Pine Ridge is simply the poorest census tract in the nation, ... The main business on the reservation is a gas station. All of the housing is HUD housing, Indian housing, which is in many cases deplorable.
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About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.
A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
If you told it the other way round in a film, it would seem like a tract, ... The message would be too much in the foreground. It's human stories, those are the ones you're interested in. So the argument, as it were, is submerged and that's the way it should be, really. You've got to get the audience interested in the lives of the boys.
Love, and the love of life and act
Dance, live and sing through all our furrowed tract;
Till the great God enamoured gives
To him who reads, to him who lives,
That rare and fair romantic strain
That whoso hears must hear again.
The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood.
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell To which, in silence hushed, his very soul listened intensely for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things, Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power, And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless Agitation.
It wasn't so many years ago that your temperature and pulse were virtually the only aspects of your health you could check without paying a visit to the doctor. (Of course, it was always possible to calculate how tragically overweight you were in the privacy of your own home.) But a proliferation of do-it-yourself health-care products has changed all that, transforming millions of homes into virtual laboratories. Using largely inexpensive kits bought over the counter at pharmacies, consumers can now test themselves for glucose level, blood in the stool, urinary tract infections, blood pressure, pregnancy and, in an imminent new option, cholesterol level. There's a very important shift of medical technology out of the hospital and into the home, ... What's happening is people are beginning to realize that lay people not only are recipients of health care but they can become providers.
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
In 1889 the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Soonersand Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
We believed that there was now a market to sell units downtown. They're not attracted to a tract house. What they're attracted to are the amenities of downtown living and the sense of community that comes with it.
Our objective will be to give everyone involved the ability to look at each and every tract (of land proposed for sale), to satisfy themselves if they want to, that these tracts are worthy of what we are proposing.
Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.
The Governor was strong upon The Regulations Act The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.