HEALTHY LIVING (BY ROSELINE ONWUKAH‚ ABSUTH) Health as defined by World Health Organization is a state of complete physical‚ mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Many factors affect your health. Some you cannot control‚ such as your genetic makeup or your age. But you can make changes to your lifestyle. By taking steps toward healthy living‚ you can help reduce your risk of heart disease‚ cancer‚ stroke and other serious diseases. For example‚
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Deborah Samson was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man and served for over a year in the revolutionary war. I think it was very brave of her to do that knowing how much trouble she could have got in. In Deborah Samson’s child and teenage years were rough because she lived in poverty. It didn’t make anything any better when her father left on a expedition
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Nature and Nurture: A Gender Sandwich It has always been said that both nature and nurture are the main ingredients in shaping a person’s behavior for the rest of their lives‚ like the meats and the cheeses to your favorite sub sandwich. Deborah Blum seems to think that not only do these things greatly effect human behavior but also gender identities. She gives the reader a new perspective on nature and nurture‚ arguing that it is way more than just nurture that paves the path of gender roles. Blum’s
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We Need To Talk The play We Need To Talk illustrates the theme of acceptance. The play explores the prejudice individuals with special needs face in their society. The society ridicules and misjudges the handicapped. The theme of acceptance is conveyed perfectly through elements of acting and costume designing. Scene four outlines the false perceptions people have of wheel bound parents‚ the idea that they are incapable of being descent parents. Cara‚ played by Jolene De Tiege‚ and Luke‚ played
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abortion. Although these thoughts may seem negligible to many‚ they are familiar and expected everyday occurrences that Jewish immigrant Rachel Deborah Shilsky has to experience in her orthodox reign in The Color of Water. These very events commence as Rachel becomes the beloved girlfriend of a black teen known as Peter in Suffolk‚ Virginia. The relationship is light at first but escalates to the abortion of an unexpected pregnancy. Moreover‚ the story progresses to
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person who hasn’t heard about grit‚ in the article “The Significance of Grit” written by Deborah Perkin-Gough defines grit as being passion and perseverance not giving up. It explains that sometimes people know they could do more‚ but they get comfort and just do so much that it’s requiring. In my senior year of high school‚ I had to use grit on two occasions to accomplish my goals and succeed. This article also talks about the idea that people that have built grit will be successful in whatever they
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The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why Summary ( by Deborah Tannen . 2001 .) There is no particular way to communicate according the Deborah Tannen as communication is not just saying what you mean but how one communicates the meaning. Situation varies from one person to another. Language communicates ideas but a more powerful form of communication is social behavior . Language use is a learnt social behavior that allows us to negotiate relationships and it is influenced by cultural experience
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of the Ted Talk by Mikko Hypponen titled How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust -- time to act. Summary Mr. Hypponen talks about how the national security agency or NSA for short and other American agencies are monitoring foreign data connections that enters or passes US soil‚ which includes personal data such as emails‚ text messages‚ phone calls and other types of data and how our encryption methods are being weaken by installing backdoor access by said agencies. He goes on to talk about how agencies
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CAN WE TALK? YOLANDA LOYD COM 200 INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION INSTRUCTOR KENNETH NEWTON JUNE 17‚ 2013 CAN WE TALK? The article Can We Talk? Researcher Talks About the Role of Communication in Happy Marriages" gives us results as related to couples in marriages. In today’s society‚ many couples are too busy to stop‚ sit down‚ and have a meaningful conversation with their significant others. Terri Orbach‚ research scientist at the Institute for Social
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regard to the content of self talk between two broad dimensions‚ positive and negative self talk. Positives has been conceptualised as self-addressed statements in the form of praise and encouragement [4] and negative self talk has been conceptualised as statements in the form of criticism and self-preoccupation [5]. Contemporary research has further discriminated self talk with regard to the purposes it serves‚ as instructional or motivational. Instructional self talk refers to statements aiming
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