Blue Zones: A Perfect Life

Arthur Baer once said “A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn’t climb over it.” In the poem ‘Mending Wall’, by Robert Frost, it talks about two neighbors who rebuild a wall between their pastures. One believes the wall is good and neccary but the other thinks the wall is pointless due to the fact neither have livestock or other pets to trespass on one’s land. Fences are good at respecting boundaries though it can cause issues with neighbors, such as lack of communication or miscommunication, boundary disputes, and regulations that are needed to be met and maintained due to the fencing.

The idea of a fence is simple. We set up a border with the hope that we can keep things about. The same idea even transferred over to August Wilson “Fences” as we see the main character Troy try to build a fence around his yard to keep what he loves in and what’s not needed out. Although this is the standard use of a fence what was the main metaphor of Fences that kept the storyline going? I believe that the fence Troy Maxson built a fence between death, his wife, and his children by pushing them away which led him to him nothing to protect on the inside of his fence to follow up with his death several years later.

The play “Fence” by August Wilson’s has a connection with real world fence. “The yard is a small dirt yard, partially fenced, except for the last scene, with a wooden sawhorse, a pile of lumber, and other fence-building equipment set off to the side. The Opposite is a tree from which hangs a ball made of rags. A baseball bat leans against the tree. Two oil drums serve as garbage receptacles and sit near the house at right to complete the setting” (Wilson 2). He mentions that the fence has three parts open, unopened and cornerstone. The word yard and fence are symbolically represented structure and dream of country, society and Troy’s family.

He ended up digging holes all throughout his yard in search for gold but never finds any, making him bitter and angry. He puts a lot of time and energy into building a nice fence to protect the valuables he believed were there but, in reality, the old man was glad to be on the outside of the fence. The neighbour assumed that others were looking to take his things, which made him disliked by the old man. From this, we can learn not to perpetually think the worst of people, like the neighbour did, and to be careful not to let valuables control your

The” Blue Zone” is places in the world where people living longer and healthier without disability and medications. The” Blue Zone” having not only people reach centenarians but super-centenarians. What is the secrets of this longevity? Dan Buettner makes the research with his team National Geographic, and National Institute on Aging to find the people living in those places call Blue Zone, and asks them question about their lifestyle to live longer and healthier. Dan Buettner and his team find five places in the world. Those places call Blue Zone are the Italian Island of Sardinia; Okinawa, Japan; Loma Linda, California; Costa Rica’s Isolated Nicoya Peninsula; and Ikaria, an Isolated Greek Island. The people living in Blue Zone live a lifestyle witch is plants based diet, move naturally, know your purpose, religion (have faith), 80% rule, drink wine five, belong to the right tribe, down shift, loved ones first, stay social. Can we find these people in Blue Zone and having their same lifestyle in our community here in Fredericksburg? Let choose three lifestyles in Blue Zone and compare to our community here in Fredericksburg: Plants based diet, move naturally, Love one first.

In today 's society people have to deal with several issues that we can 't explain. For some of us we built fences to isolate ourselves from others or in some cases to protect ourselves. No matter what the issue is we, all have to struggle to be able to provide for our families. As a child I built fences when it came to my feelings. For example, growing up I was in the chunky side. Since I wasnt so skinny like the pretty girls in my class. I kinda isolated my self from the other students. That way my feelings wouldn 't get hurt. My fence was to protect me from what I thought was going to hurt me. Well the same thing happened to Troy Maxson. In the play, "Fences" written by the well-known playwright, August Wilson, is the story of Troy Maxson and his beloved family. Throughout the whole entire play, a fence is being built around the Maxson household. As the story unfolds to the viewers, the word fences may look like a simple title, but the truth is it has different symbolic meaning. The real definition of the word fence is revealed along with the personalities of the characters in the play. In "Fences", August Wilson uses different types of fences as a metaphor to explain how these people live.

They therefore may feel the need to follow a vegetarian diet which means they do not eat meat, poultry or fish (unless pescetarian who do eat fish) but do still eat dairy products and farm produce e.g. eggs.

“Some people build fences to keep people out...and other people build fences to keep people in” (61). In the play, Fences, by August Wilson who displays how fences symbolize different situations to represent different characters. The story takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the 1950’s, and in the play fences gives an outlook of providing an obstacle or barrier that is intended to keep something out or in. It shows through the protagonist character, named Troy Maxson and his wife Rose in which later they both realize the aftermath of the process of building a fence became the opposite of what they didn’t intend to happen.

August Wilson’s Fences was centered on the life of Troy Maxson, an African American man full of bitterness towards the world because of the cards he was dealt in life amidst the 1950’s. In the play Troy was raised by an unloving and abusive father, when he wanted to become a Major League Baseball player he was rejected because of his race. Troy even served time in prison because he was impoverished and needed money so he robbed a bank and ended up killing a man. Troy’s life was anything but easy. In the play Troy and his son Cory were told to build a fence around their home by Rose. It is common knowledge that fences are used in one of two ways: to keep things outside or to keep things inside. In the same way that fences are used to keep

Many individuals have found themselves putting up fences in their lives metaphorically and physically throughout their time being. In the play titled fences by August Wilson , some of its key characters put up fences within their lives figuratively speaking. August wilson uses the symbol of a fence in various occasions within the play. Characters lives mentioned change around the fence building project which serves as both a figurative symbol,representing the relationships that bond and break in the backyard. The fact that the character Rose Maxson wants the fence built adds significance to her character because she views the fence as something necessary and rather positive since she wants to keep her loved ones in. To her a fence is a symbol of her love and furthermore her motive for a fence signifies that she represents concepts such as nurturing and love within a safe environment.For troy the fence has a more symbolic definition since he keeps much of

Buddhists mainly eat grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds. A lot of people have stereotype of Buddhist, which monks do not eat meat because it is considered breaking no killing rule. However, that is not entirely true. Buddhism does not forbid its followers to eat meat at the beginning. Moreover, there are many different stringent requirements for whether or what kind of meat Buddhists can eat depend on different sects of Buddhism. Thus, Buddhism does not have a uniform standard diet.

In their culture food is often used to cure illness and keep a healthy sustained life. They use a lot of herbs for healing. Some of the foods they use are cold and hot foods. For the cold foods they use beans, corn products, dairy, citrus, tropical fruits, and meat like goat, rabbit and chicken. For hot foods they use aromatic drinks, chili, wheat products, and meat like beef, waterfowl, fish, and mutton. (Smith

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary a fence is “a means of protection or defense, a barrier intended to prevent escape or intrusion or to mark a boundary; especially: such a barrier made of posts and wire or boards.” In the play “Fences” by August Wilson we see a fence being built for its literal purpose but also being used symbolically. Wilson uses the fence to symbolize the many boundaries in the main character Troy’s relationships with his family.

Have you ever built a "fence" to keep things in? How about to actually build a fence to keep things out? August Wilson's play "Fences" uses the name as both a metaphorical and physical reference. There are four of these metaphorical fences that are referred to as well as the physical hardwood fence that Troy is actually building.

within their lifestyles. They slowly learned to eat foods such as nuts, grains, roots, and