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Parts Per Million Shortness Of Breath
1,183 words
Smog has been around for a pretty long time,
people just knew it as something else. Smog comes
from the word smoke and fog, and that's
practically what it is. It was a serious problem
before, before nature and humans went unharmed in
the presence of smog but now it's serious. What
does all of this polluted air do to the body? The
answer depends on the situation. How long a person
is exposed to pollution, the type and
concentration, the place, time and day,
temperature, weather and more. But one ...
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Men And Women Years To Life
1,338 words
In California there is a law known as the 3
-Strikes Law. Other states such as Delaware,
Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, and a few other
states have also adopted this law. (2) This 3
-Strikes and Your Out Law, states that if a person
has two previous violent or serious felony
convictions, he or she is sentenced to a life
sentence with no chance of parole. (1) It also
states that if a person has one previous violent
or serious felony conviction (which includes
burglary of an unoccupied dwellin...
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National League American League
1,176 words
Baseball is an immensely popular American game,
known as the "national pastime, " played between
two teams of nine players each. The basic
implements used in the game are a leather-covered
ball, wooden bats for hitting the ball, and gloves
for catching it. Baseball is played on a large
scale in Latin America, Japan, and other places
besides the United States, but it is in the United
States that it thrives most both as a
participant's and spectator's sport. It is played
at its highest level in th...
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Legalized Gambling Excise Taxes
1,168 words
The squeeze is on. Demand for government to
decrease it's reliance on sales, property, and
income taxes as sources of revenue is continuing
to rise, leaving policy makers scrambling for new,
less painful sources of revenue. Also going up are
the costs of providing public services,
entitlement programs, and conducting the other
various functions of government. This upward
spiral requires that they simultaneously look for
better, cheaper, and more effective spending
strategies. It is no wonder tha...
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Joy Luck Club Uncle Tom
1,057 words
Just last night I saw the movie, The Joy Luck Club
(JLC), which played on television for the first
time in Los Angeles. I had been meaning to see
this movie but never got around to it until now.
Since many female friends recommended this 1993
movie to me, including my own sister, I was
looking forward to experiencing a great work of
art. Up to this point, I have heard nothing but
glowing reviews about this movie. Near the end of
the movie I found myself thinking, There is
something terribly wron...
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Gang Violence Crimes Committed
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I dont think I was even conscious that gangs
existed and were a problem until 1991. That was
the year that my friend Steph and I went to see
the movie Boyz in the Hood, directed by John
Singleton. When we chose to see that movie, we
really had no idea what it was about. We chose is
for two reasons, one because nothing that was
playing at the time except for Boyz looked
remotely interesting, and two, Cuba Gooding Jr.
had a role in it, and we both thought he was kind
of cute. It ended up being one...
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Los Angeles Early Childhood
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Alajouanine, T. : Aphasia and artistic
realization. Brain. 1948 71: 229 - 241. Alvin, J.
: Music Therapy. London: John Baker 1966 Amato, I.
: Muscle melodies and brain refrains: Turning bio
electric signals into music. Sciences News. April
1989 135: 202 - 203. Arnheim, R. : New essays on
the psychology of art. Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press. 1986 Baer, T. ,
Gore, J. C. , Grace, L. C. , & Nye, P. W. (1991).
Analysis of vocal tract shape and dimensions using
magnetic reso...
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Du Pont Los Angeles
1,175 words
U. S Immigration Should Not Be Curbed The argument
over whether or not immigration should be
restricted, is fought out by Daniel James and
Stephen Moore. James essentially believes that
jobs are being taken away from American workers,
immigrants are causing an increase of population
(and subsequent pollution of the environment), and
breaking up American culture. Moore, on the other
hand, insists that immigrants are vital to the
success of the country as a whole and without
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Los Angeles Dance Company
316 words
Born on the 5 th of January 1931, the man who
changed the face of modern dance forever. He was
born in a farming community in Rogers, Texas. When
he was twelve he and his mother moved to Los
Angeles. He had a difficult childhood. His mother
was always working or out at a club. Through these
hard times a wide range of dance genres, including
the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Katherine
Dunham Dance Company, influenced him He enrolled
at the University of California at Los Angeles
(UCLA). It ...
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Beverly Hills Parking Lots
619 words
These days the Walt Disney concert hall designed
by Frank Gehry stands triumphant. At
mid-completion, it already claims the sky and
taunts its neighbors, the ugly parking lots and
mundane office towers of downtown Los Angeles.
Because we know its sister- building, the
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, we can
anticipate how these fingers of steel will be
clothed. In coming months, the jackhammers will
fall silent to Mozart, and millions will come to
listen, but also to look at this building tha...
