What happened to school food? I use to be excited for what was for lunch but now I just hope it is something edible. Since I started high school the quality of our lunches has been on the decline. With Michelle Obama’s National School Lunch Program now requiring less than 300 calories per meal the school is losing money from students not eating and the students are losing fuel that their bodies need to survive. Park Hill South should drop the National School Lunch Program and this is why. My
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explosions occurred within the oil rig giant‚ Deepwater Horizon‚ an immense offshore drilling platform‚ located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast (Steffy‚ 2011). These explosions were due to a defective blowout preventer and numerous gas leaks seeping up and through the well to the riser pipe‚ connecting to the rig‚ igniting fire. The efforts of attempting to save this flame ridden platform was lost on April 22‚ 2010‚ for the rig‚ Deepwater Horizon‚ sunk. As the rig’s drilling platform fell into the sea
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Melina Sarju Junk Food Being Banned From School Property Junk food‚ full of calories and have no nutritional value. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ every year more than one sixth of children in America are obese. In the past 20 years obesity rates tripled for children. I‚ Melina Sarju‚ think that all schools should banned junk food from school property. Doing this will lower the amount of obese children in America. Schools should sell a healthier lunch with fresh fruits
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In the article‚ “The Immortal Horizon‚” published in the May‚ 2011 issue of Believer Magazine‚ the author‚ Leslie Jamison‚ shares her experiences and adventures with some abstract‚ although very persistent; characters as she spectates a marathon in Tennessee known as “The Barkley Marathons.” On June 10‚ 1977‚ James Earl Ray attempted to escape from the Bushy Mountain State Penitentiary‚ but was apprehended fifty-four hours later after only traversing eight miles. After hearing this‚ a man known as
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The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill The largest marine oil spill in United States history began on April 20‚ 2010‚ with an explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico. Millions of barrels of oil flowed into the water over the next 87 days‚ much of which washed up on shore along the Gulf coast region of the United States and Mexico. The accident was the result of numerous shortcuts undertaken by BP‚ and resulted in both environmental destruction and legal action. The events
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Kathy Giovinazzo February 12‚ 2011 April 2010 BP’s Deepwater Horizon well exploded‚ sending oil gushing for three months into the gulf. The explosion killed eleven crewmembers and is probably the greatest environmental disaster the United States has faced. Scientific estimates put the amount of oil that was being discharged from the broken well at above 1‚470‚000 U.S. gallons per day. On July 15‚ 2010 BP successfully stopped the flow of oil from the wellhead‚ after spilling 190 million
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Damage April 20‚ 2010 began as a day of celebration‚ a day that marked 7 years without injury on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig‚ and ended with 11 people dead‚ 78 days of oil flow‚ and 1‚074 miles of the Gulf of Mexico contaminated. Three years after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill the beaches may appear clean but we have yet to see the final effects. BP‚ the company behind this tragedy‚ is still trying to clean up the mess they have created. This is a lot more complicated
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What is the mind-body problem? The mind-body problem has been a problem that has been addressed in metaphysical thought for thousands of years and is the foundation of philosophy of mind. The problem consists of difficulty in explaining the relationship between mental and physical phenomena. The difference in characteristics provides difficulty in coming to an explanation. The mind- referring to consciousness‚ being the mental‚ and the body being made up of physical matter. Consciousness is made
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question of why racism exists is a very important one‚ as racism has been causes of many of the problems throughout history and today‚ such as the Civil War or the War in Iraq. In Howard Zinn’s book: A People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present‚ he explores the different reasons of why racism exists and how it may be stopped if possible. The big debate about racism is nature versus nurture‚ whether we are born racist‚ or whether people‚ events around us cause the problem. Zinn believes that
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Formal Analysis of Event Horizon “Event Horizon” is a site-specific work by Kara Walker commissioned by the New School University that wraps around the walls in the staircase found in the lobby at Arnhold Hall. The piece was commissioned in 2005 and there are clear signs of student interaction with finger smudges along where the railing touches the wall. The piece is done with latex paint on wall using only black paint to create the shapes on the wall. The artist’s piece revolves around the ideas
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