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    Bad Blood

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    Pooja Patel 08/19/2013 Documentary of Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale Mrs. Jones MA 125 Through the eyes of survivors and family members and the producer Merlyn Ness‚ "Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale" chronicles how a "miracle" treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10‚000 Americans. Hemophilia is a rare genetic blood clotting disorder‚ most often passed from mother to son‚ resulting in severe crippling and often death. But in the 1960s‚ Judith Gram Pool dicoverd cryo precipitate from the

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    Bad Rap

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    Kate Everett It’s a Bad Rap Every so often‚ a new style of music emerges in America. In the 1970s and 80s‚ it was rap. For many years‚ rap brought the population of African American’s together in a changing society. They all knew how it felt to be discriminated and terrorized. Rap was what people could relate to‚ because they knew they were not the only ones in trouble. Now‚ rap has changed for the worst. Modern mainstream rap is an embarrassment compared to the art form it used to be. Beginning

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    Power Is Bad

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    the more land the more power. Because government leaders want power‚ there is war‚ and because of war millions of people are fleeing their countries to Europe where they could be safe from war. Most people would agree that if a leader did something bad out out of greed and power the people should not be blamed.Non powerful people should not be killed for the ruler’s actions.

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    Bad Sugar

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    Unnatural Causes In this video “Bad Sugar” the Pima and Tohono O’odham Indians of southern Arizona have the highest diabetes rate in the world. This affects more then half the adults in this Indian group‚ but a century ago diabetes wasn’t even heard of. What has happened to the health of the Pima Indians? During the 20th century the river water was used by white settlers and Pima’s local Indians went into poverty and became dependent on the U.S. government. This resulted in the Indians eating

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    A Bad Case

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    In Willa Cather’s Paul’s Case‚ the author suggests that if a person can’t find his right role in society‚ he will try to escape it or failing to escape it will destroy himself. This story depicts a young man Paul who hates his ordinary life‚ and escapes to a luxury life he has been desiring eventually commits a suicide. The various settings of this story not only clearly reflect Paul’s sentiments between depression and happiness through different location but also reinforce the reason why Paul takes

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    Napping Bad

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    Is napping a good or bad thing to do? In my opinion I think napping is a good thing to do. I am going to prove my opinion. I’m going to write a few paragraphs proving on why my opinion is what it is. In my opinion napping is good. In source #2 paragraph #3‚ it states‚ “...unusual sleeping patterns that allowed them to work in a focused and creative way.” Many famous people take naps to relieve stress Which proves that napping makes people more focused and creative. In source #2 paragraph #5 it

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    Bad medicine

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    Bad Medicine The war on corruption is leaving the world worse than we found it. BY MOISÉS NAÍM | MARCH 1‚ 2005 About a decade ago‚ the world witnessed a corruption eruption. As democratic winds swept the world‚ the dirty deals of once unaccountable dictators and bureaucrats came out into the open. During the Cold War‚ kleptocratic dictatorships often traded their allegiance to one of the two superpowers in exchange for its countenance of their thievery. With the superpower contest over‚ such corrupt

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    The Bad Beginning

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    I read the novel “The Bad Beginning” by Lemony Snicket. This is the unhappy tale of the Baudelaire orphans. The three children Violet ‚ Klause‚ and Sunny are all very bright and charming . Unfortunately their lives are filled with misery and despair ‚ disaster always lurking around the corner. Snickets style of writing is very unique ‚ he uses an interesting and extensive vocabulary. This paper hopefully summarizes the twist and turns of the Baudelaire’s dreary lives. The story starts when the

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    bad day

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    Bad day One day‚ I was playing with my two sisters hide and find game. It was our favorite game ever‚ and we used to play it every day. But‚ in that day we were alone and our parents were in my aunt’s house. while we were playing it‚ my sisters hide from me. Suddenly‚ I heard their voices in our parent’s room‚ so I quickly ran to their room. But‚ when I tried to open the door‚ I found it closed. Then‚ I shouted for them to open the door‚ but they didn’t answer. After that‚ I sat down to think

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    help this obesity epidemic‚ I believe the problem with America is that we like to baby our citizens whenever change needs to happen. Our current policies are not strict enough or are ineffective for helping America’s problem.      Despite America being one of the most industrialized nations‚ this country is definitely not one of the healthiest. Even though we are living in a country with great economic power and amazing technology‚ we are also living in a country with the smallest nutritional knowledge

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