What inspired me the most from the Drink and Drive presentation was when Sarah Gino started sharing her story. My first impression of Sarah Gino was the obvious, “she is young, beautiful, and she is blind.” But when she started talking about her story it really had me putting things into prospective. After Sarah was helped onto stage by her Dad, she started talking about an accident that involved her. She mentioned nine years ago, on a nice January day, she and her EX decided to ask his Dad to borrow his car in other for them to go to his cottage. Her ex’s Dad said “ OK” on that note, she decided to invite her sister and her sister’s boyfriend to the cottage as well.
During their annual trip to Grandma's, Joe and Mary Alice go down to the Coffee Pot Cafe one day to enjoy some Nehi sodas. Mary Alice befriends Vandalia Eubanks, a skinny, pale seventeen-year-old who works there... Chapter 6: "Things With Wings—1934" Grandma is at the depot when Joe and Mary Alice arrive this year, but she has not come to meet them. Instead, she is seeing somebody off. Mrs. Effie Wilcox, her "sworn enemy," is moving away because the bank has foreclosed on her house. That day at noon dinner, the children regale their grandmother with the exciting news about the killing of the notorious John Dillinger back in Chicago.
Walk Two Moons This is the story of thirteen-year-old named Salamanca Tree Hiddle whose parents separated. She lived in Bybanks, Kentucky, which had lots of grass and was near the Ohio River. Her father then decided to move into town, so he packed everything they owned, except for her chestnut tree, the willow, the maple the hayloft, or the swimming hole that were really belonged to her. They drove three hundred miles north and stopped in front of a house in Euclid, Ohio. She didn’t like it because it had no trees and in front of ever house was a little square of grass.
My family began arriving a little at a time. My sisters and mother soon made their way to the hospital. I can only imagine what they had been told. The outlook wasn't great for a 100% recovery, but I never complained. I was in a double room and my roommate, Marie, a heavy girl, had jumped off the roof of her house and shattered her knee.
The Villain! My customer service villain is one of the cashiers at the Dollar Store on Lancaster. After recently moving back to the Salem area, I’ve been exploring my new surroundings. On a trip to the dollar store, searching for birthday decorations for my son’s first birthday, I walked in to a long line and one cashier. It’s a pretty
This started to because a daily process that she thought was use being mean to help daily she didn’t understand I was trying to help her. On August 14, 2014 I got into a wreck someone rear-ended me at a stop light, my back was hurt and I could no longer get her up and down daily. She give up completely I had to get help to change her or even move her I got to the point where she started to get bed sore so we took her to the hospital at that point I asked for help and hospice come in they immeditly told us she was in the end stages of dementia, but this was something we already know. We had seen the puzzle of her slowly falling apart right before our eyes
Tears spilled from my eyes as I raced towards my sister, my heart pounding. I knelt down beside her and immediately started unbuckling the shackles. Act first, ask questions later was my motto. Ava got to her feet, but fell instantly into my arms. She was weak and injured and we needed to get her to a hospital.
Eventually, a bill was passed by George W. Bush, which gave hospitals the power to remove patients from life support. Soon after, Terri's feeding tube was removed and thirteen days later her heart stopped beating. (NNDB) Similar cases to Terri’s happen more than people think; it is a current growing dilemma. Nobody knows who was right in that situation, but many wonder if it was necessary to keep her alive or if it would have been better to take her out of misery. In “CORRECTED: When to Let Go?
Stephanie Richard Texas Bound " The Death Of My Father" It was a nice crisp winter day in January 2005, my mother and I were getting ready to go grocery shopping with my grandmother, (because at that time my mom did not have a driver's license, so my gram brought us to do things). We were getting ready to leave and saying goodbye to my dad, I found it strange the way he said goodbye to us, he said, "bye, I love you" and he never really said that. Very rarely did he say I love you. Not paying much mind to it we headed out. At the grocery store my mom and I were having a good mother daughter day when all of a sudden they called her name over the loud speaker.
I watched Star Wars with my brother -Dave- for the first time one Christmas and from then on we were both hooked. Star Wars on telly at Christmas became our tradition. It was the only thing that was predictable and good; amongst the instability of our family home. It enabled us to escape into our imaginations and to dream about ‘how great life would be’, if the imagination became a reality. Even thinking about Star Wars