NATIONAL CENTER FOR CASE STUDY TEACHING IN SCIENCE by James A. Hewlett Science and Technology Department Finger Lakes Community College Bad Fish: Human Anatomy and Physiology Edition Part I – Poisoned! One evening during a recent trip to Indonesia, Dr. Marshall Westwood from the Montana Technical Institute sat down to a meal of puff erfi sh and rice. Within an hour of returning to his hotel room, Dr. Westwood felt numbness in his lips and tongue, which quickly spread to his face and neck. Before he could call the front desk, he began to feel pains in his stomach and throat, which produced feelings of nausea and eventually severe vomiting. Fearing that he had eaten some “bad fi sh” for dinner, Dr. Westwood called a local hospital to describe his condition.
He was crushed when the car flipped several times -- literally -- and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Jake Tolias, who was sitting behind Thomas, was the only passenger with his seat belt on. As the car flipped, he was slammed into the door and knocked unconscious, while glass slashed his forehead and skull. “In a way, I think I got lucky,” says Jake.” I’m glad I blacked out because remembering every second and every noise would have been too much.” After the accident Jake would lie in bed and attempt to sleep. His eyelids would finally close but his mind would start turning.
Sensory details are a way into our minds. It creates a movie in our heads using all of our senses. Journal 2.2 When I was 12 years old, I lost my grandpa to cancer. He was my mom’s dad and was super close to our family. When he died, it felt like someone had jabbed their hand into my chest, ripped out my heart with their fingers, and left me to bleed out.
We continue the tradition. In the yard outside is a towering manure pile, sodden with rich plant-nourishing, steaming juices which we smell even in our sleep. Each man has a pile of ancient grey straw on which he makes his bed. It is so vermin-infested that if one stands and listens when it is quiet he can hear the scraping and scurrying of the pests underneath. It is late afternoon; we are through with the day's fatigues and are sitting about digging mud off our boots, shining brass buttons, cleaning and oiling our rifles, and killing lice in between times.
Evan Marshall was 31-years-old when he committed the murder. He lived in his parents’ in a gated community. He murdered and dismembered the body of retired teacher who lived across the street. He did not know the victim. The disappearance of Denise Fox, age 57, was first noticed by her daughter who found the back sliding door broken and blood on the floor when she returned home.
In 1984 tragedy struck when Greg Abbott was jogging with a friend following a thunderstorm when a tree fell on him. The tree broke his back and several of his ribs. After this catastrophic event Greg Abbott became a paraplegic and bound to a wheelchair. WHen he was doing intense rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston he had two steel rods inserted in his spine and he has been bound to a wheelchair ever since. After he got done with the rehabilitation Greg Abbott sued the homeowner of the home in which the tree fell on him.
I’ve been hunting deer for almost a decade and never once have I had the opportunity to shoot an eye-dropping trophy buck. Little did I know, my luck was to be completely turned around the very next morning. Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep, I jumped out of bed wide awake, heart pounding out of my chest. I woke up confusingly alerted probably due to my dream/nightmare I just came out of, and I began my morning ritual. I walked into the kitchen and poured me a bowl of cereal, started up the coffee machine and turned on the morning news.
Less than ten minutes of being on I-75 South, a mile long car crash occurred. In total there were three deaths and many injured. The family I knew had three children in the car with them, Hannah Greenwood, 10, Aiden Hicks, 7, and Gabrielle Greenwood, 9, and they were all unconscious that morning. Two of those deaths were from the family I knew. Aiden died from impact of a pick-up truck slamming into the side of the car and Gabrielle who passed from head injuries.
Jessica: (Sobbing) Don’t you remember? Coming home on the way from the hospital? A car with drunk teenagers crashed the car you your dad and sister were in. Kate: I remember! Where are they?
Due to severe head trauma, Jason’s friend died three days later. The driver of the other car wasn’t as fortunate. As Jason crossed the center line into oncoming traffic, he collided with the vehicle of a computer analyst who lived and worked in the area. One fourth of the analyst’s car was compacted into the