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    My Writing Habits

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    to again i guess. i read more often for sure. I read about 3 times a week for 30 minutes, if i dont have something planned. My writing habits make me see myself as not much of a writer,but with my reading i consider myself a casual reader. My writing habits are not the best. I tend to put things off. which i know seems bad but its a habait im kicking off, and bad habiats fall hard. The event i think shaped me most as a reader was most likely when my parents split. I was young so i dont quite remeber

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    smartphones affect us children. The author shows the advantages and disadvantages of smartphones. First of all, you may even use a phone to text, tweet or go online during class. About 90 percent of teens with cell phones send texts. Unfortunately, kicking the habit of using cellphones and other mobile devices in class can be a hard. If you’re like most kids these days, you use a smartphone, and you use it often. Additionally, the Pew report shows, 92 percent of teens go online daily. In the United States

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    Soft Addiction

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    Soft Addictions are those seemingly harmless habits like over-shopping, overeating, watching too much TV, endlessly surfing the internet, procrastinating—that keep us from the life we want. They cost us money, rob us of time, numb us from our feelings, mute our consciousness, and drain our energy. And we all have them. A clear downside of soft addictions is that they block intimacy, much like hard addictions, such as alcoholism. Soft addictions can also have long- term consequences. Stress snacking

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    Furthermore, an animal’s biology is different from a human’s biology, therefore, the testing on humans is still going to be dangerous. (Animal testing is bad science). Over the years, we as humans have become more and more callous to the fact that over a million animals (mice, rabbits, frogs, monkeys, fish, guinea pigs, dogs, etc.) are killed every year for our own cosmetic reasons. These animals are forced

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    a small, homogeneous, rural group living in relative isolation. Popular Culture-Cultural elements found in large, heterogeneous society that shares certain habits despite differences in personal characteristics. Globalization-Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope. Habit-A repetitive

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    development and cognitive development. These benefits include being part of a team and making friends through group sports, which have a major impact on social and emotional development. The effect of obesity on children is closely linked to many bad health habits such as diet, smoking and drug use which in turn can affect a child's academic performance (Goran et al., 1999). Physical activity, if encouraged at a young age, can reduce the likelihood of children developing these behaviours and focus on their

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    have been brought into teams to work with players improving their physical side of the game. In soccer there are around 1000-1400 strength and power actions per match (Stølen, Chamari, Castagna, & Wisløff, 2005). Actions like sprinting, jumping or kicking are known to be critical on a soccer match, therefore, is not surprising that maximum strength and vertical jumps can distinguish competitive level between soccer athletes (Faina e col., 1988; Wisløff, Helgerud, & Hoff, 1998). Strength is an important

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    mining family in Leeds, where they lived in an environment filled with poverty. At an age of 19, hare escaped the bad environment, which he thought was holding him back. Hare then got a good education and a job, so that he could keep out of poverty. But in his mind, he knows that, “You can take the boy out of poverty, but you can't take poverty out of the boy”. And he returns to the bad environment again. In poverty is a state of mind, we have a first person, protagonist narrator. Which means that

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    and science are more important than running around 45 minutes every other day. So we need to decide what should really be a part of a school day. Not running around a track. When we all get older we aren't going to keep or want to keep these healthy habits because the majority of kids don't necessarily enjoy P.E. There are actually kids out there who care about learning and couldn't care less about sports. These people are not kids who just

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    smoking at all. It is difficult to comprehend why generation after generation of people continue to smoke cigarettes despite the fact they are fully aware of the detrimental effects of the behavior. Cigarette smoking has been an addictive human habit for more than 600 years and even dates back to 5000 B.C. In the

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