It happens everywhere‚ and you see it everyday. Yet‚ no one really notices or acknowledges that it’s happening. It is all around us everywhere. Downtown on the streets‚ under the bridges and in the parks. It is homelessness. In Canada alone‚ there are 150 000 people who are homeless at this very minute‚ according to the Government of Canada. Yet‚ when everyone thinks of a homeless person‚ they think of someone who lives on the street in a box. But‚ that is not always the
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Facts About Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is a serious‚ growing epidemic‚ cutting across all categories of race‚ ethnicity‚ family income and locale. Obesity rates tripled in the past 30 years‚ a trend that means‚ for the first time in our history‚ American children may face a shorter expected lifespan than their parents. Additionally‚ we spend $150 billion every year to treat obesity-related conditions‚ with childhood health care costs rapidly increasing that number. Researchers have estimated
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Morgan Peterson May 4‚ 2011 Anatomy – Period F The Boy in the Bubble The Boy in the Bubble is about David Vetter; a boy was born with a rare hereditary disease‚ severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)‚ meaning his body had no immune system to fight off diseases of any sort. He stayed in a plastic isolator bubble environments while waiting for a matching bone marrow donor or a cure for his ailment. The parents of David tried to give him as much of a normal life as they could‚ and he had schooling
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Abortion Abortion is quite a controversial issue in today’s government. Many of us refrain from even getting into a discussion over abortion‚ because it is such a sensitive topic. It is very unfortunate that so many women around the world have to make decisions involving abortion‚ period. “One in three women will have at least one abortion by the time she is 45‚ and these run the gamut of ages‚ races‚ backgrounds and beliefs.” (Welch) In one’s eye abortion is simply immoral and unacceptable‚
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disease of the tropics. It entered the lives of American men who voyaged to the West Indies. We know today that yellow fever is a virus spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. This mosquito has peculiar habits that we¡¦re still continuing to learn about. This mosquito prefers to live in urban areas. It breeds in clean standing water. It also feed during that day‚ so back in the 1700 and 1800¡¦s the mosquitoes must have had enjoyed the major port
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The dearest place on the map for me. Russia‚ officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic‚ comprising 83federal subjects. From northwest to southeast‚Russia sharesborders with Norway‚ Finland‚ Estonia‚ Latvia‚ Lithuania and Poland‚ Belarus‚ Ukraine‚ Georgia‚ Azerbaijan‚ Kazakhstan‚ China‚ Mongolia‚ and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk‚ and the US state of Alaska by
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moon and back.a 6. Because the heart has its own electrical impulse‚ it can continue to beat even when separated from the body‚ as long as it has an adequate supply of oxygen.c 7. The fetal heart rate is approximately twice as fast as an adult’s‚ at about 150 beats per minute. By the time a fetus is 12 weeks old‚ its heart pumps an amazing 60 pints of blood a day.g 8. The heart pumps blood to almost all of the body’s 75 trillion cells. Only the corneas receive no blood supply.c 9. During an average
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Provençal dialect of the Occitan language‚ deriving from the expression pès tancats [ˈpɛ taŋˈka]‚ meaning "feet together" or more exactly "feet anchored". The casual form of the game of pétanque is played by about 17 million people in France‚ mostly during their summer vacations. There are about 375‚000 players licensed with the Fédération Française de Pétanque et Jeu Provençal (FFPJP) and some 3‚000 in England. Another 20‚000 or so play in Quebec‚ Canada. Additionally‚ pétanque clubs have arisen in
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that serial killers have in common. I just watched an episode of Ted Bundy on how he confessed to all the murders he did right before he got executed. This source is fitting in with my research‚ because it gave me more aspects to look at and study about why serial killers kill. Davis‚ Jeff. "Criminal Minds." Criminal Minds. CBS. 22 Sept. 2005. Television John Wayne Gacy‚ was a 1970’s serial killer from Cook County Illinois‚ who raped and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men and was labeled
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because in that way you do not have to worry about children when they use internet‚ but as I said‚ they also block some good websites‚ so you kinda stuck inside a bubble and you don’t know what your missing out. We can not really go out of these bubbles because most websites are formatted this way‚ but in some websites we can turn off tracking locations‚ erase the web history‚ and go anonymous‚ and it will be less personalized. The downside of the filter bubbles is that you think that you can find anything
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