Reduces the risk of heart disease. ... A sedentary lifestyle has been linked to higher rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes, which are some of the leading causes of death in the United States. ... In order for a muscle (including the heart muscle) to get stronger or for the aerobic system to increase its capacity, the absolute exercise intensity must increase over time. ...
It was an era full of dark wallpapers and heavy velvety drapes in dark colors. The furniture was also dark, made of mahogany or cherry wood and had intricate designs carved into some of the pieces. ... It is as if the Age brought the English and Americans out of the dark ages and into the light. ... Those locks of hair usually ended up inside a broach or a locket attached to a necklace where the item could lay close to ones heart. ... Eighteenth-century sentiment was replaced by nineteenth-century sentimentality, as evoked in the following popular verse: "If I should from this world/Depart ...
Before 1960 it was very uncommon to hear of the "contemporary Spanish American novel": there were Uruguayan, Ecuadorian, Mexican or Venezuelan novels. However, during this decade, a literary explosion of Latin American literature took place named "The Boom." El Boom "was simply the discovery of a new literary language in which to express Latin American reality with, for the first time, complete authenticity1." This genre of literature has become known as magic realism, a movement characterized by the dreamlike and fantastic elements, which are mixed into fiction. There are many reasons why...
However, many people have speculated that these women were afraid to really speak what really lies inside their hearts. ... It became a scary dark world. ... One woman described how her father no longer felt comfortable flying she said: My dad didn't fly for a while afterwards, for a month, because he fits the profile, because he's from the Middle East, you know, he's not dark; he's actually fair, he has a beard, the dark hair and the accent and he's Arab and all these things. ...
In January, Madonna's "Open Your Heart" became her 10th straight top-five single, the longest series of top-five hits since the Beatles had 15 in the 1960's. ... The number-one hit songs of 1987 included Gregory Abbott's "Shake You Down," Huey Lewis and the News' "Jacob's Ladder," Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," U2's "With or Without You," and Heart's "Alone." ... The Grateful Dead, one of the best-loved bands in the 1960's, finally had a top-10 album, In the Dark, with a hit single, "A Touch of Grey." ...
Robert Frost's poetry touched our nation, here are some things people said about him: Robert Frost was a philosophical poet, which meant in his case that to a profound and delicate heart was joined an intellect which never ceased to search for the ultimate meaning of life{Mark Van Doren}. ... The New York Times Book Review gave this quote "new poem after new poem makes clear how deeply each Frost poem bears on all Frost poems, and how surely all are a constant symbol of his life's commitment to making metaphors that clarify the dark paradoxes they contain. ...
The Emancipation Proclamation: A look at emancipation and the motives behind it Table of Contents Cover Page 1 Contents ... .2 Preface ..3 Introduction ..4 Main Text .4 Conclusion . 14 Appendix ....16 Bibliography ...20 Preface When I first selected a topi...
One of the most sensitive aspects of our relationship with animals is the use of animals in laboratory sciences. Some manufactures of cosmetics and household products still conduct painful and useless tests on live animals, even though no law requires them not to. Some people, called anti-vivisectionists, are at one extreme in their concern. They want to abolish all experiments on live animals. At the other extreme there are those who say that it is quite all right for us to do whatever we like to animals. ...
