You may often get told to wear sunglasses to protect your eyes‚ but you may not know what can happen if you don’t wear them. Many people don’t realize how much damage the sun’s harsh rays really can do to their eyes‚ and sun damage to your eyes can show up immediately and later in life. Next time you plan to leave the house on a sunny day without your sunglasses‚ remember these ways you will be harming your eyes if you skip them. 1. You Can Get Sunburn on Your Corneas Now If someone told you that
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Advertisements clearly play a huge role in society today; it seems as if there is a promotion for a new product around every corner. Advertising is how many companies are able to sustain their businesses and to gain more profits. However‚ some have criticized advertisements for their influence on people. While advertisements can draw in new customers‚ they can also cause people to be less mindful about what they are actually buying. Sometimes advertisements can even be misleading‚ which is a cause
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During‚ the period of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century the Europeans held a strong belief in scientific proof. The belief in scientific proof is associated to the Age of Enlightenment‚ a period in Europe in which people thought their beliefs should depend on reason and scientific proof. This period is referred to a time when people “set out by means of reason and direct observation to discover the fundamental laws governing nature‚ humanity‚ and society. The Enlightenment Philosophers
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In this quote‚ Mathabane describes his struggle to find meaning in school during the apartheid through his father’s comments about education. Mathabane uses parallel structure to demonstrate the contrast between his father’s view of the value of an educated man and the value of an uneducated man. His father‚ having grown up in an impoverished tribal reserve‚ is unable to understand the use of an education to his son’s wellbeing. He uses the word “books” (151)‚ as metonymy to represent education as
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Racism has provoked inequality among Americans for centuries. Although it has been claimed to have dissolved‚ racism is still apparent in the very set up of our nation. It pulls apart the unity of our nation by forming groups that in time will break the equality and freedom given in America. The ideal of racism still exists in today’s society‚ having found new ways to insert itself into our everyday life. As segregation and slavery have faded from American culture it is socially accepted that‚ with
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Caught up in our busy lives‚ Americans tend to take things for granted and fail to appreciate the little things in life. These little things have big meanings‚ and are much more important than we care to admit. For instance‚ we often pay little attention to small amounts of currency in the form of coins or more specifically‚ pennies.. We bustle around cities and schools and workplaces‚ fishing for cash to purchase a much-needed coffee or snack. Upon arriving to the cash register‚ we scramble
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Personal experience with ISIS and its predecessors I deployed to Iraq as an infantry soldier on July 4‚ 2010. On May 2‚ 2011‚ at Forward Operating Base (FOB) McHenry‚ near Hawijah‚ Iraq‚ we watched President Obama announce on television‚ that Osama Bin Laden was dead. The September 11th attacks were finally avenged. Soon we handed over the base to the Iraqi Army as we made our way back home. Needless to say many of us were dismayed when we later read the news that ISIS had taken over the entire
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"My house has been destroyed multiple times‚" is the quotes of people who have been affected by tornadoes and hurricanes each year. At up to 150 m.p.h. (Source 4)‚ hurricanes are deadly‚ and definitely with tornadoes who sweep in at a whopping 300 m.p.h. (Source 3)! These storms are life-threatening! Their characteristics‚ cost and damage‚ and their formation have a lot to do with their danger that can approach on you when you least expect it to. If you live in a mid-western state‚ you may be in
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It is interesting to think about how television could possibly affect your attention span. In Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” (1985)‚ he states a particular fact that “the average length of a shot on network television is 3.5 seconds‚ so that the eye never rests‚ always has something new to see.” This fact alone shows that your attention is constantly shifting and changing focus to see what else is there or what is coming next. With the coming of the internet age‚ written narrative is coming
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In 1968 East Los Angeles High Schools Students united together and protested that libraries lacked the materials to satisfy their inquisitive minds. Due to lack of funding and the apathetic minds of schools‚ Chicano students did not have enough Spanish material to explore or much of other material as well- therefore these dull‚ non-cultural libraries did not meet these students’ educational needs and their desire to learn about their culture. In 1968 East Los Angeles Students had enough and demanded
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