“ I need it for protection” or “cars crash and people die! So should we ban cars?” These cheeky and futile attempts to rationalize many Americans fascination with guns collapse on themselves. In an article called “guns save lives” by NRA board of director’s member Scott L. Bach‚ fruitful language is used to show how the freedom of gun ownership can be a positive: “Every private citizen who has ever faced a violent crime alone‚ and knows the feeling of an impending‚ untimely
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residential electricity consumption. You can eliminate phantom loads by unplugging appliances and electronics when you are not using them‚ or by plugging them into a power strip‚ and turning the strip off when they are not in use. For more information‚ see Save Energy‚ Eliminate Phantom Loads. 2. Use More Energy-efficient Appliances If you are shopping for new appliances‚ make sure to look for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star label before making a purchase. Energy Star appliances use
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In the movie Save the last dance the film explores various issues current in the United States as well as all over the world. The movie explores peer pressure especially in a black dominant school population. Themes of Violence‚ adolescent pride and interracial relationships were greatly represented in the film. Also it touches on early parenthood‚ pressures of a low income environment‚ racial status‚ racial stereotypes and prejudice as well as loyalty to friends. Psychologically the movie represents
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Illiteracy in Our Society It was one of the days I will never forget in my life time. My father was very sick in Abeokuta; my village‚ where we both live together with my mother. The people in our community have tried their hand on one thing or the other to help him‚ but we are left with the only option of taking him to the hospital in the city. My mother is to go first to the city and inform my uncle about this incident‚ so that my uncle could help take my father to the hospital. Has my
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Mercury the closest planet to the Sun: Mercury‚ and the other inner planets‚ condense from the heavier elementes. Condensing closest of all to the sun‚ Mercury is rock solid. Outwardly‚ Mercury is like our Moon: rocky‚ cratered‚ barren. But inside‚ like Earth‚ is an iron-rich core. That core is as big as the Moon and‚ at 70% iron‚ Mercury is the densest planet of all. Also Mercury’s day is twice as long as its year. The day lasts 176 Earth days‚ the year just 88. But it gets stranger... If you
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difference when it comes to helping save the environment. Global warming and all the other environmental issues we are facing took some time to build up and to get our of these messes it is going take a lot of work‚ but this doesn’t mean we should get discouraged because it’s more than the big things that are going to make the difference‚ it’s the little things that make the biggest impact. Here are some simple changes you can make in your everyday life to help the planet recover from the wounds we have
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Our Past‚ Our Future & Vision for America Taking back America speech by Barack Obama was inspirational speech and was thought out very well. He had touch every important point in his speech that made me even want take charge of the vision for America. There was no flaw’s in his speech. I feel that Obama brought the right approach to say “My friends‚ we meet here today at a time where we find ourselves at a crossroads in America’s history.” Then went on to where he said‚ “we would visit every
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Bolden 3/4/10 Why is our Pollution Bad? When we watched An Inconvenient Truth several weeks ago there was a lot of pinpointing factors that came to mind that I didn’t truly understand. When I saw all of the charts of how high global warming is increasing‚ it really took a second for me to realize how much damage we’re causing to this environment. One point Al Gore made was the amount of travel tourists do in a single year‚ and how it is effecting our global warming. He put into his
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GENERAL MANAGER MUHAMMAD FARRIS BIN ABD KADIR COMPANY DESCRIPTION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the Fit planet company will have 34 workers which include additional employees and partners. The management team of the Fit Planet company consist of 5 executives such as General Manager and Operational Manager who have 4 years work experience‚ Marketing Executives and Administration Executives who has 5 years of experience‚ and Financial executives who has 3 years experience of works. In the wake of globalization
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1.|So far as we know‚ the first person who claimed that natural phenomena could be described by mathematics was| |A) Copernicus. B) Pythagoras. C) Aristotle. D) Ptolemy.| |Ans: BSection: Chapter 2‚ Introduction| 2.|The ancient Greek thinker Pythagoras held the view that| A)|triangles do not exist.| B)|natural phenomena are wonderful to watch but cannot be described by mathematics.| C)|the Sun is at the center of the planetary system.| D)|natural phenomena can be described
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