Topic: Facts and Myths about Marijuana In a society‚ we are constantly bombarded with information from a wide variety of mediums. It can be very difficult for teenagers to know what is factual and what is not‚ especially when it comes to marijuana. Even before the invention of the internet‚ there were a number of misleading rumors about the dangers of marijuana‚ some were meant to deterring people from using this substance. In this paper‚ I will address a few of these rumors and the
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Function of the Skin The skin is more than just external covering. It acts as a sensitive boundary between our bodies and the environment. The skin has several important functions‚ for example: Protection‚ temperature regulations‚ waste removal and sense of touch. Protection • The skin acts as a protective organ. The film of sebum and sweat on the surface of the skin (acid mantle). It acts as an anti-bacterial agent to help prevent the multiplication of micro-organisms on the skin. • The fat
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crashed into an iceberg on its maiden voyage because of The high pressure meant there was a lack of fog. 6 warnings of icebergs the Titanic received before the collision. However‚ it takes about 2 hours and 40 minutes to sink after hitting the iceberg. 64 lifeboat the Titanic is equipped to carry‚ but in facts it tooks only 20 lifeboats for some reason. The boat had a capacity of carrying 28 people at once but at the first board it tooks 65 people. 866 is the number of people who actually survived
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NERVOURS SYSTEM: NEURONS: * STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION: Specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses; a nerve cell. Neurons have specialized projections called dendrites and axons. Dendrites bring information to the cell body and axons take information away from the cell body. Neurons communicate with each other through an electrochemical process. Information is transmitted to the receiving cell at junctions via chemical messengers called neurotransmitters. At this juncture‚ the neuron transmitting
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disease of the tropics. It entered the lives of American men who voyaged to the West Indies. We know today that yellow fever is a virus spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. This mosquito has peculiar habits that we¡¦re still continuing to learn about. This mosquito prefers to live in urban areas. It breeds in clean standing water. It also feed during that day‚ so back in the 1700 and 1800¡¦s the mosquitoes must have had enjoyed the major port
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Popular Opinion Vs Scholarly Facts Regarding Sexism in Sports Navigating the internet for unbiased‚ unadulterated facts about a controversial research topic is seemingly impossible. In many cases‚ the sources‚ online magazines‚ and blogs contain politically aligned prejudices regarding the material at hand or ill-informed points of view‚ making research a nightmare. This is where scholarly articles can make a world of difference. Scholarly articles are articles from institutions such as universities
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Tobacco 1) There are 1.1 billion smokers in the world today‚ and if current trends continue‚ that number is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by the year 2025. 2) China is home to 300 million smokers who consume approximately 1.7 trillion cigarettes a year‚ or 3 million cigarettes a minute. 3) Five trillion cigarette filters weigh approximately 2 billion pounds. 4) Kids are still picking up smoking at the alarming rate of 3‚000 a day in the U.S.‚ and 80‚000 to 100‚000 a day worldwide
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1. Discuss the basic facts about OSHA – its purpose‚ standards‚ inspection‚ and rights and responsibilities. OSHA and its state partners have approximately 2100 inspectors‚ plus complaint discrimination investigators‚ engineers‚ physicians‚ educators‚ standards writers‚ and other technical and support personnel spread over more than 200 offices throughout the country. This staff establishes protective standards‚ enforces those standards‚ and reaches out to employers and employees through technical
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female genetic information and it is split exactly 50/50. The transfer is carried out by pollinators‚ which include bees‚ wasps‚ flies‚ butterflies‚ moths‚ several species of birds‚ the wind‚ beetles‚ water‚ ants‚ bats‚ certain mammals‚ and finally humans. The pollinator depends on the type of flower‚ its structure‚ and what it attracts. Once the pollinator completes its job of moving the pollen to the stigma‚ the grain travels down the pollen tube and joins with the ovule beginning the fertilization
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Facts About Dr. Jose Rizal Jose P. Rizal‚ a man of exceptional talent and intelligence‚ is the National Hero of the Philippines. That’s a fact (and might be the only fact) that every Filipino knows about Jose Rizal. One might ask‚ “How about his name?” Well‚ that might be uneasy because his full name is José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda. Let’s be honest that if we will be asked by some people about some things related to Rizal without the help of any references‚ we can only say
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