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    Curcumin has been found to be a potent inhibitor of tumour growth and cell proliferation. This activity is linked to curcumin’s antioxidant effect and free radical scavenging effect (Akram et al‚ 2010). It inhibits cancer development and progression‚ thereby targeting multiple steps to malignancy. It has the ability to act like a blocking agent thereby inhibiting the initiation step of cancer by preventing the activation of carcinogen‚ and also as a suppressing agent thereby inhibiting malignant

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    How can we move on from a devastating chapter of our lives when I seems like our faith has been badly shaken and our only hope is lost? As said by the author C.S Lewis‚ getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. There are many causes of breakups that leads to heartbreak and we all know that it really is painful at the first few weeks or months or even years. Some people were able to surpass the obstacles of the post

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    31 out of 50 states use the death penalty. There are so many reasons why the death penalty is backwards. Well the first thing is‚ judges can make mistakes. A little bit over 4% of people on the death row are actually innocent. How would you feel if you or a loved one was truly innocent and was on the death row? You would pray that judge would see that they weren’t guiltily before their sentence has been done. This is truly unjust for the innocent people. Even if one innocent life is taken

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    As a college student‚ a new law will soon take effect that will affect me personally: campus carry. The University of Texas stated that in the state of Texas‚ “S.B. 11‚ also known as the ‘campus carry’ law... provides that license holders may carry a concealed handgun throughout university campuses‚ starting Aug. 1‚ 2016” (“Campus Carry”). Individuals that support campus carry believe that an armed student or faculty member could stop a potential shooting. Writers Adam Nagourney and Julie Turkewitz

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    When you’re going through a divorce‚ few issues will likely be as contentious and difficult as deciding who gets custody of the children. Unfortunately‚ many couples let their anger and fear get in the way‚ which makes the process longer and more traumatic than it has to be. Before these issues get out of hand‚ follow these child custody dos and don’ts from Donna C. Crooks Attorney at Law‚ an experienced family law and divorce attorney based in Daleville. When you’re going through a divorce‚ do:

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    Should minimum wage be raised? I think that we should raise minimum wage There are many reasons The first reason is that it would ruin the economy. If we raise minimum wage the economy will drop down like in 2008. Most people that work minimum wage jobs anyways are in the ages between 15-20 years old. Which means that most of the people that are working minimum wage jobs still live with their parents and most of them are going to highschool and college. The workers also decided to work there

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    On December 16‚1773 the Boston tea party took place. The Boston tea party is commonly described as the day the colonist threw over 200 chests of tea into the Boston harbor. But what instigated this kind of rebellion ? The answer to that lies in what happened prior to the day of the event. After the French and Indian war had ceased England realized that they needed a way to regain the money they had lost while the war was going on. King George III and the British parliament decided to issue a tax

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    In 1754 George Washington’s military incompetence caused his surrender at Ft. Necessity and began the French and Indian War. The war was a very long and expensive war‚ and it would even spread to Europe. During the ware and the events immediately following‚ the English would begin to tighten their grip on the government of the colonies and the colonists would grow to resent their oppressive tactis and their arrogance‚ an attitue that would eventually lead the colonists to all out rebellion.

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    Before the beginning of the Civil War‚ Americans tried to resolve slavery by drawing or erasing a geographical line to limit or expand the growth of slavery. These lines were not very affective and changed much too often. It begins with the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 and ends with the Crittendon Compromise in 1861. The Northwestern Ordinance (1787) was the biggest success under the Articles of Confederation. It wrote out how the nation should deal with its colonies. It created a policy for administering

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    how did economic geographic and social factors encourage the growth of slavery http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_econimic_geographic_and_social_factors_encourage_the_growth_of_slavery_as_a_important_part_of_the_economy_of_the_southern_colonies_between_1607_and_1775 economic: indentured servants were becoming very inconvienent at the time. afterall‚ they only worked for a certain amount of time and then you had to free/reward them. socially: uprisings of white servants worried plantation owners

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