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I am in year 12 and I am doing a persuasive writing essay which involves writing in plain English about a topic which regards a social issue. My essay is meant to persuade people and grab their attention. I was wondering if there was anyone who can analyse this and tell me how to improve this would be a great help. 10 points BEST answer, no need to rush i need it done with 6 hours tho. Thx

On the way back from work to see his loving family, John Richards has his life taken away from him. John has never been a drinker and has a clean criminal record. If John did not finish early that day, if John hadn’t caught that green light, perhaps he would be alive. Or if the other driver had not been drinking John would be alive. The thing about drink driving is your not endangering just your life, your endangering the lives of everyone around you. Some people say ‘an eye for an eye’ but Peter Davis walked away from a sentence because he was only 16. Now Peter cannot go for his license for 2 more years. But Mrs. Richards will never see her husband again.
It seems we overlook the danger underage drinking until it is too late. 3000 people die a year from harmful drinking in Australia alone. And it causes nearly 4% of deaths worldwide according to WHO (World Health Organisation), more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence.
Alcohol can be harmful, even fatal when misused. Alcohol has physical, emotional and mental effects on adolescents. When alcohol is consumed on a weekly basis, it can affect our judgment and ability to make good decisions. It is no wonder why youths who consume alcohol on a daily or weekly basis show signs of physical and physiological stress. This stress affects their schooling. When students get bad grades as a result of alcohol misuse, they tend to lose thrive for academic excellence.
Ari Novick Ph.D/therapist. Says he has seen many teen clients, who explain how being under the influence of alcohol has affected their judgement and hence they made bad decisions, such as falling pregnant. According to The Australian Bureau of Statistics, 25% of youths aged 14-19 consume alcohol on a daily or weekly basis.
Studies have shown the negative effects on the brain caused by alcohol. Memory loss, short attention span, lowered concentration etc. It is this effect of alcohol which results in poor academics.
In which direction do you think our nation is heading if one quarter of our school students resort to binge drinking?
The main reason for underage drinking is exposure to alcohol. It is this exposure to alcohol which negatively influences the use of alcohol. Alcohol is advertised nearly everywhere today, television, newspapers, catalogues, movies and more. It is this exposure to alcohol which influences the use of alcohol.
We as a society need to look into the reasons why adolescents resort to binge drinking.
On December 21st 2008, Darwin police gave out 51 DUIs. It seems adults are still not getting the message and we still feel we have the right to reprimand youths for underage drinking? It is evident that this publicity of alcohol is only encouraging the misuse of alcohol. To stand against this rising rate of alcohol abuse, we need to discourage alcohol fuelled violence in our homes and in the streets.
People will argue that raising tax on RTD alcohol does not work, and that teenagers will just turn to mixing their own drinks. This may be true, according to Bridie Smith that reports data released by the Liquor Merchants Association of Australia that shows between April and June 2008, there was a 30% fall in the sale of RTD drinks, on the other hand there was a 46% rise in the sale of full strength body spirits sold in the same period.
This does not mean we should give up. If we stop trying and leave the choices up to the teenagers, we are putting their future, and the future of our nation in peril.
In contrast to what I have said, there is no real cure for underage drinking. It spreads extremely fast and is influenced towards every genre of adolescents. Peer pressure may just be the biggest influence on the increasing rate of underage drinking. There is nothing we can do to stop this without greater law enforcement. Parents need to take responsibility for alcohol consumption at home, to become aware of the influence they have on their children. It is the responsibility of alcohol retailers, it is the responsibility of the government, and it is the responsibility of parents, to discourage teenage alcohol use. You cannot leave a gun in the hands of a child and walk away; there will nearly always be a negative outcome.

You keep on using "your" when you really should be using "you’re".

I think you need to read your essay again. You’re missing some words (e.g. It seems we overlook the "of" danger underage drinking until it is too late.).

I don’t think you should be using "etc" in a formal essay. You could say, "to name a few" or something like that.

