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    I attended the Boston School Forest (BSF) on March 30th, 2017; the temperature was roughly 33 degrees Fahrenheit and misty for majority of the day. I was joined by about 30 students from the Point of Discovery School (POD); POD is a charter school for gifted students in Stevens Point. All the students were between grades 5 and 8. Due to the poor weather, students completed one of the scheduled activities inside. The building was large, containing enough room for a race track (about one yard in length)

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    cannot be restored. For this reason, the United states should consider substituting fossil fuel with alternative sources of energy. Switching to alternative source may save the Earth and may pose as a more sustainable source of energy. Although fossil fuels have been relied on for

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    Policy statement Incorporate non-pharmacological complementary and alternative treatments with conventional medicine to treat complex chronic pain conditions as a collaborative and integral part of the health care system. Supporting background research Chronic pain is a serious problem with more than 40 million adults suffering from severe pain as reported by the National Institute for Health (NIH) (2010). According to the NIH (2010), chronic pain sufferers use more health care, have worse overall

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    United States. This cost is attributed to treatment costs, loss of funding to school systems due to excessive absences of students, and lost wages from work missed by caregivers tending to their children.2,4 Affected individuals’ quality of life is also impacted. Although head lice is not associated with poor hygiene, it still carries a major stigma along with it.2,3 This is especially true among children in the school setting. As a result, children are ashamed and embarrassed socially.2 Another

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    for another 11. Another thing that the Red Hot Chili Peppers have accomplished is topping the charts. For instance, the single from the album The Getaway titled Dark necessities was only the 4th song to ever top the Mainstream Rock, Adult alternative, and Alternative charts (billboard.com). The previous three songs that were able to do this were One headlight by the Wallflowers, Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green day, and then Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (billboard.com). The Red Hot

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    Essay about Alternative Medicine

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    Alternative Medicine Although "Alternative" or "Complementary" medicine has been kept on the fringes of the medical sciences in the past, it is becoming increasingly more popular, and more reputable. Alternative medicines are those medical systems which are not taught to or practiced by most conventional medical doctors. Alternative medicines seemingly have always existed, changing and conforming to the current climate of society. There seems to be an almost endless number of alternative medicines

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    Special Feature – Medical Ethics Essay Singapore Med J 2002 Vol 43(3) : 148-151 Deconstructing Paternalism – What Serves the Patient Best? N H S S Tan (This Essay won the Singapore Medical Association Ethics Essay Award (Non-medical Undergraduate Category) in 2001.) ABSTRACT On the motion that “medical paternalism serves the patient best”, this essay reviews current arguments on medical paternalism vs. patient autonomy. Citing medico-ethical texts and journals and selected real-life applications

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    Alternative Energy Persuasive Essay Alexander Gibbs Liberty Union High School May 10, 2016 In today’s world, the topic of energy is dominated by one thing: ancient organic matter. Carbon and oxygen that existed in this matter when it was alive is still present and is released in the form of carbon dioxide when the coal and oil it was compressed into is burned. The problem is that the carbon that was buried over millions of years was never naturally supposed to be released back into

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    Over 1.77 million students in 2012 were enrolled in homeschooling, which 3.4 of all students in the United States of America (Time 4 Learning, 2017)! Homeschooling is another alternative for students to learn. Here students are educated at home. It benefits students by making them more independent and work better alone (Spooner, 2016). It also has downsides by making the student less social and isolating the student (Spooner, 2016). This paper will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling

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    Air Pollution In America

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    The primary cause of climate change is the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon pollution causes more frequent and severe storms, floods, heat waves, and wild fires. Power plants and major industrial facilities in Georgia Emitted more than eighty-five metric tons of carbon pollution in 2011. Thirteen counties in metro Atlanta are currently in nonattainment because the region does not meet the federal air quality standard. The American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2015” report gave a failing grade

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