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Marijuana
Number of Words: 1023 / Number of Pages: 4
... it is still going on. When the people start growing this plant in their own houses they have to make the environment or the atmosphere good so they can grow it right. Most people growing this plant are very careful because how well they grow this plant depends on how strong the product or result will be. Drug abuse is use of drugs in an illegal or unsafe way. The factors that lead to drug abuse are a person’s problems, to be cool, to seem older or mature, to rebel against their parents, to be popular. Although people give themselves these reasons to take drugs they don’t realize that what they’re d ...
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Surfing Is Supposed To Be Para
Number of Words: 1281 / Number of Pages: 5
... being fought over by surfers.
To a surfer nothing is more rewarding than the search and discovery of perfect uncrowded waves. This notion of the search for uncrowded surf was brought to the attention of the general public with the 1963 release of Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer. The film documented two surfers traveling around the world to exotic locales previously left unexplored by the surfers of Western civilization. The images that Brown brought back to mainstream movie screens forever changed the lives of surfers. This film changed how surfers viewed the world. No longer were s ...
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The Issue Of Block Scheduling In Schools
Number of Words: 525 / Number of Pages: 2
... is that students are less likely to remember the same amount as they would in a regular class time. As humans we tend to remember the things we do first (primacy) and the things we to last (regency). The time in the middles is sag time and is remembered at a much lower percentage. So basically you start our remembering a greater percentage of things in the beginning and as you move to the middle of your time period you remember a lower percentage. Then you remember more as you come from the middle to the most recent event. By lengthening the classes to ninety minutes you decrease the percentage ...
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Little League Coaches
Number of Words: 2775 / Number of Pages: 11
... number one concern must be our performance on the field. That's what we're being paid to do."(Arenofsky) Sports are so influential in the lives of adolescents that there must be someone who can be a poistive role model. So how can act as positive role models? I feel that the role of coaching is a under appreciated job. help provide an atmosphere where young kids can live out their fantasies as a professional athlete. It is the coaches and managers who provide encouragement at times when kids feel that they have experienced failure. Coaches need to how their attitude and actions on and off th ...
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Chinese New Year
Number of Words: 1367 / Number of Pages: 5
... planting and harvest. The New Year’s festival was held after the fall harvest and before the start of the spring planting season. The Lunar Calendar, based on the moon, begins in a month with a new moon. The is the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, and it lasts for fifteen days until the full moon. Each year the holiday falls sometime between January 21 and February 19. This year, the is going to be on February 16.
Chinese people also developed twelve different animals to stand for each year. After twelve years, the cycle of animals begins again. The animals are the rat, ...
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Durkheim On Sociology
Number of Words: 307 / Number of Pages: 2
... points in this article and his argument is strong. I agree with almost everything that he is claiming in this article. How Sociology cannot be general in any way, shape or form. Furthermore, how society shapes the individual through the various institutions in society. On the other hand, the manifestations about history part my be a little off though. Because history is what changes the structures of society and hence the way society shapes us. By looking at history we can see how we were shaped and maybe correct the problem or prevent it from happening again. But all in all this was a great ...
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Dreams Life
Number of Words: 2381 / Number of Pages: 9
... strategies. Other sleep studies have shown that dreams and dreaming are essential to our mental health ( Howell 105). Together these sudies emphasize the psychological importance of dreams and dreaming. They show how our consciousness maintains its delicate balance. Ken Howell suggests why consciousness is like a scale balancing one side against another and how dreaming is related : On one side of this mental scale our consciousness weighs its conscious experiences. On the opposite side of our mental scale our consciousness weighs its subconscious experiences. When we give more weight or attention to e ...
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Marketing 2
Number of Words: 824 / Number of Pages: 3
... that there was an open opportunity for their products. In
Mexico there was not a cookie exactly like theirs. Oreo and
Chips Ahoy are the best selling cookies in the United States
so they thought that the products might do the same in
Mexico. They did not have an expansive advertising
campaign. Instead they relied on in-store promotions. On
reason for their success is that they have a strong
distribution and name recognition. Many people did not
think that the product would sell, even though they have
great presence. There are two main events that might have
helped Nabisco. One ...
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Drugs In Football Making An Ap
Number of Words: 1570 / Number of Pages: 6
... edge on their game and
opponents. Some need help getting psyched up before a game. Those
athletes that do, turn to drugs. The most used drugs that athletes turn to are
amphetamines. Amphetamines effect the central nervous system. They
prepare the body for action by stimulating the rate of respiration, heartbeat,
and raising the blood pressure. Many coaches and trainers agree that no
other drug is so widely distributed in clubhouses and locker rooms. People
who have taken many pills over a short period of time develop the delusion
of insects crawling on their skin. That delusion is an ha ...
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Skydiving
Number of Words: 11319 / Number of Pages: 42
... silk. Shroud lines, sewn into the panels' seams, connect to metal rings on the parachutist's harness. The parachutist wears the folded parachute in a canvas pack that flies open when he or she pulls the ripcord. Parachutists pull the ripcord about three seconds after they jump, to make sure they are clear of the plane when the parachute opens. Parachutists descend at about 5.2 m (about 17 ft) per second.
To date worldwide there are 540,000 skydivers and there has been 5,563,000 jumps made. To jump there are some thing one must know and do.
Every skydive starts before you board the airplane. Before y ...
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