I feel like you have something going on here but you definitely need to proofread it. Sometimes, I don’t even get what you’re trying to say. What I mentioned above only has something to do with grammar (I’m sure those aren’t everything). Just wait for other people to comment on everything else. I have homework to do…lol…

1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter i is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in ZIP code means Zoning Improvement Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A 2 by 4 is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
24. The spot on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. The save icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).
28. Camel’s have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name soyce.
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called Solarmax.
49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named upper and lower because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
52. The numbers 172 can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in th

Wow thanks! That amused me for 10 minutes, very interesting
Lol @ #33
i only knew #45 by knowlegde and i wanna see #37 happen lol

Does anyone have a shocking collar for cats for sale or know if they even make one? I have a cat and he’s a little sh**! He kills birds in the yard and claws my couch. A buddy gave me one he said was for both cats and dogs. We put it on my cat Darwin and it knocked the crap out of him. Knocked him to the floor and made him go nuts. The first bunch of times it was funny as hell but now he’s randomly walking into walls and doesn’t have much balance. I don’t think the one my buddy gave me was really made for cats but I need something. I looked it up on line and it doesn’t say anything about cats only dogs. http://www.sportdog.com/Gear/E-Collars/FieldTrainer/FieldTrainer-400S.aspx If anyone knows please let me know. I don’t want to do permanent damage to him with this one.

Thanks.

It seems that u hate your cat so much so why even have one. Just give it away. Imagine being a cat and you have an owners that is looking for a shock collar for u because your not exactly the best when it come to behavior. That’s not fair. Give your cat away to someone that actually wants it and doesn’t play around by shocking the cat

The Atheist Calendar

Despite its natural origins in the orbits of the earth and moon, the calendar has been commandeered by powerful religious forces. As atheists grow in power and pride, they will seek to diminish religious influences and instead develop their own celebrations.

The big number:

The big number on the calendar, 2010, supposedly reflects the number of years that have passed since Jesus’ birth. The designation A.D. stands for Anno Domini, or “in the year of our lord.” So momentous was the supposed birth of Jesus, Christians have mandated that we number the years before this “event” backwards and label them B.C. for “Before Christ,” making Jesus’ alleged birth the most important date in human history. Christians, in debate with atheists, even point to the copyright date of atheist books to “prove” that even atheists structure their world around the Jesus myth.

Some atheists have suggested a new numbering system, starting with the creation of the earth or the dawn of man (which would result in some pretty big numbers) or more recent events like Darwin’s publication of On the Origin of Species or the end or World War II.

Awaiting atheists developing enough power to renumber the calendar, a significant but subtle change has taken some of the power from the B.C./A.D. designation. Although religionists still provide the year, 2010; atheists, scientists, and non-Christians have united to make BCE and CE the generally accepted designator of the year. BCE simply stands for “Before Common Era” and CE stands for “Common Era.”

The holy days:

In recent years, “happy holidays” has been thought a more inclusive greeting during the solstice season. However, “holiday” is a contraction of the term “holy day,” so the “happy holidays” greeting includes only those who recognize holy days, like Christians, Jews and Muslims. Atheists are left out.

Christ’s Mass–Christmas, dominates the Western calendar and gets government protection as a federal holiday. The incredible religious and commercial emphasis on Christmas ignores the significant number of atheists and non-Christians for whom the day has no special meaning. Some atheists transfer seasonal traditions to the Winter Solstice. They may give solstice gifts, send solstice cards and have a solstice evergreen. Others simply use the federally and culturally enforced holiday to go for a hike, work on a project, or note the power of religion.

Easter, another Christian holiday, falls on a Sunday, so it has not been designated a federal holiday. Easter, which celebrates the myth that Jesus died and came back to life, holds no meaning for atheists and non-Christians. And, on more careful examination, closing government offices on Sundays also has a religious basis.

