Article 26 Where Fat Is a Mark of Beauty In a rite of passage‚ some Nigerian girls spend months gaining weight and learning customs in a special room. “To be called a ‘slim princess’ is an abuse‚” says a defender of the practice. By Ann M. Simmons TIMES STAFF WRITER AKPABUYO‚ Nigeria—Margaret Bassey Ene currently has one mission in life: gaining weight. The Nigerian teenager has spent every day since early June in a “fattening room” specially set aside in her father’s mudand-thatch house
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Ever since I was born‚ I was a military brat. Not knowing where to call home‚ or if any place could be home‚ I moved. I moved six times‚ four of those places were towns that nobody could think about. Germany‚ North Carolina‚ Alaska‚ North Carolina‚ Germany‚ and Alaska‚ yet no place to call home. May 22‚ 1999‚ my first day on this world; Kronach hospital had its first American baby in their hands‚ yet they acted like I was a different species. The only event I remember was when I was about one. While
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Beautiful Stranger (A-List Novel #9) Zoey Dean To Dianne. Loyalty is everything. New York was real and California was not. T’ was ever thus. --Lauren Bacall 8 9 Blank Silk Christian Dior Gown T here were many things that Anna Percy loved: classic novels written in the nineteenth century‚ the antique diamond stud earrings handed down from her grand-mother‚ the idea that a person could‚ if she really wanted to‚ reinvent herself. But at this moment‚ she wondered if the thing she loved
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which‚ I felt was similar to the butterflies fluttering inside me. However‚ excitement of a brand-new‚ different place was mixed in with my fear and nervousness. Moving to Scotland changed my entire world‚ for the worse at first‚ however‚ there is an immense amount that I have learnt from being here that I would not reverse it. We walked down Princes Street‚ one of the busiest places in which I had ever been. I heard the different accents all around me‚ so different from what I was used to‚ yet
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You live in your mind The human mind is a magnificent creation. When we talk about our brains‚ we are talking about an ocean filled with beautiful lights that glow every once in a while. We are talking about a world that is full of life or death. We are talking about a place where you can live happily‚ or the complete opposite. You are how your mind functions. So when we talk about such a sensitive topic we are literally talking about a power tool. A tool that can get you to the highest gates
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“I’m going to split you into four groups” our gym teacher said one day “when i say your number go to that place in the gym” everybody ran to the section of the gym that they needed to be at all the kids were talking now to the people in there section‚ Ok the gym teacher said “now that your split up i’ll explain what to do” he moved a few cones and then pointed to three people tyler‚ robert‚ brook i nervously walked up to mr. O he pointed to me and pointed to one of the cones I walked over to it and
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tree—any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world! She was sixteen. She had glossy leaves and bursting buds and she wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her. Where were the singing bees for her? Nothing on the place nor in her grandma’s house answered her. (11) In this part of the novel it deliberately describes the pear tree in this fashion to show the relation between a blossoming tree‚ which is blooming as it grows‚ to the significant character changes in
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“Nothing is beautiful as Spring”. This Italian sonnet was written to describe a natural world. God’s presence is identified as an electrical current that runs through the earth. God’s presence runs like the refracted glinting of light produced by metal foil‚ whenever it is moved quickly. The sonnet quotes God to be like rich oil. Oil is very rich and thick. Oil is needed every where around the world. If you don’t believe it‚ drive your car month after month without getting an oil change or even
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ALYANA CIELINE C. GEROLAGA “A BEAUTIFUL MIND” Reaction Paper Based on what I have watched from the movie of “A Beautiful Mind”‚ which is a biography based on the true life story of a math prodigy‚ John Forbes Nash Jr.‚ is an incomparable math genius student from Princeton University who definitely amazed the minds of people he meets. For me‚ he is an extraordinary person having a broad and an odd imagination as well. Unfortunately‚ he suffers from a mental illness called
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who Nic would stay with I can only imagine that this was a very hard divorce for Nic to have to go through. Also in making this decision did David or Nic’s mother take into consideration what effect their fighting had on Nic? When I was reading Beautiful Boy: a father ’s journey into his son ’s addiction‚ I was surprised to read that Nic had marijuana in his backpack. I felt that this was an important part of the story because it is Nic ’s first introduction into drugs. Nic is unaware to the health
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