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Every year, about 480,000 Americans die from smoking-related diseases. In this essay, I will discuss the health issues one may get from smoking.

To start with I will explain how smoking started. There are many types of smoking but the number one most smoked substance is tobacco. Smoking goes back to 5000 BC and would be used in rituals. Around the time of the Revolutionary War, tobacco goods started to become very popular in the US.

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Smoking causes more deaths yearly than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle accidents, and firearm-related incidents. Smoking tobacco causes 90% of all lung cancer deaths, more than women with breast cancer.

Smoking can cause lung disease by damaging your airways. Tobacco harms every organ in your body. Smoking tobacco introduces not only nicotine but also more than 5,000 chemicals, including numerous carcinogens (cancer-causing chemicals), into your lungs, blood, and organs. It has been proven that smoking tobacco can shorten your lifespan.

Some examples of diseases you can get from smoking are Lung Cancer, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), Heart Disease, Stroke, and Asthma. Those are just some of the many conditions you can get.

Lung Cancer
Compared to other cancers, lung cancer claims the lives of most individuals. Nearly 90% of lung cancer cases are caused by cigarette smoking, making it the leading lung cancer risk factor. There is a one in five possibilities that you will still be living five years after being diagnosed.

COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Obstructive pulmonary illness (COPD) makes breathing difficult. Early death and severe lasting effects are the results. When COPD first begins to limit one's ability to be active, such as when playing with a grandchild, it typically grows worse, making even simple tasks like walking to the mailbox or going up a couple of steps difficult or impossible. People may become restricted to their homes, unable to have their desires or visit friends. Smoking cigarettes contributes to 85% to 90% of all cases of COPD. The sixth most common cause of mortality in the US is COPD.

Heart diseases
Nearly every function in your body, including your heart, is harmed by smoking. Smoking can result in challenges and artery pressure, which reduces the amount of blood and oxygen reaching your heart. The rate of cardiac disease also dropped as cigarette use declined in the United States. However, the leading cause of mortality in the US continues to be heart illness.

Stroke
Smoking may lead to a stroke because it changes the blood vessels. When your brain's temporary blood flow is cut off, a stroke occurs. Because of the lack of air, brain cells begin to weaken. The effects of a stroke can include death, paralysis, speech difficulties, and changed brain function. Stroke is the fifth most common cause of death and plays an important role in adult damage in the United States.

Asthma
Asthma is a chronic lung condition that makes it more difficult to "breathe," or send oxygen in and out of your airways. Cigarette smoke can cause quick and serious attacks of asthma because it affects the airways. More than 25 million people in the United States suffer from asthma, a severe medical disease. It only gets worse when you smoke.

Those are just some of the effects smoking can cause. Here is more, it can increase tooth loss and gum damage, lower the immune system, increase diabetes, premature aging, stained teeth, and bad breath.

As a result of all that I've stated, smoking can lead to lifelong illnesses or even death. Even though smoking can be a very tempting and addictive thing to do it’s best not to do it.

Health Risks of Smoking Tobacco (cancer. org)10 of the Worst Diseases Smoking Causes | State of Tobacco Control | American Lung AssociationSmoking: Effects, Risks, Addiction, Quitting, Treatment (clevelandclinic.org)

This essay was well written and informative. You did a great job of explaining the history of smoking and the various health risks associated with it. You also provided some helpful statistics to back up your points. The conclusion was also strong, emphasizing the importance of avoiding smoking. Overall, this was a great essay!

Read the passage.


The Peanut Man


courtesy of the Library of Congress


George Washington Carver was a person born into slavery in Diamond Grove, Missouri, around 1864. He is one of the nation's most famous agricultural scientists. He is best known for his research on peanuts and his commitment to helping poor Southern African American farmers.


George Washington Carver was always interested in plants. When he was a child, he was known as the "plant doctor." He had a secret garden where he grew all kinds of plants. People would ask him for advice when they had sick plants. Sometimes he'd take their plants to his garden and nurse them back to health.


