specific types of cancers and Type II diabetes. Statistics show that in 2011 35.7% of Americans are obese. That is more than one third of adults in this country. Worldwide it has been reported that over 500 million people are considered to be obese. With the increase in this global epidemic there have been many creations of ways to lose the weight. People started looking for the “quick” fix instead of practicing the basic rules of diet and exercise. Most of the quick fixes to lose the extra weight and
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from characters‚ motivations‚ morals‚ and themes. “What of this Goldfish‚ Would You Wish?” by Etgar Keret‚ is a story of a young boy who gets the idea to create a documentary about the wishes people if they were given the chance by a magical goldfish. The boy‚ Yonatan or Yoni‚ believes he can become rich and famous by filming this documentary. He knocks on the door of a Russian man by the name of Sergei‚ who he asks the question of what he would like to wish for. Sergei does not understand and ends
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few. Describe how you express your creative side. Creativity to me is when someone has the skills to make something beautiful or make nice stories. If you can turn something that is ugly and turn it around completely‚ then you are a creative person. I do have a creative skill because i learned how to use scratch and turn it around. With skill I always like to decorate my room because I watch many do-it-yourself videos. Whenever I get an empty glass lemonade bottle‚ I would paint the bottle
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popular science books and descriptive essays. One of her well known essays You Are Your Bike is one of her descriptive essays in captivating detail. For example in paragraph 2 when she explains the feeling of riding her Schwinn Sting-Ray bike. She says..."Savoring the velvet glide and leaning into the turns like the racers we’d seen on ABC’s Wide World Sports." She captures the details precicsely in such a way you almost feel like your glidding along on the pavement as well. She brings us back to her home
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A Critique of Jill Dubisch’s You Are What You Eat Before reading Jill Dubisch’s article You Are What You Eat‚ I had many presumptions regarding how Dubisch would connect the health food movement to Geertz and his definition of religion. When thinking about the supposed “premise” of religion‚ I had always believed the vague and obscure definition that religion is a set of beliefs and practices that center around a divine force. Because of my ignorance regarding religion‚ my views were incredulous
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able to take risk‚ stand up‚ and walk down your own path is what shapes your relationships with the people who affect you the most. The Lottery and What of this Goldfish‚ Would you Wish? portrays the idea that people around you influence the way you interact with one another. The Lottery shows the reader how important it is to not blindly go down a path that others have set for you because it can lead to unknown decisions. In What of this Goldfish‚ Would you Wish‚ the author shows the complexity that
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Subject : Work Ethics Adviser : Prof. Romana L. Bitancor Did You Bring Your Ethics to Work Today? Unethical behavior has become an increasingly prevalent issue in today’s workplace. It is a sad truth that in every workplace‚ there are always employees who take part in unethical behaviors‚ mine is not an exemption. In fact‚ if an assessment of my workplace in terms of ethical behavior would be conducted basing on what I have learned in studying work ethics for three sessions now‚ I can
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All of the listed cases demonstrate how difficult it is to violate an established social structure‚ even when following the social structure violates personal morals. Milgram’s findings‚ as read in the article “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger‚ Would You?”‚ apply to the first case of a manager and her fiancé ordering a teenage girl to strip and her following their commands. Milgram’s data suggested that humans are obedient even to the extent of blindly following authority. His findings
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Topic: Is there anything you would like to change about your life? Why? “An action causes a reaction”‚ states the famous Newton’s third law of motion. This is in fact‚ very true‚ not only just in Science‚ but in our everyday life as well. Therefore‚ there are consequences for every action that we have ever taken. The big question here‚ though‚ is just—do I regret some of the things I have done and the decisions that I have made when I realised the consequences? I do‚ for like any other human being
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The culture of students is not the same. Students are raised in different environments. Some of them are rich; others are poor. The environment determines how students think‚ speak‚ dress‚ walk‚ etc. This leads us to know the fact that not all students are equal in terms of the way they living‚ speaking‚ intelligence‚ and so forth. Knowing students ethnicity‚ we know how they think and behave in the classroom by comparing them with their ancestors and how they were behaving in the classroom.
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