Jul 18
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I have caved under peer pressure where friends pressured me into smoking. I was young and impressionable. In addition, I had an inner want to make friends. A kid from my school invited me over to his house to hang out and eventually other kids came over too. Someone brought a cigarette with them and started smoking it. Eventually everyone was passing around the cigarette and it came to me. The peer pressure was subtle, but effective. If I could go back in time, I would ran up to that group of boys and announced that someone with my mother’s name was looking for a kid with the same name as me and that she was very upset that he was smoking. The thought of my mother knowing that I smoked would have scared me straight.
Jul 14
The only three things that I would eat for the rest of my life would be green beans, milk and peanut butter. I choose green beans because vegetables are very important to any diet. The Department of Agriculture says that people should fill half of their diet in fruits and vegetables and although green beans take only one third of the total diet, it is close enough to the recommended amount. I chose to fill my vegetable need with green beans because I believe it is the best vegetable for you that I like to eat. I chose milk because it is a great way to get protein and dairy is also recommended by the Department of Agriculture. Lastly, I chose peanut butter because it fulfills the need for essential fats and I believe it delicious and goes well with milk.
Jul 11
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I am more of a city dweller and seeing a great skyline is really what tickles my fancy. The most beautiful image that I have ever seen is the Cincinnati skyline going north from Kentucky on interstate highway seventy-five. The City of Cincinnati has strict guidelines to skyscraper builders to build buildings so that the tops of the skyscrapers, when viewing from the Kentucky side, make an obtuse triangle with Crosley tower at the center. The buildings’ height must gradually go down from there. The view from interstate highway seventy-five is wonderful because of the aforementioned shape of the buildings and because level to the buildings in which you are. Cincinnati is built at the bottom of a hill in the Ohio Valley and when you see the skyline you are at the top of the hill and are at the best angle.
Jul 11
In today’s world, dogs are not treated as just pets; they form an integral part of a family in which they are adopted and are considered as family members. You too must love your best friend, who is not only a companion but, in many cases, also helps you to get over stress. However, there is nothing better than a well trained and behaved dog and one of the important elements in training a dog is to teach him to eat from his bowl, only. These steel dog bowls will not only help him to become disciplined but will also train him not to have food, anywhere else. Thus, these “dog bowls”, the size of which you can choose depending on your pet’s food intake, will reduce his chances of falling sick as well as almost completely nullify any effort from miscreants to poison your dog.
