THE DANGERS OF REVOLUTION: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE 2011 MIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS ON REGIONAL STABILITY Joseph W. Mulcahy NSEC 613 Current and Emerging Threats to National Security American Public University Summer 2011 1 Introduction In the waning weeks of 2010‚ a twenty-six year old Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi “opted not to pay off yet another official—and instead set himself on fire at the governor’s office in Sidi Bouzid.”1 The fatal act of civil disobedience
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There Are Dangers in Drinking Diet Soda A new study has found that the artificial sweeteners in diet soda can cause weight gain‚ metabolic syndrome‚ diabetes‚ and heart disease‚ adding to mounting research about the potential health risks of diet soft drinks. And that’s not all—the study also found that the artificial sweeteners in diet soda can interfere with your body’s normal response to sugar‚ deregulating normal blood sugar levels even more than regular soda. That’s because the fake sugar
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I will never ever speed again. Speeding cost way too much time and aggravation to continue speeding. This ticket has made me realize that all speeding does is put me and other people in danger and waste a lot of gas. And in these economic times wasting gas isn’t the best idea. I am unemployed and I’ve been trying to get a job to pay for this ticket so my parents wouldn’t have to. This is good because now I know that speeding is just wrong. I can drive 45 in a 45 and some one could be doing 60
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Today i want to inform to my audients about disadvantages of smoking. There is having 4 disadvantages of smoking: Firstly‚ health problems. Health problems are the obvious disadvantage to smoking. The American Cancer Society warns about the dangers of nicotine addiction on their website. When you inhale the smoke from a cigarette‚ it is breathed deeply into your lungs. Smoking has been connected to several types of cancer‚ including lung cancer‚ pancreatic cancer and larynx cancer‚ as well as
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that adults were finding your attire provocative. How would you feel? What would your reaction be? Would you feel maybe dirty or ashamed? However that’s only one case of adults sexualizing underage girls‚ consequently events like the one mentioned before happen all the time‚ all across the world. Young‚ underage girls being sexualized is not a rare thing happening and you’re about to see why it’s so wrong. P I - There are many consequences and negative results of sexualizing young girls. It often
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Earth in Danger Nobody can negate that a lot of phenomena has been changed in our world recently while wondering the reason of these changes. One of the main reason for a lot of change in our life is the rapped raise on temperature which is called global warming. Global warming is the rise in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans since the late 19th century and its projected continuation. Since the early 20th century‚ Earth’s mean surface temperature has increased by about 0.8
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What are the Dangers of a concussion? What if a football player took a blow to the back of the head‚ what would happen? More than likely some injury occurred‚ but what parts were effected? And what will damage to those areas cause‚ short or long-term? Football is a contact sport‚ and injuries are to be expected‚ but is it really worth the risk for possible permanent damage to the most important organ there is? Concussions are a serious injury‚ and need to be treated that way‚ as the organ effected
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The Dangers of Driving Under the Influence Did you know that more than 10‚839 people will die this year with one dying every 30 minutes?(Main) Just thinking about one person dying every 50 minutes is very eye opening! Now think about if you were that person under the influence‚ got in someones car‚ started driving and next thing she knows she see bright car lights and her life is changed. One should take more caution when thinking about drinking. Drinking is getting way out of hand for teens and
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Lowering the Drinking Age Laws are made to benefit and protect us. We have all heard the old folks saying‚ “learn how to pick your battles.” That is exactly what the government needs to do; fight battles they can win. In the state of Maine‚ a person must be twenty-one to purchase or consume alcohol. Instead‚ the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. There has been an ongoing controversy in the United States about whether the drinking age should be lowered to eighteen‚ like most of the world
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Underaged Drinking in America: Why the Legal Drinking Age Should Stay at Twenty-one. Alcohol is a depressant that affects your vision‚ coordination‚ reaction time‚ multitasking ability‚ judgment‚ and decision-making (Short and Long Term). Seventy-five percent of adults in America drink alcohol (Health). Because of the large impact that alcohol consumption has had on America‚ it has become a hot topic of debate. Specifically‚ on whether lowering the age at which a person can legally drink
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