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    Week Nine Race and Your Community I live in Champaign‚ Illinois where the current population is 81‚055 (as reported in 2010 in the U.S. Census). Our town has a variety of different people of different races and who may look alike‚ and also look very different from one another. I am African American‚ and there are a lot of other women in this town who are of the same race and have the same skin complexion. I have also been told plenty of times I look like someone else‚ and have even been mistaken

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    Take a step back and LISTEN UP!   If you don’t want to read a rant‚ you might want to stop now. This is a subject I can’t write about without a whole lot of emotions. You have been warned.   People really annoy me when they just don’t listen. It’s so frustrating. It’s ether I don’t speak English or my words are just going in through one ear and out the other. In conversations‚ I give people my time and ask them lots of questions but get nothing back in return. Conversations should be fair‚ with equal

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    What You Eat Is Your Business‚” by Radley Balko In the article of Radley Balko‚ he considers obesity a problem in the nation. Balko believes that it is unhealthy for children to be eating bad food but it’s their choices to eat that food. Balko is saying that if people are eating unhealthy and are having health problems everyone shouldn’t have to pay for their health problems. Balko says‚ “In other words‚ bringing the government between you and your waistline.” Basically he is saying that the

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    What You Can Do to Control Ebola Ebola is now talked about across the globe. The fever and severe internal bleeding that are due to the disease are not only fatal‚ but there is also no complete or known cure at this time. Also‚ the disease is highly contagious as Ebola has not become contained‚ so this continues to alarm people around the world. Yet at a more personal level‚ the urgency of learning what to do about the control of Ebola and how to not become infected are all key to staying safe

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    How to Properly Take Blood Pressure Step 1 - Choose the right equipment: What you will need: 1. A quality stethoscope 2. An appropriately sized blood pressure cuff 3. A blood pressure measurement instrument such as an aneroid or mercury column sphygmomanometer or an automated device with a manual inflate mode. Step 2 - Prepare the patient: Make sure the patient is relaxed by allowing 5 minutes to relax before the first reading. The patient should sit upright with their upper arm positioned

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    Diversity and Your Community Kelley Boulet Cultural Diversity Sally Kwitkowski My hometown is Wichita Kansas‚ in which I was surrounded by numerous cultures and ethnicities. Wichita is the biggest city in Kansas‚ located in the south-central part of the state on the Arkansas River and approximately 140 miles south of the capital city of Topeka. It is also conveniently located just 197 miles from Kansas City and 161 miles from Oklahoma City‚ both with over 1

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    1. What conclusions can you make about your professional growth based on the evidence points found on your rubrics? One thing I can conclude about my professional growth based on the rubric is that my classroom management has improved. I feel that I have been standing my ground firmly when it comes to expectations‚ but also creating an environment where students feel safe to ask questions and come to me with problems. I also feel that I am still giving clear instructions to my students and repeating

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    country’s productivity and development.This attribute is already instilled in me as my ultimate goal is to give back to the country which has provided me with opportunities and that I now claim as my own. I have been volunteering within my school and community ‚ participating in blood drives‚ school clean ups‚ and relay for life events. My perception of America has opened many doors to me personally and has instilled in me the notion that with every opportunity taken‚ something should be contributed

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    Mastermind Class-IX Combined-I Roll-11 “How cleanliness and sense of beauty can influence the life of an individual?” I was the dirtiest person in my family. This is because I never use to clean my body properly and used to keep my thing for example text book‚ note copies‚ my gaming CDS‚ my cricket ball‚ bat‚ football‚ my school bag and my coaching bags and etc. All of things were in a disorganized way. Only if my mother used to scold me at that time I used to organize my things. Each

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    A controversial area in the United States law enforcement policy in recent years has been the practice of using racial profiling to attempt to identify or curb criminal activity. National Institute of Justice defines racial profiling by law enforcement as‚ “A practice that targets people for suspicion of crime based on their race‚ ethnicity‚ religion or national origin. Creating a profile about the kinds of people who commit certain types of crimes may lead officers to generalize about a particular

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