The Death Of A Boy

Imagine this. There is a fifteen-year-old girl walking into first block at her high school. She is trying to remember what is due today for her first class and the rest to follow. Today is a different day though; it is the one-year anniversary of her stepbrother committing suicide. Not everyone knows that today is the day, but she doesn’t want to talk about it. She is stressed about the homework she might not have done and her mind is in so many different places. The first bell rings so she takes her seat and looks at the board. A worksheet was due and she hadn’t completed it. Swiftly walking around the room, the teacher comes to collect the worksheet, but she hadn’t completed it. The girl doesn’t pass her worksheet forward and tries to explain to the teacher it was a rough day, but the teacher does not care. Sitting there blankly, the girl is still thinking about her brother instead of school. The day carries on, but still the girl is not mentally in school. Her grade book reflects the bad day and the teachers that didn’t care enough to listen to the student. The student is more stressed out than before and her mind is going crazy. Sinking deeper and deeper into a whole that cannot be climbed out of she tries to forget about the couple bad grades. Its just one bad grade, that wont hurt right? Until next week when she has family problems at home and one bad grade turns into two bad grades. The stress once again rises and no one is willing to listen. Teachers, parents,

Temptation is the root of all evil. Temptation has been seen since the beginning of humanity. It was seen in the start of some religions, and in most forms of literature. Throughout time and the different kinds of literature I have been exposed to, I have come to the realization that most often it is the youth that falls into temptation. Youthful temptations throughout history suggest that humanity has not changed over time.

I believe we are defined by events that happen throughout our lives both passivity and negatively. Most of the events that change people’s paths often happen suddenly in their life and sometimes have long term effects. Whether it is a personal, religious, life style, or even a career change the fact still remains the cause for change was caused by the event.

Death and dying is a natural and unavoidable process that all living creatures will experience at some point in life, whether it is one’s own person death or the death of a close friend or family member. Along with the experience of death comes the process of grieving which is the dealing and coping with the loss of the loved one. Any living thing can grieve and relate to a loss, even children (Shortle, Young, & Williams, 1993). “Childhood grief and mourning of family and friends may have immediate and long-lasting consequences including depression, anxiety, social withdrawal, behavioral disturbances, and school underachievement” (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2006, p. 61). American children today grow up in cultures that attempt to avoid grief and

We must pray against temptation at least two times per day, in the morning and when we go to bed. Truly, if we do not make this prayer, temptation will overcome us. There are many traps that Satan has laid in our path, and we do not know where he has placed them, only the Holy Spirit knows about them. We must never count on our own strength to overcome temptation, as we will fail dismally in this regard. Every Christian must depend on the strength of God and that strength only comes through

Temptation is something that we all, Christian or not, face everyday. How we choose to respond to it is crucial. Temptation is lurking behind every tabloid that we read, every person we see walking down the street and every choice that we have to make. Temptation comes in all shapes and sizes, and it always caters to our sinful desires. The temptation to cheat on a diet, the temptation to buy revealing clothes, or the temptation to talk to that person that you know would lead you down a bad path. Whether the temptation is miniscule or gigantic, it will always lead to destruction. Especially with all the social media that we have today, it is so easy as a teenager to get all caught up in temptations and not even realize it. For me, a simple way to eliminate temptation would be to delete the social media apps off my phone. Although it may seem drastic, it would free up my time so that I could be filling my mind with things more beneficial such as reading the Bible, and it would cut away some of the pointless distractions that have become such a big focus in my

Today, right now, there’s a gathered flag being handed to a sobbing young woman, her little young five year old boy is tugging at her black dress, “Mommy, don’t cry, Daddy is just sleeping.”

Has your sense of temptation ever influenced you to do something, whether it be something as innocent as stealing from the cookie jar, or rebelling against your parents by sneaking out to go to a party? Temptation is a desire to do something, especially something wrong or unwise. “Usually temptation has two parts, the part that benefits you, and the part that’s a consequence”(Andrews).

Imagine having the time of your life. The day going smoothly but then it just turns for the worst. Imagine having the biggest, worst, or horrifying cut or accident in your life as a kid, having the cut leave a scar and having to see it every time you move your arm or look at your arm. Imagine little tangles of pain when seeing it or just remembering the story or having your arm and body tremble in pain while writing this essay because of the sensation the cut give you when it happened. Reflecting on how stupid kids are when young and have someone’s stupid mistake can have a never ended sensation of pain.

