Secondhand Lion & The Secret Lion Identify one flat character and one round character from either short story or the film. Explain why you believe your choices fits the criteria for these two types of characters. Every story has to have a round character. A round character is a major character that changes throughout the story. I think that Walter is a round character because the story revolves around him and he changes from being a scared and innocent kid to a free and independent kid. He understands
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Secondhand Lions In Secondhand Lions‚ I felt that there were many important life lessons. From the start of the movie I thought that there might not be any connection between the uncles and Walter. Throughout the movie I realized that I was very wrong and that this new family had a lot to learn from each other. By the end of the story I could truly see that the everything that happened between the characters would always be with them the rest of their life. Both Walter and his uncles learned a
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Effects of Secondhand Smoke on Children BY MARCY BUREAU Introduction My name is Marcy Bureau. I chose this topic because I had a lot of exposure to secondhand smoke growing up as a child. It’s a sensitive topic for me because I now have a lot of health issues as a 22 year old adult. I have asthma and I have a very weak immune system. What is secondhand smoke? Secondhand smoke is also known as Environmental Tobacco Smoke‚ or ETS. It’s defined as a combination of the smoke that comes
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conducted during the past several decades clearly documents that exposure to secondhand smoke causes death and disease in nonsmokers. Some research indicates that secondhand smoke is more toxic and potentially more dangerous than the smoke that is directly inhaled by the smoker.14‚15 Nationally‚ the US Environmental Protection Agency has found secondhand smoke to be a risk to public health and has classified secondhand smoke as a group A carcinogen‚ the most dangerous class of carcinogen.16 A recent
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Secondhand Smoke Secondhand smoke is dangerous to anyone who breathes it in. There is no safe amount of it. Secondhand smoking is a problem that needs to be stopped because it affects the lives of many innocent people. What is secondhand smoke? According to the American Cancer Society‚ secondhand smoke is defined as‚ "environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Secondhand Smoke is a mixture of 2 forms of smoke that come from burning tobacco: Sidestream smoke – smoke from the lighted end of a cigarette
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SECONDHAND SMOKE Secondhand smoke is defines as the smoke inhaled from a lit cigarette‚ cigar‚ or pipe‚ and the smoke exhaled by a smoker. Non-smokers that inhale second hand smoke actually breathes in almost the same amount of chemicals as a smoker. Tobacco smoke contains more than 4‚000 chemical compounds‚ more than 50 of which are known to cause cancer.6 Chemicals that cause cancer include: Arsenic‚ Benzene‚ Beryllium‚ Butadiene‚ Cadmium‚ Chromium‚ Ethylene Oxide‚ Nickel‚ Polohium-210
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Secondhand Serenade A Twist In My Story Slow down‚ the world isn’t watching us break down It’s safe to say we are alone now‚ we’re alone now Not a whisper‚ the only noise is the receiver I’m counting the seconds until you break the silence So please just break the silence The whispers turn to shouting The shouting turns to tears Your tears turned into laughter And it takes away our fears So you see‚ this world doesn’t matter to me I’ll give up all I have just to breathe The same air as you till the
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The loss of my grandmother was the saddest day of my life. My grandmother never smoked a cigarette in her life. She died of heart disease in 1997. Ironically the heart disease was diagnosed as a result of secondhand smoke. My grandparents were married for over fifty years. Even now I still can hear my grandmother saying “Robert you need to put those cigarettes down before they kill you.” Robert‚ my grandfather‚ was a smoker for sixty years. My grandfather would answer back “Well we have
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In the paper I’m going to discuss the externalities of second-hand smoke. Externalities refer to all costs or benefits of a market activity borne by a third party. It’s also the difference between the social and private costs (benefits) of a market activity. When economic agents are not directly involved‚ negative externalities can exist‚ such as pollution. Second-hand smoke is a health hazard at any level (Essentials Of economics‚ Bradley R.Schiller). It’s to be said that smoking bans are the
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Jamason‚ diagnosed with asthma as an infant‚ has never smoked a cigarette. One day‚ he was cleaning up at the fast food restaurant where he worked. Unfortunately‚ he was cleaning near a group of his coworkers that were on their “smoke break”. Shortly after he returned inside he started having trouble breathing. Frantically‚ he called his mother‚ who arrived to find him gasping for air. He was then hospitalized for four days after‚ for something he couldn’t have prevented. Fortunately Jamason Coles
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