“What about sleeping outside to bring awareness to homelessness?” was my suggestion to service project ideas on the Service Committee Board for Community Youth Council (CYC). After debating the pros and cons from adopting one of the many littered potholes in town to the merits of holding a senior citizen prom within the community‚ the Service Committee still has not reached a consensus. Officially‚ CYC’s mission is to “serve as a unified voice for the youth of our community.” While holding “youth”
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Prisons and inmates In society today‚ it is commonly known that crime rate has increased dramatically by the years. This is where many of us look for ways to solve such issue. It is the last place anybody would want to be in. but unfortunately we have hundreds of thousands of them‚ if not millions around the world. Thousands in just the United States‚ Those are prisons. Just hearing that word makes us think bad things right away. Murder‚ theft‚ violence‚ and everything bad that happens
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PPACA: Improvement or Liability? Introduction In March 2010‚ President Obama and Congress voted and passed one of the most pertinent piece of health care legislation in the past fifty years. This law is identifiable by multiple names such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA)‚ Obamacare‚ and/or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). No matter the name‚ the purpose of the law was to increase availability to quality health care through affordable health insurance. Furthermore‚ the PPACA
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The North American Free Trade Agreement “eliminated most tariffs on goods traded between the nations‚ and set in place processes to get rid of regulatory and other barriers.” There are many benefits of this agreement‚ such as increasing trade‚ lowering prices‚ and increasing foreign investment. However‚ there are also disadvantages including the loss of domestic jobs which led to suppressed wages. From an economic perspective‚ I recommend that the United States remain in NAFTA due to its various
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antidepressants‚ saying that they are an effective treatment for depression. The second is against exercise‚ that it is psychologically harmful. Finally‚ the third finds shock therapy to be unpredictable and inconclusive. Each article shows the pros as well as the cons of each treatment. The first
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4. What are the pros and cons of management using theexperience curve to determine strategy? The experience curve is an idea developed by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in the mid-1960s. Working with a leading manufacturer of semiconductors‚ the consultants noticed that the company’s unit cost of manufacturing fell by about 25% for each doubling of the volume that it produced. This relationship they called the experience curve: the more experience a firm has in producing a particular product
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Obamacare Pros The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office lists the advantages of Obamacare: The Act was designed to reduce overall health care costs by making services available to the 32 million who currently can’t get insurance. They often use a hospital emergency room as their primary care physician‚ increasing costs for everyone. This starts in 2014. It requires that all plans cover 10 essential health benefits. Preventive services are free‚ which lowers health care costs by treating
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Pros and cons of running In this world there are two types of people: those who like to run and those who have to run. To me‚ running is something I have to do because of lacrosse‚ but it isn’t something I look forward to. Where I’m from‚ running isn’t just a hobby; It’s a way of life – considering I come from Eugene. Running is a double edged sword‚ on one hand you have all the positives of working out‚ and on the other is all the pain and soreness. In the world of running there
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electrons‚ but a different number of neutrons‚ causing the atom to be unstable. With radioisotopes‚ they can occur naturally‚ but most often are formed artificially by altering the atom. Scientists measure the rate of which radioisotopes decay at by using the term half-life. This refers to when one-half of the radioactive material has decayed. When the word radioactive comes into play‚ many people believe that it is only detrimental to society. However‚ radioisotopes are actively used in research for
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