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    Childhood Obesity Epidemic

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    be because of many reason, but often parents and children feel that in order to complete the sixty minutes a day you have to do a vigorous exercise; when in reality you don’t. According to the Federal Occupational Health walking, biking, and jumping rope among other things are all good easy ways for a child to get exercise. Like mentioned previously school lunches are also a contributor in the childhood obesity epidemic. If school would cut back on the processed foods and start using more…

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    pirate and a troublesome one at that of course. The series setting goes back in history when the world was ruled by the British Empire, the East India Trading Company (EITC) and the Spanish Empire, as pirates raid the sea defining any laws that come their way. There is a total of four movies out with a new one to be released this year. Each movie portrays Jack Sparrow as a witty, selfish, cunning and adventurous captain. All the characteristics of a pirate, of course, which leads him into never…

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    irrational perception of human thinking. Hypocrisy is evident in the story of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn characters. For example, When Widow Douglas thinks smoking is a vile practice, but she personally uses snuff. Huck added “The Widow took snuff. of course, that was all right”(Twain 3). This shows that widow…

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    I interviewed Carole Lavery, who is 73 years young or I know her better as my grandmother at her home in Fennville on September 26th, 2016. While conducting this the interview at her large dining room table that I sat with my family more time then I am able to count, I heard some stories that I’ve heard many times, while some were less familiar me to me. As she sat at the head of the table (her normal seat) she drank her coffee out of a little white cup that was barely warm, but she didn’t seem…

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    The enlightenment given by my mother has opened my mind to better understand myself. Hitherto, I only discern my existence as a homosexual. I never once thought that myself is a transgender or anything connected therewith. I was just careless to learn about the differences between homosexual and transgender. I've read about the sex change, mostly male to female, nevertheless, I do not focus on it in a greater depth. Now that I have got the picture and contemplating in myself this time with a…

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    Survival In The Holocaust

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    longer. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir, “Night”, he took the risk of going on the march with his father; it was a decision that could have led him to certain death. “‘...were the SS really going to allow the prisoners to remain in the infirmaries....’ ‘Of course not. The patients will be finished off on the spot’ said the faceless one.” (Wiesel 81). Elie did not know what would happen if he had stayed in the infirmaries; even though he had a lousy foot, Elie…

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    The poem is about a hangman who comes into town and sets up gallows, saying, “He who served me the best…shall earn the rope on the gallows-tree.” The hangman chooses a victim at random and hangs him, even though the man was blameless. Despite this, nobody speaks up for him because the townspeople all fear the hangman. They only let out sighs of relief that it isn’t them…

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

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    Some people (Joint Chiefs of Staff) demanded an airstrike to destroy the weapons (Office)(Gale). Followed by a U.S. invasion of Cuba; others favored harsh communications to Cuba and the Soviet Union. President Kennedy decided on a middle course action. On October 22, he ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba (Gale). The use of “quarantine” legally applied this action from the blockade, which assumed a position of war existed; the use of “quarantine” in place of “blockade” also allowed the…

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    Human life transcends nearly all. If a Jew is held hostage and ransom is demanded, our rabbis permit us to sell holy objects, even a Torah scroll or a synagogue, in order to redeem the prisoner. The Rambam, Rabbi Moshe son of Maimon, writes, “There is no greater commandment than that of redeeming the prisoners…as they stand in danger of their lives, and one who turns his eye away transgresses the biblical command of ‘Do not stand idly by when your fellow man is in danger’ (Leviticus 19:16), and…

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    John Gacy Case

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    On June 22, 1972, Gacy would yet again be arrested on charges of aggravated battery and reckless conduct. According to Linedecker, “A young man told police that he was standing on the street corner when Gacy swung his car toward the curb, flashed a badge and identified himself as a sheriff’s deputy. The young man was order into the car un the threat of arrest…After he got into the car he was forced to perform oral sex on the driver” (1980, p. 61). The case was never brought to trial, but for the…

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