There is one sure fire way to burn more calories by playing golf: If the course will allow it‚ forgo a cart in favor of walking. In 2010‚ sports scientist Neil Wolkodoff conducted a study using a group of amateur golfers‚ and found they burned over 700 calories per 9 holes when they walked the course versus just over 400 when they rode in a cart. This means you could burn about a Big Mac’s worth of extra calories by walking an 18-hole round instead of riding. Now that the obvious is out of the way
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becoming another statistic in the rising violent crime rate produced by guns. This has become an all too familiar scenario for families living not only in Chicago‚ but inner cities throughout the United States. Mainstream media would like for everyone to believe that it is the gun that is to blame for these crimes‚ while politicians use these unfortunate events to push their anti-gun agendas. Many legislators have addressed the issue of gun violence with ideas from stricter laws‚ to all out bans on certain
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Banned Breeds Make Renting a Hardship. By: Amy O’Halloran Course: Com/156 University Composition and Communication II Due: October‚ 19‚ 2013 Instructor: Michael Cooper Owning a dog that is a Pit-Bull breed carries a preconceived perception that it is a dangerous dog‚ thus causing issues when searching for a residence to occupy. This should not be justifiable enough to disallow being covered under renters insurance. Owning pit-bull breeds are even illegal in some areas. Each dog is only
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The Outsiders By: Alyssa Padewski Do you want your kids to have bad influences from this book? Do you want them to be exposed to this material? The book‚ The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton should be banned from this school for teaching kids bad lessons and it is inappropriate. First of all‚ there is under aged smoking. As well as young kids drinking alcohol. Second of all‚ there is a lot of violence and fighting‚ plus there are weapons being used in a bad way. They show people killing people or they
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Persuasive Essay Did you know that in the United States almost 100‚000 people are shot or killed with a gun in one year? 10‚527 people die a year in handgun related incidents in the United States. This number‚ by far‚ outweighs the number of gun related deaths in countries such as Sweden‚ Great Britain‚ and Japan‚ which number 13‚ 22‚ and 87‚ respectively. What is the reason for such drastic differences in numbers? Sweden‚ Great Britain‚ and Japan are all countries that have stricter gun control
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Gun Control Gun control policies are laws that regulate the manufacture‚ sale‚ transfer‚ possession‚ modification‚ or use of firearms. These laws or policies vary widely around the world. Some countries such as United Kingdom‚ have very strict limits on gun possession while others like the United States‚ have laws that vary significantly within their states. However due to recent events the government is trying to pass and enforce new gun laws that would make certain types of weapons illegal as
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Homes destroyed‚ property damaged‚ and water supplies polluted. This is all from oil companies fracking into our planet. Many may ask‚ “why has fracking become such a big deal when the process has been around since the 1940’s?” Oil companies have designed a new way to frack to get the most of the oil and natural gas out of the earth; this process is called horizontal drilling. Horizontal drilling has made fracking become a problem all around the globe (Brantley). This process has enabled engineers
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Sometimes the animals which are subjects to the test‚ experience extreme pain before it dies. The number of animals that die as test subjects to animal testing is about 100 million animals in a single year; this takes place in the United States of America alone (Hackman & Donald‚ 2006). The number of animals that die naturally is lower that the animals that die as test subjects; if this trend continues‚ the animals will soon cease to exist. According to a Wall Street Journal‚ the author stated‚ “In
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Donald Trump has recently issued a ban on people traveling to the US from seven‚ mostly Muslim‚ countries: Iran‚ Iraq‚ Libya‚ Somalia‚ Sudan‚ Syria‚ and Yemen. This ban will last for 90 days. Refugees in general have been banned for 120 days‚ but refugees from Syria have also been banned for an indefinite amount of time‚ too. This travel ban has already been the center of worldwide controversy‚ leading to protests in the US‚ and world leaders to bash the executive order. The travel ban will be detrimental
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controversial topic and it raises a moral dilemma about whether it is ethical to harm animals in order to improve human lives‚ with many people strongly demanding that this practice be banned. In this essay‚ I shall argue that animal testing is justified since the benefits resulting from it outweigh the harms and thus should not be banned. Firstly‚ scientific research involving animals has had an essential importance in developing new medicines. According to the California Biomedical Research Association‚ most
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