The death of a child is experienced with great resistance because it is understood as an interruption in the life cycle—often seen as untimely and unfair. Pediatric nurses care for children in high-mortality environments, such as the pediatric intensive care and oncology units and, as a result, are directly affected by childhood death (Papadatou, 2000). Caring for a dying child and their family is an emotionally charged situation (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2000; Catlin and Carter, 2001; Stutts and Schloemann, 2002). Nurses spend much time caring for their patients but forget to look after themselves. Caring for the nurse is an often-forgotten component of nursing that can affect quality of care.

I chose A Dog’s Death to write about because it touched my heart. From the first line, I could tell that it was not going to be a good ending. I have lost animals before and I know what that emptiness feels like. I thought that I could not be whole again without my pet. In the poem, the author takes me through several emotions as well as several images and in the end sadness, sympathy for the owner and then empathy for the actions of the dog before she died (Clugston, 2010). The author uses the reader/response technique so that we can see and feel all the emotions of having a loved one die, whether it is a pet or a

Loss is a process that everyone must experience in their life. The death of a loved one is an incredibly difficult loss to overcome. The death of a loved one could happen anytime in a person’s life and never becomes easy to cope with. Although everyone must confront this reality, not all cope with their grief in the same manner. One person’s grieving process could differ to another’s with differing variables, such as: length of process, details of loss, manifestations, and severity of grief. People’s grieving processes may slightly differ from one another, but as long as an individual is able to work through it, then they will eventually be able to eventually conquer their grief. The majority of individuals have the ability to overcome the grief from the loss of a loved one, but there is a minority that have complications. It is important to understand how individuals were able to work through their grief and why others were not able to reconcile the loss of their loved one. Losing a loved one is extremely painful, and pain that one incurs after the loss of a loved one will never disappear, as the individual must learn to live with the pain.

Observation: Last week, a ball dispenser was out for the children to play with. It was on the top of the shelf and “Child A” was trying to reach for it. “Do you want the ball dispenser ‘Child A’?”, I said. I took it from the shelf and put it on the floor; “Child A” sat down. I pressed the switch and the ball came out from the ball dispenser. He smiled and I said, “Oh! There it is!” as the ball rolled on the floor. He stood up walked towards the ball and picked it up. He walked back and put the ball into the ball dispenser. He stared at it for two seconds and he looked at me and said “ooh” as he raised his hands on his side. I said, “Where is it, ‘Child A’? Where did the ball go?”. I held his hand and guide it towards the switch, and pressed it. He laughed and I clapped my hands when the ball came out from the dispenser, “Yaay! You found it, ‘Child A”, I said. He imitated me and clapped his hands as well. He put the ball in again and stared at it; I kept on looking at him to see if he would press it. He kept on looking at me and on the candy dispenser while saying, “Ooh ohhh”. “Where is it, ‘Child A’? What do we have to do?”, I said. He was still looking at me and on the ball dispenser. I assisted his hands on the switch again and after three tries he did it by himself. Earlier today, children were playing with the ball dispenser as well. They were dancing whenever they hear the music it plays whenever the switch was pressed.

Once, a very long time ago, a boy lived happily with his mother. The boy was chubby and small; he had very dark hair and extremely large glasses; he seemed to be a flibbertigibbet, an oddball child with a very introverted outlook on life along with knowledge beyond his years. He and his mother were but simple Dysart folk that brought no harm to anyone, but harm unfortunately came their way in the form of the mother becoming very ill with a stroke. This caused a great deal of difficulty for the boy as his persistently inebriated older brother, Stephen, whom he hoped he would not have to live with, had to become his sole custodian. The boy was only eleven when this terrible thing happened.

Temptation is an unavoidable part of life that has been around since the creation of the world and man. After the creation of man, God placed him in the Garden of Eden, and gave him dominion over the Garden and everything in it. The only command given to man, by God, was to not eat from one particular tree or he would die. In an act of rebellion against God, Satan approached Eve and persuaded her to eat from the tree that God forbade them from eating. This persuasion included lying to Eve about dying and that they would be like God (Genesis 3:4-5, NIV). On top of the lies, “the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye” (Genesis 3:6, NIV). Satan placed Eve in a situation where she gave in to her desires, lust for the fruit, envy and greed to be like God, these are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Just because Satan tempted Eve does not mean that she sinned, “temptation is not to be equated with sin” (Towns, The Essential Element of Sin, 2002). Eve acted on her desires and ate the forbidden fruit. She in turn, led Adam to eat from the tree. This act of defiance, by Adam and Eve, against God resulting from the temptation and deception, by Satan, led to the original sin and to the fall of man. The fall of man resulted in the spiritual separation of man from God. Temptation led to sin that then led to the fall of man and resulted in a separation from God that comes to an end with spiritual and physical