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- 3001: Ban Smoking In Restaurants And The Workplace
- ... these take time: you have to dress up nice, make reservations, make sure you have your best manners, etc… Now, imagine you’re going out to eat an expensive restaurant for the celebration of your great-grandmother’s 88th birthday. You’re whole family is there: your great grandmother, you grand father, your parents, you and you’re nephew. You arrive at the restaurant, take your seats, and then it hits you! You’ve made a terrible mistake! You might as will have ... can stand the smell of other people smoking while they eat a meal! Smoking should also be banned in the workplace even more than restaurants. Employees who are surrounded in a smoking environment daily have great chances of developing lung cancer or another deadly disease from secondhand smoke. It’s important that all employees have safe work environments. Restaurant and bar workers have a much higher death rate than all ...
- 3002: Narcolepsy
- ... chance of being afflicted with narcolepsy, a rate that is 200 times more likely than the general public. The educational and social life of a person with narcolepsy can be extraordinarily disrupted. There is a great impairment of the ability to read, study, and learn. Parents, teachers, physicians, or spouses are frequently confused about the cause of the symptoms. Consequently, these people attribute motivational concerns and pure laziness to the sleepiness ... the body. It has been used with some success in controlling the symptoms of narcolepsy and other sleep disturbances. However, another study suggests that Melatonin may have adverse effects. It may cause nightmares and worsen depression. A new drug, Modafinil, received FDA approval in December, 1998. It seems to be effective in controlling the symptoms of narcolepsy, and has fewer adverse side effects than the amphetamines, such as Dexedrine and Ritalin ...
- 3003: Of Mice And Men - What Are Friends For?
- ... John Steinbeck's novel, Of mice and men. Of mice and men is a novel which shows the trials and tribulations of true friendship. This novel, with all of its twists and turns is a great piece of American Literature. There are two main characters, George and Lennie. Lennie is a massive man with incredible strength but has a child's mind. George is a fairly sized man who is not ... has good common sense. What one man lacks, the other makes up for. It is a perfect example of how opposites attract. They are a perfect match, and that is why they have a truly great friendship. Although, no matter how much he tries, George cannot make up for the huge gap in Lennies mind. Lennie is so childish it is hard to believe, for example when he sees things he ... it and soon startled the woman with his overwhelming strength. So, once again George had to rescue Lennie, and with that they had to move again. George knew he could leave Lennie and have a great life, but what was a friend for. He couldn't just abandon Lennie. So on to the next ranch they went. This time it just gets worse. In one confrontation with the boss's ...
- 3004: Oliver Twist
- As one of the world s greatest writers, Charles Dickens has written some of the greatest classics such as: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Oliver Twist. In these works, Dickens often uses past experiences in his life, and develops a character that goes through the same kind of struggles. He also uses ... of joking. Such is the case with Oliver Twist. During his childhood, Charles Dickens suffered much abuse from his parents. Oliver Twist, the main character in the novel, while at the orphanage, also experienced a great amount of abuse. For example, while suffering from starvation and malnutrition, Oliver was chosen by the other boys at the orphanage to request more gruel at dinner one night. After making this simple request, "the ... into the writing legend that he is. As you can see, Dickens use of personal experience was able to help develop a character that was a mirror of himself, and was able to create a great story.
- 3005: My Favorite Room
- My Favorite Room My Den is a great place to hang out, play some pool, or just get away from the stress of every day life. My Den offers superior sound and entertainment. It has no stress related items such as a telephone ... be observed. No ties, briefcases or any other work related articles. No phones or pagers are allowed so there are no interruptions. These are to insure a fun and relaxing time. My Den is a great place to hang out, play some pool, or just get away from the stress of every day life. It is almost impossible not to have a good time when you are in my den. Outline A. Introduction B. Why the den is a great place to hang out. C. Pooltable D. Get away from stress of everyday life. E. Closing paragraph
- 3006: In 1984
- ... like this you use this number. We now have problems with people looking up our credit history using this one number. They do not even need our permission. At the time it seemed like a great idea. Which is probably how we will be duped in the future. If it isn't bad enough that they admit they want to catalogue their citizens, our government basically admits that they need to ... mostly) to rework their networks so that the government's men can attach themselves and listen to our private conversations. Let me repeat myself here, they are using OUR money to watch us. It is great that they can catch a criminal easier but it is not worth it to loose that freedom and live in fear. While we in the U.S. are busy at our jobs in the rat race, the government is pulling the wool over our eyes. They are working towards ways to keep us in line. I don't know if there is a great conspiracy against us. All I know is that we are being taken as suckers, and pretty soon we will have no privacy to think of. We must work to stop the evolution of these ...
- 3007: Suicide -- Causes And Effects
- ... of problems. There could be changes in relationships, problems related to jobs, problems in school, loss of loved one, their financial situation being bad, body image, or various abuses like physical, mental, emotional or sexual. Depression and stress are considered as the major factors in suicide. Different people deal with stress in different ways. It also depends on what kind of society and atmosphere you live in. Not everyone attempts suicide ... to the person who is determined end his life. If he survives he is made to feel like a criminal. It is also known that the families of people who commit suicide go through a great deal of pain and distress. There are several ways to treat the suicidal behaviour of these kinds of people. One of the reasons that they do it is for attention. It is their way of ...
- 3008: Willy’s Loss of Life and Dignity
- ... the All-Scholastic Championship game in front of thousands of people. Willy couldn't be prouder of his two popular sons who at the time had everything going for them and seemed destined to live great, important lives, much more so than the "liked, but not well liked" boy next door, Bernard. Willy's dependency on the on the past is becoming greater by the hour, at this rate, he cannot ... expectations. The way he overused his vivid imagination is sad because the only thing it's good for is enabling Willy to go through one more day of his piteous life, full of bitterness, confusion, depression, false hopefulness, and a feeling of love which he is trying very hard to express to his sons who seem reluctant to accept it, resulting in the death of a salesman.
- 3009: The Black Plague
- ... no chance of maturing.2 Birth and death rates were hideously altered. Labor, taxes and industrial shrinkage soon saw the effects of plague. England's cloth trade suffered, yet never diminished. Industrial shrinkage was a great cause in the fall of the economy. With the unfortunate dying by the dozens, some were left wandering if this was a sign of the end of the world. Many prophecies were made that describe the Black Plague. A certain great astrologer named Michael de Leone foretold the coming of a great disaster of death.3 Even though the end of the world was expected, Christian followers believed that had to be yet an anti-christ preceding the last judgment. Hence, prophecies still included the Black ...
- 3010: Phone Call to Bobbie
- ... eternity. It was December 25, 1996 Christmas day. There I was in the US Navy’s bootcamp standing in line with my division waiting to enter the galley. Why I had chosen to be in Great Lakes in the of dead winter I will never know. More than anything I wanted to hear my girlfriend Bobbies voice on the other side of the barbed wire fence. It had been four weeks ... would pray for letters from Bobbie and my friends back home. I did not realized how important my friends where and how much I loved Bobbie until I had left them. It was such a great feeling getting letters and a such terrible feeling not getting any. This night my name was not called. This may be what pushed me over the edge. I could not believe that on Christmas I ... yelling something at us. I couldn’t hear what he was saying, the lids were so loud that they drowned his voice out. I will never forget those early mornings. It was time for another great Navy day. We dressed and got in ranks outside on the street. It was a little warmer than the night before, maybe zero degrees. We marched over to the galley and waited for our ...
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