Ashley Wilkes

She was just an average 18 year old girl, when she thought her life was over. It all had happened three months ago. It was just another sunny fall day, in the Malibu, California. She had gone through four years of high school just to get to this point. She thought it would one of the best days of her life, until it all fell apart. Finally after three months she thought it was all over. Then Becky Newman realized she was in for a very long ride, that would change everything. Three months ago

The Ashley Treatment has been, and still remains, controversial. A statement written by Ashley’s mom and dad stated that “Ashley had a normal birth, but her mental and motor faculties did not develop. Over the years, neurologists, geneticists, and other specialists conducted every known traditional and experimental test, but still could not determine a diagnosis or a cause. Doctor’s call her condition ‘static encephalopathy of unknown etiology’, which means an insult to the brain of unknown origin

Being different has never occurred to me before. I believed that since everyone is human, we are all connected, that we should not be judged based on what we look like. I was wrong. In the beginning, it was easy. This was possible mainly, because I was blessed to grow up in a multicultural environment. The media portrays Muslims as violent, hateful creatures who think only of killing, when there is so much more to us than what people see. This is not true, but people choose ignorance over knowledge

Goal 1: Shanea will maintain her safety and stabilize her mood. Shanea listened as the QP shared how reinforcing compliments should be given. Shanea reflected on the QP compliment which was telling her that her hair look nice, then describe her the color in her hair brings out her skin tone, as well as nice she looks, which will boost her self-esteem, and pat her on the back. Shanea informed the QP, "I am grateful that my mom lets me come back every time I run away." Shanea commented, "I don't

Ashley is a six and a half years old child with “static encephalopathy.” Her parents request a hysterectomy (to prevent menstruation), surgical removal of nascent buds (to prevent development), and estrogen therapy (to speed up the natural closure of her growth plates). The ethical dilemma is whether these procedures should be done on Ashley based on the parents’ request. There are no legal or professional standards for this. By adhering to the parents’ request, the physician would be eliminating

Amy’s walking toward the door of the school, very slowly. She’s wearing a blue dress, and her black straight hair made her look kind of sad. Her face was white, but it’s not a normal white. Her face was white like the clouds, or even the snows. The "school was tremendous, but that’s what makes it feel scary. Everything around her felt scary, the kids, the wall, even the air around her felt scary. Amy’s here, at the classroom, by the lockers. A kid suddenly came out, and she said “Oh, you’re

Boone, NC - Water Intake Project In 2008, the town of Boone began a new project called The New River Project. This project was designed to ensure that the town of Boone had enough water to meet the needs of the town as it grew. This project explored several sites for a water intake facility and proposed a site in Todd, North Carolina on the South Fork of the New River (Town of Boone, 2008). This project was presented to the residents of Watauga County as a need to ensure water was available as their

John Locke is considered one of the most important philosophers and political theorists. He is known as the “Father of Liberalism” and was one of the first British empiricists. His work on the theory of the state, the theory of knowledge, religious toleration, and medicine has secured him a place in the pantheon of revered intellectuals. Locke was born on August 29, 1632 in Wrington, Somerset, England, to John Locke, a country lawyer and clerk, and Agnes Keene. Both of his parents were Puritans

device for creation and for that of destruction. The “constant reader” as a symbolic representation of obsession and so, the destabilizing effects of art and artistic expression is primarily apparent in both texts through the characters of Annie Wilkes and the Prophet. Within the novel Misery, the protagonist, Paul Sheldon, contextualizes the “constant

all his books in the Silver Creek Lodge in Colorado. He just finished his new novel Fast Cars and is heading back to New York to get his manuscript printed when his car crashes in Colorado. Paul is pulled out of the wreckage by a woman named Annie Wilkes, who is his number one fan. She takes him back to her home and nurses him back to health. Annie’s obsession takes a dark turn when she discovers Paul kills off her favourite character from his ‘Misery’ novels. As Sheldon makes a plan to try and