WWL8- Japan Earthquake

One Japan's most powerful earthquake recorded stroke on a copious area of the north east coast on Friday, March 11, preceding a ten meter tsunami.

The fitful quake of an 8,9 magnitude, took place during the evening. It affected the community and the people -- leaving about 10,000 daunting deaths.

The audible sound of the buildings crushing down was a crucial call for authorities to evacuate the remaining victims; but once they saw the tremendous wave coming, there wasn't any adept action they could deploy to decelerate the calamitous wave that on a speed of 200 kilometers per hour deluged the capacious streets of the northeaster coast land.

Many homes were destroyed taken by the water; large number of corps where found, and yet there were still many people missing. The only way to facilitate the fastidious situation was to grapple with the problem, hope for no more damage, and simply wait.

While the Japanese felt a pang of desperation, the waves that were formed by the tsunami travelled 4,000 miles at a high speed all the way to the pacific coast approaching Hawaii.

Go Ask Alice - Book Review

Go ask Alice written by an anonymous author, is a memoir that takes us in a journey of Alice's calamitous world of drugs, the consequences, and her struggles to get out of it. Even if the first purpose of the entries weren't for a book, it gives vivid descriptions of experiences and thoughts. It's a novel in which it makes the reader understand the depth of the situation and connect with the character. The title drags you in because it is basically telling to go to Alice, after all that she's been through, and it's interesting because in the whole novel her name is not mentioned but you know her name for the title.

This epistolary memoir, dived into two diaries -- one was for her old life, and the second was for her renewed self-- shows the life of fifteen year old Alice.

She comes to realize after her awful experiences that drugs don't bring anything good with them, but she might have realized that in a point that there wasn't any option to go back, or even cover her past. She grew up in a loving family, but always had a non satisfying hole with her. She never had some one to be sure to rely on, and that made her emotionally weak trying to take an opportunity that passed her by. Because of this she trusted the wrong people, and got to the wrong places. Alice went through a lot in a period of one year, and went into the darkest places, came into the light, yet she came back there.

This roller coaster ride of the horrors of addiction, takes you in the ride to know the memoirist and emotionally attach to to her. It's a book in which you would want to never stop. You read her diary, enter her world, and never forget her.

Lines I loved:

"All the dumb, idiot kids who think they are only chipping are in reality just existing from one experience to the other. After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs. It's a plodding, colorless, dissonant bare existence. it stinks. And I'm glad I'm back. Glad! Glad! Glad! I've never had it better that I had it last night." p. 97

What I Believe

I believe that life is like coming in and out of tunnels;
it may be narrow,
long,
and even dark,
but at some point we break up to the light.

I believe that your day depends on which foot you get up with.

I believe that the sun set
isn't ending,
but begining to a night
ushered in by the light of the stars.

I believe that you should give love,
to get love.

I believe in the cleansing effect of the summer rains.

I believe you should live
a living,
and loving
life.

I believe in the power of will;
if you think you can,
go ahead.

I believe that there's a certain point
in which you have to risk it all
be silly
and just enjoy.

I believe that your believes are your core...
And that you should never
ever
stop believing.

3 word short

Year 2311, time where population had grown 500 times more in a couple of centuries, where there was barely any nature, and water was everyone's biggest and most wanted privilege. A year where "nation" and "unity" didn't appear in the electronic dictionary, but only in the few old dictionary copies that english professor had left to their grand children...

The world was a dissapointment, not how everyone from the past would have thought about it.

After the rebelion, America was left in a state of anarchy for the last century loosing all contact with other continents. Leaving rukus everywhere, and crazy people trying to control themselves.

Obviously many groups of powerfull people had conspire to what they called "great plans to conquer the Americas", but as you might guess... FAILED. It was fail after fail with more disaster in each one. But no one ever understood, each generation of man kind was more stupid than the previous one.

America was a mess, burned places, fire here and there, random people running from side to side looking for food and water.

