Chelsea Kostoff ENG 101: Ms. Bell Assignment #2‚ Draft #1 September 12‚ 2011 Being Fat is OK Being fat is OK‚ written by Paul Campos is a great opinion piece stating that the federal government and BMI charts group people as “overweight” when really they aren’t. Campos addresses that even if you are healthy and exercise‚ you can still be obese or over weight because of your height and weight. He believes that there are three lies behind it all and society doesn’t know the answer to most
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Global warming continues to have a negative impact on many parts of the world. Some argue that governments should not play a part in improving the situation. However‚ my personal belief is that individuals and governments both have parts to play in dealing with this problem. I believe that the onus is on citizens to lessen the effect of climate change‚ and that they should reduce their carbon footprint in daily life in several ways. On an individual level‚ people should reduce the use of air-conditioning
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I am writing today to discuss the slow depletion of creativity from the coming generations of young Americans. In a report made by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman‚ a creativity test administered to millions of people showed a grave decline in their creativity scores as years progressed. The largest decline being in the demographic of children between kindergarten and sixth grade. Numbers don’t lie‚ and outlined in the publication there’s no doubt the ability to create for our nation’s youth has declined
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Stroke has been around for many years. Galen first recognized stroke over 2‚400 years ago. Americans managed to cut the stroke death rate in half during the 1970s and the 1980’s. Greek physician Hippocrates described it as a medical condition in which people suddenly lose the ability to walk or speak. Because of the typically sudden and extreme nature of the symptoms‚ Hippocrates referred to the condition as apoplexy‚ a Greek term meaning‚ “struck with violence.” Today this condition is known as
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Article Review- Week 2 In 1955‚ after hard negotiations‚ Ray Kroc saw his ideas and aspirations of franchising McDonald’s come to life; since then the corporation has franchised all over the world. Kroc constructed a business model that produced a phenomenon called McDonaldization‚ which has translated beyond the fast-food world to other consumer companies that we frequent‚ everyday. McDonald’s has influenced not only the American society but also outside its borders to affect multiple cultures
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Should American families have a two child max rule to limit population growth? The debate on whether or not American families should be restricted to having just two children as a means of population control is not likely to end for decades. As is evident in the case of China‚ population control‚ in spite of all the benefits that supporters use as a trump card‚ is like a monster with a cold heart and a compassionless face. It cannot be denied that overpopulation is a global concern‚ but there has
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How beneficial was Fordism in the United States? While it changed production to a faster process‚ it also changed things in a negative manner. Multiple negative outcomes had been created from this time and is referred to in The Flivver King. The amount of people that had been employed and the number of hours they were given became a main issue. The creator of this system was an anti-Semitic. It saw the increase prevalence of a white supremacist vigilante group Black Legion. Protests from American
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Chapter I Introduction The ethnic makeup of the United Stated is becoming increasingly diverse‚ with more mixed-race Americans than ever before according to the U.S. Census Bureau (2010). Today one in seven new marriages are between spouses of different races or ethnicities (Passel‚ Wang and Taylor‚ 2010). Polls tell us that Americans are becoming less opposed to interracial dating and marriage than in previous decades (National Opinion Research Center‚ 2002; Pew Research Center‚ 2003)‚ many
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The following study looked at newly and legally admitted immigrants the the United States. Previous study have shown that immigrants do experience depression after living for a certain period of time in the receiving country. The findings of this research have shown that as time increases‚ the possibility of becoming depressed also increases. Different variables‚ such as age‚ marital status‚ gender‚ and so on were looked. This study confirmed that individuals who immigrate to another country are
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Americans are conditioned to see our present form of government as a representative democracy where power is in the hands of all the people. Until this assignment I realize did not understand plutocracy or the fact that we may already be living in a plutocracy. A plutocracy is defined as "government by the wealthy." A political system where power is concentrated in the hands of a small number of wealthy people‚ usually those with inherited wealth and wealthy families. At the top of every society
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