Healing In Bleachers, By Messina Neely

The play Mission of Mercy was written by Esther Lipnick. It was about a woman becoming a nurse. That woman's name was Florence. Florence Nightingale is many different things. But she is brave more than anything.

In times of struggle, people can be in quite different situations but still come to similar conclusions. Authors Ian McEwan and Paul Elwork, push their protagonists to extremes in their stories but come to a similar conclusion: that to move on in their lives they need to find forgiveness. Briony Tallis in Ian McEwan’s novel ‘Atonement’ leads her family through a long period of denial due to a life-ruining lie she created. Years after the event Briony is still trying to fix her mistakes as she finds she cannot live in a world without reparation. Similarly, Emily Stewart in Paul Elwork’s novel ‘The Girl Who Would Speak for the Dead’ lies to people who, after the recent war, are grieving for

The inner conflict he has going on is bogging him down. During the four days in the book, he has often changed the subject if anyone mentions his previous career. “I don’t want to talk about football, okay? I don’t want to hear how great I was (71),” is what he says to Paul Curry at Renfrow’s Café one day. Football leaves a bad taste in his mouth. Coach Rake influences Neely’s hard feelings. Rake is tough and mean; he assaults Neely during halftime of a 1987 game. After the altercation, and the knee injury, Neely says things like, “I wish I’d never seen a football (14).” However, during Rake’s funeral, Neely’s attitude changes. He actually uses “the L-word” toward his old coach. Paul Curry says that maybe the reason Rake picks Neely to do the eulogy is a way for Rake to finally make peace with Neely. If that is what Rake intended, it worked. Had Neely not been so stubborn all of those post-football years, he could have made up with Rake. He could have stayed in Messina instead of running away from his past. All he needed to do was accept Rake’s apology. In the eulogy, Neely says, “With each success in life, you want Rake to know about it… And you want to thank him for teaching you that success is not an accident (222).” As hard as it is to accept the fact that he actually loves Coach Rake, Neely does it; he accepts it. Neely finally buries that hatchet that he has held on to for so

In his eulogy, he explained how much he had loved his players and how he could not express it very well and did by simply saying in it, “I loved my players” (Grisham 203). The bigger part was telling the truth about the state title game in 1987. The whole town was in the dark on what had happened that night when they won the state title and he told the truth in front of the whole town. With this he sincerely apologized to Neely Crenshaw for his actions and behavior and hoped he would forgive him so Neely could move on with his life. In a way, Rake forgave himself for the things he did. Self forgiveness is something that is very difficult to do and this took him until he was on his death bed to come to this conclusion. Neely was one of the three that gave a speech in honor of their great coach. In his speech he finally could say that he forgave his coach. It took fifteen bitter years to finally come to this conclusion. Neely had said, “I would forgive him, another promise I failed to keep, until now” (Grisham 221). He had been yelled and screamed at by Rake. Pushed around and individually assaulted, but in the end and after his passing, Neely loved his coach and knew he was a huge inspiration in his life.

We also learn about the new SAT and its essay component, which some college completely ignore. Some college and universities are eliminating their requirement for the SAT or ACT in an effort to minimize their importance and stress that surrounds them.

The author’s melancholic, yet, optimistic tone expresses his resolve to forgive his father. Bragg’s harrowing, but coveted recollections of the past paint a far-flung, yet hopeful chance of remission:

Dorothy Allison’s essay, Panacea, recalls the fond childhood memories about her favorite dish, gravy. Allison uses vivid imagery to cook up a warm feeling about family meals to those who may be a poor family or a young mother. Appeal to the senses shows this warm feeling, along with a peaceful diction.

Some Kind of Courage, is written for children between fifth and eighth grade in terms of

Twenty-eight-year-old Anthony Frederico was fired from his dream job as a sports reporter after making the mistake of publishing an article with a racist headline. After years filled with regret over his career-ending mistake, Frederico finds new life as a Catholic priest living by the word of god (Zauzmer 1). The world is teeming with second chances and forgiveness, which is a recurring theme in the novel, The Other Wes Moore and the classic, The Scarlet Letter. The theme of second chances is supported throughout these narratives using the literary elements of imagery and stream of consciousness.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan follows multiple Chinese-American women who struggle with their self-identity and creating a balance between American and Chinese culture. Because of their immigration and many hardships in life, many of the women feel like they cannot truly tell who they are anymore, and throughout the novel these women are portrayed as ghosts. Ghosts are used to symbolize these women because they share many parallels including being only a remnant of who they once were, or who they could be. Ying-ying St. Clair is one of the women, who has a daughter named Lena St. Clair, she has had a troubled past in China, which has made her lose her fighting spirit, and her spirit in general. Ying-ying is fully aware of her loss of spirit and is embarrassed because she considers ghosts to be shameful and weak, and wants to save her daughter, Lena, from her fate.

In most situations the term power is looked at between one person or group and another. The same perspective from the textbook “Interpersonal Conflict” written by Joyce Hocker and William Wilmot can be applied when looking at the lack of internal power when going through a phase of depression. The type of power, level of power, solutions, as well as the RICE perspective can all be associated with myself and my depressed state I went through for a few months.

The character Finnie Walsh in Steven Galloway’s novel “Finnie Walsh”, is portrayed as a young man who is responsible, loyal and committed. In the beginning of the novel, Finnie feels partially responsible for the injury to his best friend Paul’s dad’s arm. He and Paul had been playing hockey in the driveway and all the shots Finnie did not save thumped on the garage door, keeping Paul’s dad awake. As a result, he went to work on his fourth night shift extremely exhausted and lost his arm up to the elbow. Over the next fifteen years, Finni tries to make up for the part he played in the injury.

“The Upper Extremity” article written by Irene Dowd is about how we commonly use our front space, but never seem to find what is in our backspace. As humans we tend to always go with our habitual habits instead of finding new things that could surprise us in the end. Our bodies can move in different ways, we’re just not use to. In this article, Irene discussed different exercises that she went through from childhood until to discover what helped for her and how she changed her lifestyle for the better.

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Empathy is often described as having consideration of someone else feelings. Webster defines empathy as, the feeling that you understand and share another 's experience and emotions. Empathy consists of having the ability to feel another person 's feelings and the ability to place oneself in another person shoes or situation. In counseling, the therapist is expected to show empathy for their clients whose experiences are different from the counselor. The role of the counselor is to support the client with any issues or concerns. The role empathy plays in counseling.