Rafael Dos Santos 3/26/12 5th period English Persuasive Essay Why should smoking be made illegal‚ because smoking hurts everyone. Around the world smoking claims the lives of 5.4 million people a year. If smoking were to be banned in the United States there would be 443‚000 fewer deaths related to smoking. While that isn’t all 5.4 million it would be a giant leap in the right direction. Smoking affects everyone not just the person with the cigarette in their hand but
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worshiped false gods and making horrid sacrifices. During this dark time‚ roots of Christianity began to spark in the town of Jerusalem. The spreading of Christianity continued to grow stronger throughout the ancient Roman empire‚ spreading like wildfire from 90A.D-600A.D. Unfortunately‚ this religion was strictly illegal! The early Christians continually endured persecution from the Roman government‚ and for many years they lived in a state of fear and hiding. This period of persecution was
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A friend to me is someone who you can trust and share some of the same common interests with. A friend should be someone you can tell anything and they won’t judge you for it. Also you should be able to trust them with anything including emotional secrets. In my opinion if you cant do any of these things with someone you consider a friend‚ you should probably reconsider. Friends are people that should be cherished and chosen carefully. In the case of the cube brothers‚ Rick and Gordon character-traits
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The Death that Sparked Redemption Dina Temple-Raston captures the horrific murder of James Byrd Jr. in her book A Death in Texas. The setting of the story takes place in the small county of Jasper‚ Texas where racial tensions still existed amongst the Jasperites. Raston gives the vivid first-hand accounts and interviews of the disturbed closely- knit inhabitants and how they absorbed the news. The author explores the possible suspects of the murder and includes the trial and verdict of the convicted
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Life for the two hundred and forty-five thousand innocent Japanese civilians after the atomic bomb struck Hiroshima as impossible to fathom. The decimation of Hiroshima and its brave Japanese citizens with an inequivalent sense of nationalism can only be understood through stories of very few lucky survivors. John Hersey’s Hiroshima attempts to provide an understanding for all the abandoned and helpless Japanese citizens that were tragically affected by “the first moment of the atomic age” (Hersey
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with antibiotics‚ the mortality rate is 15%. With housing conditions the way that they were during these times‚ people lived with many extended family members in one house‚ and in close quarters with those around them. Bubonic Plague spread like wildfire‚ affecting thousands in a short period of time. Influenza‚ which in current medicine‚ also has a vaccine‚ and treatments available‚ swept Europe prior to and after the 1700/1800’s. It is recorded that influenza in Europe infected over 500 million
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murdered his wife because he didn’t have a photograph of her in his home. She was mistaken‚ of course‚ and rebuked due to it. People today still like to assume things without knowing the full drawn-out story. After that‚ it’s usually spread like wildfire‚ and that’s how rumors start--but that’s just typical
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Background and overview Facebook was launched in February 2004 by Harvard undergrad students as an alternative to a student directory or what they are use to at Harvard. This site got immediate popularity among students‚ then spread like wildfire as they have over three fifty million register users and six billion hits a month. Facebook is a real business that brings in over one seven hundred million dollars in revenue a year. Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg created what was known as thefacebook
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Anton Rabie and Ronnen Harary created a product that allowed customers to express their own creativity through styling grass hair that sprouted from a small humanlike head. They called this product Earth Buddy and the popularity soon spread like wildfire. Product sales started through Toronto-area flower shops and gift stores but as demand increased they were able to start distributing Earth Buddy at K-Mart‚ Toys R Us‚ Wal-Mart and stores alike. However‚ the production of Earth Buddies were time
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opinion it is a great eye opener that gives regular viewers a close up of the financial sector and how we got to the mess we have. Inside Job documents the chain of reasons leading to the turmoil of the global financial crisis in 2008. About 2008‚ a wildfire of bankruptcies‚ foreclosures‚ and unemployment spread from the United States everywhere the globe as major corporations in the global financial services industry crashed and burned. Part of it is going to center around sorting out the facts of the
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