Sitting

I’m standing at the edge of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I look out across the vast cavern catching glimpses of the Colorado River twisting through red striped spires. The southern sun beats down on the back of my neck, but my arms have goosebumps on them. I try to turn my gaze to my family behind me, but I can’t tear my eyes away from the view. I’m frozen in awe at the world around me. I’m picking my way across one of the rocky beaches that makes up the coastline of Maine. The rounded…

The two screening tools that’s going to be discussed in this paper are: Timed Up & Go Test (TUG) and Five-Times-Sit-to-Stand Test (FTSTS). The TUG test is conducted from a sitting position (in a chair) and it is used to identify/screen elderly individuals who are prone to fall. Patients are timed in seconds and tasks are done in three trials. The cutoff level for TUG are 13.5 seconds or longer for high risk falls. The interrater reliability was very high with r = .98 (Shumway-Cook, Brauer,…

Although he uses humor as a strategy, the author is serious about what he is portraying as an issue. He uses a standard font, but capitalized. The layout divides the picture into four different scenes, it shows president Obama in all four scenes, he is sitting down behind a table and facing the screen, wearing different suits in each scene, and his face expression shows that he is serious. Starting from the first part on the left side, the scene shows the president in the background bending his…

Imagine looking out the window seeing little kids playing outside, while you are sitting in a boring subject learning about chemical bonds. You don’t have recess so you are sitting all day. While others might want to be a scientist or an architect, my goal is a basketball player. This is a big goal, but one subject in particular can help. Although when becoming a basketball player you need to get good grades, one subject in particular can help me more. This subject is gym. In gym class you are…

Within the first few chapters of the book Beloved, written by Toni Morrison, the reader has a good understanding of the characters and the setting. Sethe is a former slave who worked on a plantation with five other men. She married one of the men, Halle, who disappears years after they are married. Both of her boys leave her around the age of thirteen and she currently lives with her daughter Denver in a house that is haunted by her other unnamed daughter who dies at a very young age. Sethe is…

freshwater potato did. The solution that caused the potato to change the most in circumference and mass, was the saltwater solution. In the data table the potato in the fresh water had a starting circumference of 5cm and a starting mass of 4.40g. After sitting the solution the final circumference was 5.5cm and the final mass was 4.68g. The potato gained .5cm and .28g, osmosis caused this to happen because water is pure which means…

Safe Spot Again, I'm sitting in the same Chinese Restaurant for the third time this week, supposedly the first ranking Chinese restaurant in my city. The worn out Chinese red decorations hang unbalanced on the entrance door, as always. In freshmen year, a Chinese student invited me to a Chinese meeting spot, where we spoke in Mandarin. Our interests and complaints were all similar. I began to think that it was a safe corner for me. Preferring to be with people of a common culture and language…

seem excited. The school day starts like any other day, Mrs. Price takes roll, then she pulls out an old dirty sweater, she said it has been sitting in the lost and found for forever. Mrs. Price says it must belong to someone, then she asked whose it is, and no one answered. After that, I watch as Mrs. Price puts the sweater on Rachel’s desk. Rachel is sitting there looking disgusted. I wonder why? Sylvia Saldivar says that…

I still remember the day I befriended my first and last African American friend ten years ago. I used to live in Alabama at the time, but making a living was exceptionally hard for my family and me. We didn’t let that hold us back though, we continued to try and cultivate the fields to grow and sell crop. Even though the fields had been reduced to nothing more than dust due to the drought, we were persistent and continued to work despite that. While my father and older brothers work the fields,…

Voyage 35050 Thunder crackles in the middle of the night as I try to fall asleep. I roll in hopes of finding comfort on the hard floor. No luck as usual. I then sit on the floor and stair at the darkness that fills this ship. A thought suddenly rushes to my head. “Dad, dad, dad I have a an idea stop just open your eyes and listen.” I whisper. “Can’t you see I'm sleeping?” dad responds. “No one can sleep with all the coughing, crying and thunder. Just please listen.” I reply. “Nadim, can’t you…