There are many types of skiing‚ but the one I want to focus on in this first paragraph is alpine. The word alpine comes from a place in Europe called The Alps. This is where alpine skiing was created‚ at around the 1800’s. Alpine skiing sometimes consists of gates‚ or it can be just skiing around for fun. Other types of skiing are freestyle‚ nordic and cross-country. Even though alpine skiing is what I love to do‚ it isn’t the only thing important to skiing’s history. The first primitive ski dates
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Egger 1 Dylan Egger 4/27/2017 6th period Gold LA Final Draft:Skateboarding Skateboarding is a great sport to do in your spare time as well as professionally. Skateboarding is becoming a bigger and bigger sport every day. Skateboarding is evolving more each day and not just the skateboards are evolving‚ but the tricks and the parks are also. Skateboarding has been going on for a while‚ but just
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Marijuana and Alcohol. Both of these substances continue to be an ever growing source of debate throughout the United States. But while Alcohol is legal‚ marijuana remains illegal. Making a substance illegal would mean that it is detrimental to a persons ’ mental and physical state‚ therefore‚ a legal substance is by definition healthier. But what if that isn ’t the case? According to the World Health Organization‚ in the year 2011 four percent of deaths worldwide are attributed to Alcohol usage while
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Alcohol and Adolescents Alcohol has become the easiest drug to obtain for adolescents which has been leading to a life of alcoholism. Even though the legal age is twenty one‚ many teenagers are still finding ways to obtain alcohol. According to some reports kids as early as seven have tasted alcohol. Nearly three million young people between the ages of 14 and 17 “are regular drinkers with a serious alcohol problem” (Kittleson‚ 2005‚ 59). With statistics such as this no wonder younger children
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Surname 1 Student’s name Professor’s name Course title 3 June 2011 Alcohol Abuse among Teenagers s Alcohol consumption among young people is one of the most topical contemporary rit er issues. It should be admitted that it is a problem that concerns the whole society and not only certain individuals or small parts of the population. It has been pointed out by many scholars that it is not only children from problem families who engage in illegal drinking‚ so the nw reasons that make youngsters
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Marijuana Safer than Alcohol? COM 172 December 4‚ 2012 Is Marijuana Safer than Alcohol? It is Friday night‚ and you are getting ready to get your weekend stated. What to do is the question; to roll one or pour one. Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States‚ whereas alcohol is legal and can be purchased anywhere. Marijuana and alcohol are two of the most commonly used recreational substances. Although using marijuana is not as dangerous as drinking alcohol. Marijuana use
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How many of you have heard of the dog breed Shiba Inu? I thought this would be an interesting thing to talk about because many times I’m stopped when I’m with my dog and people are curious about her breed. So today I will tell you about the history of the Shiba Inu’s‚ their characteristics (what they look like) as well as their personality’s. History The Shiba Inu is an ancient Asian dog breed brought from China to Japan several thousand years ago. According to the website dog-breed-info
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Candy. One of America’s greatest sugary snacks. Candy comes in all forms from chocolate too hard to taffy to rock candy. In all Americans will purchase an estimated 2.5 billion in candy and will consume as much as12 bajillion grams of sugar. Candy is just one of the few items that has made America number one on the obesity chart. Americans are fueled by their compulsion of sugar even though we are fully aware that candy should be eaten in moderation. Chocolate is a natural product made from
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Have you ever woke up and not wanted to go to school or work? Ever woke up to a large bunch of thick snow falling from the blue skies? Well‚ here’s how snowflakes are made‚ how they form‚ and how they stick to the ground. You may be shocked by how they form. Snowflakes are very unique in their own way. To start with‚ snowflakes form when cold water evaporates. When water reaches a certain level of the atmosphere and its 32 degrees Fahrenheit‚ or less‚ water vapor changes from gas to rock solid‚ that
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Local: “It’s so hard to see him struggle” says Mother of Idaho boy severely hurt by babysitter in Idaho Falls in 2016. The babysitter was sentenced just last week‚ and the story released the 20th. In 2016 a trusted babysitter beat a 3-yr old boy with a 14 inch hard plastic toy repeatedly. When the ambulance got to their house he was bleeding and vomiting from his mouth and nose and unresponsive. Doctors examined the injuries and concluded it wasn’t an accident. Later the babysitter confessed to
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