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Weighted Score Los Angeles
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... id western, Southwestern, and Western United
States. The airline specializes in short-haul
routes and targets business commuters. The
company's most-traveled routes are intrastate
flights in California and Texas. Its fleet
consists of about 310 Boeing 737 s. Passenger
transportation generates almost all revenue,
accounting for more than 96 % of the total. In
fiscal 1999, Southwest's average aircraft trip was
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Hockey Career Of Wayne Gretzky
548 words
EARLY HOCKEY YEARS Born in Brantford, Ontario,
Canada, January 26, 1961. Wayne began skating at
the age of three on a backyard rink built by his
father, Walter. He began playing organized hockey
in grade school and was soon such a dominant
scorer that he was moved out of his age bracket to
play with players several years older. Gretzky's
idols as a young hockey player were his father and
Hall of Fame forward Gordie Howe. After playing in
several local and regional leagues, Gretzky
advanced to pl...
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University Of California Affirmative Action
1,159 words
... oking. Black and Hispanic admissions are down
significantly at the two top campuses in the
University of California, Berkeley and UCLA. Black
admittance to Berkeley and UCLA is down 57 % and
43 % respectively. Hispanic admittance is down 40
% and 33 %. The drop was far less dramatic for the
whole college, which includes six more campuses.
The total drop was 17. 6 % for blacks and 6. 9 %
for Hispanics (Krauthammer 23). This shows the
large number of non-qualified minority students
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Alcohol And Drug Substance Abuse
873 words
Deaf Culture and Alcoholism Abstract Why is it so
hard for the deaf to deal with admitting they are
alcoholics or drug addicts which is an impediment
for recovery? Why is it so hard for them to stay
sober once they have achieved it for a few weeks
or months? What do you think the main reasons are?
Having worked with the deaf for over 30 years I
will try to answer these questions and research
other aspects of the deaf culture, their mode of
communication and alcoholism. Although it may seem
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Story Of A Man Blade Runner
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How Mccabe And Mrs. Miller And Blade How Mccabe
And Mrs. Miller And Blade Runner Subvert Their
Genres And Defy Audience Expectations Two genres
which have always been Hollywood staples are
science-fiction and the western. The genres can be
seen in films made as early as Le Voyage Dans la
lune (Georges Movies 1902) and The Great Train
Robbery (Edwin S. Porter 1903). On the surface the
two genres are very different, however if one
looks closely at them they are similar in many
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Probable Cause Criminal Acts
613 words
CAUGHT ON TAPE Using Criminals Videos Against Them
By Edward F. Davis, M. S. , and Anthony J.
Pinizzotto, Ph. D. Article from FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin In Sparta, Michigan, a 16
-year-old high school dropout with a criminal
record bludgeons a man to death, then cuts off his
head. In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, five teenagers
vandalize and burglarize eight homes and a school.
During their escapades, they blow up a live sea
trout in a microwave and get a dog high on
marijuana. In Los Angeles, a g...
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David Koresh Los Angeles
739 words
DAVID KORESH AND THE DAVIDIANS Branch Davidian's,
American religious movement that became widely
known in 1993, when most of its members were
killed in a fire that destroyed their headquarters
near Waco, Texas. The fire marked the end of a 51
-day siege by United States federal agents.
(Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia. 1993 - 1997
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ) The
Branch Davidian's trace their origins to the
Davidians movement, a splinter group of
Seventh-Day Adventists founded...
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Los Angeles Times Wall Street Journal
792 words
Medical research is a lengthy process that
involves numerous undertakings. Without taking the
risks and paying the costs, new findings would not
be accomplished. Animal research has been
especially beneficial to the field of medicine.
Testing on animals should be accepted in the world
of scientific studies because it would provide
research for diseases, benefit all mankind,
surgical procedures, and finally it would save a
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Minimum Wage Los Angeles
550 words
Minimum wage is a very important thing to have in
our nation. It keeps companies from paying
unskilled employees to low, or anyone for that
matter. If there was no minimum wage then a person
could get paid 50 cents an hour for hard work just
because they can? t get a job anyplace else. Also,
minimum wage helps reduce welfare. Otherwise,
everyone would be getting paid so little, that
almost every family in the country would be on
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University Of Cambridge Nobel Prize
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Yazan Fahmawi T 3 IBS Chemistry Ms. Redman
Historical Development of Atomic Structure The
idea behind the " atom" goes back to the
Ancient Greek society, where scientists believed
that all matter was made of smaller, more
fundamental particles called elements. They called
these particles atoms, meaning " not
divisible. " Then came the chemists and
physicists of the 16 th and 17 th centuries who
discovered various formulae of various salts and
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