A sedentary lifestyle has been linked to higher rates of obesity, heart disease and diabetes, which are some of the leading causes of death in the United States. ... That is, during moderate intensity activities you should experience a noticeable increase in your breathing rate but you should still be able to carry on a conversation while engaged in the activity. In contrast, vigorous intensity activities will cause a rapid increase in breathing rate and you will find it difficult to carry on a conversation. ... Exercise intensity may be the most important factor determining the rate and magni...

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Factors that lead to overpopulation that causes social problems are the increase in the number of single mothers in poor neighborhoods opposed to the decline in birth rates in the more efficient parts of the country, how the death rate is at a steady decline because of medical advances in rich and poor countries, the effects immigrants have on an environment and the population growth that occurs, the influence parents leave on children, and what is being done to help prevent the spread of AIDS because this is a deadly disease which is lowering our population but causing many social problems. ....

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For gun owners like me, this is just one more example of politicians using a gun related tragedy to enrage the public and get them to overreact and gain support for passing intrusive gun control legislation. ... So how many rounds are too much, and will the next thing be to limit me to only being able to purchase one magazine? ... "We have the strictest gun laws in the nation and one of the highest murder rates. ... " The NSSF stated that even "during difficult economic times and high unemployment rates nationally, our industry actually grew and created 16,800 new, well-paying j...

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Although the bank loaner's scams played a big part, other things such as the economy and the rate of people losing their jobs caused things to downfall. ... I learned that the banks are now trying to give loan modifications by lowering rates, which will further help the customers. ... They were offering struggling homeowners a chance to re-modify their home loans, by reducing their mortgage rates by two or three percent. ... The banks are only lowering rates by 2-3 percent, At the Cerritos Library, some statistics about home foreclosures from the Library Database were available. ... It&...

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From the study conducted by Sproule and Kennett the rate of violent crimes was five times greater in the U.S than Canada, and "almost double the rate of firearm use in American than Canadian homicides" (32-33). ... Marvin Harris indicates that "the high rate of homicide in the United States undoubtedly reflects, to some extent, the estimated 50 million handguns and rifles legally and illegally owned by the American people" (122). ... They also noted that the "American murder rates for handguns are higher than the total Canadian homicide rate"(249). ...

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The opposite was happening in Latin and South America because the death rate of slaves was so high. ... Large plantations could produce cotton more efficiently and earned high rates of profit. ... The average rate of return of a male or female slave was about the same, around ten percent. ... This was a blow to all the theories that slavery was unprofitable and that slaves had low rates of return. It also showed that the rates of return were higher and not below that of alternative investments. ...

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One of the greatest indicators that the death penalty is a deterrent can be seen in Houston Texas (Harris County, with the highest murder rate in Houston) in 1996. ... The states that are implementing the death penalty are witnessing the fruit of a punishment that is actually decreasing the occurrence rate. ... This power is given by God and is even spoken by Jesus in John 19:10-11 when Jesus addressed the governing authority stating, "You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin." ...

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How Does Television Violence Affect Children's Behavior How Does Television Violence Affect Children's Behavior Does television promote violence and crime among children? Although most people look at television as an entertaining and educational way to spend time, some people think there is to much violence in television and that is influencing our young into becoming aggressive in nature and to tolerate violence. Now scientists have discovered that all the violence in television can in fact mold a young innocent person into becoming a monster right under our eyes, just by watc...

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Although I had always been fascinated by tattoos, my mother was against them 110% and always tried to push me away from the lifestyle, warning me it would lead me no where. ... He was doing over 90 mph in my lame when he hit me head on. ... Not one shop was even interested in meeting me let alone hiring me as their apprentice. ... He told me that giving up should never be an option for something thats deep in my heart, and said if I wanted to learn, that he would teach me. He even gave me some of his extra supplies to get started. ...

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The Definition of Israel Before we begin, let me remind you of the definition of Israel. Israel considers itself to be a Jewish state (formally codified in its 1948 Declaration of Independence), which means that its entire purpose is to provide what is commonly referred to as a "Jewish homeland". W...

