Intro - My character is from the book Speak and I choose to start my monologue a year after the story ended when Melinda (the character I will be portraying) has recovered from the trauma she endured through 8th and 9th grade. Monologue: Puts on the hoodie Last year was rough‚ to say the least‚ I went through a lot‚ I all my friends in one night. That night‚ that one dreadful‚ horrible night. That night back in eighth grade‚ I was sexually assaulted by a high school student named Andy Evans. The
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“What You Need to Know About Microbeads‚ The Banned Bath Product Ingredients” Microbeads has contributed to a greater increase in plastic pollution‚ hurting the environment. Microbeads are the smaller plastics particles that can be found in our personal care products such as face soap‚ body washes‚ toothpaste‚ exfoliators‚ and other cleansing products. These microplastics are smaller that a grain of sand raging in size from one millimeter to five millimeters. Manufacturers used this bits of plastic
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12/07/2012 Cigarettes Must Be Banned Everyone knows the dangerous impacts of using cigarettes. However‚ not many people know how huge the issue is. In America‚ an enormous number of people die every year due to cigarette use. In particular‚ in 1990‚ approximately half of the preventable deaths in America were caused by cigarette use (Tobacco and Health). According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention‚ cigarette use contributes more to the causes of deaths in America than the
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lastics are synthetic substances produced by chemical reactions. Almost all plastics are made from petroleum‚ except a few experimental resins derived from corn and other organic substances. Plastic has many properties which have made it a raw material of choice for manufacturing of plastic bags and packing materials. Cost of production‚ light weight‚ strength‚ easy process of manufacture‚ and availability are some of the properties. There is nothing wrong with plastic as a material. Man has simply
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Speak Up (Exemplification) Have you ever just stood by when someone else was being picked on? Sometimes you just don’t have the courage to stand up for that person. I’ve experienced many situations in which I’ve ignored or simply have been too scared to speak up against. For example‚ when I was in grade school‚ I encountered a bully picking on one of the new kids and I could have said something to stop him. Just anything at all‚ but I didn’t. I walked away because I was too scared to stop
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Banned Soda’s Aldo Perez BCOM/275 Kevin Harris October 9‚ 2012 Obesity is a major issue in the United States of America. What defines a person obese is the minimum of thirty percent over their average body weight. It is also the leading causes of poor medical conditions such as‚ Type 2 diabetes‚ metabolic syndrome‚ hypertension‚ and heart disease. Poor food choices (high in sugar‚ saturated and trans fats)‚ lack of exercise (sedentary lifestyles)‚ and lack of sleep are
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playing sports is a tradition for families all across the world today. Sports are taken very seriously by athletes and fans and it forces players to feel the need to enhance their performance artificially. Although performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) are banned in professional sports today‚ many players feel it’s a necessity to compete vigorously with fellow players. PEDs can cause negative physical and psychological effects to the body. Athletes have used various substances in order to gain a competitive
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and ‘speak’ Wang Bingran Student ID: 11820787d Introduction This study compared ‘talk’ and ‘speak’ in terms of their senses‚ grammatical patterns and collocations. The comparison is based on data drawn from the British National Sampler Corpus (the BNC Sampler Corpus).The vast majority of the examples in this essay were selected from the BNC Sampler Spoken Corpus‚ one example was drawn from the BNC Sampler Written Corpus. Pragmatics While ‘speak’ and
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War should be banned War is characterized by international violence on the part of large bodies of individuals organized and trained for that purpose on the national level‚ some wars are fought intentionally between rival political fiction‚ other are fought against an external enemy. Wars have been fought in the name of religion‚ in-self-defense to acquire territory or resources‚ and to further the political aims of the pressure state’s leadership. War is in itself is a disadvantage to the
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Banned Pork for “Porksentatives” After the Napoles scam and the Priority Developmental Assistance Fund (PDAF) allotment "ork glitch aroused‚ President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III have said to an interview that he will not release any pork until the probe is not ended. "We will finish the investigation first and check if there are loopholes that can still be closed‚" Pres. Aquino said to Makki Polido on his interview in Greater Manila Area (GMA7). The action of PNoy doesn’t mean the pork is totally
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