Every citizen has the right to vote‚ yet so many people don’t vote‚ "with the turnout at just 64% for the 2008 presidential election‚ and voter turnout rates decreasing steadily in most established democracies." My parents just can’t do it because they’re too busy and sometimes they just don’t want to vote. It would be fun to vote because of the freedom we have on voting for which president we want to have‚ but some people just don’t think that way. As a consequence‚ voter turnouts during presidential
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TEENAGERS: CLASSICAL MUSIC YOUR CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW (AND WILL ENJOY!) Many parents‚ when faced with the teenage years and teenage musical tastes‚ buy their child a headset and hope that their child’s hearing will survive the next ten years. (The generation gap can often be measured in decibels!) And yet‚ while schools provide the counterbalance to popular reading matter with good literature and a talkshow view of contemporary society with courses on history and current events‚ it is left to parents
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There are several types of bad statistics that can be seen when looking at statistical data. According to the video “Don’t be fooled by bad statistics” (2010)‚ there are three basic types of bad data consisting of poorly collected data‚ leading questions‚ and misuse of center. Poorly collected data can produce misleading results. For example‚ when a publishing company conducted a phone survey of popular magazines but did so during business hours when stay at home moms were most likely to participate
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Savannah Merryman 10/7/14 Essay 2 Dr. Smith Society Questions Unhealthy Food Should the government control what we eat? Some people may think that government being involved is beneficial to a person‚ but in reality it is corrupt for the government to be involved. Parents should have a right to what their child eats‚ along with teaching personal responsibility for their child’s food choices. For example‚ fast food is convent for parents; families in today’s society are very busy when it comes
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On the Subject Of the Human Mind and Relationships As a general rule of life‚ humans simply cannot go without being judged or thought about in an opinionated way. Once a man named Theodore Seuss Geisel said‚ “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those matter don’t mind”. At a first glance the quote might be small and obvious‚ but when dissected it has a enormous meaning. The quote gives way to the idea that people who don’t like you can be ignored while people
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When thinking of a horror movie‚ the thought of jump scares (something that is so sudden it makes the viewers jump like a loud noise) and hideous monsters come to mind. Hush is not about some monster to hide from or keeping quiet for fear of being heard. Hush is a horror movie centered around a deaf and mute author‚ Maddie‚ who lives alone with her cat. There are few that involve characters with disabilities. A more well-known movie that came out quite recently is Don’t Breathe. Though both movies
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The rebellion against the tyrant Harkin’s brutal regime has come to an end. The rebels and I had won the war after six long and bloody years. But at what cost did it charge us? Tens of thousands of our people either lay dead or wounded‚ hundreds of thousands more are homeless‚ entire cities have been destroyed in the process‚ and large amounts of farmland were rendered infertile by the rivers of the blood that were shed. I had personally lost my entire family to that man’s insatiable madness and
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Fast Food or Consumers: You be the Judge. Old McDonald had a farm. We all know that childhood song our parents used to sing to us growing up. Unfortunately‚ we (the American people) were on that farm acting as their livestock. They made millions off of our need for their fast convenient food. But who’s really to Blame? David Zinczenko tries to answer this question in his article called “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ by comparing the rise in childhood heath issues with the popularity and convenience of
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diet because it is unhealthy. He blames food industries and medical industries for all the new treatments and also for making processed food and selling them in the market. David Zinczenko the author of “Don’t Blame The Eater”‚ agree with Michael Pollan. Michael Pollan tell people to stay from western diet and David Zinczenko tell people to look at the back of the products and check what is the ingredients in the food. He also said that people are getting sick because they are not looking at the
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There are so many common themes in these short stories in ¨Making Sarah Cry¨ and ¨Don’t Give Up The Fight¨. But there is one that pops out in the story and it is called overcoming obstacles. Sarah and Ava got bullied for being their own self.. While both of the stories share a common theme‚ but‚ their attitude is different. Sarahs attitude is different because she really didn’t talk to anyone. In ¨Don’t give up the fight¨ Ava did stand up for herself sometimes but she didn’t. Ava did not tell anyone
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