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My Migrant Idol Anthropologist Ellen Zimmerman There are certain people in this world that make you want to talk. Some people cause you to talk out of nervousness and need to impress them, while others have such a personality that you talk because you feel the ease in their attention and understanding. Ellen Zimmerman, a professor in Anthropology at Framingham State University, makes me want to tell her my life story, and then turn around and listen to hers. The first day I met Zimmerman she…

People tend to believe that bad things can’t happen to them. We go through life seeing tragedies on the news and throughout the media. We understand them in our minds, but not in our hearts. It’s as if when the remote is clicked and the television goes black, the horrors of the world disappear. We seek the safety that is ignorance, and it is this facade of safety, that makes us vulnerable. I used to be one of these people. It happened on my birthday. With a swift lurch forward, the gondola rose…

Practice was light the day before the game. There was minimal running with mostly set plays, and things like that. We got the usual spiel about drinking water, eating healthy, and getting plenty of sleep, but we would all stay up until two anyway. Although, something was different about the team, there was an anxiety or something of the sort radiating off of each player. Everyone was thinking about what would happen tomorrow at the first game of the season, Pike versus Guerin Catholic. Our…

I was never a big coffee drinker growing up. Even when it kind of became a thing I didn 't really know what to do with it. In college I became a small fan of chocolate covered espresso beans, but even then didn 't take an amazing liking to coffee. As I 've traveled though, and noting that I am still a huge fan of premium tea, I 've gained a certain appreciation for coffee. Here 's the top 3 'non commercial ' coffee places near where I live. The first I have to mention is Cafe Vero in Lake…

Any and all types of communication start with the idea that you are going to be delivering an idea or message to an individual or a group of individuals, The way that you approach those that you are talking to all depends on if it is s ingle person or if you are talking to a group of people because the delivery is different depending on who and how many people you are talking to. You need to make sure that those that you are presenting to understand the premise of the information you are telling…

From as far back as I can remember, I’ve always hated writing and this examination reminded me of just that. It has always been a burden on the right side of my back. My grandmother would continuously force me to write my name and read long books at a tender age. Shoving this information in my head was mind-numbing and repetitive at the time and that memory of boredom is etched into my mind permanently. As time passed, she forced me to do more than that. I had begun writing sentences from the…

own life was over, still not worried about the other life he has taken, the Arabs. The last chapter in this novel may suggest the fact that he has emotion, but there is absolutely no change to his character; no pity, just simply his discomfort and jitters about his own…

I heard my upstairs door open and close. It was the morning of August 27th 2015, and I was still asleep in bed. Both of my parents were at work, at least I thought. Someone rushed down our echoing stairs, and when they reached the bottom, I realized my mom had come home. She rushed into my room and asked, “Are you awake?” I replied, “Sorta, I heard someone upstairs, and it woke me. Why are you home?” Her stare locked my eyes to hers and she said, “Honey, I have some really hard news to tell…

whichever you have on hand,” Sara responded without a moment’s pause. She was joking, of course, but had Megan produced such a beverage, Sara would have tossed it down the hatch in one long gulp. A little liquid courage might lessen the bout of jitters that had invaded her body. Maybe her request wasn’t that much of a joke after all. “Sorry, no such luck. I’ve got water, a variety…

Today it is estimated that 80% of the world’s adult population consumes caffeine in one form or another. It is an international substance that will affect everyone if it suddenly disappears. Naturally found in 60 organic plants and used in some of the most imported and exported goods, it is a major money maker. So you ask yourself, what is it about caffeine that everyone likes? Besides the great taste when combined with other chemicals, it is known to do a great amount of beneficial acts for…