One day, unexpectedly, when everyone was tired of conspiring to conquer America, an Asian emperor from a small country that no one knew about, came with the purpose that many people wanted to accomplish long ago.

So he went around on his llama, and apprehended people and sent them to a jail that he had built. And little by little he cleared up everything, and he and his llama conquered the Americas.

4 word short- The Secret

It was easy. Easy to assimilate her into society, but no one ever wondered about the consequences...

The new girl was good news to the town. It was surprising that someone so young and pretty would move to a small town like that. Everyone was glad that there was a new face, something that changed the every day life that they were used to.

This girl was apparently nicer and better than the others, it was easy to notice. Some girls wanted to be their friends, some wanted to be like her, and others envied her for her perfectness.

Every morning she would pick up trash at the park, feed the birds, and help the elders, always with a smile in her face. The mayor never got tired of thanking her, soon enough it felt as if she had been lionized.

People were amazed, but others started to feel suspicious.... It was really weird for some like her, so young and with lots of possibilities, not be in some place else. So one day, when this girl was meticulously fixing the garden, a group of girls conspired to get into her house and try to find something suspicious.

Unfortunately, they did. Some stuff that they never expected. Turns out they found many articled a murder in Texas, and some weapons. These girls were shocked, they couldn't believe it. They obviously went to tell everybody. And everyone was shocked as well, dissension over powered and rumors started.

For being such a small town, the rumors obviously were heard by this girl, she was expressionless. People were taking it the wrong way!

So she gathered everyone and told them the truth...

Although she felt betrayed and hurt, she told the town that she lived in a bad neighborhood in Texas... And all her family had been killed when a group of crazy people entered her house when they were all there. She was the only one who survived. Very disturbed she decided to move to this small town that she had heard of just to start from cero. Tears runned through faces, and feeling guilty for the rumors the people from this town proposed to each other that they would give this girl what she wanted: a new beginning.

Clinical Review

NEW YORK STATE

UNIVERSITY

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM:

Holden Caulfield was seen at N.Y Physiological Clinic, for psychoanalyses on his current situation. Dr. Navarro, his personal doctor, referred him. The client was accompanied by Mrs. Caulfield (mother). She wants to gain information about Holden’s physiological state. The following is the summary of results based on the case history form, parent interview, assessment results and observations obtained before or during the evaluation.

CASE HISTORY:

The following information was gathered from the parent interview and the child history form.

Birth History

Medical History

Developmental History

School Performance

Behavioral Issues

Evaluation History

Holden is the product of and unremarkable full-term pregnancy. He had no newborn difficulties that parents recall. He hadn’t been in any clinic except when he cut his hand with window glass. His parents don’t recall any special problems in growth. He suffered the death of his little brother whom he was really close with at age of 13. Holden has been kicked out of four high schools for not meeting their requirements and failing every subject. After being kicked out it seems any effort approach a change in his studies. Holden has been greatly affected after his brother’s death, change has been noticed since the incident according to parents.

BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATIONS:

When first approached by the clinician, Holden seem to ignore everything that was told to him, annoyed. He ignored most of the questions asked. When the questions were repeated, he would make up his name and his personal information.

At the start of the evaluation he seemed obligated and not wanting to be there, he would either use cursory words, or act as if he had a wound that was bleeding profusely. However, after a few activities he started to gain confidence and tensed down, talking more to the psychologist.

SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS:

Based on the results of this evaluation, Holden presents a physiological reassessment. He had a lack of attention of his parents while he growing up, and his brother’s death affected him because was very close to him and had a very good image for him. But because Holden is not a sociable person, he is not likely to talk about his feelings, so he basically leaves all his feeling inside him making him critical. He thinks really hypocritically, criticizing his around but not looking at himself, he had had so much problems and pressure in the past that he prefers not to take care of them. He is sensible (emotionally weak), so he gets depressed very easily thinking negatively, but small details make him happy. He being in boarding schools, and not sharing time with his family doesn’t let him feel love and support and that’s what he needs. He basically needs to feel more support morally. He is weak and sensible with his emotions so he feels that everyone in his surroundings is “phony”, to distract his problems, he notices other people’s so that he doesn’t have to worry about his. It would be good to do him some sessions of psychotherapy for him to express himself a little more.

