Should there be stricter gun bans? Handguns are the cause of so many deaths amongst the people of the world today. In the past few months there have been so many awful tragedies due to the access we all have to guns. The repercussions of gun violence make up 50 percent of today’s disasters claiming lives ranging from babies to adults and even elderly. The government needs to make guns less accessible‚ and the law along with the law enforcement need to really enforce the laws they make. This
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Self Assessment and unit evaluation – Y7 ICT Term 1 Habit of Mind Focus: Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision How does your terms work on producing a newspaper article demonstrate your use of the habit of mind above? I have communicated with my team mates by e-mailing and we talked about what topic we are doing and whose going to do what. I have thought deeply what topic I’m going to do about and I choused “Volcanic eruption in Iceland”. I described words nicely and neatly
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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“More than half of adult New Yorkers are obese or overweight‚ according to the city’s health department‚ which said it believed 5‚000 New Yorkers died every year as a result of health problems related to obesity” (Grynbaum). This mind-boggling statistic is what lead the mayor propose a soda ban that would limit the size of soda that could be sold. This ban‚ in an effort to fight obesity‚ would discourage people from buying larger sodas by banning the sale of sodas of more than 16 oz. Although this
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I say it’s time that all deliberate cruel killing of animals for "sport" be banned by law. There is no excuse for causing immense pain and suffering to these creatures just for the sheer heck of it...for fun and games. Okay‚ I know animals are killed for meat...but there’s a difference: the animals in that situation CAN be treated humanely right up to the moment they are killed instantly. I’m not saying that’s an ideal situation. There are other objections to killing for meat but what concerns
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Pit Bulls have been looked down on in the media for many years. This has caused some towns to ban this type of breed from their town and even city limits‚ but is this a very reasonable ban? Are these dogs more dangerous than other dogs‚ or is it just the owner’s fault? What is the big deal? In my persuasive essay I will be talking about if people should be allowed to keep pitbull breeds or not. My three main points are: 1) it is not the breed‚ it the owner‚ 2) pit bulls make wonderful pets if trained
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Ban Pit Bulls Abstract When the words “Pit Bull” come to the front of your mind‚ what is the first feeling you get? Is it hatred‚ fear‚ anger and vicious or is it kindness‚ loyalty‚ fun and gentle; whether it be for the good or for the evil‚ we all can agree that when the word “Pit Bull” comes up there is a feeling we all get inside. The feeling I get inside is disgust‚ this stems from an attack on my daughter that sent our world into a tailspin. This vicious attack could have
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Have you ever read a fantastic book and know that in certain places its banned? Should it be allowed for people that read the books and think there not appropriate be able to have a say in whether it should be banned or not. I recently just finished a book called Lush it was an eye opener to a several things I don’t think I would’ve paid attention to if I didn’t know that they did ban it somewhere. Although the knowledge might not be good for certain age groups‚ parents and other human beings shouldn’t
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more about what is going on in the world today and how it affects children. I believe that child soldier practices should be banned because the children are put into dangerous situations and they won’t get to live a happy life. Others would say that child soldier practices should not be banned because the children are needed to keep people safe. Child soldier practices should be banned because the children are put into dangerous situations. According to “Armed and Underage”
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tests their curriculum growth throughout the year‚ but what if a student does not test well. Lawmakers and Congressman have been contemplating whether to ban state testing. Although it relatively shows students curriculum growth‚ State testing should be banned on the basis of it takes out on the creative process of learning‚ eliminates the idea of students learning things dealing with life‚ and can cause stress amongst students. State testing takes out in the creative process of learning. Students
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