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- 941: The Problem of Teens and Smoking
- ... person. By 1620, planters started to grow their own supply of tobacco. They started growing up to 100,000 pounds of tobacco a year! At this rate, the figure of tobacco got to be as high as 100 million pounds by the time of the American Revolution. In the 17th century, cultivating tobacco became the most important industry of the Virginia and Maryland colonies. Sometime later it became the major industry ... much. The percentage of female smokers from 1990 to 1994 increased by 32%. The males, on the other hand, only increased by 11%. The American Lung Association recently conducted a survey showing a ten-year high of teen smokers. Fourteen and fifteen year olds showed a huge increase of 44%! In 1990, the ages of teens from twelve to seventeen that smoke went from 9.1% to 10.9% in 1994 (that’s a 20% increase!). 31.2% of high-school teens confessed to smoking in 30 days, half of high school seniors in a survey that was conducted said they think that think that smoking makes teens look “insecure” and “un-cool.” Adult’ ...
- 942: Son of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
- ... open top limousine in Dealey Plaza. Roscoe White shot from behind a fence atop a grassy knoll to the right and front of the limousine, his son says. Two other marksmen were in the Texas School Book Depository and Records buildings behind the vehicle. Three shots struck Kennedy; a fourth wounded Texas Gov. John Connally. Ricky White says the two shots that his father fired both struck Kennedy: the first in ... was accused of firing all the fatal shots, Ricky White says. Ricky White says the diary referred to the other shooters only by code names: Sol in the Records building; and Lebanon in the Texas School Book Depository. The diary indicated each of the three riflemen was accompanied by an assistant who disassembled the rifles after the shooting and carried them out of the area, Ricky White says. According to the ... Club. OTHERS FIND OUT Until he discovered the footlocker, Ricky White says he didn't think much about his father or the Kennedy assassination. He grew up in Dallas and Paris, where he went to school, got married and moved to Midland where he and his wife have two children. There he took a job selling oil field equipment. As shocking as the diary was to Ricky White and his ...
- 943: “To legalize or Not to Legalize”
- ... sign. This means that heroin is dying out and may die out altogether sooner or later. Two of the main reasons that heroin as shone such a dramatic decreases in popularity is because of the high cost and also the trouble that it causes with the law. It also took a toll on peoples health and well being. (Against the Legalization of Drugs - pages 357-358) These days though cocaine is ... have a problem with it. Which leads to the fact that the risk of legalization is less then what most people think. Many people may become heavy users though if drugs are legalized since the high rate use of drugs is not as common-place as we think. (Against the Legalization of Drugs - pages 358) Every year we spend large sums of money on trying to contain the use of drugs ... is it too expensive and that our only option is to legalize use. To solve the problem of the economic status if they are legalized would have to be to raise the tax rate quite high to pay for the welfare and treatment. With the higher tax rate, it would mean a higher rate on drugs themselves which would then result in the addicts turning to crime to pay for ...
- 944: Gore Vs. Bush On Education
- ... need to be addressed firmly. Governor Bush feels that college students will succeed more easily with advanced science and mathematical knowledge. He says that he proposes a $1000 increase in individual Pell Grants to encourage high school students to take advanced college preparation courses in both subjects. Bush stated that, “There’s no reason for us to be next to last in the world in math, and there’s no reason for ... in national tests, but proposes to make the federal government pay half of the cost for state tests. Gore believes in testing and holding schools accountable for the success of their students, but believes that high school exit exams are most important. He wants to make sure every student holding a diploma will be able to read it, thus putting an end to social promotion. While Bush favors the voucher ...
- 945: Things That Affect and Influence Our Health and Our Lives
- ... which to help improve my body through what I eat, I began being more aware of what I ate and learned on what effected me. I began changing my diet to a low-carbohydrate, and high-protein diet, thus enabling my body to stop burning the energy from the high-carbohydrate foods I eat to the fat cells in my body. Also, instead of snacking on ice cream or candy, I ate much more vegetables and healthier fruits such as bananas, apples, and oranges. As ... had noticed cartons in the back of his car one day, and when asked why he chose to smoke he failed to come up with proper reasoning. Although he did have a job, went to school, and he did suffer the loss of his grandfather recently, he did not have to resort to relieving his stress through the usage of cigarettes and smoking. I think of all things that that ...
- 946: Farewell To Manzanar
- ... Terminal Island, a place where many Japanese families live either in some transition stage or for permanent residents. Jeanne was terrified. " It was the first time I had lived among other Japanese, or gone to school with them, and I was terrified all the time." Her father, as a way of keeping his children in line, told them, "I'm going to sell you to the Chinaman." So when Jeanne saw ... dirty Japs" on them. They were put up in a housing compound in Cabrillo. It was small but her mom now could cook and the cold winds didn't get in. Jeanne enrolled in Jr. high school, and her mother got a job at a cannery. Her father refusing to stoop that low didn't find a job for a long time. Her first experience on the outside of Manzanar had ...
- 947: David Letterman
- ... what I feel toward Letterman, you have to look at some of the main points in his life. First of all, Dave was exactly an A student. He struggled all of his life through grade school to college. He also wasn't very popular. He stated, " I remember standing around. . . with the other losers, watching all the athletes play sports. All we could do is make fun and ridicule them." He was never good at anything until high school. "All I ever knew how to do was to make people laugh. In high school I was the class clown, making fun of everything and everyone." This personality trait was what gave him his ...
- 948: Polygamy
- ... that all marriages in this Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints should be solemnized in a public meeting or feast prepared for that purpose, and that the solemnization should be performed by a Presiding High Priest, High Priest, Bishop, Elder or Priest, not even prohibiting those persons who are desirous to get married, of being married by other authority. We believe that it is not right to prohibit members of this Church ... Seer" in Washington DC, it contained Joseph Smith's revelation on plural marriage. "It is hoped the president-elect, the honorable members of congress, the heads of the various departments of the national government, the high-minded governors and legislative assemblies of the several states and territories, the ministers of every religious denomination, and all the inhabitants of the great republic will patronize this periodical." ("The Seer", Orson Pratt, January ...
- 949: Knowledge
- ... view knowledge as the wisdom and insight that one may acquire over time, by personal experiences and influences in life. Most of the basic knowledge acquired by people starting at a young age is in school. As young children, we learn elementary facts such as our numbers and the alphabet. The older we become, the more facts we are taught, and the more complex these facts become. The knowledge one may learn in school is what I think of as worldly knowledge that will get people into the colleges and jobs that they may desire. The people that are abundant in educational knowledge are the people who dominate our ... ones we turn to for advice and consolment. They are the ones that are with us in difficult situations. For example, if there is a group of friends and a few start smoking, it is high likely for all of them to begin smoking. Boy/Girlfriends, however, are a different, more intimate type of influence. Personally, every guy that I have ever dated has changed me in some way, whether ...
- 950: Natural Born Killers
- ... not realize. In Natural Born Killers, a film written and directed by Oliver Stone he portrays what he believes are the negative effects from the media on America’s youth. On April 20, 1999 during school two students wearing commando attire opened gunfire on the students and teachers at their high school in Columbine High School, Colorado, fatally killing 12 students, 1 teacher, and severely wounding 23 others. This massacre caused uproar across the country. What caused these students to do these horrible atrocities? Many blame ...
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