At Home • Adjust Your Water Heater – By turning your water heater down to 130 degrees Fahrenheit‚ you can save energy. • Clean Your Fridge – Refrigerators use a tremendous amount of energy every year. To cut down on waste‚ clean the condenser coils every year. Also‚ do not keep the temperature unnecessarily low. • Recharge Your Batteries – If you recharge your batteries‚ you will save money and help stop multiple environmental problems. You can prevent potentially hazardous metals from getting
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Gangs In Our Society By Emmanuel Moorer Gangs are becoming prevalent in today’s society and within our schools. More and more young people are turning to gangs in an attempt to escape their everyday lives and the future‚ which they perceive as dismal and bleak. They are initially attracted to the prestige and cash flow‚ which is glamorized by the street gang. Many gangs are actively involved in criminal misbehavior‚ such as drug and gun trafficking‚ burglaries and homicides
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operating with little regard for national boundaries. What is Crime? Crime has so many faces‚ and is perpetrated by people at so many different levels of our society that you may ask yourself what exactly it is. The answer is simple; crime is any activity in conflict with a just law - laws made to protect the citizens of this country and enforced by our Constitution. The task of fighting crime is becoming more complex‚ and therefore more challenging. Criminals are becoming more organised and sophisticated
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thought that these rights were not made by some law from the government or tyrant‚ but is our own internal and unique rights as human beings. But even with these rights‚ some form of government should be established to help protect and balance these rights. Thomas Jefferson also new that we had to protect our inalienable rights. I firmly agree with him Jefferson; we should be able to find our own way to secure our life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness. In the “Declaration of independence”‚ Jefferson
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The Drugging of our Children; When Does the Line get Drawn? Are young children early on exposed to psychotropic medications due to lack of medical attention? Do millions of children in these countries really have ADD or ADHD? These questions arise all over North America‚ Great Britain‚ and Australia. Drugging of children at young ages is the result of self-diagnoses‚ teacher diagnoses‚ and lack of medical care and treatment for children with the “disease” of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and
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earlier writer’s description of coastal southern California as “our Italy.” Hollywood quickly adopted this theme. Scenes from The Sheik‚ starring Rudolf Valentino‚ were filmed at Thousand Palms Oasis in 1921‚ the first of many movies filmed there over the years. Though the city of Palm Springs today bears scant resemblance to Chase’s pastoral descriptions‚ many of the surrounding natural features remain much as he described them in Our Araby and in his better known California Desert Trails. Route descriptions
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Caring for Our Elderly Caring for Our Elderly It is estimated that the number of Americans over the age of sixty five years old will multiply times four in the next thirty years. With this being said many of us will be faced with providing care for our loved ones ("Elderly Caregiving‚" n.d.). The current research studies completed in geriatric studies indicate that currently family members are providing approximately eighty two percent of the care for their elderly family member. Generally
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Suicide In Our Society Once every minute someone tries to commit suicide. Sixty or seventy times a day these attempts succeed.( Earl A. Grollman‚ Suicide: Prevention‚ Intervention‚ Postvention‚ Boston: Beacon Press‚ 1988‚ p.4) Unlike what many want to believe‚ suicide can happen to anyone regardless of race‚ age or sex. News reports‚ books and the internet all point in the same direction. We are undergoing a breakdown in our social roles‚ and suicide is the result. The first ever recorded
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The consumption of drug has been done in all societies for ages‚ but with the pass of the time it has changed the characteristics of the consumption. This situation is because the influence of social factors. Now days‚ our society is infest with this issue “DRUGS”. The use of most of the drugs are illegal‚ however it had become normal to use it. It is frequently see that its consumption can be from a regular kid to a high executive person. As an example we can go to the street and find a lot
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Influences in our lives As we get older‚ we change‚ either for the better or for the worse. In either ways‚ people around us play a huge factor in influencing the way that we are. Living for what feels for a lifetime; you may be influenced by the environment and all the people around you and not even realize that they are the reason behind changes in your personality. It is simply amazing how everything around us affect the way we are. Through my experiences‚ three groups of people who influenced
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