I have to do this.” Without Delgado performing the tracheotomy Bedingfield would have died.  When Delgado is at work his worst fear is having a family member come in injured and not be able to help them.  According to Delgado in his article he felt like he had been “stabbed in the gut” after realizing his patient was his wife. With composure being a key part of a doctor’s job, Delgado loses his, which could mean life or death for his wife.  With his wife’s life at stake Delgado’s instinct kicks in and he begins to give order for medicine to be administered. This ultimately was the wrong amount, but was corrected by nurses silently!  As a doctor’s key role being to help others when in need and keeping their composer at the same time, Delgado illustrates in his article, “When it comes to family, composure is the last thing on a doctor’s mind.”

In order for a doctor to perform his duties to the patient’s best interest he/she must have strength. In Delgado’s article, he shows that with help a person can “achieve small but significant milestones!’ With his wife needing love and a care taker, Delgado left work for three months in order to care for her. While his wife was in the brain clinic she was able to improve her mental abilities by teaching herself new shapes and objects on an iPad. In “Saving a life: A doctor’s duty”, Delgado says, “over the course of two weeks she re-learned motor skills and regained hand-eye coordination enough to go home.”  In order to get Bedingfield back to her normal life, Delgado worked every day for two hours exercising to build her back up. Determination played a key part in Bedingfield’s recovery process. As Delgado stated in his article after she was standing on her own again,”You don’t need me anymore.” This took great determination to get to this point.  Without a doctor having the strength and determination to help his patient get well, then the will to keep going isn’t as high!

In order to save their patients, doctors will go to some extreme measuring by providing care to the wounded by performing surgeries if need be. In Tony Adame’s article,”Surgeon saves lives in dangerous places” Eric Nott was shot while on duty in War and says,” A couple of millimeters one way and I don’t get hit at all… a couple of millimeters the other way and its pretty bad.”  With surgeons in the military, a surgeon could be at war one minute and helping earthquake victims the next.  According to Nott, “I told them I was getting ready to go into surgery, but I would leave as soon as it was over.  A couple of hours later, I was on my way to Haiti.’ That is a great example of how doctors will never know when or where they will be providing care for the wounded. “An orthopedic surgeon saved my life. When my local doctor identified a tumor of the pelvis, he said I need an orthopedic oncologist”, said Kermit Tucker.  Providing a life line to their patients is a major part of a doctor’s job!  After meeting Dr. Nicholas, Tucker says,” His knowledge kindness and confidence convinced me on the spot that he was the doctor for me. And I am glad.”  Dr. Nicholas is a good example of how important it is to doctors to provide care for the sick and go to extreme measure to save someone’s life.

Without doctors helping others, having strength, and performing surgery when surgery is the only way to save someone’s life, many people would not have lived as long as they have now.  What would you do as a patient if a doctor did not have the will or strength to help others or perform surgery if it meant saving your life!

Jack and Rocky

"Our job is very travail," says Rocky
"Rocky, keep looking," says Jack
"But we have been looking all day," said Rocky
"Just give it a little longer, we will find them, I know it," says Jack
"Fifteen minutes, thats all, not a minute more, I am serious," said Rocky

"Jack,I am sorry, I am tired, we have been looking all day, and the weather is turning brumal," said Rocky
"Okay Rocky, but we have to come....," said Jack
"WAIT, Jack look, there they are," said Rocky, moving towards them with great celerity

"See if I would have listened to u we would not have found them tonight," said Jack
"Your just a lucky dog, what do you know, it was pure LUCK," says Rocky
"I am glad we found them whether by luck or faith," says Jack

"That is right Jack, good job and never give up as I almost did," says Rocky
"Thanks Rocky, for not giving up and believing me that we would find them," said Jack

Life Creation

If I was given the opportunity as Francenstein was to create a life, I would not!  With creating a life comes responsibilities and a considerable amount of time.  I would not want to be responsible for a unwonted life that could possible kill or even seriously injure someone.

My first reason why I would not create a life is because, I would be afraid the life would cause harm to others and be very arduous.  If I was to create a life and the life was to do harm to someone all the actions would be put on me for creating a person that was violent.  Life is not suppose to be created for the purpose of use by humans but to enjoy life as the normal society.

