Desert

I believe that Santiago had many mentors including the sun, the alchemist, King Melchizedek, and, like Maggie said, the sheep. I believe that the sheep were mentors to Santiago because he learned that most things follow a pattern. His daily life depended on the sheep, and they depended on him. Santiago states, "... he realized that it could be the other way around: that it was he who had become accustomed to their schedule" (page 4). I believe this quote shows how the sheep are somewhat a…

Alchemist Essay Trying to achieve your personal legend can become much more to a fulfilling life. Your personal legend is something you always wanted to accomplish in life. The Alchemist written by Paulo Coelho is about a young shepherd named Santiago, who seeks hidden treasure at the foot of the pyramids. It all started with an reoccurring dream of him finding the treasure. As he travels, meet new people, and learns new lessons on life. On his travels he meets a crystal merchant, who tells…

When I think of The Wombats, I think of odd-but-fun lyrics and upbeat, borderline psychedelic music, and the band's latest album, "Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life," provides just that. The first song on the album, "Cheetah Tongue," was pre-released as a single. The song itself is pretty simple, but the lyrics are very visual. I really like the line, "My hands shake like jellyfish when you're near." It also mentions black flamingos, which is a song title later in the album. The ridiculous…

Text Summary Yael Lehmann addressed the issue of Obesity vs Food Deserts in her article “Bringing Healthy Options to Food Deserts” published in The New York Times. Her article argues that healthy foods need to be easily and equally accessible to all people in this country because, “If healthy food is not available, you won’t eat it”. Lehmann believes that if people lack access to healthy foods they have a higher rate of obesity and other related diseases. The author targets the 23.5 million…

areas are known as what we call a food desert. Food deserts are urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. Instead of supermarkets and grocery stores, these communities may have no food access or are served only by fast food restaurants and convenience stores that offer few healthy, affordable food options. How does one define where a food desert might be? The USDA, Treasury and HHS have defined a food desert as a census tract with a…

the heart the readers are still desperately lonely and, probably, nothing can be done. It is exactly what Robert Frost wanted to say in his famous poem “Desert Places”. Robert Frost’s “Desert Places” shows the interrelationship of individuality and the need to avoid conformity in society today. The title of the poem speaks for itself, “Desert Places” is a moral and spiritual wildernesses, where the reader has lost his way. This poem uses imagery, word choice, and symbolism, to explain how…

They say it is one of the most unforgiving places on the planet. Five-thousand-nineteen square miles of desert wasteland, Death Valley is located in California about one-hundred miles west of Las Vegas. On July tenth, nineteen thirteen, it broke the official record for the hottest air temperature ever recorded in the world: one-hundred-thirty-four degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just the official recording. On July fifteenth nineteen seventy-two, the temperature is said to have reached two hundred…

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding tells the story of man’s inhumanity to man. In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. The boys elect a leader, hoping for an ounce of leadership and maturity. At first the boys enjoy their freedom, roaming around the island, swimming, and having a good time. Everything works out until the fun gets out of hand. The boys get swept into the world of hunting and…

All around Arkansas there are numerous so called “food deserts,” or places with limited access to nutritional food; places such as these have a lower income level. Therefore, these places do not have access to transportation to obtain healthier food. Some solutions to this problem are working with local farmers to implement a community garden, bringing in mobile farmers markets that will accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and educating people on the recommended…

Food, and access to it, is a determinant of health and well-being. Families living in food deserts, often defined as geographic areas where residents experience barriers to accessing healthy foods, including, both physical and economic obstacles such as poverty and the lack of full-service grocery stores, face greater risk for adverse health outcomes. The burden of food deserts extends beyond access to affordable healthy food, and leads to a potential greater disparity in health outcomes among…