A simple thirty minutes a day of exercising could significantly increase our health and wellness. I myself exercise virtually every day of the week and I have notice that I have not been sick or fatigued for the past several years. Plus, I run whenever I can because it makes me feel good. When I feel good, I am a better person socially and academically. Exercise is a significant part of my life. I accept that exercising is a priority in my life because I have witnessed the effects it has on my own body.
However, those who deny exercising are the ones who make up the excuses while in the end they are only making excuses to their sick future selves.
Exercising has tremendous benefits on the human body. Without it our life spans might be significantly shorter and our obesity rates would be at a higher state than they already are. Those who exercise have tremendous advantage in longevity over those who do not.
Many will listen to this argument thinking “maybe I should exercise” but that will last for less than 10 minutes. If that’s the case, imagine that if you forget to exercise, it is like adding another pound of fat on your body and adding another spoonful of bad cholesterol close to your heart. those who do not exercise are only setting themselves up for disaster.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Hooray for exercise!
Exercise, how it make us feel so alive. It is such a major factor of all our lives. It has inspired us to invent many forms of entertainment as well as understanding the joys of being in shape. Exercise augments our very well being. It makes us focus more and stimulates our bodies. It gives us a sense of euphoria (Like chocolate but without the calories!) when we figure out we ran a wile a minute faster than before. It builds our strength and prevents injuries so that we can stay in shape. Exercise is a wonderful action that we can take to look better and feel better.
Antithesis: “Yes,” she says, “but I do not have the time to exercise.”
This seems to be a problem with your schedule instead of the time it takes to exercise. There are over a thousand minutes in a day; only thirty of them have to be devoted to being active. Besides, exercise has many names: skiing, running, walking, running, playing football, Wii Fit, Dance Dance Revolution, etc. the list goes on. There are many ways to get exercise in, and it does not have to be done in one single action. Walking across a college campus is even exercise, but it is not done in a single time slot. If done sporadically during the day, the amount of time it takes is no longer an issue!
Antithesis “Yes,” he says, “but exercise is so hard.”
Nothing that is easy will yield the same results as when they are not. This is a matter of personal motivation. If you do not push yourself how will you be able to get far in anything? Everything in life takes work (albeit the instinctual things that all humans do, mind you). Homework, work, housecleaning, most of these have the word work in them, and if not, the connotation is there! Exercise is no different from other obligations in life. It is just a different manifestation of what we are used to in everyday life.
Antithesis: “exercise is too hard on the body” he says.
I think you have this backwards. Exercise is actually better for the body than lack thereof. Exercise gets the oxygen going and increases blood flow resulting in a better wellbeing. Many of the older generations exercised almost every day of the week. My grandfather worked on the farm everyday and had to run to school everyday. He is now going to be 72 and is still as active as ever. Now I know that exercise can cause chronic problems such as arthritis. However, having arthritis is a lot better than having heart disease. It is painful but not death. And even so, there are many ways of exercising that are little to no impact at all. Swimming, for instance, is great exercise that does not have any impact on the joints at all. It is the same thing with biking (if you don’t fall of course). Getting the body active has more health benefits than problems. It is indeed hard on the body, but no so much that it is not possible.
Exercise is a brilliant method for looking good, feeling good, and finding a new hobby perhaps. It is a great way to get healthier and does not have to take so much time. It might be hard but as many people say, “No pain, no gain!” By working out 30 min a day, one could become healthier and more energetic than one might think. “Exercising 30 min a day keeps the doctor away!”
Antithesis: “Yes,” she says, “but I do not have the time to exercise.”
This seems to be a problem with your schedule instead of the time it takes to exercise. There are over a thousand minutes in a day; only thirty of them have to be devoted to being active. Besides, exercise has many names: skiing, running, walking, running, playing football, Wii Fit, Dance Dance Revolution, etc. the list goes on. There are many ways to get exercise in, and it does not have to be done in one single action. Walking across a college campus is even exercise, but it is not done in a single time slot. If done sporadically during the day, the amount of time it takes is no longer an issue!
Antithesis “Yes,” he says, “but exercise is so hard.”
Nothing that is easy will yield the same results as when they are not. This is a matter of personal motivation. If you do not push yourself how will you be able to get far in anything? Everything in life takes work (albeit the instinctual things that all humans do, mind you). Homework, work, housecleaning, most of these have the word work in them, and if not, the connotation is there! Exercise is no different from other obligations in life. It is just a different manifestation of what we are used to in everyday life.
Antithesis: “exercise is too hard on the body” he says.
I think you have this backwards. Exercise is actually better for the body than lack thereof. Exercise gets the oxygen going and increases blood flow resulting in a better wellbeing. Many of the older generations exercised almost every day of the week. My grandfather worked on the farm everyday and had to run to school everyday. He is now going to be 72 and is still as active as ever. Now I know that exercise can cause chronic problems such as arthritis. However, having arthritis is a lot better than having heart disease. It is painful but not death. And even so, there are many ways of exercising that are little to no impact at all. Swimming, for instance, is great exercise that does not have any impact on the joints at all. It is the same thing with biking (if you don’t fall of course). Getting the body active has more health benefits than problems. It is indeed hard on the body, but no so much that it is not possible.
Exercise is a brilliant method for looking good, feeling good, and finding a new hobby perhaps. It is a great way to get healthier and does not have to take so much time. It might be hard but as many people say, “No pain, no gain!” By working out 30 min a day, one could become healthier and more energetic than one might think. “Exercising 30 min a day keeps the doctor away!”
