ID#900221302 02/28/2011 #1 Danger over safety “Why Jump out of a perfectly good airplane‚” is the typical response that is said whenever someone is talking about their skydiving adventures. Everyone experiences danger in their lives at one time or another. There are so many different reasons why people encounter danger and why some would choose it over safety. Junger points out in his essay "Colter’s Way‚" individuals can experience adventure in forms of employment‚ survival‚ or recreation
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In the speech “The Danger of a Single Story” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‚ explicitly shows the author’s development as a storyteller is she writing her stories realistic instead of stereotyping and trying to hide her bias in her stories. The storyteller‚ Adichie‚ is on the way to using the phenomenon she discovered but not her imagination. According to Adichie‚ “[w]hen [she] learned‚ some years ago‚ that writers were expected to have had really unhappy childhoods to be successful‚ [she] began to
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Samantha Vasquez Vasquez 1 Luke Lockhart 22 September 2012 Argumentation and Debate The Dangers of Social Networks Introduction: 1. Social Networks used by everyday people can cause harm and death to its users. How is this possible you might ask? Anyone‚ from anywhere in the world can create a fake profile‚ lie about their age‚ who they are‚ and send you a friend request. These
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The Danger of Violent Video Games in Children The links between increased aggressive and violent behaviour and the content of video games is a controversial subject. Increased scientific evidence demonstrates that violent video games are linked to increases in aggressive cognitions‚ feelings and behaviours (e.g.‚ Anderson and Bushman‚ 2001; Anderson‚ 2004; Anderson‚ Gentile & Buckley‚ 2007) However‚ there is still much resistance to the evidence among the public and by the video game industry (e
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There are many dangers with trains and similar vehicles. We need to always exercise caution around areas there is even the slightest potential for them to be present. Trains go really fast and can do some pretty gnarly damage. If we aren’t careful we can get smashed by these large vehicles. I think that the most important rule about trains‚ is always exercise caution when near a train track. These trains often do not run on a schedule so there is no telling when exactly they may approach you. I think
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Dangers of Bottled Water General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech my audience will able to describe the dangers of Bottled water. Central idea: Bottled water is not as safe as people believe it to be. Organization Style: Cause and Effect I. Introduction Attention getter: “Every five minutes in the U.S over 2 million plastic bottles are used (Arrey).” Americans drink about 7 billion gallons of bottled water a year that’s about $8 billion dollars in
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When things are hidden from the public‚ or if the public is not aware of something‚ it becomes invisible. According to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech‚ “The Danger of a Single Story‚” we need multiple stories so one is not made invisible. When there is only one side of a story‚ the other side is unspoken. Once the other half is not made visible‚ it dehumanizes the people who are a part of the unspoken story. They become places‚ things‚ and people that are forgotten. Martin Espada wrote in “Speaking
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Thus‚ you will see more drivers on the road who are using their phones or you might even have been in a car where the driver was using their phones irresponsibly while they were driving. It is because of this reason why the dangers of texting and driving should be more publicized and banned nationwide since a good number of people are still experiencing drivers out on the road with their phones out. At any given daylight moment across America‚ approximately 660‚000 drivers are
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Running Head: The Dangers of Texting and Driving The Dangers of Texting and Driving It was an evening I will never forget. What I saw that night will impact me for the rest of my life. The night started off normally. My girlfriend and I went out to enjoy a nice dinner with my family‚ but the night took an unexpected turn on our way home. We were driving along I17 and decided to exit the freeway to stop and get gas. We noticed a car fly by us at an incredibly fast rate
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Smoking Smoking is very hazardous to your health‚ and yet many people still do it. Despite knowing the dangers and all the discouragement from the anti-smoking people out there‚ they choose to smoke. Does this mean that there is a logical reason for them to do so? In this essay‚ I will investigate why people smoke and the effects of smoking before deciding for myself whether or not the dangers of smoking out-weigh the benefits. Smoking has consequences in both the short-term and the long-term. Smoking
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