In order to protect society from disease, it is imperative that parents provide their children with, potentially life-saving, vaccines. ... Mammals, particularly humans, are among the the spices with the most complex and adaptive immune systems. ... Additionally, there were over sixteen-thousand children inflicted with a paralyzing form of polio between 1951 to 1954 (Roush 2156). ... For example, intussusception is a rare side effect of the rotavirus vaccine. According to the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary, intussusception is, "the slipping of a length of intestine into an adjacent portio...

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He was able to sell drugs with excellent profits through his challenging workers. ... According to Bourgois (2002:92), "Ray's workers, for example, averaged slightly less than double the legal minimum wage - between seven and eight dollars an hour." ... For example, when Primo worked legally at an office, he had a very prejudice boss who embarrassed him all the time. One humiliation that Primo had to go trough at work was when his boss called him illiterate in front of her friends during a lunch break, he was unaware of what that meant until he looked it up in a huge dictionary, which ...

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Identify a topic related to religion and sex (examples include but are not limited to: celibacy, virginity, sex as sinful, Adam and Eve, procreation, birth control, abortion, etc.). ... There are even movies made mocking males who have not had sex at a certain age such as "40 year old virgin" or take for example any movie that has a college or high school theme in it. Each one of those movies has some element of losing ones virginity in it, take "American Pie," for example, which had the entire theme throughout the movie that Jim needed to lose his virginity before prom. .....

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The greenhouse effect as stated in the dictionary is the effect produced as greenhouse gases allow incoming solar radiation to pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but prevent most of the outgoing infrared radiation from the surface and lower atmosphere from escaping into outer space. ... With this evidence, scientists are learning how climate changes over time. ... For example, an increase in the salt content of the Delaware and Chesapeake bays is thought to have decreased the number of oysters able to live in those waters. ... For example, heat stress and other heat related health p...

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For example, the Unites States used lethal injection (every time) for the method of execution to those who are sentenced to death, however, on one case the judge was so outraged by a criminal's hideous murder, he decided to use the electric chair as the means of execution. ... Thus, it would decrease the number of first-time capital offenders, decrease the number of repeat capital crime offenders, and increase the number of lives that are saved due to the major threats of our society being removed and used as an example to illustrate no tolerance to murderers. ... One of the greatest in...

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For example, the Filipino, Hispanic, Jewish, Swedish, American cultures are all different when it comes to these celebrations; from the customary age at which the celebration occurs to how it is done. Marina Willin states in her article, Coming Out the Debut of a Young American Woman , that in the dictionary it states that a debut is a formal presentation of young women to society which is often presented through a cotillion (formal ball especially for debuts). ... A quinceañera is a celebration of a daughter coming into "maturity with tradition, spirituality and the magic at which fair...

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It would suit this discussion better to use the Encarta dictionary definition, "a discredited social theory stating that the political and economic advantages in a developed society are derived from the biological advantages of its collective membership.... How did social Darwinism then become synonymous with science? ... In Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, he seems almost Darwinian in his exhaustive attempts to give examples of cooperation within and amongst species. ... " He presents quite a few examples of species working together for the benefit of the whole a...

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The third edition of Websters's New International Dictionary defines a robot as "a machine in the form of a human being that performs the mechanical functions of a human being." ... Most robots are equipped with one hand and one arm of several articulated joints. ... Examples are delivery robots rolling down halls delivering mail or supplies. ... All robot manufacturers dream of joints with human- like tendons. ... The operator moves the robot's arm with his own arm through all the movements. ...

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Introduction Athletes have been taking performance-enhancing drugs in different forms for centuries; the furthest dated supplement used to increase performance was used in Ancient Greece, when they would ingest doop with the hopes of increasing their performance and becoming some of the first Olympic champions. ... Such examples include athletes as role models, health risks, the legalization of PED with medical supervision, sportsmanship, sports fans and an unfair advantage (Agency, 2003; Allison, 2004; Fost, 2005; National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, 2000; Pound, 2008; Fost, 2...

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The concerns about terrorism are providing an argument to change Americans' relationships with their firearms. ... "Hell hath no fury like a terrorist with a satellite dish and an interactive website," (T. ... After all, the Merriam Webster Dictionary defines terrorism as "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.... For example, could the fear of terrorism instigate terrorism itself? ... Facebook also provides people with a way to organize other forms of hate. ...

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An example is the American Civil War, where the abolitionist fight for the rights of the slaves of the southern part of the United States. ... Walter had a very special relationship with his mother. ... Someone came with the rumor that he committed sodomy with a student. ... This poem recounts a romance with a woman. ... This change was caused at most by the increasing number of friends with radical ideas. ...

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Common Perceptions A major assumption regarding Mexican-Americans living in the United States is that they have crossed the Mexico-United States border with little desire to challenge themselves in school. ... In 1986, the Los Angeles Times cited the San Diego school district as an example of a Mexican-American community hampered by many students" decisions to quit school. ... A series of articles in the Boston Globe followed the struggles with learning English of two Mexican-American grade schoolers in an English-speaking public school. ... They attempted to complete their homework, usi...

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