Emily Parrish Russell English 1105 12 December 2012 Soda Sizes Michael Bloomberg‚ New York’s mayor‚ has addressed the issue of obesity by banning the sale of soda and other sugary drinks over sixteen ounces in movie theaters‚ restaurants‚ stadiums‚ and street carts. As of March 2013 if this ban is violated‚ the vendor would face a two hundred dollar fine. The ban is a great idea. Regulating soda sizes exerts control over obesity and is a proactive move to help reduce osteoporosis. Increasing
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Dear Jay Asher (author)‚ In the United States today‚ more than 11‚000 books have been challenged or banned. Many people disagree with how authors write about graphic topics like sex‚ drugs‚ partying‚ abuse‚ religion and much more. Although‚ what they fail to realize is how accurate these topics written about are to the everyday events in our lives. The banning of your book‚ Thirteen Reasons Why‚ is unreasonable and unfair because it focuses on suicide which is a growing issue today‚ emphasizes
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Why should fracking be banned? Because liberals are an autoimmune disease that want this country to fail at any possible costs. It shouldn’t be‚ fracking doesn’t do anything with the water‚ studies have proven that‚ plus "Green cars" actually leave a bigger biological footprint. It shouldn’t. Low information people are scared because they are being lied to. Because coal miners don’t like it. Power plant companies are making a transition from coal to natural gas due to fracking‚ and we’re putting
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cable modem: ABSTRACT Cable modems are devices that allow high-speed access to information at a distant server may it be Internet server or video on demand server‚ via a cable television network. While similar to the traditional (analog) dialup modems‚ a cable modem is significantly more powerful‚ capable of delivering data approximately 500 times faster. During the early to mid - 1990s‚ the two-way interactive communication capability of the existing cable network infrastructure was realized
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advertisements on TV‚ in magazines‚ and on websites about prescription drugs encouraging viewers to recommend prescription drugs to their doctors that they may not even need. In 2007‚ the average American watched approximately sixteen hours of pharmaceutical advertisements per year (Mulligan). Even though these commercials may seem funny or just annoying‚ they impact how we think about how prescription drugs are (or should be) marketed and sold. Pharmaceutical advertising should be banned because it can
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engage themselves in owning a gun if numerous studies show the consequences of allowing this to happen. Accessibility is one of the many factors that have proven to lead to displeasing actions such as suicide‚ murder‚ and even burglary. But how should we respond to these actions to successfully minimize them? According to the Barrack Obama’s spokesman‚ Jay Carney‚ claims that “a complex problem will require a complex solution.” Even though the problem is complex‚ the solution is “blindly obvious”
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Ban Zoo Background By definition‚ a zoo is a facility in which animals are kept and displayed to the public. It is a short form of Menagerie‚ zoological park and garden. The word zoological refers to zoology which means study of animals. An Egyptian queen called Queen Hatshepsut decided to build a zoo about 1500BC and about five hundred years later a Chinese Emperor named Wen Wang founded the Garden of Intelligence. The Garden of Intelligence was an enormous zoo which was full of different kind
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1. Give a school-based example of two of the following: positive reinforcement‚ negative reinforcement‚ punishment‚ or extinction. A positive reinforcement would be if a student was doing the correct behavior‚ the teacher would praise the student for using the correct behavior. Example: Jimmy raised his hand to answer the questions the teacher directed to the class. The teacher smiled at Jimmy‚ and told him he was doing a great job answering the questions by raising his hand. Jimmy is proud of himself
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nothing short of essential. Their main function is conservation. Without captive breeding‚ many endangered species would now be extinct - for example‚ the golden lion tamarin‚ red wolf and Przewalski’s horse. I am not for a moment suggesting that we should stop trying to protect animals’ natural habitats‚ but if endangered species were to become extinct in the wild (which sadly seems quite likely in the near future)‚ zoos will have preserved them for future generations‚ with enough genetic diversity
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Should there be stricter gun bans? Handguns are the cause of so many deaths amongst the people of the world today. In the past few months there have been so many awful tragedies due to the access we all have to guns. The repercussions of gun violence make up 50 percent of today’s disasters claiming lives ranging from babies to adults and even elderly. The government needs to make guns less accessible‚ and the law along with the law enforcement need to really enforce the laws they make. This
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