The Causes and Effects of Childhood Obesity Karla Bertram ENG122: English Composition II Instructor Tamara Dorris September 21‚ 2011 The Causes and Effects of Childhood Obesity Recently‚ childhood obesity has grown to epidemic proportions. It has tripled in the last three decades and now approximately one in three children are overweight or obese. According to Black’s Medical Dictionary‚ obesity is “a condition in which the energy stores of the body (mainly fat) are too great” (A&C
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Inflation It’s causes‚ effect and remedies. By: Subrat Choudhury Inflation and Deflation I INTRODUCTION Inflation and Deflation‚ in economics‚ terms used to describe‚ respectively‚ a decline or an increase in the value of money‚ in relation to the goods and services it will buy. Inflation is the pervasive and sustained rise in the aggregate level of prices measured by an index of the cost of various goods and services. Repetitive price increases erode the purchasing power of money and other
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April 22‚ 2013 English 101 Alcoholism is the excessive and usually uncontrollable use of alcoholic drinks. There are many symptoms‚ complications‚ treatments and ways of prevention for alcoholism. Certain groups of people may be at a greater risk than others for several different reasons. There are numerous factors in why people may become addicted. Usually‚ a variety of factors contribute to the development of alcoholism. Social factors such as the influence of peers‚ family
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There were many causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution. The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment combined to create a new world view. This‚ in turn‚ led to the creation of new technology and organizations like the British Royal Society of Arts focused on progress and Enlightenment ideals. The Agricultural Revolution and enclosure movements led to increased agricultural productivity and produced a pool of potential workers to work in new factories‚ leading to ability for industrial
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Cause and Effect: The Scarlet Letter Set in Boston‚ in the Puritan times of the 1940’s‚ the book‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is about a young girl named Hester Prynne who commits adultery with the town’s minister‚ Arthur Dimmensdale. Hester is married to a man named Roger Chillingworth‚ a scholarly man‚ who sent her to Boston years earlier while he settled his affairs in Europe. Years passed and Chillingworth arrives in Boston to find his wife on a Scaffold being accused of adultery
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English: English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in England and is now the most widely used language in the world.[4] It is spoken as a first language by a majority of the inhabitants of several nations‚ including the United Kingdom‚ the United States‚ Canada‚ Australia‚ Ireland‚ New Zealand and a number of Caribbean nations. It is the third most common native language in the world‚ after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.[5] It is widely learned as a second language and is an official
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Cause and Effect Essay: Causes of Flood There are many calamities that we experience like storm‚ volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. The most common calamities that our country faces are storms and floods. According to PAGASA‚ flood is a natural hydrological phenomenon. The purpose of this essay is to enumerate and explain the causes of flood‚ which are tropical storms‚ global warming and tsunamis. One of the causes of flood are tropical storms. According to the Forces of Nature website‚ storms
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English 102 LC#3 Mr.Sylvester 16 Feb 2011 The Causes and Effects of Global Warming If you’re accustomed to thinking of global warming as something happening out there--say‚ in the Artic or the Antarctic or high in the atmosphere--you may be in for a shock.(Silvestro.) Global warming is the observed and projected increases in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans (wijkman). Today‚ this is one of our most damaging problems (Global). Global warming is caused by the buildup
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Michael Swain For: Maria Sebastian English 101 Cause & Effect 20 March‚ 2017 Distracted Driving The technological information age is the most rapid period of advancement in the history of civilization. This progress is largely made possible by the instant communication possibilities given by the internet. The ability to rapidly distribute information and ideas through telecommunication and the internet has facilitated developments in nearly every field‚ and thus is viewed primarily in a positive
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John Smith Professor Summers English 1210-C1202 18 November 2013 Negative Effects of Social Media on Real Lives Social networking has become an unquestionable part of our everyday lives and we don’t stop to think of all the effects it can have on connections made in real life situations. So many people have different accounts on sites like Twitter‚ Facebook‚ and Instagram. They have become a type of addiction for kids. In situations that are normally very social and interactive kids will go
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