Two adults entered the hospital room which housed the man by the name of Gunther Cardigan, who was pushing 83. Although it may be considered cruel, there wasn’t a soul on the continent who would find surprise in seeing Mr. Cardigan attached to life support. As one may expect from a chronic alcoholic, he had been in and out of the hospital frequently enough such that one may even jest that he was a regular. After accumulating one too many misdemeanors, a judge had him sent to rehab; this was encouraged by a disproportionate amount of hospital staff who had grown tired of threatening him over the various dangers of excessive drinking. Despite being generally successful, rehabilitation would not undo the damage to Mr. Cardigan’s internal organs, and his son, one of the adults looming over his bedside, would begrudgingly offer up one of his kidneys for a transplant after being declared a match – yet this was not the reason Gunther Cardigan would be lying on his deathbed. Seemingly finding difficulty in moving his head, Mr. Cardigan would not commit an action beyond the fluttering of his eyes, but this was enough to look between the two watching over him. “Nathaniel, Julie,” croaked Cardigan, baring a faint smile at the two – however the two failed to return the gesture. “It’s just …show more content…
With elation shrouding his voice, Mr. Cardigan exclaimed, to the best of his ability, “that’s wonderful, I’m sure your officers are working hard and bringing crime in this city to a halt as we speak, with my son leading them, it’s impossible to have any misgivings that criminals will get the punishment they deserve. Frankly, I’m surprised there’s actually people opposed to life sentences and the death penalty.” Becoming uneasy once again from the manner Mr. Cardigan spoke, Nate and Julie glanced at once another, as if they were asking each other “he’s kidding,
In the BIG 10 conference Commissioner James Delaney occupation is to manage the media contracts, from which the members of its conference reap a substantial percentage of revenue to pay for its athletic programs. James Delaney was one of the prominent individuals in television marketing, and the Division 1 subdivision college football playoffs. Delaney has a keen interest in generating money for athletic programs, and considered the stakeholders that were affected by his media contracts. Delaney stated, “There’s no enthusiasm for funding these programs by central administration’s so were basically on our own…I’ve found it much easier to generate revenue than to cut cost. I’m being honest with you” (Sandomir, 2006, p. 8-8; Thomas, 2009,
Lyssa Danehy De Hart once said “Every moment offers us choices. Choose wisely because the choices you make, make you “. This quote is true in the case of officer Slabinski who made a wrong choice which made him comes across as negligent and a coward in the eyes of others. Till this day officer Slabinski regrets what he has done but still feels that there was nothing he could do in the place he was in.
He was cut off from the rest of the world for the month he spent in the facility and when he returned he felt much better as a person. He works on maintaining his sobriety and occasionally attends support groups for a little while after his return. He “never was really tempted to start drinking again” (168) Jordin
His father gives him a choice: treatment or jail.
In The Road after the father and the boy killed a man in an act of self-defence, the boy questioned if what they did was acceptable. He asked his dad soon after they killed him “are we still the good guys?” (McCarthy 38) He knew in his heart what they
Bryan’s writing structure in his book is professional by the way he would introduces different court cases he had previously worked on into each progressing personal thought and analysis over the topic of innocents on death row. From beginning to end the dictionary was my best friend when struggling through the author 's complex vocabulary. The selection of his vocabulary such as; menacing, discretionary, and unprecedented made it difficult to understand the author when he was expressing his thoughts or describing a scenario. His writing style is intelligent because even though his writing tends to be scholarly, there are ways to still create pictures with your head. His descriptive scenario gave me a tangible image of how it might’ve looked like and me feel in his position during this intense scene when a white male police officer pointed a gun to his face because he looked suspicious in the middle of the night sitting in his car.
Throughout my whole life, my father has been an alcoholic. There have been times when he has tried to quit, but it never lasted for more than a few months. His addiction has brought on stressful times for my family. Some days we did not know where he was or if he was coming home. Although my father’s addiction might not have made the best childhood, he did show me the kind of person I did not want to be.
Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen was reportedly arrested on Monday night on charges of misdemeanor harassment and for assaulting his wife, Libby Titus. The complainant in the case was not actually named in the New York Police incident report, but according to CNN, the age and address match Titus. The alleged incident reportedly took place on the couple’s home in Manhattan on Monday.
Although coercive treatment is done with good intentions, in some cases there are chances that they fail and lead the patient down a far worse downward spiral. In another personal account called “No Time to say Goodbye” by Carla Fine, Carla recounts her husband’s death and he life preceding his
This quote is an example of how some families could feel. There are about 15,000 murders a year (“pro-death penalty.com”), but the death penalty can prevent some of
Alcoholics are often used in stories as comic relief, which to a person who grew up under the shadow of alcoholism, isn’t very funny at all. This point was to illustrate that people really don’t understand alcoholism for what it really is: a disease that has devastating effects on families for generations. Instead of directly countering those misconceptions, Sanders describes his upbringing in vivid detail. He describes his father’s behavior in a way that makes the reader appreciate that there comes a point where alcoholism is not really a matter of a person having a moral weakness, a lack of self-control, or is weak-willed. It’s a disease that robs people of their lives and of themselves.
“Under the Influence” is Scott Russell Sanders’ recollection of his childhood burdens created by his alcoholic father. Through this essay, Sanders reveals the impact of alcoholism on himself, his father, their family as well as his own children. The following commentary will examine the various languages used in Sanders’ essay and the most significant as well as difficult aspect of this essay. In the first half of his essay, Sanders describes his sufferings and emotional struggles as a child with an alcoholic father he never understood.
No one who lived in New York City area from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s can forget the frenetic “Crazy Eddie” television commercials imploring potential buyers to frequent their discount electronics store chain because their prices were “insaaaaaane!” The Crazy Eddie retail chain, technically known as ERS Electronics, was originally founded in 1969 by Eddie Antar, his cousin, Ronnie Gindi and his father, Sam E. Antar (“the Antars”). The business went public in September 1984 and grew to a reported $300 million in sales and 43 stores by the end of 1986, Nevertheless, by 1987, the company and its officers were facing criminal investigations by the SEC and the New Jersey Attorney General, alleging various securities fraud violations as
The criminal lay on the thin, hard, bed, his feet dangling over the edge by several inches. The moonlight that filtered through the bars of his cell lay in patches on his torso, hands, and floor. The criminal’s beady eyes fixed on the door as the distinct stomp of a guard approached. The viewing slot on the top of the door slid open and the convict’s least favorite guard leered at him. It was obvious by the jailer’s gormless smile, bloodshot eyes and his stench-- reeking of cheap alcohol, that the idiot was drunk.
I sat down to start my lunch when the warden walked in. With a superficial grin plastered on his face, he clears his voice. "Good news Doctor Broyle, we've got outselves another gun runner." I never understood how he enjoyed this. Shortening a 25-year sentence down to a single day, I hated doing this to another person.