Organization (“WHO”) estimates that tobacco kills one person every 10 seconds (WHO‚ 2005). Smoking causes cancer‚ and is a major risk for illnesses such as coronary heart disease‚ stroke and chronic obstructive lung disease. These account for close to two-thirds of all deaths in Singapore in the year 2000 (Health Promotion Board (“HPB”)‚ n.d.). Tobacco is the fourth most common risk factor for disease worldwide. Singapore government had already realized the negative effects of smoking‚ and therefore as
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Should High School Sports be Taken Away? High School is said to be one of the key steps of your life‚ from prom night‚ to that day you finally move out‚ or even when your schools team won the big game. When you think about that time you spent in high school‚ do you want to remember studying all the time or do you want to remember the great time you spent with friends? High School should be something to be remembered‚ not just another boring school. The different sports that your school is involved
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Football is by far the most played sport amongst students: Over 1.1 million of them participate in football (Should Football Be Banned ? ). Football been around for decades and is one of the leading causes of injury among high school athletes. The older generations ( 35- 50) believe that football is too dangerous and should be banned‚ students contradict this because football is more than just a game for highschool and college students; whether a person is on the team or just a fan football plays
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The skateboard is not an activity that should be banned just because some teens were a little too loud or accidentally knocked over someone’s trash can. Skateboarding helps brings kids and sometimes even adults together for little fun with their kids.
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engage themselves in owning a gun if numerous studies show the consequences of allowing this to happen. Accessibility is one of the many factors that have proven to lead to displeasing actions such as suicide‚ murder‚ and even burglary. But how should we respond to these actions to successfully minimize them? According to the Barrack Obama’s spokesman‚ Jay Carney‚ claims that “a complex problem will require a complex solution.” Even though the problem is complex‚ the solution is “blindly obvious”
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1. Give a school-based example of two of the following: positive reinforcement‚ negative reinforcement‚ punishment‚ or extinction. A positive reinforcement would be if a student was doing the correct behavior‚ the teacher would praise the student for using the correct behavior. Example: Jimmy raised his hand to answer the questions the teacher directed to the class. The teacher smiled at Jimmy‚ and told him he was doing a great job answering the questions by raising his hand. Jimmy is proud of himself
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Amy Gilbert Ms. Homer English October 1‚ 2012 Should There Be a Ban on Specific Dogs? There are plenty of different breeds of dogs that could be considered dangerous. The main targeted breeds are breeds such as Pit bulls‚ Rottweilers and German shepherds. According to the American Humane Association‚ an organization founded in 1877 dedicated to the welfare of animals and children‚ “An estimated 4.7 million dog attacks occur in the U.S” (5). Some people argue that a ban on specific dog breeds
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the feelings of relaxation and reduced anxiety. Ladies and gentleman‚ today I am here to convince you to think twice before you pick up the next bottle of alcohol. First‚ I will talk about how alcohol is harmful for your health and why teenagers should not drink underage. First of all‚ young drinkers are more susceptible to brain damage and memories lose than adult drinker. Drinker who start drinking before the age of 15 are four times more likely to become addicted to alcohol than those who do
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Self Assessment and unit evaluation – Y7 ICT Term 1 Habit of Mind Focus: Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision How does your terms work on producing a newspaper article demonstrate your use of the habit of mind above? I have communicated with my team mates by e-mailing and we talked about what topic we are doing and whose going to do what. I have thought deeply what topic I’m going to do about and I choused “Volcanic eruption in Iceland”. I described words nicely and neatly
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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