Papers papers papers

We are now nearing the end of the semester and the pressure is on. With all my school work and issues I have at home, I am seriously mentally f*cked. I'm trying to exert all my worry and stress into a focused state right now. I'm trying to think of a thesis for a term paper coming up. Its on the Somali Civil War. I'm interested in this war because it is on-going and involves international help. I have to really know every aspect of this war because I'm doing a presentation on it this Monday.

Based on my research so far, I've learned about how the opposing sides to the civil war involves the insurgents which is the Shabab and Somali pirates. Since Somalia is a failed state and because their government has collapsed, their are many civilians who are just waiting to be saved from violent wars amongst different tribes. Many of them are Somali refugees who fled to Kenya (a neighboring state), but most are still in Somalia.

I hope I can finish my paper up by Sunday. Have a good weekend! Tootles!

Vocab:

vituperative: Bitter and abusive.

pogram: A pogrom is a form of violent riot, a mob attack directed against a particular group, whether ethnic, religious, or other, and characterized by killings and destruction of their homes and properties, businesses, and religious centres. The term usually carries connotation of spontaneous hatred within the majority population against certain (usually ethnic) minorities, which they see as dangerous and harming the interests of the majority.

Time to Reboot

This past week my husband and I have been trying to implement juicing into our diet. My in-laws showed us a documentary called Food Matters. Seeing this documentary really made me interested in changing the way we eat. One of the speakers in this doc mentioned, the easy part is saying you want to be healthy; but for most people- they opt out of taking action on being healthy because they have to be responsible for the way they live. There should be more health care professionals advocating on how nutrition is important.  It will save many trips to the doctor and can prevent diseases. In Food Matters, one of the doctors said good health doesn't make the big bucks and conventional medicine are slow killers. We see how prescription drugs are evolving today. There's a drug out to cure nearly everything. Feeling tired lately? Here take a drug. Do you have anxiety? Here take a drug. Chris Rock mocks the pharmaceutical industry by saying in one of his stand-up comedies, "soon we'll be seeing commercials like this.. do you go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning?"  LOL


After seeing Food Matters I watched Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead. Then I watched the Gerston Miracle. I strongly recommend seeing these documentaries. If my pockets were deep, I'd buy everyone a juicer and supply them with fruits and vegetables.

An individual who is taking many prescriptive drugs and wants to get off of them can do it by changing their diet. Juicing for ten day straight and eating no solid food may seem really strict. So, juicing and eating some solids is an exceptionally good diet as well. I noticed I haven't been having cravings for solid food after drinking juice. I still eat solids but not as much. The juice we make consists of carrots, kale, apples, celery, lemon, cucumber and ginger. The amount of each fruit or vegetable can vary depending on how you like the taste. If you want it more sweet, then add more apple. You can even add agave (organic sweetener).

We picked up the juicer at Costco (Jack LaLanne Ultimate Power Juicer). I believe you can even get one at Bed Bath and Beyond.

Vocab:

potentialities:
The state of being potential.

Inherent capacity for growth, development, or coming into existence.

Something possessing such capacity.

 

aggrandizement:

The act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something; "the aggrandizement of the king"; "his elevation to cardinal"

 

Chick flicks

Cool. After ten minutes, I've finally come up with something to talk about. Movies! Why I'm thinking about Zach Braff?, I really don't know. He was a complete dick in the movie The Last Kiss, but ironically I still liked his character. This movie is about if people should deserve second chances after infidelity. I like how they incorporated the older couple (the pregnant chicks mom) and how they had their issues after years of marriage. Their story showed how relationships may not always remain a basket of fruit. There's going to be ups and downs. Another chick flick I like is Lost In Translation, which is one of my faves. I understand both Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray's characters. I always wonder what Johansson whispers to Murray at the very end of the movie. "thank you for hanging out with me" or "I won't forget you" or "come back so we can sing karaoke all over again" or "get me the F up out of this place"...lol! I don't know.

Why did I title this chick flicks? I'm thinking of action movies now. Another one of my faves is Spy Games. Robert Redford kicks a**. I love his character, he doesn't bullsh*t. He advises Pitt by basically telling him to get the job done and get out.

Now the Twilight series is one of my guilty pleasures as well. There's just something about a bunch of good looking vampires and werewolves fighting amongst each other...can't really put my finger on it. Okay, I know what it is. Just like the rest of the chicks who love this series, I wish Robert Pattinson would just magically appear in my room. Him or Taylor would be fine. I love me some werewolf too. Breaking Dawn is coming out in about 14 days. But who's counting? Only crazed fanatics would do that.

Vocab:      

jen:
Confucian word for humaneness.

progeny:
A descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring: "the progeny of mixed marriages".