I just had an opportunity to get a full briefing from Secretary Burwell‚ CDC Director Frieden‚ as well as Tony Fauci from NIH about the Zika situation‚ and I want to give the American people an update on where we are. As it has been explained repeatedly‚ but I want to reemphasize‚ Zika is not like Ebola. This is not a human-to-human transmission‚ with the one exception that we’ll talk about. It’s primarily transmitted through mosquitoes‚ a very particular type of mosquito. But what we do know
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ENC 1102 Take a Stand “Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people” – Helen Keller. Since 1973 it seems that everyone in America has become deaf to the subject of abortion. Dividing this subject into two different parties‚ pro-choice and pro-life‚ everyone has an opinion but no one is listening. In 2012 Planned Parenthood reported about 88‚000 abortions in Florida and 333‚000 in the USA. This number doesn’t include the ones done by a third-party clinic due
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(Topic/Purpose) I will be covering reasons why not to wear contact lenses. IV. (Credibility) I have worn contacts on and off since the age of 13 and have felt the effects that contacts have had on my eyes and my bank account. V. (Preview) In this speech‚ I will discuss the risk/effects that contact lenses can have on the eyes‚ the long term cost of contact lenses‚ and what you can do to prevent these to occur. VI. (Defining contact lenses) Contact lenses are medical devices worn directly on the cornea
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Persuasive Speech Speaking out to persuade others . . . From Reading to Writing Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s powerful “I Have a Dream” speech helped convince Congress to pass landmark civil rights legislation. It also continues to influence people of all ages to believe in and work to achieve their personal dreams. Persuasive Speech Speaking out to persuade others . . . Persuasive speeches such as Dr. King’s can move listeners to tears and inspire them to move mountains. Politicians‚ advertisers
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Jessie Gregory Mrs. Schmal Speech (5) 14 December‚ 2011 INTRODUCTION UFC‚ MMA‚ Ultimate fighting. This is one of the most exciting‚ exhilarating‚ and fierce sport in the world today. So why does it need to be banned? No one is being forced to fight or held against their will. They’re usually born to fight‚ just love to fight‚ and believe or not it even takes out frustrations and personal issues that no one knows about. So I’m going to tell you that UFC shouldn’t because it should be spread
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In this day and age nobody goes without a phone. Then you can imagine how much it sucks to not have your phone for 3 days straight. Just because of stupid people. It might not of been the same person‚ it could have been three different people. One day you’re evacuating the school‚ the next day schools come to you and then you evacuate‚ and the next you evacuate again. It was three quarters of the way through the school year when the first evacuation happened. It was 9:31 A.M. when we
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Halloween is coming! And now is the perfect time to find the best gift for babies and kids. Whether it’s for your child‚ nephew‚ cousin‚ or friend’s child... you have to find a special gift. Why? Because Halloween is super-fun night in child life. So what’s the best and special Halloween gifts for babies and kids? One thing for sure‚ it’s not the one you could easily find scattered all over the internet‚ or in the local stores. A special gift isn’t a very usual ’me-too’ gift. A special gift should
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My fellow americans….. We’re in a crisis. I am here for a very simple yet an important reason‚ and that is to say that things need to change‚ on behalf of the American people. We have been so reliant on the money of the federal government and to take that reliance and put nearly all of it in military spending‚is just wrong. I have been consistently in awe at the way that we spend 598 billion yearly on the military and unless we want every other federal program to be massively cut we need to stop
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that smoking nicotine represents a drug addiction. 9) Nicotine could be lethal‚ if a child should drink it. This is very true. It could also be lethal if an adult should drink it. Caution is strongly advised‚ and you must keep liquid nicotine products away from children. This should not present a major problem for most people‚ especially if you take care to only purchase liquid nicotine products that have the child proof caps on them. While we should definitely be careful‚ most of us already use
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his head so hard he got a concussion. B. Background Information 1. History of the Issue: since so many younger kids start to play sports there are a lot of concussions happening to young children today. When you get a lot of concussions as a child you can grow up with permanent disabilities. Players in the NFL committed suicide because of concussions. When we found out more about concussions‚ it was discovered that girls suffer from concussions more than boys. 2. Debatable Question are Sports
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