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    Electronic cigarettes are one of the most common ways people are smoking now a days. These are newer devices and have not yet been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Since the FDA has not approved electronic cigarettes or what goes inside them‚ the FDA has no idea what companies are putting in electronic cigarettes or if it is even safe for users to be ingesting. These are newer devices and right now there is no information on how they will impact users in the future like if it could

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    cannot do any “wrong” moves or acts because she is being watched on constant surveillance. Being under constant surveillance will not support an advanced society because people feel violated with knowing cameras are watching their moves. If they are able to act freely they are more motivated and inspired to do better things for the community. “I look at the device in my hands and have an idea. It takes me a few minutes to figure out which series of buttons starts the recording device. Once I do‚ I begin

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    Jozui in her passage argues to the audience that people should stop supporting companies who use celebrity endorsers and that there should be laws to combat this type of advertising. The author supports her claim by first pointing out that companies simply use famous or familiar faces to sway the opinions of their viewers. She continues by giving examples of how certain companies use athletes or talk show hosts are just paid to pretend to be a user of the product. The author’s purpose is to persuade

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    According to the information collected by the USSR‚ during World War II‚ over 11 million people were killed‚ and countless people lost their rights and freedom for over four years. More than 20 countries were involved in this bloody war. The Nazi’s merciless actions towards the Jewish people captivated the attention of the whole world. The Nazis took the lives of more than six million Jews‚ including newborn babies and children. This was obviously a cruel operation. However‚ according to Anne Frank

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    The theistic argument that I think is most plausible is the Cosmological Argument. I think this because to me this is the only argument that is plausible because things do not exist without a cause. For example‚ people and animals do not exist without reproduction. People must have a first cause to be created and exist. “The cosmological argument for God’s existence goes like this: The world could not exist on its own so there must have been a first cause that brought it into being. This first

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    century that people live in today‚ people are always carrying around water bottles. Whether they be in a Tervis Tumblr‚ or in plastic bottle people always have water with them. While people think most people may drink tap water‚ they would be wrong. Most people drink tap water because is it safer for the environment. And it does not take as much water as people think it takes to produce bottled water. And it also is a healthier choice than any other drink‚ even over tap water. Most people think that

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    | Radiation Safety | UML-Radiation and Life Sec 031 | | Ryan M. Burnett | 3/11/2013 | | Radiological protection deals with methods and efforts of safeguarding people and the surroundings from the deadly effects of ionizing radiation that includes electromagnetic radiation and particle radiation. Sometimes radiation cannot be controlled or contained and accidents take place causing radiation leaks. For this reason‚ protocols and radiation safety has become a pre-curser in our

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    People do acts of kindness for a reason. People help others because they are in need and because they can get a benefit out of it. For example‚ I live in Texas and over the summer we had many catastrophic events. Including hurricanes through the Houston and Corpus Christi area. There was another through Puerto Rico and many earthquakes happened in Mexico. Many people lost their lives‚ homes‚ and all of their belongings. As a close church community‚ we were able to incorporate other church communities

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    and continue to do so. With serial killers there is no real reasoning behind their murders‚ they do not just snap one day‚ nor do they do it out of greed or even jealousy. There is time between the murders‚ and most of the time these people are active members of a community. While there are many studies about why these people murder‚ there have been no actual breakthroughs. So the question that still remains is what type of psychological disorder could cause this kind of behavior? Robert Ressler

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    Prisons are places where people give up their freedom‚ privacy‚ control and sometimes even their dignity. Losing your minds in prison is a common occurrence due to the restriction of movement and isolation that many prisoners experience. There are many people around them but they feel alone because they are away from their friends and family. If they are in prison for a lesser crime or a crime committed out of necessity then they feel alone in their ideals because they consider themselves a “regular”

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