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Recycling
Number of Words: 427 / Number of Pages: 2
... but that's wrong it really takes no longer to throw a can in the bin than in the garbage. Anything that anybody recycles makes a difference, for instance one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a T.V for 3 hours, a single glass jar saves enough energy to light a light bulb for 4 hours. So for every thing you recycle it does save energy.
One of the big myths which I think prevents a lot of people from is that not many things can be recycled, maybe that was true 15 years ago but not any more. Now days almost anything can be recycled, to a certain extend. Since we also live in a city which ...
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Brett Favre
Number of Words: 590 / Number of Pages: 3
... up about the same as anyone else. Since he grew up in a
totally football enclosed family, with his brother playing football in college and his father
being a coach, he loved the game. He has the same posters, and the same dreams and
heroes as most kids of today. In high school he played quarterback as he decided he was
going to do when he was young. He not only played football, he also played baseball.
He earned five letters in baseball (he led team in batting all five seasons) and three in
football at Hancock North Central High School. He went on to college at Southern Miss.
He holds 16 ...
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Why 2
Number of Words: 1607 / Number of Pages: 6
... According to him, there are two problems about scientific explanation. Both are very easily seen in our example. The first is, when is something explained? Some argue that we should not explain a phenomenon unless we have the full, unifying, true-to-the-last-miniscule-detail explanation, which will also cover all the cases which correspond to our case, cases similar to our case, or distant variants of our case. In short, what they want is a theory of everything, which in itself is a noble goal, but is hardy achievable. Let’s face it, everything in our universe is connected in one way or ano ...
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Where Are The Heros
Number of Words: 984 / Number of Pages: 4
... in rank of all the Akhaians." (Pp. 27 ll. 105.) Agamemnon has left his known world on a quest of honor, to fight for his brother Menelaus, who has had his wife and treasures stolen by a guest. In coming to a place of trials Agamemnon hastily shows us that he is in serious lack of hero qualities. Agamemnon has taken a girl as a war prize, when her father, a priest of the God Apollo, comes humbly seeking to pay a fair ransom for her return Agamemnon is harsh and unyielding. Even after his fellow comrades try compelling him to take the father’s fair offer Agamemnon refuses, showing his ...
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Aggressive Behavior Equals Many Rewards
Number of Words: 594 / Number of Pages: 3
... in the backfield. Defensive players must be aggressive also, so that they can make tackles.
Basketball is another athletic event that rewards aggressive behavior. Although basketball seems harmless, it is a sport that requires a tremendous amount of aggressive behavior. When I was younger, before basketball game I would always get a pep talk from my dad. He would tell me to be aggressive and to take the ball inside. He always told me to play tough, work hard for rebound, play good defense, and when somebody came into the paint make them pay for it. Our basketball coaches in junior high taught ...
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The Micmac V.S. The Iroquois
Number of Words: 2816 / Number of Pages: 11
... in 1722. The
Iroquois are bound in a treaty of friendship with the Ojibway to the North.
The Micmac government was three-tiered, with local, district, and
national chiefs, or ‘Sagamores'. Each settlement's council of elders chose a
local chief. The chief was the focus of power in the settlement. The local chief
attained position through both hereditary right and meritorious behavior. The
oldest son of a dead chief was usually given first consideration as a successor.
If he was found unfit for office, despite special training, others in family
and/or others in the community were considered. These ...
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The History Of Ice Hockey
Number of Words: 2638 / Number of Pages: 10
... act as Canada’s and national sport. The Alogonquins who inhabited the shores the St. Lawrence River played an ice game that was similar to lacrosse called "baggataway," played without skates and with an unlimited number of participants. French explorers who visited the St. Lawrence River area and northern areas of United States in the 1700’s witnessed these matches. (Hubbard & Fischler, page17)
According to the dictionary of language of Micmacs Indians, published in 1888, the Micmacs of eastern Canada played an ice game called "oochamkunutk," which was played with a bat or stick. Another i ...
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Teenagers Wasting 2.3 Million
Number of Words: 685 / Number of Pages: 3
... If you have money in the winter you can bowl, watch a High School basketball game, go to the YMCA, see a movie, go shopping, drive around, experiment with make-up and different types of clothes, get on the Internet, and watch TV.
With no money in the winter, we can watch TV, get on the Internet, vandalize, steal , try to bum cigarettes and other such things. The reason the police log is so long every morning is not because kids are heathens, it’s because we are bored. If there was a dance club, a clean place to play pool, an indoor swimming pool , etc., that was free, I guarantee you the problems wou ...
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Justify The Knowledge Or It Wi
Number of Words: 2905 / Number of Pages: 11
... and become stereotyped as trash to express their rebellion against being trained to think in a way that does nothing but confuse thought itself. The simple fact is that if young people were encouraged to change our current situation instead of being cast out and beaten down, these same tattooed drug addict losers would be Nobel Prize winners. Its not these rebels that are causing environmental problems, sucking up all the available resources at the expense of people living in poverty, and sending American jobs across the Mexican border for the sake of a greasy buck. It is not the individualist e ...
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Lockers In School
Number of Words: 551 / Number of Pages: 3
... would have as many supplies needed in order to be successful in class. This would make life easier for many students, instead of caring all of our folders and books we could just carry the ones that we need the most. The schools GPA would raise a bit. If we had lockers, it would end up being beneficial for the school. If there are no lockers, it can lead to potentially serious back problems. There is also the bad side.
There is a bad side to having lockers. There are persons that uses their lockers to keep things concealed, like weapons, drugs, and other potentially dangerous objects. If studen ...
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