Although “Sunday” may have its origins in recognition of the importance of the sun, Christians have linked it to their holy son and label it the “lord’s day.” Historically, Sunday “blue laws” prohibited all businesses from operating on the “lord’s day.” Although most such laws have been ruled unconstitutional, some states still prohibit car sales on Sunday and many states limit alcohol sales on Sunday. There is no reason for treating the first day of the week differently from any other day of the week, except for its religious importance.

Thanksgiving is another holiday with a significant religious component that gets government recognition. President Lincoln first directed Americans to observe a national “day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” Although atheists can be thankful to family, friends and neighbors and enjoy a good meal, the Thanksgiving holiday is intertwined with thanks to a deity–an antithetical gesture for atheists.

Strictly religious holidays like Good Friday and Passover remain important on the Western calendar, while Saint Valentine’s and Saint Patrick’s day have lost much of their religious meaning. Halloween is a mixture of pagan and religious myths that receives no government recognition and is such good fun that atheists have a hard time objecting to it.

Religionists have recently created the National Day of Prayer as a demonstration of their ability to influence government to endorse religion despite legal and constitutional prohibitions against doing so.

Although atheists lack the political power to remove government endorsement of religious holidays, they are free to develop their own special days.

see: http://bornatheist.com/calendarwebpage.html

Don’t be ridiculous. Are you suggesting that our use of the common calender means we secretly believe in the myths that inspired it?

Does the fact that you use the days of the week even though they were named after the Norse and Roman gods mean that YOU should stop using the same days everyone else does? Does it mean that YOU secretly believe in and/or worship THOSE god(s)?

You know…if you have an argument to make as to why you think atheists are wrong for not believing in the existence of "God", or why we’re wrong to not believe in YOUR religion, then why not come here and make an intelligent point that actually serves a purpose? The type of thing you have here is completely pointless nonsense that does not even BEGIN to suggest that atheists are mistaken to not believe in "God", or that your religious beliefs have any validity. It’s completely petty and silly and a waste of ALL of our time to use this as some sort of "attack" on atheism.

I’ve noticed that some used cars in Australia come with outrageous milages we’d struggle to put on a car here in New Zealand. My five year old Toyota Tarago here only has 60.000km on the clock, and I’ve noticed that there are identical vehicles for sale in Australia with biblical odometer readings like 330.000 etc. I attribute that to the far greater distances in Australia the average person travels, but what about other factors? I imagine that a car from stop-and-go world Sydney would tell a very different story from a car which has done 10 years of service in humid Darwin, or gravel-spewing Kalgoorlie. Is there a "best place"in Australia to go looking for cars that have lower mileages and are in better shape than from other regions?

In bigger towns you’ll find best used cars., because the distances are not as big as on the outer land.

Franky

Natural pearls melt in vinegar

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar

Buttermilk does not contain any butter
Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen
The earth is about 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons in weight
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds. I was corrected on that by a friend who stated that : The goldfish has a memory of 3-months instead of 3 seconds. Also provided: Goldfish "can be trained to memorize mazes for up to one month, and can be trained to press levers for food, even at a specific time of day. The sale of fishbowls (due to their inability to provide sufficient oxygen and the possibility that they may stunt growth) have been banned in some countries"
There are 86,400 seconds in day
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515
Ants never sleep
The human brain is 80% water

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. I was corrected about "orange" by a friend: ((taken from an episode of Stephen Fry’s QI show) Blorange – is a place in Wales. Also: Gorringe – is a common English surname of many, amongst whom there was Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, the guy who brought Cleopatra’s Needle to NY Central Park!
Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. She actually had a normal set of 10. The mistake was caused by a clump of sand on her feet during a photo shoot when she was known as Norma Jeane.
If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white
The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law that stated you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
‘Jedi’ is an official religion in Australia with over 70,000 followers
Church of England has apologized to Charles Darwin 200 years after his birth
Chewing gum while peeling onions will reduce your tears

