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Billion Per Year Secondhand Smoke
855 wordsSmoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. During 1995, approximately 2. 1 million people in developed countries died as a result of smoking. One tobacco use is responsible for nearly one in five deaths in the United States. Lung Cancer mortality are about 23 times higher for current male smokers and 13 times higher for current female smokers compared to a lifelong never-smoker. In addition to being responsible for 87 % of lung cancers, smoking is also associated with cancers...
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1,112 wordsPersonality is an abstract science about a very warm, personal, concrete subject matter (Klinger, 21). In my first paper I described my personality according to the first five chapters of Derlega. In this paper I am going to describe how my greatest fear, shyness, relates to the last half of class and the whole picture. Shyness may be defined experientially as discomfort or inhibition in interpersonal situations that interferes with pursuing one's interpersonal or professional goals. It is a for...
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Holding Her Hand Mom And John Remember
619 wordsI remember the day she died as if it had happened yesterday. She died when I was thirteen. That was seven... no eight years ago. It was summer and hot outside. She used to go out on days like that. She used to take her car, go to the public pool and swim her twenty lines. She was fast. I never had a chance to keep up with her even though I wasn't bad either. She loved swimming. But that day she was lying in a hospital-bed in my sister's bedroom. My sister had to move to the basement because of h...
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Undo My Top Panic In His Voice Euan
1,547 wordsThe lights were dimmed as the music was turned up and more drinks passed around. Euan, the birthday boy sat beside me on the sofa with his arm draped softly around my shoulders. My skirt was shimmying further and further up my legs but with a bottle of whatever it was in my hand I was far too drunk to notice. The tents were already set up outside and people had slowly been making their way out there. Euan had not left me alone for one minute. Though I enjoyed his company and he made me laugh, I ...
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Passion And Charm Perfect Wife Birthmark
291 wordsHurting Yourself by Trying to Make Someone else Better Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a great deal of irony to show his meaning in his story The Birthmark. The story shows us that some of the things that give us the most troubles in our life are actually caused by us. In the story, Aylmer has the perfect wife Georgiana, she is absolutely perfect in all aspects except for one, she has a very small and hardly noticeable birthmark on her cheek. Aylmer, being a man a great knowledge is the field of scienc...
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Romeo And Juliets Movies Differences Similarities
848 wordsEssay There are many differences and similarities between Luhrmanns (1996) version of Romeo and Juliet, and Zeferellis (1968) version. DISCUSS My only love sprung from my only Hate. This famous line has come from a play, which has been made into a movie many times. This Essay is about two of those such movies. Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare's greatest love stories and also unfortunately tragedy. In Baz Luhrmanns (1996) film Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern s...
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Symbolism In The Birth Mark By Nathaniel Hawthorn
790 wordsIn the story, The Birth-Mark, written by Nathaniel Hawthorn it was about a man who was a scientist who tried to change his wife appearance. At the end of the story his wife died because, he tried to change the nature of her face by trying to remove the inner beauty of her birth mark on her face. The symbolism of the birth mark represents death, beauty, and nature. My essay will be about how death, beauty, and nature represent the symbolism of the birth mark. First, the symbolism of the birth-mar...
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Social Structures Three Times
1,082 words... ial restrictions on his love affair, and the subsequent limitations on Porphyria's love for him. Therefore, the speaker's distance from the world outside becomes also an inability to respond to Porphyria upon her entrance; he sits in the cottage wanting only her love, without need of explanation, so that when he is spoken to, "no voice replied" (15). Soon, Porphyria's gift of comforting warmth within the storm exacerbates his obsession to the point of insanity-driven violence. This is a very...
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Birthmark Amp Quot Quot Birthmark Amp Quot Perfection
430 wordsResponse Paper # 2: & quot; The Birthmark& quot; 1. Our society tends to be obsessed with the idea of physical perfection. How does our society manifest that obsession? How is the & quot; Birthmark& quot; an early version of our modern obsession with physical perfection? Our society has many ways of manifesting its obsession with physical perfection. In our society people go to extreme lengths to achieve perfection. The & quot; Birthmark& quot; , written more than a centu...
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Sense Of Duty Mortal Combat
991 wordsBeowulf Critical Analysis Despite the fact that there are many Christian motives can be found in Beowulf, the poem is firmly based on heathen worldview, as such that was dominant among Europeans, before they were being gradually corrupted by Christianity. The poems main character, Beowulf, clearly possesses the spiritual qualities of true heathen, even though they contradict to authors view of Beowulf, as defender of Christian religion. Beowulf behavioral traits represent him as an embodiment of...
