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    These days we have many weapons. They range from knives to guns and even to nuclear bombs. Do you ever wonder what they used long ago before things like this were invented? I do and that is why I am researching medieval weaponry. In medieval times‚ weapons weren’t used just used for war. They were also used for things like games and competitions. Some swords were strong enough to go through a knight’s armor and others were soft enough to have sword fights with. Swords were the most commonly used

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    roughly every four years. Most years have 365 days‚ but a leap year has 366 days. The extra day is added onto the end of the shortest month‚ February; in a leap year‚ February has 29 days (instead of its usual 28 days). February 29 is called leap day. Why Do We Have Leap Years? A year is defined as the time it takes for the Earth to orbit around the sun once. It takes the Earth about 365 1/4 days to make one entire orbit around the sun (a day is one rotation around the Earth’s axis). By adding one extra

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    lot of questions in my head: Why do we buy bottle water? Where is the source of water? Where these plastic bottles go when we throw them away? Today‚ I want to share with you what I have learnt about reasons we buy bottle water‚ the quality of the water‚ the source where it is taken from‚ and what happen to a plastic bottle. Let look at some of the reasons we buy bottle water. We buy bottle water for varieties of reasons: Fear of tap water‚ taste and convenience We try to avoid tap water as much

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    Why do we have laws in society? Laws are rules that keep stability in our community. These laws provide social cohesion‚ which attempts to create an atmosphere of social harmony and social change. Laws are put in place to ensure safety to the general public. In Celtic times society’s structure was based on clans. Rules were made and enforced by the Druid’s. If someone was to go against these rules they would be punished no matter the nature of the crime. In Elizabethan times society was structured

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    however this was not the case for Odysseus because he was stuck at sea for 10 full years. During this time‚ had a lot of fights and had to kill a lot of people‚ But I think that Odysseus is still a good guy despite his violent actions because he did them to help his crew‚ to try and get home and to help his family against the suitors. My first reason that Odysseus is still a good guy is because he tried to protect his crew. During his trip home from the trojan war‚ Odysseus did not make any decisions

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    how can we decide? If we follow the normative ethics and the golden rule completely tells us: we should do to others what we would want others to do to us‚ in other word‚ what we should do to others what we would want others to do to us. Ok lets back to my question‚ Since I do not want any one going to kill me‚ so I should not kill any one. Since we are the top of food chain‚ we are murderers‚ because we eat meat everyday and even if we have not killed the animals by our self‚ we are indirectly

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    the only ones doing it either. The parents will be as well. The parents will be because they are very expensive‚ causes controversy between the students‚ and it goes against students freedom of expression. Students already do not have much freedom at school but what we do have left‚ is being taken away. School uniforms restrict students’ freedom of expression. The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees that all individuals have the right to express themselves freely. (teen nick). In

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    Introduction Why is it that we burp‚ urinate‚ and poop? This is simply just our body’s way of removing wasteful substances from our system. In humans and animals‚ the lungs‚ kidneys‚ and layers of skin are the main organs of the body that carry this out. Most of these are natural involuntary processes that occur to keep our body healthy and in balance. If one fails to go through the excretion process on a regular basis‚ there could be very serious health issues that will be fatal to one’s body

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    times we don’t even notice when we apply it‚ but we work with science everyday in small ways‚ or even in big ways. At this age we don’t find much importance on what science has to bring to us but as we grow older we will realize that it will play a much bigger role in our lives than what we can imagine right now. There are always times when we get asked‚ “What do you want to be when you grow up?” At a younger age we would say a popstar or ballerina‚ as we leaned in towards our teen years we aspired

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    not make the same mistakes in the future. We are able to learn about war by the images that are presented to us. We take news and history books about war to create this image of how we see it. War can be looked at in the sense of very heroic and glorified while also be presented with the truth with the terrible events of what has happened and the loss of lives. With war we tend to not think of it affecting a part of science. War also plays a part in laws. We would not be having war if disagreements

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