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homemade remedies with superstition and religious beliefs. Appalachian folk medicine started from the need for health care. In pre-industrial Appalachia, doctors and modern medicine were rare and inaccessible as well as expensive, so people relied on traditional home remedies and superstitious practices to alleviate pain and to cure diseases. Practices such as using turpentine and brown…

parts quickly, however the assembly time was slowing down production, and thus driving up the costs. What Ford came up with was a method of production and management that involves the usage of assembly-line production strategies (as opposed to the traditional method of the time) to make low-cost, easily reproducible products in mass volume, while at the same time maintaining employee morale through higher incentives and top-down management. In other words, it entailed an assembly-line production…

As the whimsical sounds of Disney’s Peter Pan float across the front porch of the multi-use room at Young Actors Theatre Camp, Pixar’s Jeanette Penley-Marker takes time out of promoting of beloved animated films and teaching monologue classes, with her husband and two adorable daughters, to discuss her journey to Pixar, one of the most unique studios in the animation industry. In jeans, a cotton blouse, and sneakers covered in the red dust that seems to permeate the entire area, Penley-Marker is…

Known for its liver healing properties, milk thistle has a storied past in folk medicine. It typically grows 2 to 7 feet high and has spiny leaves. Native to Europe, milk thistle was once used as a food and a medicine. English gardeners used the leaves like lettuce and its roost like the oyster plant. Stalks were cooked like asparagus, and the roasted seeds were prepared like coffee. The History of Milk Thistle While milk thistle was used for thousands of years in European folk medicine, it…

Bird directed Ratatouille, which featured talking rats with a passion to cook. The film was released in 2007 and was nominated for many awards. During this time, the studio started producing Cars Toons, which is a series of short films starring the characters from the Cars films. In 2008, Pixar released the film WALL•E. The critics loved how Pixar addressed a dark topic but made children aware of the problem of our overflowing trash supplies. The film made use of live action, even if it was in a…

several years, Google and China have been locked in a battle over censorship. In addition to filtering its citizen’s internet searches, the Chinese government routinely restricts access to, or outright blocks, several of Google’s products. Products such as Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, and Google Translate are the most affected. These actions by the Chinese government have a direct effect on Google’s market share in China and overall revenue. In early 2010, just before the troubles…

stories about my name. Before I came here, I got in touch with my roommate and told her that she can call me my English name if she considered it hard to articulate my Chinese name. But she told me she really wanted to learn how to read it and call me using my real name. Later I asked another friend whether she thought pronouncing my Chinese name to be a little inconvenient, but she answered without hesitation that she was willing to call me my real name—everyone could practice to pronounce it…

America is a nation of immigrants, no one doubts that. However, as a child of first generation immigrants, I did not live in a tight-knit immigrant community, and my parents did not bring many elements of their home culture into the house. I grew up listening to American music, learning American history, and my friends were predominantly non-Asian. As a result, I never understood much about my parents’ background, and Taiwanese culture. Sensing my curiosity about my background (perhaps from the…

immigrated to the United States at the age of thirteen. As a result of mainly eating Chinese cuisine, especially white rice on a daily basis for over ten years, I have gained a special feeling of it. From my personal perspective, white rice can further symbolize my Chinese identity. Nevertheless, I have also adapted to the American cuisine with my years of living in this country. For me, meanwhile eating my own Chinese traditional food gives me the sense of comfort and reduces my deep…

All over the world, music is a part of almost people that they can’t live without it. Classical music, folk music, non-lyrical music are some of the most beautiful kinds of music. Music can help people boosting their moods, encouraging, or refreshing them. However, everything always come out with two categories: “good and bad”. In recently world, music runs along with the trend taste of young people. The desires are increasing, so three quarters of the songs come out with non-sense lyrics songs,…