Blogs from Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States, North America - page 3

Im sure everyone has some kind of seminar or speaker in high school that comes to talk to the class or the whole school about drunk driving. I remember before each prom, my school would have a speaker and basically it was someone who had survived a drunk driving accident and whose friends had died. There were also photographs that the speaker included in his or her talk. This was always very emotional and shocking and definitly got the point across. When I was home for spring break, my brother, who plays hockey for his high school team and travel team, told me about a game he played against a team of paraplegics. The kids on this team were in their late teens, the same age as my brother. They were all paralyzed from the waiste ... read more

A never ending industrialization in Americaan society is the Medical Industry. Advancements are always being made and these advancements will never stop either. The only way the advancements in medicine will end is one of two ways, if everybody is cured or everybody dies. So in that case it will never end. Another thing that goes hand in hand with advancements in medicine is the price for medical care as long as there are advancements then the cost will just keep rising.... read more

This morning...this SATURDAY morning, I woke up early so that I could go to see Dr. Paul Farmer speak. Before January, I had never heard of Farmer or Partners in Health, the health care organization he co-founded. After reading about him in my Global Poverty class, however, I have come to see him as someone who is to be admired greatly for his work with the poor. Farmer has opened clinics in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Africa, and south Boston, where he provides health care for those who cannot afford it. Although it is generally understood that medicine is a commodity and not a right, Farmer believes, as most people do, that everyone has the right to life. Therefore, he and those he works with use their talents to fund these programs that allow the poor to ... read more

i had just signed up for ebay/paypal yesterday, and i bid on my first item - which will remain nameless because it's a toy and it's embarassing that i'm twenty and i still buy toys. anyway...i was never really an ebayer, but now i think i'll be obsessed with it in the near future (yeah, it's gonna happen - i just won two items). getting anything you want/rare items for cheaper prices?...sounds like a deal to me! ebay fascinates me. you can sell your personal items to people all around the world by just advertising it on the internet. you can sell cars, toys, video games, movies, clothes, everything! all the electronic-ness that goes on to bid on items, to close the auctions, to maintain the time availability of items, to confirm whether you have won ... read more

It seems like techonolgy can fix anything, or make anything easier. Well today during dress rehearsal for my dance recital on saturday i did something really bad and painful to my hamstring. I was doing a "penche" (which is: "penché . A tilting of the body to achieve an exteme picture. An example is when the dancer is in an arabesque at 90 degrees. She then pushes her working leg upward and over, pushing the body down towards the supporting leg to achieve a much greater angle between legs, often resulting in a 180-degree split.") One of the dances I'm in has a quick penche in it and I was not warmed up, so when i did it quickly i felt "riippppp" and had to hobble off stage in pain. How can technology help me here?! ... read more