Millions of disposable plastic bags are used and discarded in Washington each year. A beached grey whale was found in West Seattle in 2010 with 20 plastic bags in its stomach. Small pieces of plastic can absorb toxic pollutants like DDT and PCB. Scientists have found that fish are ingesting these toxins when they ingest plastic‚ concentrating the chemicals in the food chain. There is a good chance that we also absorb these pollutants when we eat fish. The good news is‚ Washingtonians are taking
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chocolate‚ cupcakes‚ and among all the junk food I eat M&M is my favorite candy to buy. Growing up‚ I always wonder why the different colors in the M&M bags were not equally distributed. Common sense tells me mass production of the different colored shells are made and then combined along the way before being distributed in their individual bags only to meet a certain weight requirement. According to the M&M’s website‚ any package of milk chocolate M&M’s should be distributed as such: 24% blue‚ 13% brown
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Word Study and Reading Comprehension: Implications for Instruction Reading comprehension is a complex undertaking that involves many levels of processing. One of the most fundamental aspects of comprehension is the ability to deal with unfamiliar words encountered in text. Readers who struggle with word-level tasks use up valuable cognitive space that could be allotted to deeper levels of text analysis. It is not enough to rely on context cues to predict the meaning of new words‚ since this
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M&M Report Alex Colbert Strayer University Abstract Statistics is not an easy topic for your everyday person to pick up and make it easy for them to understand. Equations and hypothesis and the like can be overwhelming and confusing. But what about when you relate it to something that is common in everyday life? Throughout the semester we were given the task to evaluate M&Ms in a few different statistical ways. Throughout this report the goal is to be able to explain what happened‚ and offer
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Air Bag An airbag is a vehicle safety device. It is an occupant restraint consisting of a flexible envelope designed to inflate rapidly during an automobilecollision‚ to prevent occupants from striking interior objects such as the steering wheel or a window. Modern vehicles may contain multiple airbags in various side and frontal locations of the passenger seating positions‚ and sensors may deploy one or more airbags in an impact zone at variable rates based on the type and severity of
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MAT 300 M&Ms® Project Part 5 (3 pts) Using the methods in Section 8.4‚ test the hypothesis (α = 0.05) that the population proportions of red and brown are equal (pred = pbrown). You are testing if their proportions are equal to one another‚ NOT if they are equal to one another AND equal to 13%. NOTE: These are NOT independent samples‚ but we will use this approach anyway to practice the method. This also means that n1 and n2 will both be the total number of candies in all the bags. The “x”
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months old in starting to wake up early at 03:00am just play on my little hands‚ and my mama talk to me as a big boy‚ as if I understand her‚ and mama laughed at me‚ coz am just staring at her. When am four months old I gained weight‚ am talk some words but not so clear at five months of my age Im trying to crawl and sit on my own‚ but sometimes I failed to do but I always try and try. At four months old Im trying to crawl at five months. I can sit on my own and trying to stand holding on my crib
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Four out of five grocery bags in the US are now plastic (Reusablebags.com). However‚ the answer should not be merely plastic‚ the real answer is neither. Plastic bags are very harmful for the environment‚ and paper bags even more so. The best alternative is a reusable bag‚ which can save thousands of plastic bags over its lifetime. Plastic bags are everywhere. We see them anywhere from the town grocery market to the convenience store down the street. Admittedly‚ plastic bags are very convenient. They
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My Educational Journey through High School When you start high school you are one step closer to getting your diploma and entering the real world to make something of yourself. As a child we start off at an early age when it comes to getting our education. Most people would say school is a place where you make friends and have fun and for others your there to learn something. As for me I fall in the category with many others who want to learn something new and make friends too. One aspect of my
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Why are plastic bags bad for our environment? Now and days everywhere we go we have waste and a big part of it is plastic bags. Plastic bags are very bad for our environment we find them all over our oceans and on streets. The bags also end up hurting our animals mainly our sea creatures. In general plastics are bad over all they waste money and are bad to our environment. We already have a bad environment over all getting rid of plastic bags would be a good strep to take. We would be helping
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