Zach Henderson's Pay-Out: A Short Story

Mr. Szafranski deposited his sperm to be frozen and used as a back-up on the date Ms. Dunston’s eggs were eventually retrieved. In addition, they both signed an informed consent document that not only outlined the risks involving in vitro fertilization, but stated that there could be

Week five I wrote about a sperm bank that lost a deceased man's vials of sperm. Grief, sorrow, and suffering were all feelings felt by Sarah Robertson after the loss of her 29 year-old husband, Aaron Robertson. Aaron had passed away from a rare genetic disorder known as Marfan Syndrome. Sarah mourned the death of her husband, but had somewhat comfort in knowing that six vials of her deceased husbands sperm were safely stored at the Reproductive Fertility Center in Los Angeles. As time went on since Aaron passed, Sarah felt she was ready to put his vials of sperm to use. Devastating news awaited Sarah as she was told that all six vials had been reported missing. Sarah and her in-laws are suing the LA clinic and Dr. Peyman Saadat, the owner.

Who should be responsible for stopping the 120 million sperm that are released during a male orgasm from fertilizing a female’s egg? The context of that question has been a societal debate in terms of the consequences of unplanned pregnancy and whether it is a female, male or both sexes responsibility to practice “safe sex”. Introducing the birth control pill for women in the 1960s created a huge controversy between sexual conservatives and the women who would benefit from the pill, but the responsibility still remained in the hands of women. However, as medicine has advanced and the possibility of a male birth control pill has amounted, many wonder if the same issues would arise if a male birth control pill did in fact become

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was tailored to cripple the immigration of Chinese into the United States, because they were deemed inassimilable and seen as uncivilized, unclean and filthy, creating an anti-Chinese fervor (Zia). This era promoted resentment towards Chinese which further escalated, with the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 that extended to other Asian groups. Nonetheless, this did not prevent Chinese immigrants from entering the United States. Chinese found loopholes in the law that allowed them to bring their family members as ‘paper sons’. The 1906 earthquake in San Francisco destroyed municipal records, which catalyzed immigration from China by allowing Chinese-men to claim US citizenship and bring their family from China

"There are at least three people on Axtu besides us who know I am sterile." (page 200) A sterile man, in his own eyes, is not much of a man. He is unable to give life, yet his

Brian sinks back into his chair with a sigh of defeated enthusiasm. A weekend full of late night socialization and early afternoon wake up calls has finally given way to the harsh realization of an intense week of school work. As Brian prepares for Monday morning to rear its

In or about June of 2011, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon decided to start a family together. Later that summer the two met with Dr. Nicholas J Spirtos of the Northeast Ohio Fertility Clinic, during which Dr. Spirtos recommended that the couple seek a sperm donor through the Midwest Sperm Bank. The two women spent the next week searching through donor profiles from the clinic; they had decided that they would seek a donor with similar genetic traits as they themselves had. Although the couple had decided that Jennifer would carry first, Amanda intended to be inseminated by the same sperm at a later date so that their children would be biologically related. After reviewing histories of their most favorable donors, Amanda and Jennifer

Young Goodman Brown and the Lottery Symbolism Use In: "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Lottery" The authors, Shirley Jackson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, both frequently use symbols within their stories "The Lottery" and "Young Goodman Brown." Symbols are utilized as an enhancement tool to stress the theme of each story. Hawthorne uses names and objects to enhance the theme, and Jackson mainly utilizes names to stress the theme, although she does have one object as a symbol of great importance to the theme. The stories both contain symbols describing evil. The majority of Hawthorne's symbols describe religion (both good and evil), but Jackson’s symbols reflect the evil nature within society as a whole. There exists a symbolic act in each story.

Numerous individuals, incorporating some who work in the field of post-premature birth recuperating, are hesitant to concede that men can be considered casualties of fetus removal, yet Arthur Shostak, a Professor of Sociology at Drexel University, says that one of the biggest stuns that sexually dynamic young fellows experience is the stun that originates from listening to their sex accomplice say: "The test is back and we're pregnant and I'm going to have a premature

In Major League Baseball the general belief is that the more a team spends on their payroll the more games they will win. With the absence of a salary cap baseball may seam unfair to the smaller market teams who can't bare the salary costs that the larger market teams can. In Michael Lewis' Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Lewis depicts just how the Oakland Athletics have been winning in an unfair game for almost a decade. The A's are a small market team that doesn't have nearly the amount of money at their disposal that their competitors in the American League do. However this past season the A's won their fourth American League West championship in the last seven years while having the lowest payroll in their division. In

I am Zach Little, a sophomore in the computer science program. I am from Jefferson County, in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. I spend most of my free time creating music, singing, and playing the piano. I enjoy reading high fantasy novels such as Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series and Tad Williams’s Otherland. However, I also enjoy nonfiction about psychology, philosophy, history, and science. Also, I might have a slight obsession with video games. My career goal is to become a sound engineer, basically a fancy title for music composer in the digital age. Once my degree is finished, I hope to get a job in the video game industry.

This is the high school year and the stories of Payton Hutchens.In the essay story that Payton has and the people, she has meet and teacher she had.

How can it possibly end in one day So much effort had gone into it The wave made him a leader More than he wished to be The students had to end it themselves

I am not surprised that around eighty percent of sperm donors are only donating for the monetary compensation. In my Chapter 5 discussion, I addressed the rising cost of living despite a slow growth in the job market. Young guys are looking to accommodate this issue by earning extra income doing various side jobs such as donating sperm. Based on beaspermdonor.com the average sperm donor can earn $4000 in a six-month period. Any young male that requires more money would see this amount as beneficial. Essentially, one can get paid by simply having an orgasm.

“So rare was the day when someone didn’t go home from school lined with angry red stripes.” Kamela had found a way around this, “With a quick memory and a high motivation to avoid pain, I was rarely switched, though sometimes the teacher called me up to the front of the room anyway, pretending to add up my errors, just for the suspense of it. All in all, half days weren’t a bad trade off.”