Later, when he was teaching at Tuskegee Institute, he put his plant skills to good use. Many people in the South had been growing only cotton on their land. Cotton plants use most of the nutrients in the soil. (Nutrients provide nourishment to plants.) So, the soil becomes "worn out" after a few years. Eventually, cotton will no longer grow on this land.


This was especially bad for poor African American farmers, who relied on selling cotton to support themselves. Carver was dedicated to helping those farmers, so he came up with a plan.


Carver knew that certain plants put nutrients back into the soil. One of those plants is the peanut! Peanuts are also a source of protein.


Carver thought that if those farmers planted peanuts, the plants would help restore their soil, provide food for their animals, and provide protein for their families--quite a plant! In 1896 peanuts were not even recognized as a crop in the United States, but Carver would help change that.


Carver told farmers to rotate their crops: plant cotton one year, then the next year plant peanuts and other soil-restoring plants, like peas and sweet potatoes. It worked! The peanut plants grew and produced lots of peanuts. The plants added enough nutrients to the soil so cotton grew the next year. Now the farmers had lots of peanuts--too many for their families and animals--and no place to sell the extras.


Carver invented all kinds of things made from peanuts. He wrote down more than 300 uses for peanuts, including peanut milk, peanut paper, and peanut soap. Carver thought that if farmers started making things out of peanuts, they'd have to buy fewer things and would be more self-sufficient. And if other people started making things out of peanuts, they would want to buy the extra peanuts, so the farmers would make more money. Although not many of Carver's peanut products were ever mass-produced, he did help spread the word about peanuts.


Peanuts became more and more popular. By 1920 there were enough peanut farmers to form the United Peanut Association of America (UPAA). In 1921 the UPAA asked Carver to speak to the U.S. Congress about the many uses for peanuts. Soon the whole country had heard of George Washington Carver, the Peanut Man! And by 1940 peanuts had become one of the top six crops in the U.S.




Question

Which statement is a main idea of the text?

Responses



A. Carver helps people figure out what is wrong with their plants.

B. Before Carver, peanuts were not recognized as a crop in the United States.

C. Many African American farmers grow cotton and raise animals for a living

D. Sweet potato and pea plants do not pull nutrients from the soil.

Rhetorical devices are special kinds of language that are used to persuade an audience.
Satire often relies on ____________________ , a ____________________ or inconsistency between what is ____________________ and what is ____________________ .
____________________ is a description of something as being ____________________ or less than it really is.
A false ____________________ is an ____________________ assumption that forms the basis of an argument.
(contradiction, said, smaller, premise, meant, understatement, verbal irony, incorrect)

Select the word that means a written plan of events or activities. Proclaim
Produce
Program
Protect

Which of the following words is most likely to appear in an analytical research essay about how smart phones affect the way Americans work and play?

a. socioeconomic

b. Social norms

c. Transcendentalism

d. Cultural representation

Read the passage. Two eggs, room temperature. Three quarters of a cup of milk, room temperature. A stick of butter, room temperature. I looked at the ingredients lined up on the counter. In just a few minutes, the community baking contest would begin. I was ready. I could bake this cake in my sleep. I’d practiced enough times. The main judge lifted a tiny bell. "Jing-a-ling,” it sang. That was my cue. I jumped right in. This was my contest to win. Which stylistic element most contributes to the narrator’s confident voice? the use of formal language to emphasize expertise the use of short sentences to emphasize readiness the use of correct grammar to suggest authority the use of figurative language to create vivid imagery

T/F If one assumes that communication is flowing as intended, one tends to move on with the dialog without allowing feedback to indicate whether clarity of expression and communication has been achieved.

a play in which events are connected to each other in strict, chronological order, with a cause-effect logic, and in which dramatic experience attempts to convey a lifelike progression of experience through time, is classified as continuous in structure and nonlinear in chronology. discontinuous in structure and linear in chronology. not being an imaginative piece of art. continuous in structure and linear in chronology.

