In “ What Should We Worry About‚” Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner talk about how humans beings are more afraid of the known instead of being scared of the important risks that are unknown. I understand Levitt and Dubner’s point but I disagree. I do not consider the known risks to be scary. I do fear the unknown‚ things like breast cancer‚ heart disease‚ and any form of viruses that can lead to severe sickness or death. These are things that could cause my loved ones and me great pain and
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In Let’s Talk About Love‚ Carl Wilson touched upon people’s tastes in music. Quoting the French philosopher and poet Paul Valéry‚ Wilson explained‚ “Tastes … are composed of a thousand distastes” (Wilson 11). This essay‚ however‚ will show that Mr. Wilson was looking at taste in music backwards; what one likes is not made from what one dislikes; instead‚ what one dislikes is made from what one likes. Speaking from experience‚ I definitely like many genres of music. For example‚ I like rock
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How to talk about health problems • Vocabulary In life one of the most important things you can do is to look after your health. When we have a health problem we can go and see a doctor. Here we take a look at the English you need to discuss bad health. Making an appointment When you are feeling unwell‚ you need to see a doctor. Unfortunately‚ doctors are busy people so you have to make an appointment. This involves calling (or visiting) the doctor’s clinic and making an appointment with the
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sports! Sports are fun. Let’s talk about my Hockey history. Lets jump right into it. Bloomington Thunder is the reason I got into hockey. My dad was able to get hockey tickets from his work and he would take us to the games. The first hockey game I went to was a Bloomington Thunder game. When I went to my first game I got my first hockey puck. I was so excited I held it the entire night (I was like 5 or 6 so I was really hyper and happy). I was watching tv in my room when I was 8 and I saw something
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Art 31: The Visual Experience Fall 2013 Professor Mary F. Zawadzki Talking About Sculpture 1. what kind (type) of sculpture is it? relief: low/bas; high; sunken in the round 2. what is it made out of? How does this affect the feel and intended use of the sculpture? Consider if the material is an advancement for that time (i.e. oil paints) 3. subject - what or who does it represent? 4. method of sculpting? additive -- Rodin subtractive -- Michelangelo found object -- Duchamp 5. style/period? regional
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The article talks about animal rights. The writer illustrates both argument‚ for and against‚ in his article. The writer starts by explaining the meaning of animal rights‚ which includes no experimenting‚ breeding‚ killing animals and no zoos or using animals for entertaining. The people for animal rights argue that both human beings and adult mammals have rights because they are both ‘subjects-of-a-life’. On the other hand‚ the people against animal rights argue that animals don’t think‚ not conscious
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HOW TO TALK ABOUT A VISUAL AID ------------------------------------------------- Choosing the right visual aid A flow chart is a diagram showing the progress of material through the steps of a manufacturing process or the succession of operations in a complex activity | A pie chart displays the size of each part as a percentage of a whole | A (vertical or horizontal) bar chart is used to compare unlike items | | | | A line chart depicts changes over a period of time‚ showing data
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There is only train plying from X to Y‚ I had no other choice. The line is a narrow gauge. It passed through farming country and it mainly carried farm produce‚ although passengers were often using it too. At every station on the way to be loaded and unloaded involving much shunting which took a lot of time. It took nearly four hours for a distance of 60 km. I traveled once by that train. At first I could not believe that a train (in this age) could go so slowly. I had to put up with it. The train
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Biology I per.3 Writing assignment A lot of times students disrespect the teacher in many ways. As high school students we are very stubborn and it takes a lot of warnings‚ maybe even a consequence‚ for us to be able to follow orders appropriately. One of the most common ways of a student disrespecting a teacher is talking during class‚ when they are not supposed to. Even when the teacher tells the students to stop speaking some of them will just completely ignore the teacher and not follow instructions
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A Talk to Teachers About Bullying “Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time. Everyone in this room is in one way or another aware of that. We are in a revolutionary situation‚ no matter how unpopular that word has become in this country. The society in which we live is desperately menaced‚ not by Al Qaeda‚ but from within. To any citizen of this country who figures himself as responsible – and particularly those of you who deal with the minds and hearts of young
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