Battle of the Bulge

about hearing the news. Every year she goes through the same routine: move, get settled in, then move again. So, it is not a surprise that she was infuriated with her parents once again. Every place she moves she always has to make new friends and battle the new challenges thrown at her. As they say their goodbyes to the family and friends they are leaving behind, she begins to sob. She tries her best to hold back the tears but even she knows it is inevitable. She slowly ambles down the…

Philippines as revealed in a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). While girls are less prone to obesity than boys early on, this trend reverses as they become adults. However, both sexes are still losers in the battle of the bulge, as obesity rates increase as they age. IHME reported that 1 of 4 Filipinos are overweight while 1 out of 20 are…

How significant is d-day? There are a lot of days during throughout landing on Normandy’s beaches on June 6th 1944, to getting the Germans out of Paris August 25 1944, which then lead to getting them out of France. D-day was a significant day because it helped end ww2. It was the day it started the end. It helped affect other things in the future. Some of those effects are, it helped the soviets not fight alone against the Nazis. Opened a second front that the Germans had to fight against.…

History has always been a big part of my life. I remember in first grade pouring all of my affections onto the historical fiction American girl doll books in the elementary school library and imagining myself as a Swedish immigrant in 1854, or as a young patriot in 1774. During second and third grade I devoted my free time to reading about the Civil War and the Spanish explorers that conquested through my native Florida. In fourth grade I remember leaping through a native american pottery…

Pilates is an exercise method that focuses on creating a fusion of the mind and body. This method of exercising is quickly becoming very popular for women all over the world thanks to its countless health benefits. But the real question is if it can be substituted in the place of a more traditional weight loss routine. The answer is yes! Pilates on its own is already a very efficient way for you to lose weight. When you perform your Pilates workout, you 're naturally distributing more oxygen to…

The sound of the netted string of beads rattling against the hollowed gourd as the player passionately shakes it rouses the entity to take control of its “horse”. Anyone can clearly see that some of the dancers have indeed been taken over by what certainly seems to be a force separate from themselves. What begins as a violent shaking eventually refines itself to an elegant dance that extends from the contractions of the pelvic section all the way to the toes and fingers. Conga drums…

Self-Management-Healthy Living Every day all over the world people are faced with the choices they make when it comes to healthy living; whether or not they are eating right, whether or not they are exercising on a daily basis and whether or not they are getting the right amount of sleep every night. To many it s difficult to make the right choices, many people are living a life of obesity, many are struggling every day just to simply look in the mirror and accept what they see. In this paper I…

On the surface, Slaughter-house Five, by Kurt Vonnegut presents the idea that humans have no free will. Vonnegut uses the lack of free will as a metaphor for the helplessness that people feel faced with situations beyond their control. However, the novel can be reexamined to show the opposite; not only do we have free will, but the choices we make are supremely important. Unexplainable tragedies such as war, disease, and famine appear to be inevitable, engendering an overwhelming sense of…

God Is the Path to My Future I, too, shall find my new path to follow with God’s help as I have time and again throughout my life. As my life has currently lost its purpose, I ask myself, “Will I know it when I see it, will I suddenly jump for joy or feel a warm sensation throughout my body. Realistically, I know that I need to listen for the direction from God. For my path to recovery, I should listen to Elijah when he tells us he heard God’s “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12). As I look…

jobs, food service jobs, production and manufacturing jobs and sales positions, “these areas will likely see significant declines in employment: 25% to 75%. These are industries where labor is a major component of the cost structure” (Waker). This bulge of industry and at least one third of the entire human workforce, both blue collar and white collar, could be cut deep by the introduction of artifical intelligence into the…