A Case of Assisted Suicide

No one deserves to suffer in pain, and the people around him or her do not deserve to suffer either. Kervorkian understood this, which no one deserves to suffer. When someone is sick and suffering it is not only that person who feels the pain, everyone is affected they realize that the person who is sick is not the same person who they once were. “After all it is one’s mental status that determines the essence of one’s existence” (page 318). If someone wants to end their life they will not get any better and Kervorkian said it best in the quote. Years ago we fought for our freedom and succeeded. We have the freedom to have a assisted suicide. “Suddenly-for the first time that cold, dank day-warm sunshine bathed the park” (page 323).

Eighner

Scavenging through dumpsters, picking through leftovers from restaurants does not sound appealing but for Eighner a dumpster can be a five star restaurants. Through the story Eighner takes us through his vivid menus that he is able to choose from. “While it lasted I had a steady supply of fresh, some-times warm pizza.” (Pg 256). Eighner had varieties of food at his fingertips, but knowing what was good and bad was the key to Eighner’s success. “ Yogurt, cheese, and sour cream are items that are often thrown out while they are still good” (pg 257). While Eighner had to be choosy and cautious about what he choose off his menus he had the choice of what to eat at his disposal. Eighner was able to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner but also was able to get deserts when his sweet tooth was in-need of some sugar. Through the worst of times Eighner taught that you still have choices and are exposed to fine dinning.

Harrison Bergeron

Cortney Hazelrigg
Mr. Neuburger
Eng. Comp 102-102
23 September 2011
One Paragraph Essay
Harrison Bergeron
Like so many people in our world today, Harrison Bergeron gave up his life for freedom. In today’s world, we take for granted such freedoms that people like Harrison Bergeron fought for. Reading this story makes one realize how awful a place it would be to live in. Not being able to express yourself, show your talents, and think would almost be like not even being human. “Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.” (294) Just imagine not being able to think for longer than twenty seconds, it’s one thing that we take for granted every second while were awake. With our freedom gone to do the things we want and to be the people who we are, life would be boring. “And then, in an explosion of joy and grace, into the air they sprang!” (298) without freedom we would lack joy, and grace in our lives.
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“A Film Unfinished”
Watching the movie A Film Unfinished it reminded me how lucky we are to live in a Nation with laws and freedom. It reminded me how thankful we all should be and how we take for granted the little things in life that make a world of a difference. There is no way that I could have lived back then and no way I could have went through what those innocent people went through all because someone did not like them. Watching the film makes you see things that you have only been told about for so long when going through school. Seeing the people who were starving to death and seeing the kids more so than the adults hit me hard, how people could be so mean and have no compassion for the people suffering. It was shocking that people who were looking for Hitler at the time amazed me with how they wanted to try to show how good the people and kids had it in the Ghetto when really there was no way the people were living any kind of life. Seeing how many people were confined to one area and to see how many people were living on the streets and to see the how when someone dies their family just leaves them on the street when they have passed away. The film helped show what the people really lived like before they were sent to the camps to die, which helps to make connections with what we all have heard for years in school.
Watching the film I am sure took us all back and made all of us realize how lucky we are to live in a country that we live in. With all the freedom that we have we all take for granted what freedoms we have. Living back then I could not imagine going through what those people had to go through, I could not imagine starving to death and living in such confined spaces. We are all so lucky to live in the United States and every now and then we need to be reminded how lucky we are.