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    children ages 2-19 are overweight or obese (as of 2011)” (“Childhood”). This percent includes children from both public and private schools, and can be found regardless of sex, family income, or location. The previous First Lady of The United States, Michelle Obama, took steps beginning in 2008, with hopes of improving the health of children in America, primarily focused on the U.S. Public Schools and the lunches being served within them. Rather quickly, students experienced these dramatic…

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    illness that negatively impacts the body not only physically but also mentally. Only recently has significant progress begun in the quest for a cure. Mrs. Michelle Obama 's speech marks another important moment in the women’s health movement as well as in the nation’s response to cancer related issues. Through carefully structured paragraphs, Michelle Obama makes use of rhetorical devices to emphasize the actions taken in improvement, evolution, and awareness regarding the nation’s status on…

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    One 21st century American woman who is extremely influential is former First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. As First Lady, she passed several acts and stood in support of countless worthy causes in order to try to improve the health and overall status of our nation. Michelle Obama has influenced not only our nation, but our entire world for the better. Michelle Obama is considered influential for several reasons, but the main ones include all the things she has done to improve the…

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    First Lady Michelle Obama has had to deal not only with the stereotypes of African American Women in the United States, but she has also had to deal with the legacies of the previous First Ladies. The role of First Lady has evolved tremendously over the past one hundred plus years. It evolved from a largely ceremonial role to that of policy advocating and campaigning. For example, “[d]uring the 2008 presidential campaign [Michelle] was asked about what kind of First Lady would I be, or which…

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    First lady Michelle Obama became my role model for launching the Let’s Move! campaign which brought community leaders, educations, medical professionals, parents, and many others together nationwide to address the childhood obesity issue. Having Michelle Obama speak amongst the Gonzaga community will inspire the zags to build a more prosperous America. In 2010, Michelle Obama launched the Let’s Move! Campaign as an initiative to solve the problem of childhood…

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    segregation because of their skin colour at one point of their live, whether they have realized it or not and it has affected the way people act in different situations. For instance, the newspaper article Michelle Obama ‘felt the sting’ of Racial Inequality tells the story of someone as famous as Michelle Obama being discriminated against because she was the first African-American first lady. She felt that she was viewed differently…

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    inequality for women can lead to a lack of self-confidence and entitlement. This is why today I am honoring former First Lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama had served our country as First lady for 8 years, and for those years I thank her for being the best role model any women could look up to. Michelle Obama is one woman I thank for teaching by example on how to be a strong, and independent women. She is an emblem of a hard working woman. She acknowledges…

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    their turn to speak. While she provides ample research and stories in support of her view, a way to connect more with the audience is necessary to the success of an argument. In an article by Krissah Thompson of the Washington Post, the First Lady Michelle Obama stated while addressing students on a recent visit to China, ““Many decades ago, there were actually laws in America that allowed discrimination against black people like me, who are a minority in the United States, But over time,…

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    Social Media: Society’s disease Have you been infected by the disease of social media? Social media allows easy access to connect with anyone, from your next door neighbor to your ex best friend Sally from the third grade. Even though social media helps us interact with each other it also has a negative side. For example, plastic surgery, cyberbullying, and glamourizing alcohol and drug use are some of the negative effects that social media has on society. One negative effect that social media…

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    Characters-#3 & #7 #3-The main character has faced many problems throughout his life. Tyler Oakley has experienced both difficult and minor challenges ranging from his parent’s divorce to not getting his beets on his Skinnylicious Veggie Burger at The Cheesecake Factory. Tyler has pretty much been through it all, he went from publicly supporting and interviewing One Direction to being hated by all of their fans. It got so bad that the One Direction fans got #WeWantTylerOakleyDead and…

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