For the last 4 years of high school I have been my school’s mascot. It has shaped me in many different ways. Our mascot is Seymour Mule and his partner Annie Mule. We are Woodrow Wilson Senior High "Home of the Mighty Mules." Being a school mascot isn’t something you exactly plan to do during your high school years. But somehow I managed to do it and love it more than anything. I didn’t exactly choose to be our mascot‚ it happened due to luck. One day during my freshman year we had a practice fire
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information that children are exposed to but gives parents the rights to educate their children in the ways they fell are appropriate. Although I feel that parents have the right to choose what their children read but‚ should not have the right to get it banned for the children whose parents do not limit to new experiences. Parents should be allowed to help and volunteer at schools. But when they start to inflict with education there are crossing a line. The school programs put those books in the education
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Should Smoking be Banned? Smoking is a worldwide problem that is one of the biggest causes of death. Harrison Bergeron 1. What kind of handicap has been imposed on people with better-than-average mental capacity? People with better-than-average mental capacity are required to wear mental handicap radios in their ear that are tuned in to a government transmitter. The radios would send out some sharp noise every twenty seconds or so to take advantage of the people’s brains. 2. What kind
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bar or restaurant where cigarette smoke wafts. For instance‚ when family with children wants to eat out‚ they usually look for a place for non-smokers in order not to let children have a contact with unhealthy smoke. Finally‚ if smoking was banned‚ there would be fewer smokers on our streets. Psychologists have proved that young people are more likely to acquire a bad habit when smoking is commonly acceptable in society. So when this prohibition was imposed‚ perception of people would certainly
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the novel “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov. In this novel the reader gets absorbed into a world of sinister ideologies and sickening encounters. No one should have to deal with such gruesome topic that serves no good or benefit. These topics should be banned in in order to preserve the wellbeing of the human mind and body.
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pop culture use Native Americans as mascots‚ has been largely debated. Sports organizations should not be allowed to use any racial stereotypes to represent their team. For many years‚ sports teams across the United States have been constantly using racist team names and demeaning mascots to represent the Native American culture. Many tribes have taken offense toward this culture appropriation and demand these organizations modify their team name and mascots. On the other hand‚ many people claim
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whether to keep Mascots in schools or not‚ started in late 1970’s and from then this debate is going on. Most of the schools have Indian Mascots in place for half a century and suddenly it become problem to use Indian Mascots. Over 500 Native American organizations also announced their support for the removal of those mascots and over 1200 schools across the United States have changed the name of their sports teams and some school refused to play with those schools using Indian mascots. But some school
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The exploitation of racially and culturally offensive nicknames‚ mascots‚ and images in sports has been a topic of debate in the US and Canada over the last half-century. The controversy occurs at all levels ranging from elementary schools to professional teams. This has resulted in many teams changing either their team name‚ team image‚ or team mascot associated with their sports teams. The most well known professional teams that are not supported by their respective tribes are the Atlanta Braves
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Is Global Climate Change Man Made? The current situation of the world is becoming a fact that the world gets hotter and hotter. What makes the Earth become hotter has been an issue in debates around the world. The current cycle of global warming is changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon. What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope with the changes we ’ve already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out‚ the face of the Earth as we
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Riding high on the back of the NI science festival‚ in what has become an international sensation (among young scientists anyway)‚ Famelab came to Northern Ireland. In over 150 different countries worldwide the participants‚ or Famelabbers as they become affectionately known‚ educate us about everything from the science behind why we kiss (Emer Maguire – NI & UK winner) to why we should remain vigilant against malaria (Oskari Vinko - International winner). Contestants have just three minutes to impress
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