Name: Isaac Tan Yu Heng Date: 1/12/2011very good work 10/10 Subject: Art - How innovative or original can a successful artist be? Art is considered to vary across culture and also through time. Art considered as a masterpiece by this group of people might not even be appreciated by another group of people. Art changes through time and the value of a certain artistic piece might increase or decrease through time. Art is what defines a culture‚ thus it is regarded by many as the main (not sure
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In my pervious posting it discusses how terotogens such as tobacco‚ alcohol‚ illegal street drugs (crack/cocaine)‚ prescriptions and over the counter medications contributes to deformation of the fetus with pregnant women. There are psychological terotogen know as stress that induce the same damage to the fetus with pregnant women. Demanding jobs‚ financial worries‚ broken relationships or even school work with deadlines (sounds familiar?) are common psychological terotogens that contributes to stress
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than 2 miles thick‚ and if the ice starts to melt then sea levels will rise dramatically. Sadly the ice has started melting already. There are radars that are measuring the amount of water that there is now‚ but scientists are trying to figure out how much water will be if all the ice will melt. Antarctica contains more than 90% of the worlds ice‚ together with Greenland‚ it’s enough to raise global sea level up to 230 feet. About 70‚000 years ago there was an ice age. At that time ice sheets expanded
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at around 40 sen per litre and had already spent up to RM56 billion by giving gasoline‚ diesel and gas subsidies each year. It was announced that the raise of price were planned to bring fuel prices in line with the global market cost. Government can no longer provide more subsidies needed to maintain fuel prices at current levels following the spike in global crude oil prices. Crude oil prices have risen dramatically over the last few years‚ driven by the strong global demand‚ limited spare oil
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Support increase overall minimum wage Sarah Brecht 19/18/15 Government Raising the minimum wage overall to fifteen dollars an hour would cause a significant impact on modern society and its future‚ overall it would either boost or deplete our economy. It would bring about significant changes and different socio cultural and social class standards. But in the light of the fact that most americans in 2015 with no degree in New York state make up 29.6% of our poverty levels‚ 15.6% with high
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How Can We Rid Childhood Obesity? Childhood obesity is a pandemic that has reached worldwide distribution. A problem as rampant as this is having a direct negative correlation with education and the way kids learn in America. “More than one third of children and adolescents are overweight or obese” (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). For the next generation to succeed and someday be responsible for many of the leadership roles that run this country‚ there needs to be immediate action. Childhood
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Human suffering is universal and inescapable. When there is joy‚ there is pain waiting to happen. When there is pain‚ an individual always tries to escape it. Humans are faced with hardships in life‚ and along with those hardships come emotional distress and pain. Humans attempt to understand the reasoning for suffering‚ the inflicting pain and stress that they have to endure. Humans cannot resolve their own problems‚ they turn to God or another form of religion to answer questions about the imperfections
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How Cigarette Smoking Can Effect Health Cigarette smoking has been protested in the United States for many years. Smoking is known to cause sickness to those who actually smoke‚ and those who have to deal with second hand smoke. Somehow people still seem to ignore all the health warnings that are posted all around them‚ even the ones that are on the carton. Not only do they make people sick‚ cigarettes have other effects as well. The smoke and nicotine in them can make people
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Aim: 1. Find out which substances are essential for rusting to occur. 2. Find out how the rusting process can be inhibited and how it can be promoted. Hypothesis: I predict that air (oxygen) and water are necessary for iron to rust. The nail in water with air will rust while the nails in dry air and in boiled water with no air will not. I also predict that galvanizing the nail with zinc and greasing the nail and painting the nail and electroplating the nail will inhibit rusting. I also predict
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The Illusion of the Capital Gains Tax Increase Policymakers and researchers have long been interested in how potential changes to the capital gains tax system affects the health of the overall economy. A capital gain is the increase in the value of a capital asset realized over its cost basis (Saxton). The lower tax rate for capital gains is the policy that the United States has followed from the inception of the income tax‚ a policy followed by almost every other advanced economy on earth. As numerous
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