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    Being fat and being woman is more than just a physical appearance or characteristic that describe a body. Being a fat woman explores predominant conditions about size and gender that denote male power, beauty prejudice and fatphobia (Atayurt, 2010). Grace Nichols in her Fat Black Woman´s poem (1984) assertively frames the overweight black female figure from its “triple displaced position” and exchanges this appearance into the “realm of power and bodily pride”, challenging different social and cultural

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    How Does the Percentage of Fat in Milk Affect the Height of Ice Cream? Purpose The purpose of this experiment was to determine how different types of milk and cream, with different percentages of fat, affect the height of the resulting ice cream. Background Information Fats are lipids, which are organic compounds composed of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. Most fat molecules consist of three fatty acid tails and a glycerol. Fatty acid tails are made of hydrogen and carbon, the way that they are

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    to protein and fat for body weight control. International Journal of Obesity [Internet]. Cited 2013 September 20. Available from: http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n3s/full/0803485a.html • Women's Health Initiative dietary trial concluded that those who participated in a fat reduction diet, which is decreasing dietary fat by 37-27% of total calories, lost 3-5 kg of weight and kept a lower body weight in the span of 9 years compared to individuals participating in a normal fat diet • Driving

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    Antoine Fats Domino, or as many of his fans called him “Fats Domino” is an African-American singer and pianist. He mainly played music in the rhythm and blues genre, and is known as the man who helped define the sound of New Orleans. Domino was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1928. As a young boy he spoke the language of creole before learning English. He was just 7-years old when his brother-in law taught him how to play the piano. By the age of 10-years old he was being introduced to New Orleans

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    The Fat Boy written by Owen Marshall is a short story that highlights the mob mentality, arrogance and loss of conscience of people from a small town. Who bring into being a fictional personality ‘The Fat Boy”, whom they use as a scapegoat for their wrongdoings. This is shown right from the beginning of the text and the fact that The Fat Boy is unreal is revealed by his description “The Fat Boy watched the passers-by with the frog like, faintly enquiring look that the faces of fat boys have. The

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    Body Fat Spreadsheet

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    D) Immediately when you view the statistical results from the calculations on the spreadsheet you can see that there is a strong relationship between BMI and percent body fat measured using BIA. This was shown by the correlation value-r- of 0.64 when p=0.001. Based off these numbers, it displays that there is a strong relationship and a statistically significant relationship. These statistics show us that the direction of the r-value is positive with a strong relationship and the p-value is significant

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    A legend of the modern music was born on 21st of May, 1904 to humble and religious parents in an uptown state of New York. Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller, or simply known as Fats Waller, mom was a well-known instrumentalist who had influenced the boy from his early childhood. His fierce determination for jazz overruled his father’s desire for him to pursue a religious career and do classical music instead of jazz. During his lifetime he wrote multiple classics and showed the world that despite the bounds

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    Cléo aligns in the first half of the film with Beauvoir’s claims that “the average Western male’s ideal is a woman who freely submits to his domination” (Beauvoir 201). Similarly, in Fat Girl, Elena represents another type of ideal woman that men seek, which is one that will give herself to him, therefore relinquishing a part of her and her control. Elena like Cléo in the first part of the film has virtually no control. Elena cannot control what happens after giving her virginity to Fernando because

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    Most people consume 25-35 percent of their total daily calorie count from fat; however, only 10 percent should come from saturated fats. There are two different types of trans fat, artificial and naturally occurring. In order to make artificial trans fat, an industrial process adds hydrogen to liquid vegetable oil, to make it more solid. This type of trans fat raises the LDL (bad) cholesterol level and lowers the HDL (good) cholesterol levels. This increases the risk of heart disease and stroke,

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    Chow Yun-Fat Personality

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    The reason I chose Chow Yun-Fat for my individual assignment is his philanthropy and humble personality which I adore the most. Chow Yun-Fat is an international film star which was born on Wednesday May 18th 1955, in south-west of Lamma Island, Hong Kong. He first came to the attention of western audiences via his roles in the action films of maverick HK director John Woo. He has solidified his position as everyone’s favourite movie star. Chow Yun-Fat first caught the attention of western audiences

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