To the citizens of our community: It is with great concern that I am writing this letter to address the public health of our community. Recently‚ there have been a number of children and adults who have strangely started to develop similar illnesses. The one thing each of these people has in common is that they all live right here in our community. My feels were that these sudden illnesses were not a matter of coincidence but instead a matter or poor practice. This feeling has proven to be accurate
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A driver starts a journey with 25 gallons in the tank of his car. The car burns 5 gallons for every 100 miles. Assuming that the amount of gasoline in the tank decreases linearly‚ a) write a linear function that relates the number of gallons G left in the tank after a journey of x miles. b) What is the value and meaning of the slope of the graph of G? c) What is the value and meaning of the x intercept? Solution to Problem 8: a) If 5 gallons are burnt for 100 miles then (5 / 100) gallons
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Foods Are Bad for Our Health By: Nathan Volpe As a teenager‚ I have a very close friendship to fast foods. Fast foods are tasty‚ quick‚ convenient‚ and inexpensive; all of which are great qualities to food. But there is one big aspect that fast foods are missing‚ the healthy aspect. Unhealthy eating is one of the world’s top causes for high blood pressure‚ heart disease and diabetes. Over the years‚ many people have started concentrating on the way they eat. Eating habits have become an awareness
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Alex Leen 9/5/12 English 110‚ 11:00 Final Draft of paper 1 In the essay “Our Time” by John Edgar Wideman he often takes a break from the narrative to address that he has many problems as a writer. He does this to try to consciously address these problems and hopefully solve these problems. He believes that if these problems are not rectified he would destroy any chance he has at telling a truthful account of his brother’s story. To rectify these problems he employs a variety of unique techniques
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The Future Is In Our Hands The article “A Walk in the Woods‚” by Richard Louv was published in April 2009 by Orion Press. This article mainly involved the aspect of deforestation and how today’s youth does not spend enough quality time outdoors. This malicious destruction of our natural habitat has been quite the controversy over the past few decades because it has a devastating impact on the environment. This negative impact does not only take a major toll locally‚ but on a global scale as
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Reaction to our health care system A baby gets sick and the parents take it to the doctor‚ a child breaks its arm and it gets taken to the doctor‚ an elderly woman is ill and she gets taken to the doctor. This is the way that it should be. When people get sick they should be able to visit the doctor in order to help them get better. Unfortunately‚ this is not how it is in reality. In the United States people go to the doctor without worry only if they have health insurance. Many people do not go
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2 3 8 9 Executive Summary Television plays a part in everyone’s daily lives‚ by influencing individual’s behaviour‚ actions and purchasing decisions. Behavioral learning theory is a fundamental concept which marketers uses to understand how consumer can be influenced. As such there are two types of behavioral theories namely Classical conditioning which is a response to a situation through repetitive exposure and Instrumental conditioning which is a learning process whereby one is rewarded for
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Our Socialized Selves Socialization can be described as the process in which an individual who is a part of a certain society learns to interact with others. A dynamic part of socialization would be social forces that help shape one’s way of interacting with others. These social forces are class‚ culture and institution. Socialization and social forces impact one’s decision of education‚ life style‚ friends and even the most personal choice of a marriage partner. In the majority of societies
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Should The Government Regulate Our Health? Posted: 01/29/10 10:58 AM ET Get Healthy Living Alerts Sign Up Submit this story I was in my late 20’s when I walked into a dialysis clinic for the first time. The interior of the waiting area was worn‚ with beige paint peeling off of the walls. As I waited awkwardly to find out where my patient was my attention was drawn to a sign that read‚ "Did you know that [a popular fast food sandwich] contains 1020 milligrams of sodium?" Salt can be bad
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Suicide In Our Society Once every minute someone tries to commit suicide. Sixty or seventy times a day these attempts succeed.( Earl A. Grollman‚ Suicide: Prevention‚ Intervention‚ Postvention‚ Boston: Beacon Press‚ 1988‚ p.4) Unlike what many want to believe‚ suicide can happen to anyone regardless of race‚ age or sex. News reports‚ books and the internet all point in the same direction. We are undergoing a breakdown in our social roles‚ and suicide is the result. The first ever recorded
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