She sat down in the corner on her oversized cream arm chair and ottoman to start her reading. The book about nature’s guide to your fertility was specific about the placement of furniture in her bedroom, but also in the dining room, and even right down to the entryway. It had some simple ideas such as adding a filter to the tap water. The book said that the toxins can lead to infertility. Then it got into weeding and gardening. It told her to plant aloe vera and cactus inside the home. It is supposed to release oxygen at night, making the room air become cleaner. The special thing to be considered about Aloe, is that it is supposed to absorb toxins in the room. Mrs. Johnson didn’t think much could hurt by rearranging furniture or gardening. …show more content…
After 15 minutes in B-Bop’s line, Mr. Johnson ordered, paid, and they went on their way home. “There are also some Homeopathic options that I was looking at,” she continued. “Is that like witch doctor crap?” He asked. “No, it is like taking vitamins, but these are natural remedies and herbs instead.” “What are these supplements supposed to do?” He yelled the question over Toby Keith’s 'How Do You Like Me Now?! ' song that came on the radio. “Well I didn’t get a chance to finish the introductory part of it yet, but they are supposed to promote fertility, increase libido, and improve reproductive health.” “Alright. Well warn me before you start taking any of that gobbledygook,” he cautioned. Then it dawned on him, “oh shit! You want me to take this herb nonsense too, don 't you?” “Yes, dear, cause you know there is a certain role that you play in making a baby,” she laughed. …show more content…
Johnson ignored her husbands yells. She tore the fertility books she bought off the bookshelf and began flipping through it vigorously, searching in vain perhaps for more options. The fairytale book that she bought so long ago started sliding, tipped off the shelf, and landed on the floor, falling open to the story with the widow woman and her lizard child. “What did that widow do again?” She wondered aloud. “Okay, it’s simple. The widow woman took soot from her hearth, wrote on a random piece of paper that she wanted a kid, and buried the soot with the note next to a lake. Well that sounds simple enough. I’ve tried everything else…” Mrs. Johnson walked into their basement, where they had a wood burning stove, which they purchased with the intention of saving money on heat in the winter, but this time they might be doing more than that. She opened up the black metal door and scooped out some black charred remnants of the last fire burned within the unit and put it in a mason jar. She grabbed the nearest pen and paper, scribbled the words, ‘Please give me a child. I would do anything,’ and put that folded note in the jar as well. Mr. Johnson yelled, “where are you going? Why aren’t you answering
The children of the Wall’s family met many dilemmas with fire that could have been easily prevented if they had the security of their parents. The author begins the story with a flashback to when Jeannette was a three year old toddler. The scene starts off with little Jeannette standing on a chair cooking a hot dog on the burner for herself without any parental guidance. She then leans too far over the stove and her clothes combust into flames that cause her severe burns that ne...
As Jeanette Walls reveals this unraveling tale of her childhood she spares little to no detail from scrutiny, least of all the faults she finds in her father. As the reader enters the scene of her earliest memory the irrational thought process of her mother is instantly brought to light. A toddler catches herself on fire while attempting to cook hotdogs and who is to come to the rescue?
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Many actions have been taken on vaping and cigarettes, such as only allowing people over or at the age of eighteen to buy the product and putting warning labels on products. The serious issue is there needs to be action applied to the fact that these products can kill a human being. There is a wide variety of policies trying to be passed for vaping and cigarettes. A vaping regulation is trying to pass making all vape companies to carry products similar to products back when vaping firs started. This could cause the vaping market crash, making people lose money, and most important jobs. Some actions should be taken on tobacco products because of the risk of getting cancer in it is high.
Boone recalls few memories. At the age of 7, she remembers she met her best friend, Jennifer Luna, who lived next to her grandparents’ house. They always had sleepovers on Friday night and played dress up by using Jennifer mother’s makeup and wardrobe. In early December, Mrs. Boone also remembers eating breakfast with her family and looking through the comic sections of the newspaper. She found an ad titled “Toys for Little Cooks,” and asked for a steel kitchen cabinet which only costed eighty-nine cents. Her mother only smiled and said a simple “well that is for Santa to decide if you’ve been a good girl this year.” A few weeks later, Mrs. Boone was playing house with her new steel kitchen cabinet as a mother with her brother playing her
Have you ever wondered how some athletes have gotten so good at a certain sport? Have you ever thought about what they did in order for them to get this good? For some the answer is simple; workout and train. But for others the answer is different; the use of performance enhancing drugs such as steroids. There are some people that argue that steroids should be legalized and allowed in professional sports. Other people argue that steroids should not be allowed. Today I am going to state my opinion and justify my reason. Steroids should not be allowed in professional sports because it can be very dangerous to the athlete’s health, it is a way to gain and un-fair advantage and it can be dangerous in both social and physical aspects.
