Brandee English 111 October 8‚ 2012 Strength in Numbers “Hi. I’m Jordan and I’m an addict slash abuser‚ I guess.” I watch my son shrug his shoulders and hunch over‚ clasping his hands in his lap after uttering these words. He speaks the words quietly‚ but his apathetic tone and body language read loud and clear. He doesn’t believe the words he’s saying and is merely being cooperative. After a loud and cheerful “Hello Jordan!” the group turns their attention to me. “Hi. I’m Brandee‚ and I’m
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Increasing cigarette taxes is a win-win situation for everyone if you ask me‚ however I am not a smoker. I suppose if I were I may think differently. It is a health win that reduces smoking and saves lives; a financial win that raises revenue and reduces health care costs; and a political win that is popular with the public. On February 4‚ 2009‚ Congress enacted‚ and President Obama signed into law‚ a 62 cent increase in the federal cigarette tax‚ along with increases in other tobacco taxes‚
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About ten million cigarettes are sold around the world on a daily basis. Facts like that make one wonder of the effects that come along with smoking cigarettes. Although cigarette consumption is a growing market around the world‚ its production and sale should be made illegal due to its addictive additives‚ the physical toll it take on one’s body and the growing use of e-cigarettes. Addiction is a condition that results in a recurring behavior of a pleasurable substance or activity that becomes
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E- Cigarette Review E-Cigarettes has been around for years and are sold everywhere; such as in the mall‚ on the streets‚ tobacco store‚ etc. There is some way to get a hold of one. They are vapors that are powered by batteries and arouse the feeling of tobacco smoking. Some look like regular cigarettes and others are high-tech looking; producing arousal vapor when inhaled‚ but not all contain nicotine. E-cigarettes were made to replace cigarettes because they were supposed to be healthier than
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would be without irrational numbers? If the great Pythagorean hyppasus or any other mathematician would have not ever thought of such numbers? Before ‚understanding the development of irrational numbers ‚we should understand what these numbers originally are and who discovered them? In mathematics‚ an irrational number is any real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio a/b‚ where a and b are integers and b is non-zero. Irrational numbers are those real numbers that cannot be represented as
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equivalent decimal values for presentation to or input from humans; computer programs express literals in decimal by default. (123.1‚ for example‚ are written as such in a computer program‚ even though many computer languages are unable to encode that number precisely.) Both computer hardware and software also use internal representations which are effectively decimal for storing decimal values and doing arithmetic. Often this arithmetic is done on data which are encoded using some variant of binary-coded
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Cigarettes as a "product category" are in the mature stage of the product life cycle. When referring to the product category‚ I am referring to the marketing territory in which a particular manufacturer’s product competes. For example‚ Marlboro‚ Camel‚ and Winston compete in the cigarette product category. Most products we see every day reside in the mature stage of the product life cycle. Marketers of cigarettes in the mature stage use both advertising and sales promotion
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Living By Numbers-Value Creation Or Profit? Case Summary This case basically explains about MarineCorp Sdn Bhd leads by Hafiz Hashim who has position as a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in MarineCorp. It is also a subsidiary of SURIA. MarineCorp is a maritime solution provider for its SURIA and have two subsidiaries which are Green Port Sdn Bhd and Sungai Emas Sdn Bhd. MarineCorp has their responsibility in manage and conducting both subsidiaries. The financial statements of the three companies
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A Project on: Negative and Positive aspects of Cigarettes ____________ Sandeep kumar NCHMCT Roll No.104686 HHA 3rd Year (2010-2013) IHM Meerut ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My project has been successful‚ thanks to my classmates. First of all I am thankful of my project guide Mr._____________ under whose guideline I was able to complete my project. I am wholeheartedly thankful to him for giving me his value able time & attention & for providing me a systematic way for completing my project in time. I would
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G20 IN NUMBERS 11: number of G20 members who score less than five out of 10 on Transparency International’sCorruption Perceptions Index 56 per cent: of citizens in G20 countries think corruption has increased in their country in the last three years‚ according to Transparency International’s Global Corruption Barometer (Saudi Arabia was not covered by the survey). Only 29 per cent assess their government’s actions in the fight against corruption as effective. US $4.8 trillion: the proceeds of
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