The Fix

Leaving Well Enough Alone “If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a common phrase, which suggests that it is unwise to improve something that appears to be working. “The phrase is widely attributed to Gainesville, Georgia-born Thomas Bertram Lance, who believed he could save Uncle Sam billions if he could get the government to adopt the motto,"If it ain't broken, don't fix it!" He explained,"That's the trouble with government: Fixing things that aren't broken and not fixing things that are broken."…

at a continuation school helped me more than any traditional school could have. Knowing that I failed myself, made me have a revelation, to see how I could fix my grades I moreover if I was going to be able to graduate. This is something that I will live with for the rest of my life. I took responsibility for this, accordingly I do want to fix my life as it is right now a mess. When I first started at the new school, I was constantly reminded of my failure in this school, but I didn't allow…

in the workplace. But Anne-Marie Slaughter, the president of New America, a think tank and civic enterprise, asserts that the work system is unfair to both men and women in general. Even though Slaughter does not give coherent solutions on how to fix the unfairness of the workplace, her strong organization and incorporation of specific examples overall makes her argument convincing and appealing to the audience. Slaughter manages to make her argument pursuable by structuring her article a…

violation, Lucky can build a bond with the inspector and his team when they come in for free Ice cream, but if the Public finds out Lucky is being dishonest, Lucky’s Ice Cream Parlor’s reputation can be ruined and shamed. If Lucky decides to pay to fix the health codes, Lucky may also gain a few critics that shame the parlor on behalf of being in health violation, but Lucky will only be improving his business for the…

having less children means that the birth rate in America is now down from it healthy two point one and to a unhealthy one point nine. A two point one is the birth rate we need to steadily repopulate our country. As a country we are trying to fix gender inequality. A few ways we are fixing it are Social activities/ programs, technology, and scholarships. Social activities and…

talks about making a well for the town’s people. It will always break down, because one, they do not know how to fix the well to get it back running again, nor do they have the material to even fix it if they did know how to fix it. So instead of doing the well for them, and taking away someone else’s job, teach them how to fix the well, and leave them or sell them material to be able to fix it, if it breaks…

Rubisco, will fix the CO2 to form a 3 carbon compound (Khan academy [accessed 2017]). This 3 carbon compound will eventually be converted to sugar and become maple syrup (Perkins and van den Berg 2009). Plants that follow this metabolic pathway are known as C3 plants (Khan academy [accessed 2017]). It is important to note that Rubisco prefers to fix carbon 12 over carbon 13; therefore 13CO2 is more likely to diffuse out of the leaf through the stoma before the Rubisco is able to fix it (Farquhar…

2.) Were there any issues encountered? If so, please explain. In this location, the tills were too short for the size of the till slot. A technician was dispatched twice (once Tuesday evening, and again Wednesday morning) to fix the issue—each time he seemed to be instructed that using electrical tape over the sensor which reads that a till is in the slot (to elongate it) was the only solution available at the time. After the technician left Wednesday morning, the trainer…

Global warming is one of the biggest issues in the world today, and keeps increasing over time. Global warming is the increasing of temperature in a fast rate over time and will keep increasing if people do not do something to fix the problem. Some of the main problems of global warming are that people, factories, and deforestation, human activity is the main cause, leading to natural disasters and the increase of high temperatures. To change global warming, the United States is starting to team…

had no control over anything. The park has electric fences which is powered with the electricity of course. Since it went off, the dinosaurs were able to get out. That was the major problem of this story. It took a long time for them to fix the power. In order to fix this problem, they should make sure to have backup generators so they could have some power to control things . They cant have these dinosaurs getting out and killing people again. The workers also were a problem. Dennis nedry…