think I’ve lived the simplest life that I could but I definitely don’t use up tons of energy. The idea of living simply isn’t to appealing to me because it’s different than what I’m used to. Doing the experiment of living simply for a weekend in class was quite difficult. However‚ on the days were I am live more simple I feel more relaxed and less stressed. Some people‚ like Thoreau‚ wanted to get away from the beaten path because he wanted to be happy with his life. Others‚ like Kingsolver‚ understand
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Writing the Story of Your Life Many students ask me‚ “Whenever I meet a foreigner‚ I want to talk to them‚ but I never know what to say.” Others are merely interested in their careers and only want to learn “Business English‚” so they can “get many‚ many moneys” when they get out of college. Truth is‚ even a successful business person has got to be a person first of all‚ and since mutual trust is a must in business‚ you’ve got to have the ability to engender that trust in you with your future business
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Would You Give Up Your Cell Phone? Me neither. I have my life in that little black box – appointments‚ phone numbers‚ addresses‚ birthdays‚ e-mail‚ grocery list‚ music‚ and more. Texting is the only way I can contact my daughter. I can’t imagine what I would do without it. And yet‚ I was one of the late adopters. When everyone else was raving about their flip phones (remember them?)‚ I was rationalizing why I should avoid being seduced by the new technology: “I don’t use the phone much anyway
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“The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor 1. Explain the significance of the name Shiftlet. The name Crater. Shiftlet suggests he is a sketchy character or that he will change. Crater is an empty space or hole‚ indicating that she is in want/need of something 2. Underline any positive references to nature. Explain the significance of these references. At what point in the story does nature change/darken? Why? Nature begins as a beautiful sunset that represents Shiftlet as
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From all of my experiences that may have been poor at the time‚ but at the same time I have felt and have been supported and that is a big part of athletic training and one of the biggest reason that I have chosen the major as well‚ or I am able to show support to others the way I have felt it. Throughout picking my major‚ I also have a big support
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In the reading “What You Eat Is Your Business” Radley Balko states “For decades now‚ America’s Healthcare system has been migrating toward socialism. Your well-being‚ shape‚ and condition have increasingly been deemed matters of “public health‚” instead of matters of personal responsibility.” (467) which shows this writer’s view that it is a problem of discipline and a person’s own personal choice to be unhealthy. “That means freeing insurance companies to reward healthy lifestyles‚ and penalize
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himself to solve the problem. In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor‚ the major conflicts resides within Mr. Shiftlet. This man vs. self conflict involves the struggle in which Mr. Shiftlet tries to overcome his evil ways‚ but continues to fail in the shadows of his own selfishness. He attempts to undertake good deeds to help others‚ such as the Craters with their housework and the wandering boy with advice‚ but continues to fall short even by the end of the story. Mr. Shiftlet’s
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Nutrition has become a popular debate within the last twenty years. Policy analyst Radley Balko explores how government intervention affects our diet. In Balko’s article “What You Eat Is Your Business”‚ Balko discusses why he dislikes the policies being passed that monitor the public’s intake of unhealthy food. Balko chooses to pull attention away from the outcome these policies will have on health‚ and instead focus on the financial ramifications that follow major policy changes. When writing this
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The article "Your Brain Lies to You" is about how the brain works in ways to remember information whether it may be true or false. The article has a strong argument due to its use of Toulmin’ terms for the shape of an argument. For instance‚ the article gives a strong claim that the brain is able to store true or false information but not from where it originated‚ a phenomenon known as amnesia. The grounds of the claim are scenarios where people believe in certain things to be true when in the contrary
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What You Eat Is Your Business: Americans‚ Personal Responsibility‚ and Food America‚ we know it as the land of the free‚ but the rest of the world knows seemingly knows it as the land of the unhealthy. In the year 2016‚ the CDC Reported that about 36% of Americans is obese. We as Americans have abused our freedoms on what we eat and how we live our lives‚ because we chose to ignore the responsibilities that come with these freedoms. Our ignorance does not come without a price‚ in the article “What
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