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Speed Kills
... is a major factor in about two to five percent of fatalities. When driving over the limit it is hard to determine the other drivers speed, this is called the speed variance and this can cause an accident while overtaking the other vehicle or simply changing lanes because the other driver could be speeding up as well, at the same time as you are changing lanes that would result in an accident.
Speed not only kills it also costs money and other problems. Cars traveling at higher speeds increase the amount of fuel usage and therefore this causes more pollution in the environment. Not only that since it uses more fue ...
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Smokey The Bear Sutra
... attracts the attention of the public. Advertising is used as a tool of persuasion in television, magazines, radio, billboards, and in-store displays. The incredible amount of money, artistic ability, and intellectual energy spent on advertisements helps us understand the great power of the media and the advertiser’s ability to control their viewers.
Advertising in today’s society is largely based on brand name recognition. It doesn’t matter how good the product being sold is, but rather how good the product’s advertisements are. A consumer is more likely to purchase a more expensive it ...
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Who Benefits From Higher Education?
... However; the article proved to be limited and inadequate for a true representation of Social Inequalities in the post secondary institutes of Canada for four reasons; First, the authors should have diversified their study of French Vs. Anglo Canadians, and researched the correlation’s between the top five Ethnic backgrounds in Canada in Post Secondary Enrolment. They failed to mention other factors that might show further inequalities in higher education such as: Single Parent, Nuclear Families verses Traditional Tight Nit Families. The author mentions class and socioeconomic factors, but I would strongly disa ...
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Are We Civilized As Civlized As We Think
... become more civilized.
On the other hand though, not all the technology we have is used for good. Society has produced many weapons specialized to kill large quantities of people. Many people have to live in constant fear o these weapons, while others use them for protection. We still have as many wars as we did in the past, but now the new technology used in them helps bring about more casualties. Could this be crueler than our ancestors.
Besides the wars, society has not grown in understanding other people. There is still prejudice today. Many hate groups like the KKK are still around today, and many new ones ...
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Shot Put
... as possible without hindering the throwing action
(e) putting action
-left arm swings over the top, opening the doorway for the throwing action
-lifting action is initiated by using the slower, stronger muscles of the leg, with forces then transferred to the trunk and arms
-shot released at a 40 degree angle over a straight left leg A Basic Teaching Progression
1. Introduction of the hold
2. Introduction of the shot's proper position under the chin against the neck
3. Putting the shot downward into the ground to establish proper wrist action
4. Deliveries: facing the direction of the throw, sitting back ...
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Victims Of Divorce
... statistics on divorce, each year since the mid-1970s, more than 1 million children have experienced a family divorce. "It is projected that nearly half of all the babies born today will spend some time in a one-parent family which occurred as a result of single parenthood or divorce" (Shiono and Quinn 15). This fact indicates that the future of this world will be in the hands of the people who have lived through at least one divorce. That's why, there should be more emphasis given to divorce and more solutions should be presented for the well being of our children.
Although the parents are not the only ones who sh ...
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The Extraordinary Gift Known As Life
... to stop and think about them because
they are so embedded in my mind that I know them in an instant. In my life,
I value all my family and dear friendships. I could not imagine living my
life without someone there to hold my hand when times got tough, to give
me a tissue when I need one when a tear starts to fall and to be there to
share my thoughts and feelings. My family is most important to me. I know
in my heart they will always be there for me. If I get discouraged, they
are there, all I have to do is request their love. Friendships seem to
light up the life. It can seem like a real fray when life throws rea ...
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Stolen Dreams
... manufacturing bricks, working in glass and metal factories, in textile factories, in sugar cane fields, in the tobacco industry and they even work making toys. The list goes on and on. Two hundred and fifty million children who will never enjoy the simple pleasures of childhood in all the ways familiar to us and our children.
A work day can be 10 12 or 14 hrs long and work is done 6-7 days a week. Often these children do not see their parents for a month a at a time. Some of them never get to see their parents. Many of them have been bonded to the company because their family had to borrow money. Because o ...
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Water
... have been used
to produce it. A pound of steel uses 110 liters (32 gallons), but production of a pound of aluminum uses 3800 liters
(1000 gallons) of water. A pound of synthetic rubber requires 1100 liters (300 gallons). The production of a car uses,
on average, an incredible 380,000 liters (100,000 gallons). To refine 1 liter of gas, it takes 10 liters of water. Another
big industrial use of water is disposal of waste products. They use water to wash away all the garbage on the floor,
and to flush away dirty or contaminated water. They also throw out the hot water that is left after they cool metal.
The second ...
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The Idatarod
... and the will to
go on against overwhelming odds will complete the race.
The Iditarod is a dogsled race that takes place in Alaska
every year. It goes from Anchorage (Alaska's largest city)
to Nome, stretching over 1,000 miles of icy, snow-covered
ground. The Iditarod was begun in the 1960's when people
tried to restore tradition to Alaska. It was first run to
commemorate a trip that took place in 1925 to deliver
medicine to Nome. The race has two routes, the Northern and
the Southern. In even-numbered years, the Northern route is
used and in odd-numbered years, the Southern ro ...
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