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    He had extensive knowledge of the naval fleet. He knew the location of all ninety ships in the fleet. He was also involved in the acquiring of ninety-seven merchant watercraft that were rebuilt to serve as transport ships, colliers, and auxiliary cruisers for the navy (Walker 57). Despite his success in the navy, in 1898, he resigned his position in the navy to…

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    best to the surrounding environment. An example of this is when the smoke killed the lichen off the tree and made the bark dark. This increased the dark moth population by ninety eight percent. Charles Darwin would call this process survival to the fittest which he discovered while at Galapagos island. He went on this voyage for five years when he notice that the birds looked only a…

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    Colorblind For years, African Americans have gathered to create a colorless society. Historical groups have tried to gain racial equality through riots, marches and often sacrificing their own lives. New generations have forgotten the true meaning of what it is to be colorblind. Alex Kotlowitz an award winning author on urban affairs appeared on New York Times for his article “Colorblind,” in which he addresses an issue that society is said to be colorblind, even though people still chose to…

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    The name of this article that I will be talking about is called "Women of Worth" (The Gender Gap) by Merna Forster. Merna Forster is a very successful woman that did a campaign in having women on Canadian money and is also the author of “100 Canadian Heroes”. The thesis/argument that Forester is stating in her article is that they want to stop women inequality and to put an end to our Canadian gender gap. This Report will talk about the summary of the article and its argument, and also my…

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    have a friend whose mom how has been suffering with oral cancer going on nine years now. My friend’s mom got oral cancer not because she was the one that smoked, but because the people that she worked with were always smoking around her. One out of five people that live in the US are currently smoking. Eight out of ten oral cancer patients smoked. Several symptoms that one might find if they have oral cancer is a sore found in the mouth that does not heal, losing teeth for no reason, has pain…

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    Why Do Seatbelts Work

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    Seat Belts do Work Over half of the crashes in the United States end in deaths because they were not wearing a seatbelt or any harness that secures them to the car. All cars had some form of seatbelts; first, they had shoulder belt then in 1974 they had the same design of seat belts that we have now. A survey in a few places said that only ten percent of the population in 1982 used the seatbelts. After new York had passed the first seat belt law, the percentage of seat belt use rose quickly to…

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    Even though the effectiveness of seat belts is widely known and accepted, seat belt use remains low in the United States. According to a 2012 study, the U.S. has a seventy-five percent belt use rate while Canada, Australia, and other European countries boast a ninety to ninety-five percent belt use rate (Dissanayake & Parikh, 2012). Furthermore, seat belt use rates vary from state to state reflecting differences in seat belt laws, public attitude, enforcement practices, legal provisions, and…

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    everything isn’t always one hundred percent effective. There are many disadvantages to animal experimenting. According to the Animal Welfare Act also known as the AWA, ninety-five percent of animals used in experiments are not protected during these harmful tests. Rats, mice fish and birds are mostly used in this research which makes up ninety-five percent of the animals used. Using animals that aren’t covered makes these creatures very vulnerable to mistreatment and unprotected abuse. Another…

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    Mark Watney has a significant amount of knowledge presented in the first ninety pages of the Martian. In order to present this abundant amount of knowledge, he had to have the mindset of survival no matter the odds. When stranded on Mars, Watney did not default to giving up and dying because the chances of him surviving were extremely low. He used the materials around him, and came up with a plan of survival. He is not going to stop carrying out his plan until he is either safe at home, or…

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    her. Had he not killed Polonius, she would not have gone mad and drowned. Further proof over his love for her is when he disclosed to Laertes “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum” (Act five, Scene one, Lines two hundred sixty nine through two hundred and seventy one) Since she was already dead, he had no reason to claim his love if he truly…

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