Read the passage. In 1803, Congress approved the treaty that finalized the Louisiana Purchase. The size of the United States almost doubled. Jefferson still held hope that the territory contained the famed and elusive Northwest Passage, a water route from the eastern United States to the Pacific Ocean, but because this land had not yet been explored by White settlers, Jefferson and Congress were in the dark about exactly what they had purchased. Jefferson sent Merriweather Lewis, his private secretary, and William Clark, an associate of Lewis’s, to explore the territory. Without the help of Sacajawea, a Shoshone woman Lewis and Clark met in the Rocky Mountains, it is unlikely their expedition would have been as successful as it was. Which text structure is used in this passage? chronological order compare/contrast description problem/solution

1
Reading Skills Workbook, M-STEP Daily Practice, Grade 7
Which word could best be used in place of principle?
A
Occam's razor is a useful and versatile scientific principle that
scientists and others use to make decisions.

A Problem
B Theory
C Experiment
D Error

Select the verb :

Gregory Eddie had planted an apple tree in the yard.

What does Gregor's room tell about Gregor?​

the writer wants to add a sentence at the end of the passage to summarize the main claim of the passage. which of the following choices, if added after sentence 15, best accomplishes this goal? responses in fact, some people view the current age as ushering in a significant shift in the world of work, driven not by coal or electricity, but by automation and artificial intelligence. in fact, some people view the current age as ushering in a significant shift in the world of work, driven not by coal or electricity, but by automation and artificial intelligence. instead, we should only adopt automated technologies in cases where it is absolutely necessary. instead, we should only adopt automated technologies in cases where it is absolutely necessary. we must follow the example of other countries and adopt basic income programs. we must follow the example of other countries and adopt basic income programs. although large-scale change is likely in many sectors, education reform and a progressive bi program will help us offset risk and protect social stability. although large-scale change is likely in many sectors, education reform and a progressive bi program will help us offset risk and protect social stability. indeed, although the united states has long been a major center of automation, other countries are playing an increasingly large role in the development and adoption of automated technologies.

Read this excerpt from Walt Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing” from Leaves of Grass.

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as
he stands.

Whitman most likely uses this structure for his poem to
present a poem with a natural, conversational rhythm.
show his talent for using traditional rhyme scheme.
share a narrative poem using the storytelling structure.
reflect a lyrical style using stressed and unstressed syllables.

Just pick the correct sentence colored in blue font :)

CHARACTER TRAITS OF CHRIS GARDNER
Below are some traits of Chris. Give an example from the movie The Pursuit of Happyness from when he shows each trait.
SELFLESSNESS-
AUDACITY-
COURAGE-
INTEGRITY-

Imagine that your teacher wanted a group of students to present one poem with students individually saying lines. Decide on the largest number of students who could smoothly present this poem and explain your choice. Use two details from the poem to support your response.

Use your knowledge of Greek and Latin roots to find the word which best replaces the underlined word.

His _belligerent_ disposition made him completely unlikable.

a. Mean

C. Devious

b. Sweet

quarrelsome

Do you work or are you a student?

4
Which of the following best matches a central idea from the text with a detail that
supports it?
A Central idea: Many important discoveries are made during experiments.
Supporting detail: Doctors began using X-rays to examine injured patients.
Central idea: Some important discoveries are not well understood at first.
Supporting detail: Artificial sweetener was based on a kind of coal tar.
Central idea: Some scientists make accidental discoveries that help people.
Supporting detail: Penicillin is still used in modern times to save lives.
B
C
D
Central idea: Dedicated scientists may accidentally become great inventors.
Supporting detail: Fleming used plates called petri dishes to grow bacteria.

