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The Adaptation

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To adapt means to modify something to make it useful for a new purpose.  Adaptation refers to the process of adapting or being adapted.  In biological terms, adaptation is the process of change in an organism or species to become better suited to its environment.  I personally believe that this process of change is an ongoing one for most organisms.  Environments change, so organisms do too.  Can you think of a time in your life when you had to adapt to a new environment?  Maybe you moved to a new house or a new apartment.  Maybe you lost something or someone that meant a great deal to you.  Maybe you developed a disease, or maybe something happened to you that was out of your control.  Would any of these situations cause the person, or human, to no longer be human, as in human species?  No.  No matter what happens to us, or what changes we go through, we would still be human.   We don't just suddenly change species becaus...
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Fahrenheit Rising

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 Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time!  I know, I have a lot of those!  Of all the dystopian novels out there that people like to compare to the current day, this one might just be the most accurate to our day.  Animal Farm, 1984, Alas Babylon, Hunger Games, Matched, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, The Giver, and many others all have parallels to our current time and can be said to have accurate truths.  After listening to Fahrenheit 451 again in preparation to teach my teen literature class: Seeing Society Through Classic Literature, I think we are living in Ray Bradbury's world. We may not have firefighters that start fires rather than put them out, but everything else in this book is our world today.  Bradbury describes a world where no one talks to anyone, no one thinks anything, and no one really does anything meaningful.  Bradbury loved literature and with the rising technology in the 1950s he was worried a great deal about ...
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The Kirk Effect

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Just like 9/11, most of us probably remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news of Charlie Kirk.  If you did not know Charlie Kirk before, you do now.  On 9/11 I was a Sophomore in high school.  I was in band class 1st period.  I was wearing a blue sweatshirt with big thick letters that spelled ROXY and black leggings.  I did not know what the World Trade Center was when I saw the 1st tower fall on the TV.  I remember my band teacher coming in and turning on the TV without a word.  We all just watched.  As I went to every class that day, it was more news and more news.  All we did was watch the news in every class.  I knew something big had just taken place that I didn't even understand.  I knew it was somber, I knew it was sad, but I didn't quite know the whys and the hows of it all.  In the days following I found out.   On September 10th I was doing reading school with my son on his bed when...
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Comfort Zone

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I was recently reminded of a blanket from my past. I'm not really sure why I was reminded about this particular blanket. I was on one of my many commutes to the work place in the dark and early hours of the morning, when I was thinking about what to get everyone for Christmas this year. Hmmm? For some reason blankets popped into my head. Maybe this was because my obsession last year around Christmas was THE MINKY COUTURE blankets that are local to UTAH. I bought a bunch of them last year as I slowly disposed of my old blankets. I love blankets........one could never have too many! " The Minky blanket would be a nice gift" , I thought, but I'm still not decided on gifts for this year. Sorry fam, don't get your hopes up. You might get stuck with another homemade item, haha! Maybe I'll make blankets this year........great idea? Not sure yet! Okay, so, then there it was in my mind as if I had snuggled up with it yesterday; The blanket from my past. This wa...
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