disease‚ such as diabetes and heart disease‚ caused by increasing rates of obesity as well as poverty. Obesity of the students is recognized as a medical problem of the students. In the Philippines the nationwide nutrition survey conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST) in 1993 showed that 14 percent of Filipinos 20 years old and above are overweight‚ while 2.6 percent are obese. Translated in absolute figures‚ there are 5.7 million
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How Families Are Changing For the Better Betty Holcomb The present structure of the average family in America is changing‚ mainly due to the growing number of mothers who now work outside the home. The current mark of dual-earner families stands at 64 percent‚ making it a solid majority today. This alteration of the "traditional" structure of the family is a catalyst for other changes that may soon occur. One of the changes that recently have been evident is the increased participation of
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Public speakers can change societies by changing their way of thinking and/or giving a certain group a voice. Martin Luther King Jr. led the famous "million man march" and was one of the main figures that gave the African-Americans a voice during the Civil Rights movement. The infamous Adolf Hitler made an entire country believe his xenophobic ideology that the Jewish people were the reason were to blame for Germany’s impoverished state. Even Socrates changed the way of Greek thinking altogether
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Will not stay still” T. S. Elliot The English lexicon is changing and always will change. Discuss with reference to contemporary Australian English. Whether it is the creation of the new or the dying out of the old‚ the shortening of one or the blending of two‚ words and their semantics are forever transforming. The English language‚ as with all “living‚” i.e.‚ currently spoken‚ read‚ and/or written‚ languages are constantly changing. But that change only happens as people use the language‚
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Vonnegut ’s Changing Women What follows is an argument to the effect that‚ in the novels written before 1973‚ Vonnegut ’s female characters generally are presented negatively‚ either as pro-authority anti-individualists or as helpless or male-manipulated victims who never "grow" in either a personal or literary sense. In addition I maintain that‚ in at least two of Vonnegut ’s later novels‚ certain female characters exercise individuality in their own existences and effect positively the awareness
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“Honey‚ I’m Home” now doesn’t even have a gender orientation to it‚ but only 30 years ago it referred to the “bread-winner” (the man of the house) coming home after a long day of work greeting his wife. This idea of male dominance is shown in the text Mirror on America‚ in the picture where the groom is holding his wife who is drastically smaller than him‚ showing some sort of dominance a male has over a female (63). It is also shown in the picture where the man looks like he came home from a long
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would like to bring over food that will be cheaper. This will take away from the local people of this region and will hurt there businesses and local farming. The way this will threats there culture is through the way the meats are made‚ like with the growth hormones in the USA foods. In this fight the Americans coming over with there food will be cheaper to make and people will more likely by it. In this case there is no doubt that this will hurt local and healthier foods and pork with fewer hormones
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Food Industry We have all heard the phrase “What you don’t know won’t hurt you” and it has undoubtedly applied to many situations in our lives that we are still unaware of. We like to toss around this phrase without worrying too much about what it implies because that is the whole point of the phrase‚ not to worry. When it comes to what we are putting into our bodies‚ though‚ what we do not know can indeed hurt us immensely. In the United States‚ we have grown accustomed to not thinking much about
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The painful truth is our world is changing and it may vary well be our fault. The temperature is rising polar summers are getting longer and longer and landfills continue to grow. These are all affects of our gluttonous ways taking more of what we already have driving around aimlessly and littering. I believe that these need to stop. People say change isn’t easy it takes time but mankind has been changing for thousands of years adapting to the world around us. However some people have changed or
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America the Beautiful is Changing Americans believe they live in a beautiful country. There are many advantages to living in America‚ such as having a secure government‚ a controlled military‚ a judicial system that works‚ breathtaking landscapes‚ cleanliness‚ and the many freedoms that are granted to citizens in the U.S. Constitution. America became a rising power early in its life‚ allowing for these benefits. Although the United States of America is one of the great world powers‚ and perhaps
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