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    Throughout History, many of the world's most creative and articulate minds have been plagued by periods of intense alcohol addiction. Alcohol was a way of escape for most writers, but those writers didn't realize that they were making an even bigger problem for themselves. An addiction is considered to be the result of multiple factors working together. It only takes a second to initiate an addiction, but getting rid of one can take years. An authors addiction could help them to write better by providing

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    Niccolò Ammaniti’s novel I’m Not Scared set in Acqua Traverse, Italy 1978 is a powerful text. It which explores the lack of compassion shown towards the helpless, through the different actions of characters, Pino and Skull. Filippo is shown little to no caring what so ever. However Michele in one of the only characters to show caring and compassion actions towards another being. Pino is man driven by the hope “to go away from Acqua Traverse” (pg 157). To do this he becomes cruel and an emotional

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    The author is obviously against Powell’s beliefs and this is shown in his presentation of him. He presents him as a “monstrous bogeyman” (p. 2, l. 11), which corresponds with the fact that he was young when Powell was big in politics so he saw him as a child would; as a monster. He later describes him as an adult would by comparing him to Hitler. Thereby he has told how he views

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    Texting and Driving

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    this chart from 1988 to 2008. This is kind of out to date. However, if you still think about it the deaths per year is just keeps going up and up, because more and more people insist on texting while driving http://wredlich.com/ny/2012/09/another-bogeyman-texting-while-driving/. Having this law they would keep track of how many accidents there are each year related to texting while driving and see if it lessens over the years. They can also have a poll and see if people feel safer on the road because

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    Winston Churchill once said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” With several different meanings of the word ‘fear’, many can agree that it can be described as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat. Fear lies within every individual whether big or small. People may not fear the hidden monsters underneath their beds, rather on a much larger scale, they fear society as a whole. With the on-going demands of

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    "Remember it 's a sin to kill a mockingbird." This astonishing statement which Atticus had said it to his daughter scout in one of their boring days expresses the story of the innocent people that Harper Lee introduced in her wonderful novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, the sleepy town in the south of America, where poverty reaches most of the families from privilege families such as the Finches, to the African Americans such as the Robinson 's. In this novel, Harper Lee paints a vivid picture

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    The symbols of sleep in the novel, From Sleep Unbound by Andree Chedid, is a recurring motif. Sleep is used by the author to develop our understanding of the protagonist, Samya. Dreams are connected through the use of sleep to represent Samya’s desires and hopes. Andree Chedid uses images of sleep to portray Samya’s deep desire to be loved by those around her and to have someone to love. Her dreams are reflections of her feelings and thoughts. Throughout the novel, sleep is used to symbolise Samya’s

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    Blood Pressure Effects

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    The Correlation of Healthy with Quality Life The main function of the heart is to pump the pureblood into arteries with some force. Therefore, the force on arteries when blood is pumping by heart or when the heart is resting is known as blood pressure. The blood pressure is usually measured by taking the two numbers like 120/80, where 120 is known as the Systolic pressure and 80 is Diastolic. Therefore, for a normal healthy person, Systolic blood pressure must be between the ranges of 80 to 120.

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    According to most people, the Native Americans were savage violent people. They were practically animals, who lived in tents and yelled HOW! These are false accusations, actually very ignorant accusations. It’s not really one person's fault for our thinking like this, it’s what’s portrayed to people through books and T.V. It’s just the images that have been put into people's heads, but in reality, the Native Americans were smart civilizations that just lived a little differently than people were

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    The best are those whose names you don't know. You probably wouldn’t want to know them if you were an average citizen who liked the idea of staying healthy. They’re the whisper in the night, the unseen shadow, the heart of the dark. They’re the bogeyman that bad people, rich people, or people who fall in both categories absolutely shudder to think

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