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    pressure. Walking can also protect you from certain cancers. Walking strengthens bones and can relieve joint pain and swelling. Walking can help you lose weight or manage your weight. If you walk on a daily basis it can help relieve stress and can make you feel energetic. To receive these benefits you only have to walk for 30 minutes a day‚ 10 minutes at a time. To get 30 minutes a day you can substitute things like talking the stairs instead of the elevator or parking farther away. Exercise can help

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    Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space 1. Why does staples characterize the woman he encounters in a paragraph 1 as a “victim”? One of the author’s purpose of characterizing the woman he encounters‚ is to share the reader a personal life experience in order to engage and catch the reader’s attention with this ironic and sarcastic situation. The author uses this type of language to transmit and inform the magnitude of racism at that time and how can affect an individual

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    A Changed Life In the historical fiction novel A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park‚ a boy named Salva escapes from his village after the rebels attack. Before the rebels took over Salva’s village he went to school everyday. Each day after school his mother would always be waiting for him at home with a bowl of warm milk. In the historical fiction novel The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis‚ a girl named Parvana lives in Kabul‚ Afghanistan‚ during the Taliban rule. Before the Taliban

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    oseph William Watson Andrew Short PHIL 3020 November‚ 2010 Mind-Walk Take-Home Mid-Term Question #1 According to Sonia‚ “life is simply self-organization”. She explains why “life is self-organization” in three different categories .The first category in Sonia’s self-organization theory is self-maintaining. Self-maintaining basically states that life depends on many different things‚ however it doesn’t determines the things it wants. One example that is related is based on our environment

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    Long Term Care Facility vs. Home Health Care Nursing By: Ronald L. Bowling English 125 J. Shackleford 11/02/2012 Abstract: The decision of whether or not to place an aging parent into a long-term care facility‚ or to try and to keep them in their own home or yours is one that many American families are facing each day. Factors in dealing with this decision are too numerous to count but we will address a few of them in the following paper‚ like the financial aspects‚ psychosocial‚ and meeting

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    English‚ their life would soon be reshaped as their life will unravel soon. In the monograph The Long Way Home by David Laskin‚ he shared the lives of a dozen immigrants in their point of view. Laskin‚ a graduate from Harvard college is an American writer. In his book‚ Laskin detailed the hardships that they had to withstand. From trying to find their family knowing little English‚ to finding a decent home‚ these guys sacrificed a lot for their country and for what it is today. Peter Thompson‚ born

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    For starters‚ I really liked the play. It was not boring or hard to read. When I first heard the title “A Long Christmas Ride Home‚” I am not going to lie‚ but‚ I thought it was going to be a cheesy‚ holiday play and I was completely wrong. For some reason‚ I loved how dark and twisted it turned out to be. The events that occur really come out of nowhere and that grabbed my eye. However‚ the events that occur‚ sadly‚ are realistic and are problems that families face daily. As a result‚ we have a

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    The story‚ The Long Walk‚ by Stephen King‚ really makes you think about what people would do for money. As the book is about a walk for teenagers‚ the last person walking wins and if they slow down too many times they lose. It seems like a very tough task itself‚ but when you lose‚ you get shot by the soldiers on a halftrack. In this book it shows young people becoming‚ mentally unstable‚ starting to become rude and hurting people they hurt them physically or making their mental state go to an all

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    How fitting‚ that A Long Way Home - a chilling memoir of Saroo Brierly‚ should evoke Charles Dickens opening line in A Tale of Two Cities “It was the best of time‚ it was the worst of time”. The best of time when Saroo ultimately is adopted into a good-hearted family in Australia‚ the worst of time when Saroo’s family in Khandwa is engulfed in the lugubrious belief that their beloved son is gone forever. Notwithstanding growing up with devoted parents in Australia‚ Saroo is still manacled into the

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    persistent to make the long walk every day to get water for her family so she and her family can stay alive through the harsh conditions. Salva is a young boy surviving through the war in Sudan and must push himself to get to his end goal of safety. In the novel‚ A Long Walk to Water‚ Linda Sue Park uses walking as a symbol of persistence to show the reader how the characters must continue walking to survive in Sudan. To start‚ the author used the symbol of walking in Long Walk to

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