“Riding the Elephants” by Barbara Kingsolver is a short story describing going to Nepal in 2016. Barbara goes to Nepal as part of her job to interview the lowest caste women‚ who are known as the “Untouchable Women.” When she is finished‚ she explores the inside world of the village and explores the Chitwan Reserve‚ full of Asian creatures. A park ranger invites her for a border patrol‚ on an elephant. By the end of the story‚ she feels at peace with the decisions she has made and feels secure in
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involved in drugs‚ weapons‚ dealing of illegal substances‚ and committing crimes of the gang and a aggrevated robbery. The drugs that the police had gathered from arresting these violent people were meth‚ crack‚ cocaine‚ MJ‚ and codeine. I had asked if our neighborhood is a bit safer now since we got these violent people off the streets and that more guns and drugs had been taken off the streets and put
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What would you do if your child developed diabetes from being obese? Obesity is a widely known problem that most Americans are enduring in this world today. According to the medical dictionary‚ by Farlex‚ obesity is an abnormal accumulation of body fat. With more and more Americans becoming obese at a shocking rate due to numerous factors‚ obesity may be developing into one of the most dangerous health problems in the United States. The obesity crisis in America is attributed to many causes; some
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Relays are important and underappreciated parts of everyday life. They are put to use a countless number of times‚ in a countless number of places. This is a complete over view of a relay and its use. A relay is a machine that has a low amount of electricity that moves through the coil‚ wires‚ and small bars to power other machinery. Relays were one of the first types of machines to generate power for other machines. Though they were the first of there kind‚ they work very well. Relays don ’t use
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best spot to fish. My type of revision is very much like this because I always try to find the best ideas and the best ways to express them. In addition‚ I will also apply the idea of metaphors and how our conceptual system works from George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s article “argument is war” to Barbara Tomlinson’s idea of revision into this
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According to Barbara MacKinnon we have a propensity to think of ethics as the set of values or principles held by individuals or groups. Each person is set to have their own ethics‚ and groups have sets of values that they tend to identify. Ethics can be thought of the study of the various sets of values that people have. Ethics which is also known as moral philosophy is the discipline apprehensive with what is morally good and bad or what is right and wrong. The phrase is applied to any classification
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into my subconscious because I know precisely when the dreams began. It was eight years ago‚ when a professional player — a former NFL defensive lineman — suffered a fatal spine injury on the field. His name was Al Lucas and he played defensive tackle for the Arena Football League’s Los Angeles Avengers. He died on the hard carpet of the Staples Center eight years ago this week‚ on April 10‚ 2005. He was 26 years old. No‚ he wasn’t torn asunder by opponents. Instead‚ a relatively unremarkable collision
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In today’s society when we hear the word “freedom”‚ we primarily relate it with national freedom. The United States Constitution sheds light on most of our primary freedoms. With the prioritization of all these other kinds of freedoms‚ the idea of sexual freedom is oftentimes neglected. Leslie Bell‚ in her “Hard to Get” mentions the word “freedom” quite vaguely and frequently. This is important because sexual freedom in today’s society is confined in a structure of norms set by the society on how
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Barbara Bush’s Commencement Speech Barbara Bush has a very good ethos as a writer. Throughout her speech she utilizes that‚ along with much pathos to help bring across her message: that today a new world is forming‚ and the students of Wellesley College are the future of society‚ so find where you think you fit in to society‚ not where others say you have to go. In her speech‚ Barbara Bush discusses how she went to the People’s Republic of China‚ which is where the future of society will be
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Hiba Alqaraghuli Alqaraghuli 1 Professor Hollands ESL 166 – 993 7 Oct 2013 The Best Job If offered‚ would you take a position that required you to be on the job five to six – hour a day‚ and offered no wages or sick days? For me this job is being a good housewife and cook‚ although it’s the most
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