Alexander J. Maloney: A Short Story

After a stressful situation with Montag and her friends, Mildred automatically took her sleeping pills to forget the whole ordeal. This can be connected to today’s world and people with addiction. Whether it be drugs, alcohol, or entertainment, people decide to drown themselves in different substances to forget instead of tackling the problem head on. Many people today die from overdoses and struggle greatly to overcome their addictions, which is a major issue.

In her first paragraphs, Talbot introduces a Harvard student by the name of "Alex". Alex is shown as a normal college student who wants to keep a balanced life between school and friends, but finds it challenging without the use of Adderall. Talbot goes on to explain that Alex got started on these drugs because he found "life to be impossible" to live without its use (para. 2). Alex's reliance on drugs was not the only personal account that Talbot brings up. In fact later in her article, Talbot brings up a business man by the name of Nicholas Seltzer. Talbot mentions that Seltzer had a different outlook for the use of the drugs than Alex did. She even marks to mention that Seltzer saw his habit as a "pursuit that aligns him with a larger movement for improving humanity"(para.12). By comparing the two personal interviewers, Talbot is able to connect to a more open audience and is able to prove her point with the use of these real life evidence. As more readers connect to these personal interviews the more they realize how the use of drugs has been increasing because they can connect to Talbots real life

“Jerry McCall is Dr. Williams’s office assistant. He has received professional training as both a medical assistant and a LPN. He is handling all the phone calls while the receptionist is at lunch. A patient calls and says he must have a prescription refill for Valium, an antidepressant medication, called in right away to his pharmacy, since he is leaving for the airport in thirty minutes. He says that Dr. Williams is a personal friend and always gives him a small supply of Valium when he has to fly. No one except Jerry is in the office at this time”.

Chris McCandless, a straight-A student out of Emory University, was a brilliant and eccentric young man bound for law school. Twenty-four thousand dollars intended for tuition and a supportive, upperclass family seemingly predisposed his future. However, much to his family and friends’ surprise, Chris chose a radically different path. The path he chose not only defined his own existence, but the lives of all his future acquaintances. New faces, new experiences, and new triumphs were in store for Chris McCandless in his escapade throughout the United States.

2. The female journalist telling the story mentions that she was “torn” while attempting to write the piece on the doctor and the medicine to deal with addiction. Why was she torn?

He saw all of his old stoner friends going to jail too, he heard they also started to get killed because they took part in some gang activities. After Dylan’s freshman year, he finally straighten his life up and stopped smoking and doing anything bad anymore. He got his grades up at the end of the semester to straight B’s, he got very athletic during the summer and he joined the football team. He was a the Quarterback’s favorite wide receiver, mainly because they’ve gone together for so long. Andrew was the head Quarterback now and the dynamic duo made the Texas High School Football State Championship. The night before the game Andrew and Dylan slept together and Dylan couldn’t go to sleep because he was so nervous, he remembered how he came from having a addiction for weed into the state championship for football. “What you thinking about Dylan?” said Andrew. “Man I can’t get over how far we have came, from being the back-up of the team to leading us to a state championship or battling a addiction of weed.” “Yeah, it’s kind of crazy to think about isn't it. But we still have a championship to win and after that, we can relax and reflect on what we have done.” said Andrew as he shut off the last slither of light in the room. “Good night Andrew.”

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The narrator in “A&P” learned that he has to face his problem head on and not turn to other substances to take them away for him so he doesn’t have

Alexander, is the son of King Philip ll, he just wanted to be great like his dad. He was a good man, until he got introduced to alcohol. His life was then changed. He started drinking, and drinking, and drinking. He did many bad things while he was drunk. He did things like, killing people, burning cities, and he even killed his best friend. Being drunk changed his life majorly, we he started becoming rude to

Ash was in bed late morning he felt solemn, lonely; he did go to work because he wanted the day off because he didn’t want anybody to see him especially when he didn’t accept of building the anti-bully rehab. “Wait the rehab; I am going to do it build it and when I’m done and my son is out the shock of coma I am going to take him there, but if he awakes…… if he wakes up……” he starts crying. After a while he gets up gets ready for work he gets there and starts planning it out… “You get the contract for the anti-bully rehab; you get me a lot of blue prints for the anti-bully rehab, you get me coffee, you change the project of the week to the anti-bully rehab” he keeps working

To get away from the current reality of his relationship with his wife and his jealousy of Robert, the narrator uses mind-diverting substances. He explains: “I smoked dope and stayed up as long as I could my wife and I hardly went to bed at the same time“(209). Narrator’s jealousy on blindness of Robert and failure to understand feelings of his wife drives him to use drugs to get

Corners after alleys, she checked everything, what could be missing? Tired, she left to get lunch, with her work partner, Francisco Vonnefoy(or Francis Bonnefoy). "Good day, Adelina." He smiled and offered her a seat. "Hi." She said, blankly. "Just a hi? What's wrong with ya today?" "I'm fine."

They doctors told him he had had a seizure again. They were only getting worse, and his medication wasn’t making it any easier. Alex was a nineteen year old college drop-out with what the doctors called temporal lobe epilepsy

Christopher Bogart, CEO of Burford Capital, a leading capital provider to the global legal industry, sat in his illustrious office on Madison Avenue in New York City. Prior to joining Burford Capital, Christopher spent more than 20 years working at Time Warner, including as the Executive Vice President & General Counsel. On one side of his desk sat a report on the spectacular rates of return of Burford Capital’s investments. On the other, sat a report describing the growth of contingency fee litigation. Christopher knew Burford Capital had a track record of stellar returns, but he worried perhaps that was about to change. Christopher knew that Fortune 500 companies increasingly were encouraging law firms to help underwrite cases and as law

He dropped a dollar into the tip jar and scrambled back to his seat, a table for two tucked away in the corner but with a clear view of the front door. He took a sip of his latte and scowled. The flavor wasn’t the problem – the coffee here was the best in Lake Avalon – it was his damn nerves. And why had he ordered a drink with so much caffeine? A water would have been a safer choice, preferably one laced with a strong anti-anxiety drug. But no, he sipped a drink that would infuse his bloodstream with a stimulant he didn’t need, and he’d probably have a heart attack. He pictured the headline of his obituary: Percival King, Dead of a Heart Attack at Age Twenty-Two. He Should Have Stuck with Decaf.