Dalmatians are born without spots
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess
Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the left
Roosters have to extend their necks in order to crow
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room
Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex
In 2009 one of eight newly married couples in the US met online
There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing
Gamblers mostly don’t see any clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew food on your right side. If you are left handed, you likely to chew food on your left side
The bedroom is the most common place for sex and the car is second
Humans and bonobo monkeys (pygmy chimpanzee) are the only species who have face-to-face sex

Everyday, 15 billion cigarettes are smoked worldwide

Hugo Boss designed some of the Nazi SS uniforms

Any free moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension
A snail can slide over a razor blade without being hurt by producing slime that helps it slide harmlessly
Worldwide, there are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day
Women blink nearly twice as much as men
The human heart beats over 100,000 times a day
Human fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails
The French tickler was invented by a Tibetan monk
Studies have proven that it is harder to tell a convincing lie to someone you find sexually attractive

Soccer players run on average as many as 6 miles during the course of a game
Red wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles
One quarter of the bones in the human body is in the feet
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed (paw).
Polar bears with transparent, fluffy fur actually have black skin
The largest hummus dish was prepared in Lebanon. It weighed 10,452 Kg.
Some kinds of sharks lay the biggest eggs in the world; most other kinds of sharks give live birth.
The blue whale can produce the loudest sound of any animal. At 188 decibels, the noise can be detected over 800 kilometres away
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for plumbers in the US
The eyes of the chameleon can move independently. It can see in two different directions at the same time
The total weight of skin for an average adult human is 6 pounds.

The world record for time without sleep is 264 hours ( ~11 days) by Randy Gardner in 1965
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV
Elephants are the only mammals that can’t jump
Cold showers stimulate your sex drive
Registered in 1985, symbolics.com is the first ever internet domain registered
Coffee beans aren’t beans; they are fruit pits
It is not allowed to have living US presidents featured on US currency
Among older men, vanilla is the most erotic smell
A pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of raw potatoes
Lima beans contain cyanide

Cool.

I knew the onesabout snails sliding over razor blades, elephants not jumping, and Dalmatians being born without spots.

Also, this isn’t a question. So technically, this isn’t an answer.. Mindfxck

1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).
28. Camel’s have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 d
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52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.
60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down
61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).
63. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen’s "Born in the USA".
64. IBM’s motto is "Think". Apple later made their motto "Think different".
65. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white, due to low budget.
66. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
67. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
68. One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
69. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service.
70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 s
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70. When the Titanic sank, 2228 people were on it. Only 706 survived.
71. In America, someone is diagnosed with AIDS every 10 minutes. In South Africa, someone dies due to HIV or AIDS every 10 minutes.
72. Every day, 7% of the US eats at McDonald’s.
73. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, which Motorola got their name from.
74. In the US, about 127 million adults are overweight or obese; worldwide, 750 million are overweight and 300 million more are obese. In the US, 15% of children in elementary school are overweight; 20% are worldwide.
75. In Disney’s Fantasia, the Sorcerer to whom Mickey played an apprentice was named Yensid (Disney spelled backward).
76. During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles".
77. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.
78. One in ten people
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178. One out of every 43 prisoners escapes from jail. 94% are recaptured.
179. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
180. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it.
181. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
182. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
183. Elwood Edwards did the voice for the AOL sound files (i.e. "You’ve got Mail!"). He is heard about 27 million times a day. The recordings were done before Quantum changed its name to AOL and the program was known as "Q-Link."
184. A polar bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
185. Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis middle name was spelled Aron, in honor of his brother.
186. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
187. Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.
188. Shakespeare
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78. One in ten people live on an island.
79. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
80. 28% of Africa is classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
81. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
82. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
83. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson", Humphrey Bogart NEVER said "Play it again, Sam" in Casablanca, and they NEVER said "Beam me up, Scotty" on Star Trek.
84. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing.
85. Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokes model.
86. The sound you here when you put a seashell next to your ear is not the ocean, but blood flowing through your head.
87. More people are afraid of open spaces (kenophobia) than of tight spaces (claustrophobia).
88. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
\89. There is a 1 in 4 chance that New York will have a white Christmas.
90. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
91. Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
92. Back in the mid to late ’80s, an IBM compatible computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft’s Flight Simulator.
93. $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
94. Every US president has worn glasses (just not always in public).
95. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
96. Jim Henson first coined the word "Muppet". It is a combination of "marionette" and "puppet."
97. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with (not counting the words "North" and "South).
98. The Michelin man is known as Mr. Bib. His name was Bibendum in the company’s first ads in 1896.
99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the p
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99. About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.
100. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
101. About 14% of injecting drug users are HIV positive.
102. A word or sentence that is the same front and back (racecar, kayak) is called a "palindrome".
103. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
104. People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.
105. China has more English speakers than the United States.
106. Finnish folklore says that when Santa comes to Finland to deliver gifts, he leaves his sleigh behind and rides on a goat named Ukko instead. According to French tradition, Santa Claus has a brother named Bells Nichols, who visits homes on New Year’s Eve after everyone is asleep, and if a plate is set out for him, he fills it with cookies and cakes.
107. One in every 9000 people is an albino.
108. The el