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Ch 7: Choices to make
There are always the usual topics in which people take a stand on: homosexuality, stem cell research, evolution, terrorism, religion, and politics. All seem to jar people into emotional response those who are opposed to each of these will either be angry, hateful, and perhaps even fearful. The best way in a hostile environment, for instance, stem cell research, is to start with an enargeia. For instance,
Lying in her bed is your wife. She has a collapsing lung and will not last more than another day. She is in ICU with machines attached to every square inch of her torso. She pleaded that she wants to stay alive because she wants to grow old with you and have children. She wants to be able to watch them play there football games, or listen to their newly found piano composition, or see them become a state champion in track. Her doctor walks in and suggests that, with one embryo, he will be able to create a new lung for her. It is up to you to decide of you respect your wives wishes or decide to pull the plug on her.
The main factor that will probably make people feel the way about stem cell research is religion. God has a path for that embryo that is being used. It is a human being in the making. Or perhaps people will see it as unjust. To the issue at hand, stem cell research takes only one embryo. If for instance, someone that you love was on their death bed and you decided to not try for stem cell research based on the probability that the embryo that might be used will be a child. The one you loved the most perishes. There pejorative language might be useful. Talking about how single-minded (note, I probably would not use such a strong adjective as this one) it is to base a decision on someone’s life because of religious beliefs. I would talk about how sad it is to lose someone because of a single ideology. Then I would say it is unfortunate that people who deny saving a loved one can take such a large decision in their own hands without the consent of the one suffering.
Lying in her bed is your wife. She has a collapsing lung and will not last more than another day. She is in ICU with machines attached to every square inch of her torso. She pleaded that she wants to stay alive because she wants to grow old with you and have children. She wants to be able to watch them play there football games, or listen to their newly found piano composition, or see them become a state champion in track. Her doctor walks in and suggests that, with one embryo, he will be able to create a new lung for her. It is up to you to decide of you respect your wives wishes or decide to pull the plug on her.
The main factor that will probably make people feel the way about stem cell research is religion. God has a path for that embryo that is being used. It is a human being in the making. Or perhaps people will see it as unjust. To the issue at hand, stem cell research takes only one embryo. If for instance, someone that you love was on their death bed and you decided to not try for stem cell research based on the probability that the embryo that might be used will be a child. The one you loved the most perishes. There pejorative language might be useful. Talking about how single-minded (note, I probably would not use such a strong adjective as this one) it is to base a decision on someone’s life because of religious beliefs. I would talk about how sad it is to lose someone because of a single ideology. Then I would say it is unfortunate that people who deny saving a loved one can take such a large decision in their own hands without the consent of the one suffering.
Different yet so similar
Music its variety is so large, but there are so many things that are similar about it. By comparing the classical piano song “One Summer’s Day” by Joe Hisaishi and the alternative song “To Whom It May Concern,” these similarities are all very related.
“One Summer’s Day” is a softer type of piano song that starts almost suddenly and ends in such a memorable sort of way. It makes the listener both happy and sad at the same time (as most classical pieces should), and the change in style during the middle of the song is nice and edgy at the same time. The speed increases and the tone of the music takes an almost lighter, happier tone. It gives the song a dab of adventure during the second part of the song. At the end of the song, the last phrase (a term for similar measures in music) seems to end the song almost abruptly, like there should be something else afterwards. This is what makes this song great because it is pulling the listener in to the bitter end.
“To Whom It May Concern” uses a vocal medium to get its message across. The beginning of the song starts almost suddenly washing the listener in a minor tone. This beginning keeps adding onto itself increasing the melody tenfold. When the voice starts, it is nice complement to the rest of the music being played. The lyrics add a softer tone to the rest of the song making it almost sad but hopeful at the same time. Then, the singer changes style, and the song takes a harder tone to it. This change in style almost alerts the listener of the music. This part is a lot more edgy and increases the pace of the song. The guitar parts increase this edgy sound. At the end of the song, the edgy part dies away and gives way to the softer part to slowly fade away.
Both songs use the change in pace to grab the listener’s attention and keep it there. The softness of both songs makes the listener feel sad but happy at the same time. The second parts of both songs increase the listener’s awareness of the song and the parts seem to enhance each other in both songs. For “One Summer’s Day,” the bass and the melody parts seem to be complementing each other even though they are from different parts. The songs end in a decrescendo of complexity more than loudness.
“One Summer’s Day” is a softer type of piano song that starts almost suddenly and ends in such a memorable sort of way. It makes the listener both happy and sad at the same time (as most classical pieces should), and the change in style during the middle of the song is nice and edgy at the same time. The speed increases and the tone of the music takes an almost lighter, happier tone. It gives the song a dab of adventure during the second part of the song. At the end of the song, the last phrase (a term for similar measures in music) seems to end the song almost abruptly, like there should be something else afterwards. This is what makes this song great because it is pulling the listener in to the bitter end.
“To Whom It May Concern” uses a vocal medium to get its message across. The beginning of the song starts almost suddenly washing the listener in a minor tone. This beginning keeps adding onto itself increasing the melody tenfold. When the voice starts, it is nice complement to the rest of the music being played. The lyrics add a softer tone to the rest of the song making it almost sad but hopeful at the same time. Then, the singer changes style, and the song takes a harder tone to it. This change in style almost alerts the listener of the music. This part is a lot more edgy and increases the pace of the song. The guitar parts increase this edgy sound. At the end of the song, the edgy part dies away and gives way to the softer part to slowly fade away.
Both songs use the change in pace to grab the listener’s attention and keep it there. The softness of both songs makes the listener feel sad but happy at the same time. The second parts of both songs increase the listener’s awareness of the song and the parts seem to enhance each other in both songs. For “One Summer’s Day,” the bass and the melody parts seem to be complementing each other even though they are from different parts. The songs end in a decrescendo of complexity more than loudness.