What facts and examples are used? Are they effective? Why/why not? Brent Staples‚ perception of race‚gender and class in the United States. Brent Staples‚ article stated “As you read‚ think about why Staples chose the new title‚ “Black Men and Public Places”. Brent Staples‚ gives dates with events that affected his life because the shade of his skin. Brent Staples‚ also uses an example from the late 1970s‚ becoming petrified when his office manager had security guards manhandle him. The author said
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Quit Smoking Every year nearly one in every five US deaths are related to cigarette smoking‚ that means that every year 440‚000 people alone die from cigarettes. Deaths caused by alcohol‚ car accidents‚ suicide‚ AIDS‚ homicide‚ and illegal drugs combined are actually less than the number of deaths caused by cigarette smoking. Being the grandchild of a grandpa who died of lung cancer from smoking‚ I know and understand what cigarette smoking can do. Tobacco smoke is a mixture of gases and of
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Passive smoking means breathing in other people’s tobacco smoke. Exhaled smoke is called exhaled mainstream smoke. The smoke drifting from a lit cigarette is called sidestream smoke. The combination of mainstream and sidestream smoke is called second-hand smoke (SHS) or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Second-hand smoke is a common indoor pollutant in the home‚ making passive smoking a serious health risk for both those who smoke and those who do not. Children are particularly at risk of serious
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cherished place. When I was younger‚ I remember my two widowed aunts tidying up the kitchen. They lived in the province with their brother‚ my widowed grandfather. When we visited them‚ we ate in their simple kitchen built with bamboo floors. They came wearing traditional Filipino dresses. They looked so beautiful for me (in their old age and single blessedness)‚ and the kitchen smelled like fresh flowers. The other kitchen I can remember is the kitchen of my grandmother in a far remote place‚ along
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infarction (heart attack)‚ cardiovascular disease‚ diseases of the respiratory tract such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)‚ asthma‚ emphysema‚ and cancer” (42). Smoking may lead to many unpleasant outcomes such as heart disease‚ throat cancer‚ and lung cancer. Cancer is one of the common hazards of smoking. Cancer tends to affect most of the common uses of cigarettes. According to the statistics provided by the article cigarette literacy‚ those who smoke less than 10
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Mbuti Pygmies Bands ANT 101 Instructor: Justine Lemos 10 April‚ 2011 Mbuti Pygmies Bands The Mbuti Pygmies are a peaceful people living life as they have for several thousands of years in Ituri forest in the Congo of Africa. Their numbers have been estimated between 30‚000 to 40‚000 all living throughout the Congo. Although their way of life has changed since their discovery by modern man‚ they cling to what is true in their hearts. I was surprisingly amazed how the bands of Mbuti families’
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Teen Smoking Peer pressure‚ to availability‚ to promotion‚ to the main cause‚ negative influences. These are some reasons that cause teens to smoke before the age of 18. Peer pressure is one of the most common effects that cause teens to smoke or try something that shouldn’t be tried. Especially when hanging with friends‚ a lot of teens get pressured into doing things and one of them is smoking. Friends pressure them into smoking and that’s when they try to fit in so they won’t get teased or become
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Should Smoking be Banned? Smoking is a worldwide problem that is one of the biggest causes of death. Harrison Bergeron 1. What kind of handicap has been imposed on people with better-than-average mental capacity? People with better-than-average mental capacity are required to wear mental handicap radios in their ear that are tuned in to a government transmitter. The radios would send out some sharp noise every twenty seconds or so to take advantage of the people’s brains. 2. What kind
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Some of us get mixed up and do not make the right decision for ourselves. Smoking and other tobacco products are being used every second of every day. More young adults are consuming tobacco products now than before‚ due to big tobacco companies and society portraying them as harmless and the cool thing to do. Parenting can be difficult‚ but sometimes parents do not stress the important topics of health. We know that smoking is not good‚ but it seems that we need somebody to tell us. Just because
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What happens when you smoke. Things that can do to your body when a person is smoking. Smoking gives you bad breath.  Your friends may not like the smell from you and the cigarette . Causes wrinkles earlier in life. Man I could kill a person right now! Don’t you want to be beautiful for a young age or do you want to have wrinkles . Makes your hair and clothes smell. you can spray and spray but you won’t get the horrible smell your clothing and the terrible addiction from your lungs
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