Spilled Salt: By Barbara Neely The short story “spilled salt”, by Barbara Neely is about a single mother, Myrna, who raised her son alone since he was six. The son, Kenny, convinced a crime. Because he raped a girl, he spent four years in prison and the story starts when he released from prison and came back home where his mother doesn’t want to live with him anymore. She doesn’t want to lose her sweet memories of the little and funny boy. She loves the boy who was four years ago and not the man who is now standing in front of her.
The main thing the story focuses on is the little boy Ellie and his mother Stephanie, their relationship and his behavior towards her. The background on the story is that she is a mother in a Federal prison camp for women in Illinois. She is serving time for conspiracy. Conspiracy is a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. She participated in an act of violence with her boyfriend and did not talk to the police so they gave her ten years and he talked and received three years.
File No: Prosecution Memorandum Re: Dawn; Felony of the Second Degree I.Issues Daisy Down was arrested in connection with the severe burning of her 3 year old son. Her son sustained 2nd and 3rd degreee burns over the majority of his body and will remain permanently disfigured. Dawn spoke with the case detective and said she was angry with her son for resisting to undress to take his bath. Dawn admitted to placing her son, fully clothed, in the bathtub water without testing the temperature. Dawn denied knowing the water was hot enough to cause burns.
Enough to help someone who wants to commit suicide, or someone who’s been sexually assaulted, or abused, and for those who’ve lost a loved one. You can see me at school with a smile on my face and a bunch of friends surrounding me, but there’s more to me. This is my story. How I was lost, sexually assaulted, hurt, depressed, went through grieve, and finally how I recovered. I was the first born and was the only child till I was six, but during those six years I witness my mother getting hit by my father and him being drunk every day and never home.
Submitted By: Ashley & Terri Fumo Submitted To: Julian Kitchen November 11, 2011. EDUC 8Y41: Case Analysis Assignment Case Analysis Breakdown CASE 2: ASHLEY DAWN CASE 3: CASE 4: TERRI FUMO CASE 5: COMPLETED AS A GROUP ** Case 1 was not completed as per Julian Kitchen, because we only had 3 members in our group. Case 2 A grade 12 student broke up with his girlfriend and was very depressed. As part of a short story assignment he submitted a story outlining his depression and how he wanted to commit suicide. He sent this to his teacher by email.
Amanda Michelle Todd committed suicide at 15. Amanda met a guy on the internet one year prior to her death. She was still an innocent girl that doesn’t even know there a thing called “wrong” so how will she recognize it from the right she was Thinking that this guy is her fairy tale prince, she posted some nude photos to satisfy him. Later on, she got a call from the police warning her that her nudes were all over the internet. This guy was like a real boogy man under her bed he haunted her, He cyber bullied her to where she lost all her friends and beloved ones.
Then Mr. Holloway reposted all the collected pictures from all the social media sites and posted them on his own website, www.helpmesave300.com. Still, not a single person came to help clean up. The only people who did show up were the parents who threatened to sue Mr. Holloway for posting pictures of their delinquent teenagers online. Eventually 6 kids ranging from 17-20 years old were taken into custody and arraigned on charges including criminal trespassing, felony
Racism inside and outside races and in schools In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee racism in schools was shown when Scout went to school. When all of the students found out that her dad was helping Tom Robinson, they said her father was a “nigger lover.”(Lee 87) In current event, Yorkshire primary schools recorded 3,018 racist incidents while secondary schools recorded just over 2,000. At a high school in Ontario a Korean kid got charges pressed on him, and suspended after being bullied and punched in the nose. After the other students found out about Atticus helping Tom Robinson win his case, all Scout and Jem heard in school was that their dad was a “nigger lover.” The Korean kid in Ontario got charges pressed on him and suspended after being punched and bullied. Racism and prejudice inside and outside, same races, and schools still happen today.
Helms is the California woman who found out the hard way that there is no such thing as privacy on social media. In November 2012, after the election Helms was frustrated by the news of President Obama's reelection. Helms immediately took to her Facebook page to air her grievances. Assuming that her outrageous comment would only be seen by family and friends Helms wrote, “Another 4 years of this n****. Maybe he will be assassinated this term.” Denise Helms ex-boyfriend took a screen shot of the vulgar comment and posted it to twitter.
According to Bullying Statistics (2013), “nearly 30 percent of students are bullies or victims of bullying” (Bullying and Suicide). This misbehavior can impact a person’s life tremendously creating short-term and long-term psychological conditions. Victims of bullying have displayed signs of eating disorders, sleep disturbances, lack of interest in school, withdrawal from family and friends, and thoughts of suicides. In some cases, the victims of bullying had committed suicide as a way of escaping his or her tormentors’ harassment. Last year, Angelina Green, a fourteen year old girl from Indiana hung herself from a tree, and left a suicide note on her bed for her mother explaining her death was caused by bullying (Goldstein, 2014).