Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Strong4Life campaign features a series of TV and print ads with statements made by overweight children. (Courtesy Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) "Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid‚" read graphics of a TV ad in which a young girl tells of how she doesn’t like going to school because she’s bullied over her weight. It is part of a video and print campaign to combat childhood obesity in Georgia‚ which has one of the highest childhood obesity rates in
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The specter of ISIS and the oppressive Assad regime have ravaged Syria’s cities and forced millions of citizens to flee the country. Now‚ as masses of newly-minted refugees search for a new home‚ our country’s leaders are debating how to respond. The United States has historically been a refuge for the oppressed‚ a haven for Emma Lazarus’s “huddled masses” to turn to in times of trouble. These huddled masses‚ however‚ hail from a land so synonymous with terrorism that it has been dubbed a “factory
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Stop wasting time and stop poverty in North Carolina now!!!!! More than 17% of people that live in North Carolina are in poverty or Homeless. Can you really help them get off the streets? Because of the Brunswick family organization‚ people are getting off the streets. In 2010 the Organization took 1006 people off the streets.There are 4% of families that cannot afford children so they were adopted or given away. As these years come on poverty is keep getting doubled. Around 1.4 percent of Families
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We hear in the news all the time about a teenager committing suicide. We probably don’t even think twice about why the person did it. Thoughts in our brain come to conclusions like‚ maybe he or she had a depression disorder or maybe somebody he or she loved died. It probably never crosses our minds that this particular teenager could have been bullied to death. Fifteen year-old Phoebe Prince‚ a freshman at South Hadley High School was bullied to death. According to New York Times‚ “The taunting started
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knowledge of why everything happens‚ and so much of what goes on in our lives is a mystery to us all. As we grow up‚ we learn more about what is happening and why it’s happening‚ but as a child‚ much of this cannot be explained. In Conroy’s memoir Stop Time‚ he documents his journey to adulthood‚ which is paved with moments of revelations when he begins to learn more about the world and how it works. Through his loss at the town yo-yo competition Conroy learns how to cope with the life he is dealt
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S5 Stop and Press The unthinkable has happen in the world’s history; life has been discovered on another planet. Yes! You heard me correctly new life has been discovered. Remember this day people‚ December 20th‚ 2100. I was given the opportunity to write an article on this extraordinary discovery that I made. I will be able to give anyone who is remotely interesting in this discovery all the hard facts on it. I discovered planet Neo in the year 2080. In the Year 2080 the condition to support
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Being arrogant causes the king to fall shortly after that. Secondly if Oedipus was not so stubborn‚ he might still see and listen to the world around him. Because of this characteristic‚ Oedipus cannot listen to Jocasta and Creon when they try to stop him from finding out the truth about his real life. His stubbornness eventually causes him to blind himself and then he is eternally unhappy and depressed. Ultimately‚ Oedipus deserves what happened to him because that is what he asked for. Oedipus
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They all had one thing in common; each one of them spent an estimated $ 3500 dollars a year on the cause of his or her death. Which is SMOKING. Weather you smoke or not smoking affects everyone in this room. You can be affected by either getting taxed for the medical bills or as simple as second hand smoke. Obviously‚ the number one reason to stop smoking is health‚ it is not just bad for you but it is also bad for the people around you. Like your spouse‚ friends and most importantly your
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Persuasive Essay on Marijuana Legalization Javier A. Ocasio COMM/215 Essentials of College Writing 1/29/2015 Nicole Svee Magann Persuasive Essay on Marijuana Legalization Introduction Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States. Mainly people think of marijuana of the dirty drug out on the street‚ when actually marijuana has been proven to help people medically. Drugs are not a new subject in this world‚ but as technology advances‚ new uses for them are found. Cannabis
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Major League Baseball game. Secondhand‚ or passive smoke‚ is an insidious killer that is harming adults‚ and more critically‚ children around the country every day. My goal in speaking to you today is to enlist your support in a federal ban of all smoking from all public places without hesitation. But isn’t this America? Should you have the right to smoke? If I want to pollute my lungs and ruin my health why should that be any concern of yours? The facts are that secondhand smoke is responsible for
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