Salt mines

manipulation. Because of the limited time and money, financially unstable mothers feel guilty for not provided for their child, making them vulnerable to the emotional manipulation. In Michael Moss’s essay, the mothers were referred to as “a gold mine of disappointments and problems” (Moss 266) by a scientist from the Oscar Mayer franchise. These corporations only care about power; financially unstable mothers are being controlled by the guilt, to buy all the unhealthy and cheap products for…

Parental Regulations Now, Healthier Children Later “Mom! Can we buy this?” Like many other children, this was a go-to phrase of mine whenever I wanted something from the grocery store. More often than not, my mom would say no and I would have to put back the box of fruit snacks that I had originally grabbed. While I didn’t understand then, I understand now why my mom wouldn’t buy whatever I wanted. She being a nurse practitioner, knew exactly what to buy to keep my brother and I healthy, and…

Final Analysis and Critique The purpose of this paper is to take two different pieces, of my choice, and analyze them. The works could have been written or spoken based, but I chose to do mine on two poems. Research was done to discover what exactly makes the poem what is. I had to figure out things such as the dialect and the register of the poems. The two pieces I have chosen to do my final project on are “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath and “Balances” by Nikki Giovanni. The poem “Mad…

Task 1: own reflection Ever since little, exercise played a big role in my life, and not only because my parents were and still are sports fanatics but mainly because I grew up to naturally love the idea of sport itself. Fitness I believe is crucial to one’s daily life and through the experience I’ve had so far, I can’t see why people wouldn’t want to anyways. To this day I’m definitely more of an active outdoor type of person as opposed to a cultural sort of passive person in and outside of…

Running head: HEALTHY GRIEF Healthy Grief Monica Germaine Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V June 25, 2012 Healthy Grief Each day tragedy and suffering may come into people’s lives. Losing loved ones by disease, accident, natural disaster, or experiencing personal trauma is very painful. The emotional, physical, and spiritual reaction in response to these tragedies is…

In literature authors use symbolism to add or represent meaning that goes beyond what is actually being said. Within the significance of the author’s word choice readers get a better insight on the symbolism in the novel. In The Great Gatsby, a novel, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is all about the roaring twenties and their American Dream. The main character, Jay Gatsby, is willing to do what it takes to be a part of old money and relive the past with his love, Daisy Buchanan. Along the way we learn…

They put on a kind of thick jacket, which fastened me to the chair. . . . My chest was so tightened that I couldn’t breathe properly. Plus, the air circulation was worse than the first trip. . . . I was literally suffocating inside the bag around my head. . . . They stuffed the air between my clothes and me with ice cubes from my neck to my ankles, and whenever the ice melted they put in new hard ice cubes. Moreover, every once in a while, one of the guards smashed me, most of the time in the…

Exactly 17 months and 15 days ago, I left my siblings behind in Springfield, Oregon to move all the way to Flint, Michigan. At the time, Emylee, my sister, was only 7 and Trevon, my brother, was 9. After we moved out here, I met my mom’s boyfriend’s children, Whitney, Logan, and Jacob. Whitney was the oldest, at 20, Logan was the same age as me, 15, and Jacob was 12. I was slightly weary of them at first, I was a little bitter with having to leave my family behind for this new one, but I grew to…

writes. He continues, “They knew the invasion would be violating and psychologically violent, just as they knew it would begin in silence, with a stranger strolling onto their land and pushing stakes into the soft soil to mark his claim. Not yours. Mine. (Pg. 294)” In the issuance of this…

“Bhagavad-Gita:The Song of God” has had a huge influence on Hindu thought, ethics, and practices shows the spiritual teachings of Hinduism, including very important ones such as karma, meditation through yoga. It is through these teachings that one can reach self-enlightenment and self-awareness. In “Bhagavad-Gita:The Song of God” it reveals that there is only one god, but appears is many forms, that god is the reason for emotional enjoyment, and suffering, in addition to everything physical on…