Emily Parrish Russell English 1105 12 December 2012 Soda Sizes Michael Bloomberg‚ New York’s mayor‚ has addressed the issue of obesity by banning the sale of soda and other sugary drinks over sixteen ounces in movie theaters‚ restaurants‚ stadiums‚ and street carts. As of March 2013 if this ban is violated‚ the vendor would face a two hundred dollar fine. The ban is a great idea. Regulating soda sizes exerts control over obesity and is a proactive move to help reduce osteoporosis. Increasing
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to have bad influences from this book? Do you want them to be exposed to this material? The book‚ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton should be banned from this school for teaching kids bad lessons and it is inappropriate. First of all‚ there is under aged smoking. As well as young kids drinking alcohol. Second of all‚ there is a lot of violence and fighting‚ plus there are weapons being used in a bad way. They show people killing people or they might just get hurt. Censorship is the ability to limit any
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Why Handguns Should Not Be Banned The first thought that comes to mind when most people think of “handguns” is death. A handgun is described as a firearm that can be held with one hand‚ such as a revolver or a pistol. Because of it’s size a handgun can be easily concealed and therefore one of many weapons used in violent crimes particularly within inner city communities. Will banning handguns decrease crime? Should handguns only be carried by law officials and military personnel? Handguns do
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1. Give a school-based example of two of the following: positive reinforcement‚ negative reinforcement‚ punishment‚ or extinction. A positive reinforcement would be if a student was doing the correct behavior‚ the teacher would praise the student for using the correct behavior. Example: Jimmy raised his hand to answer the questions the teacher directed to the class. The teacher smiled at Jimmy‚ and told him he was doing a great job answering the questions by raising his hand. Jimmy is proud of himself
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Ban Zoo Background By definition‚ a zoo is a facility in which animals are kept and displayed to the public. It is a short form of Menagerie‚ zoological park and garden. The word zoological refers to zoology which means study of animals. An Egyptian queen called Queen Hatshepsut decided to build a zoo about 1500BC and about five hundred years later a Chinese Emperor named Wen Wang founded the Garden of Intelligence. The Garden of Intelligence was an enormous zoo which was full of different kind
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Should Animal Testing be Banned? Throughout history‚ animal experimentation has played an important role in leading to new discoveries and human benefits. However‚ what many people tend to forget are the great numbers of animal subjects that have suffered serious harm during the process of experimentation. Many people are believed to be ignorant or misunderstand the nature of the lives that animals actually live‚ and are unable to understand the actual laboratory procedures and techniques. Other
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nothing short of essential. Their main function is conservation. Without captive breeding‚ many endangered species would now be extinct - for example‚ the golden lion tamarin‚ red wolf and Przewalski’s horse. I am not for a moment suggesting that we should stop trying to protect animals’ natural habitats‚ but if endangered species were to become extinct in the wild (which sadly seems quite likely in the near future)‚ zoos will have preserved them for future generations‚ with enough genetic diversity
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Self Assessment and unit evaluation – Y7 ICT Term 1 Habit of Mind Focus: Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision How does your terms work on producing a newspaper article demonstrate your use of the habit of mind above? I have communicated with my team mates by e-mailing and we talked about what topic we are doing and whose going to do what. I have thought deeply what topic I’m going to do about and I choused “Volcanic eruption in Iceland”. I described words nicely and neatly
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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“More than half of adult New Yorkers are obese or overweight‚ according to the city’s health department‚ which said it believed 5‚000 New Yorkers died every year as a result of health problems related to obesity” (Grynbaum). This mind-boggling statistic is what lead the mayor propose a soda ban that would limit the size of soda that could be sold. This ban‚ in an effort to fight obesity‚ would discourage people from buying larger sodas by banning the sale of sodas of more than 16 oz. Although this
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