Weekly therapy is recommended. The recommended time frame for therapy is forty-five minutes each week. Even though therapy has been recommended in this facility, actual results are expected long term because it is a very delicate situation; this will qualify his way of thinking and make more peaceful his daily life. Share a copy of this report with a staffing specialist at your child’s school to determine if he qualifies for therapy in that setting. Holden Caulfield may be placed on the waiting list at N.Y Department of psychoanalyses in the University of New York. Due to limited space at the clinic, services may not be available until a future date and enrollment is not guaranteed. His status on the waiting list will expire in two years that is one January 10, 1953. If you haven’t received our services by that date, or you continue to have concerns with your child’s psychological status at the time, a re-evaluation to be sought to determine any changes in your child’s psychological status.

________________________________ __________________________________

Isabella Navarro, B.A Diego Urman, M.S CCC/SLP

Graduate Clinician Diagnostic Supervisor

One Day at a Coffee Shop

I sat on the bar table of the recently INAUGURATED coffee shop, waiting for my hot chocolate and cookies. I heard someone entering with BRUSQUENESS through the door, I looked back and saw a young men SLOVENLY CLAD with a puffy coat and a red hunting hat. He seemed RANKLED from the GRIMACE on his face. Just another crazy teen, I thought. You saw many of that GENERATION around New York, I had noticed. He walked to the bar table and sat on the chair next to me.

The AFFABLE waiter finally brought my cup of chocolate and butter cookies. The sweet and warm smell PERVADED the space around me. I grabbed a cookie and GINGERLY dunk it in the beverage. As I drove it to my mouth, I felt the creepy guy beside staring at me. I kind of got freaked out and didn't want to look at him because he looked a little crazy... However, I SUCCUMED.
" Hmm... Do you want something..?" But he kept staring as if I had asked him a GUILE question.
"No, it's okay. Sorry. It's just that you remind me of my little sister," he SPONTANEOUSLY said with a TREMOLOUS voice, as if I had taken him by surprise.
"Oh, okay..." I said, going back to my snack.
"I miss her so goddamn much, you know? I'm in a new boarding school full of more phonies, and I can't see her everyday," I heard him say, this time more PRUDENTLY than before. I nodded, not knowing what to say and perplexed about the reason he was telling me this to me...
"What's your name?" He asked.(Obviously he wanting to stride up a conversation). I didn't want to sound as an IRASCIBLE person, and didn't have much to do so I kept with the talk.
"Isabella, what about yours?"
"Holden," he replied with a little more enthusiasm.

Holden waved to the waiter and asked for a beer, the waiter obviously REBUFFED the request and brought instead a coke. I don't blame the waiter, Holden could be tall but he didn't look like a grown up.
"That happens to me frequently, it ABHORS me as hell... But it doesn't matter, I feel DEHYDRATED with all these January breeze. Doesn't it happen to you?" Holden said as he open the red can. I knew from that comment that what was coming was an INTERMINABLE conversation.

Jumping from one thing to another lead to what he called his "madmen stuff that happened to him". He told me how he had been somewhat like a RECLUSIVE, LACKADAISICAL, DESPONDENT guy that had been kicked out of his fourth boarding school. Because he was supposed to go home a Wednesday after being kicked out --and it was Sunday-- he went all over New York to kill time.

I got to the part where he was with Phoebe --his beloved little sister who is sweet, and knows exactly what everyone is always talking about-- the carousel part, and how much it had meant so much to him. The story was interrupted by my mom, who came into the coffee shop and called my name. So I had to say bye to Holden, I however, didn't say "good luck" though, he made it very clear that he disliked it.

Over all, I don't consider that encounter that bad. I thought it was nice meeting, knowing, and trying to give him SAGE advice. He had a TURBULENT life, and I admire that he was able to EXTRICATE himself from his depressing times.