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number of cases to lowest number of cases are; lung cancer, colon and rectal cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, leukemia, non-Hodgkin cancer, liver cancer, ovarian cancer, and esophageal cancer. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) stated that these ten cancers killed the most people between 2003 and 2007. These results reflect only the most dangerous types of cancer. But some cancers that are classified as the least lethal cancers are the most common, for example, skin…

Introduction: Television has become a vital aspect of daily life, within modern society; this is largely because it encompasses a wide range of genres, stretching from soap operas to thrillers; every aspect exhibits, to a certain extent, a reliance on genre (Mittell, 2001). Industries rely on genre to produce programs, and audiences use genres as a means of organizing fan practices (Mittell, 2001). According to a 2006 Nelson Media Research study, ratings confirm that aside from prime time shows…

The criminal justice system as we know it today has changed from what it once was back in the 1700’s. The United States criminal justice system was indeed influenced from English law and customs, but history has revealed to maintain a growing and evolving system those individuals apart of that system have to adapt and change along with that system in order to tackle the growing issues of today. The global weight of current issues like terrorism, technological advances, and globalization; these…

Television is a prominent aspect of popular culture. Whether TV viewers believe it or not, the mind can be morphed by what is shown in all types of television shows, reigning true especially in crime dramas. Recently, with the rise of these crime dramas on TV, the effect is increasing. Crime drama viewers are becoming “educated” through watching the shows. Some of these television-educated people are being called to jury duty and are going with a false sense of knowledge. This summoning to be…

visual images of people in the prime of their life with artificial limbs, surgical scars, dentures and premature babies. At the end of the advertisement people were encouraged to call the telephone quit line or visit the National Cancer Institute (NCI) smoking cessation website. The effectiveness of the TIPS campaign was measured by call volume and visitors to the smoking cessation website. Data was compared with volume from corresponding weeks in 2011. Calls received by the quit line…

environmentally harmful violations, that Karen witnessed, was a truck being cut up into pieces small enough to be buried and hidden from the general public and other authorities (Nichols, "Silkwood (1983)"). According to the Nuclear Control and Institute (NCI, 2002), proper disposal of plutonium is by vitrification; plutonium is mixed with other radioactive waste, formed into glass logs, sealed in stainless steel containers, then buried in a nuclear depository. The cut-up pieces of radioactive…

“Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it” (Charles R. Swindoll). Prejudice is a very serious issue that people take lightly all over the world. It can be the cause of discrimination which makes matters much worse. Firstly, this essay will describe the nature and existence of prejudice. Secondly, illustrating how it manifests in our social context with examples, and last but not least, how it can be addressed and prevented. Therefore, after reading this…

In today’s internationally connected world, monolingualism is becoming more and more of an anomaly. Business is conducted across countries, cultures, and people while media is often successful in a multitude of languages. Benefits aren’t always so tangible - a study by Kathleen Marcos (1998) showed children who have a higher level of fluency in two or more languages are more flexible thinkers, better communicators, and have more doors to other cultures as well as a greater job pool in their…

Often in this paper I will be referring to a discourse community, and at first it would seem like you are not a part of one. Nevertheless, sports teams, book clubs, even just having a job puts you in a discourse community. John Swales, a professor of linguistics, defines discourse communities as having certain criteria. He states that they have an agreed set of public goals, they have mechanisms of intercommunication, and they have a specific lexis. I am currently in my second year here at…

Life Without Sequence On October 5th, 1984, the body of 15-year-old Kristina Hickey was found raped and stabbed behind a mall in Park Forest, Illinois. She had been missing for two days, having last been seen walking on her way home from choir practice. On January 15, 1987, Christopher Abernathy, who was seventeen at the time the murder was committed, was convicted of Hickey’s murder and sentenced to ‘Life’ in prison without the possibility of parole. Abernathy’s sole accuser was a high-school…