* Most elderly women are living lonely; where as in elderly men‚ half of them are married. * When they become older‚ they have few friends because of certain things such as vision‚ hearing problems; thus‚ they need more family care. * Activity theory of aging: looking at construct of social roles‚ some have lost spouse roles. * Social roles drop out when aging. * When these older people engaging in different activities‚ they maintain in healthy ways and they are happier. *
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Doc Hendley‚ the writer and creator of Wine to Water‚ is an extraordinary human being. Like myself‚ he was unsure of his life‚ his purpose‚ and he spent a long while self-exploring to see what fit him best. He enjoyed the open road and the freedom he felt while relaxing with “wind therapy” in beautiful scenery. Ever since a young age‚ like Doc‚ when he was exploring the woods with his BB gun‚ I was exploring the woods on a four wheeler or ripping waves on a jetski. While he never really fit in with
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George Washington Carver was a chemist with an extraordinary mind and an extraordinary life. With the mentality he grew up having‚ this chemist amazed everybody of how to take one little thing and transform it into quite a few useful things. Earning the name “The Plant Doctor.” As a child‚ born around 1864 George grew up to an enslaved couple known as Mary and Giles‚ owned by Moses Caver. Then suddenly George followed by his mom and sister were kidnapped by raiders and sold in kentucky. Only then
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January 13‚ 2017 He had invented a ton of things with just sweet potato‚ peanuts‚ and pecans. He went to college for majoring in art. A couple of his professors got him to change his mind. He went to another college and majored in agriculture. George Washington Carver was born before the Civil War. His exact birth is unknown. He was born in the Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove‚ Missouri. In 1864‚ he was born into slavery from his mother and father. He was one of twelve children born from Giles and Mary
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington “Screen on the Green” is an annual tradition where locals from the area go to the National Mall in between the National Monument and the Capital. The film is played on an enormous screen that faces the capital. I attended this event during the feature film “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” which played August 26. The significance that the Capital Dome had in the background as this film played gave the movie even more significance to the viewer. I rented the movie
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George Washington Carver George Washington Carver was born during the civil war years on a Missouri farm near Diamond Grove‚ Newton Country in Marion‚ Township Missouri. Even Carver himself was uncertain of his own birth date. In early manhood he thought that he was born in the year of 1865. On other occasions Carver noted that his birth came "near the end of the civil war" or "just as freedom was declared ". Carver was a brilliant man who received a bachelors and a masters degree
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Dear Diary‚ February 16th‚ 1778 I’m writing to you from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. Life here is horrible. There’s a lot shortages of everything from food to clothing to medicine. My men are sick from disease‚ hunger‚ and exposure. Right now‚ were camped in crude log cabins and have endured cold conditions while the Redcoats warmed themselves in colonial homes. Naked and starving as they are we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery. My men
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Bartolome de Las Casas‚ The Tears of the Indians A particularly eloquent defender of the Amerindians was Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566)‚ who spent most of his long life in Spanish America. In The Tears of the Indians‚ also published as A Short History of the Destruction of the Indies‚ Las Casas described in graphic detail the atrocities inflicted on the Amerindians. His account greatly exaggerated the number of Amerindians killed by the Spaniards; disease‚ for which the Amerindians had
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What National Monument Means the Most to me? Winston Churchill‚ former British prime minister‚ once said‚ ¨Never in the field of human conflict‚ has so much‚ been owed by so many‚ to so few!¨ This quote is from a British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War 2. There are multiple reasons why I like the National World War 2 monument. The monument was finished building on April 29‚ 2004‚ which was 59 years after the end of World War 2. The 3 reasons why this monument is important to me
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uses fluorescent lights to create an ephemeral realm of lights for someone to exist in that have a personal critical element within them. This personal critical element comes in epistolary form that resembles Flavin’s light works. In Flavins piece Monument to V. Tatlin his light sculpture resembles critical epistolary about Tatlins work for the viewer to read. Dan Flavin has been influenced by Tatlins works since the begins of his work with fluorescent tubes. Having read The Great Experiment: Russian
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