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    Foods That Kill

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    The American diet is an animal based diet.  Consuming too much animal products can cause disease‚ and unhealthy weight.  In “Food That Kills”‚ Dr. Michael Klaper discusses the dangers of consuming animal by-products‚ the benefits of a plant diet‚ and how a plant diet can boost your health. Klaper believes that completely eliminating the consumption of animal by-products is the key to a healthy diet. Although I agree that Americans eat too much meat‚ cutting meat completely out is not beneficial

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    The roles of women in society during the depression era were quite clearly defined‚ yet To Kill a Mockingbird presents female characters that break these stereotypes such as: Scout‚ Calpurnia‚and Miss Maudie. A southern lady was a precious flower. She was to be at all times feminine‚ polite‚ soft-spoken and gentle. She was to defer to men in all cases. A man was obligated to protect a lady’s virtue even to the point of never using crass language in front of a lady (recall Arthur Radely and his friends

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    Tobacco Kills

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    TOBACCO will kill nearly six million people this year‚ including 600‚000 non-smokers‚ because governments are not doing enough to persuade people to quit or protect others from second-hand smoke‚ according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Since there is often a lag of many years between when people start smoking and when it affects health‚ the epidemic of tobacco-related disease and death would have begun. And by 2030‚ the annual death toll could reach 8 million! The WHO urged more governments

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    To Kill A Mockingbird

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    The Innocence of the World Throughout the early to mid-1900’s‚ a lot of the United States was very racial and there was a lot of segregation towards Blacks. The book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee connects this horrific time frame with a story told from a child’s perspective. Jem and Scout lose their childlike innocence and gain an understanding about humanity through the adventures they go on when they are exposed to how the world really is. The first experience

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    Judy Trinh Ms. Rubenstein Academic English I 8 April 2013 Lynching & Lynch Mobs Discrimination is a terrible and unfair act. White men and women are treating African Americans differently because of their skin color or race. Not only did lynch mobs lynch African Americans‚ but they also lynched and abused Chinese‚ Japanese and Italian immigrants. How are they harming other races with discrimination? They harm them by verbally and physically abuse them like kidnapping‚ beating‚ punching‚ shooting

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    Chapters 1-3 Questions 1. What does it mean to “act responsibly?” Explain what a person needs to do to “act responsibly” in the 1930’s in Maycomb‚ Alabama? Acting responsibly basically means that you have to do the right thing no matter what the situation‚ and you have to be mature and act your age even when you might not like doing so. In the 1930s in Maycomb‚ Alabama if you were a woman‚ for example‚ you would need to stay home and cook the food and clean for the family. You would just always

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about growing in the 1930s in the Southern United States. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus (a lawyer) in the town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Maycomb is a small town‚ and every family has its social standing depending on where they live‚ who their parents are‚ and how long they have lived in Maycomb. Atticus raises his children by himself‚ with the help of neighbors and a black housekeeper named Calpurnia. Scout is a tomboy who prefers to solve

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    To Kill a MockingBird

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    spoke to it about how soft it was and that is was bigger than a mouse. When Curley’s wife enters the picture and lets Lennie touch her hair it ends with Lennie holding on to dear life panicking. Every time a mouse tried to bit his finger he would kill it by shear instinct and reflexes. He broke social conventions by having a pet mouse in his pocket and petting it while the animal was dead. It was not normal to have a pet mouse near or in a person’s house. Harrison Bergeron lived his short life

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    To Kill A Mockingbird

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    Growing Up in Maycomb What if people had the chance to look back on their lives and watch their selves grow up? In “To Kill a Mocking Bird” Jean Louise Finch or Scout‚ or scout gets to do just that. During the Great Depression in the small town of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ The Finches get involved in a whirlwind of prejudices and unfairness which cause Scout to grow up irregularly in comparison to other kids her age. Scout learns more and more about the world as she grows up and she starts to see the war

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    schools. Although much of the discrimination was directed towards blacks‚ there were plenty of accounts towards impoverished families by those that had money. Some people thought blacks were automatically dumb because of their color. The novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee has numerous accounts of racism and prejudice throughout the entire piece. The novel is set in the 1930 ’s‚ a time when racism was very prevalent. One subtle example of discrimination the reader sees is the treatment of

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