4 Complete the sentences with the correct verb. 3
1 At the weekend, my friends and I often
fishing
2 My brother listens to music when he. A puzzle.
3 L. The guitar in a rock band.
4 My mum. Pilates every Tuesday.
5 Every morning, my dad. Running.
6 We always. Cards on New Year's Eve. ​

“Pi,” “radius,” “square,” and “diameter” are examples of

Read this passage from the way to rainy mountain:

Now each of the twins had a ring, and the grandmother spider told them never to throw the rings into the sky (32).

Which of the story’s three narrative styles is this passage an example of?

A. Personal Narrative

B. Myth

C. Historical record

D. Lecture

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• Prompt 1: There is one door you pass every day that is always locked. However, one day, you pass by and it's slightly ajar. You decide to walk in. Plan a narrative about what you find and what happens when you enter.

now Include the final draft of your narrative below. Use this checklist to be sure you have included all required elements:
 an exposition that introduces a protagonist and a setting
 rising action that introduces the conflict and two events that develop the conflict
 a climax in which the protagonist must make a decision to resolve their conflict
 falling action that reveals what happens after the protagonist’s decision
 a resolution that contains the protagonist’s reflection and a theme (or lesson learned)
 well-developed characters, conflict, and setting
 at least two narrative techniques (dialogue, flashback, foreshadowing, juxtaposition, pacing, or sensory details)
 temporal words and phrases that clarify the passage of time for your reader
 at least 500 words in length

The table below shows the average temperatures for Tampa, Florida recorded for 12 months.
AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMPERATURE IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA
Month Temperature
January 22°C (72°F)
February 23°C (74°F)
March 26°C (79°F)
April 28°C (83°F)
May 31°C (88°F)
June 33°C (92°F)
July 34°C (95°F)
August 34°C (95°F)
September 32°C (90°F)
October 31°C (88°F)
November 26°C (79°F)
December 23°C (73°F)

Why do the temperatures change over the months?

Because the Sun is tilted on its axis, parts of Earth get more sunlight during different times of Earth's yearly orbit.


B.
Because Earth is tilted on its axis, parts of Earth get more sunlight during different times of Earth's yearly orbit.


C.
Because the Moon is tilted on its axis, it reflects more sunlight on Earth during different times of Earth's yearly orbit.


D.
Because Earth is tilted on its axis, the stars reflect more light during different times of the Earth's yearly orbit.

Compose 2-3 sentences about your issue/topic in the style of each genre about Fields of Blood: My Life As a Prison Laborer?

PLEASE HELP ILL MARK BRAINLIEST !!

Consider the Chinese proverb "when the wind of change blows some build walls while other build windmills. "Which does the family in this poem do ? Explore your ideas in a written argument -MAGIC ISLAND - Please just explain it more to me

Read the fable. Then, answer the question that follows.


"The Mouse and the Weasel" from Aesop's Fables

A little hungry Mouse found his way one day into a basket of corn. He had to squeeze himself a good deal to get through the narrow opening between the strips of the basket. But the corn was tempting and the Mouse was determined to get it. When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting. Indeed he became about three times as big around the middle as he was when he went in.

At last he felt satisfied and dragged himself to the opening to get out again. But the best he could do was to get his head out. So there he sat groaning and moaning, both from the discomfort inside him and his anxiety to escape from the basket.

Just then a Weasel came by. He understood the situation quickly.

"My friend," he said, "I know what you've been doing. You've been stuffing. That's what you get. You will have to stay there till you feel just like you did when you went in. Good night, and good enough for you."

And that was all the sympathy the poor mouse got.

Which two themes are developed in this fable?


You should never take more than you truly need.
If it appears too good to be true, it probably is.
Greediness often leads to trouble.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
A and B
B and C
A and C
C and D

Freedom can be used as a tool for control
for instance...

Henry I. Miller, MS, MD, is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. His research focuses on public policy toward science and technology, encompassing a number of areas, including pharmaceutical development, genetic engineering in agriculture, models for regulatory reform, and the emergence of new viral diseases.
Why is Miller opposed to organic food? Will he have evidence for what he says?

how does dr kings rhetoric in paragraph 15 advance his purpose in the letter? internet public library