Per the New Mexico Department of Health‚ in 2015 more than 1 in 4 kindergarten children were overweight or obese. As the children get older the rates continue to increase. In the same 2015 study‚ more than 1 in 3 children in the 3rd grade were obese and overweight. As I’m sure you know obesity and obesity-related diseases are not only harmful to the children of our communities‚ but also to our communities as a whole. Yet one glance at the APS school breakfast and lunch
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Imagine you are swimming in the ocean minding your own business. Then‚ suddenly‚ something sharp hits you. It enters your body and explodes. The pain is killing‚ but it does not kill you‚ not yet. Again a sharp object hits you and explodes. Again and again you are hit. Your enormous body‚ however‚ does not give up that easily. It will take more than a half an hour to get unconscious. Maybe‚ if you are lucky‚ you will drown. Perhaps you will be dragged on a ship. Even though you are still conscious
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your kid sitting in a doctors room crying cause he hit his head so hard he got a concussion. B. Background Information 1. History of the Issue: since so many younger kids start to play sports there are a lot of concussions happening to young children today. When you get a lot of concussions as a child you can grow up with permanent disabilities. Players in the NFL committed suicide because of concussions. When we found out more about concussions‚ it was discovered that girls suffer from concussions
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(Topic/Purpose) I will be covering reasons why not to wear contact lenses. IV. (Credibility) I have worn contacts on and off since the age of 13 and have felt the effects that contacts have had on my eyes and my bank account. V. (Preview) In this speech‚ I will discuss the risk/effects that contact lenses can have on the eyes‚ the long term cost of contact lenses‚ and what you can do to prevent these to occur. VI. (Defining contact lenses) Contact lenses are medical devices worn directly on the cornea
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"You think it happens to starving children in the third world‚" said Ms Incocciati. "You don’t expect it to happen to you. It’s scary." The doctor she went to for a second opinion asked what she had been eating. Ms Incocciati was studying English at Warwick University and waitressing at
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In my time as the Dean of the University of Queensland‚ I have grown to learn the true reason for educating our children: to train them to take their place as a constructive‚ thinking member of our society. Tonight‚ as you know‚ I have been asked to talk about why I believe that The Crucible should be part of the Queensland Senior English curriculum. Tonight‚ I shall discuss how Arthur Miller beautifully created a world mirroring the moral complexities that we face in our day to day lives both on
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Persuasive Speech Speaking out to persuade others . . . From Reading to Writing Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s powerful “I Have a Dream” speech helped convince Congress to pass landmark civil rights legislation. It also continues to influence people of all ages to believe in and work to achieve their personal dreams. Persuasive Speech Speaking out to persuade others . . . Persuasive speeches such as Dr. King’s can move listeners to tears and inspire them to move mountains. Politicians‚ advertisers
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Specific Purpose Statement To inform the audience about the powers of Photoshop‚ how it is used‚ and it’s effect on society Thesis Statement Photoshop is software that allows people to digitally alter photographs quickly and easily‚ and many times it is responsible for the decline in people’s self-esteem. Main Points 1. Explanation of Photoshop 2. The use of Photoshop in advertisements 3. Photoshop’s effect on self-esteem and self-image Primary Audience Outcome I want the audience
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about adoption! 1. There are over 400‚000 children in the U.S. system alone‚ this number includes foster care and over 100‚000 of these are waiting for adoption. This means that out of all the children currently living in the U.S.‚ 2% of them are adopted. 2. Females who chose to adopt tend to be older‚ in fact over half of all mothers who adopt are over the age of 40. This number is comparative to those females who have not had children. 3. Male children outnumber females in the foster care and
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Why is there so many people saying the word sleep walking seeing it on the news where children don’t know where they might go in there sleep? Well you haven’t heard this story before the mysterious world of sleepwalking is often portrayed as harmless or even deadly a young. A woman named heidee ruiz lives in california she was in college on a track and field scholarship and felt a tremendous pressure to perform and began sleepwalking in august of 1995 while she was at her mother’s house heidee ran
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