Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Journal #2 In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ by Anne Fadiman‚ Lia Lee is a very sickly child‚ and is now unfortunately a “vegetable.” Much to the hospitals chagrin‚ they in fact are the reason why Lia is in a comatose state. The Lee’s argued with the doctors throughout Lia’s entire 4 years of medical strife with epilepsy about the medication and the way they were treating Lia. Fadiman juxtaposes the differences of the Hmong way of healing people:
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Making more money can make you happier Lateadra H. Harris 22July2013 Mrs. Karen Ferrelli Many of us today aren’t satisfied with how much we have. That’s why we are constantly striving for a bigger pay raise at work. This includes spending our pay checks on lottery tickets just to have more money in our pocket. “Is it crazy to question how much money we need to be happy? The notion that money can’t buy you happiness has been around a long time”. (ELIZABETH W. DUNN). But it turns out there is
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Dr. Hickman‚ Luke 14:28-30 tells us‚ “For which one of you‚ when he wants to build a tower‚ does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? “Otherwise‚ when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish‚ all who observe it begin to ridicule him‚ saying‚ ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish.” Consequently‚ financial security is now more important than ever to some people‚ and I believe that having a comfortable amount of money reduces stress
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rationalized this into: we could do‚ whatever we can do with limited opportunities and resources- There’s only so much everyone can do. But even after we figured out what we rationally can do and will do‚ how do you be ‘yourself’? There are factors affecting our lifestyles‚ thinking‚ habits‚ social interactions and expectations- How do you make your own independent choices or are your choices really your own? Pondering about these intellectual‚ social and lifestyle barriers; I think as the lives become
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others make you feel good and others feel good because they are being helped. Helping others can help you learn more about yourself and even put you on a path to your future career. Helping others doesn’t mean donating thousands of dollars as charity. You can start up volunteering at a local homeless shelter. Practise random acts of kindness everyday. This could be as small as an act as helping an elderly person carry groceries to their caror giving somebody th right way of driving. The more you do
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In the future‚ when your children ask you what you have done in life that you feel must most of proud of. What will you answer be? In my life‚ I overcame many obstacles‚ achieved more success and had defeats. Up to now‚ I do not care about what I do best. Once‚ my children asked me what I have done in life that I feel must most of proud of‚ I recognized that I have not thought about it before. But I know some things that I never forget and I always feel proud of it because I did it well. That is
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Does internet makes you less or more sociable? In my view‚ internet is making you more and less sociable‚ it depends on the person and the type of activity they do with the internet. One of the main uses of internet is to connect people faster even if they are at another bit of the world. In this case‚ one of the method created for connect people are the social networking such as Facebook or Twitter. These social networks link people together by giving them the possibility to put their photos
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law system is. I never realized the District Attorney had screeners that get to pick and choose what cases will get tried‚ and if they don’t take the case that person gets off easy. I believe if you break the law you should get tried and get the punishment you deserve‚ no matter what. The reason I believe everyone deserves to be punished for their action is because my sister recently was a victim of what the cops said was a class three sexual assault. He was eighteen and my sister is only thirteen
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Emily Kauzlarich Life is what you Make it: Why Romeo and Juliet were Doomed from the Start In the play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ the Friar has a particularly important part. He not only marries Romeo and Juliet but he also is the instigator for both of their deaths. Towards the end of the play he gives a rather long speech basically summing up the play in a nutshell. For such a small role in the play‚ the Friar is responsible for much of the tragedy that occurs. The speech that the Friar gives near the
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The song‚ Make Your Beginning‚ You Who Sing‚ which is a song of the Aztec nobility spoke to me muck like many works of lyric I listen to today. One for example is called‚ Can’t Complain by a band called Relent K. Each have the same basic message‚ which is do not worry about wordily things‚ just life life to the fullest because we do not live long. The song‚ Can’t Complain‚ focusses more on bad situations and telling the listeners how this person coped with the situation. Such as in the first few
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