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Title According to Michelle Obama, “Being healthy isn’t about inches, pounds, or how kids looks. It’s about how they feel and making sure they feel good about themselves. So rather than focusing on appearance, it’s important to emphasize to kids that when we eat healthy food and stay active, we feel better, and we can perform better in everything we do, from athletics to academics” (“AZ Quotes”). This quote reveals that some athletes do not know that what they eat can affect what their…

“Once you decide to send your story out into the world for the enjoyment of readers, it doesn’t belong to you anymore and you must optimize its presentation to benefit them, not to indulge your own obsessive passion about ultimately irrelevant details.” (Weiland). For imagery to be effective it must be inviting to the reader, captivate their attention and create emphasis and coherence throughout the novel however, Charlotte Bronte's descriptions in Jane Eyre have a tendency to alienate her…

Bariatric, or weight loss surgery includes several procedures that are performed on people who have a problem with obesity. Following bariatric surgery, a person will lose weight due by decreasing the size of the stomach. Reducing the size of the stomach can be done using several different methods. Weight is lost following bariatric surgery because of the changes that are made to your digestive system. The surgery will help you limit the amount of food you can eat and the absorption of…

1. The Silk Road came into being partially due to the Parthians, Chinese General Zhang Jian, and trade with the nomads. The Parthians were a dynasty established by a nomadic leader in order to avoid the Seleucid kings’ control after Alexander the Great’s empire. It helped establish the Silk Road because it was located at the threshold of Central Asia and it shared customs and traded with nomads to the east. In 228 B.C.E., Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty sent general Zhang Jian across Inner Asia to…

College is a place where students who have successfully completed high school go to extend their knowledge and eventually earn a degree. College is only available to deserving, well-rounded, and deserving students. Once a student proves he or she is worthy of a college education, he or she spends thousands of dollars each year to earn a degree. So is someone who is in prison because and committed illegal acts a deserving, well-rounded, and dedicated student? That person is in jail as a…

Diabetes has become an epidemic in the United States of America, and in many revolving countries around the world. There are about three different types of diabetes known. The main types of diabetes are gestational, type one, and type two. Diabetes Mellitus Type 1 is known as chronic autoimmune disease. This means that the body is self-killing its own beta cells found in the pancreas. These beta cells create inulin, which is a peptide hormone that helps control glucose in your blood. Now you may…

Every Day is a Nightmare It is the 25th of February at 6:30 pm as the blazing lights of the city are bewildering from the hilltops of La Jolla as the salty essence of the Bay overwhelms me. The navigator’s voice echoes throughout the car as we descend onto a narrow rocky cliff, following the trail for about a mile until an array of apartments sits on the edge of the cliff. Consistently, most apartment complexes in California are monotonous and dull with no particular architecture or charisma,…

The volcano is part of the Pico de The volcano Parícutin is located in the volcanic fields in Míchoacan-Guanajuato.This volcano is also the greatest in both area. This volcano has not erupted since 1952. Also the elevation of the volcano is 9,186’. The volcano Parícutin was named by a nearby village of Parícutin. The volcano is the youngest of the approximately 1,400 volcanic vents of the Míchoacan-Guanajuato volcanic field. The volcanic field is 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles).…

Becoming A Man In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Baba is trying to teach Amir one thing, how to be a man. Amir struggles to replicate what Baba models for Amir his whole life. Amir is constantly looking for “The Trophy”, at one point thinking that the kite would be the thing to bring him and Baba closer. What he does not realize is Baba had been handing him the key to the greatest trophy of all, the title of “man”. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to…

Americans today live in a country overflowing with more prisoners than ever, yet crime has been dropping since the late twentieth century. In fact, from 1980 to 2008, the number of people incarcerated in America quadrupled from about 500,000 to 2.3 million people (Criminal 1). There are several factors contributing to this problem. In recent years, America has taken new approaches to crime, such as the “War On Drugs” and the “Three Strikes” law. These approaches have drastically increased the…