Passive smoking

Two articles from separate discourse communities were chosen to be compared for the purpose of identifying, analyzing, and reflecting upon different genre conventions. The two communities being compared are the business and writing communities represented by “Globalization, National Identity and Foreign Policy: Understanding 'Global Korea'” by Jojin V. John. John (2015) and “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” by Christina Haas and Linda Flower (1988) respectively.…

Formatting is also an important element of business communication. The document must be signed, addressed and correctly attributed. Whenever the title of the addressee is unknown, the gender-neutral Dear Sir or Madam is preferred to Dear Sirs. The same also applies to the use of salutations and gender-specific pronouns such as he and she, which should be avoided whenever possible. The pluralized pronoun everyone is grammatically incorrect, and its use is not recommended. In a similar vein,…

he was asking her to make a change instead of merely watching her life go by. The second sentence of the text, “Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odor of dusty cretonne.” was written in a passive voice because Eveline was a passive person.…

Austin Davis Cell Transport Permeability and Mechanisms Biology 2101-009 Derek Draper 11/24/16 Introduction The smallest functional unit of life is the definition of a cell. Smaller than the cell are the chemical processes that allow the cell to live. While cell have many different functions, the most basic is making proteins which produces energy by the devouring of glucose. The most interesting part of the cell, because of its complexity, would have to be the plasma membrane. Not…

HOW DID I QUIT SMOKING? Quitting smoking is one of the most difficult and tough tasks I had assumed before when I was a chain smoker. Now that being done, it seems as there is nothing hard now to quit smoking. I had started the smoking for the pleasure and enjoyment with my friends and later realized that it would damage my personality. It gave me really tough time to quit smoking and my body was not fully prepared for it. However, today I strongly believe everything is possible in the world if…

ingredients. This product is a clear liquid produced from plant oils. It is a natural mixture composed of three fatty acids(What Is Vegetable Glycerin?). The other ingredients include propylene glycol, flavorings, and pharmaceutical grade nicotine(Smoking vs. Vaping: Which Is Healthier?). The presence of nicotine is what has become a large point critics focus on when they talk about vaping. These critics however fail to mention that the level of nicotine can be controlled by the one using the…

SCIENCE DRUG REPORT – NICOTINE – Lily Gherbaz Nicotine is the chemical in tobacco, which makes tobacco smoking addictive. The chemical formula is C10H14N2 (shown in the diagram below). When nicotine is delivered into the lungs by inhaling smoke, mood and behaviour are regulated from the increase in the release of brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. (Chemical Properties, n.d.) (Botanical extracts, 2009) Nicotine is only one of more than 4,000 chemicals found in the smoke from…

“There is a contract with every cigarette” I hear from my tv, as I catch the end of an Real Cost commercial while looking out of my window catching of my mom smoking a cigarette as she waters the flowers. Cigarettes have been around for generation. Just like everything else the old goes out and in comes the new. This has finally applied to cigarettes as modern technology found its replacement. Cigarettes are now being replaced by the new sensations of electronic cigarettes and personal…

of advertising. Do disgusting and fearful anti-smoking advertisements increase or decrease support for tobacco control…

Although there has not been much research about it yet, vaping is becoming the next big thing in the smoking community. People are beginning to find out that there is a better, safer, and much cheaper alternative to smoking. That alternative is an Electronic Cigarette, which was first invented by a man by the name of Hon. The first “vaporizer” consisted of 3 simple parts: a lithium-ion battery, a small cartridge filled with the “e-juice”, and an atomizer, which is used to create heat, causing…