How to Stop Drug Trafficking In Our Country By: Gerald K. Wiley English 122 Ashford University Teacher: Elizabeth Hoyle March 25‚ 2011 The paper is to open people eyes about drug trafficking in our country. Where do you think the drugs are coming in from? Some say from Cuba. Others say from Mexico. I believe that the majority of drugs come from Mexico. It is okay to say that we cannot track down where all of the drugs are coming from but we can try to prevent our children‚ the next
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Why Sex Education Should Be Taught In Schools Most America teenagers are sexually active and think nothing could ever happen to them. But‚ many of them are misinformed about the risks that are involved in sex. Teens also don’t always know the best ways to protect themselves and their partners from becoming pregnant or getting STD’s. Alan Harris said‚ the more educated someone is the more likely they are to make responsible and informed choice for their behaviors. Sex education given by
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Poverty‚ hunger prevent Filipino kids from getting basic education JAM SISANTE‚ GMANews.TVAugust 4‚ 2008 1:09pm MANILA‚ Philippines - Despite the annual increase in the budget for basic education‚ fewer children are enrolling in schools. The reason: poverty. Twelve-year-old Marian (not her real name) is one of the millions of Filipino children whose education has taken a backseat due to poverty. The fifth of eight children‚ she fled her home when she was 10 because she said her jobless parents
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Financial literacy for kids is a vital aspect‚ in their lives these days. Financial literacy for kids aims at providing the knowledge and skills to help a child make well-informed and effective choices through his or her rudimentary understanding of finances. For growing kids today‚ money is nothing but a means to buy things. In many countries‚ including underdeveloped‚ developing and developed nations‚ providing financial literacy to kids‚ i.e. teaching children about money during elementary school
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The simplest explanation about why the environment matters is that‚ as humans the environment the Earth is our home. It is where we live‚ breathe‚ eat‚ raise our children‚ etc. Just because we as humans have the power to destroy environment and other species‚ this does not give us any right to do so. But more convincing to the ones having power in today’s world is probably the economic argument. That we cannot afford to destroy the Earth systems. Protecting our environment allows us to live free
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‘Why is Our Century’ by Anna Akhmatova is a poem written in the early 20th century while the Soviet Union was active. The poem portrays the grief and melancholy of Anna Akhmatova by using many deep poetic techniques such as personification and symbolism. Akhmatova embeds a dark and gruesome theme into the poem‚ portraying what she‚ and many other Russians felt in the early 20th century. She makes a cry for awareness in the poem by the use of a rhetorical question which affects the entire poem intensely
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Is a college education worth the expense? People often ask the question is a college education worth the expense? College education is as we all know a more advanced level of education. An education that has become more and more demanded. It is frequently now mandatory for a variety of jobs. The jobs that recommend a college education are usually the jobs that have a higher pay. Rather then the jobs that are offered to people that only have a high school diploma. The higher paying jobs require the
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Nowadays you must have heard about the growing concern towards global environmental problems. One may ask why there is so much concern about the environment. The answer is simple and clear; our very existence depends on conservation of the environment. The unprecedented economic progress of 19th and 20th centuries has pushed the environmental and ecological awareness into the background. However‚ today the whole world‚ particularly the developing countries‚ faces a near-crisis situation – both economic
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------------------------------------------------- Upper Class | Figure 2: Members of the upper class can afford to live‚ work‚ and play in exclusive places designed for luxury and comfort. (Photo courtesy of PrimeImageMedia.com/flickr) | The upper class is considered America’s top‚ and only the powerful elite get to see the view from there. In the United States‚ people with extreme wealth make up one percent of the population‚ and they own one-third of the country’s wealth (Beeghley 2008)
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songs‚ at the age of 3‚ and traved the globe‚ by his 5th year. His music alluded to his intelligences. Mozart‚ a believed genius‚ because of his musically abilities; like so many other talented children today‚ who flourish when it comes to public education. Musically inclined students succeed more at school‚ than those who lack musical talents. For musically talented adolescents‚ school tends to come naturally‚ along with good grades. Excellent grades for students‚ mean an easier path in college and
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