Medicine plays an eminent role in healing and treating illnesses and dates back to ancient times where people would use herbs, oils, massage, and other natural means to heal their sicknesses. Medicine has evolved and pills, vaccines, and conventional forms of cancer treatment, are common within the medical industry. Now, the medical industry relies heavily on pharmaceutical drugs to treat their patients’ illnesses and diseases, but many of the drugs cause a great number of side effects and can even do more harm than good. This has sparked my interest in finding ways to cure illnesses with an alternative to conventional medicine without the harmful side effects. Realizing I am in my late teens, and I am free to change my mind, the professional
Cosmetics, soap, chocolate, and frozen meals. These general products all have something in common; they include palm oil, a resource found in oil palm trees located primarily in Indonesia and Malaysia. Palm oil is a valuable resource that is contained in many everyday products. However, the mass consumption of this ingredient caused wide deforestation in wildlife’s natural habitat and is leading to the endangerment of several animal species. Sustainable palm oil is grown and harvested by companies on private land to avoid deforestation and harm to wildlife, so people should consider purchasing products that include sustainable palm oil rather than palm oil taken from natural forests.
Have you ever wondered what happens when you inhale the liquid from a vape? Many people that vape think it's a better alternative than smoking and actual cigarette, or they think it's safer than cigarettes. Vaping actually has many dangers that come with it, like it can cause the body to become weaker in fighting infections, scar the lungs, or can blow up in your face. And though it might be way safer than real cigarettes, there are many things in those vapes that can cause health dangers in the body. Though it's still early in the vape life, many researches have been done to prove of these dangerous things that can cause harm to the inside and outside of the body.
High school education is for students to learn the basic information that is needed to prepare them for college. It is critical for students to feel that it isn’t a waste of time for them to wake up and go to high school everyday. Is it right for students to not come to school because they feel high school is a waste of their time? Majority of students has also felt that the courses they are attending aren’t giving them enough information that will be useful beyond high school. Shouldn’t students be in classes that will benefit them in the future? Should students be able to know what might be their strengths, and weaknesses in the courses that are required to be taken for a certain major? High schools should offer useful courses because it
Her and her kids are on their way to school walking their usual route. One day there happens to be a man who was laying in the dirt just off the sidewalk.
Since women are naturally maternal and nurturing they obtained the role as the family’s primary caretaker, while the men became the providers for the home. For centuries these gender roles were strictly stuck too. Women stayed at home and did house work as their husbands went out and had a career. Thankfully, society is starting to shed this ideology on gender roles. More women are starting to work proactively in the “mans world”, but they are straining to advance to high executive positions throughout corporate companies. A lot of this is due to a women’s fertility. While the stereotype of women being strictly housewives has diminished, the mentality that women are too maternal is prevalent in business life. Due to this outlook women are perceived to be unable to take on the stressful pressures business prevails, giving reason to why for years women were only secretaries and clerks in business where they received little room for progression in their careers. A great deal of reasoning behind this struggle is due to the Great Man Theory. Author of “Inequality Between Genders in the Executive Suite in Corporate America: Moral and Ethical Issues” Dean Elmuti, describes this theory as society’s perception that men are the superior beings and should be the protectors and providers, while women are weak, helpless and should stay home to raise the family (1). Consequently, this view has led to an increased emergence of men as business managers and the leaders of the country, thus defending the male dominance in the corporate industry, but also preserving the discrimination against women entering the business domain. This theory and mentality that women can’t handle business life is infuriating. However, what is more distressing is due to...
Teenagers can 't seem to catch a break when it comes to their skin. Hormonal changes from as early as age 11 start to affect boys and girls, and often these changes result in outbreaks of acne on the face, neck, chest and back. In fact, eight in ten teenagers will get acne (goo.gl/YrY41n). It’s hard enough going through these hormonal changes without having to deal with blackheads and spots especially when confidence matters most at this point in a person 's life.
After school I would arrive home and our neighbor, Ms. Elizabeth would have surprisingly found an “old” backpack remarkably containing all of my necessary school supplies supposedly left by mistake sometimes she missed a price tag or two, but she did her best to find and remove them all. I liked her, even if she smells funny from a perfume that my mom says is expensive and was a terrible cook. Nervously I hoped that Ms. Shaw wouldn’t notice that I hadn’t written anything. Out of the corner of my eye, she glided towards me-nope, my luck had run out. Crouching down, she whispers "I am certain you can think of something. Tell me something that you like to do." "I like to swim. "Well, that is a start, why don't you write three sentences. One saying that you like to swim, one telling me where you go swimming and one telling me your favorite thing about swimming or who swims with you-you can do that, I am certain," she encouraged. I thought to myself, three sentences-I can do that. I looked at my blank paper and heard Ms. Shaw whisper “ok, now what is your first sentence?” “Uh, I like to swim?” “Yes, perfect, write that down.” I wrote down I like to swim. “Now what do you write?” she urged “Well, I go to my dad’s” I mumbled. “Perfect!” she chirped “Write down where your Dad lives and tell us a little bit about
Since time immemorial, mankind has tried to find medications to remove pain and cure various diseases. A Sumerian clay slab from 5000 years ago is the oldest written evidence of the usage of medicinal plants for the preparation of drugs, in which there were 12 recipes referring to over 250 herbs (1).