November 2009

Childhood Obesity

Whilst many factors impact on childhood obesity, parents ultimately have the main responsibility. Parents decide what’s in the cupboards, they plan meals and pack children’s lunchbox’s, clearly they are to blame for their child’s unhealthy lifestyle.
Ultimately, parents select what …

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Asthma

Asthma is a lung disease that affects approximately ten million people in the United States. (Cramer 2) In people with asthma, the airways of the lungs are hypersensitive to irritants such as cigarette smoke or allergens. When these irritants are …

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Vegetarianism

Vegetarianism is a practice that vegetarians follow, which includes a diet of vegetables, fruits and sometimes selected animal products such as cheese or milk. This is a belief that vegetarians follow with respect to different origins. There are vegetarians all …

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Statistics and management sciences

Statistics is “The mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.”
(The American Heritage® Dictionary)

“The collection, presentation, analysis and interpretation of the numerical data. The facts which …

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Racism and the law

In the 1900 a prominent English scholar Gilbert Murray said:
“There is in the world a hierarchy of races…[some] will direct and rule the others, and the lower work of the world will tend in the long run to be …

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Merchants of Cool

The film “The Merchants of Cool” was interesting (and sometimes entertaining) to watch. The title of this film explains it all, the marketing of teens striving to be “cool”. It is very obvious that it is very out-dated, however not …

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Stealing the Pears

Augustine considers the theft of the pears halfway through Book II. What particularly disturbs him about this teenage prank is that he did it out of no other motive than a desire to do wrong. “I loved my fall [into …

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Wind energy in Kenya

Harnessing the natural power of the wind is by no means a new concept. Asides from sailing, wind power has been utilised for many thousands of years, principally for agricultural purposes. Basic windmills are thought to have been used in …

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Self Concept Paper

There have been many things that I have learned about myself in the past few weeks. I have learned many things about myself that I would have never known if it was not for this course. I have learned about …

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Expanding Nation

Manifest destiny…this not only drove economic expansion but is still a core belief for Americans today, the virtue of the American people and their institutions; the mission to spread these institutions, thereby redeeming and remaking the world in the image …

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