Witch doctor

Communication within some marriages can be challenging, yet this is a common custom some cultures. Such is the cast with the Kapasi family and the Das Family. It is accepted in the Indian culture; where men dominate women. Over time that type of isolation can be dispiriting. Jhumpa Lahiri depicted this in the short story Interpreter of Maladies, a combination of American literature and Indian heritage. Mrs. Das (an American-raised Indian) clings to her culture and traditions, but over time she

Growing up, the only thing I looked forward to was playing sports throughout high school. I played basketball, volleyball, and softball in the rec league. It was my favorite thing to do, I loved being active. I was on a traveling basketball team in 5th-6th grade which was a transition from leaving rec sports to traveling with my friends. This is when competing against competitive teams from different towns started. In 6th grade, I was asked to play on a traveling volleyball team with a group of

who lived in New York and was just a normal writer for the New York Post. When Cahalan first saw that she had two bug bites on her arm she just thought that it was just bedbugs. How do you really tell what any bug bite it is without going to the doctor? If you have bedbugs of course you are going to want to hide it. She was scared that her co-workers would judge her harshly if they thought she had bedbugs. This little bug bite just happened to be just the beginning of such a terrible thing. Cahalan's

I remember one incredibly funny day from last year. It was the day I fell through the glass display case at school. Boy, I tell you that sucked so bad. I know for a fact I’ll never live it down. I’m known for being pretty accident prone so it was no surprise to people when they found out I was the one who had left the blood stain in the hallway. I was walking back from lunch with my friend Matt, we were telling each other jokes about dead babies. I looked over and saw my little brother, I turned

Determination On the first day of summer in 2010, I encountered a life changing event. It was a cool damp evening after the last day of school, and we were having a barbeque at my neighbors house. My best friends Tony and Sarah lived there and we had plans to stay the first night of summer in their aunts tiny old pop-up camper. We all were sitting on their patio on the cold and clammy tile, laughing, telling stories, and eating. My neighbor, Tom, had grilled hot dogs, and Mary and my Mother had

It is finally night time, my feeding period. For the past few days I have been stealing food without anyone knowing. When no one took responsibility, I blamed it on the rats. I tiptoed quietly down the stairs, and into the main room. I have to be extremely quiet because this is where Mr. and Mrs. Frank and Margot sleep. I make my way to the food safe, light a match, and then cautiously open the food safe. I take out a loaf of bread, and close the safe. My heart stopped. Mrs. Frank was rustling around

paused, she couldn’t remember the last detail clearly. “You must’ve hit your head hard during the accident. I’ll be sure to notify the head doctor.” She started to put her head in her hands but stopped when she noticed a number on her arm. She licked her finger and rubbed at it. It didn’t go away or smear at all; it was a tattoo. She looked up when the doctor started to talk again. “So I’ll ask you again, how are you feeling. How about on a scale of one to ten - ten being the most amount of pain -

Acts of Kindness are important characteristics of a human being. People can easily change moments in others’ lives with simple acts of kindness. About a year ago I experienced something that I never thought I would have to. I had to take my mom to the hospital, where she would have to stay for a week. Going back and forth from the hospital and my house, resulted in not wanting to do anything else. My best friend Andrew took the time and helped me through it by surprising me and cheering me up until

that they can not return. In almost all the states of America and even all around the world, the act of euthanasia is a felony. People should be free to choose their own fate and if they are suffering the should be able to end it in a peaceful way. Doctors are great at what the do and provide very important services to the world but they aren't miracle workers and if there is nothing else they can do for a patient then that patient should be able to die at their own will. Being in pain isn't fun, it

claim. For example, “He could kill the doctor more easily than he could talk to him, for all of the doctors’ race spoke to Kino’s race as though they were simple animals” (Chapter 2 Steinbeck).This quote shows that Kino thinking his actions through with not killing the doctor because of the disrespect he was receiving from him.This also shows that Kino sees the idea of him being an animal as insulting. Kino would not want the doctor and the rest of the doctors’ race to be correct about Kino being uncivilized