year is spent on diabetes treatment and $147 billion on other obesity-related health problems. Implementing the penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages can have the potential to reduce obesity‚ diabetes and heart disease‚ while saving $17 billion in healthcare costs over ten years and generating $13 billion a year in tax revenue. The fact that researchers estimated that the penny-per-ounce tax could actually reduce new cases of diabetes by 2.6%‚ as many as 95‚000 coronary heart events‚ 8‚000
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Jacob Hoggard an Ambassador For Change Victoria Buttineau ACE Communications- Assignment#6- Research Paper Instructor: Velda Parmenter Thursday‚ May 9th‚ 2013 Jacob Hoggard is changing the worlds view on poverty through education. The lead singer of the band Hedley has partnered with the co-founders of Free The Children Craig and Marc Kielburger to aid in the fight against poverty. Since Hedley’s firs performance at We Day; which is a movement that empowers young people to make changes both
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Free response: Schools today are in dire need of funding. Government budgets cut far too much from allowances for the educational system‚ which in turn is unable to provide the highest quality service to young students looking to gain the skills necessary to be successful. As a result of this lack of appropriations‚ many have looked to other places to find money so that children may receive a better education. One of these places is from corporate donors who would award sums of money in exchange
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equilateral triangles. Loose ends are not allowed. Figure 2: Toothpicks‚ remove four‚ three or two‚ leaving two equilateral triangles. Problem 5. Ten pennies are arranged as shown below. What is the minimum number of pennies we must remove so that no three of the remaining pennies lie on the vertices of an equilateral triangle. Figure 3: Pennies. Problem 6. Draw six lines segments to form eight triangles. See if you can find two different ways of accomplishing this. 2 Problem 7. A river that
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Gender: Men vs Women I would like to approach the topic: the superior gender. This topic brings up many heated discussions all around the world. In this presentation I will dig into the myths of gender to find out who the superior race really is. An important point in this battle is intelligence. It is well-known that women are under-represented in areas of achievement throughout past history: there are more men achieving distinctions of mental ability‚ from Nobel-prize winners to chess grandmasters
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Science Research Paper: “Potato Battery” I. Problem a. Main Problem This study aims to prove whether fruits and vegetables are good reserves of electricity. The potato‚ known for its high Phosphoric Acid and Sulfuric Acid‚ has been as our chosen fruit to prove and conduct our answers upon the accessibility of fruits and vegetables as an effective renewable energy source. b. Sub-Problems To further provide extra and specific information‚ the researchers have decided to add the following
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dispersion bonding in water and rubbing alcohol. Hypothesis: I believe water will have the greater surface tension because rubbing alcohol’s density is lower than water’s. Materials: * Water * Isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) * Pennies * Paper clips * Flasks * Cups or jars * Wax paper * Eyedropper Procedures: Part 1: Surface tension and vortex: * Fill one flask half way full with rubbing alcohol. * Fill another flask half way full with water. Caution:
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Compassionate Americans We can still make a difference in the lives of others. As Keri Wyatt Kent said in her book “Simple Compassion‚” that to make a difference in our country we need to cut back on our spending. Reasonably‚ I discover that Americans are frugal based on the followings. First‚ the presidents’ examples of frugality are to clear our hearts. Secondly‚ most Americans were the immigrants for the sake of adapting their lives to a new land‚ they lived the frugal lives. Lastly‚ the Americans
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masculinity involved was: the American soldiers‚ their sexual needs‚ and the Germans view on masculinity. Masculinity has many different definitions depending on culture. An article by Glenn Penny stated‚ “the term masculine often turns out to be a rather empty fluid adjective- devoid of moral or emotional meaning” (Penny‚ 222). Masculinity is viewed in a sexual manner in western United States culture‚ as well as the soldiers going to fight at war was a sign of masculinity. During the war masculinity was
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In the essay “Buried Alive: Our Children and the Avalanche of Crud”‚ David Denby argues that pop culture is distinctive and damaging to children in the United States today. Pop culture is damaging because media has changed to become three-dimensional‚ inescapable‚ omnivorous‚ and self-referring. Media‚ according to Denby is everywhere; you cannot step away from the system of it. It has been known to be a commercialized aggression that puts parents on defense. Children now days have become commoditized
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