My second reason why I would not create life would be because, life is not a joke or a game life is real.  If a person creates a life such as Frankenstein did, he must not know the value of true life.  I enjoy everyday of life and even the obsticles we may face, and if I was to create a life with option of not knowing  the outcome whether it would be normal or not, I would be putting many at risk including myself.  And with the life having a chance of not being normal I would not create it.

With the chance of some sort of accident occuring in the process to create a life, I believe that the negatives outway the positives.  If a life is meant to be created then the highest power will create the life needed.  I believe no human should try to create another life because we are not perfect ourselves therefore we can not complete something perfectly.

2012 Theme Word

I chose the word achieve because I want to get more accomplished in 2012 then what i did in the past years. This year is the big year.  The year that I turn eighteen and become a true adult.  As I look back over the past few years, it seems that I have sorta quit trying as hard as I used to. 

At the age of 17, I have learned that it is time to mature with life and put the childish actions behind me.  As time has pasted over the last few years, I have not changed like I should have.  With me turning 18 in a few months brings new responsibilities into play from my adolescence years to adult hood.

With being a child/teenager comes a few responsibilities, not like adults though.  Becoming an adult to me means finding a job, getting a college degree, and having a family (way in the future).  I chose the word achieve, because  I have set goals to get a college degree and obtain a stable job and living condition within the next ten years or so and am ready to meet and surpass my goals.  Life is meant to achieve at new things, learn new stuff, and meet new people not to fail and do nothing.  Live life setting goals and achieve them all without pausing for a minute until they are complete.

Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."

"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."

"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.


Chunk #1: 
The setting of this novel plays a big role.  If the family had not lived in a farming community then Antonia may not have had to learn to farm and help provide for her family. If Antonia  family lived in a larger city, Antonia may have been a proper lady and gotten married to a wealthy man instead of working in the fields as she does.  By living in the setting that they are and not in a larger city, I believe that it made Mr. Shimerda unhappy with his life and led to him killing himself.  The setting of the novel was not negative for all the characters.  For example, if the Shimerda family would have lived in a larger town then Jim may not have been as responsible as he is now.  With Jim living on a farm he was able to be disciplined and learn to follow instructions given to him and developed hard working skills.



Chunk #2: discuss the effect a setting on you, including imagery (lots of adjectives) and a simile or a metaphor as you describe the land.
The farm land is a form of discipline and a learning strategy.  Farming allows a person to have the opportunity to learn to work hard and learn from hands on experiences. Working on a dirty farm doing hard labor each day teaches a person that he/she has to work for what they want instead of being handed everything to them hand and foot.

Immigrants Should be Helped

Argument: Sending immigrants back without helping them should not be allowed.

Assertion/Claim (Topic Sentence) = Main Idea

• Immigrants should not be sent back without helping them.

Evidence -Concrete Detail:

• Sending immigrants back without help them cause more problems in the long run then just helping them to begin with. 
• Commentary 1: Instead of having to deal with the issue of them returning again illegally just provide them help the first time.
• Commentary 2: The process that is required to deport someone is more expensive then providing them with services to become legal.

•  The deporting process cost millions and takes to long to complete.
• Commentary 1: If the U.S. provided help to immigrants the national debt would not be increased as high as it is with the process they use now of sending them back and would be less rampant immigrants in general!
• Commentary 2: An immigrant must have an attorney for court and if immigrants are not able to afford an attorney they should be appointed one.  This could all be prevented by helping them.
  
• Opposing Claims/They Say:
• Many people believe that deporting illegal immigrants is right, because they should not be allowed to stay if they are already breaking the law. 
• Some think that allowing them to stay leads to more economic problems involving jobs and crime levels to increase.

My Rebuttal/I Say:

• Although I agree with the citizens points to a certain extent, I believe even if they are breaking the law they be allowed the same opportunity to a better life as we are.   

My Paragraph
Immigrants should not be sent back without help.  Sending immigrants back to Mexico causes more problems and expenses in the long run then it would by just helping them to begin with.  Within the US there are several thousand illegal immigrants trying to have a better life for them and their family.   If an immigrant has formed a family, he/she should be allowed to stay and receive help to become legal.  The process that an immigrant has to go through is time consuming and very costly to the U.S.. Once an immigrant has been arrested and has started the deportation process he/she must get an attorney to represent them which most can not afford one so it leads to even more spending.  Immigrants should be allowed the same opportunity for a better life as we are as U.S. residents.

My thinking
Immigrants should be helped instead of just being turned away and deported. Immigrants should have the same rights as U.S. citizens.