“It’s not whether you get knocked down‚ it’s whether you get back up.”-Vince Lombardi.Football is one of the most physical sports on earth and some people think we should eliminate contact from the game completely. I believe no change should be made to football because it is a sport meant for people with both physical and mental strength and is a civil way to get the gladiatorial human nature out. Without contact the game of football would just be boring. With less contact football wouldn’t be
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Persuasive Essay “Action is the foundational key to all success.” These wise words were spoken by Pablo Picasso‚ and they could not be truer. In life you can’t expect to achieve great things without putting forth an extensive amount of effort. In this case the great thing I am trying to attain is a six or higher on the AP exam towards the end of the year. I know that I am beyond capable of achieving this goal as long as I continue to apply myself and remain dedicated throughout the year. Over
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Why The Giver? There are books being banned and challenged all over the country. To challenge a book means that a person or group of people try to limit its access to children/readers but are not successful. A banned book means that a certain book that had been challenged was successfully removed and prohibited from being sold. Lois Lowry’s The Giver tells a story about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a dystopian society. Everything in Jonas’s world is controlled‚ even death and emotions
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technological advancements in different civilizations such as Mesopotamia‚ Rome‚ Greece‚ they are also great companions for when we are lonely.It is inhuman‚and dangerous not only to us and them but our environment. It should be eliminated because it violates animal rights. Many of us know this‚ so why are we experimenting on them and causing them harm? According to the statistics by AWA ( Animal Welfare Assosiation) an approximate amount of 1.13 million animals are tested on in the US. Those numbers come from
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Peter Senkmajer Mrs. Clark ELA 7 22 March 2017 Schools in the United States of America Should Start Later Than 8:00 Studies show that when schools started even a half hour later than normal the students’ grades progressed by a whole to a half step ("Do Schools Begin Too Early?"). That can decide a passing grade for some students. Imagine the improvement in grades if school were to start two whole hours later. For years‚ the topic of schools’ start time has been a controversial topic that has not
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Persuasive Essay Laziness in America By Greg Hill Comp 2 America today is a very lazy place; people have become too accustomed to their ways and will not even consider what it is doing to them. Everyone constantly praises our wonderful technology; what they don’t realize is what our tech has done to us. As we depend more and more on gadgets to do things for us we lose ourselves to apathy and our personal interests completely forgetting the common good. When it becomes so easy to satisfy our
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Rebecca Salas Laura Warren English A098 December 8‚ 2015 Why College Textbook Should Be Free? “The National Association of College Stores says the average college student will spend $655 on textbooks each year‚ but with a single textbook easily costing as much as $300‚ that total can easily be much higher.” (huffingtonpost.com) The amount of text books that college students are required to purchase for class is very high. Textbooks are one of the most expensive items to pay for in college. Students
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Persuasive Essay “Shame” by Dick Gregory is a story about a young boy (Richard) who got humiliated as a kid trying to impress a girl at his school. He wanted to be like other kids at his school‚ but he couldn’t because he was poor. “Thank You‚ Ma’am” by Langston Hughes is a story about a little boy (Roger) who thought he had to steal his way through life until he met a large lady (Luella Bates) he tried to steal from changed his life. While the two characters are different in that they have
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etc. It is safe to say that America’s future looks grim and we should all be worried. What is being taught in classrooms is random‚ useless and meaningless; too much time is wasted on useless topics. America’s class curriculum is different than before. The purpose of education used to be to make a student an independent well rounded individual who can make a difference in the world with their knowledge. If that is the case then why do we have activities such as sports‚ dances and pep rallies? Although
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Animal testing is when one uses animals to test products by modifying their eating habits‚ behavior‚ or even their DNA. Animal testing has been around for over two millenniums and only in the past couple centuries did it become an issue. Animal testing should end because there are better alternatives‚ it is unethical‚ and they can be inaccurate. There are alternatives to animal testing. The best alternative are human volunteers. Human volunteers‚ both healthy and diseased‚ give tissue to laboratories
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