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    In Anita Garland’s essay “Let’s Really Reform Our Schools” She talks about how our schools need some changes. Some of these changes are to stop forcing kids who don’t enjoy going to school to go to school‚ how there should be school uniforms‚ and how there should be healthier foods in the cafeteria. Also how after school activities should be more educational instead of being focused on competition betweens others and being distracted by the cheerleaders‚ and also about how the prom should be cut

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    Our Changing World

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    Our Changing World Was it only a decade ago that a blackberry was a mere summer fruit? That green was just a colour‚ and reality TV was that one show sandwiched between music videos on MTV? There were‚ of course‚ huge political and social upheavals that roiled our world in the past decade. But there were also the gradual lifestyle changes that you don’t always notice happening – quite like watching a child grow older. It is hard to believe how much the world has transformed in the past decade

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    Adriana Lopez Robots in Our World There are over one million industrial robots living in households today and there are still more being brought in. According to Merriam Webster there are three definitions for a robot. The first being‚ “a machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts of a human being.” The second is‚ “a device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive acts.” The third one is‚ “a mechanism guided by automatic controls.” Though

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    To what extent is Christopher’s condition responsible for the conflicts that arise in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time? Christopher’s condition directly results in a few minor conflicts in the novel‚ but more significantly‚ it factors to different degrees in the major conflicts between Mother and Father‚ between Father and Mrs. Shears‚ and between Father and Christopher. The minor conflicts often arise from Christopher’s trouble with social interaction. Early in the novel‚ for instance

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    Amelia Scotney ‘To what extent do urban areas modify their climate?’ – 40 marks. Cities create their own microclimates and their sites are almost always warmer‚ compared to a nearby rural location‚ than if the city were not there. The differences in urban climates are due to a number of different factors. The Urban Heat Island effect is known as the zone of hot air that develops over the urban areas and consequently higher temperatures than the surrounding rural area. Temperatures progressively

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    What Really Ails America

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    In his article‚ “What Really Ails America‚” author William J. Bennett presents his argument as to why America is now viewed as a country that no longer possesses a virtuous‚ morally sound society. According to Bennett‚ this change in society was brought about by an aversion to spiritual and religious things. This lack of spirituality and religion has skewed the perception of what is now considered to be ethical in this country. Bennett not only makes note of the issues‚ but also goes on to explain

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    nature and to everything meaningful: “Getting and spending‚ we lay waste our powers: / Little we see in Nature that is ours; / We have given our hearts away‚ a sordid boon!” He says that even when the sea “bares her bosom to the moon” and the winds howl‚ humanity is still out of tune‚ and looks on uncaringly at the spectacle of the storm. The speaker wishes that he were a pagan raised according to a different vision of the world‚ so that‚ “standing on this pleasant lea‚” he might see images of ancient

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    What Are We Really Eating?

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    Bradis McGriff ENVS10 Dr. Williams Rough Draft March 16‚ 2006 What Are We Really Eating? Everything that we eat has some form of an unnatural chemical in the product. As of late I have been considering only eating organic foods because not only is it healthier‚ but it is safer. In this term paper I am going to examine a few aspects of organic food. First I will examine what is organic food and what makes it organic? How does the prices of organic food compare to inorganic foods? And

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    take an active part or not‚ pressure groups represent our interests to those who govern. In virtually all our activities there is probably a group that is seeking to secure favourable legislation or decisions and to avoid unfavourable ones. As motorists‚ hospital patients‚ students‚ environmentalists‚ workers‚ and so on‚ we can be sure there is a group that is fighting our corner. In some cases we may be active members and so know exactly what issues are being addressed. In other cases we are not

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    This semester‚ we have read a myriad of pieces of writing that mingled the argument of immigrants. In the selective‚ “Do Immigrants Actually Hurt the U.S. Economy?” the author‚ Adam Davidson‚ explains how immigrants help the economy of the united States to grow and how it is a disadvantage for the wealth and resources of a country. The author describes the certain point that can make the economy strong with immigrants by saying they lowered the general cost of construction‚ make greater in size

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