Article: Borrow a yoga DVD from your library or use information available for free online and practice the movements every day. You'll build strength along with becoming more flexible. Stretching correctly will increase your flexibility, and reduce the risk of injuries caused by lesions of the connective tissues (such as the periosteum) and other nasty things.
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Yoga. Simple stretching.
Article: The language you use to describe the violence may unintentionally reflect tendencies of victim blaming. For example, if you phrase a sentence so that the victim is the subject of the sentence, you are unwittingly emphasizing the victim's role in the crime. Instead of saying, "Mary was raped" or, "Mary is a battered woman," consider using the active voice to emphasize the perpetrator's agency. Saying something like, "A rapist attacked Mary" or, "John abused Mary" shifts the focus from the victim to the perpetrator. When you hear about an attack, try asking questions about the perpetrator's behavior instead of asking questions about the victim's behavior. Focusing too much on the victim may cause you to unintentionally blame him or her for the crime. In domestic violence situations, try to avoid asking questions like, "Why did the wife stay if her husband was beating her?" Instead ask, "Why did the husband beat his wife?" If you are speaking with victims, never ask them why they did or did not respond to the attacks in a specific way. It's important to be conscious not only of the questions that you ask others out loud, but also about the questions that you may keep to yourself. If you find yourself wondering what role the victim played in the crime, remind yourself that the perpetrator's actions are more important. Even though you may mean well by giving a person advice about safety and self-defense, you are unintentionally implying that the victim has the power to prevent an attack. In reality, only an attacker has the power to prevent an attack, so shifting this responsibility to victims can cause them to feel at fault if the tactics do not work. Witnesses to assaults are less likely to blame the victim if they take the time to write down their own emotional reactions to witnessing the attack. Whether you actually witnessed the attack or not, this strategy may be help increase your empathy by encouraging you to explore feelings that you may have otherwise suppressed by blaming the victim. The next time you hear about an assault, take out a piece of paper and write down exactly how the details of the attack make you feel. You may find that this helps you feel more connected to the victim, and thus less likely to blame him or her.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Be careful about the kind of language you use. Ask the right questions. Avoid giving advice for how to avoid attacks. Explore your own feelings.
Article: Some people are intimately familiar with their family history, and others don't know as much about their grandparents, great grandparents, cousins, and so on. Before you make a family tree, get all the information you need by conducting research in the following ways: Ask family members for information. If you're making a family tree for a school project, your mother and father may be able to tell you everything you need to know about your family. For extensive family history projects, consider looking at a genealogy database. Sites like Familysearch.org have information about long lost relatives you may not have known you had. Be thorough. A family tree isn't as useful when someone is accidentally left out. You might want to check with multiple sources to make sure your information is accurate. It's interesting to trace your family history as far back as you can, but when you're drawing a family tree, it's not practical to record information that extends more than a few generations back. You're limited by the size of the paper you use, since you need to be able to fit all of the names on one page. Many people choose to go as far back as their great great grandparents and their siblings, or their great grandparents and their siblings. These are people you, your parents or your grandparents have met, so they are tied to you more closely than more distant relatives. If you have a large family with a lot of great aunts and uncles, cousins, and so on, you may have to end with a more recent generation to fit everyone on one page. If you have a smaller family you might be able to extend the tree to a more distant generation.
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Find out more about your genealogy. Decide how far back to go.