Hu Shek Teng SCM-025922 24/11/2014 Appeal to common belief‚ technology advance has made life easier and plays a significant role in almost all fields of human life. The tremendous benefits of technology are very inspiring indeed. However‚ the dark sides of technology should be also concerned. One of the most critical consequences was the health of human being critically devastated. People around the world had become increasingly glued to electronic gadgets. Moreover‚ reporting of health issues
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For this assignment I chose to read A Loss for Words: A story of deafness in a family‚ by Lou Ann Walker. She recounts growing up hearing with two deaf parents. Once I started reading I was surprised to find that Walker grew up in Indiana! Her father is from Montpelier‚ her mother is from Greencastle‚ and the author came of age in Indianapolis. Lou Ann’s story begins as her parents are driving her to Harvard. She went to Ball State for her first two years‚ but decided it was not enough of a challenge
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Hidden In the Words In Middle Eastern literature‚ political‚ economic‚ and domestic crises created large movements that changed topics that were used to write. For example‚ Israeli and Hebrew literature was highly influenced by American culture post WWII. With these topic changes came various negative emotions due to the reasons the topics were changed. For instance‚ Palestinian literature went from folk ballad to resistance and activist poetry teeming with themes of a dislocated people and
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200 Pounds Beauty Emily Johnson Abstract 200 Pounds Beauty is about an overweight South Korean girl who undergoes major plastic surgery to gain the confidence she needed to live her life. The female lead actress is Kim Ah-Joong who is most impressive when she performs a singing concert. Her only concern was lack of confidence in herself and body. Part of the main reason she decided get an extreme makeover was because she was heartbroken over a guy who was also her
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How to live to be 200 Stephen Leacock How to live to be 200 is a beautiful essay‚ in which the writer has satirized those people who are obsessed by the idea of “Health Maniac”. The writer has given us an example of “Mr. Jiggens” who was a real “Health Maniac”. He was a person who was a person who wanted to be physically strong and healthy and to be healthy and strong‚ he used to do different sort of exercises. He wanted to live long. He used to take cold bath
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Everything has a trade-off and opportunity cost. Electric cars are no exception. The first thing that caught my attention was the mileage. In the article and video‚ Rick Peters’ electric car only goes 25 miles per hour. You cannot get very far with that‚ especially since the farthest you can go in it is 30 miles per charge. I drive a Toyota Camry‚ and I drive 9.2 miles every day to school. It takes me 12-15 minutes to drive to school. If you ignore the speed limit on the roads (it is 55 mph)‚ it
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the America‚ it doesn’t matter how rich or poor people are‚ there is one product that any household has to have at least one. It is a car. In fact‚ cars have played an extremely important role in American society. A car wasn’t invented like other machinery‚ but it was the accumulation of many levels of invention and a combination of many scientific discoveries. Cars’ origin was in Europe by the French and the German and Paris and named by the Paris Academy of Sciences. But automobile industry brilliantly
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AP Language and Composition October 12‚ 2012 I come from... I come from a working family. Both of my parents have worked for as long as I can remember. When my mom or dad came home‚ my sisters and I would be ecstatic. We would run to the door to see them‚ give them a hug and a kiss cherishing the moment we had to see them. This scene has replayed every day until this day. I now realize that when I have my kids I don’t ever want them to go through what I did‚ not being able to see their parents
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treasured toy‚ a bright red Ferrari Testarossa Hot Wheels car‚ and rolling it back and forth on the glossy‚ white tiled floor of my house. It never left my hands‚ accompanying me to restaurants‚ my grandparent’s house‚ and even Disney World. Somehow‚ the simplicity of this toy car fascinated me. As I entered elementary school‚ I realized that real cars are more intricate and even more fascinating than the ones that fit in the palm of my hand. Each car has a beating heart of its own called an engine. Intrigued
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Muscle cars have always been a big in the United States such as the Ford Mustang‚ Chevrolet Camaro‚ and Chevrolet Corvette. These cars are some of the most popular cars for the past 25 or more years‚ but over the past 10 years‚ Japanese cars are becoming more and more popular. Many people who are into muscle cars despise these ’imports’ and people who are into these imports have the same feelings toward muscle cars. These two types of car lovers have a strong dislike for each other and these cars. Many
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