Wow… thanks! I actually enjoyed this!!

I have found the following base program from Ian Darwin:

package org.me.mylib;

/**
*
* @author Ian Darwin
*/
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

//import com.darwinsys.util.Debug;

/** Simple Graphing program.
* @author Ian F. Darwin, http://www.darwinsys.com/
* @version $Id: Grapher.java,v 1.20 2008/10/06 15:44:34 ian Exp $
*/
public class Grapher extends JPanel {

private static final long serialVersionUID = -1813143391310613248L;

/** Multiplier for range to allow room for a border */
public final static double BORDERFACTOR = 1.1f;

/** The list of Point points. */
protected List<Point2D> data;

/** The minimum and maximum X values */
protected double minx = Integer.MAX_VALUE, maxx = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
/** The minimum and maximum Y values */
protected double miny = Integer.MAX_VALUE, maxy = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
/** The range of X and Y values */
protected double xrange, yrange;

public Grapher() {
data = new ArrayList<Point2D>();
figure();
}

/** Set the list data from a list of Strings, where the
* x coordinate is incremented automatically, and the y coordinate
* is made from the String in the list.
*/
public void setListDataFromYStrings(List<String> newData) {
data.clear();
for (int i=0; i < newData.size(); i++) {
Point2D p = new Point2D.Double();
p.setLocation(i, java.lang.Double.parseDouble(newData.get(i)));
data.add(p);
}
figure();
}

/** Set the list from an existing List, as from GraphReader.read() */
public void setListData(List<Point2D> newData) {
data = newData;
figure();
}

/** Compute new data when list changes */
private void figure() {
// find min & max
for (int i=0 ; i < data.size(); i++) {
Point2D d = (Point2D)data.get(i);
if (d.getX() < minx) minx = d.getX();
if (d.getX() > maxx) maxx = d.getX();
if (d.getY() < miny) miny = d.getY();
if (d.getY() > maxy) maxy = d.getY();
}

// Compute ranges
xrange = (maxx – minx) * BORDERFACTOR;
yrange = (maxy – miny) * BORDERFACTOR;
//Debug.println("range", "minx,x,r = " + minx +’ ‘+ maxx +’ ‘+ xrange);
//Debug.println("range", "miny,y,r = " + miny +’ ‘+ maxy +’ ‘+ yrange);
}

/** Called when the window needs painting.
* Computes X and Y range, scales.
*/
@Override
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
Dimension s = getSize();
if (data.size() < 2) {
g.drawString("Insufficient data: " + data.size(), 10, 40);
return;
}

// Compute scale factors
double xfact = s.width / xrange;
double yfact = s.height / yrange;