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Dance Floor Top Floor
632 wordsComing Out I stood there gazing at my reflection in the mirror, anxiously awaiting his arrival. Everything had to be perfect. I had spent weeks preparing for tonight. This was the night that Gary and I decided to reveal our true feelings for one another. We had kept our homosexuality a secret from everyone and decided that the Senior Prom would be the best time to come out of the closet. The sound of the doorbell caused my forehead to bead with sweat. I opened the door; Gary stood there wearing ...
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Walk Away From Omelas Perfect World
926 wordsVanessa A. KreischerDecember 10, 1998 Would you sacrifice the happiness of another for your own happiness? Would you turn your cheek to a child in need if it would renounce your own rapture and change your life completely? Unfortunate to the way I was brought up and to my usual standards of thinking, I would have to answer these questions with a saddened yes. I must admit that my happiness, my success, and my prosperity are most important to me. These are the aspects of my life that I care most ...
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Grandmother Soft Spoken
1,443 wordsGrandma Grandmas Passing Grandma? s Passing Grandma was a frail older woman, in her early 70? s, and of small stature. Her skin was of a light brown complexion, wrinkled and ashy. When I sat on her knee, her brittle hands would always gently wrap around my waist. I would kiss her on her cheek, which was always cold for some reason. Grandma always wore dark blue dresses that came down to her ankles and an old pair of black dress shoes everywhere. You know, the ones with no heels that appear as if...
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Federal Bureau Of Investigation Large Corporations
1,325 wordsHacking to Peaces The Information Superhighway possesses common traits with a regular highway. People travel on it daily and attempt to get to a predetermined destination. There are evil criminals who want to violate citizens in any way possible. A reckless driver who runs another off the road is like a good hacker. Hacking is the way to torment people on the Internet. Most of the mainstream hacking community feel that it is their right to confuse others for their entertainment. Simply stated, h...
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Helen Hunt Jackson Jackson
1,066 wordsA Century Of Dishonor, a Triumph or Tragedy? The author Helen Hunt Jackson had hoped for a triumph over the mistreatment, abuse, and mainly the deaths of seemingly innocent Native Americans with her novel, A Century Of Dishonor. However, when the hard cold reality set in, her novel was merely a small tragedy in the battle for the Native Americans that sadly went unnoticed. ? What treaty that the whites ever made with us red men have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world....
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English Language Sign Language
972 wordsLaurent Clerc Pioneer Teacher 1785 - 1869 Laurent Clerc was born in Labalme, France, on Dec. 26 1785. His father was Mayor of the town and the family could boast of a long line of magistrates in the Clerc lineage. At the age of one, the infant fell from a kitchen chair by accident into a nearby fireplace. He was burned on one side of his face and a fever left him totally deaf. He had uncle also named Laurent Clerc, who heard about the school for the deaf in Paris. When he was twelve years old, h...
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Tinkerbell Perfume Mothers Lap Father
1,175 wordsMy Closet I sat quietly on the couch next to my father. His short muscular arm extended over my head as if to protect his little girl. His fingers got lost in my strands of hair, as I yanked my head forward as if to signal I did not want him to play with my hair. My new baby doll with big blonde ringlets and skin that smelled like a babys skin after it has just been powdered, rested in my lap. My meek hands stroked the tiny doll as if it were alive. My father knelt down and kissed my forehead as...
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Mrs De Winter Rose Garden
717 wordsThe Rebecca Chapter 7 Summary The chapter begins with the De Winter s leaving the showers of London moving directly, to their arrival, at Manderley. A huge and beautiful manor house set in the coastal valley in England. The journey from London to Manderley was long. They drove through the middle of a huge forest of the the blood red rhododendron in bloom. When she arrived to the main gate of the house, it s seemed to her she arrived to the house, but she didn t see the house, it was much further...
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Mother Nature Human Nature
627 wordsHuman Nature Vs. Mother Nature, The Birthmark Human Nature Vs. Mother Nature, The Birthmark By Hawthorne Are you unhappy with your looks? If you are, then you should feel at home as a member of human kind. You can dye your hair and wear colored eye contact lenses. Humankind is the only place where one can receive a boob-job or have a tattoo put on your chest and then have it removed when you are ready for a change. An instant, effortless weightloss program? Just step into my office and we will d...
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Number Of People Capital Punishment
685 wordsCapital Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Capital punishment is a very controversial topic because of all the different perspectives it could be viewed by. Over 4, 000 prisoners in the United States have been executed between 1930 and 1989. It does not seem like the best way to deter violent crimes and the courts should decide on alternative methods of punishment for serious types of offences. Politically it may seem like the right thing to do for various reasons including overcrowding of th...
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