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Thoreau calls for simplicity, imploring the people to live as simple as they can. He believes that a life with “two or three” affairs is much better than a life with “a hundred or a thousand.” Thoreau understood our need for advancement when he said, “Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and export ice, and talk through a telegraph, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not.” We are constantly trying to improve and do the next best thing…

pillowcase with a few pairs of jeans. Turn the machine on and let it fill with water. One the machine starts churning, start checking the progress every few minutes. Each sweater will felt at a different pace. Once the sweaters look soft and loose stitch definition, they are felted. Drain the water out of the machine (no need to rinse the sweaters). Remove the sweaters once they reach your desired level of felting and wring them out. You can lay the sweaters out to dry or throw them into the…

In the very next second, he heard some faint voices and a bright light in his eyes. He felt excruciating pain in his head. He saw many green people standing next to him. This made no sense to him. He was alright, he knew that he himself saw stitch in his belly. He tried to move his hand. “Where am I?”, he asked As soon as he moved his hand, to find what was going on, the serenity of the place dissolved and everyone was moving and shouting. “How could he be awake” shouted one of the green guys…

Almost fifteen percent of Americans are suffering from a serious eating disorder according to mirasol.net. The memoir Wasted written by Marya Hornbacher is the brutally honest story of a young girl that has both anorexia and bulimia and the story of how she went through life. She goes through everything from being called fat by her own grandmother at age 6 to relapse into anorexia much later in life. Overall Marya Hornbacher is an insecure and impressionable yet independant person that can serve…

“Each funeral was a funeral for all of us. We lived and died together.” This quote from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian shows what Arnold Spirit, or Junior, the main character wants to reach. He wants everyone to be connected and united. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Alexie Sherman is about the struggles of a boy fitting into the society he lives in, especially culturally. The book shows how Junior deals with his troubles as he finds out who he is. The…

When deciding on what I wanted to do for a career after high school, I knew I wanted to do something in the medical field. While the thought of having to stitch an oozing, bloody wound or having to drill someone’s cavity never seamed appealing to me. Being a dentist, nurse or doctor went to the bottom on my list of career choices. I then began researching more into what types of careers were available in the medical field. Pharmacy was one that really stuck out to me. It included all of the…

her internal state of emotions. The author reveals that she feels as if some part of her life is incomplete and that the lack of her father's presence in her life will continue to leave a void of emptiness because she states, “The gap of a dropped stitch, the needle’s eye weeping its black thread” (3-4). The author is also able to reveal that she spends a significant amount of time alone or feelings lonely because she indirectly states “It's the startled silences that come when the refrigerator…

The ghost of Thomas Kempe is about a boy called james Harrison. He has recently moved with his family to a cottage in Ledsham, Oxfordshire. James's problem began when a message was chalked onto the blackboard his father has put outside their cottage to advertise the sale of apples. It reads: Sorcerie, Astrologie, Geomancie, Alchemie, Recovery of Goodes Lost, Physicke. Soon pot's and vases are being smashed agains't the ground and doors shut by their self when no one is near them, but James is…

In Houston, I surrounded myself with Christians seeking to be in the healthcare field. Eugene Peterson was perceived as strange because he seemed to be the only person in his pastoral group to read books (375). In the same way, I was the only person in my group of friends at home with a global vision. Upon arrival in Tanzania, outnumbered by Atheists and Muslims from around the world, it was evident that Christians and Americans are grossly underrepresented in the medical dynamic. As a physician…

CITATION: King ET Al v. Burwell, secretary of health and human services, ET AL. certiorari to the United States court of appeals, the court for the Fourth Circuit. No. 14–114. Argued March 4, 2015—Decided June 25, 2015, Affordable Care Act 2010 HOLDING: The ruling was 6 to 3. Yes, the court granted that the ACA Subsidies were constitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the court 's majority opinion, followed by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor…