Wondrous's Short Story Of My Non-Dominant Hand

Lebanese Author Sandra Chami Kassis said, “Don’t brag about being perfect… imperfections are what make you attractive” (online). Most people believe that their imperfections make them much less attractive which may cause them to develop diffidence and insecurities. Generally, when people think of imperfections they think of physical features such as a facial birthmark, a narrow nose, thin hair, and big feet, but why do people spend so much time focusing on those things that set them apart from others? It is believed by many that everyone on earth is born with a specific plan and purpose created for them, and with that purpose must come the substantial appearance of individuality which will inevitably include bodily flaws. In his essay, “The Parting Breath of the Now-Perfect Woman,” Chester McCovey discusses the underlying meaning of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story “The Birthmark” in hopes of enlightening readers that all people have imperfections. In today’s society, people try so hard to look identical to those who are held on a high pedestal for being beautiful that some even resort to changing their body parts such as their lips and waist-lines as means to remove or “fix” any visible imperfections, taking away their individuality. It is vital for everyone to embrace their imperfections and learn who they truly are in spite of them; therefore, parents must teach children that their imperfections make them who they are as individuals.

The hand is a very important extremity attached to the human body and is used in everyday life. Humans use it doing almost everything. The major systems the body uses to be able to move the hands are the skeletal, muscular and nerves systems. The skeletal system of the hand involves the bones, such as, eight carpal bones, five metacarpal and fourteen finger bones (Istitute for Quality & Efficiency in Health Care, 2013). All connected by joints and ligaments. The muscles include two parts, the thenar eminence and the hypothenar eminence (Istitute for Quality & Efficiency in Health Care, 2013). The thenar eminence moves the base of the thumb, also lets the thumb touch the four fingers; the hypothenar eminence allows the little finger to bend

Consider the premise of the story. A beautiful woman who is courted by many men has but one flaw, a birthmark on her cheek resembling a human hand. Her husband cannot stand the imperfection and goes to extremes to have it removed. In the process of removing said birthmark his wife, whom he loves dearly, dies. Quite depressing.

“Trust me,” she said softly still enveloped in Albert’s arms as she quietly cried in his arms. They both waited in the room silently as people filed in and out of the area even in the middle of the night. It felt like an eternity before a doctor approached Leda and Dr. Farrage. Both of them got up in anticipation with a sliver of hope. The doctors expression was somber as she introduced herself, explained how her team tried their best to resuscitate Dr. Steele, and offered her condolences. Leda felt as though someone had struck her with a wrecking ball. She kept repeating, “this is all my fault” as she collapsed on the floor crying. The doctor helped Dr. Farrage pick her up and seat her on a chair. The doctor apologized for their loss again

“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.

Hello, old friend. It's been quite a long time since we last spoke, and you're probably wondering why I'm reaching out to you now, but don't worry, I'll get to that very shortly. To be blunt, things between us ended very badly, and while I won't force either us to relive every little detail, it's still such a damn shame how everything went down. But this isn't about that, nor do I want this to be some rant about you. Whatever happened happened, and I've long accepted that. Instead, I'd like to go back in time a bit to when our friendship was at its peak. Music is very much a vital part of my life, so naturally, after meeting in February of 2013, we very quickly found common ground over that. There was one band, however, that really sealed the

I love writing and I love biology, and you may not think that these two are in any sort of ways related, but to me, they are. I love writing everything down, making notes from every single observation about the world. Every time I have wrote these notes, I can image the words dancing on a white paper, I can see blue ink marks flowing its way gracefully guided by the pathway of pen. I had never minded until one day my classmate observed that I do strongly press when I write, like I would turn it into braille letters. It’s not because I would like to destroy my pen or waste my ink like they teased. It’s because every word on a white paper has a meaning to me. The obsession with handwritten notes has followed throughout my academic life, since I was the clumsy little girl who crossed out ugly spelling mistakes in my language paper until I’m a nerdy junior who sat and took handwritten notes while my classmates played a solo with their Mac. To me, the words on paper means much more than those on screen, which now seems obsolete. Words in handwritings can move, and they can dance their ways into your heart, and become part of who you are. To me, my handwriting and the words I have jotted down means more than ‘a part’ of my

Hands are most definitely one of the most important parts that make up the musculo-skeletal system, they are the reason we can write type hold thigs carry things express our thoughts through gestures communicate with people that don’t speak the native language of voice, each and every one of them are unique, there what make us

Julia is the most independent eight year old girl I have ever met. Each morning when she rises, her mother has already left the shelter to go to work. She gets herself dressed and ready for the day, waits in line with twenty other children for whatever mystery breakfast they might be provided with, and walks herself to the bus to get to school. Julia has a total of six toys that she can call “her’s”; one of which is a rubber band that she wears on her wrist. Listening to her describe her living and parental situation led me to be much more appreciative of my own life

The author’s goal of the study was to determine whether the non-dominant limb would have better proprioception than the dominant limb. 20 adult males and females were included in the study, and all subjects were right

Although we may mask our insecurities with false confidence and bravado, deep down most people crave perfection. As the majority of us learn as we age, this idea of “perfection” is unobtainable. The older we get, the more we tend to accept the flaws and imperfections that make us individuals. However, there are others who never learn the hard lesson of acceptance. Instead they spend ridiculous amounts of money on surgeries, creams and concoctions in order to rid themselves of these marks and insecurities. It’s a constant battle, a fork in the road if you may, between science and nature. On one side there’s the high-road of nature and acceptance, and on the other there’s the scientific shortcut that, in reality, just continues to mask the original problem. The Birthmark leads us to believe that this is perhaps a topic Hawthorne struggled with himself. Hawthorne clearly displays his decided distaste for science and its unnatural ways in his short story, The Birthmark.

I thought that everything had been a dream until I heard it… Practice! It was an extremely rainy day and the ground was like stepping into tiny lakes. I was caught up in the moment when I remembered that you need a glove to play baseball. I knew that rain could ruin your glove but I couldn’t get the sight of a perfectly stitched, woven, and laced glove being destroyed.

When the wife sees her husband’s hand clearly for the first time, she becomes horrified; not just because of how ugly and disformed his hand is, but because it makes her wonder what else she doesn’t know about him. It scares her to think that she’s married this man who she thought she

The hand you use for most tasks is your dominant hand. For most people this is the right hand. You use your dominant hand for activities that require fine motor skills, such as painting, writing, or controlling a computer mouse. For about one out of 10 people, the left hand is dominant. People who use different hands for different tasks are known as mixed-handed. Someone who is mixed-handed

my hand.” ( August Heat, pg. 94) Demonstrates how there is a very strange connection