Essay Salvage the Bones

“I do what I can for them, but it is not enough… though their bandages unravel… believe me I love them…” establishes conflict and insight on the complex relationship between the novelist and the characters in the novel “Marching Through a Novel” by John Updike. Updike shows the complexity of being a novelist and creating characters through personification and metaphors.

The skeletal system is made up of cartilage and bone. Both bone and cartilage are connective tissues, that is, they are composed of cells in a matrix with intracellular fibers. Just imagine connective tissue as a gelatin salad with grapes and coconut. The grapes would represent cells, the gelatin the support material for matrix, and the pieces of coconut the intracellular fibers. By changing the amounts of each ingredient and adding extra substances, we can produce a material that is very hard like bone and can withstand weight or softer like cartilage which can be used as a cushioning material.

Malmar McKnight’s frightening story, “The Storm”, weaves a violent storm and murder together to heighten the horrific fears that engulf Janet Willsom. “The Storm” is a combination of Mother Nature, Janet’s emotions, and her heartbreaking dilemmas. The eerie mood is revealed throughout the story. Figurative language helps the reader bring the story to life in his/ her mind. The author’s use of irony is devolved through Janet’s changed perception of the storm.

In Written in Bone the readers were informed about the difficulties of the past and how we have improved on them. For example on pages 90-91 the author wrote about Rickets, a disease caused by not enough sunlight

This graphic novel accurately depicts the reality that faced New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Eighty percent of the city was able to evacuate, and when the mayor issued a mandatory evacuation Sunday before the storm hit, it was too late for the police to enforce the orders. Drowned City goes into detail about the people who were left behind. Don Brown, the author, conducted interviews with rescuers and survivors to gain insight into what it was really like after Katrina hit, so the story is a compilation of all of the interviews. The devastation resulted in the levees breaking, looting, drowning, clouds of gnats and cockroaches, poisonous snakes in the high water, and even a Navy barge rolling through the streets. Brown also highlights

Book Review: Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by

Dave Eggers is the author of many common read books. One of his known reads is a true story titled Zeitoun, about a Syrian-American living in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina. Eggers uses many strategies throughout this story to involve the audience and get a sense of how people lived through Hurricane Katrina. Consequently, he narrowed into one particular family’s tribulations, and that family happened to be the Zeitouns. Many times throughout the book, Zeitoun, Eggers exhibits the rhetorical appeals; ethos, logos, and pathos in order to support his argument.

Guelas 1Armina GuelasAnthony PratoURST 241.100111 March 2018Midterm Assignment: Hurricane KatrinaThereis not much of an argument to be made against the idea that Hurricane Katrina was a complete political disaster in terms of intergovernmental relations; there is no hiding that no one was ready to handle the storm or its aftermathby way of everyone’s general lack of response. The federal, state, and local governments are all to be blamed for the political fallout of Katrina. Itis difficult to point a finger at any single government, person, or organization when almost all of them were at fault in some way. Everyone was waiting for someone else to take action, and when no one did, they (all of the agencies, governments, and people)

This week the students will begin an assignment that requires them to complete a short writing piece from a predetermined storyline. Its purpose is to help the students to use detail in their writing. The students are given four sentences that tell a story, which is lacking detail. They are to add 3 or more sentences after each sentence they were given, which fills out the story, and the assignment requires a minimum of 16 sentences. The students must maintain the story storyline. The assignment is called Skeleton Writing, and it is due Friday. We are taking a break from AOW (Article of the Week) assignment this week, so the students can concentrate on the Skeleton writing.

“There's no hope left, the whole house is going to burn,” i yell out in fear as the ravishing heat hits my face as if it was a sucker punch. Macey calls all her children and the 4 kids run in order outside the house. “Wheres Ben !?” “We couldn't help him ma, the door collapsed and we couldn't go into his room to help him,” Will whimpers on the floor sobbing his pain away. In a heartbeat we see MAcey run in for her child, we yell out , “don't go, there isn’t nothing we can do!” She's gone in a beat of a second. Will escapes my grasp and follows his mother. Cracks are heard the house was tilting and in a blink of an eye it all collapse. My world had fallen into ashes like my home, my life had endured at that moment a pain that is un-humane, something that man suffers when their life is coming to an end. I had lost more than just a home, i had lost pieces of my within that burning

“Sometimes,” said Dr. Stedman, “it can take years to construct an exhibit.” “Wow”! Said Lilla as she watched Dr. Stedman work on a brontosaurus skeleton. “First we have to clean and repair the bones,” he said. “Do you mean you glue broken ones back together,” asked Lilla. “Yes they we make plaster replacements for any bones that are missing,” he replied. “We have to put steel rods inside the bones so they Don’t collapse” he added. “It seems like doing a jigsaw puzzle,” said Lilla. “That’s true,” he said. “It’s like doing the biggest puzzle in the world.”

In everyday life people always have negative things happen to them. It doesn't matter if your the president somethings always going to happen. Good things always happen after something bad has happens. Like breaking a bone or losing a loved one that happens to everyone.

Normally the bone tissue is continually renewed by remodelling which is balanced between osteolysis by osteoclasts and bone formation by the osteoblasts. As Mrs Hetherington has been diagnosed with bony metastases this alters the balance of the bone remodelling which favours either osteolytic or osteoblastic metastases (Farrell & Dempsey, 2014, p 1813). As the bone is altered by either osteolytic or osteoblastic metastases the neighbouring bone tissue reacts also by altering its normal remodelling pattern. Thus begins a vicious cycle of bone destruction and tumour growth. As these bone tumour grow in size or increase throughout the bone they weaken the structure of the bone until the point where the bone can no longer support ordinary use

Moreover, a less precedented consequence of consuming excessive amounts of fast food is the compromise of the health of the immune system. The new processes of how fast food is processed, increases the risk of contracting immune disorders as the membrane of such cells, become altered because of the large amounts of unhealthy ingredients. In point of fact, the molecules which compose junk food, bear the possibility to alter the bone marrow, inevitably modifying the frame of the genome of an individual. In an experiment with mice, it exemplified that these animals which ate a substantial amount of processed food, were not merely fat, yet there was an inflammation in the marrow, which was contracted to a normal, healthy mouse. Thus, through this

Thursday, August 25, 2005, 7pm. She looks around at her family huddled close together in safety, her mother sobbing. She feels a wave of fear encompass her. She closes her eyes tight in hopes that this too shall pass. When she opens them, she sees the one thing she prayed she would not: devastation. Her house: gone. Her school: gone. Her family: gone. Her sense of security: shattered. Who can she turn to? Where can she go? She does not know the severity of what just happened. She does not know her world was just turned upside down. She does not know she is a Hurricane Katrina survivor.