The article discusses the long-term negative impact of watching television on the diet of American adults and provides advice on encouraging teenagers to eat healthy. This article is relevant to my project on proposing ways to combat obesity in Singapore as it highlights an important but possibly neglected causal factor for unhealthy eating habits – TV-watching. As young Singaporeans are exposed to television shows and media sources just as American teenagers are‚ findings on their negative influence
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TOK Prescribed Title essay ”We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. This essay will attempt to show that the title claim is correct. In order to do this an analysis will be made to show how ways of knowing such as sense perception‚ emotion and reason have an impact on how the knower perceives reality and the world. This task will be carried out while taking into account the areas of knowledge and analyzing the
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Redactive Poem The redactive poem I wrote about‚ is inspired by a page in the wonderful novel “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. The main theme of it is that sometimes things or situations are not what they seem to appear. During the time of the war many presious artifacts‚ such as jewles‚ were stolen or loss forever. In this particular case‚ Marie and her father are constantly on the look out for a presious dimond called The Sea of Flames. The jewle was one of antique and elegance
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Theory of Knowledge “We see and understand things not as they are but as we are” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. Name: Carlos Hill Quinta Candidate Number: 0650 035 Word count: 1‚495 People are aware of reality just how they see it and how they live it. People perceive things how they understand it which sometimes can lead to conflicts and discussions on the fact that each person can perceive things differently. One way speaking people perceive and understand
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We see and understanding things not as they are‚ but as we are. Discuss the claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. People grow in different societies‚ in different cultures‚ people have own experience and knowledge. From the beginning of our life we all are different. By the law of nature we cannot be the same. This claim states that we see and understand things not as they are‚ but as we are so we cannot understand or see something objectively (as they are) because we add our opinion
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“We see and understand things not as they are but as we are.” Discuss this claim in relation to at least two ways of knowing. The way we attain knowledge will determine how we see and understand things‚ but no matter how we see and understand them‚ it will never bring us to the objective truth. We use our perception to “see” things and we use our reasoning to “understand” things. It is common‚ if not inevitable‚ for us to manipulate the information received using the ways of knowing into what
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plants and their products. Biotechnology in agriculture is an efficient way by which crops that perform better in our changing environment can be designed. Some of these involve development of pest-resistant‚ herbicide-resistant‚ drought-resistant‚ saline-tolerant‚ heat-resistant crops and much more. Also the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables can be enhanced in various ways. Colored fruits and vegetables with increased lycopene and beta carotene content which are believed to ward off
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Term paper: Are we doing enough to help lower income groups in Singapore? OUTLINE: * Intro Paragraph Thesis Statement: The government and help groups are not doing enough to help poor single parents in Singapore. * Body Paragraphs Body Paragraph 1 Topic Sentence (TS) 1: Legal Status of single parents are not officially acknowledged. * PS 1: Government does not want to change the definition of nuclear family * SS1a: There are hardly any news or help given for single
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Objective Reality Cannot Exist Without Subjective Reality Caliegh Carleton-Shubat December/2012 HZT4U Papich The topic of Meta-Ethics pertaining to whether moral values are objective or subjective‚ and whether or not as a society we should be able to intervene on another society if we do not believe what they are doing is morally ethical‚ is quite a large topic. How can we come up with a solid answer as to whether or not there are universal human values‚ and whether
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first place. It can lead people to make decisions that they would not make otherwise. Individuals full of promises can be transformed by their surroundings in negative ways. Also‚ individuals can lose sight of their true goals when they become involved in disputes. However‚ once individuals witness the negativity of conflicts‚ they may start questioning the morality of their decisions. In All the Light We Cannot See‚ Anthony Doerr proves that conflict can alter and reveal the realities of human nature
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