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Prisons are being built in the United States at a rate never before seen. ... Policy As added incentive for their construction and use, many rural areas struggling with high unemployment rates clamor for prisons, public or private, because they mean jobs; and local legislators are often anxious to gratify these wishes whether or not the facility is needed. ...

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After the last two decades of the 19th century and the early 20th century, the rate of immigration to the United States from southern and Eastern Europe had grown in wealth, bringing their customs, religions and cultures. ...

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For the past thirty years in the State of California, bilingual education has been undertaken by all the public schools of the state. Under such system, children of non-American ethnic have had a special treatment in their early academic career. Children of minority groups have been thought various ...

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The Board would set national interest rates and manage a network of twelve major banks across the country. ... Some of his Progressive reforms include the Workingmen's Compensation Act, which granted assistance to federal civil service employees during periods of disabilities; The Adamson Act established the eight hour day for all employees on trains in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime, and The Federal Farm Loan Act, made credit available to farmers at low interest rates. ...

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(http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/SOOU/TEXTSOOU2002.htm) Grandma always told me why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free. ... (DeLmater, 304) "The rate of teenage pregnancy in the United States is the highest of any Western nation; teenagers in this country are twice as likely to become pregnant as are Canadian or English teens, four times as likely as Swedish teenagers, and nine times as likely as teen women in the Netherlands."...

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Even with all this wetlands still face mass destruction, much like the rain forests they are just as productive and face similar rates of devastation (Mitchell, J. (1992, October). ... In fact a wetland produces just as much life as a rain forest of the same size, and they are both being destroyed at about the same rate (Mitchell, J. (1992, October). ...

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No, no one put a sticker on her that says "be just like me" when you're around someone or something 24/7 you slowly start becoming or wanting to become more like that person or item. ... Making us realize how much more prominent the symptoms of this illness can be, making the statistics of anorexia being 12% higher as a death rate among young women a very startling discovery. ... No, no one put a sticker on her that says "be just like me" when you're around someone or something 24/7 you slowly start becoming or wanting to become more like that person or item. ...

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Introduction We all know that computers are the most useful and convenient tool in this age. The computer, together with the "all-powerful" Internet provides us with almost everything we could ever want; material things, information, even potential life partners (online dating); thus resulting in the formation of new words such as cyber-space or online connectivity. Cyber-space is defined as a bio-electronic ecosystem that exists anywhere there are phones, coaxial cables, fiber optic lines, or electromagnetic waves (Dyson 1994). Since 135 countries have access, 54 world cities are the major ...

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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to find any science in social Darwinist thought. After reviewing the current literature on social Darwinism it is not clear that there was a cohesive movement of social Darwinism in America at all. ...

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The London Daily Telegraph published an article on June 30 headlined, "More Than 1 Million Jews Killed in Europe."15 The New York Times covered the story that same day, skeptically putting it in the middle of the paper.16 Reports, although filing into the United States at an accelerated rate, were still considered unconfirmed. ...

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Genetically modified foods have been a big topic for debate recently. People both for and against have very convincing arguments but I, Constance A. Morella, republican of Maryland's 8th district believe that I have the best possible argument for this, and I hope this congress sees the point I"m try...

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The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy, often simply called the South, grew to include eleven states, and although they claimed thirteen states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recogni...

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Plagued by hundreds of years of slavery, discrimination, segregation, hatred, and victimization, blacks and other minorities have been looked upon as second rate in America. ... With the racial divide in our country widening in loom of current events between what seems to be a matter of blacks against whites, it leaves me asking myself if we are all human, what is it that makes us see each other as different, or unequal? ...

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Misjudged, Misunderstood, & Misrepresented? On September 11th, 2001 the lives of many changed around the world. A group of men attacked the United States in a way that we had never been attacked in. Many Americans took that action personally even though they knew absolutely no one that lost their lives that fateful morning. Flying two planes across the World Trade Center in one of the most popular cities not only in the country, but also in the world, and killing thousands of innocent people. ...

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The underground society of weed smokers Outline Although weed is an illegal drug an underground society still exists that utilizes sellers of the product to satisfy the consumers in the society whose unique techniques for achieving effects that they want from the drug. I. There are personal use...

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