The English Patient Essay

During the 92 and 93 season LEmieux was diagnosed with Hodgkin disease which caused him to miss 20 regular season games. The following season Lemieux led the league in goals scored and was named MVP. However the following season Lemieux missed all but twenty two games due to back pain and fatigue. He skipped the 94 and 95 season to recover from the brutal radiation therapy he had been through for his Hodgkin diagnosis. In 1997 Lemieux decided to retire at the age of thirty one.

Billy Bibbit, 31, of Oregon, passed away December 4, 1958 as a result of injuries sustained in a suicidal attempt. He was born December 5, 1927 in Portland, the son of Mary and Paul Bibbit. He attended Beverly Cleary School and graduated from Grant High School in 1945, where he was awarded with the gold academic award. He was emitted into a Mental Hospital, by choice, in 1950. Billy was a shy but a proud man, many that knew him describe him as nice, hard trying, and beautiful.

Adolf Hitler’s childhood and young adult years had a sequence of unfortunate events that led him to develop a hatred for the Jews. On April 20, 1889, Adolf was brought into the world by his mother, Klara, and his father, Alois, near the German border in Braunau, Austria (Mishra). Alois, despite his rejection in society due to his illegitimate birth and underprivileged beginnings, worked his way up to an acceptable position in society from exceptionally poor beginnings (Weinberg). Klara was an Austrian gentlewoman who had an early death due to cancer (Weinberg). The doctor that was trying to heal Klara was Jewish, but despite his race, Hitler was appreciative for the care that the doctor provided because he had not yet developed a detestation towards the Jews (Weinberg).

(145) Mrs. Hermann goes on to say that her son died during WWI. To make herself feel better, Mrs. Hermann believes that he froze to death. This part of the story shows how Mrs. Hermann is

The Nightingale is a historical novel by writer Kristin Hannah. It tells the story of two French sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, during the German occupation of France in World War II. Fifty years after the end of the war, a recently widowed woman in a coastal town in Oregon is preparing to move to a nursing home because her cancer has returned. Her son, a surgeon, comes to help her and finds her in the attic going through a trunk of old things he has never seen.

A priest with terminal lung cancer that had said smoking was the only vice that he had never been able to overcome. Someone who had smoked to calm his nerves, later had to have his jawbone sliced off to remove tongue cancer. He tells of a Brazilian ophthalmologist named Hilario de Gouvea who had treated a young boy with a very rare eye cancer called retinoblastoma by removing the eye surgically. This boy had survived, grown up, and married a woman who had no family history of cancer.

Passchendaele takes place 3 years into World War 1, the Great War. Sgt. Michael Dunne is sent back to Calgary, Alberta after being diagnosed with neurasthenia due to the trauma he suffered during a fierce battle in the war. He meets Sarah Mann the nurse who is helping him recover. In the meantime, David Mann, Sarah’s brother, is desperately trying to get Cassie Walker’s father to accept his relationship with his daughter.

Heart disease. Denny finds himself at Seattle Grace Hospital where he meets one of the doctors, Isobel Stevens, and falls in love with her. After many failing treatments, Denny eventually gets a heart transplant and proposes to Isobel, but he dies that same night. Even Denny’s new heart could not support his love and he died leaving Isobel similarly to the way he abandoned his family.

In the summer of 1816 the young Mary Shelley travels with her lover Percy Shelley to Switzerland where they meet some friends. To their disappointment, the summer is filled with grey and rainy days. One of their good friends, the poet Lord Byron, makes the suggestion that everyone of them should come up with a ghost story, in order to keep them occupied during the dull weather. This rather innocent suggestion, made amongst friends, induced Mary Shelley to write one of the world 's most epic stories, the story of Frankenstein. According to Anne K. Mellor, Mary Shelley 's waking nightmare on June 06, 1816, gave birth to one of the most powerful horror stories of Western civilization.

After she killed her husband, she escaped for several months in western Canadian wilderness because the antagonists who are her husband’s twin brothers is seeking her for revenge. In addition, she is in agony because she lost her baby one week after giving birth to him. For instance, the novel describes her as “widowed by her own hands”(The Outlander—a novel (2007), Gil Adamson, chapter 12, p.4), which means Mary causes her husband’s death. The stories are interwove and are divided into three topics which are “Now goes to the sun”, “Fireflies in the dark”, and “World without end”. Our protagonist improves her characteristics in every single chapter.

“Daddy!” Most often, this is a proclamation of joy, a child announcing happiness toward their father. However, in Secret Life of Bees, a novel brilliantly written by Sue Monk Kidd, this is a cry of despair, a plea for one’s life. This stirring story is the tale of a young white girl, Lily, who with her black nanny named Rosaleen, runs away from home in search of secrets and a better life. Although often portraying events similarly, the book occasionally contrasts the film, which lends itself to the fact that various techniques are necessary when using different mediums.

Growing up, language art has always been my toughest subject since I started school. I lived my whole life in Vietnam till the age of six when my family migrated to America. Additionally, I couldn’t speak proper English until I was in middle school, so you can imagine the complication I experience when it comes to writing assignment. Throughout high school, I would spend hours on a paper just to get the bare minimum passing grade in English class. As a result of this, I view language art as a pointless subject that cannot be utilize in the real world.

Writing is a language. If we take simple words and bluntly put the phrases into paragraphs, it defies the meaning of this broad dialect. I, Abigail Platon, will not only understand this odd, foreign language but make it my own while painting a picture with the power of correct grammar and lines of beautiful word choice. The only way I can find a gateway to this dream is through, one, hard work on my own and, two, in Temple City’s English Honors class. Through this program, I can achieve the goals I desire to complete, either in the academic year or the “foreseeable” future.