Trading Places

“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…

the Heritage room was the best place to host our event due to its features such as the furniture (TV, chairs, tables, speakers, etc) which enormously helped reduce our expenses since the furniture was technically “free” for us to use. Another benefit of hosting the event in this room is that it’s very well known to the students and staff of R.H. King Academy therefore, it was easy and recognizable for student to identify and physically know how to get to the place of the event. The one…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Aging, Place, and Technology: Toward Improving Access and Wellness in Older Populations In this article, the author states that the place of residence may affect the probability of achieving a public health objective. As he further mentions, aging in place is considered the ability to live in one’s own home independently and comfortably. However, there are certainly many challenges and additional resources needed to satisfy the demands of everyday life particularly in the decline in health and…

Change Is Not Always Bad As I sat in my room and reminisced over the change that happened in my life, a smile crossed my face. My smile was not because I like change, but it represented me overcoming the fear that gripped me every time change occurred. Many times in life I began to love or hate certain factors that life handed me depending on how I went through my first experience of that situations. Change is one of those factors I hated because when I first encountered it, I was young and…

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…