It was around 5 pm on a Tuesday evening when the National Hurricane Center in Miami‚ Florida‚ issued a warning to its citizens that a tropical storm would soon become a hurricane. Being only 350 miles from the populated city‚ Floridians didn’t have much to fear. At age four‚ I was one of them. But we and the residents of New Orleans‚ Louisiana and Mississippi didn’t know just how wrong we would be. Hurricane Katrina was the third deadliest hurricane in the United States history‚ claiming over a
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Childhood Obesity and Ways to Prevent It It would be a gross understatement to say that childhood obesity has become a serious problem in America over the last several years. In fact‚ the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has stated childhood obesity is the fastest growing health crisis in the United States. Over the past thirty years‚ the rate of obesity has more than tripled for children aged 6 to 11 and more than doubled for adolescents aged 12 to 19. It’s been approximated that more
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but tells about a different school with more lives that were taken victim by a man with a gun. It is only when people hear about the lives that were lost‚ that community and government listen. However‚ after a few months or years when the incident has passed‚ another shooting arises. The same scenario has been going on for years‚ and is happening more often. While the topic of gun control is a controversial topic amongst all political parties‚ it is agreed that school shootings are completely preventable;
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are getting harmed.Children are getting a hold of guns and accidently shooting others.People use guns for the wrong reasons and try to show their authority.This is why we need to do something about gun control.Controlling guns are the only way to prevent unnecessary deaths in this world.Ways to control guns: Reducing the usage of guns‚ making new laws and limiting people who own guns. Also‚ people that have a mental illness should not be allowed to use a gun. The first reason: we need stricter
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government was very weak and limited. The members agreed to create a new constitution‚ to make the central government stronger‚ but try not to create a tyranny‚ like the harsh power of King George III. But the question remains‚ “How did the Constitution prevent too much power from getting into the hands of one person or group?” The Constitution was defended from tyranny through a variety of different ways while being made at the Constitutional Convention by using federalism‚ having a separation of powers
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health care centers‚ and charities. We are also going to try to stop trafficking at the start by increasing our international engagement with the source countries‚ enabling us to learn and understand human trafficking patterns to better be able to prevent trafficking before it starts. Lastly‚ we will be strictly monitoring the borders and creating profiles stating the risk of victims from particular countries so that the front line staff can focus on
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There are four significant priorities that a school needs to ensure during the first thirty minutes of an emergency response. As stated by the National School Public Relations Association‚ during the “…first 30 minutes of a crisis is crucial in determining people’s perceptions of the crisis and how it was handled...” (New Edition of NSPRA’s Crisis Communication Management Manual Now Available‚ n.d). With this in mind‚ to begin with‚ all students‚ staff‚ and [genuine] visitors need to be secured and
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This can be overcome by the simple solution of educating the children and adolescents in their own schools. This solution is better for the students because the school environment is a safe one and the best place to learn about issues like this‚ these environments also help discuss the negative effects of guns and this issue should be addressed because the last few incidents have occurred in schools. Accidents with firearms do not always
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obtain an approval from The President of Asian Youth Ambassadors Network Bhd for the company to participate in giving speech to students at a secondary school on their Co-Curriculum Day. 2.0 Topic It had been reported lately that swine flu cases has occurred in Malaysia. Thus‚ I feel it is essential for me to give a speech on topic ‘Steps to Prevent the Widespread of Swine Flu in Malaysia’. 3.0 Objective The objectives of delivering a speech on the above-mentioned topic are as outlines below:-
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Odeon Cinemas www.odeon.co.uk Odeon Cinemas targets people who are interested in movies and the new releases updates of film world regardless of the age. Odeon cinemas has a slogan of "Fanatical about films" weaknesses 1- The colors are not eye-catchitng‚ the blue and white are not well-matched together. (design) 2- The font is small (design) 3- the windows of each movie on the home page is relatively space-consuming (design) 4- brand image (from the website too) 5- the steps of the
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