Would You Bet Your Life On The Bottom Line? “Thank You For Smoking” is a satirical comedy which is graceful‚ yet brutal. This film targets the pro-tobacco lobbyists‚ who would like the public to believe that smoking cigarettes is not harmful. It stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor‚ who is the spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies. The opening scene starts with Nick appearing on "The Joan Lunden Show‚" sitting beside a bald-headed boy named Robin‚ a 15-year-old boy dying of cancer‚ but who
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Indian mascots Would you support a mascot if it was based off of an old‚ well known Indian tribe? By the year 2017 all of Indian mascots will potentially be removed from high schools. How can you have any school spirit if you don’t appreciate the mascot that you have? Collinsville high school‚ the high school‚ the high school of champions‚ should be allowed to keep their infamous mascot‚ the chief Kahok. I can see why many people why many people would be offended by schools using Indians or the
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enjoyable and great places to live in Greece. It was very hard for me to decide which city-state to live in. Athens or Sparta? After thinking and going over pros and cons of each city-state‚ I have decided to want to live in Sparta. I choose Sparta because they had a significant military‚ woman had many rights‚ and girls got to participate in sports.Here are the three reasons why. ↓ The first reason why I would rather like to live in Sparta because they had an excellent military. Every man had to work
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What would you do if‚ for example‚ you had a lot of money? Never mind your chances of having lots of money are just slightly better than the chances of being abducted by aliens. Even so‚ having a lot of money is a favourite daydream for a lot of us. If had a lot of money‚ I would like to buy a bungalow for my family to live as my current house is quite small. I will provide a luxurious life for my parents as they had taken care of me since birth. I will also provide enough money for my siblings
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Why I Would Be a Teacher Teaching is a very noble profession. In my country‚ there is a saying: “Quan‚ Su‚ Phu” meanings that the highest respectable position belongs to the King‚ second are the teachers then the parents. Many people love to teach but not everyone who wants to teach can become a teacher. According to Melissa Kelly in Top 10 Reasons to Become a Teacher. “Teaching is a special calling. It is not a job well-suited to everyone. In fact‚ many new teachers leave within the first 3-5
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Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel describes how he watched his father die an agonizing death in a Nazi concentration camp‚ near the end of World War II. Elie also describes how his father’s torment and death affected him‚ transforming him into a hollow shell of a person. When Elie and his father arrived at the camp‚ the older man‚ already greatly weakened‚ lacked the energy and the will to go on. His father saw the corpses buried under the snow but was so exhausted that he only wanted to join them
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English 4 13 December 2013 Why Culturally-themed Mascots Are Offensive With today’s world moving so rapidly into the future‚ it is important that we not forget our past. Our history has defined generations‚ instilling within them a sense of appreciation for their own traditions and cultures. The scope of impact that culture has is so large‚ that it even extends into the world of sports. Thousands of teams across the country derive their names and mascots from ethnic groups‚ predominantly
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What Would You Bring? Have you ever thought about what three items you would bring if your house was burning down? If you have ever been in a burning house you’d know that you don’t have a great of time to think about what you would salvage and what you might just hope to find the day after the fire had stopped. The three objects that came to my mind were my briefcase full of important documents‚ money‚ and my phone. These are all items that I cherish. If my house was burning down and I could
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currently at c. 3.50 - will be up at 5 in five years time Youngest airplanes (avg age = 3 years)‚ all their fuel costs have been paid for until the end of this year (at a fixed price)‚ they fly larger aircraft on shorter haiul flights‚ which is in demand‚ so recycling of their aircraft will be much easier than say easyjet 15% in agricultural land - world population has just hit the 7bn mark - more mouths to feed. Also‚ the emerging nations diet is changing to a more meat focussed diet (away from wheat
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year over budget. How would you cut spending? December 1‚ 2013 How would you help to bring the National debt down? Each year the government spends countless amounts of money on things that could ultimately be put toward the debt we owe. The estimated amount of debt as of now is about $17‚237‚634‚587‚000. Some ways that you could reduce government spending is mandate a policy that would take $10 yearly for every person in a house hold. Another would be to cut out all the
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