antiretroviral treatment reduces the risk of death and complications from the disease‚ these medications are expensive and may be associated with side effects. Genetic research indicates that HIV originated in West-central Africa during the early twentieth century. AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1981 and its cause—HIV infection—was identified in the early part of the decade. Since its discovery‚ AIDS has caused nearly 30 million deaths (as of 2009). As
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The Community’s Effect on Education Of all the problems that society faces today‚ perhaps the worst is the declining quality of the education of our children. Education plays a major part in the life of a child: a quality education allows for a child to be exposed to more opportunities that can lead to a quality of living that‚ in a lot of cases‚ is much better than that of their parents. There are many ways to increase the quality of a child’s education; however‚ the best way is for the community
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Cause and Effect of Anorexia Of all girls and women in the United States‚ ten percent will be affected by an eating disorder. Men and women alike are affected‚ however it is more common in women‚ specifically those aged thirteen to twenty. The most common eating disorder among teenage girls is anorexia nervosa. This disease is mostly linked with an overwhelming desire to be thin. People take extreme measures to achieve this goal (“Causes”). Anorexia is a very mysterious and misunderstood disease
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The Good Effect of Technology What is technology? According to Venom & Wortzel (1997‚ pp.130)‚ technology is an application scientific knowledge that can help the human to solve a problem‚ achieving a goal and as a method of organization to improve a preexisting solution to a problem. For example‚ the things that we have often used such as washing machine‚ cell phone‚ and computer are a kind of technology. Nowadays‚ technologies significantly affect human life and the technologies have brought
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frustrated and adamantly believed her Yaba addiction ruined the whole family. It is from then‚ when I thought family carelessness is the main motivator to addiction. Since all the news was showing how much freedom her parents gave her and she was getting so much money I thought they were not much careful towards these things. Not only that‚ every now and then I see news about Yaba in the news. This seems to be one of the biggest problems in our country now. This made me think and hence I came up
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Education is the most important achievement of a persons’ lifetime. The possibilities and accomplishments become virtually endless once you have achieved a college education. One can tailor their education toward specific areas of learning to become anything they want in American society. Having an education not only gives you the promise of a decent life‚ but produces self confidence and self esteem. Knowledge is the most important tool that America bestows upon her citizens. Anyone who lives here
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Cause and effects of smoking Smoking is one of the main issues that mankind today is confronted with in the world. Smoking is known to have started as early as 1439 A.D. Rodrigo de Jerez was the first ever smoker in Europe‚ and the development of cigars was originated by the Native American people. In the twentieth century‚ cigars were advertised all over the world as a harmless‚ anti-stress product with little or no side effects. Smoking was eventually become widespread all over English-speaking
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inflation Inflation is measured by observing the changes in prices of goods in the economy using econometric techniques. The rises in prices of the various goods are combined to give a price index that reflects the change in prices of these many goods‚ where the inflation rate is the rate of increase in this index. There is no single true measure of inflation‚ because the value of inflation will depend on the weight given to each good in the index. Examples of common measures of inflation include:
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Dale Partridge once said‚ ’You were born with the ability to change someone’s life‚ don’t waste it." Throughout our lives‚ most people choose to ignore helping those in need. Many of those people‚ did not choose to be in a situation where they have to ask for help. At one point‚ homeless people had dreams of becoming someone important in life. Despite the situations these people have gone through ‚ helping the homeless can change our community by lowering crime rates‚ and having hard workers. In
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The Causes and Effects of Global Warming. The recent realization of our planet’s continually warming climate is one of modern societies biggest worries. Global warming is not only devastating to our planet‚ but will likely shorten our species’ lifespan considerably if it continues at its current pace. There are three main causes of global warming: air pollution‚ deforestation‚ and the increase in usage of chemical fertilizers. These actions have been engrained into our way of life so permanently
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