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    Obesity in America

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    obesity epidemic in America is out of control and requires intervention to address causes for obesity‚ and solutions to correct this problem. The obesity epidemic in America raises health concerns for citizens suffering from obesity because unhealthy body weight causes other health problems. Health care providers believe that community and environmental factors causes people to eat unhealthy foods‚ which place those individuals at risk for chronic health conditions. Many people believe that “Obesity

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    English 110 Corporate America People in today’s society probably think that the government runs our country. The sad thing about this is that they are completely wrong. What if the one and only great United States of America was in fact‚ ran by its massive corporations. As a whole‚ America has fallen from their past virtues and qualities on how to properly run a government. Nowadays giant corporations can often persuade the government into their favor. Within the picture‚ some of the top companies

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    Bridge of the Americas

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    The Bridge of the Americas The Bridge of the Americas (Spanish: Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge) is a road bridge in Panama‚ which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Completed in 1962‚ at a cost of US$20 million‚ it was the only non-swinging bridge (there are two other bridges‚ one at the Miraflores locks and one at the Gatun locks) connecting the north and south American land masses until the opening of the Centennial Bridge in 2004. The bridge

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    Obesity in America

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    Oriana Corcino Mrs. Terashima Expository Writing 2 14 April 2014 Obesity in America Obesity‚ a medical condition in which excess body fat can grow to have a negative effect on the human body and cause long term health problems‚ affects more than 35 percent of adults along with 17 percent of adolescents (“How many people are affected by/at risk for obesity & overweight”). America is one of many obese countries all over the world. It is an enfeeble health condition that can lead to respiratory

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    Urbanization In America

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    a market economy began to emerge. Urbanization was able to increase due to the decline of agriculture in the Northeast‚ where the soil was unable to sustain further cultivation. Although some farmers moved westward into richer land‚ more and more people continued to flood into cities in search of work. Altogether‚ many different factors led to the rapid industrialization of the United States. Prior to the Civil War‚ the American industry was able to undergo immense growth due to the improvements

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    and the country has few natural resources. But the discovery of petroleum in 1959 injected huge sums of money into Libya’s economy. The government of Libya used some of this wealth to improve farmland and provide services for the people. Almost all of Libya’s people are of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry and are Muslims. Until the early 1900’s‚ Libya consisted of three separate geographical and historical regions. It became a united‚ independent country in 1951. Libya’s official name is the Great

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    Poverty in America

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    Poverty in America Poverty‚ the state of being extremely poor‚ exists all over America! There are several different types of poverty‚ and the causes of poverty. Most people think of poverty as just somebody who is homeless and has no job‚ somebody who has no money to support the basic needs of life‚ and wears ragged clothing and lives under a bridge. What people don’t know is there are people living in poverty that have jobs and make money but live so poorly that they are categorized with people that

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    Unemployment in America

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    Here is good news for you: according to the New York Times‚ the unemployment rate in America dropped to 7.7% which is the lowest rate in four years. But is this rate low enough? The answer is no. The labor market is far from recovery. There are around 11 million people who still need jobs. Throughout American history of unemployment‚ The United States has experienced 11 recessions since the end of the postwar period in 1948. The U.S. unemployment rate rose steadily from 5% in January 2008 to a

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    The Forest People

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    ANTH 130 STUDY GUIDE EXAM # 1 * Anthropological “levels” of analysis 1. Micro-level analysis: * Individual to individual‚ face to face‚ smallest unit * “Primary relation”‚ intimate‚ ends in itself * Actions‚ relations within larger organization 2. Macro-level analysis: * Large scale‚ impersonal‚ subjects don’t appear * Historical‚ cultural‚ epochal‚ institutional * May be called “structural analysis” * Culture 1. Book Definition: * A system of

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    Modesty In America

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    The America I Believe In Did you know that people from Syria are afraid to leave their home? The women in that country have to be escorted by a male. They also have to wear a Hijab over their face. The reason for the Hijab is that god has instructed women to wear it to fulfill his meaning of modesty. Sometimes men wear the Hijab to show a sign of modesty. The America I believe in is a place where we can choose to speak‚ eat‚ think‚ wear‚ and believe anything you want. When you think of your education

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