Alcohol and Driving Alcohol is a depressant that affects your vision‚ coordination‚ reaction time‚ multitasking ability‚ judgment‚ and decision-making. How can you drive safely if you can’t see‚ think‚ and move around well and react quickly? Alcohol affects your ability to identify dangerous situations and make good decisions when you know danger is ahead‚ and it slows your reaction time even if you do make a good decision. In addition‚ having alcohol in the body while you’re driving messes up your
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One take-away from Native American Perspectives that helped me understand Native American history more was the idea of regimes of truth from French philosopher Michel Foucault. This idea was vital in understanding Native American and settler colonial relations. Foucault said‚ “Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by a virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power. Each society has its regime of truth‚ its “general politics” of truth: that is‚ the types
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Is Smoking Suicide? Tobacco use is directly related to lung cancer in ninety percent of males and eighty percent of women. Also tobacco use is directly linked to twenty percent of heart disease. What this says to me is that using tobacco is essentially suicide. So‚ yes tobacco use is suicide and tobacco leads to an estimated five million deaths every year. Mean while seventy percent of those five million deaths are in under developed countries. I believe the reason three and a half million people
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Smoking is Bad! According to the American Lung Association‚ there are estimated 50 million people who smoke. Smoking kills more people than any other disease in the world‚ 5.4 million death in 2004 and more than 100 million over the twentieth century. However‚ smokers do not fully understand the risks they take by smoking. It affects a person physically and mentally‚ economically and socially. First of all‚ smoking affects a smoker physically and mentally. Nicotine in cigarettes or cigars is a
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“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin is a short story based on the pursuit of Righteousness; in order to be truly happy‚ one must stand up for what is right‚ even if it means letting go of the familiar. The residents of Omelas have the choice to ignore a suffering of a child who is held captive in a cellar‚ or fight for what’s right and essentially leave their homes. What would one prefer: allow an innocent child to suffer certain death‚ or rid themselves of their comfort and
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Main Point 1: A. As we have heard in Lisa’s speech‚ smoking is bad for the smoking individual. 1. Active cigarette smoking is the major cause of lung cancer and an important established cause of cardiovascular disease. B. According to U.S. National Library of Medicine‚ smoking is bad for the people nearby the smoker due to second hand smoke. 1. Exposure to second hand smoke has been associated with numerous negative health outcomes. It is sufficient to induce pulmonary inflammation‚ decrease
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different chemicals‚ some of which are highly toxic. Nicotine‚ a main ingredient of tobacco smoke‚ is the most addictive drug known to man. Two main topics about smoking in general I would like to discuss are the various health effects of smoking and the anti-smoking actions which society has taken. The American Cancer Society estimates that smoking is single handily responsible for about 419‚000 deaths in the United States each year. Among the many cancer contributions to lung cancer amounts to 30% of
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SMOKING: The enemy of life By-Rheiya Smoking! There isn’t any benefit of smoking and the problems are infinite still people don’t quit smoking. The main reason why people smoke is for fashion. Most of the smokers are the college students because that’s the time when one pays a lot of attention on fashion and tries to be cool. The effects of smoking are only harmful. The worst effect of smoking is it not only harms the smokers but even the one’s who did no fault‚ the one’s inhaling the harmful
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for its wars and divisions. Recently another topic caused further divisions in the Lebanese society: the law prohibiting smoking in public places. In a country plagued with security‚ social‚ economical and political problems‚ the Lebanese government decided to tackle the public smoking issue and laid down the law number 174‚ starting the summer of 2012. The law states that smoking is prohibited in all closed public places such the hospitals‚ universities and schools‚ government and business facilities
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The Abuse of Alcohol Christine Townsend University Of Pheoniox Author Note This essay is being submitted on October 21‚ 2012‚ for Karen Spears Reading and Writing Strategies course. The Abuse of Alcohol A large part of the population in the United States abuse or used to abuse alcohol. The health and social problems are enormous‚ leading to an increase in unemployment‚ homelessness and even death. Alcoholism can cause a lonely and poor life style. Many people use certain excuses to drink
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