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    Miguel “Alex” Salas FCS 162 Nutrition‚ Professor Gordon 11/08/2012 Response Paper In the movies “Fat (What no one is telling you)” and “Fat‚ Sick‚ & Nearly Dead” both address the issue of weight‚ appearance‚ and health problems associated with being overweight. Both movies provide an interesting view of people living with weight problems. In the movie “Fat (What no one is telling you)” there are different individual cases of their struggle with being overweight. Some have struggled with

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    client‚ John. Jimmy’s wasn’t a client of Coleman’s‚ but John didn’t like his customers to see him “doing business.” Coleman was talking with Jimmy about business when he spilled his drink all over the bar. That made him think about this cool trick where you put pure grain alcohol in your mouth‚ blow it out and light it. Coleman took a big drink‚ took out his lighter‚ and said‚ “Watch this!” He lit his lighter‚ blew the liquid and a fireball went through the room. The fireball hit Jimmy and killed him instantly

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    You Decide Week 2    I. Identification Identify the dilemma. The dilemma is the fact that patient Margie Whitson is looking to have her pacemaker removed which will in turn end her life. She has asked the medical staff at the facility to assist in ending her life. What morals are involved? The moral is the patient’s right to refuse care if she chooses and also the right to die.     II. Information Information to consider: Margie Whitson just experienced the death of her son. She has no living

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    Tahli McGill TM1144 A Story of American Freedom? The History of the United States from Pre-contact to the Present (MAMMD1SAF ) What does freedom mean to you? Tahli McGill TM1144 What does freedom mean to you? “If you really want to enslave people‚ tell them that you’re going to give them total freedom” Ron L Hubbard‚ from 1991 Time cover story. “Freedom” in literal terms means the power or right to act

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    Blood. Blood was the first thing that I had seen when I walked in to the E.R. of NYHQ in Flushing‚ Queens. A young man‚ about the age of 25‚ had been injured in a car accident. There was blood running down the left side of his face. This reminded me of one of my favorite television series‚ "HOUSE‚" the only difference was that this was reality. I was standing in the middle of the emergency room in a real hospital‚ a hospital full of real sick people. Community service means much more to me than

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    Please type a brief personal history leading to your decision to become a teacher‚ as well as your thoughts on how students learn best and how you would address the needs of diverse learners (e.g.‚ English language learners‚ students with disabilities) in urban settings. Also‚ discuss why you chose CSULA to pursue your teaching credential (refer to the CCOE conceptual framework and mission statement). As a high school student I decided to take a ROP (Regional Occupational Program) class in child

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    your headset the engine beats louder as you wait for the sound of silence‚ and the knot in your stomach grows larger as time seems to slow down. Your last refueling opportunity is well behind now. It will surely take longer to turn around than to press on‚ and you wonder if backing off on the power will make a difference. But the airplane’s going so slowly already that you decide to leave the throttle alone. One good thing about this groundspeed: It gives you plenty of time to pick out suitable landing

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    that’s how we are identified on what language we use. I as an American we are taught to try to speak more than one language‚ that’s why there offer course at school to learn to different language like Spanish or French. From experience I believe that learning another language is hard because not only you have to learn the language you have to learn the culture. So I believe it goes hand and hand with each other. You’re identified on how you look and what language you speak. “Culture refers to people’s

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    Most people think that the world faces an overpopulation problem. But Phillip Longman argues otherwise in his book The Empty Cradle. He warns instead of a global baby bust. World population growth has fallen 40 percent since the late 1960s. The human population is expected to peak at nine billion by 2070‚ and many countries will see their population shrink long before that. Japan will have 49 retirees per 100 workers as early as 2005. Falling birthrates mainly account for these declines. Several

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    ultimately subjective‚ as our perceptions of cultural differences are shaped largely by our immersion in our own culture. An ethnocentric approach stems from judging an alternate culture in relation to one’s own pre-conceived cultural values‚ held to be superior; the parallax phenomenon‚ the inability to escape our own biases‚ prevents objective analysis of different cultures. A cultural relativist maintains the post-modernist view that there is no moral or cultural high-ground with which to judge one culture

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