Cholesterol Myths that May Surprise You By Lisa Collier Cool Nov 26‚ 2012 Health Experts Main Life insurance companies know a surprising secret about cholesterol that most doctors never tell patients: When it comes to rating your risk for a fatal heart attack‚ the least important cholesterol number is your level of LDL (bad) cholesterol. In fact‚ life insurance actuaries don’t even look at LDL levels‚ because large studies show it’s the worst predictor of heart attack risk. Instead‚ life insurance
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line between truth and a simple technicality. Misleading advertisements can not only carry many negative social impacts but also harm to its consumers. In this essay‚ I would like to focus on false advertising which is the epidemic of obesity in our society. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law defines false advertising as‚ “the crime or tort of publishing‚ broadcasting‚ or otherwise publicly distributing an advertisement that contains an untrue‚ misleading‚ or deceptive representation or statement
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Hugh Glass Born:1783 Died:1833 Not much is known about Hugh Glass‚ but he was known as a true American mountain man. Very little is known about Glass until around 1823 when he left St. Louis to go fur trapping with Ashley Company. Several months into the trip the company was attacked by Indians. Glass was slightly wounded in the battle it’s what happened next that made him truly famous. Soon after the Indian’s attack Glass was mauled by a bear. His wounds included
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seventh man‚ has a logical reason to feel survivor guilt. The seventh man could not access and possible act quick enough in the situation to save his very dear friend from the oncoming wave. His best friend K not paying attention and along with the wave‚ had gave him little time to react which triggered a flight or fight response in which his instincts chose flight. It was not the seventh man’s intention to lead K down to the beach or for those action to happen. Shortly after the seventh man left
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False Gems In the short story "False Gems‚" the author Maupassant utilizes the concept of irony to contribute to social criticism. In the story Madame Latin states: This cannot be true because she was "good and virtuous" when they first met. Her desire for money corrupted her‚ so she has changed. The author is mainly implying that money corrupts; in most cases‚ a person’s desire for money can cause pain and sorrow. Her second weakness is her desire for money‚ which is a contribution to social criticism
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one to infer that his poetry was never written for an audience of any sort‚ short of himself and his God. Therefore his poems can provide very meaningful insight into the journey through faith on which he embarked over the course of his life. Consequently‚ as one of Hopkins ’ final sonnets before his death‚ the poem ["Thou Art Indeed Just "] can be seen as a well-framed window into his soul; the soul of a man who has struggled to follow the path of God throughout his lifetime. Through an in-depth analysis
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Twelfth Night VS She’s The Man Love is a powerful thing‚ most people take advantage of love but then there are the lucky ones who find their true love. In Shakespeare play Twelfth Night and in the movie She’s The Man are very different. They are both very much the same. But they both have different scenarios. In the end‚ both stories teach us the same lesson‚ no matter how different they are. One similarity between the play Twelfth Night and She’s The Man would be the characters
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“Night demonstrates the potential of man’s inhumanity to man” Elie Weisels “night “ gives us a clear insight into the levels of inhumane behaviour which existed in the times of Nazi Germany from the Germans and even the Jews themselves. Elie also makes clear the great malice shown by some people‚ during a time where discrimination was a trend created by German propaganda – a situation which made any act of inhumanity acceptable. Nonetheless Night also shows us the way in which people are willing
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It’s gonna follow you. Somebody gave it to me‚ and I passed it to you...It could look like someone you know‚ or it could be a stranger in a crowd. Whatever helps it get close to you.” The movie It Follows reveals a terrifying monster like none other in mainstream media‚ providing the audience a threat that will do whatever it takes in order to claim its kill‚ and satiate its sadistic intentions in the process. In the successfully unnerving horror film of It Follows‚ the viewers follow the spine-chilling
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“A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Everything that Rises Must Converge" are two short stories written by Flannery O’Connor that have different plots at first glance. However‚ have many similar traits. These two stories involve many conflicts‚ but one conflict that both stories shared was how the characters in both stories failed to adapt to their environment and how the outside world has caused the death of the people close to them as well as going through a moment of realization. The character Julian
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