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    Smoking Is Bad for Health

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    You can get yellow teeth and bad breath from smoking. These are things I am sure you don’t want to have. Yellow fingernails from the smoke looks like buttery popcorn. It will look ugly and messy when you want to look nice. Tar builds up in your lungs and makes them all black like soot. When you don’t get enough cigarettes‚ your body can tell. People can shake and shiver when they don’t get the amount of nicotine they are used to. Smoking doesn’t only make you look bad‚ but it affects your body internally

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    Gun Ban Bad

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    participate in highrisk behaviors such as alcohol or drug abuse‚ promiscuous sex‚ or association with dangerous people (7677). As seen‚ exposure to gun violence in any form is extremely harmful. If guns create cultural violence‚ and these psychological effects are occurring in young people exposed to violence‚ then guns are causing these negative adaptations in youth. Bradshaw continues‚ informing us that exposure to gun violence normalizes violence‚ and can limit relationships (77). This occurs even when

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    Being on Time

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    Running head: SC300 UNIT 2 ASSIGNMENT SC300 Big Ideas in Science: From Methods to Mutation Unit 2 Project: Science Meets Real Life Jason Goldstein Kaplan University October 20th‚ 2010 SC300 UNIT 2 ASSIGNMENT A string of absences are currently being experienced at four different middle schools within the month of May. The percentage of absences is outside the statistically normal range exhibited by District 12. School District – Independent School District 12 Attendance data page. (n.d.). Retrieved

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    Being Gay

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    Throughout history homosexuality has been considered vulgar‚ perverse and immoral. What is truly immoral is homophobia and that it still prevails today. Firstly‚ homophobia derived from prejudice and escalated to panic. Secondly‚ homophobic attitudes are endorsed and practiced by many places of worship‚ which are hypocritical to God’s concept of the Golden Rule. Thirdly‚ the severity of homophobia has reached a point of no return‚ where the lives of many innocent have been viciously taken away. Lastly

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    Being Bilingual

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    I have been told by most people who hear me speak Spanish (my mother tongue is English) that I am fluent in it. That alone should be enough for me to call myself bilingual. However‚ I have encountered numerous situations over the years where I felt completely lost in Spanish. So‚ if I am so fluent‚ why would this happen to me? The answer is a simple but often overlooked one. Bilinguals usually acquire and use their second ( or third or fourth) language for specific purposes and when they get outside

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    Being a Musician

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    Akash Pillai Advanced Placement Language and Composition April 3‚ 2014 Ms. Burke On Being a Musician Music is the rhythm that keeps the world spinning. What is it about music that makes it so enjoyable to listen to? Is it the message that we gain from the lyrics or is just the background beat? Music‚ with all its intricacies‚ can be seen as living entity that has the ability to rest inside our soul and create emotions such as excitement and awe. Music helps create a bond and connect people

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    Is Monsanto Good Or Bad

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    Imagine a nation in which a single company is attempting to provide for the manufacture and distribution of all food. A nation in which food is being genetically-altered by a company; not to mention is also responsible for the creation of now two illegal products which were being sprayed on our food. Now‚ take a step into reality‚ open your mind and realize that this so called company is called Monsanto and this nation is called the United States of America. Monsanto is crippling the natural process

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    Coffee: Bad for Sleep

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    Late Night Cup of Coffee: Bad for Sleep Sleep is very important to human beings especially because it allows both our minds and body to rest. It sorts out and arranges our memory and it is necessary for our body to function well. In fact about 40% of a person’s day is allocated to sleep throughout adolescence. However‚ adolescents who are people aged 12 to 18 years need 9 hours of sleep but on average most teens get 7 hours only (Mindell and Owens 30). A variety of factors contributes to the tendency

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    Being a Teenager

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    Being a Teenager To be a teenager today has its positives and its negatives‚ but it’s actually fun. Being a teenager can be stressful and you have to be responsible‚ but it’s also a fun experience. To those who want to remember what it’s like to be a teenager or those who will be in the future‚ this is what it’s going to be like. Stress is a part about being a teenager today. Three reasons why teenagers get stressful are because of sucky teachers‚ siblings‚ and even parents. First of all having

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    On Being A Cripple

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    English 23 September 2013 Being handicapped or disables isn’t always the best lifestyle to have‚ but it isn’t up to you on what “gifts” you get. Nancy Mairs knows a lot about that‚ because she is crippled. In the essay‚ “On Being a Cripple‚ Mairs writes for readers‚ disabled or not‚ about what it’s like to be crippled. She describes it in a sarcastic tone with seriousness and repetition with some very interesting word choice. Mairs suffers from being cripple‚ but uses the word with such

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