I recently read your article ’Live lazy‚ live long - look at Britain’s oldest man’ that was published in ’The Guardian’ on 5th November 2012. After reading your article‚ I felt it was important to write to you explaining why I disagree with the message within your article. My first criticism is that initially you stated‚ “It seems to make sense that slow lives‚ as well as being enjoyable‚ are long lives.” I would like to point out that there is no proof that
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My passion is soccer which I have played soccer since I was 5. I was put in soccer because my mom and my dad were athletic and played many sports as a child. I was very active always running around so soccer was a good way to get my energy out. As I got older‚ I continued to play because I found it fun and it was nice to meet new people but I never truly felt the love for soccer until I was eight. I was on a team called‚ Too Hot to Handle with Coach Kakimoto. On Too Hot to Handle‚ I had many friends
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I remember the first tackle football team my dad coached and I was on it. My dad‚ well he loves football and he so desperately wanted me to play football and become good. Well back then I was a lot smaller believe it or not and that very first game I scored a touchdown‚ and I remember how proud my dad was of me. You could say that day I also became in love with football. One early spring morning it was a beautiful day and my dad took me turkey hunting for the first time. I was so excited to go
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escaping their past lifestyle and customs‚ but they will ultimately carry them throughout their life. Jhumpa Lahiri’s “My Two Lives‚” the excerpt from Alan Ehrenhalt’s The Lost City‚ and N. Scott Momaday’s “The Way to Rainy Mountain” take different approaches to develop the plot‚ but they are all connected by a universal theme: the eternal presence of ancestry. Lahiri’s “My Two Lives” is her story about the issues she had while trying to maintain her Indian traditions for her parents but her want to
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A Tragedy Within The novel‚ Things Fall Apart‚ written by Chinua Achebe is a very clear example of a man who has an intense fear of being like his father: lazy‚ disrespected‚ and unsuccessful. Okonkwo‚ the main character‚ lives his whole life making sure that he does not turn into the kind of man that his father was all while he tries to not disappoint his Nigerian Ibo tribe and the oracle. Due to this‚ Okonkwo ultimately struggles when a group of white missionaries travel to their tribe and inform
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Sometimes even the greatest love can weather the changes that life presents. Baseball‚ for instance‚ has always been my passion‚ regardless of the pressure that accompanies it. My love for baseball started at a very young age. Many hours were enjoyed at my dad’s softball games‚ cheering him on as he hit or played left field. I’ve been working on my arm since I could sit up by throwing toys and balls across the room. An occasional tater tot soared through the air from my high chair‚ when mom looked
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The reign the Greek empire started in approximately 2000 B.C. with the arrival of the Greeks in Greece‚ and ended in 338 B.C. with the downfall of Greece. There were three different dialects of the Greek language in Balkans. The Aeolians‚ the Ionian‚ and the Dorian. Though they spoke different forms of the same language they considered themselves a related and distinct race. They united and created the society Mycenaean. Early Mycenaean Greeks built temples and palaces in the cities Thebes‚ Athens
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Language and Thought No one would disagree with the claim that language and thought interact in many significant ways. There is great disagreement‚ however‚ about the proposition that each specific language has its own influence on the thought and action of its speakers. On the one hand‚ anyone who has learned more than one language is struck by the many ways in which languages differ from one another. But on the other hand‚ we expect human beings everywhere to have similar ways of experiencing
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stuck by my side and loved me through it all has been Matt. He is truly the love of my life. That is why the past couple of days have been nothing but a roller coaster of emotional ups and downs for me. I am torn between my husband who is my best friend‚ the love of my life and another friend‚ that other friend being you. I don’t want to lose you as a friend‚ nor do I want to push you away‚ but I don’t want to constantly be looking over my shoulders in fear that I will lose the love of my life. This
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it’s extremely hard to make them realize they don’t have to deteriorate themselves to impress some BOY! My father did an amazing job making a MAN of me but my mother made me realize the character I want in a WOMAN! These young girls these days must learn they are worth more than a movie ticket and a coke! I hope @maxiekate13 is happy with the man i’ve been and become for nearly three whole years! (Even though we’ve seen differences so many times! That’s the building of a relationship) I’m not perfect
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