Essays on Family Friend

1. Routine Message: I was quite comfortable with Konrad Yakabuski’s assessment of our health care system. That is, until his last paragraph, where he states, “Younger doctors, motivated by more noble goals than money, seem to get this” (Doctors Don’t Get It: Health Care is a Team Game, Aug. 18). I am a 66-year-old family doctor with almost 40 years of practice under my belt. Fortunately, I really don’t need the money. I resent the implication that “older” doctors are less “noble” than younger ones. Most doctors were not looking for a personal boost to their ...

An ethical and political issue that has been difficult for people to address is gay marriage. Many people have strong opinions about the topic of gay marriage and weather two people of the same sex should be able to legally get married. There is a torn view with people who think that marrying the same sex should be allowed and that everybody has the right to be happy and love who they want. On the other side, some people think that a marriage should be between a man and a women and not people of the same sex. Religion ...

Movie Review

CSU Chico Movie Review Dad’s in Heaven with Nixon was a touching documentary about the history of the director’s family. It center’s around the director, Tom Murray, and his brother, Chris. More poignantly, it centers on the two brothers and their family as they travel life, maneuvering the ups and downs that come with Chris’ autism diagnosis (Murray, 2010). Today, as an adult living with autism, Chris is not what many would consider the “typical” story. He paints glorious cityscapes, which were first widely promoted by the Murray’s family friend and art connoisseur, Gloria Vanderbilt ( ...

For this interview, I chose to pose questions to a long-time family friend, whom I will refer to as Sam. Sam, who is now 46 years old, was born in 1969. The Vietnam War was at its height in the late 1960s, and early 1970s. Sam informed me that his father was nearly drafted to serve in Vietnam. However, as his father had high blood pressure, he failed his physical exam, and was not drafted into the armed forces. However, Sam told me that his mother worked in an ordnance plant that manufactured various types of ammunition, such as ...

Racial profiling is still rife in the great United States of America despite decades of campaigns to eradicate profiling of individuals based on their skin color, their religion, and place of origin. Cases of racial profiling have been reported in airports, bus and train terminus among other places in the United States (Onwudiwe 6). Schools are not left behind in reporting the numbers of racial profiling incidences. One of the most prominent cases of school racial profiling is the story of Ahmed Mohammed, a story that caused a storm in the United States and around the globe. In its ...

King Brothers and Lionel Tate

Background King Brothers and Lionel Tate: Lionel Tate, was convicted of the July 28, 1999 murder of 6 year old Tiffany Eunick who was punched, kicked, stomped, and thrown to death (See Wrestling, 2001). The injuries Tiffany suffered as a result of the beating included “a fractured skull, a lacerated liver, and more than 30 other injuries” (Wrestling, 2001). At the time of the incident Lionel Tate was 12 years old and weighed 170 pounds. As a result of his role in Ms. Eunick’s death, Lionel Tate was charged with first degree murder. A part of his defense, his attorney tried ...

The freshman year of college can be quite stressful both for students and the parents of the students. In the rush to prepare for college, many prospective freshmen and their parents focus on material things, such as making sure the student has the right clothes, laptop or tablet, sufficient quantities of bed linens and towels, required paperwork, and so forth. Yet having those items rarely decreases stress for students. What actually causes the most stress will be interpersonal issues, such as adjusting to a new roommate, dealing with professors who demand a better quality of work than what the student produced ...

The theme of The Graduate is the emotional journey of an innocent and confused

recent college graduate who is exploited through an affair with a family friend who is a

married woman. It is satirical and often times comedic in its reflections of the social and

sexual mores of the 1960s.

A tight close up of Benjamin Braddock’s face opens the film, a sharp contrast of

his face against the stark whiteness that surrounds his head, symbolic of a Christ-like

halo. It appears as though he is alone but he is actually on a plane, interacting with no

one - isolated in thoughts and emotions. More symbolism of isolation with no one there

the luggage chute, he ...