The essay “Our Secret” written by Susan Griffin was taken from a chapter in her book A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War. In “Our Secret,” Susan Griffin explains the repercussions of bottling up our emotions and the harm it can have on our mind and body in the long run. In this essay Susan is talking about the life of Heinrich Himmler through his childhood diary, as well as, explaining the controlling behavior of his father throughout his life.…
In 2003, surgeons at Duke University Hospital transplanted a heart and two lungs into 17-year-old Jesica Santillan. At that time, the procedure was rare and difficult. Tragically, surgeons had given Santillan donated organs with the wrong blood type, causing her body to reject the new heart and lungs. Her system to shut down. Two weeks later, after the first operation, she received a second transplant.…
Throughout the story, they would climb up and down the mountain in order to get used to the altitude for hours on end, which in turn will make their bodies fatigued and minds weak. When people do dangerous activities or things to break records, there has to be an outcome, good or bad. When Krakauer climbed Mount Everest, he said “We’d climbed Everest. It had been a little sketchy there for a while, but in the end everything had turned out great” (203). He later learned most of the friends he had got to know so well didn’t make it back.…
Pete Frates: Fielding ALS With Grit What would you do if you were in a wheelchair for life or needed a feeding tube to survive? What if you knew that you only had two to five years to live? Would you give up or would you fight the challenge? To get through challenges like this people need grit.…
In the story, Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, the main character, who is Jon himself, makes one of the most tragic ascents of Mount Everest in history. Over the course of the Jon's story about his experience on Mount Everest, Jon starts to really show how much he grows as a person during one of the most difficult situations Jon has been in. But even though Jon grew a lot, he grew more loving than anything else because he started the journey with strangers, and because of their mutual love of mountain climbing, the courage of his team, and the hardships they faced did Jon really grow to love his team. During the exciting recount of how he surmounted Everest, Jon continuously becomes more loving of his fellow climbers because of a mutual love they all share: mountain climbing. When Jon first sees all of the people he would be surmounting Everest with, Jon realizes that he doesn't really have anything in common with a lot of the group.…
Sara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant when her doctors told her that she would die. She felt so bad on her back. She knew it was lung cancer. The doctors wanted to treat her, and it would get the baby out. Their baby born on Tuesday, at 8; 55 p.m. the next day, Sara took blood tests and body scans.…
Dealing with a traumatic experience can be very difficult for one to overcome. Jon Krakauer, a journalist and avid climber, was contracted to write a story for Odyssey magazine about climbing Mount Everest. While coming down from the mountain, the expedition group experienced many incidents which caused all but 2 of the members to die. Krakauer was uneasy about the expedition to begin with, but coming home as 1 of 2 survivors severely affected his life after the accident. In Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air he uses diction and details to reveal his purpose of showing us his guilt, remorse and how persevering given that many of his climbing partners have died.…
Two incredible and inspiring stories, "No Limits" by Sharon Wood and "The True Story of Lake Ontario" by Marilyn Bell Di Lascio, are about two women who lived to tell their journey and got to inspire many people and become many peoples rolemodel. but which one is the better rolemodel.. Sharon Wood was a women who preserved through every challenge she met, even if that meant one of them was to leave her teammate behind to save her own life. Sharon had determination set in her mind, she over came her fears and kept pushing forward, climbing the mountain was no doubt an amazing and scary experience for her. The rapid thoughts of what could go wrong when she stood at the base of the mountain looking up to the peek of the summit her oxygen tank…
After viewing the short film “Our time is up” by Rob Pearlstein, I was able to place the five components of the plot structure diagram as presented in theatre class. The five plot structure is, exposition, inciting event, raising event, climax, and falling action. The exposition is the beginning of the plot, it sets the foundational background of the main character or the story. At the opening of the story, you see a time clock set, an immaculate environment where everything is not just clean but ordered.…
In today's society, you often see divides among social classes, there are always gonna be superior groups and inferior groups that don’t understand or get along with each other, it’s inevitable. There are examples of divides in social classes in every time period. Flash all the way back to 1620, 397 years ago, and it’s even present all the way back then. In the narrative, “The Life of Mary Jemison”, and the Hannah Dustin poem, there are multiple examples of divides between the Europeans and Indians. Both pieces demonstrate the complexity of their relationship due to language barriers, unknown territory and how big of an impact these limitations had.…
“You can never tell who the mountain will allow...and who it will not.” The novel Peak is about a 14 year old boy named Peak Marcelo who travels to mt. Everest with his somewhat estranged father Josh, because he had trouble with the law in his home new York because he was climbing a skyscraper. Peak realizes later in the book though that his father only took him in because he wanted the boy to be the youngest to climb mt.…
After many years of death, failure, and frustration, the majestic mountain had finally lost its reign of power. Many years ago, in 1953, two astonishing heroes summited the undefeated lifetaker, Mt. Everest. These two heroes are known as Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. In the excerpt “On Top of the World” Mary Ann Fraser depicts the two’s great journeys and the obstacles that stood in their way. However, much has changed since the early pioneers had ventured into the unknown snow-kissed land.…
The Golden Eagles of Scotland (1) The golden eagle is the largest and arguably the most impressive of British birds. In the first sentence, we have the adjunct arguably. In case of adjunct arguably we can apply the criteria of deletion. According to this criterion the adjunct can be deleted without any influence on the grammar of the sentence, consider the example: (1)*The golden eagle is the largest and the most impressive of British birds.…
It's all about the journey it took them to get there. Everyone has there own thing to worry about in life. Everyone has a different mountain they want to accomplish. One can be tall, one can be short, and one can be the most fun.…
Every year, Sherpas risk their own lives attempting to safely guide other mountaineers to the summit of Mount Everest, yet they receive no special award or recognition after accomplishing this amazing feat for many other mountaineers. A couple thousand dollars may seem like a reasonable fee to aid others up the mountain, but it is not worth the life-threatening conditions they must overcome. Sherpas are genetically adapted to the below-freezing temperature and they have a stronger resistance to the effects of high altitudes compared to Western tourists. Because Sherpas are physically and mentally adapted to the weather conditions of Mount Everest, they serve as helpful guides who carry extra oxygen and other supplies necessary for the expedition.…