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    Down Syndrome‚ or DS‚ occurs when a trisomy is found in the twenty-first chromosome leaving three genetically identical chromatids. Down Syndrome is often seen as a disability that limits people while society is also portraying it as a defining characteristic that makes these unique people societal outcasts. Down Syndrome is taken very lightly instead of receiving the attention and care that it requires. In order to understand Down Syndrome‚ one must know the outcome and impact of Down Syndrome‚

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    Down Syndrome Analysis

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    Final Paper Down Syndrome Introduction As women grow older‚ their chances of becoming pregnant become slim. However if a woman over the age of forty happens to finally get pregnant‚ the chances of the baby having birth imperfections tend to increase. Although some disorders occur through unhealthy lifestyles that the mother involves herself in‚ Down Syndrome is usually not identified as such. The age of the mother is not the only thing that may cause Down Syndrome to occur. The reasoning for

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    Down These Mean Streets

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    position to build a reputation amongst their surroundings. For the feeling to be equal and considered on the same level as the popular one is what most want. But people fail to realize that just wanting to be down with people that you are not can lead to a life full of difficulties and struggle. In Down These Mean Streets‚ Piri goes through a point in time where he moves from one place to another‚ and when that happened he had to find himself. He was a new kid in a new surroundings. He was different than

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    Cutting Down Trees

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    Cutting down too many trees will result in nature being gone very soon. We will not be able to survive because we live on the oxygen that trees and plants breathe out. Because we need O2 and give off CO2‚ and because trees and plants breathe CO2 and give off O2‚ if one group is not there then the other will die. It is a bad thing if we keep cutting down trees in an unlimited way. In addition to the impact on the balance of gases (O2-CO2)‚ trees and plants provide habitat for huge numbers of creatures

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    A Long Way Down

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    Suicide and humor are two words not often associated with each other‚ but Nick Hornby takes the pair on in his novel A Long Way Down‚ a dark comedy about suicide and life after a failed attempt. The book is narrated by four characters taking turns telling the story in their voice. The resulting hodgepodge gang includes Martin‚ a quasi celebrity who loses everything after an affair with a fifteen-year old girl; Maureen‚ the middle-aged mother of a severely disabled son; Jess‚ an obnoxious teenager

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    Bigwig In Watership Down

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    of weeks I have been reading the novel Watership Down. In the beginning‚ two brothers‚ Hazel and Fiver‚ lived in a rabbit warren. Fiver saw blood in the future and decides to run away from the warren. On their adventure some rabbits join them‚ in the forest they come across a river and use a board to cross. Later on the group is invited into a strange warren‚ Bigwig gets caught in a snare and the group‚ including Bigwig‚ left. Finally they find a down (hill) to live in. The group realized they needed

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    Never Back Down

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    Never Back Down The film Never Back Down is directed by Jeff Wadlow. The film is about a young angry teen‚ the protagonist of the film‚ Jake Tyler who is a violent teen who is always getting in to fights at school and during sports. Jake is forced to move from Iowa his home town‚ to Orlando‚ Florida because his younger brother Charlie won a tennis scholarship. He is always angry because his family blamed him for his father’s death. Jake’s main rival is Ryan McCarthy who thinks he is the ‘top dog’

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    Downside Down Themes

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    The movie Upside Down is a film directed by Juan Solanas In which a guy searches for his childhood love in an alternate world. The Authors main purpose in this film is purely to amuse or regale he audience with this fictional romantic story. This is very evident since the movie doesn’t inform nor persuade the audience in a certain subject. The main theme in the movie is Romance. Even though it possess sci-fi‚ fantasy and action movie qualities‚ the movie is evidently romantic since the whole plot

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    Down the memory lane

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    DOWN THE MEMORY LANE (Influential Advertisements of the Past) The vast expanse of media channels today has brought every product closer to the consumers than ever before. Huge advertisement campaigns across various digital and conventional media can be seen all around us. Each advertisement attempts to be unique in the sea of ads and tries to connect better with the consumer‚ because at the end of the day‚ when a buyer faces a huge variety of similar products‚ it is the ‘Brand Recall’ that matters

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    Summary: The Get Down

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    : The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City broken down and beaten up‚ violent‚ cash strapped dyin. It turned to rubble‚ a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them - except each other‚ armed only with verbal games‚ improvised dance steps‚ some magic markers and spray cans. From Bronx tenements‚ to the SoHo art scene; from CBGBs to Studio 54 and even the glass towers of the justbuilt World Trade Center‚ The Get Down is a mythic saga of how New York

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