I believe that the International Astronomical union is wrong to believe that Pluto no longer deserves the designation of a planet. I even disagree with the definition of what a planet should be‚ and after doing a little bit of research‚ I have found that only four percent of IAU members were actually present for the vote. They chose to vote on the day that most of the members were catching a flight home. Kind of fishy if you ask me. After over 80 years of being a planet‚ and in just one night it
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Starter and Opinion Recently‚ the dramatic increase in the number of families with both parents working outside the home has sparked one of the largest social controversies in the contemporary world‚ whether or not a child should attend daycare. Many parents across the country struggle to make this decision as numerous questions are raised regarding whether or not daycare is more beneficial or harmful for infants and young children. On the one hand‚ parents who choose to utilize daycare say that
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Many wonder whether vaccines help or harm people. Vaccines are substances used to stimulate the body’s immune system. The vaccination process uses a weakened version of a disease to make the body begin to create antibodies to fight the infection. “Vaccines work by imitating an infection‚ causing the body to create antibodies to disease‚ thereby becoming immune to future infection” (Merino 7). This process allows antibodies that fight a certain disease to be in place when the real disease finds its
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“Across the country‚ about 9.6 million families spend over half of their income on housing” (Vestal). Numbers like this wouldn’t be so large if these issues were paid more attention to. These families are just trying to have a home‚ and a roof over their heads to keep them sheltered. They shouldn’t have to go completely broke because of this. If there were more opportunities for these families to have more affordable housing there wouldn’t be so many people struggling to make ends meet. Even
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There are lots of different people in the world that are against hunting and people that think hunting is wrong‚ but what they don’t realize is that hunting wild game serves many purposes. There are a lot of different reasons why there are hunters that hunt and shoot wild game. One reason why hunters hunt is to support their families by putting food on the table. Being able to control the wildlife population and decrease vehicle accidents and vegetation is another reason why hunting is a good thing
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The social policy that I want to talk about is food stamps known as EBT‚ because I find myself irritated with what I see basically everyday being a cashier at a grocery store. Now before I start talking about all my negatives I have to say with this program I do realize there are people who truly do need government help and support in some situations‚ and I believe in them receiving it. Right off the bat my biggest issue with EBT is it’s given out by the government with hardly any restrictions such
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Why Americans Should Acknowledge There Veterans There are many reasons to acknowledge America’s veterans. No matter a person’s personal opinion on wars‚ past or present‚ veteran’s military work should still be acknowledged. Veterans should be acknowledged because nothing in your life can compare to the time they have spent giving us freedom. Most have spent many years of their lives over seas protecting the United States of America. If a person was born in America‚ they have lived in a
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Each day tattoo artist are tattooing more and more people. Tattoos have become a normal sight to see on anyone. In today’s society‚ many citizens think badly of people with ink. It is becoming harder to obtain jobs because the business industry tends to judge tattoos as unprofessional. Honestly‚ it is not any different than someone expressing themselves with a hairstyle‚ or clothing choice. Some of the best employees could be looked over due to the ink on their skin. A person’s skin does not define
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It is said‚ that forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet (WWF). Reducing the number of trees and the surface area of a forest is called deforestation. Deforestation is one of the biggest problems in today’s economic system. There may be a lot of positives behind the idea of cutting down trees; however they are all outnumbered by the negatives. If one is not careful with the removal of a forest‚ it may lead to more deserted areas. First of all‚ deforestation is one of the reasons for the
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Bullying Teens should not be bystanders to bullying‚ nor should they be a bully. Being a bystander is just as bad if not worse than bullying. By being a bystander you are standing there watching someone harm another person. Bullying is evil‚ humiliating‚ and is life threatening. If you bully‚ you can seriously hurt someone‚ whether it’s physically or mentally and in some cases even both. Even if you think you’re just joking‚ the other person may not think of it as joke‚ they could think you’re being
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