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    American Dream America has long been known as a land of opportunity. Out of that thinking comes the “American Dream‚” the idea that anyone can ultimately achieve success. There is no doubt that all Americans possess an American Dream. In one of Arthur Miller’s greatest works‚ Death of a Salesman‚ he brings the American Dream onto the stage for evaluation. In his play‚ it shows that people are easily get lost between the illusion and reality‚ continued misconception of oneself may cause

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    The term “heart failure” sounds as if the heart has already failed. This can increase a person’s anxiety especially in the aging population that is a targeted community for this disease assuming that the failure is equivalent to death. Heart failure is actually the decline in the hearts ability to sufficiently pump oxygenated blood to the rest of the body. Many people can live with heart failure and are able to manage it through lifestyle changes‚ prescribed medication compliance‚ and regular physician

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    The Effects the Media has on Teenagers James Morrison‚ an entertainer‚ states that “whoever controls the media‚ controls the brain.” Within this quote‚ Morrison implies that the media has an effect on the human brain and can affect it tremendously. The media has effects on teenagers‚ both positive and negative. The media is a vast forum of communication that permeates nearly every aspect of culture (Mokeyane). It consists of a broad spectrum of communication such as: television‚ films‚ web sites

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    Culture has no colour: Cultural Amalgamation of Cosmopolitanism *M.Kalai Nathiyal and **Dr V.Malarkodi Abstract This paper surveys and critically reviews of the major research works on Culture has no colour‚ a brief study of cultural amalgamation of cospmopolitanism.This paper analyze Cultural amalgamation which describes not only about race and culture apart from that it also focuses on intexuality on language and indigenous and international cultures. Cultural amalgamation happened when

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    9. The night has a Thousand Eyes By: Francis William Bourdillon Page:179 In The night has a Thousand Eyes Bourdillon I believe is trying to show that we should not have negative thoughts bring us down whether if were in a great state of mind or not. This poem is we should try to stay positive with our hearts and with that positive and happy spirits will control us. Bourdillon in the first stanza states “ The night has a thousand eyes‚ /And the day but one; /Yet the light of the bright world dies

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    Convincing a Friend to Quit Smoking My friend Larry has been smoking for about twenty years now. His health has be gain to deteriorate. Running his two-mile run at PT (a military acronym for Physical Training) has gotten harder for him and his heart rate beats like a drummer in a band playing a drum roll. Larry’s doctor has explained to him that he needs to quit smoking and why he needs to quit smoking. Smoking is one of the leading causes of death‚ curves your

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    Hypertension History

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    venesection and bleeding by leeches were the only treatment for ‘hard pulse disease’ which was what hypertension was known as before. The vast amount of progress in the study of hypertension was faster in the earlier decade of the 19th century because many previous beliefs were rejected. The basics of the measurement of hypertension established by Hales in 1733‚ the description of the pathology of hypertension by Thomas young and Richard bright in 1808 and the description of the stethoscopes sounds all

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    Merdine decided to quit smokingshe made this decision recently. She had smoked two packs of cigarettes a dayshe had done this for several years. In this time‚ her teeth had tuned brown‚ her fingertips were yellow. She had developed a hacking cough‚ she wheezed like a cracked radiator‚ she had known it was time to quit. She understood that it would not be easy. Merdine’s first step was to change her brand of cigarettes. She switched to “low-tar” brand‚ she immediately started smoking twice as many

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    Tara J. Williams Instructor: Donna Thompson Date: October 20‚ 2013 Television (The effect it has on children) Television has been around for approximately 75 years‚ according to Erin Monaghan. It has cause some negative impact on our young‚ youth of today. Children spend more time watching television than they spend on homework and family time. Too much TV time has cause children to be obesity‚ not able to make rational decisions in violent solutions and having sex at an such

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    War on Drugs Has Failed

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    Drugs has ultimately failed‚ while the collateral consequences of pursuing drug prohibition have left America in a disastrous state‚ rife with both economic and social problems. While American drug prohibition was in motion via legislation as early as 1875 with the enactment of restrictions on opium‚ our modern day War on Drugs was officially ushered in by President Nixon on June 17th of 1971. On that day‚ Nixon declared drug abuse to be "public enemy number one in the United States‚" and two years

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