Having Our Say

Will Cars in the Future Run on Green Gas? Millions of years ago, crude oil was formed. It was made by algae, and somehow then buried deep within the earth. These algae are still capable of producing oil. While it's easy to produce an algae biodiesel, a California company has recently been the first to be successful at refining this algal "green crude" into a high-octane gasoline chemically identical to conventional fuels, and capable of being used in any car made today with no engine modification. The project was stopped in 1996, when crude oil prices dropped, but has recently been revived. In...

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... them participating in sex and they feel they need to follow their behavior. They have never communicated with their parents that there is ramifications to having sex; therefore they go into it without knowing about the complicated feelings and emotions that are attached to sex. Teenagers who come from poor ... have children who will themselves grow up to be poor. It is poverty that some feel is brought on by our social welfare system by offers of cash assistance to women having nonmarital births.(Harris 1). More than half of all welfare recipients were teenagers when their first child wa...

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According to the International Diabetes Institute director Paul Zimmet, Australians are killing themselves with inactivity'. This statement is enough to say that we should all increase our physical activity levels. Inactivity has become an epidemic in Australia as well as throughout the world. 65% of men and 50% of women are over weight or obese. But being ... it was healthy or not. If your mom made the food, then it was eaten. What our generation should do is learn from our parents' mistakes. We should start cooking our children healthier foods so that they will grow up knowing and living h...

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Now that I am older, I sometimes look at all my experiences that I have had with literacy as I was growing up and how often other people and myself use literacy in our every day lives. Especially for me growing up learning and understanding two different languages, English and Spanish. Although with Spanish I had to learn two different dialects with my mom being ... the word "caramel" some people may pronounce it "car-ml" while others may pronounce it "car-a-mel" with one having an extra syllable I guess. Is this literacy? I guess you could say yes. You can tell whether or not a person is fr...

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... 5 scenes per hour has been proven to have sexual material on the particular shows. These findings are atrocious, and measures must be taken to protect our young. Yes, I am taking a conservative-moralist stance on this issue. Another source, The Education Consumer Guide, states that The amount of television children ... children (second only to television) (Mediascope, 2000, p.4). As we have been discussing, exposure to sex on television and the Internet is massive for our young. There must be something we can do as a society to diminish such exposure of pornography and profanity in mass ...

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... Chavos Levavos, Duties of the heart. Nothing can make itself. That is a fact. So how come people believe that the world made itself? Some may say, "well atoms mushed together and created life" but how were those atoms created? Where did they come from? Same thing applies to G-d. If someone ... knows about them. But the moment they are uncovered, their truth becomes manifest to all." This quote relates to many things relating back to Hashem having created the world. If a person hides all his gems, diamonds and wealth, but tells everyone he is rich, no one will believe him. People ... fr...

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... use of internet, especially on social networks web sites, can directly affect their productivity and decrease their privacy. The access to the internet is bring to our society a fantastic way of learning. The access to new information has become easy, fast, and effective. Many sources are available online offering all kind ... productive is an important step to be successful in life. Although, with the advancement of the social networks websites, people are having a lot of problems to get focus while they are doing their tasks. Activities such as doing homework, finishing work in the off...

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... claim global warming is an actual growing problem, and uses statistics along with examples to provide credibility ushering the audience to believe what they say or write is proven, and therefore is a fact not an opinion open to interpretation. In addition, there are article that claim global ... of money spent during war or even peacetime by reducing or even eliminating the need for batteries, of which, the majority cannot recharge themselves. Having smaller rechargeable batteries would cease all money spent on creating small disposable batteries, which especially during wartime burn o...

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... is regarded by many to a be a movement of the past, it clearly still exists today in our society, and in my opinion, having two types of laws which govern us creates chaos, anger and resentment is our society. It is important to emphasize the differences between a just and unjust law because it calls attention ... clearly falls under the same category as them because the personality of women is unable to be uplifted. Another example of unjust laws that exist within our society today deal with minors under the age of 18. There are several laws, both written and assumed, that tells childre...

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