// Scale and plot the data
for (int i=0 ; i < data.size(); i++) {
Point2D d = (Point2D)data.get(i);
double x = (d.getX() – minx) * xfact;
double y = (d.getY() – miny) * yfact;
Debug.println("point", "AT " + i + " " + d + "; " +
"x = " + x + "; y = " + y);
// Draw a 5-pixel rectangle centered, so -2 both x and y.
// AWT numbers Y from 0 down, so invert:
g.drawRect(((int)x)-2, s.height-2-(int)y, 5, 5);
}
}

@Override
public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
return new Dimension(150, 150);
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
final JFrame f = new JFrame("Grapher");
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
Grapher grapher = new Grapher();
f.setContentPane(grapher);
f.setLocation(100, 100);
f.pack();
List<Point2D> data = null;
if (args.length == 0)
data = org.me.mylib.Grapher.class.getName();
else {
String fileName = args[0];
if ("-".equals(fileName)) {
data = GraphReader.read(new InputStreamReader(System.in), "System.in");
} else {
org.me.mylib.Grapher.class.getField(fileName);
}
}
grapher.setListData(data);
f.setVisible(true);
}
}

I need to add more detail to get it to show lines and there are some mistakes because of my changes in the program. Can anybody help me?

For something this complex, you might want to visit the experts at Java Ranch, at link below. You have to register, but it’s free. HTH

1. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was born on and died on days when Halley’s Comet can be seen. During his life he predicted that he would die when it could be seen.
2. US Dollar bills are made out of cotton and linen.
3. The "57" on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of pickle types the company once had.
4. Americans are responsible for about 1/5 of the world’s garbage annually. On average, that’s 3 pounds a day per person.
5. Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
6. Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks so that it doesn’t digest itself.
7. 98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
8. A B-25 bomber crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
9. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
10. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
11. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
12. Benjamin Franklin was the fifth in a series of the youngest son of the youngest son.
13. Triskaidekaphobia means fear of the number 13. Paraskevidekatriaphobia means fear of Friday the 13th (which occurs one to three times a year). In Italy, 17 is considered an unlucky number. In Japan, 4 is considered an unlucky number.
14. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
15. All the chemicals in a human body combined are worth about 6.25 euro (if sold separately).
16. In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
17. The ZIP in "ZIP code" means Zoning Improvement Plan.
18. Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
19. A "2 by 4" is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
20. It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
21. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
22. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
23. Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
24. The "spot" on the 7-Up logo comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was an albino.
25. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
26. The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.
27. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin both married their first cousins (Elsa Löwenthal and Emma Wedgewood respectively).
28. Camel’s have three eyelids.
29. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents every day.
30. John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son.
31. Warren Beatty and Shirley McLaine are brother and sister.
32. Chocolate can kill dogs; it directly affects their heart and nervous system.
33. Daniel Boone hated coonskin caps.
34. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
35. 55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
36. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
37. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark’s stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
38. Dr. Seuss pronounced his name "soyce".
39. Slugs have four noses.
40. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
41. The Three Wise Monkeys have names: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
42. India has a Bill of Rights for cows.
43. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die. If you keep your eyes open by force, they can pop out. (DON’T TRY IT, DUMBASS)
44. During the California gold rush of 1849, miners sent their laundry to Honolulu for washing and pressing. Due to the extremely high costs in California during these boom years, it was deemed more feasible to send their shirts to Hawaii for servicing.
45. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.
46. About 200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
47. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
48. Over a course of about eleven years, the sun’s magnetic poles switch places. This cycle is called "Solarmax".
49. There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
50. Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.
51. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
52. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of the US 5 dollar bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincol
53. Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.
54. Half of all bank robberies take place on a Friday.
55. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.
56. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
57. The first bomb the Allies dropped on Berlin in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
58. The average raindrop falls at 7 miles per hour.
59. It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa. He never signed or dated the painting. Leonardo and Mona had identical bone structures according to the painting. X-ray images have shown that there are 3 other versions under the original.
60. If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
61. Bruce Lee was so fast that they had to slow the film down so you could see his moves.
62. The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dime

India has got no Bill of Rights for cows, there is just a law which prohibits their slaughtering. They are, infact, Holy.!!

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