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has manipulated us to think the way it does through things such as social media. Posting images of skinny, size zero woman saying body goals or woman who have been photo-shopped with layers of makeup saying, this is beauty. As the images get faker and faker, people are trying to change. By the age of 10 three quarters of girls want to change the way the look, especially their weight. This is not right. We as individuals should not be ashamed of our bodies of the way…

It's Friday at Glendale Elementary school and that means it's Friday friendship friend of the week, day in Ms. Day’s class where the kids vote on who was the friend of the week with the winner getting a 150 mini chocolate bar bag prize. Susie had never won the Friday friendship friend of the week but this week was going to be different. Susie's friend Johnny had always won every Friday and she had never come close. Susie thought to herself I have to do something different than just being nice…

of bread cradled in his arm like a running back running a football. Donny bolts through the busy sidewalks filled with people. The officer continues behind him and radios in but is slowly losing track. “We have a 10-43 requesting backup on Yawkey way.” Donny has a 100 foot gap on the enervated officer. Donny reaches the street corner and makes the split-second decision to turn the corner only to collide with an ongoing pedestrian. They both collide hard and fall to the ground. It takes a few…

understand what it means to get to where I want and be able to answer if what I want is really what I want and not because that’s how someone else got theirs. And if it is, why in the world are my still sitting and thinking that there’s no way I can achieve it or what way do I choose to go to achieve…

We all find ourselves in a funk every now and again, some let it get so severe that they feel as if there is no recovering from this deep seeded depression. Some take this depression as a sign that they no longer belong and feel at peace with this choice whereas others search for help and in many cases find a saving grace if you will. In “Saving Grace” we meet Grace, she 's a 17 year old dealing with the hardships of being a teenage girl, as well as being in that transitional stage between high…

As many college students like you, I often get terrible headaches because of many routine situations such as: late-night studies, early morning classes, puzzling situations, or just simple tiredness. Pain is one of the most common and essential parts of our life. Since our births, we adapt and learn to express our pain. First, as kids, we don’t do much effort to express our discomfort, and we start crying and annoying our parents for half an hour. Then we learn to not be as naïve and at least…

Exercising your body helps in improving your concentration. When you engage in moderate physical exercises, your concentration improves by a big margin. You will realize that exercises basically help the brain to ignore distractions. This can go a long way in improving your concentration levels. 10. Practice mindfulness throughout the…

ringed thumb out toward the quad, “I don’t think you’ll find five people out there who’ve heard of YO-YO Ma. And by the way, what kind of the name is that? Is it ghetto or something? Yo Ma?” She answered right away “It’s Chinese.” I shook my head and laughed. “I know plenty of Chinese people. They have names like Wei Chin. Or Lee something not Yo-Yo Ma.” I found it very amusing the way she expresses about Yo-Yo Ma. “You cannot blaspheming…

Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships,” at some of the concepts in Tannen’s chapter “The World of Conversational Style” it is clear to say that there are different ways a person can convey a conversation and the way a person carries their communication style. Tannen connects some concepts that can relate to the way communicating with technology can affect our skill with one another. For example, the effects behind a screen like a text message or an email to being in-person can…

text, “the family has an uncle that they were hidin' in the house, and he snitched to the Immigration”, things went south for him, “They grabbed him in the kitchen and pulled him down the stairs”. Not only is the way Miller presenting the story unsettling, it is also downright brutal on the way he dealt with it, using words like “grabbed” and “pulled”, to show that Vinny has no control on this situation, and that his simple act of snitching caused him brutal injuries. And the kicker? “And they…