Are electronic devices taking over our kids’ lives A report and survey by the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation shows that students are spending more than 7 ½ hours un various media devices. Researchers show that the number of hours is as much as 53 hours weekly and more so in some cases. The survey shows that student’s grades can be affected by excessive use of the internet and electronic media devices. Parental involvement and rule setting could decrease a child’s usage and attachment to the internet
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Alexandra Simmons Professor Collum English 1302.0410 February 21‚ 2013 “Saving Sourdi” Part I In “Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai‚ the author creates Sourdi and Nea’s characters using description‚ narration‚ dialog‚ and commentary. Description “Sourdi looked like a statue that had been rescued from the sea. She was smooth where I had angles and soft where I was bone. Sourdi’s face was round‚ her nose low and wide‚ her eyes crescent-shaped like the quarter moon‚ her hair sleek as seaweed.
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At The Earth’s Core.txt At The Earth’s CoreAt The Earth’s Core by Burroughs‚ Edgar Rice Ewriting Format by Carl Peterson © 2001 PROLOGUE IN THE FIRST PLACE PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT I do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when‚ in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance‚ I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last trip to London.You would surely have thought that
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Help the Earth “Be Green”‚ “Be Environmental”. Slogans like this are posted all around the world. Charity groups also have been promoting this idea for years. But have we been doing this? Do we really know why we are doing this? Every once in a while‚ government give out orders banning shops and markets from providing plastic bags to customers‚ but this doesn’t last for a long time. Plastic bags are very popular‚ because they are cheap‚ strong‚ easy to bring around and convenient. But have
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given California’s water shortage‚ billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent to build a plant to make salt water into fresh water. However‚ besides the cost there is the issue of what to do with the waste created as expressed in the book The Ripple Effect: Perhaps the most contentious aspect of desalinization‚ however‚ is how to dispose of the highly concentrated salt brine left over from the plant’s water cleansing. Every hundred gallons of desalinated seawater yields fifteen to fifty gallons of drinking
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Material: Realms of the Earth Astro-physicists and scientists believe that there could be quite a few planets in the Universe similar to our planet Earth. There is also a probable chance that some form of life prevails and sustains in one of such planet. However‚ so far as we presently know‚ the Earth is the only planet which supports life which makes it a very unique planet. It is therefore imperative (very important and necessary) for us to understand the spheres of the Earth as the spheres play a
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McCarty 1 Tammy L. McCarty Jan S. Ward ENG/270 09/12/2014 In Saving Sourdi‚ the little sister‚ Nea attempts numerous times to save her sister. First Nea attempts to save Sourdi from an unruly customer. At which she gets berated not only from her mother but also Sourdi. The second time is from Sourdi’s boyfriend Buck. The third time is from an older man‚ her Uncle’s friend‚ with which Soursi marries. The fourth time she involves Buck when she attempts to save her from her husband.
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Electronics is taking over our lives Parents must have boundaries when it comes to letting their kids watch television or use the computer. Obesity‚ earning screen time‚ and doing other activities are some reasons that screen time needs to be monitored. Parents have the responsibility to encourage healthy behaviors and limit unhealthy ones for their children. School children who watch television more than two hours a week are obese. When children are watching television
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Atmosphere Homework Describe the composition of the air Air is a mixture of gases and aerosols that compose the atmosphere surrounding Earth. The primary gases of air include nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%). Trace gases and aerosols make up the remaining 1% of air. The trace gases include the noble gases argon‚ neon‚ helium‚ krypton and xenon‚ hydrogen and the greenhouse gases. The aerosols are solid or liquid particles having diameters in the region of 0.001 to 10 microns‚ and include dust
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Daylight savings time‚ it happens two times a year‚ causing a multitude of occurrence‚ some of these being good‚ while some are not so good. However‚ it has been a hot topic for debate recently. To keep daylight savings time‚ or to kick it to the curb is the question many congressmen are asking themselves. Keeping daylight savings time allows the people of the United States to continue with years of tradition implemented during war time that has been a part of their daily lives ever since which is
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