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    Welding Dangers

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    Welding Dangers Annotated Bibliography "Warning: Welding May Be Hazardous to Your Health." Warning: Welding May Be Hazardous to Your Health. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2013. This article explains a little about welding fumes and how they are dangerous to people’s health. There are short term and long term respiratory effects from welding gases and fumes. Some of the gases that are inhaled can cause diseases such as ones close to Parkinson’s disease. To be protected from these fumes‚ the work area

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    this‚ many people are encouraging schools and colleges to enforce trigger warnings. However this defeats the purpose of learning. The purpose of learning is to take in new information and learn from it. When warnings are set in place for learning‚ some students are going to miss out on the opportunity to learn new lessons. There are‚ also‚ many ways that trigger warnings can be taken advantage of. By enforcing trigger warnings‚ we as a society would be encouraging people to shy away from things because

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    The Poem Storm Warnings

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    In the poem‚ "Storm Warnings" the organization is very important to the fluency of the poem. In the very first line the reader starts to get a feeling of the literal meaning of the work. In saying‚ "The glass has been falling all the afternoon" one learns that a barometer is falling‚ hence bad weather is on its way. The allegory‚ symbolic representation‚ that "glass" is a barometer is because later in the poem‚ the words "instruments and weatherglasses" are used. The poets tone‚ the general atmosphere

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    Macbeth Where can you see that Macbeth is ambitious? Pp. 21-23. Do you not hope your children shall be kings‚ When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me Promised no less to them? (p. 21 ll. Ovenover 120) - Aren’t you beginning to hope your children will be kings? After all‚ the witches who said I was thane of Cawdor promised them nothing less. (p. 21 “Do you hope your children shall be kings…”) I am thane of Cawdor. If good‚ why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image

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    Ambition is something that everyone has no matter their background or age. It can be a driving force to success‚ or maybe a road to failure. But ambition is a passion one has that should never fail you. Everyone has dreams or goals in life they look to achieve. We might question others on why they chase dreams that are so surreal and nearly impossible to achieve. If one is driven by ambition‚ goals are a high order in which need to be accomplished. Ambition happens to be one of the best abilities

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    as Macbeth drives himself insane trying to claim the throne. He hears that the Thane of Cawdor died and he could become king. The Thane of Glamis develops an ambition to be king and kills Duncan‚ who is already the king. Killing Duncan drives Macbeth insane‚ and eventually‚ he loses all feelings towards life or death and goes numb. Since Macbeth’s ambition is to become king he is willing to do anything‚ but because of this‚ he begins to go psychotic by the end of the play. Macbeth’s ambition to

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    Trigger Warning Analysis

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    Not Just a Warning Nationwide‚ educators are implementing the usage of trigger warnings to shield emotional and physical pain from civilians that may be fragile. Trigger warning or viewer discretion are acts of kindness that help protect people with histories of conditions. In article that was published in August of 2015‚ “Trigger warnings don’t hinder freedom of expression: they expand it” by Lindy West‚ she states that “a trigger warning is letting the audience know about potentially disturbing

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    There has been recent discussions of trigger warnings‚ a controversial issue has been whether it protects students or take away freedom of speech. Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that people can do or say‚ without any intent‚ which will end up offending other people. Students are starting to use the word “trigger warnings”‚ a word that first appeared on blogs and other online forums to alert people of content that contain sexual assault (Wilson). Universities are using them more

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    Macbeth's Ambition Essay

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    Macbeth; a classic play known by many‚ written by the one and only Shakespeare‚ tells a tale of a noble man who slowly loses himself transforming into a traitor and tyrant whose hands “[can all the] water in the ocean wash this blood from my hands“ for the deeds he has done are unforgivable. He’s led on by influences from the three weird witches who tell him predictions‚ his own wife full of greed for more‚ and simply his own ambitions which drive him into a world full of corruption and pain. Macbeth

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    Warnings on unhealthy food. The theme of unhealthy food becomes more and more topical in our society. I am sure that manufactures of food products should write warnings on their products which contain harmful ingredients‚ for example‚ GMO. Firstly‚ junk food can be the reason of a lot of illnesses‚ such as stomach ulcer‚ obesity‚ sugar diabetes‚ etc. For example‚ according to the article Health warnings on junk food “…hamburgers‚ chips‚ soybean oil‚ pizza give rise to obesity and it can be the

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