The Place

called Transportation for America calculated that, by the year 2015, more than 15 million Americans above the age of 65 will have poor access to transit. The report called for more funding for transit so that these people would be able to “age in place” and still have transit access. The American Public Transportation Association and other transit-oriented groups have…

Water Betters Our Future Care, Health & Society:Focus on Elder Care and Senior Living The world of health care is only growing each day. The amount of care needed for the late baby boomer population is rising and the demand for caretakers is higher than ever. Water has been proven a necessity to live, but it has other important roles as well. Water is also used for medical and therapeutic care. In the elderly population it has been know to decrease stress, help with depression, relieve pain…

“Elderly inmates represent the fastest growing segment of federal and state prisons. The aging inmate population has created new challenges for states”. – Carrie Abner. Elderly inmates should be given the chance to qualify for parole and spend their last days, months, years, with their loved ones. The prison population is ageing. People over 60 are the fastest growing age group in prisons (American Civil Liberties Union). Experts say that the growth of the elderly incarcerated will continue to…

Colonialism on the Island of Antigua and Native American Reservations How would you feel if, in an instant, your country was destroyed by foreigners who invaded your land? A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid she writes about her life growing up on an island called Antigua. As she was getting older, she witnessed a lot of racism and colonialism. Similarly, Sherman Alexie’s essay “Indian Education”, Junior Polatkin was mistreated in school because his white instructor was very cruel to him.…

Cleora Perrik was not a violent person. Strange, and quiet, yes, but not violent. The day the whole student body was summoned to the main building for a meeting, she felt a nauseating pit in her stomach that maintained during the walk to the building. She silently shifted through the crowds of fellow students, slinking through like a shadow, and eventually she was at the front of the crowd and stepping through the doors. What was strange, however, was that the doors were kept opened by…

Keith Basso, in Wisdom Sits in Places, identified that “place-making” is the construction of a “place-world” as culture activity. He highlighted that “we are, in a sense, the place-worlds we imagine” (Basso 1996: 7). They can either have descriptive names or commemorative names. Just as specific places are meaningful to the Western Apache, such as “Big Cottonwood Trees Stand Here And There,” “Coarse-Textured Rocks Lie Above In A Compact Cluster,” and “Men Stand Above Here And There,” the…

her grandchildren. Due to the sensitivity of the conversation, I changed the subject to lift Ms. Smith’s spirits. However, her expressions of grief from our previous discussion still lingered with me. I started to wonder whether my children would place me in a nursing home when I became elderly. These thoughts made me very anxious about aging; I became so anxious to the point that I placed a preference on enduring death before living on a day my children neglect me in a nursing…

I believe that God enacted or allowed the tornado to kill all who died in the natural disaster. My belief aligns with John Piper’s excerpt. God may have enacted the tornado, or He may have allowed Satan to cause it. Satan creates havoc in an attempt to steal your joy, diminish hope and stir up doubt. “If God loved me, why would He do this”? “How am I going to get through this, when I have nothing”? Satan uses different things to drive a wedge between us and God. God can intervene in everything…

she probably wouldn’t be who she is today. For England to be honored, she has to believe that separating herself from Antigua is essential. out of the equation. By separating herself from her country, she is losing her reliance on her island and places it on the overbearing England. Finally, she is required to learn about how England is highlighted in her life. Repeatedly in school, she is asked to “draw a map of England” (Kincaid, line 103) to test her intelligence of “England” (Kincaid, line…

The process of gazing at "secondary kinds of beauty" like physical beauty of a boy such as Tadzio, and it is a process, means reaching a place where one can see pure Beauty. Weil notes that "he will finally arrive at the center of the labyrinth. And there God is waiting to eat him. Later he will go out again, but he will be changed, he will have become different, after being eaten and digested by God" (Weil, 164). Obviously one is not literally eaten and digested by God, rather one climbs the…