Alexa Ray Joel

Olivia Ann Tangren, born July 22, 1997, at 12:11 AM at the Mayo Clinic in Owatonna Minnesota. I weighed eight pounds eleven ounces, and was twenty-two inches long. My mom swears I had the largest head in the history of the hospital. At that time gas cost $1.20, and everyone was watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. In concerns for gross motor development, I progressed along at the rate most children do. I first rolled over front to back at four months old. When I was exactly seven months old I sat up without any help. On April 8th 1998, I stood up for the first time, and by April 14th, I took my first step with the help from my dad’s hand, I was almost nine months old. By July 17th, almost a year after I was born, I took my first steps by myself. My ages…

William Martin “Billy” Joel...who is he? Well to the current youth, he might just be a random name with no meaning, but to those of us who have heard his songs and watched his performances, whether on TV or in person, we know that this is no ordinary man. So who is he? He’s the Piano Man. As a big fan of Billy Joel’s songs, especially “Piano Man,” not only do I enjoy listening to his music, but I also feel like I have a connection with Joel. I feel like I can identify some of my life with his…

Alexa PenaVega Credit: Copyright 2016 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Alan Zenuk Alexa PenaVega Credit: Copyright 2016 Crown Media United States LLC/Photographer: Alan Zenuk In this world of egocentricity, materialism, and unparalleled careerism, it is rare to find people who are genuinely kind and are willing to go out of their way to put others first. And in the vast sea of Hollywood, that breed is nearly extinct. Young people who can act as positive role models are almost as…

but in a different sense. We work for money in which we pay someone else to get our food for us, nowadays many American’s don’t hunt or garden ourselves. We have become very dependent on others for almost everything. Wendell Berry recommends those who live in the city that are not able to farm themselves to “eat responsibly.” He believes that eating is an agricultural act whereas we think of food as an agricultural product; we don’t think of ourselves as a participant in agriculture but simply…

This type of farming understands the use of natural resources/ chain where all the species benefits from each other. In the example of Joel Salatin’s Polyface farm. The Polyface farm was built to feed and produce goods naturally where their use natural resources to raise their animals ”....chicken crap feeds the grass that feeds the cows…… the birds dine on the insects,picking their larvae and parasites out of the animal’s droppings, breaking the cycle of infestations and diseases”(Pollan…

the Deep South take place and based on a true life experience of John Grisham. The novel, like the movie, opens with a very brutal rape scene. It’s the socio-politics that give this film an energetic and confrontational feel of southern racial politics. Racism was still very strong even some 20 years after the civil war (Ponick 2011). Hollywood and John Grisham wanted to make bold statement about racism and they accomplished this in the closing argument of the courtroom scene. The setting for…

Chapter 1: After reading the first chapter I can tell that I 'm going to enjoy this book. The book is set up in an interesting fashion. I like how each story is told in a segment. The author’s tone in the first chapter is interesting. He is talking in a calm tone. This juxtaposes the title of the book because I would think that Slaughterhouse Five would entail a book with extreme violence. He 's telling background about his life in an interesting way, he finds ways to tell the reader specific…

The Trance of The Piano Man “Sing us a song you 're the piano man, sing us a song tonight.” Here I am laying on my cot, listening to my one of my favourite songs. Whatever grievances I was still holding onto now seems like an insignificant speck; whether it be homework, exams or even my social life. The absolutely captivating words of Billy Joel are hypnotic, and before I know it I slowly drift asleep falling under the Piano Man’s trance. I opened my eyes, disoriented and dazed; with no idea…

During my time at New Life Community Development and at the St. John’s Bread and Life Mobile Soup Kitchen, I learned quite a few valuable things. When I first started my academic service learning, I went in with the attitude of getting the job done and leaving. I had no intention of enjoying the experience. Although that changed when I walked into the Mobile Soup Kitchen on a grimy Monday afternoon with a whole line of people waiting outside the truck. I immediately started to prepare for the…

These huge organic farms do not operate like Joel Salatin’s farm. In fact, a spokesman from Grimmway said that they are in the organic industry for the profitability. Unlike Polyface Farms, these large corporations are not bound by the seasons. Instead, they make use of extreme amounts of energy in order to distribute their food around the world: “The combined company now controls seventeen thousand acres across California, enough land that it can, like Earthbound, rotate production up and down…