What does Water do? Why do we as humans need water? Why can’t we just go around all of our lives and do sports or activities without needing to drink water? What does water do for our bodies‚ and what happens if we drink too much/too little of it? We as humans need water because Water is essential to good health—and life. Up to 60 percent of an adult’s body weight and about 74 percent of a newborn’s body weight is water‚ making it the largest single substance in the human body. Water helps carry
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Caffeine and Coffee Consumption Maddie Schierbeek Psychology 7th block Why do so many people‚ especially high school students consume so much caffeine? Perhaps 70-minute classes are too much to handle. Maybe the AP course load is overwhelming. Or perhaps problems at home cause a lack of sleep. Everyone has their reasons. On the other hand‚ there may be a scientific reasoning behind it. Caffeine highs are followed by caffeine lows. This cycle results in a need for caffeine: addiction. Researchers
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piece to finish off the war. Because if they weren’t they would know that in result that it would end in a Japanese victory. The Americans dropped the bomb to finish the war and thus was necessary as a means to win‚ but the consequences were extreme. Looking past the consequences in the Japanese defense it led to thousands of their people dying to a fiery inferno. President Truman was the one that made the decision to drop the bomb‚ and the first citation is from his personal Memoirs in 1955. The
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of Americans will struggle with obesity and diabetes more than any other. The most obvious culprit is the added sugar in sodas and other sugary beverages‚ like sports drinks or teas. One idea public health advocates have floated to bring sugar consumption down is to tax beverages with more than a certain amount of added sugar. (Berkeley‚ Calif.‚ and the Navajo Nation have managed to pass such legislation.) Another is to shrink the size of soda cups. The latest idea is a warning label. Legislators
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Consumption of the Consumer The movie Fight Club‚ directed by David Fincher‚ has had a major effect on the everyday movie watcher. Its plot is a very intriguing one in that it probably makes the viewer question his or her own way of living. The main character‚ who’s real name the viewer never learns‚ has insomnia‚ and is unable to find treatment for it. He finds solace in going to the support groups for different terminal diseases. It helps him sleep until a woman named Marla shows up. He
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What are some consequences of the Columbian Exchange? The Columbian exchange was a movement that changed the Americas permanently. The Americas were inhabited by the Indians which lived in tribes. When Conquistadores such as Cristobal Colon arrived they brought in much more than just people. Food‚ animals‚ diseases and new customs changed America. First of all the Native American population decreased because of slavery and illnesses a ninety percent. This was a huge change in the population
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Desalination 223 (2008) 448–456 Water desalination cost literature: review and assessment Ioannis C. Karagiannis*‚ Petros G. Soldatos Agricultural University of Athens‚ Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Development‚ 75 Iera Odos Street‚ GR 11855 Athens‚ Greece Tel. +30 210 5294769; Fax +30 210 5294776; email: i.karagiannis@aua.gr Received 21 December 2006; accepted 28 February 2007 Abstract As water resources are rapidly being exhausted‚ more and more interest is paid to the desalination
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Collectivisation What? Communal farms‚ Kolkhoz‚ were set up all over the countryside‚ for a variety of different reasons. Stalin planned to merge all the small farms onto larger ’collective’ farms. These new larger farms (Kolkhoz’s) would pool labour and resources‚ and therefore would operate more effectively and efficiency. In addition‚ state provided tractors and fertilisers would modernise production‚ again making the operations more efficient. Why? Stalin had a variety of different
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In the nineteenth century there were many conflicts happening in the new country that either directly or indirectly shaped the course of the colonists lives. With events such as the Boston Tea Party and various treaties being signed as acts of defiance against both the British and the French powers‚ the colonists as new Americans‚ were very rebellious in the years leading up to American declaring its independence from Great Britain. The issues the new nation faces against these global powers helped
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The Partition of Bengal (1905) Bengal was the largest of the provinces of India. At the end of the nineteenth century it included Western Bengal with a population 54 million (42 million Hindus and 12 million Muslims) and east Bengal and Assam with a population of 31 million (12 million Hindus and 18 million Muslims). This was a huge area to govern as one unit. There were ten times as many people in Bengal as there were in the whole of Britain at this time. The British maintain that Bengal was
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